Pres Bush declared that the "strong have a duty to protect the weak" while he sat by cowardly as Terri Schiavo was starved to death and executed by a rogue two-bit county judge and a criminally abusive, adulterous, unfaithful husband. Bush (both GW and Jeb) could have intervened in they had the cajones to....but they both blinked and turned away. Heck even Bill Clinton defied both Florida state courts and the 11th Court of Appeals when he sent in armed federal agents to kidnap Elian Gonzales and return him to Cuba.
So sometimes as president, GW Bush does the right and duty and responsibility to uphold the Constitution and protection for all people under the 14th amendment (Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws).
He just didn't have the guts to do so....
" executed by a rogue two-bit county judge"
So the judge issued an order saying "By order of this court, speaking for this county, this woman is to die, irrespective of the wishes of anyone"
No, I do not believe he did.
And speaking of "rogue two bit county judges", exactly in whose authority did Florida law place the dispute. To me, it looked like a standard family court dispute, something that goes on in thousands of courtrooms across this country daily, and we are going to single out this case for what reason?
You know, under the law, the decision in this case was the husbands to make and he made it. This doesn't mean I think he's an honorable man, it is my personal view that he's a scuzzball, this being said, we can't go violating state's rights just to make an example of scuzzballs.
"criminally abusive"
I want court recognized proof that backs up that allegation, if it is to be made
And you are correct Jeb could have intervened, but, he pretty much lost that ability when he tipped off the court that this was what he intended to do. The correct answer would have been to covertly issue a state of emergency, issue a press blackout, and snatch her out in the middle of the blackout, however, the political fallout from that would have been immeasureable.
" Heck even Bill Clinton defied both Florida state courts and the 11th Court of Appeals when he sent in armed federal agents to kidnap Elian Gonzales and return him to Cuba. "
So just because Bill Clinton does something, W and Jeb should do it.
What Clinton did was a violation of state's rights, by the same token, had W sent in the U.S marshalls to reconnect the tube, he would have violated state's rights as well.
And the use of the 14th amendment in this case is a real stretch, because the constitution is not designed to actually deal with a situation like this because if Terri's accident had occured in 1787, she would have died in 1787.