Posted on 03/23/2005 5:04:24 AM PST by Maurice Tift
The shocking governmental homicide of Terri Schiavo has many dimensions, twists, and turns--all of which, upon analysis, converge on one inescapable reality: The life of Terri Schiavo is solely in the hands of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
While Terri lies dying by slow execution in a Pinellas Park hospice, Gov. Bush and others have looked mainly to the legislative process for relief--knowing full well that any special law intended to spare Terri's life will likely be overturned or disregarded by unsympathetic courts on the pretext of "separation of powers."
Terri's protectors have also appealed repeatedly to the courts themselves to correct their own excesses and lapses throughout this horrific ordeal--with equally predictable results.
At this point, the obvious solution is an executive one.
The case for executive relief
Any delegating of executive authority to the other branches will not only fail to save Terri, it appears--because the courts pretend to reign supreme, at the expense of true equilibrium between the branches--but it amounts to passing the authoritative buck.
The result will be not only the unconscionable death of an innocent woman whose execution cannot be justified on the basis of the facts, let alone on moral grounds, but the executive power will be shown to be what it has willfully become: impotent.
Not only that, but if Terri dies, the executive authority in Florida will be directly complicit.
No other entity in the state has authority to kill Terri. The courts can't do it. Nor can the legislature do anything directly about it. Only the executive can actually put people to death, under constitution-based law.
This fact dispels any notion that the governor is powerless to spare Terri. The truth is, only the governor--who oversees all agencies of executive power in the state--can in fact put Terri to death.
Officers already acting to kill Terri
Under authority of Jeb Bush, police are already at the scene--not to protect Terri, but to ensure that she is killed. They are, in fact, executing her.
Numerous well-meaning people who have tried to feed Terri--acting from simple respect for Judeo-Christian morality and compassion--have been arrested by uniformed officers who are acting on executive orders drawn up in conflict with the clear written meaning of constitutional law.
Rather than stand firm on the separation of powers principle upon which the Constitution, itself, is based, the executive power--at this very moment in the Terri Schiavo case--is actively participating in Terri's murder, having abdicated constitutional authority to the emerging bullies in government: the judiciary.
The result is total chaos, in the midst of an unprecedented constitutional crisis, the only remedy to which is for the executive to defend his rightful turf and preserve not only Terri's life, but the life of the republic.
The outward "orderliness" with which Terri is now being cruelly put to death--upon "orders" from an agenda-driven judiciary that has no power to act--belies the real truth of what is happening. Our nation's heart is being ripped out by the executive--not by anyone else--and with that loss goes our moral authority as a nation to lead the world.
As some suggest, we are behaving as a third-world dictatorship that cares little about innocent human life, and less about constitutional law.
Gov. Bush, put a stop to this travesty right now, for the sake of all that our nation stands for, in the interest of meriting God's merciful protection of our country in the years ahead.
If you "allow" Terri to die, you will indeed be her chief executioner.
CALL GOV. BUSH at 850-488-4441 Email: jeb@myflorida.com
You forgot this: < /sarcasm >
I will be greatly disappointed by their inaction to save Terri. It is always sad to see those we perceive as good men, not stand up to the evil they can stop. I will still consider them good men.
Piffle.
Then do a bad job. I do every day!
Life goes on. :)
And Terri can be saved by Executive Order of Jeb Bush.
He doeos not want this death on his resume.
Like hell they have. There are PLENTY of precedents for them to use force or authority to stop this crime.
This is a state sanctioned MURDER based on hearsay from a man with totally conflicting interests in her well being.
I think about this case and I think "I joined to the Marines and put my ass on the line in the Gulf to protect THIS ?"
MY belief in the United States dies when this woman dies.
I am not a boy. :-)
"If you 'allow' Terri to die, you will indeed be her chief executioner." Uh, check your facts before fumbling the ball.
Alan Keyes is FReepin' LOSER!!! How many times does the fool have show he's about worthless as tits on boar hog before you and his "many" other supporters accept him for what he is - a LOSER!?!
It is beginning to look as though right may not be done in Terri's case.
I disagree with this statement as strongly as possible as fact and with the vitriolic tone the entire article uses to express the understandable frustration of this tragic circumstance. The courts are prime here and that needs to be corrected.
Having said that, It appears that this is indeed coming down to the point where action by the Governor will be the last opportunity to stop the starvation of Terri. I do believe there are legal avenues Jeb Bush can take and they are filled with legal and political exposures. Never the less they are there. I also believe he will risk his political future and step in when he is finally forced to do so.
As chief executive of a coequal branch of Florida government I think the legal exposure is minimal though it may take the "courts" a while to reach the right conclusion.
As far as the political exposure goes, I believe Jeb Bush will take that risk because I believe his heart will lead him and his faith will protect him.
Let's keep our pressure on Jeb Bush civil and reasonable and in the form of pleas to do the right thing.
Let's also begin at last to insist our elected representative both executive and congressional begin NOW to reverse the slide of our country toward judicial dictatorship where our basic values are destroyed by activist "judges" who put themselves above the intent of the law and such as the ACLU bent on destruction of all moral connection we have to our government.
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