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BREAKING: Coalition Calls Upon Bush to Save Schiavo's Life by Using Police Powers
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Posted on 03/23/2005 6:26:35 AM PST by freepme99
Press Conferences in Washington and Tallahassee on March 23 at noon.
To: National Desk
Contact: Joe Giganti, 703-928-9695, Joe@VeritasMediaGroup.com
WASHINGTON, March 23 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The 11th Hour Coalition to Save Terri Schiavo's Life will hold simultaneous press conferences -- Wednesday, March 23 -- at 12 noon in Washington, D.C., and Tallahassee, Fla.
This ad hoc partnership of religious and political organizations -- which will gather in front of the White House and the Florida governor's mansion -- will call on President George W. Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush to use their executive powers to protect Terri Schiavo from starvation.
"There are two people in the United States who can save Terri Schiavo's life right now. The president of the United States and the governor of Florida have the authority to use the police services at their disposal to take Terri into protective custody, restore her food and hydration, and arrest anyone who would interfere," said Dr. Paul Schenck, executive director of the National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill. "For the sake of Terri's life, we cannot afford to wait while the courts dither over jurisdiction."
Dr. Paul Schenck, National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill
Coalition Members appearing at the press conference:
-- Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
-- Stephen G. Peroutka, Esq., Face the Truth TV & Radio
-- Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, Human Life International
-- Michael A. Peroutka, Esq., Institute on the Constitution -- Rev. Greg Cox, Faith and Action
-- Rev. Stephen Cox, Gospel of Life Ministries
-- Rev. John Vandenberge, National Clergy Council
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To: MeekOneGOP
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posted on
03/23/2005 6:40:06 AM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: freepme99
Headline should read: A Newly-formed Small Time PAC Issues a Press Release.
To: traderrob6
We are paying the price for liberal judges. Everywhere in America.
63
posted on
03/23/2005 6:40:10 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: Trust but Verify
We are all going to die, but we are all not going to be starved to death.
64
posted on
03/23/2005 6:40:33 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: billbears; rintense
It is truly frightening. I have goosebumps. Mob rule, throw out the rule of law.
65
posted on
03/23/2005 6:40:34 AM PST
by
Trust but Verify
(Pull up a chair and watch history being made.)
To: PilloryHillary
Good catch. No one can persuade me that this site isn't being invaded by people who want to cause division.
Regardless of which side one falls on this issue, people should realize that words once posted cannot be taken back. I think people are being too emotional about this. In the heat of emotion, it is possible that a solution is being missed. Ranting, raving, insults, and wild acusations doesn't help anyone.
To: late bloomer
who happened to fly to Baghdad on Thanksgiving day to be with the troops...
yeah hes gutless...and you are clueless.....
67
posted on
03/23/2005 6:40:53 AM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(Silly Hippies, Bush Won!!!!)
To: traderrob6
"Why do you think they gave the executive branch police power? To avoid Judicial tryanny. "
You got THAT right! And judicial tyranny is what we have.
To: Trust but Verify
"What authority do they have?"
----
The same Moral authority that was used to save the Iraqi people from insane Hussein.
The same Moral authority they used to send food and water to the Tsunami victims.
The same power's they used to help Florida with Hurricane relief. (I remember seeing pictures of Jeb and George out there with sleaves rolled handing water out to hurricane ravaged citizens).
69
posted on
03/23/2005 6:41:14 AM PST
by
juzcuz
To: Miss Marple; All
We all need to calm down and take a deep breath..
70
posted on
03/23/2005 6:41:26 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: Trust but Verify
The threat of Executive Nullification of Judicial Edicts is an Essential part of the separation and balance of powers. If Executive enforcement is a mere arm of Judiciary legal fiat, you have the Executive, Legislative and Judicial power invested in one Judicial Oligarchy. That is anathema to anything American.
The Court was envisioned to have the power of persuasion only. But if their pronouncements bind the Congress and President automatically, the need for persuasion is gone.
Federalist #78 says the judiciary "depends[s] upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments." But if the President has no choice in the matter, then the Judiciary is in place of and superior to the President and not dependent on anything. Its power as keeper of the Constitution means that Congress too is irrelevant unless it can mount a 2/3 vote, which is historically rare.
We cannot live for decades on end without a President or Congress. Hundreds of bad Court decisions tearing out America's social fabric prove that. The naked abuse of Congress as well as Terri Shiavo make it glaringly visible.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368633/posts
71
posted on
03/23/2005 6:41:27 AM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: mlc9852
Some of us may well starve to death, and if we do it will be because we decided that's the way we wanted it. Lacking any evidence to the contrary, this is what Terri wanted.
72
posted on
03/23/2005 6:41:57 AM PST
by
Trust but Verify
(Pull up a chair and watch history being made.)
To: freepme99
73
posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:03 AM PST
by
righthand man
(WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
To: Miss Marple
"No one can persuade me that this site isn't being invaded by people who want to cause division.
Regardless of which side one falls on this issue, people should realize that words once posted cannot be taken back. I think people are being too emotional about this. In the heat of emotion, it is possible that a solution is being missed. Ranting, raving, insults, and wild acusations doesn't help anyone."
Ditto Miss Marple!
74
posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:04 AM PST
by
PilloryHillary
(Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?)
To: mass55th
Seeing as Clinton used Federal Agents to take Elian Gonzalez into protective custody before sending him back to Cuba, I don't see any reason why they can't use Federal Agents to take Terri into custody to prevent her murder. That was an abuse of power that had this board in an uprage! Is it OK to use it now?
75
posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:05 AM PST
by
Bommer
To: Trust but Verify
OMG. On what basis would either of them do this? What authority do they have? Does anybody understand the danger here? Don't you know that the abandonment of the rule of law for mob rule and government by fiat is just fine, so long as it is done to advance a social conservative cause? </sarcasm>
The same people who condemned the government over Waco and the handling of the Elian Gonzalez case want the executive branch to exercise the same sort of arbitrary police power here. Because "our guys" are in charge, see, and it is for a cause we support, see.
We have a constitutional, republican form of government, with separation of powers, precisely to avoid this sort of emotionally-driven mob rule. Some, apparently, would prefer a pure democracy with an elected tyrant.
76
posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:18 AM PST
by
malakhi
To: Sicon
Bush can issue an executive order to do ANYTHING.
The question is whether or not it would be obeyed, and if it were, what the courts would say about it. It would definitely trigger a constitutional crisis.
If his actions were deemed to be illegal, the only redress available would be for the House to impeach him. I don't see that happening in any case.
While I'd do nearly anything to save Terri, is this REALLY what we want to do? The turmoil would be tremendous.
77
posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:32 AM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: rintense
I am all for saving Terri, but this is damn scary. Talk about a slippery slope.And it was Congress who started it with this law that stands a slim chance of passing constitutional muster.
To: Raycpa
Actually if we hit the streets like they did in Lebanon we could rescue her.Go ahead....bring an umbrella if you're coming to Washington today.
79
posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:42 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: clee1
"We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling."
Funniest. Tagline. Ever.
(IMHO)
80
posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:53 AM PST
by
SerpentDove
(Rush Limbaugh: "There's an actual energized enthusiasm for this woman's death out there...")
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