Posted on 03/25/2005 7:07:04 AM PST by Law
Well, it’s finally happened. We now live in a country where judges have officially obtained deity status. With Roe v. Wade, judges claimed the right to determine who has the privilege of birth. With the Terri Schiavo case, activist judges now claim the power to determine when we all have to die.
Some would claim this view to be a little extreme. But the facts are these: a severely disabled woman in Florida is being starved to death because a tiny number of judges have determined that her life is not worth living anymore. Terri is not a vegetable. She can eat through a feeding tube and breathe without assistance. Her brain is not dead. She can smile and recognize people. Terri is simply helpless—like a baby. For the past several years, Terri’s husband has been trying to kill her (after winning a ton of money in a lawsuit on her behalf), instead of providing Terri with physical therapy. Activist judges are helping him accomplish his goal.
There is something insidious and damnably arrogant when people arbitrarily decide when another person’s life is not worth living. But we have allowed judges to do this in our society for many years.
It seems that human life in American today has no intrinsic value anymore. We once lived in a society where the vast majority of people believed all men were created equal and endowed by their Creator with an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Quick vocabulary lesson: “unalienable” means something that cannot be separated from us—especially by the government.
Today, your life is only valuable “if.” If you have sufficient health to enjoy life. If you are not a financial drain on your family or the state. If you are desired by your parents. If unelected federal judges think your life is worth living.
This is the bottom line with Terri Schiavo. It’s not about living wills or assisted suicide. She didn’t have a living will and we don’t know her present wishes. So, the question is “do we empower the State to decide whether she lives or dies?” Terri has committed no crime. She has not violated any law that would give the State the right to kill her. None the less, the State made its decision through activist judges, and a helpless woman in Florida is being slowly starved to death.
Modern medicine is presenting us with situations where our ethical presumptions are being tested to the limits. I fear that as a society, we are choosing death over life and that is not a good prognosis for the health of a nation. Looking beyond Terri Schiavo, all our lives could be in jeopardy. What kind of example are we setting for our children? How compassionate are they going to be on us when we get old and start becoming a “nuisance?”
And what of the judges? When are our elected officials in the executive and legislative branches of government going to wake up and realize that their oaths of office—not to mention basic human decency—require them to stop these activist judges from destroying our lives and liberties?
Our constitution mandates that no person be denied the right to life without due process of law. The constitution is the supreme law of the land. The Constitution trumps every ruling ever made by an activist judge. The Constitution trumps every fly-by-night regulation enacted by faceless bureaucrats. The Constitution even trumps the devious intentions of a husband who desires to use the color of law to murder his helpless wife.
It’s time to do some serious soul searching as a nation. It’s time for serious repentance. And it’s time to impeach some judges. No more study committees. No more pointless debates. No more passing the buck. If President Bush and the GOP have the guts to take on something as volatile as Social Security Reform, they can at least bring Americans a few judicial heads on the proverbial silver platter. How many more people have to die before the madness ends?
"Today, your life is only valuable “if.” If you have sufficient health to enjoy life. If you are not a financial drain on your family or the state. If you are desired by your parents. If unelected federal judges think your life is worth living."
I do not want to live in a nation where judges rule.
That is the nation we have today.
We need to take our country and our Constitution back, but it's going to take a majority of the people to do it. And too many are too apathetic or self-centered to do it, for now.
Little has changed in 2000 years.
If ever you think you are in danger of slipping over the line to be condemned to death by the judiciary, just murder someone or rape a child and they'll make sure you are well-fed and legally protected for the rest of your life.
If national action were our only option, I'd be inclined to agree with you. But states still make most of the laws and state judges still decide most legal disputes. Furthermore, judges in some states are elected, not appointed. And some of those states permit campaign contributions from out of state.
So find a state more conservative than the national average and possessing all of the above positive characteristics and concentrate your efforts there. Perhaps the best prospect for such effort is Alabama.
BTT
No kidding. The law has gotten so absurb in this respect that some lawyers have half seriously tried to think of crimes they could charge Terri with.
Maybe the feds could charge her with Medicare fraud and order the feeding tube reinstated to preserve her testimony as a witness.
I was thinking the same thing the other day, that if she could be charged with a crime her life could be saved. I just couldn't think of any remotely plausible charge that could be made.
It's scary that a pissant county probate judge in a corrupt county can sentence someone to death on shaky evidence, and not even the governor can stop it.
I think we're fine here in most of Tennessee.
I don't see state judges with the death ethic of Greer.
Not only that, but they'll pay for a sex chnage if you want one.
Bump
Greer should not only not be forgiven for murdering Terri, but also for torturing her flesh and blood relatives, every one of which has spent hours with her, see that she is responsive and not in a PVS.
The pain he is inflicting on them is infinitely greater than any pain that Terri would experience being allowed to live.
He is truly an evil man.
Not only scary, but almost downright unbelievable. And of course, he's in his glory - nothing like that feeling of power to keep a two-bit judge just humming along.
I don't trust public officials until after they are tested and proven under fire. Until I've seen them stand firm and even lose their jobs over something unpopular that they believe is true, I won't put my confidence in them.
"Talk is cheap. Conservative talk is cheaper."
A 2 bit judge with a wife on the board of directors for the Sun Coast Hospice.
I keep trying to find her name after reading that danged post last night. I had no idea.
Then again, there's the $14mm lawsuit against Sun Coast by US Health and Human Services that was also mentioned in that post here somewhere on FR.
The conflicts of interest in this case were massive.
It's time to start worshipping Judges, Who's immense power and omniscience is renowned.
G-d fears Judges.
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