Looking Beyond Terri (Schiavo)

Chancey's Blog ^ | March 24, 2005 | Matt Chancey

[Law]

"...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."

"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."

[tomahawk]

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.

[infool7]

Little has changed in 2000 years.

[thoughtomator]

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.

[shezza]

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King (George) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

[Law]

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.

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.

[MarMema]

BTT

[Law]

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.

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.

[Law]

Maybe the feds could charge her with Medicare fraud and order the feeding tube reinstated to preserve her testimony as a witness.

[thoughtomator]

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.

[expatpat]

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.

[tomahawk]

I think we're fine here in most of Tennessee.

I don't see state judges with the death ethic of Greer.

[expatpat]

Not only that, but they'll pay for a sex chnage if you want one.

[Lady Eileen]

Bump

[tomahawk]

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.

[livius]

It's scary that a pissant county probate judge in a corrupt county can sentence someone to death ...

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.

[Law]

I think we're fine here in most of Tennessee. I don't see state judges with the death ethic of Greer.

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."

[combat_boots]

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.

[livius]

The conflicts of interest in this case were massive.

[Lazamataz]

G-d is passe.

It's time to start worshipping Judges, Who's immense power and omniscience is renowned.

G-d fears Judges.