Are you talking about the petition in my tagline?
So far none of the legislators will go on the record so to speak that they support impeachment. Supposedly Rep Simmons did but then his office backtracked and said it was a rumor.
Fact is though, if there are "enough" (who knows how many that would be?) Floridians who will call and/or write them requesting, they will get the message that it's what the people want and they might move their butts for once. Another fact is that Speaker Bense is ignoring correspondence to him on impeaching Greer and he isn't answering it! If people follow the link from the petition to my site they will see that it is suggested they call/write Bense and Simmons, the phone numbers and addresses are there, they don't even have to look them up.
The online petition does indicate to them the will of the country and others from around the world have signed it. I've gotten a lot of emails from all over and people can't believe that Greer is allowed to stay on the bench, or the other judges for that matter.
Some of the sigs were trolls and they were using the petition as a message board. There were extremely vulgar, profane (even sexually explicit) comments about Terri and her family. There were vulgar comments about freepers and it was obvious that the persons posting those comments were reading threads here at FR. Those had to be deleted and I pray the Schindlers never saw any of them, they were the vilest things. I can't believe someone would even utter such things!
Now, someone copied and pasted my petition, cut off the beginning and end of it and put it online addressed to the JQC. The JQC only accepts "written" complaints. I guess though if someone was willing to claim hours of work as their own that they would not have taken the time to find out what procedure to follow in making a complaint to JQC.
http://www.petitiononline.com/jswede47/petition.html
If you doubt what I say about the deleted sigs you can see a hint of what they were like by looking at the sigs on the copycat...
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?jswede47&1
Another thing that's really sad about this whole thing is that the legislature is fully aware of Greer's blunders and the corruption that TEJ has uncovered. We should not even have to consider petitioning them, writing, or calling them in order for them to do the right thing. They know they can, they are fully aware of the authority they have to handle the matter but they won't!
They are all hiding under the Law to save their political butts from the wrath of the American Christian Community.
Here is where the majority of the Christian Denominations stand on the type of death Terri was subjected to.
Note to politicians.....don't even think this will go away.
ADDRESS OF JOHN PAUL II TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON "LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENTS AND VEGETATIVE STATE: SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS" Saturday, 20 March 2004
"....I feel the duty to reaffirm strongly that the intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being do not change, no matter what the concrete circumstances of his or her life. A man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is and always will be a man, and he will never become a "vegetable" or an "animal"....
I should like particularly to underline how the administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act. Its use, furthermore, should be considered, in principle, ordinary and proportionate, and as such morally obligatory, insofar as and until it is seen to have attained its proper finality, which in the present case consists in providing nourishment to the patient and alleviation of his suffering.
.....As a pledge and support of this, your authentic humanitarian mission to give comfort and support to your suffering brothers and sisters, I remind you of the words of Jesus: "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me" (Mt 25: 40).
"....WHEREAS, Western medicine has heretofore followed both the Judeo-Christian tradition and the over 2,500 year-old Hippocratic tradition forbidding physicians to assist in the death of their patients; and
WHEREAS, The Bible teaches that God created all human life in His own image and declares human life to be sacred from conception until natural death (Genesis 1:29:6 and following); and
WHEREAS, The Bible likewise teaches that murder, including self-murder, is immoral (Exodus 20:13); and
WHEREAS, American society seems to be embracing of the "culture of death"...."
Be it therefore RESOLVED, that we the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 11-13, 1996, affirm the biblical and Hippocratic prohibitions against assisted suicide.."
...."Euthanasia is understood to be the view or practice which holds that a person has the right, and even the moral obligation, to end his or her life when it is considered to be - for whatever subjectively accepted reason "not worth living." Euthanasia advocates nearly always include in this assertion the right and duty of others, including medical personnel, to assist the person in fulfilling this purpose. Needless to say, the Orthodox Church rejects such a view, seeing such behavior as a form of suicide on the part of the individual, and a form of murder on a part of others who assist in this practice, both of which are seen as sins. Thus the Orthodox Church, in the words of 1976 Chrismms encyclical of former Archbishop Iakovos, considers "euthanasia and abortion, along with homosexuality...a...moral alienation."....
"....Today there are mounting pressures upon medical professionals, pastors, families, and individuals to hasten the death of those under their care or authority. Such hastening sometimes takes the form of direct action, such as a lethal injection. It may also take a passive form in neglect or withdrawal of the necessary means of preservation of life. Such means include medical treatment, both extraordinary and ordinary. But they also include basic provisions normally understood as care, warmth, cleanliness, food, water, and love.
Christians must distinguish between "treatment" and "care". Where medical treatment which is not gravely burdensome is necessary for an individual to continue to live, the withdrawal of such treatment - except in cases where death is imminent and inevitable and to continue such treatment would pose a grave risk or cause more burden to the patient than it would alleviate - is a violation of the image of God which all men and women bear..."
Yes. This petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html is the one to which I was referring.
That's pretty sick. I don't think those comments came from the general public : (