Posted on 03/20/2005 7:01:40 PM PST by SeasideSparrow
Under President Bill Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno sent in federal marshalls to rip Elian Gonzales from Florida relatives and send the boy back to Cuba.
WHY then, isn't President Bush urging Atty. General Alberto Gonzales to send federal marshals to Terri's side and protect her from a questionable guardian appointed by a judge who flagrantly violated House subpoenas???
This highly questionable "guardian" is allowed to be in Terri's room giving orders to everyone nearby.
This is INSANE!!! Where are you, President Bush????!! We need more than your signature on a bill. We need immediate action through your attorney general.
Somebody better be watching Terri EVERY MINUTE until she is out of there.
Thanks Golden Gate and Deo volente for your responses.
I am very relieved to hear Terri's fever went down.
My hope and prayer is that the next judge Terri gets is decent.
But I also hope with all my heart that people go to their congressmen expressing concerns about our out-of-control judiciary. Our judicial system is gradually tearing our country apart. We've had prayer removed due to a judge. We've had over 45 million unborn murdered due to a judge. We've had the Ten Commandments removed and an upright justice unfairly disciplined - due to a judge. And now this situation with Terri....
It is judicial terrorism and it's just as dangerous to the long-term health of our nation as any foreign form.
I saw a comment, that all the Palm Sunday prayers helped bring a fever down. (maybe being nit-picky...) But we need to be a little more careful & we can't leave your comment hanging, that ... she's ok.
To all: As long as these judges continue to accomodate Michael in his desire to kill Terri, & allow him to be the guardian & keep Terri locked away in hopice hell, she is NOT ok. - OK?
As long as Terri is starving & thirsting, she is NOT 'ok'. For at least a dozen years, Terri has been 'gettiing the shaft' my Michael, the courts & the media. Terri deserves our help to live, and the immediate help of the Congress & Pres. Bush.
Time to send federal marshalls to protect Terri!
Time to call Pres. Bush to write executive order [re: Terri S. in Florida]
Excellent Message: (Pastor) Frank's homily on Terri and a call for Civil DISOBEDIENCE
A Visit With Terri Schiavo - by Attorney Barbara Weller - Christmas Eve day, 2004 (Post #46 - by Pegita)
They should have sent the Federal Marshalls wih the subpoenas!!!!
Got a link? (;
Are you contending it would be wrong for the Cheif Executive to save the life of this citizen?
The Constitutional "scholars" who have been arguing that "due process has been done over and over again" fail to recognize, whether by ignorance or intent it doesn't matter, that due process is not applied merely by going through the motions of procedure but must be manifested with the spirit of impartiality and observed by following the intent of the letter of the law not just its course.
That is why Section 1 of Amendment XIV closes with a conditional statement concerning equal application of the law. It indicates, in fact mandates, that due process must be applied without prejudice or the entire process fails Constitutional muster.
...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The honored legal standing of a spouse's power of attorney should not be in question here and I don't believe it has been. I would not support Congress, the President or anyone else who challenges its traditional standing.
It is time now, however, to actively answer the question raised in this case; "has Judge Greer elevated spousal right of attorney to an absolute that exceeds the individual inalienable right to life?" which is stretching that right beyond tradition or reason. The tradition I speak of is the American tradition embodied in the DoI, "we hold these truths to be self-evident", that life and liberty are the most honored rights of all. In fact they are held as sacrosanct.
If the Dems want to invoke more medieval or Mideastern traditions of spousal rights like bigamy, beating and the right to buy or sell a wife they are welcome to. That's probably not quite as repugnant as infanticide.
Let us also remember that the Jews were duly processed in Hitler's Germany. They rarely failed to follow procedure to the letter.
It seems that the courts can find no fault with the courts. Not so the Governor. The Governor of Florida has called in the Feds.
"I'm not sure we can get it done here in Florida," Martinez quoted (Gov.) Bush as saying just after a new Schiavo measure stalled in the Florida Legislature. "Do whatever you can federally."
It seems the Governor of the State has found no relief and lost confidence in the Legislature and Judiciary and has called in the Feds. It can't now be said that the Feds have no business there.
The Executive Branch wields the authority of enforcement, security and investigation, Congressional investigations aside. Congress should step aside and ask the President to handle this.
Time for Federal Marshals and agents in black shiny FBI shoes.
There are a lot of parallels with Elian Gonzales here.
Elian Gonzales' father's rights trumped Elian's right to liberty and Micheal Schiavo's rights as a husband trumps his wife's right to life. Or so the left says. IOWs men may treat their women and children as property. The Dems are doing really well on civil rights issues these days. They are moving wayyyyy back to try to recapture traditional values as their issue. Maybe Robert Byrd will be able to put his sheets back on soon.
In terms of inalienable rights I consider the right to life to be the most basic, the most fundamental, without life you can't very well exercise any other right. Yet the argument seems to be that spousal rights trump it. Spousal rights are being trumpeted as an absolute that even the other spouse's right to life must bow to. Sounds like wife as chattel to me.
I never heard any sound claim from the right that Sick Willy broke the law when he grabbed Elian. It was a moral and ethical question about the disposition of his liberty not of the method used to achieve it. The method was objectionable, not illegal, because it circumvented due process (that might have been illegal) and the goal was to deny him liberty.
Is the Executive Branch the arm of government that acts on the law or not? Last I looked the Executive was in charge of enforcement and investigation.
So the Executive Branch doesn't do law enforcement anymore?
George, grow a pair.
This is supposed to be a government of checks and balances.
You are the check. It is time to check the liberal judiciocracy and bring it back within the bounds of the constitution...whatever it takes.
If you fail us here, history will revile you. Yours will be the name mentioned in tandem with Neville Chamberlain's.
Using Federal Marshalls is not the solution.
No thanks.
Using Federal Marshalls is not the solution.
No thanks.
White House switchboard: 202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414
Be calm, confident, encouraging and supportive. You'll need patience too. I was on hold for 40 minutes last night and didn't get through because so many are calling. Let him know what you want.
"Has he not done whatever he thinks is right no matter who slams him on right or left?"
1. I don't know. He's done some things that have sent me reaching for the talcum powder. Whether he thought they were right or it was political calculus, I can't say.
2. Ignoring complaints from the left is an absolute minimum requirement for passing the sanity test.
"I was on hold for 40 minutes last night and didn't get through because so many are calling."
If I thought he personally would give me three minutes, I might hold for forty minutes from Yokohama. I ain't gonna do that to talk to some intern.
"Using Federal Marshalls is not the solution."
That's right. He should do what Eisenhower and Kennedy did: send in the Army.
He should start with a declaration that the Florida Legislature and Judiciocracy are in a state of rebellion against the United States.
<< So the Executive Branch doesn't do law enforcement anymore? >>
Not Constitutionally.
But I pray -- if no-one else will and all else fails -- it does something to save this poor lady from her homicidal husband and his murderous mates in blck robes.
Better it be later dragged to court on contempt charges than Terri Shindler's slaughter proceed apace.
Yokohama? LOL, I don't blame you. I was chafing at the 3 cents pm I was spending on hold.
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