POLL? Who's the villain in the Terri Schiavo case?

PHX news | 3/24/05 | AZ Righty

[AZ Righty]

Who's the villain in the Terri Schiavo case?

(49%) Her husband

(24%) The government

(14%) Her parents

(12%) The media

[demlosers]

I'm getting a 404 error page not found.

[roylene]

She is not being allowed to die, she is being starved to death.
Parents - villains? They want to care for her, its her husband(?) that wants her starved to death.
The federal government has constitutional authority to over see the courts. The 'Teri laws' just passed only allowed for federal court review - hardly 'big government'.
What religious views - life over death ... not starving someone to death.
The real question is .. why are you so intent that Teri be starved to death?

[demlosers]

I'm soooooooooooooooooooo surprised

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

BTW, how long were Michael the bigamist and Terri married before this tragedy happened? Counting back, she should have been about 26 when this happened. How long had they been married?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Who's the villain in the Terri Schiavo case?

1. Michael

2. Greer

[rocksblues]

I read on a post today the difference between the law and justice.

The law is the law but justice is doing what's right.

I favor justice over law!

Killing someone because of here say provided by a person that has lied in court to receive a monetary judgement for the care of that person is not justice!

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[Antoninus]

Without a right to LIFE, none of your other rights matter, pal.

A GOP that won't stand up for life is useless. We already have a pro-death party in this country. Perhaps you'd be happier under their banner?

[pgyanke]

The Constitution is trying to kill Terri Schiavo?! Thanks for clearing that up! I've been angry at the wrong people, apparently...

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[foofoopowder]

The Federal government should not be involved.

[jesusfreak65]

I will tell you who the villain is here, Satan. That's right Satan. The Lord Jesus God will provide a miracle to save that poor Teri Shiavo from that Godlless husband of hers.
How can he even consider cutting short the life of one of God's special children. God will punish him. Praise The Lord.

[Zivasmate]

The first and foremost priority of Conservative doctrine is the sanctity of an(innocent) human life. Everything follows that.

[Mark in the Old South]

If you do not understand that one of the most basic responsibilities of LIMITED government is to protect Life and Liberty of ALL men than there is no rational talking with you. You do not understand what the government should be limited in doing. There is no common ground. You only see limited government in terms of yourself, your taxes, what you want to do. You do not think for a second of the other person or the situation you may be in one day. You might counter with "I wouldn't want to live that way". And true that may be, I can and do make the same claim but that is just the myopic thinking that I am complaining about. We have all made such a statement but a remark in passing is not justification for murder. Most of us have made similar remarks such as "I am going to kill my husband or if that kid is late one more time I'm going to brain him". You would be shocked if something happened and someone arrested you for such a mindless remark but you would kill Terri for one.

Empathy is one thing but most change their minds when faced with reality. One of the few roles for government is to protect those who can not protect themselves. Alas the Culture of Death is on the march and you have joined the parade.

[Time4Atlas2Shrug]

Many seem to forget that the judiciary is part of the government but they have been immune to the "big government" argument when they have consistently overstepped their bounds.

We do appear, however, to recognize the executive and legislative branches as "government", yet we are so readily willing to usurp their power to judicial activism. How did this happen?

[writer33]

1. I

2. Agree

3. Lady

4. Thank You, ma'am.

5. :) Just a little fun, but you're absolutely right.

[frogjerk]

I'm surprised the MSM didn't include Terri herself in the poll. I guarentee that some would blame her for this situation...

[MeekOneGOP]

http://www.phxnews.com/

Who's the villain in the Terri Schiavo case?

(49%)
Her husband

(29%)
The government

(13%)
Her parents

(9%)
The media

[Darkwolf377]

This is not a case of the government intruding on a living will, or letting someone on a machine go.

This is about a person whose only extraordinary care is, basically, a feeding tube.

What is conservative about saying individuals have the right to kill someone who is basically a retarded person?

What is conservative about letting someone use, as the basis for killing someone, a remembered conversation about artificial, machine-assisted respiration? Please, tell me how that applies to a case of nutrition by feeding tube.

How anyone can call himself a conservative and back the "right" of someone to kill someone else simply because she needs help eating is beyond me. You self-righteous guardians of "real" conservativism need to get off your high horses and explain what the hell is conservative about making it legal to kill someone who, if they were allowed to eat, drink and breathe, would be going along with their life, imperfect as it is. (You, on the other hand, must have a perfect life.)

And please point out the definition of conservativism that we all must have missed, the one that says the ubermensch is our model citizen. I must have missed that in my reading of Russell Kirk.

[smokeyb]

So I guess you also feel that abortion is ok?