Am I in the wrong? As a good conservative I thought we were fighting for limited government and privacy rights.
Am I wrong?
I thought we wanted government out of our lives, our bedrooms and our religious beliefs?
Am I wrong?
Why are we (conservatives) fighting for Big Government, Jeb Bush in our bed rooms and one religious view about this issue?
Does conservative church views trump conservative views on limited government?
You tell me. It doesn't in my view of conservatism.
Government is to protect LIFE, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness. You are wrong.
Poll is posted http://www.phxnews.com/, but I want to hear about your views?
Because you know I'm right, please tell me all the others are confused.
There is NO PROOF whatsoever that substantiates the claim that Terri is choosing to die.
(50%) Her husband
(24%) The government
(14%) Her parents
(12%) The media
Since when does murdering through dehydration count as 'privacy'?
How are the parents the villian? I can understand your problem with the involvement of the Feds, but you can't blame the parents for that.
Yes.
Show me where the U.S. Congress overstepped their Constitutional rights?
Yes, AZ, you are wrong. Conservatives do believe in limited government. Accordingly, we disagree with one branch of government (the judiciary) using UNLIMITED power to kill an innocent woman. I take it, in your view of limited government, when your son-in-law beats the heck out of your daughter, the police should not intervene because that's a "private matter" in which the "limited" government should not intervene.
I think you are wrong.
If someone is trying to kill someone then the goverment has a duty to step in. There are plenty of reasons to examine this before pulling the plug. My blame goes to the Schindler's terrible legal team.
Honestly, I think this ceased being a privacy case when Judge Greer got involved.
Who's the villain? You are. You and people like you who are incapable of distinguishing between justice and intrusion. We want government to protect three things: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As for the rest, it should stay out of the way. But where justice dies, tyrannies arise.
I agree with you my friend.
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IOW, this case smells.
Yes. You're wrong.
Next!
In my mind, the issue is not big vs. little gov., but simply whether the judge faithfully applied the actual law to the actual facts. I don't think he did. He twisted the facts so that they'd support what he wanted to do. That's not something a conservative can support.
As a conservative, I don't think that the government ought to override the wishes of Terri Schiavo. On the other hand, it is not at all clear to me that it is trying to do so. Just because the husband says it is, doesn't make it so. We can't give the husband sole unchecked authority to determine whether his wife lives or dies. Greer did not apply the law to the actual facts. He pretty much rubber-stamped what the husband said. No point in having a judge in the process at all if all he's going to do is rubber stamp someone else's position. He's got to do a meaningful review, and apply the law to the actual facts--not some fictional version of the facts that was invented to justify what he wanted to do anyway.
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