Posted on 03/25/2005 10:00:29 AM PST by SENTINEL
I see no reason whatsoever that President Bush could not use his Presidential Pardon power to pardon Terri Schiavo. Our founding fathers granted the presidnet this power to protect the individual against evil in the judiciary. No mention is made between civil or criminal cases, and the only recourse from those opposed is the ballot box or impeachment.
President Bush could pardon Terri Shiavo, pick her up in the presidential helicopter, and keep her in the Lincoln bedroom to guarantee her safety during rehabilitation. Terri's mother could file for divorce on her behalf. With access to Terri, the news media and the Demoncrats would be exposed as the pure defenders of evil that they are.
After all of the garbage that went on in the Lincoln bedroom, and the evil pay-for-play pardons that went on during Clinton's term, the MSM would self destruct if they went after President Bush too hard.
Let's get to it Freepers ! We could save an innocent life.
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No she hasn't. This has to be the most idiotic thread ever to appear on FR.
Not quite. I don't like what's happening to her too, but it's not capital punishment, it's not eligible for a presidential pardon, it's not eligible for the rest of the ideas brought up in the hundreds of vanities posted on this.
The final, last chance is if Jeb sends in state police, purposefully defying the judiciary ala Andrew Jackson. And that simply doesn't happen anymore.
civil vs criminal.
This is just plain and clear not going to happen.
You might as well demand Jannet Reno be brought back to burn down the hospice and kill everyone inside in order to save them.
What was Nixon pardoned for by President Ford? He had committed no crime.
Also she allowed herself to be transported across state lines for unauthorized and experimental medical treatment (Trip to CA for brain electrodes and electro-shock therapy)...a federal crime.
Did you think this through before you posted it?
Check the voter rolls...did Terri vote in any election in the past 17 years..........?
Terri is a US Citizen, and has a God given right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Two centuries of meddling lawyers does not change this fact.
Double-standards are A-OK now, as long as it is Jeb or George Bush carrying out an act that Clinton would have been reviled for.
Perjury and contempt, wasn't it?
That happened about 11 years before I was born, so I'm probably wrong.
Spare us. Empathy is not an excuse to propose logically, practically, and politially flawed schemes.
I wouldn't say that this has THE most idiotic thread ever here. I guess you missed the one about Terri being crucified.
Actually, I did see that idiocy yesterday. Bush has done a lot of monumentally stupid things, but if he were crazy enough to do that, I would hope Americans would have enough sense to impeach his ass and toss him out immediately.
But after the last week, I fear a lot of people are blind enough, dumb enough or servile enough to let him get away with it.
My post said CORPORAL not CAPITAL. Corporal punishment is any punishment directed at the body and it is a felony in the state of Florida.
Explain to me, please, why Presidents issue pardons to some people who have already completed their sentence? And don't tell me that it expunges the crime from their record, because it doesn't.
like I said where is the justice dept ?
the lack interest is odd !
Nixon was never charged with a crime.
I'm still hesitant to claim Ford's pardon of Nixon as precedent for pardoning Terri.
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