Posted on 03/26/2005 6:55:56 AM PST by steampower
A week ago I had no real idea of what it is like to be in Terri's body.
Today, thanks to Judge George Greer, I'm beginning to understand.
I'm crying out, but no one can hear me. I want to get up and walk out of this nightmare, but my legs won't move me.
I want to scream at the man who is responsible for this, but he is out of range of my voice. He won't come near me. The coward.
I'm totally helpless.
And I'm so thirsty, thirsty for justice, but no one is giving me any.
I can see the court buildings, great heaps of stone, and scraps of paper, but no faces appear,no humanity.
I know my heart is beating, I can feel it. My tormentor could too if he would come near and place his hand on me.
I want to live.
I WANT TO LIVE.
I WANT TO LIVE!!!
If only I could rise up. I would do something. Where are my legs? Why don't they move?
I'm so utterly helpless.
Help me.
I know. The biggest shock to me is how impersonal the courts have been. I've always understood that the law is the law, but I assumed that it was administered by human beings. Not so. Not one judge, NOT ONE, has even bothered to go see Terri's condition for themself. NOT ONE!
They don't have the right, but the judge, who is adjudicating the matter does.
But 9/11 showed us that a hijacking is a "kill or be killed" situation.
I'm not trying to equate judges with terrorists. I'm just pointing out that the only reason the courts have any power at all is because we voluntarily cooperate with them.
They had the right to make proper laws.
Two years ago, I was saying the same thing in my posts and my *taglines*, and the "death-to-Terri crowd" mocked the idea of a judge going to see her.
Tagline from 10/21/2003:
*Judge Greer---YOU should have looked into Terri's eyes and asked her if she wanted life*
"Hush little baby, don't you cry....
Mamma going to buy you a brand new doll
and if that doll she don't cry...
Mamma's going to by you a brand new dress...
Hush little baby don't you cry..."
Terri's dear Mom surely must be dying inside too, with every feeble breath her daughter takes. My heart screams in rage for the injustice and horror of this outrage.
Happy Easter.
Yes. The current laws and their judicial interpretations pose a very real threat to American lives.
Terri is bleeding through her eyes - crying out for justice and mercy.
Judge Greer is nothing. Compared to Terri he is less than nothing. Terri is an innocent perfect lovely soul. Her blood will testify against him unless he repents.
Terri's blood is testifying against all of her tormenters. She is crying out to the whole world. Let her tormenters be exposed and ashamed.
The ONE most critical piece of evidence in this nightmare is Terri herself. In a case where a gun is a piece of evidence, it is tagged and presented in court. The judge looks at it, everyone else looks at it. In the Peterson case the jury was allowed to look at and touch the boat. Terri has been stuck away in a room and judge greer hasn't even seen or visited with her or taken it upon himself to inspect the "evidence" personally.
And if Terri dies as the evil ones have planned, she's to be cremated forthwith - evidence destroyed. Pretty clever.
But our God is an awesome God - able to save and perform mighty miracles.
Still believing for that miracle - In the Name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and King. Amen.
And cold hearted death sentences of the innocent are?
That is why you can't go around blaming politicians who HAVE tried to do something. Our system requires that the majority of people who turn out at the polls get to pick the guys who make the laws. Our forefathers assumed the people of this country would care enough about the laws of the land to make sure the best people available would run for office.
But that's not what happened. Good guys have to fight like crazy just to get elected, and then there is frequently not enough of them do get things accomplished. And there is always the fact that most of them don't even know what is in the bills they are pushing or what the potential for misuse could be the unintended consequenses.
We need to demand that our congress start exercising their power and reign in this rogue judiciary. You want to do something constructive, get it started in your area. I already have in mine. Start organizing, start talking to people. Make sure everyone knows that not one judge looked on the face of Terri Scheivo before they sentenced her to death. Talk to your neighbors, talk to the people at your church, talk to everyone and anyone who will listen and explain just how dangerous it has become.
Yeah, sure, we know how courts never go look at the evidence themselves. I understand that arguement from an appellate standpoint, but the state judges and review judges should have gone. As a matter of fact, I understand that in most cases like this the judges DO go to the hospice to see for themselves. This is not an ordinary case, it has been controvercial from the start. You have expert witnesses on both sides claiming diametrically opposing outcomes. The judge in this case just said "Oh well, kill her, I don't need to know any more I'll flip a coin"
Two years ago I was asking how Greer could make a decision to end someone's life without even having seen that person.
The "Starve-Terri" crowd made fun of the idea.
Today a legal analyst on FoxNews said that judges have gone to see patients whose lives they are going to rule on
Judge Greer---YOU should have looked into Terri's eyes and asked her if she wanted life.)
And when this constution no longer serves the right of the people this cons. shall be abolished.
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