Posted on 03/26/2005 7:45:25 AM PST by dufekin
Judge George Greer, the Supreme Law in the State of Florida, has removed all of the abilities of Governor Jeb Bush to save Terri Schiavo. I don't know that anyone could save her at this point; a week of dehydration may have done irreversible damage. Still, we must try.
The Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, states,
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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.Congress is so lethargic and dominated by pro-death Democrats that it surely will not exercise its power in a reasonable time, and its last attempt ended in failure. Contrary to the orders of Judge Greer, Terri Schiavo is not (medically) a xerophyte who can wait until next year for some water. She desperately needs water today.Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Florida is bound by the Fourteenth Amendment, and the federal government required the state to accept this article to regain its status as a state after the American Civil War. The State's obvious flouting of its obilgations under the Fourteenth Amendment should rescind the provisions of the Compromise of 1877 that lifted the federal military occupation of Florida during the Reconstruction after the Civil War.
The Congress should have exercised its delegated (Article I, Section 8) power "To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions." Moreover, "The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States" (Article II, Section 2). The President also swore or affirmed that he would "to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" (Article II, Section 1).
These powers should allow President Bush to declare a judicial insurrection in Florida, and thereby to call forth both the Florida National Guard and any regular troops in the vicinity to suppress this insurrection.
Suppressing this insurrection must involve--at minimum--rescuing Terri Schiavo and airlifting her to a military hospital in another state. The troops also must hunt down Judge George Greer, Attorney George Felos, and adulterer Michael Schiavo, the triumvirate who started this incurrection.
Alternatively, the President could use the José Padilla precedent to declare Terri Schiavo an enemy combatant. While this action would remove the jurisdiction of the Courts over Terri Schiavo and remove her abusive husband from the equation, it might set the Padilla problems on even more shaky grounds, and I do not advise it.
The Bushes and the Congress are too busy outsourcing america and handing it to illegals for profit to worry their useless selves with upholding the Constitution on this. They have failed to with regard to immigration and trade, why bother with anything else. This nation is in an undeclared state of war.. with itself.
you would only hope....
I am so glad your post had something to do with Terri..../sarc
yep....I am wearing an FBI jacket!!! /sarcasm
sheesh....
I guess you dont know that PUTTING LETTERS IN ALL CAPS constituted yelling and screaming on the internet? too deep I know....sorry
and call yourself boy....
Then Michael should have just turned her care over to her parents if she was too brain dead to suffer.
Many the VA patients I know are scared to death they will be next on the "put to death" list. What else do you think dependent disabled persons would think after this? They have to deal with the present reality also. And many of them have been able to "roll their little wheelchairs over to their computers keyboards" and make their opinions known or do you have them figured as brain dead too?
Good luck. There will be no action from the House or Senate until Monday, and that's not likely because they are all out playing in their Districts until ONE WEEK FROM Monday.
And, by the way, when you get back to your hovel, you will IMMEDIATELY surrender your rifles, handguns, and ammo.
Not only will the US and its States no longer protect your life--we want to make damn sure YOU don't, either.
You need SERIOUS psychiatric help if you really believe this.
Kerry's a poster child for the Culture of Death, although he doesn't show up too often at their meetings...travel, you know. Ter aaaaazzzah needs him in Italy, Montana, and Spain.
LOL
why should I answer to YOU?
You were the one that said a President Kerry would have helped her. If there is anything that needs to be explained THAT is it.....
you are just a joke.
Under those circumstances Judge Greer had no choice but to rule as he did. The correctness of his ruling at law is shown by the fact that he has been upheld close to 30 times on various appeals.
Nice defense of "Process"--but not of the Law as handed down from Mt Sinai.
You get a zero.
By Article IV, Section 8, of the Florida Constitution, Jeb Bush has the power to "restore civil rights." All he has to do is issue an executive order.
The governor can restore the rights of ANY PERSON at ANY MOMENT. (Exceptions for treason and impeachment noted.) This is a BROAD power. It is broader than his right to pardon.
And yet, even his right to pardon applies here. By order of Judge George Greer, Terri was ordered to starve to death. The way the order was written, Michael Schiavo could not even change his mind. He was ORDERED to starve his wife to death. That is a death sentence.
Gov. Bush has stated publicly: “I am doing everything within my power to make sure that Terri is afforded at least the same right rights that criminals convicted of the most heinous crimes take for granted.” He has also said he would “exhaust all executive options . . . to save Terri’s life.”
Jeb Bush could pardon her, the way he would any wrongly convicted person, under the same article cited above. Or he could simply restore her rights.
This power cannot be controlled or obstructed by the judiciary.
Since the court rulings have been affirmed at the federal level, what you are talking about is armed insurection against the government of the United States.
Why settle for a war on terror when we can have a Civil War and kill hundreds of thousands of ourselves and save the Muslims the trouble and ammo.
SO9
The president and FL gov can always say they support the protection of MOST Americans.....you know....the ones that can feed themselves.
When you find a way to move to ancient Israel, do so.
Then you will be right.
Till then, you're a loon.
SO9
What?
You can't tell the difference between a criminal conviction and a ruling in a civil custody proceeding?
The power of pardon no more applies here than it would to pardoning someone from child support payments ordered in a divorce.
SO9
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