URGENT: EMAIL PRES BUSH REQUESTING PRES PARDON FOR TERRI SCHIAVO

3/26/05 | Oremus

[oremus]

please pass on to lists, etc. for me? thank you!

[dufekin]

I hate to break this to you, but presidential pardons are limited to federal criminals, not those who suffer the misfortune to be denied personhood by some state judge, and thence ordered to die. Judge George Greer is the only one who could pardon Terri Schiavo. Bush constitutionally could declare the State of Florda to have engaged in insurrection against the Union and order a military occupation to suppress the insurrection. Governor Jeb Bush, for his part, can do nothing, for Judge George Greer, the Law in the State of Florida, has forbidden him.

[Enterprise]

Pardon those who instead, had the power and authority to intervene, and stopped in fear at the moment of triumph, and were then defeated. Yes pardon them, for their shame is everlasting.

[AReaganGirl]

I have sent an email to President Bush. That is the best I can do. God says to choose life, so I am doing the best I know.

[oremus]

I understand, but terri has been sentenced to die by a judge and the judicial system, not unlike a criminal. What's worse, is she has not had legal representation, and there is EXTREME REASONABLE DOUBT in this case as to her wishes.

I don't care what the "law" says, I sent it anyway.

[alnick]

The president can only pardon convicted criminals.

[farmer18th]

I hate to break this to you, but presidential pardons are limited to federal criminals,

Isn't there some merit, albeit weird, to the notion that Judge Greer has declared Terri a criminal by his order to have her executed?

[oremus]

"Rice 2005: We've only just begun to see what Freedom can achieve"

--That's a scary thought...

[tomahawk]

He can't pardon someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime.

She's being executed under the guise of "this is what she wanted".

We have no way of knowing that, of course, but that's what they're basing this on.

[GBA]

I want the President to do whatever it takes to stop her execution until a different court (non-Clinton appointed judges) can review all of the material. I don't believe Terri has been given a fair hearing. It is understandable to give those on death row every benefit of the doubt before they're executed. Why not the same for Terri?

[alnick]

--That's a scary thought...

Sure is. To the left. To terrorists. To dictators and tyrants.

[dufekin]

Greer didn't declare Terri a criminal; only a jury could do that (unless she, or her lawyers on her behalf, waived the right ot a jury trial). So Greer took a more insidious track, following precedent set by the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) and Roe et al. v. Wade (1973), and declared that Terri, although genetically human, is not a person, and as such, not endowed by our Creator with the certain inalienable right to life. Rather, Judge Greer ruled, Terri Schiavo is a member of a certain non-endangered species of xerophytic cacti, and as such, will not suffer if denied food and water for the next several months; eventually, the cactus might shrivel and die.

[TheCrusader]

"Governor Jeb Bush, for his part, can do nothing, for Judge George Greer, the Law in the State of Florida, has forbidden him."

Jeb Bush can declare that he has vast evidence that Terri Schiavo's civil rights are being violated by the very courts established to protect them. Then he brings that proclamation to the hospice with a hundred or so heavily armed FBI, State Police and the National Guard and takes Terri Schiavo to a hospital. Then he begins the FULL, ENTIRE, investigation, and airs it publicly to the whole nation. Replete with the several physicians' reports that declare Terri Schiavo is NOT in a PVS, and by showing the videos of Terri responding to various stimuli.

To believe that the Judiciary have found a way to conquer our Constitutional freedoms by legally binding our hands is absurd. As another Freeper pointed out, Bill Clinton had the guts to send in federal troops to remove Elian Gonzales, the liberals, to their credit, at least have the guts to go after their agenda. Now is the time for conservative politicians to find their courage and do the right thing.

[PistolPaknMama]

The president can only pardon convicted criminals

Right. Innocent people cannot be pardoned. They must die, because some brain damaged attorney is obsessed with death. How is blood coming from a dying woman's eyes considered "peaceful" according to Felos in his press conference this afternoon. He is satan incarnate, but that's probably a compliment to his evil soul.

[mkg]

Yes, yes, yes! Hearsay - not allowed in a court of law but accepted by that idiot Greer in Florida! What is WRONG down there, anyway? We MUST stop the judiciary in this country or we will all suffer in the "end."

[Kath]

Not up on pardons are you?? He can't pardon someone who has not committed a crime. The irrational comments be made on these threads in the last week is amazing.

[oremus]

I know, and that's what is scary.

[madison10]

How do you "pardon" someone who has committed no crime? Kinda like the Thanksgiving Turkey?