Posted on 03/26/2005 6:13:09 PM PST by -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-
Can you name one precedent where the courts have violated or not respected instructions from a Living Will? Having one may not defend you entirely but not having one puts you at the mercy of the court. (And I don't believe that in the legal lexicon, "mercy" has any meaning!)
The lesson of Terri is:
An arbitrary court will not be effectively restrained by the directly elected branches.
That fact puts government in default on its obligation to implement our Constitution.
No, but placing underware over the heads of kind and gentle TERRORISTS is considered torture. What has this nation come to?
"The lesson of Terri is:
An arbitrary court will not be effectively restrained by the directly elected branches.
That fact puts government in default on its obligation to implement our Constitution."
Government - at all levels - has done everything within it's power to work around the limits placed upon it by the Constitution. It never stops, it never sleeps, it just keeps waiting for "We the People" to become comfortably numb enough to give it the opportunity to break out of its' cage altogether. We'd better wake the Hell up before it's too late.
We are on dangerous ground when one has to have a legal document to protect one's right to life in the face of government. Our right to life comes from God. Any state that presumes to take it away has just lost all moral authority.
FYI, Greer IS elected.
But who would presume that the courts are not endowed with an infinite wisdom to adjudicate accordingly surely not the rest of us right?
Was not really 'courts' if was Greer's court. the rest of them just went along with Greer's ruling.
Rest of your post is spot on re. 'to tell living what to do with your dying body'
Have you ever heard of judges overturning a law that THEY don't like, meaning any law that will tie their hands in any way? It may not be immediate, but the way these activist judges are ruling, they have become more and more emboldened, and God Almighty only knows when it will come to an end. Maybe when "The People" do their constitutional duty to "Overthrow" this type of despotic gov't, just as the "Founders" of this nation did when England wanted complete, and total control of the Colonies.
The problem is there is a presumption of death now thanks to Greer and Felos.
In miami there is now an investigation about a nursing home which was killing disabled patients as an ecconomic decision.
I think the only solution will be to make the situation absolute in the ablsence of a living will. No document - life. period.
Placing underwear on a terrorist's head clearly is designed to devalue the terrorist by injuring his self-esteem.
Starving and dehydration allow for the natural death process to occur.
And as you know, possibly damaging another person's self-esteem is the most heinous of all crimes now. Don't believe me? If the guards at the Iraqi prison had put a .45 in one of the prisoners mouth and pulled the trigger, do you honestly think that would have been plastered on the news 24-7 the way the underwear incident was?
"A living will will deny the courts a decision on your fate!
You are in control, Terri's mistake was not to have one"
If a judge decides you have one, you have one. The knife cuts both ways, if he decides you don't, you don't. When judges are legislating from the bench, anything goes
So what's your point? You're not voting Republican ever again anyway.
BTW, most DUmmies at least make an attempt to learn how to spell before posting here.
Name another nation where the ruling class wears black robes?
Iran's mullahs.
The similarities are striking.
The best outcome, I think, is not for the entire population to break out of its cage and cause a major change in government, but for individuals to act on their conscience and stoicly accept the consequences.
I would ask that congress people be asked to comment as to whether they personally, if standing next to Terri, would turn on the fluid drip and cheerfully be imprisoned.
The slogan 'never forget' rings quite hollow.
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