Posted on 01/17/2006 5:05:35 PM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good evening!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Today, in a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court said it was legal to murder someone in Oregon.
Yes, that is correct. With two-thirds of the highest jurists in America weighing on the issue, it was decided to let a doctor determine whether it was appropriate to euthanise a patient in Oregon. Euthanise is such a nice sounding word, but at the end of the day someone is dead and someone else was the perpetrator. Gee, sounds a lot like murder. But that's all right, it was prescribed by a doctor.
To be sure, the Justices wouldn't just let anyone whack anyone, nope. They set rules. They agreed that Oregon did it right: they defined very narrowly who could be murdered. Only the allegedly terminally ill fall into that category, apparently, and only physicians are allowed to do the deed. Hypocrates would be proud.
Then again, the decision about Oregon's "assisted suicide" law (never mind that suicide must be conducted by the person actually wishing to die, we live in the era of redefinition, don' you know--marriage, family, and now death) shouldn't come as a surprise. Indeed, things have now come full circle. The Justices previously said it is all right to terminate life before it can breath the oxygen of the atmosphere, so why not allow doctors to end the heart beat of someone at the other end of the age spectrum? Moreover, since the medical profession has done such a good job in preventing life from eminating forth in the first place, why not allow doctors to just snuff it out?
The logic presented to the court is facetious. The argument is that these people are going to die anyway, so why not eliminate their suffering? The reasoning fails because doctors, for all their knowledge, are not God. They are not even close--anyone check the malpractice statistics lately? Consider the possibility: a doctor decides wrongfully that a person is terminally ill. More than a passing possibility.
So, then, where are the good folks from the American Civil Liberties Union? These are the folks that scream to high heaven when the state, in its righteous anger and fulfilling its purpose to protect its citzenry, excutes a miscreant. But allow a doctor to execute a patient, all in the name of preventing their suffering? Narry a cry from the self-righteous dingbats of duffousdom. On the other hand, NARAL and NOW must be estatic. It has been shown that there are clearly six votes on the Supreme Court for allowing doctors to end life, so even if Judge Alito ascends to the bench--more and more a likelihood--the left could now convincingly argue that there are still five votes to allow a woman to maintain "her right to choose."
Ever notice, however, that while it might be a woman's right to choose to end the life within her, it requires a medical professional to actually carry out the procedure? But, you see, it's all right, God, er, a doctor, has decided it is proper.
Another thing comes to light from the decision today, and that is the culture of death is alive and well (all due apologies for the juxtaposition). We can take the life of the unborn, we can take the life of the nearly dead, we don't bother eliminating those who take the lives of others. The meaning of life is hanging by a thread.
And the tensle strength of that thread is tested everytime a new Supreme Court Justice is nominated. "Will you respect a woman's right to choose?" " What is your opinion on Roe?"
All of this is also fascinating. In all the years since the Roe decision, not one piece of legislation has ever made it through the United States Congress cementing in the United States Code (being the compendium of the permanent laws of the country). Those self-righteous bloviators that demand that the woman's right to choose is sacroscant have never opted to put it down in their own writing by legislating the matter. But when the right comes along to legislate against it, wow, they sure want the courts to intervene by creating a right to death.
It is couched in terms of a "right to privacy" (a quick note is in order here--there is indeed an implied right to privacy in the Fourth Amendment, otherwise there would be no need to seek a court warrant to search your stuff, but that's the wrong argument, as you'll see in a moment), the determiner that the State has no business into the private lives of individuals. All right, then the State has no right into the private matter of one person murdering another over a drug deal.
Obviously, then the State does have interests that invade into the privacy of individuals, so then the question is the appropriateness of that invasion, and that is properly left to the courts.
But the courts need to harken back to the founding principles of the country. In the document written to break with the King, which has been mimiced a number of times since in other parts of the world, three inalienable rights of all human beings were enumerated. It can be presumed that the author wrote these in the order he deemed most important--indeed, there is a certain elegance in that train of thought as it can be easily argued the third right requires a prerequisite of the second, and the second that of the first.
And what was that first, most important, right of all human beings?
LIFE!
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Good morning. I can do snow...I don't do ice.
Thrush is a rancid smell..while horse manure is ..um...how do I say it...more sweetish?? LOL
Snow over ice is the worst. I have to go out this afternoon and I hope it warms up enough to melt some of the stuff on the streets.
Whatever Congress does for one American it must do for all Americans.
Hayek was a genius and inherited the torch from von Mises when every economist in the world had decided that socialism wasn't just a hip new fad but the wave of the future. Had it not been for the two of them and a crowd in Chicago, I'm not sure free market economics could have survived the 20th Century.
I read Walter Williams' columns religiously and he's my favorite substitute for Limbaugh. In fact, he'll be on later this week.
(((lysie))), I'm sorry about the latest development.
Prober blasts Bill Barrett Report
The "d" stands for demagogue Michelle Malkin
Letters to St. Paul Pastor's emails from Iraq .
We have a walkout basement with double doors and two rather large windows.
Yes, we did have a nice time while it lasted. I'm hoping she had a nice time visiting with her sister, too.
Will be thinking of you!
Thanks, Dolly.
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Hey! I just was notified that $800,000.00 is awaiting me for my efforts to help this gentlemen from PARAGUAY with his financial challenges. Actually, I receive two notices from TWO gentlemen from Paraguay. My, my, I have been a busy lady, haven't I. Well, that $1.6 mil will come in handy.
But ya' know, I am feeling in an extra charitable mood. I can get by without the money. I think I'll give it away. And to prove how magnanimous I am, I'll give it to the DNC. Does anyone have the bank account info for them?
So I kinda sorta knew they were up to something but didn't know what, exactly.
What does make me tear up, when I think about it, is that there are a number of veterans in the choir, including a former Navy Seal; and one of them said to me "They are really going to like this".
These guys always ask about Ev, every week, and want to know how he is doing. Means a lot.
LOL.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday!!
OH, LOL! GTMA, Mozie, I didn't see your "card" to jtill until after I posted it.
Guess you have an even bigger group of animals celebrating for you today jtill. Heh!
Just had a building, two buildings down from us, lose part of the roof.
VERY windy here,
There is a funeral at 1:30 today for a former instructor killed in Iraq two weeks ago.
Not sure what the weather impact will be.
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