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1 posted on 12/31/2015 3:58:12 AM PST by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

I am sure the doctors wanting to pull the plug don’t want to be named.


2 posted on 12/31/2015 4:00:20 AM PST by boycott (--)
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To: Citizen Zed

Another example when a gun saved a person’s life. And this time it was from the government.


3 posted on 12/31/2015 4:00:45 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Citizen Zed

Wow.

Great story. I never heard of this.


4 posted on 12/31/2015 4:01:33 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance./c5700.html)
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Ugh, why am I never on a jury?!

NOT GUILTY, NEXT!


5 posted on 12/31/2015 4:04:39 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Citizen Zed

BS meter pinging.


6 posted on 12/31/2015 4:04:56 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: Citizen Zed

Key word to recall from article: organ donor.


7 posted on 12/31/2015 4:06:36 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Citizen Zed

Violins are never the answer? Then why send in a SWAT Team?


8 posted on 12/31/2015 4:09:04 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Citizen Zed

If that’s what it takes. Thank God BOTH of them survived.


11 posted on 12/31/2015 4:18:51 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: Citizen Zed
Both George's mother and his brother agreed to take George off life support.

Yikes. The conversation over the Thanksgiving dinner table may never be the same.

13 posted on 12/31/2015 4:25:43 AM PST by kidd
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Why weren’t the doctors that wanted to kill him and harvest his organs charged with attempted murder?


17 posted on 12/31/2015 4:32:39 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: Citizen Zed
While violence is never the answer and cannot be tolerated...

I don't know why so many people repeat this silly bromide. Many times, violence is the perfect solution to problems, the best and only answer.

20 posted on 12/31/2015 4:33:49 AM PST by Blennos
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And then there’s the opposite that sometimes happens.
The father of my daughter’s fiancé collapsed, went into a coma about 2 months ago, and, although not brain dead, could not breathe on his own. Unfortunately, he’d signed one of those “living will” papers ten or twelve years earlier, before he got divorced. The ex-wife made the pronouncement to pull the plug. The ex-wife, an officer in a major corporation, was paying alimony and saw this as an opportunity to get out of the payments.
Never sign one of these liberal inspired “living wills”.


21 posted on 12/31/2015 5:00:17 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Slavery will continue to exist and thrive as long a Islam continues to exist.)
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"Sadly, it resorted to a father having to use the threat of violence to afford time for his son to have that chance to improve," Schindler commented. "While violence is never the answer and cannot be tolerated, one can understand the unconditional love parents have for their children and wanting nothing more than to give them the chance to recover."

So if the father had not threatened violence, violence would have been perpetrated on the son. Self contradictory statement.

"There was a law broken, but it was broken for all the right reasons," the younger George explained to the Daily Mail. "And I'm here now because of it. It was love, it was love."

Ere he shall lose an eye for such a trifle... For doing deeds of nature! I'm ashamed. The law is such an ass. - author obscure

23 posted on 12/31/2015 5:40:59 AM PST by pa_dweller (Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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Well, with the conviction on his record, maybe he won’t be a drunk running around with a gun in the future.


26 posted on 12/31/2015 6:32:59 AM PST by PAR35
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A family we know took their son off life support a few weeks ago. He had suffered a stroke or aneurysm or I am not sure what the medical diagnosis was. He was 20. He had signed up to be an organ donor. They will always wonder.


28 posted on 12/31/2015 6:45:09 AM PST by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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If we want you dead, you die. This guy interfered with the lefties’ grand vision.


30 posted on 12/31/2015 7:01:31 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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“”While violence is never the answer and cannot be tolerated”

Except that we give the State a monopoly on the use of violence and teach our children that this is the way it must be, and that all good citizens stand by and allow the State to do so. Liberals come to view the State as a replacement deity and that when the State decrees something the matter is settled. People who put their trust in the State even are willing to have the State arrest (implying the willingness to use deadly force) people who disagree with them. We have seen such suggestions in the news lately by advocates of the theory that humans are causing the climate to change for the worse. And far too many “law and order” conservatives are willing to give the police a pass for any heads they may have to knock or protesters they may have to bludgeon to restore peace.

The very basis of the Second Amendment is that when all peaceful means are exhausted, that the option for violence sometimes can result in a righteous protection of liberty. The Declaration of Independence was signed by people who knew that it probably meant that this was the case and the next step was violence.

However, when a person makes this decision, the weight of justification is on him. That is exactly why the Founding Fathers appealed to Heaven for guidance, and why they took so long and had so many deliberations before taking that option.

In this extreme case, it sounds like the father was entirely justified in the use of violence to defend another person. But I suspect that he was just very lucky that his son was going to recover despite how his doctors had evaluated his condition.

I would also add that part of the dynamic here may have been who was paying the bills and how much the hospital was going to earn from all the work involved in using the son’s organs for transplantation. If there was no harm in waiting a few more hours, why did they attempt to override the father’s refusals? The peaceful thing to have done would have been to allow the father to be proven wrong. But they may have ended up with another Terri Schiavo on their hands, and millions in support costs they would have had to swallow. Of course, we can never know for sure.

The prosecuting attorney was right to charge the man, but at trial the judge should have ruled innocent due to extreme exigent circumstances.


31 posted on 12/31/2015 7:10:31 AM PST by theBuckwheat
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Amazing for sure. God bless the father. What a man.


34 posted on 12/31/2015 7:50:13 AM PST by stevio (Cruz or Trump, "no" to the chumps)
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"...violence is never the answer and cannot be tolerated..."

Pure, liberal Bravo Sierra!!!

Violence has a rightful and useful place -- and it appears to be needed more and more often, nowadays.

Oh -- and what would Schindler call the murder of his sister -- or the attempted murder of this young man? "Peace, Light and Non-Violence"?

Dumb@$$3d liberals...

38 posted on 12/31/2015 7:52:34 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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CAPTION: "Pickering (right) was arrested and jailed, but his son (left) recovered a few weeks later and is doing well"


39 posted on 12/31/2015 8:05:13 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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