Posted on 10/17/2003 9:20:22 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday that his legal team has been unable to find a basis for him to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, who is expected to starve to death as soon as this weekend after her feeding tube was removed at the direction of her husband yesterday. "The legal office has been talking to people trying to find some strategy where my office can intervene in a different fashion that will yield a different result," Bush said Thursday. "So far we have not found that option." Gov. Bush's comments came before Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, met with him privately to present a letter from Florida's Thomas More Law Center citing a legal basis for the state to intervene to stop what one attorney described as "the execution of Terri Schiavo." "We're waiting to hear from Gov. Bush" on the Thomas More letter, Mr. Schindler told national talk radio host Sean Hannity Thursday afternoon. Schindler said Gov. Bush's response is "probably is our last hope." By Friday morning, Bush's office gave no hint that he had reached a decision. Thursday night Mr. Schindler told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" that his daughter could die as early as this weekend if medical staff begin administering morphine to counter the pain of her starvation. The Republican governor's caution over the legal technicalities of the case stands in marked contrast to the actions of Democrats, who often take a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later approach when an issue of importance hangs in the balance. In April 2000, for instance, the Clinton administration didn't let the law interfere with its plan to return 6-year-old boat boy Elian Gonzalez to Castro's Cuba. Instead of waiting for Gonzalez's legal case to play out in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Attorney General Janet Reno executed White House plans to have the boy kidnapped from the home of his Miami relatives at machine gunpoint. Normally Clinton-friendly legal powerhouse attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Tribe were horrified, publicly condemning the raid as unconstitutional. Gov. Bush reaction? He called the action "unconscionable" but showed no interest in pursuing legal sanctions against the White House. When Republicans in Congress called for a congressional investigation into the Clinton administration's abuse of power in the Elian case, top aides to then-presidential candidate George Bush derailed the idea. "A top Republican Party official told The Daily News that Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh informed Senate Republicans on Thursday that the candidate wanted the hearings scrapped because the issue is a political loser," reported the New York paper a week after the raid. As it turned out, voter backlash over the Elian raid among Florida's Cuban-American community gave President Bush his razor thin margin of victory in the 2000 election.
What a hateful little wretch you are! Jeb is the best friend Florida conservatives have. He's doing everything he can within the law to help and you blame him?????!!!
You disgust me.
What a depraved state we have come to! The religious leaders, the political leaders, the business leaders, and the social leaders of Florida and this country remain largely silent. The media, when they say anything, push the lie that she is comatose and that it is a great tragedy. They don't tell the people that she has NEVER, NEVER been given the opportunity to communicate with a chalkboard or letters. She has not been able to eat or drink with a spoon because of legal maneuverings.
We are not so different from Nazi Germany. Hitler was killing all the weak and infirm and a whole class of people and those that opposed him. It has taken the US 30 years, so far, to accomplish what Hitler did in a short time. But we are marching right along that path. We started with the weak. Now we are attacking the infirm. According to what I have read in the last week, this is a widespread phenomena. Very routine in some hospitals. Which class of people do you imagine will be targeted for extermination in this great and horrible plan of destruction a few years hence?
If it were not for the death threats and threats of all kinds, this mess would be amusing.
Unfortunately, it is very telling of the nature of some advocates here on FR.
No justice ,no peace.
Thats right I hate it when people do not stand up to their duty to our country. "conservative or not" According the Thomas Moore Law Center and .. oh about 3 million people , remember it is for the people , by the people... he is not doing everything within his power. We'll see. Flame away bud. A life is about to be save and justice is about to be served. Stand clear please.
No justice ,no peace.
Thats right I hate it when people do not stand up to their duty to our country. "conservative or not" According the Thomas Moore Law Center and .. oh about 3 million people , remember it is for the people , by the people... he is not doing everything within his power. We'll see. Flame away bud. A life is about to be save and justice is about to be served. Stand clear please.
No justice ,no peace.
Thats right I hate it when people do not stand up to their duty to our country. "conservative or not" According the Thomas Moore Law Center and .. oh about 3 million people , remember it is for the people , by the people... he is not doing everything within his power. We'll see. Flame away bud. A life is about to be save and justice is about to be served. Stand clear please.
That a woman's life is about to be saved and justice served? What has you so worked up anyway.. Thomas Moore Law Center is conservative as the day is long. Or do you think you are smarter than they are. Ohh.. it must be horrible to think that a starving woman may be fed.
Yoiu must be beside your self that the people spoke and it sounds like the politicans are going to listen. Darn that old Republic America.
Do you really want an answer, or is that just a rhetorical question?
Right now, the liberal and middle parts of the spectrum see a woman who has been in a vegatative state for more than a dozen years. They imagine the difficulty this puts on her loved ones, and wish to see the suffering of all concerned ended. When I saw pictures of Ms. Schiavo, I told my wife, right in front of her mother and her daughter, "If I ever get half that brain dead, pull my plug." I guess I need to find a way to put that in writing. Of course, at the age of 47, I feel that need more acutely than I did when I was in my twenties.
Some people on these Schiavo threads have suggested ulterior motives for the husband wishing to end his wife's vegetative state. Those suspicions have not translated into hard evidence that might well have been picked up by the news media. Everybody can understand why Scott Peterson might have wanted to off his wife, but its harder to believe that a super-selfish person would set themselves up for thirteen years of hospital hell just for a few bucks, or an affair.
Disagree with me if you want, but that's my answer to your question.
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