Posted on 12/10/2003 12:23:32 PM PST by daylate-dollarshort
Appeals court declines to remove judge in Schiavo case
The Associated Press
CLEARWATER, Fla. An appeals court rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's assertion that the circuit judge overseeing the case of a severely brain-damaged woman is biased and refused Wednesday to remove him.
The 2nd District Court of Appeal refused to bar Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird from hearing arguments regarding the constitutionality of a new law enacted to reinsert the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive after her husband had it removed.
Bush's attorney, Kenneth L. Connor, argued that Baird had already made up his mind, citing statements the judge made from the bench last month in which he said the new law is "presumptively unconstitutional" and deprives Schiavo of her right to privacy.
But the appellate court said Baird's comments were not improper and "legally insufficient to instill a well-founded fear of prejudice or bias."
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We continually pray for that one judge ... like the one in Your word ... who rendered justice only because the widow appeared again and again and would not be silenced. May we be as she ... consistent and persistent and accepting nothing less than justice.
In so few ways, but on such a grand scale, Creator God, You have shown us the waywardness of even the highest court in the land. Because of our beloved Terri, we have learned that it is paramount that those charged with judicial decision be lovers of the law, as well as learned. You have charged each with granting justice to all those who appear before them ... bring them to task, Father, if they fail. Bring us to task, Father, if we do not lend our efforts to restoring order to our beloved country.
We pray for Your continued watchfulness over Terri and her family ... may her new surroundings be pleasing to her ... may she prosper despite what some would do to her. Again we pray that You would keep her from all harm ... let those who come near her be aware that she is beloved by thousands, and may they reverence her life. Whisper to her, O Lord ... "be not dismayed what 'ere betide, God will take care of you .."
Grant strength and comfort to those who seek her release from the merchants of death .. may she soon be released from her man made prison and returned to the safety and care of her beloved family ... in the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen ...
1. The judges are the sort of people who feel such contempt for intellectual and educational "inferiors" that they cannot help but think that they would all be better off dead. This clouds their view and makes it impossible for them to judge this case fairly : for them, it's all about "freeing" Terri from a life they'd rather be dead than have to live. And also to free poor, pitiful, picked-on Michael from his "burden"...which should clue the spouses , parents, and children of these judges what will be their fate if they should become incapacitated without a living will. 'Sickness and in health' be damned!
2.They like being able to stick their thumbs in the eyes of all the people who are horrified at MS's incessant attempts at uxoricide-AND let us know that, in a sense, we are no longer citizens, but state property, and in absence of a living will, our usefulness to that state will determine whether we are allowed to live. Right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness be damned, too.
Why do you call out to God to allow you to make a choice that is only His to make? Can you point me to scripture that shows where our human desires ever trump His Holy Word?
You assume He has no further use for the beautiful person He created...I say you are wrong. You're looking at this from what you would want..not what God would want.
First, dieing of starvation is not painless, and if she is braindead as they claim (which I do not believe is true), the temporary hold to make sure murder is not the true reason for her being starved to death then should make no difference either.
If Terri is 'aware', which I believe because I know the mind is not centered in the brain to begin with, then I believe that God is giving us this opportunity and using Terri to make the rest of the nation aware of what is going on in Florida, with Hospices, with the Judge and Felos and their little death conspiracy for profit.
We are being given a chance to stop this kind of treatment, and maybe a chance to find out that Terri befell this condition at the hands of Michael, and not due to Bulimia, which was Michael's suggestion and not a doctor's diagnosis anyway.
Maybe Terri is not being allowed to die at the hands of Michael and the courts because she is giving us a gift to prevent the murder of others.
Were Michael the kind of supportive honest husband the media portrays, I would understand his conflict with her parents, and so would everyone else. They will never give up as long as she breathes, and that is the way it should be.
I would be on the side of the law, if that was the case, with sympathy for the family and their having to accept her termination.
Michael's acts, from before, throughout, and continuing to today, towards Terri, and her family, tell me there is more to this than parents that won't give up. Anyone that can't see 'through' Michael's act, is blind. Well, actually, blind people see better than most non-blind, so that is a bad expression, but you know what I mean.
Anyway, God isn't asking us to bend over and take it. He is showing us that we have an opportunity, and Terri has payed the price for us to be given that opportunity. What we do with that opportunity, is what separates heaven from hell.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Not specifically. The Hemlock Society is rallying their forces to try and keep this tauted as a "right-to-die" case and the newspapers down there are polling with highly misleading questions to make it look like most people want Terri dead, but as far as any court rulings, other than this current judicial travesty, there haven't been any to my knowledge.
Nic, I know you've been busy, but have you seen anything else new?
Yes he did. Our only hope is in our Heavenly Father.
Unfortunately, many have lost the values and concepts many of us were taught.
Many people do not accept the concept that GOD decides on life or death, not mortals. Maybe that is because we think doctors hold the key to life and death, or medicine does, or government does, or that big guy with the gun.
Maybe having the ability to appear as having power over life and death is what causes the confusion.
I still believe that only GOD should have the power and decision of life or death.
Michael and the judge have all the power, yet Terri is alive. God's plan? We will see.
And dying of dehydration is even more decidedly not painless.
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