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To: Dog Gone

"Just the opposite. If a state violates your US constitutional rights, you have the right to challenge that law in court."

How do you do that when you can not communicate? Through your court appointed guardian, who happens to be the same person that wants your feeding/hydration tube removed? The same person that wants you starved to death? How do you do that when the court only allows evidence from your guardian's side, which gives the court no reason to doubt the guardian and gives the court every reason to believe that the guardian is looking out for your well being, eventhough that guardian is trying to have you legally killed? Are you sure this is not a matter for the Federal level of Government to step into and clarify by law?

The state of Florida tried to clarify the law, only to have the law ruled unconstitutional.

In essence it is the court that has created the situation where Terri is not given due process of law. The only way to change that is by changing Federal law to clarify equal protection so that the federal court has to at least, hear the case.

I would not back just any law. I think this does have to be done at the Federal level, but it also has to be done correctly. I do not know what the law they are working on will do. I do not know if it will be a proper fix or not, but I do believe that this is a Federal case.


223 posted on 03/12/2005 4:19:02 PM PST by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: mjaneangels@aolcom; jwalsh07
I'm not convinced that Terri hasn't received due process as required. This case has been litigated for years and while she hasn't been represented by her own attorney, every legal avenue that an attorney appointed for her could have pursued has been.

jwalsh07 has convinced me that she can't be saved at the state level anymore. Where we differ is that I don't think she can be saved at the federal level, either. I think we've entered the end game, only it's not a game.

226 posted on 03/12/2005 5:25:50 PM PST by Dog Gone
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