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DeLay Pledges Contempt Charge for Terri Judge
NewsMax ^ | 3/18/05 | Limbacher

Posted on 03/18/2005 4:32:07 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay pledged Friday to hold Florida state judge George Greer in contempt of Congress for ignoring a congressional subpoena for Terri Schiavo's testimony, saying, "No little judge sitting in a state district court in Florida is going to usurp the authority of Congress."

"The Congress will pursue this, if we have to hold him in contempt of Congress," DeLay told radio host Sean Hannity.

Pressed on whether he intended to hold Judge Greer in contempt, the top Republican told Hannity: "Absolutely, absolutely."

"We will do everything to enforce the power and authority of the Congress and no little judge sitting in a state district court in Florida is going to usurp the authority of Congress," he added.

Earlier in the day Judge Greer rebuffed the Schiavo subpoena, telling attorneys in the case, "I have had no cogent reason why the [congressional] committee should intervene." He claimed that the last-minute action on the part of Congress does not nullify years of legal proceedings.

But DeLay told Hannity, "This judge and the Supreme Court of Florida are well known to be liberal judges that have a different worldview and they're imposing their worldview on the law."

The top House leader said that "no sane person" could look at Schiavo and say she's in a persistent vegetative state.

DeLay called a lawyer for Michael Schiavo, who has pressed for years to have his wife starved to death, "the personification of evil."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chooselife; contempt; cultureofdeath; delay; eugenics; impeachgreer; judge; judgegreer; parentsrights; schiavo; terri; terrischiavo; terrischindler; tomdelay; weloveyouterri
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To: MarMema

MarMema! I haven't seen you in a long time!

I got Wesley's book and, well, enjoyed isn't the right word...it was a good read.

Hope you and yours are well.


421 posted on 03/18/2005 6:38:00 PM PST by kimmie7 (Hooking up a feeding tube is no different than bringing a tray to a hospital room. Easier, in fact.)
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To: Badray

Badray wrote:
In case you didn't notice,
THERE IS A LIFE AT STAKE IN THIS CASE!
A young woman's murder has been ordered by the court.""""


I totally agree!!

I don't understand how this could happen in our country. A man is allowed to treat his wife as property, even though he has already moved on with another woman and two kids.

What is happening in Florida, is Judical Blessings on Spousal Murder by the hedious means of STARVATION.




422 posted on 03/18/2005 6:38:15 PM PST by Pepper777 (Terri Should be ALLOWED TO HAVE THERAPY - Not Death by Starvation)
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To: kimmie7

If you don't know, try doing the research.



You see you still don't understand... I don't care as it isn't germane to the issues currently in place today. I only mentioned it as a passing when someone mentioned a common law wife. You took it upon yourself to straighten me out about laws in most cases.... well this isn't about laws in most cases but one specific case, one specific state and that states specific laws.

Now all that said I'm finished on the subject.


423 posted on 03/18/2005 6:38:18 PM PST by deport (You know you are getting older when everything either dries up or leaks.)
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To: Dog Gone
Personally, I don't think a ruling that you don't have the right to deny nourishment to yourself unless you express that in writing is a good idea.

I think it is a splendid idea unless one is a permanent vegetable. The problem is the potential for abuse, particuarly if the medical bills are wasting the estate away for the heirs.

424 posted on 03/18/2005 6:38:21 PM PST by Torie
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To: supercat
If Terri were allowed an honest guardian, she would have been divorced years ago. If Terri were allowed an honest judge, the HINO would have been disqualified as guardian years ago, thus paving the way for an honest guardian to get a divorce.

Why have the Appeals Courts and the Florida Supremes not agreed with you?

425 posted on 03/18/2005 6:39:11 PM PST by sinkspur ("Preach the gospel. If necessary, use words.")
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To: Pepper777

Heinous, hideous


426 posted on 03/18/2005 6:39:42 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Dog Gone

By the way, the emergency legislation just gives the matter access to federal courts. It is procedural. I don't see any substantive issue myself. But procedure counts in the law, and buys time.


427 posted on 03/18/2005 6:40:22 PM PST by Torie
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To: syriacus

Yes, your memory is correct.

Nice to see you too.


428 posted on 03/18/2005 6:40:27 PM PST by kimmie7 (Hooking up a feeding tube is no different than bringing a tray to a hospital room. Easier, in fact.)
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To: sinkspur

Because they believe the gospel of death.


429 posted on 03/18/2005 6:40:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay pledged Friday to hold Florida state judge George Greer in contempt of Congress for ignoring a congressional subpoena for Terri Schiavo's testimony, saying, "No little judge sitting in a state district court in Florida is going to usurp the authority of Congress."

Perhaps, but I'll bet he'll still wait until Monday to do so, after Terri has been starving for three full days. If he does something tomorrow -- he's serious. If he waits until Monday -- he's just posturing for the cameras.

430 posted on 03/18/2005 6:41:18 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: muawiyah

Who will rid us of this meddlesome judge?


431 posted on 03/18/2005 6:41:41 PM PST by Edmund Burke
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To: Edmund Burke
Why doesn't Jeb Bush grant her a pardon?

Or simply go there, himself, and have her removed to another facility. There is a poster claiming, in another thread, that 'doctors' at Woodside Hospice are pumping Terri full of overdoses of morphine, so that she would die within hours or days. If that's the case, isn't that malpractice - against do no harm, save lives, etc?

432 posted on 03/18/2005 6:41:48 PM PST by sevry
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To: sinkspur
Stop hiding behind some circus clown florida judges.

DOES SINKSPUR TRULY BELIEVE THAT THAT SCUMBAG HUSBAND IS A NON-CONFLICTED GUARDIAN?

433 posted on 03/18/2005 6:42:01 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: Servant of the 9
I'm not a lawyer. But using the reasonable man theory, if a purported guardian/husband has gone to lengths to destroy his marriage such as Terri's husband has, living with and producing two children with antoher woman over a ten year period, isn't it reasonable to declare him "biased" as Terri's guardian. I would think any idiot judge in the world would consider her legal husband biased as hell and appoint the next legal guardians, her parents , as legal guardians. Maybe that's a legal stretch I don't know but it seems reasonable to me.
434 posted on 03/18/2005 6:42:36 PM PST by rodguy911 (rodguy911:First Let's get rid of the UN and the ACLU,..toss in CAIR as well.)
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To: Dog Gone
Can the courts order Congress to pass a particular bill?

The Massachusetts court certainly ordered the Massachusetts legislature to pass the homosexual marriage law.

435 posted on 03/18/2005 6:42:43 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
I see this as the call of the trumpet to jerk the judges back to their Constitutional authority and reestablish the power of the legislative branch.

I love this statement. Wow! How wonderful that would be! These folks in black robes are on a binge that needs to be stopped. Praying with you.

436 posted on 03/18/2005 6:42:55 PM PST by kimmie7 (Hooking up a feeding tube is no different than bringing a tray to a hospital room. Easier, in fact.)
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To: Theodore R.

Judge "George W." Greer?

Oh gag me NOW.


437 posted on 03/18/2005 6:43:04 PM PST by Fudd Fan (MaryJo Kopechne needed an "exit strategy")
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To: Americanchild
Christopher Reeves was still 'in there' unlike Terri.

And you know Terri's not 'in there'...how? People have "woken up" from worse and claimed to have been fully aware the entire time.

No one has ever awakened from a "Persistent Vegetative State" and like it or not that is her diagnosis.

The only other possiblilty is a conspiracy for no known reason between her doctors, The 14 Judges who have heard the cases, The medical Examiner, The District Attorney, The Hospital Administrators, and the entire legal profession to help her husband kill her.

So9

438 posted on 03/18/2005 6:43:12 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Goldwater Republican)
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To: sinkspur
It seems Greer is the one who casted the law aside. What fact put before him defines her as vegetative or persistantly vegetative. He has 14 neurologist who say otherwise. In the courts the testimony sworn by professions is considered a fact. If a tort is alleged, both sides put on the case and either a jury or judge adjudicates the conflict. Here the judge finds "no cogent arguement to not withdraw the tube". This is arbitrary and capricious. It errs on the side of death. It is his choice.

This situation has taken on proportions pertinent to each Americans life that are unimaginable as yet. The democrats have uleashed the hounds of hell and where they will go will be told by time and circumstance. They will legislate from the bench in a more pernicious way than ever before. They will become more emboldened if they are not checked now. The definition of life has contracted from the beginning side and now the other end. Life is not defined by physiological processes and biology, but by the perceived "quality" and "value" as defined by the Judiciary. When they rule that you die, who is going to stand in the gap and say no. "Life" will become little more than acceptable, collated, activities which will be constantly reexamined and redefined. Methods will be refined to euphemistically reference termination with dignity. At this point is seems crass to define her planned or outcome based death as death with dignity when she will be dehydrated unto death. I can hear their faxes buzzing now as to try to define themselves before those crazy prolifers define them.

As Caesar said, "We have crossed the Rubricon." This is truely a clash of historic proportions. Until now, we have not actually had to watch the executions. This judicial tyrany, even as the demanded killing is in progress, tries to evade the eyes of those who would try to hold those responsible to account. The debauchery of a judge who orders the victims parents to sit by and watch, but not touch. "You may not attempt to give oral nutrition or fluid" strikes me as hubris beyond contempt and vice. It defines he who would order such as demonic and evil. Think of another person ordering you as a parent to watch as he forced your baby to dehydrate to death. At least Sadam Hussein only put them in a plastic shredder and they were dead within seconds or minutes. Or perhaps a well spent bullet to the head ceased the suffering. But this,....this is grist for horror. This is beyonds the worst depravity reserved for Dantes Hell. When the vet kills a dog or horse, he gives an analgesic and sedative, then injects potassium chloride and the heart stops. No pain, just surrender to the chemicals. Here there will be no such mercy to dull the injustice. Even when Jesus was crucified some were allowed to give vinegar to dull the torment.

We will wake up when the architects of death become so definant and devilish that it cannot be justified by even those who sought it out. By then, dare I say, Neurenburg will seem to have adjudicated those people and they returned to repeat a lesson unlearned.

439 posted on 03/18/2005 6:43:47 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (.)
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To: Edmund Burke
Greer is not a "meddlesome" judge after the fashion of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.

He's much more like Pontius Pilate.

440 posted on 03/18/2005 6:43:50 PM PST by muawiyah
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