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."
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.
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.
If you don't know, try doing the research.
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.
Why have the Appeals Courts and the Florida Supremes not agreed with you?
Heinous, hideous
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.
Yes, your memory is correct.
Nice to see you too.
Because they believe the gospel of death.
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.
Who will rid us of this meddlesome judge?
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?
DOES SINKSPUR TRULY BELIEVE THAT THAT SCUMBAG HUSBAND IS A NON-CONFLICTED GUARDIAN?
The Massachusetts court certainly ordered the Massachusetts legislature to pass the homosexual marriage law.
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.
Judge "George W." Greer?
Oh gag me NOW.
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
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.
He's much more like Pontius Pilate.
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