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The Schiavo Case [lead NYT editorial]
New York Times ^ | 3/19/05

Posted on 03/19/2005 6:03:33 AM PST by mathprof

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To: mathprof

Fox and Friends is interviewing a congressman from GA, Westmoreland),who just had the best quote re: Terri Schiavo. They were asking him about a lot of things. When asked for an opinion about the Schiavo case he exressed that we seem to have our priorities screwed up.

We have a woman alive in Florida who should be kept alive and people have been allowed to kill her On the other hand we have a scumbag who has admitted molesting and killing a little 9 yr old girl that police say is on suicide watch and being visited every 15 minutes. He then said, "Heck, give him a gun and tell him you'll be back in a few minutes".

Kinda puts it in perspective.


41 posted on 03/19/2005 6:25:14 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Those who proclaim tolerance have the least for my views.)
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To: Baynative
The Democrats don't care about the disabled and the truly helpless. Its all about power with these guys. They're all calculation and no heart.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
42 posted on 03/19/2005 6:26:03 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mathprof
[Congress] then landed on the ghoulish gimmick of postponing removal of her feeding tube by subpoenaing her to a House hearing and inviting her to a separate hearing in the Senate.

If Terry Schiavo required a machines to breath or pump flood, efforts obviously artificial, I might agree with the NYT editorial writer.  But, the woman requires only what we all require:  food.

Wonder what would happen should we execute criminals by handcuffing their hands behind their backs, covering their mouths with duct tape, and then, we shove the murderers down into an old fashioned root cellar, padlock the doors, and simply walk away.  What would the NYT and the Democrats say about that?

43 posted on 03/19/2005 6:26:07 AM PST by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: mathprof
Get over it. The New York Slimes is 100% correct on this.

We have finally given them something to pin on us.

Just as Elian Gonzalez' father's rights were paramount in gaining custody in him being sent back to Cuba...so too is it LAW that Terri's husband's wishes supercede any say of the parents.

If you want that changed...change the law. There is no right of the Legislature to trample on the Judicial branch in this case.

44 posted on 03/19/2005 6:26:18 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: mathprof

From the same people who were complicit in Stalin's intentional state-based starvation of 10 million Ukrainians in the 1930's. The Times is always supportive of homicidal monsters.


45 posted on 03/19/2005 6:27:23 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: GOP_Proud
Like I said, the condition of a moral society is determined by how it treats the innocent and the guilty. We seem to everything reversed. Like Alice Through The Looking Glass.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
46 posted on 03/19/2005 6:27:44 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: jimbo123
That explains why they're so supportive of Judge Greer.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
47 posted on 03/19/2005 6:28:34 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: DCPatriot
Nope. The courts are now in the business of telling legislators what laws they will accept. The Judiciary in America is out of control.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
48 posted on 03/19/2005 6:29:57 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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Judge Greer is getting away with bloody murder and a bunch of Republican limp wristed men and women are standing around and letting this happen! How can people sleep or eat while Terri is being treated in such an unbelievably cruel ghoulish manner?


49 posted on 03/19/2005 6:32:01 AM PST by Saundra Duffy (Feed Terri - Impeach Greer!!!)
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To: DCPatriot; sure_fine

Uh oh, now you went and stepped in it. Get your Nomex® undies on...


50 posted on 03/19/2005 6:32:03 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: Zenith

Democrats pull out all the stops to see the innocent (babies, Terri, US soldiers) killed and the worst of the worst (murderers, terrorists) coddled and celebrated. Party of death indeed.


51 posted on 03/19/2005 6:32:05 AM PST by John Thornton ("Appeasers always hope that the crocodile will eat them last." Winston Churchill)
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To: Racehorse
Good point. Even a condemned man, even the most depraved of the condemned get at least one last request. Usually a hearty meal. Why are people allowing separate but equal treatment for Terri? We all were taught in school separate but equal is neither.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
52 posted on 03/19/2005 6:32:13 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mathprof

You can always count on the Slimes to take the wrong side.


53 posted on 03/19/2005 6:32:31 AM PST by demlosers (We win. They lose. USA number 1 ! Drill ANWR !)
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To: goldstategop

Stalin and Greer are birds of a feather. Stalin said he was just following the law, too when he decided to thin out the Ukrainian population by forced starvation.


54 posted on 03/19/2005 6:33:37 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: DCPatriot
Just as Elian Gonzalez' father's rights were paramount in gaining custody in him being sent back to Cuba...so too is it LAW that Terri's husband's wishes supercede any say of the parents.

But let one father try to save his unborn child from abortion and we will hear soon enough about how fathers have no rights.

55 posted on 03/19/2005 6:33:53 AM PST by John Thornton ("Appeasers always hope that the crocodile will eat them last." Winston Churchill)
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To: mathprof

I'm waiting for the editorial in the Times that will site an instance when the courts...ANY courts...have over-stepped their bounds. Our mullahs wear black robes too.


56 posted on 03/19/2005 6:33:57 AM PST by kittymyrib
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Wow - I have NEVER seen so many stories posted on this site over one woman. All the experts say her vegitative state is persistant and she will not recover from it. I dont mean to sound harsh, but let her die!! If I was in her condition I would never want to be kept alive indefinitely. These right-to-lifers remind me of cancer patients who have had serious operations and spend every second of the rest of their lives in excruciating pain, but doctors refuse to put them out of their misery.


58 posted on 03/19/2005 6:34:49 AM PST by wingsof liberty (Marines - the few, the proud, the best!!)
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Get over it. The New York Slimes is 100% correct on this. [. . .] Just as Elian Gonzalez' father's rights were paramount in gaining custody in him being sent back to Cuba...so too is it LAW that Terri's husband's wishes supercede any say of the parents.

If Terry Schiavo required a machines to breath or pump flood, efforts obviously artificial, I might agree with the NYT editorial writer . . . and you.  But, the woman requires only what we all require:  food.

Give her the food.  Let the parents deal with the quality of life issues.

59 posted on 03/19/2005 6:35:14 AM PST by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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i think rush had it right friday when he described how the feminists see these issues as threatening to their "right to abortion":

rush related a story about a yound woman incapacitated, pregnant by her boy friend, and on life support. the boy friend wanted very much to keep his girl friend alive until the baby was born, and to raise it.

but the feminists demanded that she be unplugged and die, killing the baby.


60 posted on 03/19/2005 6:36:42 AM PST by ken21 ( today's luxury development. tomorrow's slum.)
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