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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: goldstategop; John Thornton
you think they wouldn't...?

They will now, using the Terri Schiavo case as a precedent. Hopefully Mumia's state executioner would ignore the congressional subpoena as has been done in this case. If Judge Greer is prosecuted for contempt of congress, defense attorneys will begin petitioning House sub committees as part of the appeals process.

61 posted on 03/19/2005 6:36:58 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: sinkspur

"They wait until March 17 to do something, when the media will be focused on their efforts.

And it's not going to work. This "subpoena" business was embarrassing, and futile."

I am forced to agree with you. This action is actually worse than doing nothing - it is showboating to appease religious conservatives like myself. If they are not willing to back up their words with forceful action, then they have lost me. If Terri dies because of the impotence of GOP leaders (including the President), I am changing my party affiliation from Republican to Independent.

I am sick to my soul of working for and voting for candidates that don't deliver. I don't want to hear "We Can't" anymore. Get it done boys, or I go.


62 posted on 03/19/2005 6:36:59 AM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: mathprof
How does the NYT refer to the 'Bad Guys'?
... a dangerous game
... their intrusion
... grim one-upsmanship
... Congress seized
... After bungled attempts
... the ghoulish gimmick
... Republicans' theatrical effort
... Congress's rash assumption of judicial power
... [Congress's] trampling on established state and federal constitutional precedents


And how does the NYT refer to the 'Good Guys'?
... the careful decisions


The New York Times -- Middle School writing for Elementary School readers.

63 posted on 03/19/2005 6:37:19 AM PST by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: mathprof

NY Times, the leader of the pack of death cultists. That's where the newspaper of record wants to be.


64 posted on 03/19/2005 6:37:32 AM PST by dennisw ("What is Man that thou art mindful of him")
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To: goldstategop

Based on the testimony of her husband who is shacked up with someone else. Just like Scott Peterson who would believe him?


65 posted on 03/19/2005 6:38:00 AM PST by YOUGOTIT
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To: mathprof
From Andrew McCarthy's excellent NRO article, "The Torturing Of Terri Schiavo":
What kind of society goes into a lather over the imposition of bright lights and stress positions for barbarians who might have information that will save lives, but yawns while a defenseless woman who hasn’t hurt anyone is willfully starved and dehydrated? By a court — the bulwark purportedly protecting our right to life? The torture starts Friday, at 1 P.M. Unless we do something to stop it.

66 posted on 03/19/2005 6:38:24 AM PST by Conservative_since_63 ( -- Things ain't like they used to be... And they never were.)
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To: mathprof

Talk about a brain dead editorial board that needs to have life-support withdrawn.


67 posted on 03/19/2005 6:40:47 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: muawiyah
You are correct. As long as you are not left-wing they do not care what happens to you. They laugh and joke about people who go to church and they hate anyone who is a Christian or Jew.
68 posted on 03/19/2005 6:41:25 AM PST by YOUGOTIT
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To: mathprof
Anyone else see the parallel link to abortion.

That too was supposed to be compassionate. It started out with defective babies then convenience and now for any reason at all. There the immediate family didn't want the baby. Here we have people that WANT to care for her, yet courts so NO, starve her to death.
69 posted on 03/19/2005 6:41:44 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: kittymyrib
Our mullahs wear black robes too.

Sounds like an excellent tag-line for someone.

70 posted on 03/19/2005 6:41:55 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: goldstategop

We can complain about the judiciary all we want, but it should never have gotten this far. On the side of morality, Michael Schiavo should have stepped aside a long time ago and left this to the parents. They weren't married but a few months.

As to his claim of what Terri said, lot's of people say this and their survivor's can't do it. My dad made a request in front of all of us that he be cremated, but my mom just couldn't do it. Though 2 of my siblings had strong feelings that we should do as my father said, we accepted her decision. We do not begrudge her feelings on this.

Yes, it's a bit different, but it is about a dying request that was broken. Hey, Michael, just give her back to her parents. That's all you have to do. Walk away and marry your girlfriend. Make those kids legal. We'll have more respect for you than we do now.


71 posted on 03/19/2005 6:42:57 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Those who proclaim tolerance have the least for my views.)
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To: mathprof
Congressional leaders are playing a dangerous game with their intrusion into the hotly publicized fight in Florida over maintaining life support for a severely brain-damaged woman.

Maintaining life support? All they are doing is feeding her. She is not on life-support.

There is a family in my area that is charged with felonies for not feeding a six year old. The girl had some medical problems resulting from a birth defect in her GI tract. According to the autopsy report, she died of malnutrition and dehydration. I guess they should have hired Felos and gotten a court order.

72 posted on 03/19/2005 6:44:29 AM PST by knuthom
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To: wingsof liberty

< 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. >

Let us know the next time you are in excuciating pain and we'll come over and let the doctors know they are supposed to kill you.


73 posted on 03/19/2005 6:45:35 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Those who proclaim tolerance have the least for my views.)
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To: goldstategop
We're willing to spend billions to save an endangered toad in California. Terri Schiavo is just too useless to justify even a modest expenditure of public funds. We do have our national priorities in order.

What expenditure of public funds??? The last I heard, private donations and her family were slated to provide for her care. No one that I know of has even hinted that public funds would be used.

74 posted on 03/19/2005 6:46:38 AM PST by Wingy
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To: YOUGOTIT

Terri's husband also has 2 children with his girlfriend. Funny how the liberal death-cultist don't want anyone to know about that fact. Or the fact that he squandered away her $1 million malpractice settlement without spending a penny of it on her treatment. The death cult is a cult of monsters and ghouls.


75 posted on 03/19/2005 6:46:59 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: weegee

The New York Times.....the dead archive of Liberlism....Very Good.


76 posted on 03/19/2005 6:51:50 AM PST by Route101
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To: mathprof

I think the Florida judges and the NYT editorial board should be denied food and water for 48 hours and then see if they have a different opinion!!


77 posted on 03/19/2005 6:56:19 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (NO PRISONERS!!)
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To: mathprof
The epitome of evil. I never thought the NY Times could ever go this low.

I was wrong.

78 posted on 03/19/2005 6:57:51 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
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To: Wingy
No but if they were you'd hear the bleeding hearts become concerned about the drain on the public treasury.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
79 posted on 03/19/2005 6:58:56 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mathprof

Am I the only person who is tired of hearing about Terri Schiavo? I know there's no way to compare these two things, but it's seems there is something wrong with the Congress being tied up over this, all the anguish and words and breast-beating over Terri Schiavo, who probably is brain dead or nearly so, when we've lost and are continuing to lose young people in war.

This has really just become a nasty fight between Republicans and Democrats. The thing to do would be to change the laws now so that no one could be deprived of a feeding tube without having signed a sworn statement.


80 posted on 03/19/2005 6:59:22 AM PST by carola
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