Posted on 03/22/2005 3:26:06 AM PST by tsmith130
Just heard on Fox....so sad.
In the course of this, I saw things the medical commuunity couldn't explain and things that refuted their so-called experts. I have seen the videos of Terri and heard what those who love her say...there are other "experts" who refute the court appointed ones. So, it's not quite so cut and dry as you would like to make it appear. As I have said all along, in the absence of a legal instrument or true compelling evidence as to her wishes (meaning, there is no contradiction, no hearsay, and no loving memebers who deny that these are her wishes), you err on the side of life.
With all due respect, what are you talking about?
The law always takes into consideration reasonable doubts, especially in grave matters where intent is in question. The "what if's" the poser raised are reasonable questions in this case. To turn a blind eye to the issues raised is to assume that this case is a clear cut "right to die" case from the outset, which is surely is not.
There is reason to believe that the woman is not in a vegetative state. There is reason to believe that her husband might be responsible for her current state. There is reason to believe that he has a motive for wanting to see her dead.
If the woman is alive and in a nonvegetative state and simply requires food and water, she has a right to life. She at least has a right to have the matter of her current status thoroughly investigated apart from the constraints set up by her husband. If it turns out that she really is brain dead, then there is no wrong in pulling the plug.
It behooves us as a society, however, to ensure that such is truly the case before we act. This consideration seems to have been denied to her, and that certainly is a travesty if true.
The only person who can order a divorce hearing is Terri herself, or her guardian ad litem. In this case, I believe her guardian is still Judge Greer and by default, MS himself.
Neither one of them are willing to grant a divorce hearing or to follow Florida statute clearly showing MS is guilty of 2 second class misdomeners in connection with this case. If he's granted a divorce, they can't keep starving her to death.
We also control the Mod branch. Adios.
Thank you, Jeff, for a lucid, common sense commentary, as always.
That the President of the United State, and the Congress of the United States, have been forced to concern themselves with the Terri Schiavo case is ludicrous, and is proof of just how far the state and federal legal/judicial systems in this country have wandered from the blueprint laid out for them in the Constitution. The situation would be laughable, if it werent laying the groundwork for our eventual demise.
The Terri Schiavo case painfully illustrates the fact that the rule of law in our republic has found itself surreptitiously transformed into a spiderweb of irrational legalities that no longer have any foundation in justice.
Our modern legal/judicial system is now based on decades of irrational precedents, set by (1) juries who were incapable of critical thought and who allowed themselves to be thought-programmed by glib attorneys, and (2) judges whose agenda is focused on self-enrichment and socialist societal engineering rather than truth and fairness.
Often, when an issue becomes clouded by a maze of man-made, agenda-driven technicalities, the simplest analysis can help to clear away the smoke. The following facts are pretty much accepted by most observers of this case:
(1) Terris physical and mental states are the result of circumstances that place her husband in a less than favorable light
(2) that same husband has denied her even minimal physical therapy, and has instead seen to it that stimuli have been denied her for much of the last fifteen years
(3) that same husband is now living in an adulterous relationship with another woman and has fathered two children by her
(4) countless reputable medical specialists familiar with her case have observed that, even after fifteen years, the patient could benefit from, and respond to, appropriate therapy
(5) the patients family is willing to assume all financial and physical responsibility for her care from here on in, and
(6) the husband is insisting on cremation of the body, without benefit of further medical examination after death.
Is there anyone out there with half a brain who doesnt know where the truth lies, and what justice would entail in this case? So what is standing in the way of justice being done here? When did common sense cease to play a role in our legal/judicial system? And when did unaccountable judges, unscrupulous lawyers, and jurors who are incapable of rational analysis of facts, obtain the upper hand over our lives and liberties?
The tragedy in all of this is that we accept such perversions of justice as an inevitable part of life in America 2005.
We have become like the Pharisees whom Christ consistently sought to redeem in the New Testament. Much of His ministry was spent doing spiritual battle with their legal traditions. They demanded that He validate and approve what they called 'the tradition of the elders'. In effect, they wanted Him to consider their foolish man-made laws equivalent to the laws of scripture. Christ was vehement that He would not give His blessing to these man-made traditions saying, You lay aside the commandment of God and hold higher the tradition of men. The Pharisees laws set up a barrier between scriptural law and their nit-picking human edicts. Because they stopped people from learning and embracing the word of God, and forced them to focus on nonsense, Christ admonished them for making laws for the sake of laws. He consistently rebuked them, saying Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered. (Luke 11:52)
Every minute Judge Whittermore continues to deliberate moves Terri Schiavo one minute closer to her deliberate death.
If he rules as many of us fear he will, or waits long enough that Terri cannot be saved, may God forgive a nation whose justice system allows a murderer to commit his crime over a period of years, in full view of three hundred million witnesses, and with the blessing of 'The Law'.
~ joanie
He's not going to do anything "technically illegal." He's a man of principle.
LOL! I liked that!
Take matters into your own hands then-dump your bed pan-stand in the contents bare footed,and stick your nail file in the electric recepticle.
Bye Hildy.
LOL....yes that was quite amusing. The Mod Branch is the quiet but powerful fourth branch of government....lol
Thank you for you very mature response. Every time I get one of these ridiculous posts it shows everyone how misguided your side is.
Joanie, your comparison to the Pharisees is perfect. If I remember right, they ignored gross injustices and concentrated on the way you were supposed to wash your hands, etc. That sounds awfully familiar.
I am still praying for Terri right alongside you. But I don't have much faith in "the system."
I'd like to reply to this idiocy, but I'm due back on planet Earth.
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