Muffin, 1987 - 2004
OK, Muffin, time to cross the Bifrost Bridge from Valhalla and aid your Viking Kitties, there will be a lot of Zotting today!
It would have been unconstitutional for him to rule otherwise. And this ruling respects Terri's wishes. Good call, judge.
What if her husband is lying?
Trusting you're a legal scholar, perhaps you can explain this in a sentence or two.
"Terrie's wishes" according to the 'husband' who wants her dead and backup lies of HIS relatives several years later. Yep, real respect of the constitution shown here.(/s)
She had no living will. Only the word of her adulterous husband, remembered 7 years after the fact, and after he won the money to support her.
Hey! We'll have none of that "Following the Law" and "Respecting the Constitution" around here! Remember, we don't like activist judges around here only if they don't rule OUR way. In this case, who cares about the law? </sarc>
As was said previously, Mrs. Schiavo is a Sainte, and what she would want doesn't matter--all that matters is keeping her body alive!
You really can't be that shallow. Right?
Prove it.
You know something that I don't?
Odd that your motto from your home page is
Motto: "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."
Maybe you ought to rethink that.
No, according to MICHAEL on CNN, he ADMITTED that he doesn't know what TERRI's wishes were...that he's just acting on HIS OWN wish for her!!!
Taxpayer money should never be used to take care of you.
How do you feel about the poor murderers being put to death humanely in prisons? Do you join the perverts standing outside the prison with their candles?
Have you been screaming about inhumane treatment of terrorists in Abu Ghriab and GT?
You're rejoicing in the agony of Terri Schiavo and her family and now the agony of all that feel life has been made in God's image and only God has the right to take it.
Why should ANYONE be on life support or feeding tube? Since it has been determined in this country, it is ok to starve people to death, perhaps our Medicaid, Medicare problem has been solved.
I wouldn't want to be your mother.
It may well have been.
And this ruling respects Terri's wishes.
That point is not clear. We only have hearsay evidence from a potentially questionable source: Michael Schiavo.
"wishes" don't hold up in a court of law. Except in this one, which considering the background history of Greer and Felos, well, it's no surprise. Don't side with them.And Terri supposedly made her 'wishes' known in 1997; at a time when she is, according to Michael and Felos, as bad as she is now.
If she was well enough in 97 to make her "wishes" known, then why are they allowing the same person to die now?
Michael wants her to take to the grave the secret of how she got to where she is. Period.
wishes do NOT hold up in any court of law, period.
And this ruling respects Terri's wishes. Good call, judge.
Apparently you missed the transcript of the Larry King show where her husband ADMITTED THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TERRI wanted. Should I post a link for you?
As to the "clear" constitutionality of this decision, emplying that it was the only constitutional thing he could do...that's hogwash, kust pure, unadulterated Bravo Sierra. The Judge could easily have ruled constitutionally that she had a right to life, which trumps all of the other legaleze and mumbo-jumbo being supported by those who support having her killed.
Common sense has fled so many of our people. When there is the least shred of evidence, doubt or disagreement in such a situation as this, particularly amongst direct family members who are willing to lovingly care for her...you ERE ON THE SIDE OF LIFE!
Anything short of this is an abject violation of the most fundamental principles upon which this Republic was founded.
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are the right to life...
If we cast that aside, we tread a path that will lead to our ruin, our enslavement and our destruction as a soveriegn Republic and a nation founded upon liberty and the rule of law, that law being undergirded by fundamental moral principle.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798"
Sadly, in this ruling and episode, as with many others of our day (ie. abortion) we are living out the negative of John Adams statement...right before our eyes. God bless those who are standing for life, against the culture of death. May we as a people have the fortitude and the willingness, if neccessary, to stand boldly and resoultely on these principles against such conditions of our day.