OPEN LETTER TO HUGH HEWITT RE: TERRI SCHIAVO and the JUDICIAL OLIGARCHY

2005-03-23 | UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

[expatguy]

"...all the parties who refuse to accept the judical outcome risk doing serious damage to the pro-life cause. Worse still, they risk doing damage to the Constitutional system... The problem with judges needs to be solved with judges...[sic]"

You seem to be suggesting that we "bite our lip", bow down to unjust laws and rulings and then try to convince the judicary to find their own rulings unjust.

Not only is that ridiculous, it not what our founding father suggested and/or intended.

Civil Disobedience and our Duty as Americans

[Schwaeky]

You're right in principle. I wouldn't want to defy a judge, period. I don't like it. Plenty of times where judges made bad decisions that were cried out against yet we have stood by and accepted them.. Why? Because of the presuption of rule of law. This is not rule of law, Judge Greer is making up the rules AS HE GOES ALONG. The idea of having an honest broker be thumbed nose at and told to fly a kite is morally repugnant to me in normal proper circumstances. But these are not normal circumstances, and he is not an honest broker. He has showed himself to be a hack for Michael Schiavo, and not only that has many a conflict of interest. Even if MS was pure as the driven snow the cozy relationship Greer and Felos has would be enough to want this totally vacated and have a de novo hearing, but there is nothing culpa settig about MS. But this guy is making himself king and declaring this that and the other thing, including stuff defined as outside his purview, illegal, to the paralysis of other political insitutions from intervening. That tilts the balance. We're talking about checks and balances being UPSET in favor of judges. Action by Bush or mob action would be merely to RESTORE THE BALANCE, if nothing else in this particular matter.

[bloggodocio]

For all those who think "action" is needed, which was a worse "travesty of justice" and caused more harm: the Terri Schaivo case or Roe v. Wade? Which has resulted in more death of innocents? How many of you have been calling for governors to send in the National Guard to storm the the abortion clinics and save the unborn? Would you "damn-the-torpedoes" and defend that as well? Bloggodocio

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Sounds like a plan to me. You just have to consider the likelihood of federal executive (military) intervention on a broad issue like abortion (or segregation) versus the likelihood of intervention in the case of saving one woman's life when the President is the governor's brother and agrees that the woman should be saved. If I were governor and if it were certain that the President would not send troops and that mine would not mutiny, yes, I would shut down abortion clinics in a nanosecond. No other moral decision is possible.