Posted on 03/23/2005 10:10:29 PM PST by goldstategop
A woman is slowly starving to death in a Florida hospice.
She is under armed guard to ensure that no one offers her water to drink or food to eat.
This is all happening under court order.
Not a congressional act or the personal intervention of the president of the United States has been able to help her.
Is America broken?
How could this happen in this country, as the whole nation, the whole world, watches?
Oh, the lawyers have their excuses.
The high priests in black robes claim to have sympathy but say their hands are tied.
This is all happening because one obviously estranged husband is on a determined course to exterminate his wife with extreme prejudice.
Her friends can do nothing to stop the killing. Her loving family is doing everything in its power to stop it. Millions of Americans are left hopeless, helpless, by government machinations.
It's a crime. It's a sin. It's a grievous injustice that is bringing shame upon our country.
Enough is enough.
I know I speak for the vast majority of Americans when I say: Feed Terri Schiavo. Give her life-sustaining water. There is no excuse for this barbaric torture under the color of the law. This is an issue of basic morality. Let Terri live.
Americans do not want to be complicit in this murder.
I refuse to be silent.
I call on Gov. Jeb Bush to use his executive powers to stop this slow, torturous death. I call on President George W. Bush to use his executive powers to intervene for this U.S. citizen. I call on the Florida Legislature to rewrite its laws right now to prevent this atrocity against a fellow member of the human race. I call upon the Congress of the United States to make it explicitly clear to the authorities in Florida that the cold-blooded killing of Terri Schiavo will not be tolerated. I call on the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and protect the constitutional rights of this American.
America will be forever changed if Terri Schiavo is allowed to die.
There is no reason to believe this is her wish.
There is only the flimsiest of circumstantial evidence to believe that. And there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary evidence never heard before by any judge. Motives are material in criminal trials. They should be examined in this civil case.
Why the rush to kill Terri Schiavo?
Why not re-examine the evidence?
Why not rewrite the laws if necessary?
The people of this country are crying out for justice. They are crying out for morality. Terri's plight is on the mind of every American today.
And let me add one more thing to my plea today one more message to all Americans and people around the world watching this case.
There is something each of us can do.
And I believe it will have impact.
When you read these words today, take one minute of quiet time to pray for Terri Schiavo, to pray for our country, to pray for God's providence to be done.
I believe that is every bit as important to the appropriate disposition of this issue as anything that can be done by the courts, by elected officials, by the attorneys and by the activists on both sides of this life-and-death case.
Heavenly Father, have mercy on Terri Schiavo. Have mercy on this country. Your will be done.
Amen.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Joe Farah has been eating too many Y2K rations as of late. Everytime a verdict, decision, or ruling doesn't go his way, he starts yelling about how the sky is falling, our world is doomed, and there is no hope at all. What a pessimist indeed.
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (CEI)
14Il cielo si ritirò come un volume che si arrotola e tutti i monti e le isole furono smossi dal loro posto.
15Allora i re della terra e i grandi, i capitani, i ricchi e i potenti, e infine ogni uomo, schiavo [1401] o libero, si nascosero tutti nelle caverne e fra le rupi dei monti;
16e dicevano ai monti e alle rupi: Cadete sopra di noi e nascondeteci dalla faccia di Colui che siede sul trono e dall'ira dell'Agnello,
17perché è venuto il gran giorno della loro ira, e chi vi può resistere?
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Apocalisse%206:14-17;&version=3;
schiavo...
1401 doulos {doo'-los}
from 1210; TDNT - 2:261,182; adj
AV - servant 118, bond 6, bondman 1; 125
1) a slave, bondman, man of servile condition
1a) a slave
1b) metaph., one who gives himself up to another's will
those whose service is used by Christ in extending and
advancing His cause among men
1c) devoted to another to the disregard of one's own interests
2) a servant, attendant
Criminal...
Gabriel Keys (foreground) is arrested by police officers for
trespassing in Pinellas Park, Florida, March 23, 2005. The
young protester attempted to take a glass of water into
the Woodside Hospice for the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo.
A federal judge approved the murder of Terri Schiavo by
rejecting a request from her parents to order her feeding
tube reinserted to save her life.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050323/ids_photos_ts/r4209066064.jpg
Allow your servant Terri Schiavo to be fed bread of the earth and life-sustaining water so her days upon the Earth may be long and may it be to our merit that our prayer is heard from on High in this dark hour. Amen.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
It all boils down to this
Well if that is the law..
Then the law...
is an ass.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
CONTACT JEB BUSH HERE:
E-mail: jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Telephone: 850/488-4441
Fax: 850/487-0801
**Terri Schiavo Needs Us - Pray For Her and Our Country!)**
Amen!
Get with the program. The Angel in the Whirlwind has left us.
Is America broken?
Yes
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I took two of my sons and went in front of the supreme court tonight to pray. we were the only ones there praying for Terri. Somehow that saddened me.
dave
If he acts he will be an instant hero to a full half of the nation. The time for words from our leadership is over.
Oh man. There are cannibals boiling children in the African Congo and in America we have children being arrested for bringing a suffering woman a glass of water.
I believe that there is hell coming.
America was once the bastion of a strong and determined and unashamed belief in god. Many europeans were confused but also in awe by the bible thumping heart on my sleeve american approach to god. Sadly over the last 30 years this belief has been eroded continuosly by the lefts determined and serupticious endeavours and the god fearing folk have slowly but surely given up more and more until they are now viewed as " out of place in America". If God doesn't appear to be around at the moment, maybe its because he favoured America, but America has left him, if there is a gaping hole, a void, then evil doers will quickly fill it. This is a test. A test of Americas belief. In all of histroy there has been many times when one life has made a difference. This i believe is one of those times.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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