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To: MadIvan
"Not a good enough reason to sanction state sponsored euthanasia potentially against someone's will."

Words have distinct, legal meanings, this is not euthanasia.

Against whose will exactly?

You have opposing sides saying what Terri wanted, both highly biased.

"Even if the law was being interpreted correctly, the principle would be lex mala, lex nulla. A bad law is no law."

So you condone Judicial activism.

958 posted on 03/24/2005 11:12:49 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
You have opposing sides saying what Terri wanted, both highly biased.

In the absence of knowing what Terri wants, I am saying she should be allowed to live, you are saying she should be killed. The bias you suggest is perverse.

So you condone Judicial activism.

No. Those words were uttered by Richard Nixon to Pat Buchanan, when he was talking about bombing Communists and Congress wanted to stop him. The judiciary in this case in the person of Judge Greer, is actually defying good practice and principle, rewriting the law as it were - including Greer not recusing himself although his biases in the case are known and telling the state government it should not obey the law in terms of taking Terri into custody.

Ivan

960 posted on 03/24/2005 11:16:40 AM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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