Posted on 03/24/2005 3:26:10 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past
"If I were Terri's father it would be time to risk arrest and rescue my daughter."
Now that's an idea. I think alot of people would be more than glad to help. Wisk her away where she can't be found.
Hear hear, Dr. Sowell!
Regards, Ivan
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. He is the most logical person around, and in this case logic and sentiment are in perfect accord.
I can add nothing more to his analysis. It is perfect.
If I were Terri's father it would be time to risk arrest and rescue my daughter.
Well I don't exactly see overwhelming number of concern people milling around the nursing home to help him make that a reality. For all the smoke, I dont see any fire. In a different, better time, the police would have been overrun and the woman would have been rescued.
I heard one of the doctors say that she swallows a great deal of naturally produced saliva every day, and does not drool.
I know facts are inconvenient little things, but the reason is -- hold on to your tinfoil hat now -- Judge Greer never ordered any such thing. All of his orders are scanned and available at www.abstractappeal.com. So take an hour or two and go read them all and report back when you find one that says he is "... ordering that no one can give Terri food or water by mouth."
We'll wait. Hint: you won't find it because it didn't happen. The only -- repeat only -- decision for which the husband/guardian needed judicial authorization was the removal of the feeding tube. That's what he got. That's what every court from here to Timbuktu has reviewed and found wholly justified by Terri's expressed wishes and her PVS.
Wanna take the challenge? I thought not. More fun to make things up, isn't it?
If they are arrested, there would be such an outcry from people that something would have to be done. Seems like her family just wants everyone else to stick their necks out and do something.
You are assuming something would be done if they are arrested. You errr. Nothing would be done. There is no groundswell of support to help them break their daughter's out.
Think about this. In this country, people ramapage after football and basketball game wins. And football and basket ball are in essence, not real. They are pseudoevents provided for profit.
A real event occurs which requires emotion, and action. And the men and women of this country change the channel. We will lose.
Bull S#!t. I am proud of what the Bush brothers have done.
However should he go in and take Terri he would probably win the next election in a land slide.
Glarb. I don't think it's going to catch on in general usage :-).
So, you're at home with the concept that US Marshalls and state troopers ought to be the personal goon squads of whoever happens to be president or governor? We are a nation of laws and the law happens to be against you right now. You can protest it, shout about it even choose to get arrested for it. But no president or governor has the right to use public forces for his personal agenda when the law is arrayed against him. And conservatives, of all people, should never suggest it.
OUCH! That's gonna leave a mark!!!
That's ok. But what does glarb mean?
Clear as can be ... but try doing that to a pet.
It's a semi-verbalized expletive. (I have a lot of children.)
Ping.
LOL!
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