Posted on 03/24/2005 11:36:36 PM PST by churchillbuff
Somebody has to make sure the name of Jim King goes down in infamy. I nominate Hugh Hewitt for that important task. King is the lard-assed "Republican" Florida state senator who was the ringleader of the group of GOP state senators who voted "No" on the save-Terri bill the other day.
Not only did he vote no, he told a reporter that, in essence, Terri is better off dead. "I think Terri is better off in heaven than in that bed," King said, in the article reproduced below. "It's going to be the will of God." AN OPEN LETTER TO HUGH HEWITT: CAN YOU EXPOSE THIS HEARTLESS BASTARD TO THE WORLD, SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE ONE LESS DEATH-LOVER AS AN ELECTED REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN?
Oh, and I use the term "lard assed" advisedly. His picture makes King look like a good 300 pounds - phenomenally obese. You know he's never experienced half a day without food (and extra helpings), let alone anything approaching the starvation to which he had consigned Terri.
March 22, 2005
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush is pushing state lawmakers toward a new scheme to intervene in the Terri Schiavo dilemma, touting a plan to oust her husband from the role as her guardian.
Bush's new effort echoes a long-aired lament from fervent advocates for Schiavo to be kept alive. The argument: Michael Schiavo's new life with a girlfriend and two small children leaves him unqualified to oversee what he and numerous courts have ruled was her wish to not be kept alive in her current state.
"If someone is living with their loved one and has two children and their spouse is in this situation they have a serious conflict of interest," Bush told reporters Monday morning. "I think our state ought to change our laws to say that in those circumstances, that the guardian needs to be changed."
But state lawmakers, both for and against intervening again in the controversy, said it appeared there was not a will to do so right now.
Bush said the change would relate to the Schiavo situation. But many legal experts and lawmakers have said that because Michael Schiavo allowed the court to make the final decision to remove his wife's feeding tube, changing the guardian might have little or no impact on the current situation.
Despite the extraordinary intervention of Congress and President Bush this weekend that led to a law requiring a federal court review of the Schiavo case, Gov. Jeb Bush insisted the state must still address the matter after abandoning the effort last week.
"I'm deeply disappointed in the actions taken by the Senate last week," Gov. Bush said. "That doesn't mean that there's a finality to this."
It would be the third time lawmakers have made a run at intervening. In 2003, the state rushed "Terri's Law" through, allowing Bush to order the restart of her feeding. The state's Supreme Court tossed the law as unconstitutional last year.
Last week, House lawmakers approved a bill that would have required feeding of people in vegetative states unless there had been explicit directions left to the contrary.
But the Senate rejected a narrower measure 16-21 that would have required a court to decide whether a person had expressed a clear refusal of "sustenance and hydration" if they entered a vegetative state.
Sen. Dan Webster, R-Winter Garden, was the sponsor of the Senate bill. He said Monday that he doubts the Senate would support any Schiavo-related legislation.
"I would suspect it would be the same," he said when asked how a vote on interceding on the behalf of Schiavo's parents would fare in the Senate.
Webster also said that while Michael Schiavo should abandon his role as his wife's guardian, he wasn't sure it would have any effect on the maintenance of her feeding since the courts have found she would not want it.
Bush spoke Monday with Webster and the sponsor of the House measure, Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala. Baxley said the House was at the mercy of the Senate in moving forward.
Opposition to the plan last week in the Senate centered on a group of nine Republicans who voted against Webster's plan. The leader was former Senate President Jim King, R-Jacksonville, who said he'd not heard of any new effort.
"If there's a plan, I haven't talked to anyone who has one," said King, who added that he thinks the Senate is finished with the topic.
"I think Terri is better off in heaven than in that bed," King said. "It's going to be the will of God."
The fallout from last week's vote kept coming this weekend and on Monday, with protesters filling the Capitol, pleading with senators to intervene. Capitol security evicted several protesters who posed as speakers on unrelated bills in various committees before veering into a speech about maintaining Schiavo's feeding.
Ugly messages were left with lawmakers. Sen. Nancy Argenziano, R-Dunnellon, said one letter came from a self-identified Christian who "prayed" for Argenziano to die a painful death with stomach cancer.
Sen. Rod Smith, D-Alachua, said one caller to his office said, "I'm a Christian, and I hope you will die in your own vomit."
Smith, a former state lawyer who has sentenced men to death, said he's been called a killer before from death row opponents, adding that the threats and rallies haven't affected him or his fellow senators.
"I don't want to revisit it, the people around me don't want to revisit it," Smith said, calling last week's vote "a plain statement that the Florida Senate does not belong" in the issue.
Sen. Ron Klein (D-Boca Raton) grimaced when he was told that Christian groups compared the nine GOP senators who opposed last week's bill to Pontius Pilate.
"That is extremely offensive," he said. "This has become a political issue as opposed to a spiritual issue. The radical wing of the Republican Party has taken control of the issue, and those are the people who are whipping up the masses. It's tragic. It turns your stomach."
King said the Schiavo matter shouldn't be a GOP litmus test.
"We're being painted as some sort of counter-productive (group)," he said of the nine Republicans who voted against the bill last week. "All we're doing is what we think is our right, our duty, not necessarily as Republicans but as human beings."
I've never heard of King before this. He's obviously using Terri's murder to make a name for himself. Every Republican in Florida should work from this point on to ensure this RINO assh*le is currently serving his last term.
"lard a*s" PING :P
ping
Can somebody email this request to Hugh Hewitt?
I think King, Greer, et al. are better off in the unemployment line. It's going to be the will of the people. Prison would be optimal but there aren't enough spines to put them there.
It's not the will of the people. It's the will of God.
He has a financial interest in hospices, I think
"'I think Terri is better off in heaven than in that bed,' King said. 'It's going to be the will of God.'"
Who is King to judge where Terri will be "better off"? I don't know what God's will is with regard to Terri (and neither does King), but I believe her death will be the direct result of the actions (or inactions) of Michael Schiavo and his attorneys, the various judges involved and legislators like King.
"Sen. Ron Klein ... (said) The radical wing of the Republican Party has taken control of the issue ...", and it is implied in the article that the radical wing consists of Christian groups.
I, for one, do not consider myself a "radical". Nor am I especially religious. In addition, I do not consider Christians to be "radical"; if they are, then most of America is.
If anyone could do anything about this matter, it is the FL legislature. It is Republican controlled, but that doesn't mean much. I am predicting that the FL GOP will suffer tremendously over this.
It's time to break the law!
Not only did he vote no, he told a reporter that, in essence, Terri is better off dead. "I think Terri is better off in heaven than in that bed," King said, in the article reproduced below. "It's going to be the will of God."
he's doubly a nut.
hospices want their customers dead???
great idea to drum up business, not.
Yeah, I could never figure out that conspiracy angle... Apparently this hospice is making 80 grand a year on her, a nd all they do is keep a feeding tube attached to her.
Someone HAS figured it out ...
http://www.theempirejournal.com/0313055_schiavogate_the_big_cove.htm
... now I understand ... If you screw someone over, you know like misuse funds in a ward's trust account, and they DIE, they cant sue you for damages. And you get the estate too... So Greer has a clubby system of protecting corrupt guardianships, and will do everthing in his power to protect it. *Everything*.
Pro-death hospices are quite convenient element in that disgusting 'ecosystem'.
Isn't it interesting that Greer is also a Republican.
Did the Invaders from Mars hit Florida when we weren't
looking?
I do not agree with "Christians", or those claiming to be such using such tactics. No wonder we get the names used against us that we do. Just call up and say that you are a concerned citizen and don't threaten or make statements that sound hypocritical. No wonder many are getting tired of this. This makes all Christians look like a bunch of nutcases. Good grief! Whatever happened to just stating the facts and asking the person(s) to do the right thing? Why do we have to use threats and disgusting things such as "I hope you drown in your own vomit?" That's real pro-life, isn't it? This hurts all of us, as it makes the other side even more adamnant to have their own way just to 'show us'! What have we gained then? Maybe we should realize that by these tactics we are contributing to the death of Terri, not helping.
In the meantime, we should be praying, holding prayer vigils, whatever we can do for Terri. What a weekend for this to happen! What a symbol this is, really! Think about it. Fasting today would be a good exercise for Terri, and for us...to think about her plight and to experience what she is going through.
I do not believe that Jeb Bush is going to do anything.
He is impotent.
The difference between us and them is we just say"we hope you drown in your own vomit", the deathocrats ghouls of the hospices actally do drown people in their own vomit.
> It's not the will of the people. It's the will of God.
It's not God who issued an order for Terri's feeding tube to be removed. Rogue "defacto governor" JINO Greer has enabled her miserable excuse of a husband on his quest. Now, after at least a decade of trying, it looks like HINO, with Felos' and Greer's assistance and participation, will finally succeed.
Greer has subjected Terri to a civil order of execution. Jeb Bush has the right and could invoke the time-honored (and unreachable by the judiciary) gubernatorial right of pardon. It's only a matter of whether Jeb has the backbone and will. Or is there some unstated, hidden agenda in operation which requires that Terri die? Certainly the HINO/Felos/Greer triumvar have an undisclosed-to-the-public agenda. I suspect that Jeb Bush has a different undisclosed agenda. All avenues appear directed toward Terri dying.
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