Posted on 03/27/2005 2:37:03 AM PST by mal
A couple of decades back, north of the border, it was discovered that some overzealous types in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been surreptitiously burning down the barns of Quebec separatists. The prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, shrugged off the controversy and blithely remarked that, if people were so upset by the Mounties illegally burning down barns, perhaps he'd make the burning of barns by Mounties legal. As the columnist George Jonas commented
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Excellent article.
It is usually the case that a critically ill person, who remains able to speak, will revoke the "advance directive" they made while healthy.
Not wanting to live with a machine when your mortality is inconceiveable is one thing.
When your lungs are full of serum and every breath feels like your last, things look different.
The next step down this disastrous path we are on is to make these so-called "living wills" binding, so the sick person cannot revoke them.
Then, the killing can start in earnest.
He doesn't want the feeding stopped, he wants her dead.
This was part of one of the innumerable transcripts floating around the forum this past week. A quote to the effect of: "the ruling of the court is that the husband is correct, therefore her wish would be to die, therefore she must die."
That's why the parents are strip searched, lest they bring an ice chip to their daughter. That's why two priests that I know of have been arrested trying to take her the Eucharist.
God save us all.
It seems to me that the Fla. judiciary decided that Terri was Michael Schiavo's chattle. At that point, no one had a right to go feed his livestock. That is what has been so shocking to me. Where was NOW or any of the other animal and civil rights groups when the court would not even allow feeding by normal means? We treat animals with far more dignity, and take them away from abusive owners.
Actually what it is, is that we have a God given ability to adjust to most disabilities. I think that you are right that most people are so self-centered and vain that the very thought of not being like everyone else makes them think that they had rather be dead, but then when something bad happens they change their minds. Better be careful in what you say that you would do in any given circumstance until you are there.
I don't care what the pro-Death crowd argues, everything they throw back stating she should die is easily refuted in multible ways. Steyn refutes the state rights crowd here in yet another way not cited before. That it is far more likely the courts and medical system will use this to justify putting others to death, than it it the Congress would ever preside over thousands of cases.
And he makes the point about living wills I've made. If the Court can decide if you die, they can decide to invalidate your living will. This is known as Judicial Tyranny. I hope those of you that supported her being killed fully realize what you've brought down in terms of precedent, because I won't feel sympathy years from now when you complain about the end result.
And having a second legally recognize wife he has legal standing because of?
The key is going to be, how do we react and what happens off this? After she dies, does it just receded into the background buzz, becoming just one more "issue" or can we keep it on the front burner?
Most importantly, nay vital is reining in the judiciary. Plug here for Mark Levin's "Men in Black - How the Supreme Court is Destroying America." When I first heard of this book, I thought I would give it a miss; I thought I knew what I needed to know. But, the Terri situation convinced me that I needed to know the details and Mark lays it out.
Truly a must read.
End-of-life decisions are tough in the best circumstances. Inserting politicians into them will not make them easier or better. My fear is not that I will be kept alive until I'm 118 as Mr Steyn states, it's that the government will take this opportunity to insert itself into what is a very private decision.
My preference would have been for the Schindlers to take over as Terri's guardians but that didn't happen.
Wake up! That is SOP - Read Levin's book - Start with Chapter 4 - "Death by Privacy. "
Using "emanations from penumbras" the SC has determined that all areas of life are open for their and their fellow judges activity and control. That horse is already out pf the barn.
Yes, Greer made a big point out of establishing that this state puts Terri firmly on the "not human" side and therefore she has no legal right to live. I have never heard of any law that states that someone who cannot meet some arbitrary definition of "human being" cannot be allowed to live.
Greer did not follow the law, he set precedent.
Now that the precedent has been set, there is no reason to continue taking care of the thousands of other people whose levels of consciousness are similar to Terri's. Who's going to get Greer or another heartless judge to order their executions? Maybe a taxpayer's group, upset that we spend so many billions on their care every year?
Actually, Florida law makes it illegal to withhold food, water, or shelter from any animal. Someone recently quoted the full text of the statute on a different thread.
Terri would literally have more rights if she were a dog.
On the other hand, as someone else pointed out, Terri herself is an animal. So are we all. So isn't she covered by that statute?
The Florida constitution also requires the government to protect the lives of its citizens.
Greer's rulings are illegal. It looks like nobody can stop him. Jeb -- wake up!
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why not indeed. The only answer is that the evil/liberal/socialist media lies about the whole story and created polls that were extremely fraudulent creating results that told the SPINELESS politicians to let her die (be killed). Politicians........... Republicans certainly included showd their spines of jelly!
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