Posted on 03/27/2005 11:48:41 AM PST by gwb43_2004
Demonstrators Mary Porta, kneeling, and others pray for Terri Schiavo, Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005, outside the hospice, where Terri resides, in Pinellas Park, Fla. Under increased security and with fading hopes, Terri Schiavo's parents asked supporters to return home to spend Easter Sunday with their families as the couple's severely brain-damaged daughter went a ninth day without food or water. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)
You've been freeped
And how similar this is to the addendum added to the original constitutional provision in Animal Farm.
Original: "All animals are equal."
Addendum: "But some are more equal than others."
Love to see a caption under your photo "Mime-woman, stand up so I can beatcha little a*s..."
That Guylie gal with the tinfoil hat looks just like John Kerry.
sure thing....I think....
what are you inferring? That I am a troll? LOL!!! please
LOL. That may be.
It is very difficult to find points on either side that haven't been witnessed both pro and con. This isn't one of them. She has taken food orally.
I'm disturbed that the level of Constitutional education on this board has become so weak that this is not the common opinion.
You are wrong. Greer's order does forbid anything orally....even one drop of water.
FYI to everyone. Janet Reno had a COURT order when she went in and snatched the kid in Florida she didn't defy a court to do it, she had a court order to do it. Big difference in that action and the one some of you think Jeb should have taken.
He would have been jailed had he intervened any more than he did. President Bush would most likely have faced impeachment proceedings.
Where are all of you? Are you storming the hospice to get Terri out? Are you putting your career's on the line for her? Where are your Cajones? Cetainly not where you think Jeb's and George's should be. You are not doing what you expect the Bush Bros. to do but you are calling them cowards. What does that make you?
Change the laws. Make sure a person has to have a living will or some sort of document that testifies to their wishes in these matters. This is the only way to do it.
I am so sick of all this.
Yes, exactly, they are not God nor is the judicial branch. In theory they should be co-equal but the framers always judged the judicial to be the weakest because the executive branch held the sword and the legislative branch held the purse strings.
Recently my favorite story has been the alledged response by Andrew Taylor regarding a SCOTUS decision: "Fine, let them enforce it". It would appear that the Republic survived President Andrews failure to bow to the judicial or, on second thought, maybe it didn't since our legislation is now written by (mostly) unelected judges and the executive and legislative branch fail to respond.
I don't blame the Bush's; this has been going on for about 60 years now but the question to anyone who thinks that perhaps the framers were something other than religious nutcase whack job Bible thumpers is how to we get the original balance back?
In my opinion appointing "our" judges replaces one flavor of tyrant with another, perhaps their rulings would be more to our liking, but still at odds with the intent of co-equal branches with our elected legislators writing laws.
Or do we even care any longer? Has the Constitution been in a persistent vegetative state for so long should it be put out of it's misery given that it has no quality of life?
If we do care how do we change it? Well, for starters perhaps we should suggested to our legislators that the funding for the judiciary be cut in half for a year and fire those that won't do it. First my guess is that there are not more than a handful of legislators that would even entertain the idea (mine won't, the only one that I know of that's favorable to the idea is Ron Paul) but if there's a better way I'm all ears because it's not going to happen on it's own.
Thankfully, I see a few more of them today than I have in the past four or five days at this forum.
It's still out of control, but a see more sanity today, and that's encouraging.
Da' Pres and Da' Gov have done pretty much all they can do legally. To do any more they would have to be a King or a Dictator. Is that what we want? P.S. I am for Teri and believe she has been treated shamefully. However, a nation of laws must sometimes take its lumps until the judges are re-educated. That is our responsibility in this.
Exactly.
Ditto
"Put the blame where it belongs, the judges, Michael, and Felos."
No, you can't limit the problem to the above. Who made the laws...who elected the people that created the laws.....who willfully accepted the laws?
The blame is 100% society in general.
Democrats leaders gleefully hope that the republican party will lose power because of a split in the party, while they sit on the sidelines in a PVS state too cowardly do anything either way.
At least I can say that the Bush Bros. did try to do something to save Terri's life and the soul and backbone of our country. The Pro-Euthanasia crowd just crushed much of it with one judge's evil death decree. They mock the religious right. They mock life. They mock God by playing God.
Felos, talks about the need for us all to join in peace after she dies. What the hell is he smokin'? No Justice--No Peace.
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