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)
Oh, yes there is! So many things people don't know about this case.
Anyone know if Judge Greer and Doctor Greer, are related? Any credibility they may or not be due, rests upon the answer.
He has no power over a state judge.
Your issue is with the voting public of Florida.
"...we on the right consistently refuse to use our Constitutional options in opposing it, under the fatal misapprehension that there is some principle advanced by letting your nation get repeatedly raped by left wing ideologues who have foisted upon us industrialized abortion, homosexual marriage, and now soon, industrialized euthanasia...."
Exactly right. Not violence but Constitutional strategies. And that includes making SURE our education institutions teach the truth of our nation's heritage, warts and all--and even more so, the truth of other nations' heritages, such as that of Mongolia, Germany, Czaris and Soviet Russia and China's Cultural Revolution era....and to understand the real but bearable imperfections of the American Republic, vs. the HORRORS of tyranny and genocide.
A link (and HUGE SITE) that needs to be studied by ALL:
Anti-Life Tactics: Violence
http://www.ylcss.edu.hk/Intranet/E-Class/life/CHAPTERS/T-16.HTM
LOL.......it's good to see at least they're taking the time to label them though.
We can complain if they are not solidly based in the principles on which this nation was founded.
Kidnapping a boy from his mother and shipping him off to a Communist dictatorship = not founded on American principles
Saving an innocent, disabled woman from being starved to death by an order of the judiciary = founded in the American principle of the right to life, an inalienable right, put first and foremost among the reasons for revolting from the Crown in the Declaration of Independence.
As we can see from this case, the executive is not the only branch of government which is capable of excesses that put our nation's well-being in mortal danger. Given the Congressional subpoena that is still outstanding, the executive can easily choose to side with the legislative branch, in a Constitutionally intended check on the runaway power of the judiciary.
Tacky.
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This, of course, is a good point.
Personally, I think think the power to act in this case is contained in the governor's duty to uphold the Constitution. However, it's extremely problematic that higher courts consistently affirmed Greer.
It wasn't. It was approximately 4000 dead cherokees, because the state of Georgia wanted the land - due to rumours of gold - but couldn't legally take it due to a federal constitutionally-ratified treaty.
The Cherokees went to federal court to have the treaty pheld, and the supreme court rightly upheld it, and Jackson got ticked and sent the army in anyway...
4000 dead later... sigh...
This place is getting curiouser and curiouser.
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Good point made by Chad, good response by you.
Florida does allow separation of Guardianship of the estate and guardianship of the person.
I think we do not want to change the law such that a husband or wife will not be the presumed guardian. Not everyone has a perfect inlaws.
IF there is disagreement, and the parties do go to the courts, then an attorney ad litem should be randomly assigned as the exclusive advocate of the alleged incapacitated person. SOME counties do this as a matter of course. The assigments are random and off a list. I am only aware of one case were the person was actually selected and that was a true emergency and the selection was based on the fact the attorney was known to be physically close at hand. (and the parties were actually in agreement but needed a court finding of incapacity)
must of what you suggest should be done is in fact already the law in the state of FL.
Shameless.
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