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 have done well and I commend you for that. And I respect your choice to refrain from launching yourself on a fool's mission that would benefit no one-I made that same choice.
I also respect the Bush brothers for making the same wise choice. We all grieve for Teri and treasure her precious life as much as any life on this earth and cringe in dismay at the thought of her losing this long battle for survival, not to conditions that are beyond the scope of medical science to deal with, but to the wishes of a husband (in name only) who finds her continueing to live an inconvenience, and to the arrogance of a dictatorial Judicial system, that has the unmittigated gall to consider themselves qualified to determine whether a person's quality of life is fit to continue, and given themselves the power to end it if they deem it not to be.
God could have taken care of things with far greater ease than could the Bush brothers. Are you sore at him too?
George and Jeb are Christians and pray over difficult decisions. Are you qualified to say they are not obeying his will?
caotic=chaotic (darn college education)
Boy, ain't that the truth.
I wouldnt mock them either. The same Bible that tells us to go into our closet to pray and not in public to impress others, says you don't light a candle and then hide it.
I would have thought the Navy would call it the head mouse.
Head= sh*thouse in Navy talk, doesn't it?
"but fail to see that "starving an innocent disabled woman to death" is also wrong."
and some so blinded by their passion the see not at all.
Actually, it is Gozer, not Zuul.
I'm not so sure they will, in the long run. There have been a lot of snide comments about the "Christian Right" in the last few days from they typical liberal pundits and some politicians. This denigration of people who are only looking for justice and compassion will not hold them in great stead by those voters the Democrats believe they can woo by 'saying the right words' about religious topics, even though they won't be changing their ideas one whit!
I believe there are enough decent people left in America that this incident very well may mark the end of the Democrats' ability to pull the votes of any religious people at all.
"Hope" isn't enough. We must make sure we get rid of anyone in high power who believes that the Constitution is a "living document."
Yeah, I do agree...I was just making a pessimistic remark with the "hope for the best" line, since I see some fairly strong erosion of the Constitutional principles.
You are dead on, IMO, concerning the implications of the Constitution being a "living, breathing" document. If it were, it would mean that our country is ruled by the arbitrary commands of men, rather than by laws, in the face of which we are all equal.
Anyhow, I think that those who assert that the Constitution is "living" mean only that they wish to ignore it.
The left plays in the gutter and usually succeeds. The right mostly imposes Marquis of Queensbury rules and usually loses. I'm not saying the ends justify the means, but it seems conservatives don't have any desire to play tough when needed. The liberals do. I am not fond of Judge Greer, but he has guts and a strong will.
If that's true, then there's going to be plenty of hellfire directed at folks on both sides of this argument/tragedy.
This is where our philosophies part company. One of the 'Bush brothers', our President, is called the most powerful man on earth, while his brother Jeb is the highest elected official in Florida. They CAN make a difference by intervening, while you and I cannot. Wishing to avoid a potential governmental conflict they chose not to use their full powers to stop Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I call it political cowardice, you may call it what you want.
I also call to your attention that the Congress, in an emergency session, mandated the judiciary to hear Terri Schiavo's FULL case again, to which they blatantly refused. The President and the House Speaker could have intervened right then and there and ordered Terri Schiavo into Federal custody because her civil and religious rights appeared to be grossly violated. But for political purposes he chose not to.
As for Jeb Bush, he commands the Florida State Police and National Guard, and some Constitutional experts say he has the clear authority to take (State) custody of Terri Schiavo. I would have been satisfied if he had truly given this a shot. But all we got was some half-baked story about the State Police attempting to get Terri but then backing down when the local cops said they would not let them. Which is a whole lotta b.s., if you ask me.
"Oh please, statements like that just make you sound crazy."
A fellow freeper who was there recently in the protest said just yesterday that he saw those things. I trust that he wasn't imagining them, especially since Jeb Bush's office claimed that when they sent in the State Police even THEY backed down due to the heavy presence of local police who were hostile to their mission and swore to confront them.
It's statements like yours that make you out to be anti-religious bigot and party line robot.
Yep she would be dancing on Broadway right now if it wasn't for those evil people that just love to get off by making people suffer.
The FR poll puts the nutcases on FR at only 28.1%. I'm not sure what it is for the general population.
That will never happen. To do so would be to admit that they did nothing while it happened.
Florida law allows people to be starved to death under certain circumstances. That this is so, I find quite offensive. Whether Terri qualifies for this execution is a separate question.
That MS would press forward with killing Terri, in spite of her parents wishes, is just plain cruel.
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