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Posted on 03/27/2005 6:45:08 PM PST by tutstar
After much hard work that has gone on for well over a year, it's been a week and 2 days since Terri has been without food and hydration.
Many asking the question how we could have become such a callous society as to deny a helpless human the basic necessity of food and water.
Terri's plight has brought to light many problems in the judicial system and opened our eyes to the fact that some laws need to be changed.
The work will continue to protect helpless individuals from suffering the same injustice as Terri.
So the injunctions weren't a county level thing, the orders to the police were from a state court and not a local court - no wonder the state police administrators were uncomfortable about getting involved.
Talk about constitutional crisis. And legally, Jeb would have been the one to step over the legal edge if he had pushed it once Greer injuncted the DCF. It would have gone to the next level of appelate, which would have ruled against Jeb.
Legal short hairs.
All because Greer's state-level court could say it was legally enforcing the wishes of Terri (because it had been legally ruled this is what she wanted, by going through the legal channels). The death campers would say we were infringing on her legal rights, and by the way the laws were written, and the rulings given, we would have if we pushed past the injunction.
Our only course was to have some way of proving MS and his family perjured themselves about Terri wanting this.
This is what happens when you have really good lawyers fighting against less skilled lawyers, and people willing to take advantage of laws that look decent until you push them into an immoral use.
Right here:
http://www.jud6.org/Addresses/JudgesPhoneNumbers/judgeaddressandphonelist.htm
Apology will be accepted anytime....
You have made a good point about state police under Jeb Bush being fearful of clashing with the state judge. Therefore, Jeb should have asked that his brother intervene to overrule the constitutional crisis in FL. Not intervening cedes the power to the judiciary.
I suppose that if Jeb had tried to use pardon power, the state courts would have immediately struck him down on that too.
Maybe the problem is that the FL governorship is institutionally weak, something often said of the TX office as well.
I am very sad that congress is not going to enforce it's supoena...I bet if Delay can find a way, he will try, though.
thanks for the ping. Great Article DJ.
What we saw was the rule of judges. The rule of law was disregarded.
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So the media tells us what to focus on. Not the VALUE of this dying woman, but necessity of having a written will.
The joke on America is that if judges can diregard the law than they can disregard living wills arbitrarily.
Here's a link for an uplifting story!!! Our God IS an awesome God!!!
http://www.leftbehind.com/channelfree.asp?pageid=1118&channelID=175
I think that is the catch-22. Great system, huh? Something to be proud of. (puke)
might be...some states governors have more power than in other ones...I'm not up on the nuances of the Florida constitution. I don't think I like how Florida does its business.
I don't plan on living there in the near future, that's for sure.
When I called Dennis Hasterts' office today, they basically said that they had " dropped it". Doesn't give us a lot of comfort to look to law makers like that. Empty threats!! Sounds like a mother, that consistently yells at her kids about picking up their clothes. " no treats tonight after dinner if you DON'T".......and what happens after dinner? a large helping of ice cream!!!
"It's just barbaric. We're all going about our lives waiting to hear she has died. And instead of this death vigil being about someone we could not save, it is about someone we could save but is dying from a deliberate killing."
I agree, and I'm having trouble focusing on anything BUT this. My work is piling up (& people around me are getting tired of hearing me talk about it) because I can't just "get on with things" while this crime is being permitted. Michael Savage put it perfectly when he said "I feel like I'm watching a murder in slow motion."
Oh my. The joke is bigger than that. Sign a living will? Risk starvation. The model Liveing Will in Florida statutes calls for starvation as the manner of death. The outcome is buried in the definitions, as a normal interpretation of the language cares for the patient. But the legal parsing results in death by starvation.
Things have got to change around here, and I don't mean maybe.
I don't care about any RINOs or PLINOs or apologists for them on any GOP-centrific 'conservative' talk shows either.
Time for the BIG BACKLASH.
I smell a rat in the woodpile....and I think he's wearing sheeps clothing.
Court inaction spurs vows of conservative retaliation [Courts have defied federal law re: Schiavo]
I was reading another thread and there's supposed to be protesters in Times Square for Terri. Maybe that will get Hillerys attention
Absolutely! He MUST be in control. He is going to be at loose ends when this is over, isn't he?
Funny how he always says that he doesn't want cameras in Terri's room, to protect her "privacy"! LOL!!
What a lie. Before the man got his money, he filmed her himself! Had her on display to show what a good husband he was...
Does the media even understand what happened? What IS happening? Ignorance is no excuse but I think they're oblivious.
That IS where they got us...between the bad lawyering and that ruling, I don't know how we could work around it.
Terri was abused? So what? She didn't want to live in this condition, so we have to let her die ASAP.
That's what every complaint about mistreatment or wrongdoing to Terri comes down to. Even potential corruption in the area with guardianship rulings and stuff don't matter, cause they ruled Terri wanted to die.
All these other things are separate issues.
The Schindlers think Terri wasn't allowed her religious rights? Maybe they can sue the hospice and/or MS, but it'll have to be separate from the right to die stuff.
Lots of darkness here. Legal but not necessarily just. Very clever, and a trap people need to watch out for.
You're welcome. It was clear and to the point.
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