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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.
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
[THE COURT] has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.
[THE COURT] has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
[THE COURT] has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.
[THE COURT]has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.
[THE COURT] has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.
[THE COURT] has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of the Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and the Convulsions within.
[THE COURT] has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
[THE COURT] has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
[THE COURT] has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.
[THE COURT] has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.
[THE COURT] has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.
[THE COURT] has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
[THE COURT] has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us;
FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:
FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:
FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:
FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rules into these Colonies:
FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.
HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.
HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.
HE has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.
IN every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.
WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Don't know, but maybe JJ is going with his conscience here, and sees the truth, and doesn't care what the party line is.
Good heavens! History HAS repeated! We need some modern day John Adams and Thomas Jeffersons!
True!!!
Another little aside...
My thought on why the President's numbers are down is NOT because he signed legislation to help Terri.
But directly opposite.
We are hurt and disturbed because we want MORE from him. THAT'S THE REASON HIS POLL NUMBERS ARE DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will NOT speak badly against him though! He is for LIFE !!!
But my heart is upset and sad about this bad situation he has found himself in !!! He needs prayer even more !!!
Randall Terry pointed that out last night; it was quite interesting listening to him say this.
Rather the use the words THE COURT; however
Randall Terry used the word JUDGES
interestesting, is it not? He came to the very same conclusion as you.
Heavenly Father - We again come before You asking for a miracle on behalf of our little Sister, Theresa Marie Schindler. In the Wonderful Name of Jesus Christ, our Master, Savior and Lord. Amen.
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That deep sleep is a demonic force...you were doing a lot of good.
I am not a person who sees the devil in every detail, but this is a known trick, just like Peter and John who fell asleep when Jesus asked them to pray.
Corrie Ten Boom noticed the tired feelings as a demonic force that she had to cast out.
Cast it out and continue to pray!
The Lord will get the glory
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Dearest Lord Jesus somehow give Terri the tears you've caused me to shed.
AMEN!
I agre...in Jesus Name!!!
Or it could have been the Lord saying, "Rest."
"Keep hope alive, keep hope alive"... LOL...:-)
TruthSetsUFree said this prayer: “We ask you to do just that: perserve her life, protect her organs from damage, and keep her comfortable and at peace. We pray this in JESUS' NAME AND FOR HIS GLORY. Amen.”
Amen and Amen.
Amen........and AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Lord inhibit any evil person with evil intent in Terri's room. Lord, keep her functioning, but let anything evil that anyone tries to do to her from this point on FAIL. In Jesus name!
I agree............. whewwww! Spell check dear!
#2165 posted prayer. AMEN!!!
and Amen again! Lord, be with Terri...mend her to wellness...keep her sustained...send in your ministering Angels...keep her safe.
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