Posted on 03/28/2005 7:09:05 AM PST by amdgmary
By the time you read this, Terri Schiavo may well be dead, and America will have taken the next step down the road to democide. While the brothers Bush may not have found it within their executive powers to prevent a woman from being legally starved to death, they did manage to con an entire nation into thinking that they did not act because they could not.
This is most unfortunate, because it is quite clear that neither George Bush nor his brother Jeb ever had any intention of saving Mrs. Schiavo from death by starvation. Like Pontius Pilate, they engaged in meaningless political machinations intended to deflect the blame from themselves while pretending that they were helpless to act. A simple executive order from either man would have sufficed to see the woman fed; the notion that the president has too much respect for either the 10th Amendment or the separation of powers doctrine to act is simply laughable.
For you see, George Bush has yet to veto a single law on the grounds that it requires exercising a power not specifically granted to the United States by the Constitution; instead, he has lobbied hard for many such unconstitutional laws. The Constitution gives the federal government no power with regards to children being left behind, for example. And every IRS tax court, every Justice Department immigration court, is a far greater violation of the separation of powers than the insertion of a feeding tube into a starving woman's stomach.
As for Jeb Bush, it's hard to know precisely what his position is since he's been hiding out ever since the Florida Legislature decided that it's down with offing the disabled. Considering the number of elderly concentrated in the Sunshine State, you'd think the Florida voting public would be paranoid about anything that might conceivably lead toward eradicating the useless eaters of society, but then, I suppose someone's got to play on all those golf courses.
Which leads us to what this affair is really all about. This is not a Democrat or Republican thing – many of the pro-starvation judges have been Republican appointees – it is a demographic thing. Already, the elderly soak up a staggering amount of national resources, as the blessings of technology allow them to live longer while turning them into wrinkled chemical cyborgs. This would be unobjectionable to anyone, except for the fact that the elderly are not paying for most of the expense of their much-needed medical treatments, and they are collecting Social Security for many more years than anyone previously envisioned.
The move to health maintenance organizations 20 years ago essentially sealed the doom of the elderly. It is already a well-established fact that when the health of an individual is at odds with the profitability of these government-mandated corporations, the individual is out of luck. This trade-off, writ large, serves as an example of what we can expect to see over the next 30 years when the "right to die" will become the "responsibility to die" and quality of life becomes a legal question to be determined by Department of Health bureaucrats instead of a pallid excuse to justify high taxes in certain locales.
It won't happen overnight. Schiavo simply represents the first nibbling about the margins. But soon will come the Fox News debates about the terminally ill and the mentally disabled – if an Alzheimer's patient can't even recognize his own daughter, is he really there anymore? It's customary to dismiss slippery slopes as a false form of hypothesis, but when there's both historical and international models that are obviously being followed, we're no longer talking about possibilities, we're looking at time frames.
And eventually they'll get around to the cripples and the Jews. This is an inspired evil that stems from a supernatural source whose inhuman goals are always the same: death, division and destruction. If you don't see how these things connect, recall that it was Jesus Christ who said: "I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me."
Keep that in mind the next time you're trying to decide if your government is on the side of the angels or not.
So, in your opinion (and this is a question, not an attack) was this showdown worth less than the showdown between the President and George Wallace?
That was merely enforcing the right to an equal education, not the right to life. IIRC (And I can't even remember who was President - was it Ike? - so I may not recall correctly.) No shots were fired. And the people of Alabama certainly supported their Governor.
Shalom.
>>>Waiting to see the reply from the Bushbots.
I for one am VERY dissapointed in them. I would have respected them more if they had remained out of it on principle then to disagree with it and go in with guns a blazing and out pops a cork.
Thank you for looking at my point objectively.
I did not. Considering how bad the original movie was, I am surprised.
Well, no, not really. Hollywood has never shown that they care about the quality of their output.
Shalom.
Phone the following numbers and ask your family to also:
Governor Jeb Bush: 850-480-7146
President George Bush: 202-456-1414
Congressman Tom Delay: 202-225-5951
Senator Bill Frist: 202-224-3344
Senator Rick Santorum: 202-224-6324
And please continue to pray!!! Terri SCHINDLER has NOT given up and neither should we!!!!!
Good article.
Yep in a few years in addition to the many fine abortion mills all over the country, soon there will many fine Euthanasia facilities also.
Has grandpa's / grandma's money run out, is all they is sit around the house and eat, drink, watch TV and consume all those resources that could be going to better use like say a new car? Well don't fret, theres a nice euthanasia starvation center near you. Just bring in that old useless eater and leave them in our tender loving care. Thats right you can have the satisfaction of knowing granny will never again eat that steak you had in the refrig waiting for YOU when you got home from a hard days work at the ye ' ole abortion mill. (/sarcasm)
Anyone remember the movie Logan's run?
CAROUSEL!!
MMMMM jenny agutter...pic please...
Thanks for the suggeston for the tag line!
Terri's dad said that Terri has such as strong desire to live. She does not want to die! Yet a cruel and tyrannical judge has ordered that she be executed because she is disabled.
Roe v. Wade was the beginning. This is just widening the road of acceptance. Instead of just legally justifying the murdering of the unborn because they're inconvenient or whatever, now we can get rid of the old and the sick.
We are not talking about one situation here, we are talking about the rule of law and it's an extremely important point. Do not let the emotion over rule that because future generations are counting on us not to destroy the foundation of this country.
God Bless Terri and her family and please continue to pray for her!
Prayer is the only thing left for Terri and her family. The Church, judicial system, and government have let Terri down.
No. Just as you couldn't count on all Presidents to step down after two terms just because George Washington did. Yet that situation stood for a long time because we mostly elected moral men to be President.
We are not talking about one situation here, we are talking about the rule of law and it's an extremely important point.
Two responses:
1) The rule of which law? The law that says whatever a judge says is right is right? I'm not familiar with that law. The Executive can simply find that the judge did not properly apply the law and take action. He can, of course, be hammered after the fact if he is wrong.
2) If the law is immoral and we stand on its rule, the Nuremburg is a sham. The rule of right supersedes the rule of law. That's why I could demand that Elian Gonzales be allowed to remain dispite our laws that say parents get the final say. In this case that was a wrong law. The right thing to do would have been to offer him sanctuary.
Of course there's a tradeoff. In Elian's case it was only a matter of freedom. Elian may yet be free before he dies. In this case a life is at stake. Once Terri's dead it's too late to realize we were wrong. In this case the balance should tilt to the government doing what's right.
Do not let the emotion over rule that because future generations are counting on us not to destroy the foundation of this country.
Oh, that's been done.
When a Mayor flouts law to marry homosexuals and doesn't even get a slap on the wrist, the foundation has crumbled. We're like Wile E. Coyote. The bridge has fallen and we're hovering in midair. We're feeling around with our foot before we look down. Then we will fall.
Shalom.
Firstly, the RULE OF LAW is in dispute. And the JUDGES have violated THE RULE OF LAW all over the place.
SECONDLY, even were that the case, THE RULE OF LAW should never supercede LIFE. THAT is the most DANGEROUS PRECEDENT being established in this case.
THIRDLY, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT, CONSTITUTIONALLY, HAS THE POWER, AUTHORITY AND OBLIGATION TO STAND UP TO ROGUE JUDGES WHO HAVE DISOBEYED THE LAW. PERIOD!!!!!!
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