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.
The news media have not put out all the facts as we know them.
Most of the public thinks she was on life support and a vegtable.
She is Catholic so makes her (right)
When you look closely at the situation, It looks like a sacrafice or orfering orchestrated for Easter. Research is under way on this topic.
If you're a man of principle, it's not about winning with them, it's about life.
Shalom.
So instead the Governor backed down ceding the traditional (and Constitutional) role of the Executive Branch as enforcer of law to a defiant judge whose role as an officer of the court is adjudication of the law. Nice!
The United States is but one court order away from a Holocaust.
Actually, if your guardian doesn't "want" you then you're "unwanted" which is a capital offense.
No matter how many other people may want you, you're screwed.
Shalom.
I think a lot of us are going to be doing this very soon. Now we see what can happen if we don't.
Judge Greer (or any judge) is state government. From the point the courts entered onward, it is solely a matter of checks and balances.
"Justice used to be blind. Now it is dead."
Very accurate. Might I suggest that this is a good tag line?
So if I point a gun at your head and a police officer stops me from pulling the trigger, that's an abuse of power?
Please tell me you don't hold elective office.
Shalom.
Another scary thought and I believe you are correct! Apparently once my children are married, I am no longer considered part of their family and in the eyes of some courts have no 'standing.' This is just mind-boggling to me.
Eventually, the high cost of medical care will bring this about. There will come a time that people past a certain age will not get revived when they crash.
I agree, but my post was actually about how no matter what side republicans take on ANY issue, they (dems, libs, lefties) will take the opposite view and scream that Bush is Hitler, etc.
Did you know they are making a re-make of Logan's Run?
From what I udnerstand, that defense failed at Nuremburg.
When the law is wrong, the people have a responsibility to do what is right.
Of course, that only applies when the moral law is understood as a fixed thing, not a relativistic sham.
Shalom.
I saw Joe Libberman on NBC sunday. Not bad for a Democrat
Liked what he said and for me the front runner for the next
election and I a Republican.
It is either that or act and do considerable harm to the political status of Republicans across the country.
Sadly, reality and politics do not always pay attention to constitutional roles, as much as we might like. Regardless of whether it would have been the governor's right to take such an action, liberals would have an opening to say that he went beyond his rights and duties, and the average man in the streets, who knows no better and believes everything is great unless someone is taking drastic action, will believe them.
And then we would be in a position where we could not get anything we want on our agenda done, because Democrats would be in control. Perception is everything.
How many died when Elian Gonzales was taken?
Let's not get irrational here.
Everyone who had guns was under the authority of the Executive. Nobody would have fired a shot.
Nobody.
Shalom.
Here we go, it's time for the ideologues to check in with their circular firing squad.
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