Posted on 03/30/2005 4:57:06 PM PST by STARWISE
I was just thinking about that. The long term implications. I imagine there will be many investigations coming.
Please pass it on ... thank you.
The courts are bloody sadistic. Why the h*ll did they agree to an appeal last night only to jerk people around once more. This case is driving me bloody nuts; I think that I need a stiff drink.
We may have to wipe the slate clean, and elect a whole new slate.
I'm sorry ... I prepared a MARCH 2005 Daily Threads -- but dodging lighting and not being a techie, looks like because I had a link to an article -- it took the Yahoo article title. Wondering if I should do it over. I'm just flummoxed and depressed.
You are not alone, this case makes me so angry, after working in the judicial system for 20 years and always believing it was the best system there is, I am now not so sure, judges have taken their power to a new level, legalized murder, find that to be very scary!!! Have a drink for me!
I for one will not soon forget this and my great discomfort is based almost entirely on the actions of the Court and Terri's putative husband in this matter. As it has progressed other equally cogent points have emerged that have solidified my thinking.
This is/was a completely avoidable tragedy absent the arrogance of the Courts and the willful, gratuitous insistence by MS in having total, unappealable control over Terri and her family. Felos the ghoul is, IMO, beneath contempt and I'll leave it at that.
Classic CYA. The courts must cover all their bases, you know....
baloney.....there will be no investigations...
Some weeks ago, I wrote to Patty "Osama Mama" Murray, one of my Senators, urging her to support the bill to save Terri. Just today, I actually received a reply;
"Dear Mr. Waters:
Thank you for contacting me about Theresa Marie Schiavo of Florida. I appreciate hearing from you about this very personal and difficult matter.
As you know, following a lengthy legal battle Mrs. Schiavo's husband authorized the removal of her feeding tube on Friday March 18, 2005. On Monday March 21, 2005 Congress passed private legislation allowing Mrs. Schiavo's parents to seek relief through the Federal Court system, which the President promptly signed into law. This legislation passed the Senate by a Voice Vote. Because I had already departed the country for an official Senate trip, I was not present to vote on the Schiavo bill.
I do not believe that it was appropriate for the Congress and federal government to become involved in this very complex and personal matter. In the future, legislation dealing with such sensitive issues must be allowed to work through the regular process of committee and floor debate and consideration. In general, I believe these decisions are best left to families, their faith, and their physician without outside interference.
Again, I appreciate hearing from you on this difficult matter. Please do not hesitate to contact me about other issues that are important to you.
Sincerely,
Patty Murray
United States Senator
I'm having a difficult time believing that we have Congressmen and Senators that feel it's appropriate for a woman to die a slow and torturous death, falling back on "I don't find Federal intervention appropriate," after all the time they supported Federal intervention when it suited their agenda.
And Liberal Democrats claim to be Women's advocates?
I intend to save this email and next election, I will be remonding all in Washington that I can how she sat idly by and allowed what may very well be an abused woman to be murdered by judicial decree, simply because they hate George Bush!!!
SPINELESS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Jeb Bush has assumed a fetal position and is resting comfortably. Family
members report that he has never been more beautiful.
Jeb is in a trap. Now it's a question of deciding what is the greater good.
It is painful to watch anymore.
Do the Americans of today deserve freedom?
Governor Bush FAX 850-921-9077
jeb@myflorida.com
Governor's Legislative Affairs Office 1-850-488-5000
Governor Bush phone #850-488-4441
Yes. Federal intervention was OK with these people in numerous instances throughout the Civil Rights Movement, in the prosecution of offenders that were acquitted in State Courts (Rodney King for example) and a host of other matters where the Federal Gov't determined that States were acting in an Unconstitutional fashion. In this case, because it involves 'Right to Life' issues on some level, they stay as far away as possible.
Pure politics devoid of any principles.
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