Posted on 03/30/2005 6:44:50 PM PST by watchdog_writer
I'm more than open to the argument that Jeb has done everything possible to save Terri.
The fact remains, however, she is being starved to death in the State where he is Governor. Where does the buck stop?
By no means. The Legislature has voted, and the governor agrees that the feeding tube should be restored. This represents the wishes of two of the three branches of the government of the state of Florida, yet "wussy Bush" refuses to override the judge, thus allowing one of three "co-equal" branches of government to rule the other two.
Bush should send in the state police, with himself at the head, and tell the local cops to stand down.
Not. Two of the three branches of state government agree on a course of action. That is sufficient to overrule the wishes of the single "judicial" branch. Otherwise, the three branches are not "co-equal". Jeb Bush is a wuss.
Thank you. This needed to be said...and you said it well.
Thank you -- this was definitely needed!
May God be with Terri and her Family and out of this travesty may the American people finally realize that every life is important including that of the unborn.
If the courts are running the show, why waste public money on a Governor and legislature?
The buck stops with the voters. They elected Judge Greer, they elected the legislatures that did not provide for a jury trial for Terri, the buck stops with us.
Yes, where does the buck stop, especially now that the courts have proven themselves to be lacking?
If I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't, then I damned sure wanna be damned for doing what is morally right.
I really don't blame Jeb for this, but he did sign the rule including food/hydration withdrawl as life support.
I'm sure he had no idea...
But he cannot intervene now, on a law he signed.
Dubya didn't sign it.
DK
Pipe dreams
Did you read the whole article?
While Jeb, imo, would not be in dereliction of duty by the letter as today of law -- he would must definitely be in dereliction of higher duty of law. That same kind of higher duty as understood and acted upon by our Founders during the the *by-the-then-letter-illegal* Revolution.
Last I checked, the court has no troops to support their murder. Jeb has troops.
Thank you taking the time to put into words what so many of us are thinking.
Wrong. That was NEVER the intent of the writers of the Constitution. The legislative body was always intended to be the THE final arbiter---NOT the court system. The courts have simply usurped that authority because the legislatures have proven spineless.
"If one branch flat out ignores one of the others, we have a constitutional crisis, and that's not good."
So, having one branch that flat out ignores the wishes of the other two is somehow LESS of a constitutional crisis?? I don't think so.
"stops in the courts"? With some two-bit Probate Judge? I can't buy into that. We have murderers in prison all over this country who were sentenced to die long before Terri's initial medical problems back in 1990. They're still living as a result of their "due process" appeals, but this inconvenient "surplus" wife is being executed in a long and gruesome manner. Sorry, it just don't compute.
If we go along treating these rulings of men as though it constitutes the "rule of law", I guess we deserve whatever we get.
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