Posted on 03/31/2005 6:55:11 AM PST by Eurotwit
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the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Spot on, as usual, betty. Thank you.
My husband and I installed a fifteen-foot flagpole in our front yard in late 1980, the week Ronald Reagan was elected to his first term as President. Since then, we have flown Old Glory, day and night (lighted by a spotlight), weather permitting … twenty-five years … five different flags – each replacing the previous one when its colors faded to pink, grey, and pale blue from exposure to the sun and the elements.
We will always be indescribably proud of those incomparable acts of faith, courage, altruism, and decency that used to describe a human character and moral fiber that was somehow uniquely and wonderfully American. Even during some of our ‘darker days’ (as in the ‘90s), there were still many men in leadership positions who stood above the squalor and reminded us of our proud roots and our unique destiny … girding our collective national dignity and providing us hope that ‘this too shall pass.’
Since Ronald Reagan left office sixteen years ago, we have enjoyed sporadic proud moments as a civilization, but the general direction of our national character has been deteriorative. And, over the past few weeks, our national dignity and morality has suffered unprecedented erosion.
We lowered our flag this morning, folded it respectfully, and put it in storage. I am not proud to be an American today … or tomorrow. I am deeply proud of our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and dozens of other areas of the world where their strength is needed and their courage and resolve serve to instill the same in others. But our leadership here at home, with few exceptions, is self-serving, myopic, hypocrisy-plagued, cowardly, prone to grotesque monetary/power-based corruption, irresolute, lacking in vision, ignorant of and/or antagonistic toward those aspects of our history that fostered our former greatness, prone to self-defeating compromise, fiscally and morally irresponsible, oblivious to the need to assure the security of future generations, and an ever-increasing threat to excellence, personal responsibility, and individual life and liberty.
In many ways, our government has become our enemy, and the wonderful, God-centered experiment in self-governance that was once America is fast approaching extinction.
A young American woman died today. One man’s insidious personal desire to achieve her demise … combined with the increasingly illogical, tyrannical nature of what poses as ‘American justice’ … combined with the cowardice and paper-tiger incapacity of our elected representatives … combined with the ‘talk is cheap’ nature of the executive branch … all conspired to seal her tragic fate.
Over the past 140 years, Lincoln’s ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people’ has found itself incrementally transformed into a government of the career politicians or lifetime-appointed judges, by an elite national leadership with a left-leaning anti-individual liberty agenda, and for the incremental garnering of centralized power for the state. And the people be damned (especially those whose lives, by virtue of their immaturity, disability, or longevity, are deemed expendable).
Now that Terri has succumbed to her man-made, man-ordered, man-condoned demise, those of us who still have the capacity to see the emperor without his clothes are ashamed … heartbroken … grief stricken … outraged. Her husband enjoyed the collaboration of activist judges and indolent legislators. But, if she didn’t comprehend so during her last fifteen years of life, she now knows that there are millions of her countrymen who took her into their hearts and, unlike her husband and her government, those millions prayed that, no matter the outcome of the legal wrangling, she might finally know the peace and glory that had been denied her up until today.
Strangely, any grief that we are feeling is justified, and yet somehow self-centered, in that we are grieving over what Terri’s fate portends for us all. Our self-centered grief is warranted -- even productive -- if it eventually inspires us to take a stand against those who orchestrated and perpetrated the ‘legal/judicial’ abomination we witnessed over the past few weeks.
But we need no longer grieve for Terri. She now knows a perfect peace far beyond our imagining or understanding.
Praise God.
It's ok, I understand
Just please in the future do not post that link.
Thanks
Kindly look at my link in post 2597 which is to the federal court in question itself and tell me how different it is from your link. In any case I have read it and a review is not a de novo review. They were asking for time so that it could be reviewed. Why do you think the restraining order would be temporary? What? If they actually prove that her rights were violated they get a slightly longer restraining order?
Thank you :0)
Not difficult at all. Probably one of the armed guards with a camera cell phone.
It DOES look like her. Note the eyebrows. Couldn't have been forteen hours before she died though. She looks too good, eyes not sunken, good skin tone.
Could have been Felos, too. Attempt to show the world how "peaceful" she really was, just fudging the timeline a bit (like a WEEK).
Then my guard is up on this. I won't flat out say that he's part of the good old boys club, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Okay, you say, let's pretend that's not the de novo review Congress wanted - they wanted a whole new hearing of all the issues. One wonders why they limited it to examining whether federal rights violations occurred, but there you go - we wave our wand and probate is now magically a federal matter. Little problem now - we need an injunction, or she'll be dead long before our full-blown hearing ever gets off the ground. Trouble is, they can't meet the standard required to get that injunction. Congress could have mandated an injunction, but they didn't, so the courts had no choice but to treat it like any other request for relief, and there it fell apart.
Write your congressman - ask him why they didn't mandate statutory relief, when then knew or should have know that the failure to do so was a death sentence. Be sure to share any response you get from him with the class.
Who's Hal Turner?
"So Congress would have you believe, anyway. They had the power to mandate that the feeding tube be put back in, in such a way that no judge could defy it, and yet they didn't do that. Why?"
The Florida legislature did exactly that, and it was ruled unconstitutional.
This is not what congresss would have me believe, this is what the activist judges decided.
It's ok, and no one is in trouble
We just ask that it not be posted anymore
It's been an extremely busy day trying to keep up
with all the threads.
No he did not. He "predicted" the success of their claims using old data. The law "mandated"(by his own reading) a de novo review. That was the whole purpose for the TRO request. IOW "Give us time to get that review". It is ludicrous to claim that it was met, since there would be no need for a TRO if the review was accomplished. IT WAS NOT DONE.
Congress could have mandated an injunction requiring the feeding tube be put back in pending this federal review. They do it all the time - it's called statutory relief, and courts routinely abide by it. Whether the Florida bill ran afoul of the Florida state constitution or not is irrelevant - Congress could have made it stick.
"Pearse presented his report, and then he was discharged. Guardian ad litem is not a permanent position, and he was never "fired".
He requested more time and was discharged.
"She is DEAD now and you want to talk about whether or not she was a criminal?
No, I am pointing out that your notion of how probate works is not correct."
Does that make her any more alive right now? How she died was by court order that she could not dispute herself, and there was no attorney there to dispute it for her. Would you like to have been her in these circumstances? Is it ok with you if a judge ignores all of your rights and just passes them off to someone else that may not care at all about you?
That's what the Schindlers brought him to look at, procedural claims from the state court proceedings - go look at their brief. But it doesn't matter - even if I grant that it didn't constitute the de novo review that Congress wanted, she still dies because they cannot get the injunction they need in order to make it to that de novo review. "Give us more time to gather new evidence" is not now, nor has it ever been sufficient to gain an injunction. That is not an argument that meets the standards required to gain an injunction. Period. Therefore, the only possible recourse for injunctive relief was statutory relief, which Congress failed to provide.
No, it doesn't. But it does begin the process of understanding how this really happened, without which we're pretty likely to see it happen again.
They didn't say that nor did I state that. They needed time for the de novo review. That review is due process as now defined for this situation by the law(and again as admitted by the justice). The courts failed to abide by the Constitution when they allowed the state(per order by Judge Greer) to deprive Terri of her life without due process.
It is obvious the Constitution requires due process. That is in toto. It does not require the sanctity of an injunction. The injunction must be granted in order to achieve the due process required, required by the Constitution.
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