Posted on 03/31/2005 8:05:44 AM PST by Pyro7480
President Bush will make remarks on the death of Terri Schindler (Schiavo) at 11:40 am EST.
You are correct. The Florida Constitution is, if anything, even more clear on that point.
Constitution of FloridaIn other words, one branch cannot use a power belonging to aother.
ARTICLE II
SECTION 1. Governor.-- (a) The supreme executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall be commander-in-chief of all military forces of the state not in active service of the United States.
ARTICLE II
SECTION 3. Branches of government.--The powers of the state government shall be divided into legislative, executive and judicial branches. No person belonging to one branch shall exercise any powers appertaining to either of the other branches unless expressly provided herein.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?Mode=Constitution&Submenu=3&Tab=statutes#A02S02
SECTION 2. Basic rights.--All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property; except that the ownership, inheritance, disposition and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship may be regulated or prohibited by law. No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability.What good are these words, if all power to take those rights away lies in the hands of a branch of government?
Pro-life conservatives are too often dismissed as "unappeasable" single-issue voters.
I prefer to look at the Big Picture, and how all the pieces fit together.
You're wrong.
"In response to the killing of Terry Shiavo, I went out and bought Mark Levin's book, Men in Black. I suggest that everyone do the same and prepare themselves for the coming fight over the judiciary appointments. The best thing that we can do for Terry Shiavo is to give her life new meaning in our fight to reform the courts."
I started reading it last week. I agree. We should spread this word. This is the real legacy of Terri's death and I feel bad to put it in such an insensitive way. But it is ironic that with all talk of abusive courts rulings and activist judges.. a helpless little woman and her insensitive loser husband does more to open our eyes to it than anything else.
Please read the book. And PLEASE all of us at FR please support our president. Stop with the cheap shots against him.
Thanks for the info.. :-(
This disaster will be hurting the GOP for some time and I fear it will undermine efforts to ban homo marriage, defeat the filabusters and get more conservatives on the Court. Plus, it has shown a gleeful willingness to throw away almost every conservative belief for the right to "life"
This has sickened me from the beginning as people seem to have lost sight of so much for so little.
Yep, Florida and California have the same type of euthanasia laws. They must be removed from the law.
Just look at what a joke the Social Security debate is becoming. Tax reform? Right! And don't even get me started on immigration.
The sad fact is, our Republican majorities are impotent on the most important issues, if not (in the case of immigration) complicit in the problem. I hate to say that, because I really wanted to believe in them. I was elated when we "won" the elections in recent years and ostensibly consolidated power.
But here we are: Impotent to protect our industries. Impotent to remove and reform a burdensome tax code. Impotent to reign in the abuse of torts. Impotent to avert finanaical disaster in the case of Social Security. Impotent to protect our borders. Impotent even to overturn a clearly unconsitutional ruling (Roe v. Wade) just because most of our fellow citizens apparently like the outcome. And now, as a sort of reductio ad absurdam of the whole situation, impotent to save one innocent woman from an unjust death at the hands of a slimey husband and a cabal of blood-thirsty lawyers who want the law to support some penumbral "right to die" over the Constitutionally enumerated right to life.
What, precisely, is the use of politics if you can achieve all that supposed power and yet be impotent to affect change on the issues that animated you to vote in the first place?
OK, we freed Afghanistan and Iraq and are pouring billions into propping up their transition to "democracy". yet we are losing the very "Republic" for which we once stood all the while, not even incrementally anymore, but wholesale to the culture of death.
Article One, Section Two of the Florida constitution echoes the Fifth Amendment prohibition on killing innocent citizens. But it goes a little further by including disabled persons specifically.
And the ruling legal and political elites continue to pretend that that fundamental law doesn't even exist. It's maddening.
I think you need a good nights rest.
It's true. There are natural, eternal human truths whether you believe in God or not. The 10 Commandment are designed to control human nature. When they're removed, their opposites move in to fill the void.
For example, in this case: Thou shall not murder/ Thou shall not give false testimony/ Thou shall not covet they neighbors goods $. If this wisdom were allowed to be understood, the Terri case would have been easily solved in a pro-truth manner. Every case would be truth- oriented. It would be written in the hearts of those involved in the legal system.
There are those who would prefer these laws not be known. It destroys their power hungry or self- oriented agenda. The opposite of the 10 Commandments ARE the liberal agenda.
The law was changed in 1999 to classify a feeding tube as an "extraordinary means of support" (I don't know the exact wording) by the Florida legislature, and Jeb Bush signed it. George Felos lobbied hard for it and got it. That is the true "Terri's Law."
Why, so you can feel better about not being outraged? So people will think better of republicans who did nothing.
So this doesn't look so bad. Why. The politicians signed off in the hour Terri needed them. They signed off in the hour a lot of people needed them with regard to any number of issues.
But this one overstepped a line.
They probably took a poll..
"The BUSH BROTHERS allowed SWAMP JUDGE to stop them."
You're entitled to your opinion but you're wrong. There's a big picture and a little one. Our president must see the big picture. He's taking a hit now, but in the long run his long term plan for judicial reform will succeed providing we cease to undermine him.
I've ordered it.
Hey I can't prevent you from being wrong.
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