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To: Tailgunner Joe
You're just sore because this article describes your "religious right" hating death cult perfectly.

Actually, I'm not, and the article doesn't describe me.

I opposed removing Terri's feeding tube.

The problem is that Florida law allows for this result. In other words, if a judge applies the law as the legislature wrote it (which is, the last time I checked, the conservative view of the judiciary's role in government), results like this can happen.

The conservative solution, as I understand it, would be for the law to be repealed and/or amended in order to prevent such a result.

I can tell you what really killed Terri Schiavo: the Schindlers' witnesses repeatedly perjuring themselves. Judges have this funny habit of not believing you after being lied to repeatedly.

The solution attempted in Congress required a competent and honest lawyer to implement it. IMNHO, Gibbs was neither.

And with the farcical end to this debacle, the religious right is in a very ugly position: they didn't get the result they wanted, but there was one hell of an effort to accomplish that result. The GOP has an expectation that intense efforts on behalf of one specific element of their constituency will generate a similarly intense voter turnout in 2006 by those constituents.

However, a great many in the religious right are making noises about not supporting the GOP in 2006. God be with y'all if that comes to pass, because the GOP sure as hell won't.

15 posted on 04/01/2005 5:43:00 AM PST by Poohbah (I'm in the WPPFF)
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To: Poohbah
>> the Schindlers' witnesses repeatedly perjuring themselves.

That's not viable. No perjury was even alleged, by anyone, so far as I know. Certainly nobody was charged with or convicted of perjury. Greer could have brought the charge himself but for one problem -- he didn't have any evidentiary reason to doubt the depositions. You can call them perjurers all you wish, but that's defamation unless you can prove it. I don't think you can.

19 posted on 04/01/2005 6:33:14 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism reduces America from a Shining City on a Hill to a fetid slum in a fever swamp)
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