Posted on 04/05/2005 2:22:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
VANITY NOTICE: I've just learned that I am an "EXTREMIST!" WOO HOO!!
Nicest compliment I've received in a long time.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Y'all might want to be careful who you hang out with. If you are pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-constitution, pro-Liberty, pro-America and post to FreeRepublic.com, you risk being labeled as an "extremist."
That puts you in the company of extremist folks like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, & Co.
As extremists, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Speaking of quotes from our extremist forefathers, someone sent me these this morning:
George Washington - "..And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion... Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle."
John Adams - "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
James Madison - "We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future ...upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."
Noah Webster - "No truth is more evident to any mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
See you at the March for Justice!!
May God continue to bless and watch over America and all her extremists!
Facts, shmacts.
Cold dude. Kinda shifts me to your opposite side even more.
I'm not trying to be cold. I'm just pointing out the fact that a dispute involving two non-governmental litigants in state court is, by definition, a state civil matter.
Y'all might want to be careful who you hang out with. If you are pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-constitution, pro-Liberty, pro-America and post to FreeRepublic.com, you risk being labeled as an "extremist."
This statement is similiar to what I posted on my "who are you" page. If this is being an extremist... hooeeee....I call it normal and patriotic. I like you.
It is all about how they "see it." Not about how it really is.
The State of Florida was not a party to this case. At least, not until that lame effort by DCF to intervene, but not really.
Not exactly. The statutes and case file make the actual legal framework clear. Oh, the guardian never has the power to cause death. That power is the patient's *only*. In this case, and all other like it (Cruzan comes to mind), the courts endeavor to find and implement the patient's wishes.
I guess somebody here has to be one...
What crime did she commit that required the death sentence?
Sorry, you are woefully misinformed.
You know this statement makes no sense. None of the litigants in this case could ever make the claim that this was a criminal matter.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-Thomas Jefferson
Keep up the good work.
Welcome to FR. We are delighted to have you.
I, too, have been called an extremist for posting at Free Republic, by Libs I taunt and enrage at some neutral sites. Often with material I have learned of, at FR.
I am proud to be called an extremist for hanging out on your site, Jim!
Just a reminder, we have an agreement. You don't ping me and I don't ping you. Your memory must be failing. Careful, when it gets to a certain point the Probate Judge will be after you. Now we're even, one post each, we can resume our mutual dislike.
"The state was not ordering death."
Funny, Terri is dead, isn't she?
WELCOME, and congrats on choosing the exactly right person to say, "I like you" to.
nice homepage.
Well a lot of people here are either extremely funny, extremely nice, extremely mean, extremely religious, extremely patriotic, etc. So I guess that would mean most of us are extremists.
The state only got involved in this matter because the litigants decided to go to court. Her guardian wanted to remove her feeding tube. Other family members claimed he did not have the right. They litigated the issue. That does not mean, however, that the government sentenced her to death.
I reckon there's hope for you yet.
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