Posted on 06/03/2005 6:14:51 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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did you have to wake up the schiavo people this early in the morning?
WTFO.
I don't understand why the state (county, feds, etc.) would have a duty to keep prisoners from committing suicide.
LOL.
Regardless of anyone's position of the murder of Terri, this is news. Personally, I think it speaks volumes.....
It's a different court. The irony, I think, is that a court in Washington state came to the life-sanctifying decision, whereas a court in Florida chose to let an estranged husband kill his wife.
I don't think it's dysfunctional to have a court come to a life-saving decision.
LOL
Exactly. Why is it that we have to force feed a person who is in state custody, but it is okay to kill an innocent person in a nursing home?
And, since the judge used the term "citizen" (IOW, not exclusive to the incarcerated citizen), perhaps WA state will also see to it that no Schiavoing is done in WA? Call me dubious....
. . . whereas a court in Florida chose to let an estranged husband starve his helpless wife to death.
Ironic and leaves me speechless at the moment.
Sadly, I have a feeling the WA courts would have decided the Schiavo case exactly as the FL courts did.
So in the U.S. as designed by "those who best understand the Constitution" - the judiciary - we find out that it is not proper to allow a person with free will to starve themselves. But is is required by law, to starve to death, a person who has given no consent (but remember if she had given consent, she would have to have been force-fed). We have to conclude that only people who speak on behalf of others have the power to compel their starvation.
Makes perfect sense to me. It's a good thing we only have the most thoughtful, sensible and able people serving as judges.
The guy burns and seriously injures his daughter and we do everything we can to keep him alive despite his clearly expressed wishes. Elsewhere a woman goes into a coma and is starved to death on the flimsiest evidence of a desire to die. Obviously, reason and law are chucked in favor of the political winds. Perhaps, we should transfer this inmate to a hospice where he would be murdered for fun and profits.
true, but now here comes all the Vanity posts and i'm sure hannity will pick this up and run with for 2 hours. she is dead and are judges killed here. not the first bad thing that has happened in america.
If he would have used a hanging method...it would save us tons of money.....
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