[EternalVigilance]

Some very interesting comments from Alan Keyes about Terry in this speech.

[T'wit]

Thank you. Busy on other fronts for a bit but I will return to this with interest, be sure.

[T'wit]

Read the whole thing. Dr. Keyes has lost none of his rigor. I am impressed that this audience could stay with him; his view runs deep.

As for Terri, many believe Jeb Bush stained a pretty decent governorship and ruined his political future by being gutless. He had the constitutional duty to protect her and the means to do it. He wussed out completely. Dr. Keyes actually went to see Jeb in person, trying to get him to recognize his duty, but was snubbed.

Ironies abound. The federal bill to ask judicial review for Terri was bipartisan, but Democrats turned around later and blamed Republicans for intervening. More ironic, neither party's actions had any effect on the case at all. It wasn't "overreach," it was no-reach. The feds had a constitutional duty to act, but did too little, much too late, then fizzled out completely. They let a rogue circuit judge walk all over them, didn't even enforce their own subpoenas. They didn't slow down Terri's unconstitutional execution by one minute.

[T'wit]

You -- and Dr. Keyes, for that matter -- might like to read this eye-opening essay by law professor Gary Amos. If ever the overreach of the judicial oligarchy has been brought into view, it is here, and it is through the Terri Schiavo case.

The Federal Government, via the 14th Amendment, had the duty and power to intervene in a state procedure that threatened the rights of a citizen (Terri). (As Dr. Keyes pointed out, Florida's constituion is particularly good in guaranteeing Terri's life, but the Florida judiciary stomped on that.) In failing to protect Terri, Congress and the high courts essentially gutted the 14th Amendment (not that there was much left of it). We are back to Dred Scott and the Fugitive Slave Law -- only this time, Terri was the disposable chattel property rather than Dred Scott. Amos charges every concurring judge, including every member of SCOTUS, with being "accessories to murder."

Dred Scott and Terri Schiavo The Long and Tortured Death of the 14th Amendment At the Hands of the Federal Judiciary

Further comments, thoughts and backgrounding by Gary Amos are posted HERE

[T'wit]

>> Talking about due process in the Terri Schiavo situation is mixing apples and oranges. Since there is no state power to take her life in the first place, any action or procedure in that regard is tyrannical by definition, and it is abysmally ignorant for people to interject due process into the discussion as a justification for state sanctioned homicide. -- Prof. Gary Amos

Abysmal ignorance happens.