Posted on 03/11/2007 7:40:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.
"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
The Fifth Amendment
"No person shall be...deprived of life...without due process of law..."[a fair trial.]
It's really doesn't require a very high level of reading comprehension to understand that.
The courts are, in fact, part of the government.
Piercing to the bone!!
One of the few things the goernment actually is supposed to do is protect innocent people. One can disagree about whether or not euthanasia is right or wrong, however, it is one area the govt certainly is called to participate in.
susie
And there you hit on the major problem I had with the case and frankly, the way Jeb handled it. We had a probate judge issuing a death sentence. I doubt seriously the founding fathers thought probate judges would ever wield such power. What the founding fathers did recognize was that judges would make mistakes from time to time and that no judicial system was perfect in correcting those mistakes. That is why they granted to the chief executive one and only one power of the monarchy, the power to pardon.
Think about that. Of all the trappings of the monarchy that were purged during the design of our Republic, that was the only one the people thought had great value. And they copied it from the Federal Constitution to the State Constitutions. Jeb should have approached it from that angle, that he had the constitutional authority to grant a pardon from a death sentence issued by the judiciary and the power is absolute. That technology managed to place in the hands of a probate judge the power of life and death therefore also placed that judge's life and death decisions under the pardon review of the Governor.
When the baby boomers begin to experience the quality-of-life decisions suddenly being handed down at a pace eerily matching the withdrawal and attempted redemption of those "bonds" from the SocSec lock box, they will understand why the Schindler-Shiavo case was important to them.
Again the Federal Government had no business being involved in the Schiavo case....
> I want to be allowed to die but DO NOT starve me to death.
That brings up something that always bugged me about the Schiavo case.
A lot is/was made about removing the feeding and hydration equipment, and how awful Ms Schiavo's death must've been.
But... rather than working to pass something very very close to an unconstitutional bill of attainder in Congress, why didn't the protesters just go to the Florida legislature and have feeding tubes taken off the default list of "life support equipment"?
> Again the Federal Government had no business being
> involved in the Schiavo case....
That's far too sensible a position.
Hope you've got your fire retardant underwear on.
You mean 'real' Catholics that practice birth control? Those kind of 'real christians'?
Don't be ridiculous.
It was wrong for the Federal Government to intercede...essentially going judge shopping to appease the evangelical voter.
No, I mean, I can't believe Romney is so stupid as to revisit this awful mess. It's truly a pointless exercise now.
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I fear God, as America is getting the kind of government it deserves. Yes indeed, a probate court was the perfect place to show that a lady's life is nothing but chattel, that the question is at bottom no different than the question of who will inherit her old oak dresser.
I agree with Romney in this case. Government should not be involved in a he said she said family dispute. FYI:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/Social_Conservativsm.htm
Well damnit, then I declare that the goobermint owes me health insurance to maintain my well being; my life....I cannot afford it on my own.
There's an "In Forum" tab on my home page. Feel to free to click it to see what I've said about Mitt in the past.
Starvation of a helpless human being is the ugly truth of what happened in Florida. They put people in jail here for doing that to dogs.
That wouldn't be a strawman, would it?
Besides, who needs birth control when you can kill them at will at any age.
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