In your discussion with Judge Napolitano regarding the Terri Schiavo case the main point you both kept emphasizing was that this was already settled by the courts. No one should challenge the courts, once they’ve made their rulings. The courts rule “uber alles.”
Well, that last phrase is not thrown in gratuitously. Have you ever heard of the Nuremberg Trials? Of the “Doctor’s Trial?”
Here’s a rather nice site that lays out the various war crimes trials and, in particular, a discussion of what has been called “The Doctor’s Trial.”
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergDoctorTrial.html
It’s from the law school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. This isn’t some “loose cannon” internet conspiracy site.
Here’s part 9 of count two of the indictment:
9. Between September 1939 and April 1945 the defendants Karl Brandt, Blome, Brack, and Hoven unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly committed war crimes, as defined by Article II of Control Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected with plans and enterprises involving the execution of the so-called "euthanasia" program of the German Reich in the course of which the defendants herein murdered hundreds of thousands of human beings, including nationals of German-occupied countries. This program involved the systematic and secret execution of the aged, insane, incurably ill, of deformed children, and other persons, by gas, lethal injections, and diverse other means in nursing homes, hospitals, and asylums. Such persons were regarded as "useless eaters" and a burden to the German war machine. The relatives of these victims were informed that they died from natural causes, such as heart failure. German doctors involved in the "euthanasia" program were also sent to Eastern occupied countries to assist in the mass extermination of Jews.
With the exception of lying to the family, how does Judge Greer’s decision differ from this program?
These doctors were found guilty of committing war crimes. This practice was condemned as a crime against humanity.
And the other famous result of the Nuremberg trials? “Just following orders,” the moral equivalent of “the court has ruled, I must not interfere,” is definitely not a defense.
There is an assumption that once we are brain damaged, we cease to exist, and it's just taking out the trash, more or less, to get rid of the body.
It's wrong and immoral, but it's all over the culture right now.
Culture of death.
Great post.