Posted on 03/22/2005 6:13:43 AM PST by sonsofliberty2000
I have always been bothered by the 'election' process of judges. While candidates of other public offices are under microscopic scrutiny as to their values, political leanings, and qualification, judges on the ballot are virtually ghosts, with no campaigning, no media coverage, and barely a suitable resume in the election pamphlets. In many cases they run unopposed. Voters have little information to base a vote on.
I don't claim to know the 'right' solution, but me thinks the public should not have to vote on judicial candidates sight unseen.
O.K. thanks, but I still don't get it I must be really dumb when it comes to the law.
Where did you find the bill? I'm trying to find it.
The question is, what next? The media, in it's sinister, hideous snare, is casting this as a "right to die" issue. The very phrase "Right to die" implies the notion that at some point, everyone has the right to commit suicide or refuse preventative treatments. This is a "right to life" issue. There IS no "right to die" in the constitution. DOES NOT EXIST. There IS, however, a RIGHT TO LIFE, liberty, and due process...
The media usurps and bastardizes even the constitution from under our noses.
>>Oh, yes, didn't you know? The popular Schiavo trio also starved/dehydrated BOTH of their parents but never said how much they collected for insurance, estate, etc<<<
NO!!!!!!!!!!
OMG are you serious?
Okay, lets be fiar for one second, their parents probably had a living will stating that was their wishes...right?
Don't forget Jodi's mom, Eleanor Centonze.
I understand she died in their home, and they may have even "helped her" along (?)
That has been posted here on more than one occasion.
It has also been posted here that she stood guard at Terri's bed the last time around in October of 2003, to make sure that nobody tried to feed her or give her water. Then she came down with (or already had?) an illness, and died not too long after.
I would like to find more documentation on this.
So far, all I've seen is what has been posted here.
You assume that those are the only choices, and they are not.
"It would not surprise me if this case made it to the Supreme Court. And there they would have to move quickly(for a change). But, I don't have a clue how they would rule."
By the way, where IS Christopher Reeves' wife in all of this? Where are the FEMINAZIS when a WOMAN is being deprived of the right to CHOOSE by a MAN who has abandoned her for another woman?
As long as that woman breathes I will not cease hope. I am praying right alongside you for that miracle.
From what I have been hearing that will take some time. In the meantime I think they will say that the feeding tube must be reconnected until such a ruling on the lower courts standing takes place. Which could take up to two years.
With that aside, I think that it's worth noting that this "passion play", this good vs. evil real life drama that is unfolding before us comes at the time right before Easter. This fight for the life or death of someone. With one side with their thumbs up and another with their thumbs down.
From what I have seen, read and heard of this woman she is almost childlike and innocent. If her parents that brought her into this world want to care for her why kill her? Why murder her? And it is murder.
But if the state insists that she die and that's OK why not hand her "husband" a knife and say "go ahead". It's the same thing, isn't it? Likely less painful actually. Because starving her to death is the slowest act of violence. A wretched thing. But I bet someone would put it on pay-per-view TV if they could make a buck.
The Democrats and others can play G-d. If the Democrats want to be the party of the grim reaper that's their choice. Ghouls.
According to Bobby Schindler, Florida state law has a 4 year statute of limitations on attempted murder.
I am praying hard myself. When all hope seems lost I just seem to pray harder. For Terri, our nation, our kids and future generations and myself, too. This is a chilling event and I believe it is a definite spiritual battle.
Nothing matters to the courts in Florida but the legal, binding marriage between Terri and Michael. He gets the last call. If this were Texas, for example, the hospital would get the last call. Different states have different laws, and the HINO has positioned himself perfectly. You've got to give him credit.
The leftists amaze me - I thought they would have made Terri a poster person for fetal stem cell research to restore her brain. /sarcasm
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