Posted on 03/23/2005 5:04:24 AM PST by Maurice Tift
The shocking governmental homicide of Terri Schiavo has many dimensions, twists, and turns--all of which, upon analysis, converge on one inescapable reality: The life of Terri Schiavo is solely in the hands of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
While Terri lies dying by slow execution in a Pinellas Park hospice, Gov. Bush and others have looked mainly to the legislative process for relief--knowing full well that any special law intended to spare Terri's life will likely be overturned or disregarded by unsympathetic courts on the pretext of "separation of powers."
Terri's protectors have also appealed repeatedly to the courts themselves to correct their own excesses and lapses throughout this horrific ordeal--with equally predictable results.
At this point, the obvious solution is an executive one.
The case for executive relief
Any delegating of executive authority to the other branches will not only fail to save Terri, it appears--because the courts pretend to reign supreme, at the expense of true equilibrium between the branches--but it amounts to passing the authoritative buck.
The result will be not only the unconscionable death of an innocent woman whose execution cannot be justified on the basis of the facts, let alone on moral grounds, but the executive power will be shown to be what it has willfully become: impotent.
Not only that, but if Terri dies, the executive authority in Florida will be directly complicit.
No other entity in the state has authority to kill Terri. The courts can't do it. Nor can the legislature do anything directly about it. Only the executive can actually put people to death, under constitution-based law.
This fact dispels any notion that the governor is powerless to spare Terri. The truth is, only the governor--who oversees all agencies of executive power in the state--can in fact put Terri to death.
Officers already acting to kill Terri
Under authority of Jeb Bush, police are already at the scene--not to protect Terri, but to ensure that she is killed. They are, in fact, executing her.
Numerous well-meaning people who have tried to feed Terri--acting from simple respect for Judeo-Christian morality and compassion--have been arrested by uniformed officers who are acting on executive orders drawn up in conflict with the clear written meaning of constitutional law.
Rather than stand firm on the separation of powers principle upon which the Constitution, itself, is based, the executive power--at this very moment in the Terri Schiavo case--is actively participating in Terri's murder, having abdicated constitutional authority to the emerging bullies in government: the judiciary.
The result is total chaos, in the midst of an unprecedented constitutional crisis, the only remedy to which is for the executive to defend his rightful turf and preserve not only Terri's life, but the life of the republic.
The outward "orderliness" with which Terri is now being cruelly put to death--upon "orders" from an agenda-driven judiciary that has no power to act--belies the real truth of what is happening. Our nation's heart is being ripped out by the executive--not by anyone else--and with that loss goes our moral authority as a nation to lead the world.
As some suggest, we are behaving as a third-world dictatorship that cares little about innocent human life, and less about constitutional law.
Gov. Bush, put a stop to this travesty right now, for the sake of all that our nation stands for, in the interest of meriting God's merciful protection of our country in the years ahead.
If you "allow" Terri to die, you will indeed be her chief executioner.
CALL GOV. BUSH at 850-488-4441 Email: jeb@myflorida.com
I think you should be banned from posting at this site for your inflammatory language and blanket smearing of those of us who respect the faith and integrity of Alan Keyes.
Of course I get a bit of satisfaction waking up in the morning and seeing that my opinions on this topic are the correct ones....according to the judges....especially after being called a Pro-Murderer, Abortionist, Pro-Death, DU troll, Liberal lurker...by other Freepers for Chrissakes!
Let's face it. The Right-to-Lifers in our party are emotionally delusional. Terri Schiavo the person died 15 years ago.
I find it very hard to believe with all the publicity over the years that if any fraction of the gastly things Michael Schiavo said or did were true, a judge along the way wouldn't have ordered records, transcripts, etc. to refute or prove them.
By this twisted logic, George W. Bush would be personally responsible for every abortion in America.
After all, the author could choose to describe an abortion as an "execution" of the fetus, then claim that "only the executive has the power to take a life" and then claim that President Bush has the Constitutional power to grant "executive relief" to that fetus.
The author is describing the powers of an absolute monarch and not the powers of the State and Federal Executive Branches of our Constitutional Republic.
Check the source. Isn't RenewAmerica an Alan Keyes site?
I thought he was Republican. Sort of.
I believe so. But that doesn't impact my comment at all.
Anyone over 70 needs to look long and hard at the lack of planning advocated by demoncrats. Pulling the plug and starvation is not the answer to social security benefit reudctions due to lack of planning.
The Judiciary has no power to enforce its judgments. It relies on the Executive Branch to do that. If the Executive Branch ignores it, the Judiciary is powerless. That is what Separate and Equal means.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and in any case I am not in favor of name calling but it is a fact that trolls do exist, not that you are one. Have a nice day.
I agree.
Fratricide-
They were blaming the local bishop awhile ago.
Bush has little say in the excesses of the court.
I don't buy the argument that Jeb is to blame. Not at all. He has been working to save Terri.
It's your fault.
The shocking governmental homicide of Terri Schiavo has many dimensions, twists, and turns--all of which, upon analysis, converge on one inescapable reality: The life of Terri Schiavo is solely in the hands of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.To which I say BULL! Decades of citizen INACTION is how we got to this point, we just keep handing them more and more of OUR power.
You know, if a gunman breaks into your house you have a choice, run and hide with the telephone dialing 911 waiting for the government to come save you, or you get your gun and protect yourself! There are MILLIONS (according to Glenn Beck) of people who want Terri to live and they are frantically dialing 911 (i.e setting on their butts sending emails; making phone calls & writing letters) waiting for the government to come in and save her. Instead of asking the politicians to break the laws (that we helped make) to save her, why aren’t 'The MILLIONS' getting together and breaking the law to save her themselves?
This case is sickening. But blaming Bush would be like blaming the militia. Any militia could act but what member will take off from work, travel, face public humiliation, face arrest, prison, and the inability to support their family in order to save this stranger?by Monterrosa-24
DITTO!
Rubbish
You have a good one too...it's raining cats and dogs here in Maryland.
Gov Bush can do nothing short of ordering marshals to go in to the house with force. We are bound now by law. This is not Jeb's fault.
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