Posted on 03/24/2005 9:09:56 AM PST by davidosborne
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"And what about President Bush?!? How in the HELL can he be in Texas, for the holiday weekend, enjoying time with his family, when there is a woman dying???? I hope they aren't eating or drinking at all, or my support for the Bush family is OVER!!!!!!!"
You forgot the /sarcasm tag.
President Bush is probably burning up the phone lines to support Jeb's next actions. They have to be absolutely confident whatever plan they have to save Terri's life will not cause a further Constitutional crisis and disruption of the public order.
If that were to happen none of us will enjoy life, liberty etc.,
The people supporting Terri are now turning their anger at Jeb because of his press conference yesterday inferring, or a least raising the hopes for, some kind of action.
I'm not advocating it...but I sure wouldn't shed any tears over scum like them.
Very well said.
Did we in our strength confide, our striving would be losing;
Were not the right Man on our side, the Man of God's own choosing:
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He;
Lord Sabaoth, His Name, from age to age the same,
And He must win the battle.
And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us:
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him;
His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure,
One little word shall fell him.
That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth; The Spirit and the gifts are ours through Him Who with us sideth: Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also; The body they may kill: God's truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever.
There is evil at work here, but the BATTLE belongs to the LORD! Keep praying!
Mark 14
55: The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any.
56: Many testified falsely against him, but their statements did not agree.
57: Then some stood up and gave this false testimony against him:
58: We heard him say, I will destroy this manmade temple and in three days will build another, not made by man.
59: Yet even then their testimony did not agree.
Mark 15
1: Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2: Are you the king of the Jews? asked Pilate. Yes, it is as you say, Jesus replied.
3: The chief priests accused him of many things.
4: So again Pilate asked him, Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.
5: But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
6: Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested.
7: A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.
8: The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9: Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews? asked Pilate,
10: knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
11: But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
12: What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews? Pilate asked them.
13: Crucify him! they shouted.
14: Why? What crime has he committed? asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, Crucify him!
15: Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
From what I understand - from a comment made by a family member - it is in the Florida Statutes that Jeb doesn't have to 'request' anything - he can just do it - it is his RIGHT as Govenor. He does not have to ask the court for permition to take custody , especially with the new medical info coming to light.
Perhaps he is allowing Greer to show his butt one more time before he activates his right to take Terri anyway.
We can only pray.... JK
Fine, then go get her personally.
From Amazon.com
While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself.
Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann, Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat (Kinda Like Judge Greer) interested only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just following orders." (Or...The Law)
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one. We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin one indeed.
The New York Times Book Review If, in recalling the period, one could shut one's eyes to the scenes of brutal massacre and stop one's ears to the screams of horror-stricken women and terrorized children as they saw the tornado of death sweeping toward them, one could almost assume that in some parts of the book the author is being whimsical.
I know...
Why don't you do something? Go down there and try to break in to give her ice chips. Or are you just 'talking' and waiting for others to break the law.
How silly!
How come that dear lady sat at that counter and in the front of the bus back in the 50's. Get a grip. Bad laws need to be broken sometimes.
But.......... Jeb will not have to do anything illegal! But he better hurry up. How sick are we all going to feel if Terri dies and then we are told that Jeb was just about ready to do his thing? This is real SICK!
Okay now FOX is SAYING they are WAITING.. and their BANNER says the Judge has ruled?
Psssst, they lost.
It would be God's will. But He has different wills for different purposes. Some for showing goodness. Some for judging wickedness. He does not direct evil to occur, but He does permit it, and it never catches Him off guard.
If this occurs, it is for the judgment of America.
OK - so Jeb rushes in and grabs her - and then has 3-4 days of review time - before greer can then vacate it and order the re-taking of Terri and taking the tube out again - and Terri's suffering and murder is prolonged. You want that? (THAT would be "for show")
If he can act and be assured that this wont happen - he will....
thank your lucky stars you aren't in the position of trying to save her only to end up prolonging her agony.
I believe he's trying to find an avenue that assures she can be rescued with being taken back in 3-4 days.
I call him Chad "Scrappleface" Fairbanks.
So what???? If Bush won't act NOW, maybe we should ask the UN to intervene! They could send in a special French unit to free her from those Nazi stormtrooper cops that arrest children...!!!!!!!
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