Posted on 03/24/2005 9:44:09 AM PST by Lazamataz
"I feel that if Terri called you from hospice, you'd try to talk her into giving up and dying," Anderson said. "I feel that you're that committed to her death."
Greer has allowed himself to get trapped in a position that Terri must die. If she lives and recovers even somewhat, his eternal legacy will be that he was willing to kill her. If she dies, the furor will eventually soften and die out.
"I don't think he had any real enemies," said Kurland, the lawyer who is a friend and once roomed with the judge in the 1970s. "He has a political streak in him. He understands political survival."
He has more enemies now than he ever could imagine. Even God is his enemy and the idiot doesn't realize it.
I am really more than pissed right now!!!!!
Tough position to be in. I think, legally-speaking, he made the correct decision.
Ideological father of PETA.
(But he follows the law, he said. "There are no Ten Commandments out there," he said, pointing to his outer office.)
What law does he follow? Since when is hearsay evidence with no corroboration accepted? The whole case revolves around Michael Schiavo's hearsay that Teri told him she wouldn't want to stay alive if what is happening to her happened. The question then becomes: How believable is he, and is there any other proof to corroborate what he said? In the absence of evidence (and as an auditor I know about evidence), it's hard to say that a conscious human being should be killed. I know we have higher standards of evidence for criminals. Doesn't Teri deserve as many rights as accused serial killers?
I am constantly driven to my knees by the knowledge that there is nowhere else to go" A. Lincoln
(ain't it the truth)
I hope Judge Greer can obtain a copy of the Bible (any translation will do) and read the story of Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16:19-31). Perhaps he will then see what he has wrought and repent of his sin.
Note the Bernie McCabe reference. He is the state attorney who stopped the FDLE investigation.
If the utterly corrupt courts had given Terri due process, this and hundreds of other suspicious and/or incriminating facts would have come to light. Now they will be hidden forever, except of course in the eyes of The Big Guy, who will be the true judge of all this.
Maybe the process should start now.
Judge Greer, having been ousted by Christian churches, has taken up SANTERIA. Castro's favorite religion. Isn't that just special??????
How sad this poor man has a disability. /sarcasm
If Terri's dies, the state of FL should use her case to justify withholding of food and water from Judge Greer. After all, this disable judge is the one that has adamantly defended the killing of disabled people.
NEVER!
Your screen name says it all. All you "oh so modern", cosmopolitan liberals. Let me spell it out for you. No one has the right to make a decision to unnaturally end another person's life. That is murder. No one has the (moral) right to lay the burden of pulling the plug unnaturally on ones loved ones. That's thoughtless and uncaring.
The Schaivo case teaches me that, as with abortion, we are not mature enough as a people to play with this sort of promethean fire. Therefore I oppose the whole concept of assisted death.
Felos was on the BOD of the Hospice.
I don't think Greer was.
Days later, the husband stabbed her to death.
Greer said he followed the law...
"As a judge, there's always the fear that you're going to miss something and somebody is going to get hurt, (but hey, no skin off my ass!)" Greer said. "It happens in all cases. When you make those kind of decisions, there's very little you can do to be 100 percent certain because you never have 100 percent of the facts. (So my motto is: If you can't be 100%, blow it big time and shoot for ZERO!)"
Greer, who said he had other unrelated problems with the church, said he explained to a deacon, "If I don't like what the St. Pete Times writes about me, my only recourse is to cancel my subscription." So he stopped his donations to the church, though he is still a member...
...Greer said he is sometimes baffled by the more hateful criticism. He said his faith has not been shaken.
What's so exasperating is that my faith is based on forgiveness (you know, like how I stopped tithing to my church) because that's what God did," Greer said. "When I see people in my faith being extremely judgmental, it's very disconcerting."...
Critics who condemn him in the religious press, he said, "have nothing to do with my relationship with God. They can't affect it. (because with God I think I can relate.)"
No cognitive dissonance there. WHAT A HYPOCRITE!
"Dr. Ronald Cranford is one of the most outspoken advocates of the “right to die” movement and of physician-assisted suicide in the U.S. today.".
"Perusing the case literature and articles surrounding the “right to die” and PVS, one will see Dr. Cranford’s name surface again and again. In almost every case, he is the one claiming PVS, and advocating the cessation of nutrition and hydration. [. . .]".
And so the liberal agenda is revealed. As if we didn't know why so many Democrats and liberals are screaming "Kill her!".
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