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Posted on 03/27/2005 6:45:08 PM PST by tutstar
After much hard work that has gone on for well over a year, it's been a week and 2 days since Terri has been without food and hydration.
Many asking the question how we could have become such a callous society as to deny a helpless human the basic necessity of food and water.
Terri's plight has brought to light many problems in the judicial system and opened our eyes to the fact that some laws need to be changed.
The work will continue to protect helpless individuals from suffering the same injustice as Terri.
STill a state judge long as he's part of the 6th judicial circuit, which he is. State, not the county is his employer...unless Florida doesn't have county run courts?
For his own sake as a human being, Jeb probably should have stayed in bed today, rather than issue this sick, self-serving statement. Rush's end of the program is so boring, how can anyone still listen?
But, when is that a "first" for the USA?
We have a lot hypocrisy which spans Demo and GOP administration alike.
For example: We have all kinds of elite units operating along the Syrian/Iraqi border, working with the Iraqi government, to try to keep people from infiltrating into Iraqi terrority--the ultimate in Border Control, backed by our $$$--yet we cannot do a damned thing with 3000 illegals coming across our OWN border a day...and then the President angry at Americans who take action because they are fed up.
And, as you said, we critize North Korean for a policy of starvation, and we rush to Indonesia to fill the stomachs of those poor people, but we cannot find it in ourselves to have our own leaders in the US step in to assist someone being starved to death in the public spotlight.
So many churches in America and a "Red State" victory for Bush, then such a widespread laissez faire attitude about Terri.
very interesting...never thought of that before.. she would indeed, win by a landslide if she were to do that.. and seriously guys.. at this point in our country, would it be that big of a leap from where we are now?
I don't know. Pinellas/Pasco counties have a state judge?
I'll keep checking for clarification.
I think you are right that the popular Greer is a STATE judge. He is elected only in Pinellas and Pasco counties. That was probably the reason for the other poster's confusion.
"Unfortunately, there were those in Congress who insisted on changing the wording of that law from "shall" grant a de novo hearing to "may" grant a de novo hearing. "
Nope...the wording said "shall" and it also said that the findings from previous court records could not be used. Look up the statute.
Greer is the god of this world.
I think we've all been fooled.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
So, therefore GWB could have intervened last Tuesday to enforce a new federal law, one not yet declared unconstitutional by the popular judiciary.
BTW - Greer is a Circuit Court judge - the highest level of sitting trial judges in the Florida system.
So Greer is Caesar of days of old.
Greer is a murderer (or will be) nothing more nothing less.
In one fell swoop, the US public can vote their 70% pro-death message, and 'Snap!', just like that, we could get judicial decisions backing it up and then automatically shut off hundreds of life sustaining machines nationwide. (Of course, The President and State Governors could just have a passord-protected, "Read Only" monitoring that would allow them to get status reports, but not to enter the system with any kind of authority. After all, "I can't DO anything! [whine]") That would eliminate a lot of the wrangled and posturing, and midnight Congressional votes upsetting congressman from the weekend rest.
Wonder if HHS could devise such a convenient, on-line, public opinion/euthanasia system for the US infrastructure? Maybe IBM and some of the German pharmaceuticals could bid in consortium
Guess that means he is higher than JEB BUSH huh? He seems to think so!
"I'm not justifying him. He may do probate as part of his judge work, but he is a member of the 6th Florida Circuit Court system, which means he's more than a county judge, he's a state judge."
You are correct
They do, but I think I read that they just handle misdemeanors, small claims, etc. Greer is a state judge, and his responsibilities are of probate for the circuit.
yes indeed he could have....but i guess is choosing not to
Laissez-faire attitude, confusion about what to do about non-terminal handicapped people (love them, if you ask me, and care for them), fear about being in that situation themselves, and an awfully easy acceptance of state sanctioned euthanasia (or whatever you want to call it - pretend mercy-killing) -
A lot of rot in the soul. Or mis-information about right and wrong. Dis-information by those who want this new way.
Compare:
Mother Teresa found a man who was dying, took him home, cleaned him, gave him a clean place to lie, and was there for him as he died.
MS take his handicapped wife out of a nice nursing home, puts her into a home for the dying for years, denies her as much of her comforts as possible, and dehydrates her so she will die, supposedly to put her out of a misery he couldn't prove she was in.
Tell me which is showing compassion and love of neighbor?
I think GW just exposed his way to reform social security.
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