Posted on 03/29/2005 8:07:57 PM PST by Palladin
A professor at a Bible college near Scranton, Pa., was arrested Tuesday as he tried to storm into the hospice caring for Terri Schiavo.
Dow Pursley, 56, was zapped with a Taser stun gun and tackled to the ground by officers before he reached the door, Pinellas Park police said. He became the 47th protester arrested.
Pursley, who is on the faculty of the Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pa., had two bottles of water with him, police said. He was charged with attempted burglary and resisting arrest.
Baptist Bible College officials said in a written statement that Pursley was not acting on the school's behalf and had traveled to Florida on his personal time.
"He is a dedicated man with strong beliefs and God-given convictions," the statement said.
Pursley is the clinical director of counseling programs for the theological college's graduate school. He also helps oversee a campus clinic that offers psychological counseling based on biblical teaching.
Baptist Bible College spokesman Mark Robbins said that while the college "believes in the sanctity of life," it has not taken an official position on the Schiavo case.
Doctors said that Schiavo, 41, would probably die within a week or two after the tube was removed on March 18. She suffered catastrophic brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped for several minutes because of a chemical imbalance.
Perhaps 7 years ago it was not common knowledge that a significant percentage of Catholic priests were, in fact, active queers.
This is the old "call a spade a spade" thing. You want PC, go to DU.
The Homosexual Network was the first book to document the queer-priest problem. Fr. Rueda knew, well, the extent of the difficulty.
I still have it as a reference item and yes, all the names you think should be in it ARE in it.
You forgot the coppers at Haymarket Square--and the coppers who shot up the union activists in Bay View, WI.
Say what?
Could the evangelical community do more? Yes, and they should. However, it is very wrong to assert that they have been absent.
Oh, that explains it all.
The MSM conspiracy.
Look, I have no use for the MSM. But it's ridiculous to assign guilt or blame to pro-life protesters (no matter how they dress) for what you suppose will be a Dimowit victory in '08.
Calm down.
Attempted burglary???
Trespassing I can see, but burglary??
I would be ashamed to be a police officer in that god forsaken town.
That was my thought. How can it be burglary if you bring something. I would think it should have been attempted restocking of water, attempted hydration, attempted restoration of life, attempted humanitarian efforts or something along those lines.
Dear Dominick,
"They are there to prevent people from violating the peace."
The police are also there to enforce an illegal order that will lead to the murder of an innocent human being.
The police also chose to DISOBEY a lawful order to stand down, given by the state police on the part of the actual chief law enforcement officer of the state of Florida. Thus, the police cannot even make the claim that they were just following orders. Unless you count that they seem to think they are permitted to pick and choose.
As to the ultimate fall-out, it remains to be seen. I don't even know for myself what I will be thinking once this death charade is done. I will re-evaluate whether or not it is appropriate to continue to support the Republican Party. After all, not being pro-death is not quite the same as being pro-life. Ask the Whigs.
This affair crystalizes for many some questions. Such as, whether we are a nation of laws, and checks and balances, or whether we are ruled by an unchecked judiciary, and the law is what the black-robed masters say it is. Currently, it appears to be the latter. Another question is whether most of our politicians, Republican and Democrat, now accede to the doctrine of judicial supremacy. If that is the case, voting for the current crop of Republicans is little else than a delaying action. They will find judges who foist their own laws upon us, but laws that we will find more agreeable.
I don't really know what the answers are beyond the life or death of Terri. I do know that the Bush boys failed to use their legal, legitimate executive authority to directly save this woman's life.
I understand why they didn't. To act in that way would be to invite titanic struggles over basic constitutional issues for the rest of their terms. To act in that way would have been to harm the agenda for Social Security reform, tax reductions, etc. And against those great corporal works of mercy, who are we to insist on the life of one innocent woman?
sitetest
Do you find that "official" behavious assine? I find it inhumane -- murderous, sociopathic, illegal and a mockery of any oath they took or uniform they wear.
Then let the death cultists protect the execution chamber and manage the medical facility. They could do no worse than the LEOs and the medical personnel. I am not singling out the cops, but they and the doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc., should resign their positions.
Dear Dominick,
"You can think, do you think leaving the party is the best way to overturn Roe vs Wade?"
I don't know, Dominick. That's why I said "I will re-evaluate."
Just how would Roe be overturned? By appointing more Nazgul by Republicans? Like O'Connor (nominated by a Republican president, confirmed by a Republican Senate), Souter, Stevens, or Kennedy? I remember when Kennedy went to the Court. He was against Roe. What changed?
Well, he's still against Roe. But he is more FOR judicial supremacy. He is a moral monster.
I know that the Democrat Party will not bring us to a place where the three branches of government exist in some kind of balance, and where life is respected in law. But I'm no longer sure that the Republican Party can, either. Like I said, I'll have to do some thinking.
If the Republican Party can't or won't get it done, we'll have to try something else. Remember the Whigs.
As for Jeb and law enforcement authorities, he could have told the state troopers, go in with overwhelming numbers, arrest anyone who resists you, take Terri into protective custody. I doubt any of the local police would have opened fire on state troopers, but if any had, then prosecution for capital murder of law enforcement authorities would seem to be in order. If the individual miscreant lived to tell the tale.
"Thinking that Gov Bush is more culpable than the Senate,..."
Gee, I don't think I've ever said anything like that. Although I think the Bush boys (all hat, no cattle) have shown themselves to be proper politicians, and nothing more, certainly it is the murderer greer, the psychopath felos, and the vermin m. schiavo who are the principal bad actors in this whole affair. The courts, up and down, certainly come in a close second in the measures of perfidy, followed by a weak Florida state legislature.
The Bush boys come in a far distant fourth. They are not the principal murderers. They are merely holding the coats of those doing the murdering. The US Congress approached the threshold of decency, but fell back. In fairness, the Legislature, unlike the Executive, has no enforcement authority of its own. However, a very public request by the leaders of the US Congress to the Executive to enforce the legally-binding subpoena of the US Congress by arresting the murderer greer would have been nice.
But they, too, have proven to be little else but proper politicians.
I can see that the Democrats are likely near-ecstatic at the whole turn of events, but I suspect there isn't much Democrat or DNC involvement. When your enemies decide to shoot themselves, the best thing to do is to just stay out of the way.
And if the Democrats are smart, they will see some basic, fundamental fissures in the conservative coalition. Perhaps they will figure out how to exploit those fissures. I don't know.
For me, there are two questions: How to we return respect for life to the law? How do we recover self-rule from the lawlessness of the judges? The two questions are intertwined, I think.
Maybe the monarchists are right. ;-)
sitetest
Pursley, who is on the faculty of the Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pa., had two bottles of water with him, police said. He was charged with attempted burglary and resisting arrest.
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"He is a dedicated man with strong beliefs and God-given convictions," the statement said.
Good analysis--but it indicts Jeb even more strongly than GWB.
Frankly, Jeb deserves all the scorn he is getting at this point. He's the Gov of FLA, he's on the scene, at least relative to GWB's position, and he does have the FLA Constitution behind him.
At this point, he's also dead as a national (R) candidate for anything, I think.
GWB has done an excellent job of pleasing the Fortune 500 community and a few folks who thought that Hussein was an immediate threat to the USA.
That's about all, so far.
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