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Pa. College Professor Arrested at Schiavo Hospice
NEPA News and AP ^ | March 29, 2005 | AP

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: adrinkforterri; christianity; compassion; dncdupes; donutwatch; dowpursley; dragnet; loonies; policestate; prolifeactivist; religion; terrimania; terrischiavo; trespassing
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To: Wallace T.

I understand it was civil disobedience, but what would he have done if allowed into her room?


301 posted on 03/30/2005 9:15:57 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: Dominick

Dear Dominick,

Yes, I agree, if they'd struck that law, the current legal arguments against the murderers would be stronger.

However, murderer greer's order is still illegal on the face. Your quotation of law includes:

"...including artificially provided sustenance and hydration,..."

Giving a cup of water to a disabled woman is hardly "artificial sustenance or hydration." She swallows her own saliva (or did when she was permitted by the murderers to have any). But the murderer greer forbids even offering her a cup of water.

Furthermore, I'm reasonably sure that this applies to end-of-life circumstances, not to the severely disabled.

Finally, as the murderer m. schiavo has violated the legal obligations of guardianship for some years, it is not legally legitimate to rely on the authority of a clearly-discredited and clearly-conflicted guardian (can you say "he's got a live-in and a couple of illegitimate kids to support?").

We have tyrannical rule by judges. They have twisted the written law where they could and disregarded the written law when they had to, in order to achieve their own purposes.

Political leaders who fail to see the overthrow of the constitutional order inherent in this situation will be unable to fix what needs fixing.


sitetest


302 posted on 03/30/2005 9:18:23 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: R. Scott

That would have been up to the protester. I don't believe he has any medical background.


303 posted on 03/30/2005 9:23:55 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: A Jovial Cad; lentulusgracchus
He also routinely engages in the kind of semi-slur so cherished as a "debate" tactic by the Hardcore Left: he excels in the type of personal, unsubstantiated insults that hinge on slurring a person personally, though he offers no proof, no documentation, no hint of a verifiable whisper, or otherwise concrete means to ascertain his smarmy innuendos. In short, he makes crap up, and is the textbook description of a pathological liar poseur in this forum.

IOW, you've made a post full of "personal, unsubstantiated insults that hinge on slurring a person personally" with "no proof, no documentation, no hint of a verifiable whisper" other than "smarmy innuendos" against me in an effort to accuse me of the very same thing.

Good job, cad. You've just admitted to your theft of another projector!

304 posted on 03/30/2005 9:37:53 AM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: A Jovial Cad

I'd crawl over miles of broken glass to avoid Civil War threads. Please have mercy on this mod by not dragging them here.


305 posted on 03/30/2005 9:44:13 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: A Jovial Cad; 4ConservativeJustices
Let's sample the dictionaries for a moment...

cad (kAd) n. A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable.

Someone who is morally reprehensible.

A person who behaves crudely or dishonorably.

An ill-bred man.

A person lacking in finer feelings.

A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.

One who is morally reprehensible.

A villian, scoundrel, wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

Synonyms: bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel

Aside from Non-Sequitur, you're about the most appropriately named person n this entire forum!

306 posted on 03/30/2005 9:57:43 AM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: ninenot
You forgot the coppers at Haymarket Square--and the coppers who shot up the union activists in Bay View, WI.

Ah yes. There's also the Pratt Street Massacre in Baltimore on April 19, 1861 when a bunch of soldiers opened fire on a civilian crowd of protesters. And then there's Janet Reno's thugs. More policemen "enforcing the law"


307 posted on 03/30/2005 10:05:17 AM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: GOPcapitalist

You too, please knock off the personal stuff, regardless of who might have started it.


308 posted on 03/30/2005 10:08:34 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: A Jovial Cad
"He also routinely engages in the kind of semi-slur so cherished as a "debate" tactic by the Hardcore Left: he excels in the type of personal, unsubstantiated insults that hinge on slurring a person personally"

You mean like you just did, right?

Talk about nursing a grudge against another freeper.

309 posted on 03/30/2005 10:14:12 AM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
"destructive of furthering genuine knowledge of Catholic matters.

AKA "anti-fundamentalist" matters.

310 posted on 03/30/2005 10:16:39 AM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: Admin Moderator; Windsong
Kein Problem!

I simply found it very odd that this particular poster would follow me over to a post deep in a Terri Schaivo thread to start an unprovoked civil war flamewar. Windsong is correct that he seems to harbor some sort of grudge against me, but I find even that odd because I've only had about 3 or 4 exchanges of any substance with him ever, and most of those were many, many months if not years ago. Why he'd appear out of the blue and start making off-topic rants against me here is a mystery.

311 posted on 03/30/2005 10:38:36 AM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: narses
"Or do you advocate lawlessness?"

Against laws that contradict the laws of God, YES.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,

that all men are created equal,

that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


312 posted on 03/30/2005 10:46:57 AM PST by St. Johann Tetzel ("Vigilate et orate ut non intretis in tentationem.")
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To: sitetest
However, murderer greer's order is still illegal on the face.

Wholly legal by definition. Wholly immoral by substance. An order like this could be refused, but unless one wished to be arrested, not abrogated. Why are you talking to me like I think this is licit?

Why wouldn't her parents just feed her in contravention of the order? They would be arrested. They would demonstrate the resistance to the order.

At this point, the case was turned on the law I quoted above. The Schindlers know it. I think that they can't stop the bad decisions they made to get Randall Terry, Jesse Jackson and other publicity hounds. These people don't want Terri to live, but to die to get themselves on TV crying crocodile tears. If this was my daughter I would be doing everything I could, and I may make the same mistake.

At this point, my assessment is that none of the actions I condemned earlier will allow Terri to be saved. IMHO, these protests at the hospice are pointless, unless you wanted to kill the prolife movement. The attacks on Gov Bush and Pres Bush are asinine, and will fail to save Terri, but will serve to elect Democrats. The MSM is follow the script and people who are otherwise good people are falling into this trap.

I spend time and energy promoting life and working to abolish abortion, and people who have no other interest but to be on TV are promoting themselves as prolife protesters and fraudulently portraying the role on TV. These actions of theirs are not to save Terri, but to destroy what many have worked to promote for years.
313 posted on 03/30/2005 10:58:43 AM PST by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: Admin Moderator; GOPcapitalist
I'd crawl over miles of broken glass to avoid Civil War threads. Please have mercy on this mod by not dragging them here.

Ok. You have our permission to refrain from entering the CW threads ;o)

314 posted on 03/30/2005 11:02:42 AM PST by 4CJ (Good-bye HenryLeeII. Rest well my FRiend. We'll miss you.)
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To: Wallace T.
"Could the evangelical community do more? Yes, and they should. However, it is very wrong to assert that they have been absent."

I know some of them have spoken out againt the government sponsored starvation of Terri Schiavo, but that's hardly enough, and it's nothing near what they have the potential to do.

These evangelical leaders have been conspicuously absent from rallying the troops and getting behind Terri Schiavo in large numbers, something they can really shine at when motivated to do so. I don't see it happening for Terri Schiavo.

315 posted on 03/30/2005 11:20:50 AM PST by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" - Pope Urban II, 1097 A.D.)
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To: TheCrusader
You're right. The Catholic Church (in Florida and elsewhere in the U.S., not the Vatican) and secular conservative groups have also been somewhat feeble in their responses. Were the religious and secular conservative and pro-life forces to encourage mass demonstration to descend upon Pinellas Park, there could conceivably be tens of thousands of people over a weekend. Tallahassee and Washington would be swamped with phone calls, E-mails, and snail mail.
316 posted on 03/30/2005 11:49:54 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.; TheCrusader
Were the religious and secular conservative and pro-life forces to encourage mass demonstration to descend upon Pinellas Park, there could conceivably be tens of thousands of people over a weekend.

Totally pointless. Right now the gawkers and MSM types far outnumber anyone there protesting, and out of the protesters many are there for the TV exposure. It is a circus in the worst sense of the word.

Feeble? Hardly. Most people I know are staying away and working on our legislators. You just don't have MSM coverage of phone calls and emails being made.
317 posted on 03/30/2005 11:59:01 AM PST by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: Dominick

Dear Dominick,

"Wholly legal by definition."

The order is illegal on its face. It is only legal by the definition of the murderer greer and a judiciary that believes it is beyond questioning.

The actual law gives no authority to prevent individuals from offering a cup of water to Terri.

Why wouldn't her parents feed her or give her water? Because they would be arrested. By whose orders? By an out of control, authority-usurping judge who is violating the letter of the actual law, replacing his own law for what is actually written.

However, Gov. Bush is unwilling to face down the murderer greer, and the Schindlers, of themselves, have no governmental authority to exert in the situation.

The case does NOT turn on the law you cited above, as that law is not applicable to giving someone a cup of water, or from killing someone who is not terminally ill. The case turns on the illegal orders of a tin-horn, two-bit dictator worthless probate judge, backed up by other judges who rightly understand that if they don't back this worthless POS, then the entire edifice of judicial usurpation and overthrow of the actual Constitution will be threatened.

The judiciary is out of control.

The legislature and the executive must exert their authority to rein the judiciary in. President Bush or Gov. Bush could merely exercise their police powers and ignore the illegal acts of the judge. Congress could ask the Justice Department to have the murderer greer arrested for obstructing a lawful subpoena, and circumventing federal law.

Once Terri were taken into protective custody, what would the judge do? Have a fit of apoplexy? Send the bailiff over to take her back? This is part of the checks and balances of our system of government. The law enforcement and military are under the control of the executive, not the judiciary. The judiciary requires the cooperation of the executive to enforce its rulings. If the judiciary acts unconstitutionally, there is nothing in the Constitution that requires the executive to enforce those unconstitutional actions.

But the Bush boys (all hat, no cattle) have bowed down to their black-robed judicial masters and have acceded to the tyranny of judicial supremacy.

Fundamentally, we will not win the battle for life until power is taken back from the judicial tyrants who have unconstitutionally usurped it.


sitetest


318 posted on 03/30/2005 12:36:39 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Longwalled Newbie
to commit a felony therein.

What felony...giving water to Terri?

319 posted on 03/30/2005 1:23:52 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Admin Moderator

You're right; my apologies.


320 posted on 03/30/2005 2:29:56 PM PST by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had no feet.")
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