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To: winstonchurchill
"Do you think it could possibly be they didn't overturn Judge Greer's determination because it was -- oh, say -- lawful and just?"

Lawful perhaps, but certainly not 'just'.

The world has a history of making bad laws and then reversing them later on. Don't lose sight of the fact that slavery was legal in America, Jews in Hitler's Germany were outlawed from society, Christians in Stalin's Russia were suppressed and murdered, all under the pretense that it was "lawful".

And let's not forget here that some of the appellate judges fully concurred with Terri Schiavo's lawyers and excoriated the judges who dismissed the appeals.

99 posted on 03/30/2005 11:46:53 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
The world has a history of making bad laws and then reversing them later on. Don't lose sight of the fact that slavery was legal in America, Jews in Hitler's Germany were outlawed from society, Christians in Stalin's Russia were suppressed and murdered, all under the pretense that it was "lawful".

Certainly true, but none of the 'laws' being enforced here have anything remotely in common with Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. The original complaint here was that the objectors did not agree with Judge Greer's determinations of fact. They sided with the parents. While it is wholly understandable that reasonable people could take another side in almost any factual dispute, this got way beyond this very quickly. Ad hominem attacks on Judge Greer, on the appellate court judges on anyone who disagrees.

Because I believe Judge Greer reached the correct decision based on the evidence before him, I have been called a "bloodless zombie leftist" and an "arrogant p---y" for the 'crime' of agreeing with a judicial determination.

This is not the second coming of Nazi Germany, this is a decision based upon evidence with which the most absolutist of the pro-lifers here disagree. And let's not forget here that some of the appellate judges fully concurred with Terri Schiavo's lawyers and excoriated the judges who dismissed the appeals.

110 posted on 03/30/2005 12:49:46 PM PST by winstonchurchill
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