Posted on 04/05/2005 2:22:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
VANITY NOTICE: I've just learned that I am an "EXTREMIST!" WOO HOO!!
Nicest compliment I've received in a long time.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Y'all might want to be careful who you hang out with. If you are pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-constitution, pro-Liberty, pro-America and post to FreeRepublic.com, you risk being labeled as an "extremist."
That puts you in the company of extremist folks like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, & Co.
As extremists, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Speaking of quotes from our extremist forefathers, someone sent me these this morning:
George Washington - "..And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion... Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle."
John Adams - "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
James Madison - "We've staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future ...upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."
Noah Webster - "No truth is more evident to any mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
See you at the March for Justice!!
May God continue to bless and watch over America and all her extremists!
You know that encyclicals are written by Popes, don't you?
Good grief.
You're taking that quote out of context, and you know it.
Well, 80 posts into the thread I still don't see the first question that came to my mind. Might we ask WHO called you an extremist? Hopefully it's some really high profile lib...
More 'extremist" quotes, Jim:
"[O]ur ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits."
-- Daniel Webster, American Jurist and Senator
Some guys who put up a web site got it from the same place everyone else gets it? That serves to reinforce my point.
Sure. As a surrogate for MS's powers as a guardian. Not as an exercise of the state's powers to prosecute criminals.
You do know that Popes sometimes speak on behalf of the Church and sometimes speak on behalf of themselves, don't you?
That's not true. They were adjudicating whether she would be fed and hydrated. Courts don't make those determinations for dead people.
But you want to consider her dead as of 15 years ago because it soothes your conscience. Considering that she might NOT have been dead as of 15 years ago is too jarring to contemplate, even when the idea is smothered with all of your legalisms.
As nothing more than a surrogate at MS's request, per the quote you posted.
Seriously.
Nothing by mouth & have the police haul away anyone who attempts to give her anything by mouth...
Did the court establish her desire to have her parents be kept away from her, cept when her husband was willing to allow it? Do you think she wished for someone to haul them off & charge them with contempt of court if they got too pushy in their concern for her care? Do you think all of that is what she meant when she said she didn't want to live like that (hooked up to machines)?
When you walk into court to litigate a civil matter, you do more than invoke it's jurisdiction. You invite it to use the full force of it's power & authority. Surrogate, smurrogate, ask anyone who has gone through a divorce.
Wow, so you're saying that violent serial criminals on death row have more rights than an innocent PERSON whose only 'crime' was to be an 'inconvenience' to an adulterous husband and a drain on 'resources.'
Our founding fathers would be stunned beyond belief if they were here today and saw that "their Constitution" had been so perverted as to give women the right to kill their unborn children. STUNNED!I agree, but the event that spurred the march was the Supreme Court declaring it unconstitutional to execute children.
And the principle that underpins and guarantees the above"
All are equal before the law.
Zogby must have lost a lot of clients in the past couple of cycles. Evidently he has decided to forgo being a politician in favor of being a technician for a bit. But, I for one, won't ever trust him again though I do think his methodology here is oreders of magnitude better than the slop we were getting advocating TS's demise.
There is no fitting context which can make that comment appropriate. It presupposes and belies a mind trying to justify killing a disabled woman.
That's probably accurate. That being said, since they did not request a jury trial, it is not a valid complaint to say that TS did not receive a jury trial.
In the days of our Founders, if a kid 12 years of age or so murdered someone, he would have been hanged until death.
Besides, back then, if you were 12 you weren't considered a 'kid'.
They die.
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