I'm proud to be in such company, Jim.
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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!
Well c'mon then, cowboy up! If you work at it, someday it will happen.
The state was not ordering death. It was simply determining whether TS's legal guardian had the power to order her feeding tube removed.
That being said, under the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, the Schindlers could've gotten a jury trial if they had properly asked for one. Do you know whether they asked for one at all? Yeah, I figured you didn't.
That's all academic, though - the "falsehood" I referenced - the one that some people might read on the internet and believe - is the Terri Schiavo did not "have the benefit of a trial" - it didn't say anything about a jury trial. I really do wish that those people who understand something about how the internet works would recognize that there is a responsibility that attaches to publishing a statement in cyberspace - because others might read it and attach some truth to it. Truth that may have been entirely absent from the statement up to that time. That's probably even more likely when the publisher is one who commands a certain amount of respect and authority in cyberspace.
You.. an extremist?
You're the most patient person I know of, and a better man than I.
Something is telling me that the person or people who said that to you have no real basis to make any comparison.
But then again, most of the Founders were called 'extremists'.
;-)
All this hand-wringing about diversity from the left and here we are as a grand example of that diversity and they're calling us extremists. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Cold dude. Kinda shifts me to your opposite side even more.
Did someone say quotes? I love quotes!
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato
"The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion." --King Solomon
"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?" --Benjamin Franklin
FOFL!!
I like it
Amen! *bump*
That gives me 2 things to strive for: knuckle-dragger and extremist. Wow, I have a bright future ahead!
That's "extreme"-ly cool! Welcome to the club!
It was a civil trial. As you know.
Well, we all knew you are an extremist but no one had the heart to tell you. Particularly because we're all extremists also.:)
A front page vanity?
Wait till the mods see this...
/ducking and running for cover/
I guess it's a matter of perspective. You see this as a death penalty case, I see it as a civil dispute between family members to determine whether the legal guardian has the power to take a certain action.
The only involvement of the government in this case was due to the request of the civil parties.
Really? Make your argument, counselor. Argue a constitutional right to a jury trial in this case.
I'll get popcorn.
You gotta wear shades!
That me too! I keep telling everyone I haven't changed, just about everyone else moved Left.
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