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To: chimera
You have simply begged every question in the case. The Court heard your position advocated by skilled lawyers. It simply did not accept their arguments. Its holding against those arguments was upheld, repeatedly, on appeal. You may disagree, but you have no right to overthrow the system--or suggest overthrowing the system--because you do not like the result in an individual case.

When you were in school, did you disrupt the class, if you didn't like the grade a teacher gave you?

477 posted on 05/03/2005 11:05:26 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan
You have simply begged every question in the case.

I am not begging any question. I am asking a simple question. Does a person by virtue of their physical condition have their right to live fall into the hands of another to decide, absent any conviction of a capital offense? Does a disabled person, one incapable of making intentions known, have unalienable rights? Does the concept of unalienable rights still apply in this country? Seems to me the Founders considered those important, since they are mentioned in one of our important founding documents. Last I checked, unalienable (inalienable) meant "incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred". If we make the right to continue living subject to the decision of another, the concept of unalienable rights is swept away.

The Court heard your position advocated by skilled lawyers. It simply did not accept their arguments. Its holding against those arguments was upheld, repeatedly, on appeal.

Then the Court failed to uphold one of the founding principles of justice in this country. Could that be a reason why many here are concerned about it?

You may disagree, but you have no right to overthrow the system--or suggest overthrowing the system--because you do not like the result in an individual case.

I, and Thomas Jefferson, disagree with you on this point.

"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."

If indeed the courts are in the process of eroding and abolishing the concept of unalienable Rights, then the Republic no longer functions in the manner envisioned by the Founders. And, if so, there is no need for me or anyone here to advocate or engage in any attempt to "overthrow the system", because it has already fallen.

486 posted on 05/03/2005 11:26:45 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Ohioan

In reading your posts, you keep on talking about posters "overthrowing the system". No one is overthrowing anything. And, you are doing the very same thing with your abortion agenda. Are you overthrowing the government that allows abortion?


601 posted on 05/03/2005 4:46:25 PM PDT by ClancyJ (Florida Motto: Send me your weak, frail, elderly - and we will give them 'rest'".)
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