BREAKING: Coalition Calls Upon Bush to Save Schiavo's Life by Using Police Powers

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cfts0323.htm ^

[nicmarlo]

bttt

[shadowman99]

Headline should read: A Newly-formed Small Time PAC Issues a Press Release.

[sarasota]

We are paying the price for liberal judges. Everywhere in America.

[mlc9852]

We are all going to die, but we are all not going to be starved to death.

[Trust but Verify]

It is truly frightening. I have goosebumps. Mob rule, throw out the rule of law.

[Miss Marple]

Good catch. No one can persuade me that this site isn't being invaded by people who want to cause division.

Regardless of which side one falls on this issue, people should realize that words once posted cannot be taken back. I think people are being too emotional about this. In the heat of emotion, it is possible that a solution is being missed. Ranting, raving, insults, and wild acusations doesn't help anyone.

[MikefromOhio]

who happened to fly to Baghdad on Thanksgiving day to be with the troops...

yeah hes gutless...and you are clueless.....

[AMDG&BVMH]

"Why do you think they gave the executive branch police power? To avoid Judicial tryanny. "

You got THAT right! And judicial tyranny is what we have.

[juzcuz]

"What authority do they have?"
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The same Moral authority that was used to save the Iraqi people from insane Hussein.

The same Moral authority they used to send food and water to the Tsunami victims.

The same power's they used to help Florida with Hurricane relief. (I remember seeing pictures of Jeb and George out there with sleaves rolled handing water out to hurricane ravaged citizens).

[KevinDavis]

We all need to calm down and take a deep breath..

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The threat of Executive Nullification of Judicial Edicts is an Essential part of the separation and balance of powers. If Executive enforcement is a mere arm of Judiciary legal fiat, you have the Executive, Legislative and Judicial power invested in one Judicial Oligarchy. That is anathema to anything American.

The Court was envisioned to have the power of persuasion only. But if their pronouncements bind the Congress and President automatically, the need for persuasion is gone. Federalist #78 says the judiciary "depends[s] upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments." But if the President has no choice in the matter, then the Judiciary is in place of and superior to the President and not dependent on anything. Its power as keeper of the Constitution means that Congress too is irrelevant unless it can mount a 2/3 vote, which is historically rare.

We cannot live for decades on end without a President or Congress. Hundreds of bad Court decisions tearing out America's social fabric prove that. The naked abuse of Congress as well as Terri Shiavo make it glaringly visible. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368633/posts

[Trust but Verify]

Some of us may well starve to death, and if we do it will be because we decided that's the way we wanted it. Lacking any evidence to the contrary, this is what Terri wanted.

[righthand man]

bump

[PilloryHillary]

"No one can persuade me that this site isn't being invaded by people who want to cause division.

Regardless of which side one falls on this issue, people should realize that words once posted cannot be taken back. I think people are being too emotional about this. In the heat of emotion, it is possible that a solution is being missed. Ranting, raving, insults, and wild acusations doesn't help anyone."

Ditto Miss Marple!

[Bommer]

Seeing as Clinton used Federal Agents to take Elian Gonzalez into protective custody before sending him back to Cuba, I don't see any reason why they can't use Federal Agents to take Terri into custody to prevent her murder.

That was an abuse of power that had this board in an uprage! Is it OK to use it now?

[malakhi]

OMG. On what basis would either of them do this? What authority do they have? Does anybody understand the danger here?

Don't you know that the abandonment of the rule of law for mob rule and government by fiat is just fine, so long as it is done to advance a social conservative cause? </sarcasm>

The same people who condemned the government over Waco and the handling of the Elian Gonzalez case want the executive branch to exercise the same sort of arbitrary police power here. Because "our guys" are in charge, see, and it is for a cause we support, see.

We have a constitutional, republican form of government, with separation of powers, precisely to avoid this sort of emotionally-driven mob rule. Some, apparently, would prefer a pure democracy with an elected tyrant.

[clee1]

Bush can issue an executive order to do ANYTHING.

The question is whether or not it would be obeyed, and if it were, what the courts would say about it. It would definitely trigger a constitutional crisis.

If his actions were deemed to be illegal, the only redress available would be for the House to impeach him. I don't see that happening in any case.

While I'd do nearly anything to save Terri, is this REALLY what we want to do? The turmoil would be tremendous.

[ContraryMary]

I am all for saving Terri, but this is damn scary. Talk about a slippery slope.

And it was Congress who started it with this law that stands a slim chance of passing constitutional muster.

[DCPatriot]

Actually if we hit the streets like they did in Lebanon we could rescue her.

Go ahead....bring an umbrella if you're coming to Washington today.

[SerpentDove]

"We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling."

Funniest. Tagline. Ever.

(IMHO)