I'm all for saving Terri, but this is not a police state.
"this is not a police state."
sorry -- tell that to Terri's family who are patted down and wanded and have a police officer in the room when they are visiting their daughter to ENFORCE the court's rule that they not help her!
The executive is the branch that controls police -- not the judiciary. Yet the police state IS being contolled by judges in this case.
BUMP!
That bears repeating. BTT
If you don't think this is a police state, go look at the front of the hospice
where there are dozens of cop cars and a line of cops, a van with
vicious dogs and a massive police bus.
Photos availavble at http://lesforlife.blogspot.com
It is the very use of the courts to legalize government ordered murder of innocent citizens and the use of law enforcement to prevent any "interferance" with this government ordered murder that constitutes a police state. Governments (and courts) will abuse their power if allowed to by the people. Look at Nazi Germany -- they legalized everything they wanted to do to the Jews. It is the consensus against such abusive action by Government that gives us protection and we have three branches to protect us from any one getting too far out of line. The courts, like the courts during the slavery era, have abdicated their responsibility to uphold first principles of life and it is now up to the other branches to protect innocent life from the corrupt and out of control judiciary.
Back in the sixties, I was all for the black kids getting past Governor Wallace blocking their way into the school in Alabama, but, of course, it never happened since this is not a police state. In fact, they are still segregated in Alabama aren't they?
Tell it to the Courts!
It's not a "police state," perhaps not officially. But these arrogant judges, armed with police protection, have turned the USA into a "judicial state," which is not that much different from a "police state."