Posted on 03/19/2005 11:30:38 AM PST by Ravi
Just heard on Fox that U.S. Senate will convene today in emergency session regarding Terri Schiavo.
Just common sense, that. Why does the poster following your post not have it in this matter?
If that's true, it was only to beef up his law suit and the potential money awarded.
"You are welcome to worship at the altar of the Judges. But some laws belong on the trash heap."
... and what laws might that be ?
- the ones that allow a spouse to make life and death decisions ? -
- or the ones that turn those decisions over to the judges ?
" executive power and issue an order halt "
What "executive power" to stop this.
This is a democracy, not an monarchy.
*ERGO: this is no "executive power(s)" possible in a republic/democracy, right??? So, there is no such precept as "balance of powers" - right? The elected chief executive - the president - is a powerless figurehead, right? The executive power of the president to "veto" a bill is a myth, right? Only inherited/appointed heads of "monarchies" have executive powers, that is, by "divine right endowed with (absolute) power", right? I have a different understanding of America's founding precepts for governance. My misunderstanding must be due to the proverbial generational gap. Perhaps, I need to confer with the ACLU...
In this case, the spouse remained a spouse to keep the house. (That is in Terri's name, and to get $$$$.) If the husband in name only divorced her he would have received nothing. The judge took a technicality and used it to support his own agenda.
It's possible. At this point, it's the MRI is intended to hold the killers at bay.
Trustworthy doctors, unbiased doctors, would be the key---I'd need lots of trustworthy advice.
"The judge took a technicality ....."
LOL-
" Hey baby... how about it ?
... but I'm married !
No problem, Boardwark considers that just a technicality..."
Who do you think should get his money if he gets hit by a truck, the girlfriend ?
No. There is also nothing in this that would end the practice. Terri's death sentence is based on hearsay, not a written document.
Good grief.
I just realized I've been spelling hearsay as "heresay" all day. Sheesh.
You do NOT want my cold.
*Well, don't OD on Vitamin C yet! I've seen it spelled both ways. In my legal speller, it's spelled "hear-say." Black's legal dictionary shows "hearsay".
There is logic behind both "heresay" & "hearsay" spellings, IMO. E.g., "Here I say I heard it said..." Yeah? :0
Prayers for Terri.
I suppose Dr. Hammesfahr was lieing or simply incompetant when he swore a deposition stating the MRI scans had been misrepresented ?
http://www.terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahr%20Aff%20060101.pdf
What's your specific reason? I believe she has some sort of device implanted.
It's definitely "hearsay," but I appreciate the effort.
What we have here is a judge deciding arbitrarily who is fit to live. How do you know there isn't a judge somewhere who will decide that the quality of living for people in wheelchairs is not good enough and they should be starved to death, as in right now?
Expatguy put it very well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366010/posts?page=235#235
"Why are doctors even involved? I mean so what if she is brain-damaged or brain-dead? The judge has no right.
Is it within the power of the judge to order someone killed who has not commited a crime?
THINK!
This is nothing to do with Terri's medical condition. It is about judicial tyranny.
235 posted on 03/20/2005 12:40:25 AM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/) "
I find the scientology connections to this case chilling indeed.
This is hatred for disabled people, pure and simple.
SILENCE!!
I am your Overlord the Omnipotent Judge Greer!!
Do not mock me or question my authority or I will issue a "court order" having all Florida FReepers deported to the island of Los Muertos where they will be eaten by velociraptors!!!
*snickers as half of the Florida FReepers go into hiding*
"Nobody can answer that. plus, it is not material to this."
(your comment on the question of "where" Terri's soul is)
Actually, a careful study of the case reveals that it IS a material issue, in the sense that many of the parties involved consider it so.
On the one hand, you have a euthanasia enthusiast such as Felos, who believes that he can read the souls of patients in persistent vegetative states (just look at his book "Litigation in Spiritual Practice"), and that they tell him they want to be "freed" from their "prison".
It has also been extensively documented here and elsewhere the connections that Scientology has to this case. Scientologists believe that a person such as Terri is in a "prison" and is not worthy to be kept alive. They also believe the human body is merely a "shell" for a spiritual essence.
On the other hand, you have Terri Schindler-Schiavo, a practicing Catholic before her "collapse". The Catholic Church condemns what is being done to Terri. The Church believes that a human being is a person, body and soul, who is created in the image and likeness of God.
The body is not merely a "shell", but an essential part of who we are.
At death, the soul is separated from the body for a time, but both body and soul will be reunited at the final Resurrection, and the person will live forever with a glorified body.
My point is, that beliefs about the nature of the soul are at the very heart of the various parties' behavior in this case.
She can't have an MRI. Do you even read posts other than the ones you write?
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