Posted on 03/24/2005 3:26:10 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past
Please remember they are both politicians and as such not a lot should be expected of them in the way of strong moral leadership. (Yes, I know there are exceptions.)
I am none the less amazed at the venom and sarcasm, as well as out right falsehoods, that people (shall we mention names?)will peddle in order to support this atrocity.
But to get back to important matters, what can we do to get the politicians to act on this now? This refusal to let her take food and water naturally cannot be legal. I defy anyone to point to any legal authroity for a judge to order this. He is getting away with it because our politicians will not call him on it. On another thread a person mentioned that since she is swallowing her own saliva she might very well be able to take water and maybe even dilute food. A thread with an editorial in the weekly standard by a Harvard Psychiatrist said there is no legal, medical or ethical reason not to give her a chance to take food and water. No reason unless you are determined that she die even if she could sustain her own life, that is.
Please, are you listening Jeb or George Bush? Take her out of that facility and let someone give her water -- NOW!
I have been reading his articles and books for years, one of the smartest men of the last three generations if not the smartest, IMHO.
You should read his book "Liberty or Equality".
They would have to kill me, ever seem a mad Mama with a back up of a bunch of redneck relatives who don't beleive in gun control?
Anybody seen winston?
Not since he got spanked
I thought that myself until just yesterday. But I'm beginning to think they could have done more. One Bush is President, the other Bush is Governor. With the best team of lawyers, they couldn't come up with a solution for this, a rescue for Terri?
Something is very wrong when a President and a Governor can't outwit a swamp judge (as Savage calls him). I think they're more interested in giving the appearance of helping, rather than actually rescuing her. They could have called in the National Guard (or whatever) to get her out of there - career be damned!
I still don't understand the purpose of starving Terri? If they wanted to terminate her life, why didn't they do it humanely, with an injection? Even Kevorkian killed humanely. Why starve her to death? It's barbaric.
Perhaps. But we can strengthen it by taking out some of his arguments. He ought to make his case without arguing the facts as decided by the court. The argument fails when relying on contrary evidence. Too much argument has been wasted to trying to refute the facts as decided by the court. To win it, you have to argue the law.
The court already decided the facts. It's too late to change that.
IMHO, The Lord is using Terri to clearly illuminate the moral choices before this generation. Please see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1369009/posts
which is a prayer written by a friend. He says it better than I can.
Agree, totally........as a mother.
Feeding someone is an experimental procedure? For the love of God! Is there no end to the pretzel logic this clown will employ to kill Terri? I can't believe this is happening in America.
Santorum, DeLay et al tried to do that.
But if they had insisted on keeping that provision in the bill, the Death-o-crats were not going to let it pass. Who are the principal villains? Levin (Michigan), Boxer.
And how about "Lebensunwertes Leben" ?
The Death-o-crats use that phrase all the time now, except of course in translation. Their English version is "no quality of life."
Bump...thanks for the truth.
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