Posted on 03/26/2005 3:34:39 PM PST by thompson
Easter 2005
How ironic that on this day recognizing the resurrection, our country, which was founded on the principles of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, a woman may die because this same government 229 years later has ordered her to suffer a slow and painful death. Worse, no one in our nation of cowards in government has the testicular fortitude to do the right thing and instead play political football with an innocent and helpless woman’s life.
I can’t help but think now, especially given the Florida governor’s actions in asking the court’s permission to take Terri Schiavo into protective custody, rather then just doing it like any department of Health & Human services would normally do, there must be some sort of political motivation. You see for years we have been hearing about judicial tyranny, judges making laws, and how all that is wrong. While that is true, it is only because the other separate but equal branches of our government, and we the people, have been dumbed down to the point where we find it acceptable to allow it. If politicians like Florida’s governor, and perhaps even the President, think that somehow this will be the light that will finally expose the situation for what it is, I’d like to point out that is what indeed they have done. In the process they have also changed the course of history and created the turning point for the demise of our nation. Their failure to exercise their constitutional duty to save this innocent and helpless woman from a horrible and slow death shows just how little they truly understand our system of government, and exposes the fact that they are simple political cronies without courage or convictions.
I have followed this story for several years now and at this point I refuse to debate idiotic morons who want to argue why this woman has a right to die or that somehow we are simply honoring her wishes. For you to argue that you must be either naive or evil, and I have lost the patience to deal with either. For anyone to make these claims you must either be uninformed, or you have no comprehension or belief in the sanctity of life.
I refuse to argue about how the judges have taken control of our country because that is only due to our ignorance in electing weak and ineffective politicians who are also either naive or evil. I refuse to argue about how the cause of this situation is our legal system, advances in medical science, improper legal planning on the part of the victim, lack of appropriate laws or legislation, or any other idiotic or pinheaded problem plaguing our nation today. I refuse to even entertain the notion that this is why we need ‘death with dignity’ procedures by which we allow people to kill other human beings based on quality of life issues. If you wish to argue that I need to know on what authority anyone on earth is to decide what determines the quality of life. For you to even consider that you must be naïve or evil, after all in Nazi Germany whether people lived or died was based on what another human being decided was the standard for the quality of life. Are we now in this country going to allow a person’s life to be contingent on the findings of people who, interestingly enough also wear black outfits, decide another person’s quality of life?
For those of you who are naive, you will get what you deserve. Unfortunately your ignorance will also affect the lives of many others including people like Terri Schiavo. You simply can not have a free society and expect to have laws governing every aspect of life. Our founding fathers knew that a free society could not be governed solely by laws, but by a belief in a higher power and the concept of having a moral compass. If you are one who falls into the naive category it’s all there in the founding documents, assuming you can still read and are not too busy and comfortable with being an idiot. For those of you who are evil you will someday be overcome. Further, you will someday have to answer for your crimes, even if not while on this earth.
I will gather with my family on Easter, we will eat, drink, and I will try to be merry. Terri Schiavo will die, perhaps on this same day, after succumbing to a slow and painful suffering due to the deprivation of food or water. This will be caused because our elected and appointed leaders lack the kind of principals and fortitude that empowered brave men and women to create this once great nation. I will think of her on this day, and from this day forward I will remember Easter 2005 as the day our nation turned the corner from Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, towards Death, Tyranny, and the Pursuit of Evil.
Thomas Jefferson once said, “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."
I indeed tremble for my country, because I believe his justice can not sleep forever. Oh, and for the naïve out there, there is this nice quote from Benjamin Franklin: "A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
Thompson
http://www.terrisfight.net/
This past week, Judge Greer parted ways with his Southern Baptist church, which had advocated keeping Terri Schiavo alive, after his pastor suggested it would be better if he left.
"You must know that in all likelihood it is this case which will define your career and this case that you will remember in the waning days of life," Calvary Baptist Pastor William Rice wrote to Greer in a letter than later became public. "I hope you can find a way to side with the angels and become an answer to the prayers of thousands.
Even his church has had enough of Judge Greer.
The State of Florida was founded 229 years ago?
Do not give up the faith thompson He rose on this day to bring hope to all!
... attempted to influence a sitting judge in deciding the outcome of a case.
I share your thoughts.
Being starved to death is about as demeaning a way to die as there is. Suffocation, a shot to the head, a lethal injection are arguably more humane.
If someone wants to be starved to death, they should be required to put it in writing.
The law allowing Terri to be put to death on her alleged verbal wishes was not passed until after she sustained brain damage.
That alone should preclude this barbaric form of execution.
It is murder, plain and simple.
Southern Baptists have a longer history of being explicitly anti-euthanasia by starvation and dehydration. To their credit they had the foresight for drawing public attention to the issue of euthanasia as early as 1992, with their opposition to “efforts to designate food and water as ‘extraordinary treatment,’ and urge that nutrition and hydration continue to be viewed as compassionate and ordinary medical care and humane treatment.
Has it come to this - that American citizens have become no more than puppets of the state? - that fear of our own laws incites us to inaction?
Fear of judicial "interpretation" of our laws incites us to inaction.
Sadly, you are correct.
Add to that, that the judge ordered not only pulled her feeding tube, but also that no one could try to give her water by mouth.
Which turns Judge Greer's order into one of assisted suicide, a crime punishable as manslaughter under Florida law, I believe.
The right to die law allows disconnection of a feeding tube, not being deprived of food and water by mouth.
That part of the order should subject Judge Greer to criminal prosecution.
Also, the use of the term “vegetable” on a human being, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is and always will be a human being, and he will never become a ‘vegetable’ or an ‘animal.’ Removing her nutrition and hydration without any consideration for her religious beliefs is, a denial of her religious liberty and her right to freely practice her religious beliefs.
It should, and is blatant, but even his buddy in the federal court decided that the state wasn't involved in her death.
It's maddening.
We were discussing that last night. It allows people to start seeing these disabled people as subhuman. If they aren't human, then killing them is easy.
I don't care what the mental capacity, or lack thereof, of a human being is, they are still a human being.
The order to disconnect the feeding tube and the order to not feed or give her water by mouth came from death Judge Greer, and everyone knows it.
It does not matter at whose behest it is done.
The appellate courts are comprised of fecal matter excrement judges more interested in protecting their power and the legal edifice of fecal matter they have constructed under the guise of interpreting our laws.
It's beyond maddening, it's an abomination.
Remember the politicians and judges this Easter. They will all be enjoying their Easter dinners while Terri is starving to death and bleeding from her eyes and mouth.
It is obvious, especially after listening to Felos' description of Terri, that he thinks he is God's agent. This, after all, has become his life's work - to assist those he has condemned simply so he can be part of the process. It is an obsession and I say Felos is missing a few screws.
He is also a misogynist, if you read his book.
His wife divorced him because he is ugly. He lost it after that.
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