In his strongest comments yet on the Terri Schiavo case, actor Mel Gibson calls her killing "nothing more than state sanctioned murder.” Posted on 03/31/2005 12:00:48 AM PST by M. Espinola
In his strongest comments yet on the Terri Schiavo case, actor Mel Gibson calls her killing "nothing more than state sanctioned murder.”
The actor and director spoke out Wednesday night in a telephone interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
"I heard their cry for help,” Gibson explained his public comments. Gibson insisted that Terri Schiavo is not in a vegetative state.
Gibson said he decided to take a public stand because "it is completely wrong to deprive this poor woman from food and water.”
He added that the court ordered method of killing – depriving her of basic sustenance -- "is a prolonged and cruel execution.”
Gibson said he is closely following the case and is astounded by the developments.
"I just sit here watching this whole scenario play out in front of me with my mouth wide open, that our country has come to this,” he said, adding, "I think it’s a really black day.”
The actor offered little hope for Terri Schiavo at this point, describing the appeals as "a little too little too late.”
"It’s nothing more than state sanctioned murder,” Gibson continued.
He was also disturbed that a local Florida judge was given the unquestioned power to sentence Schiavo to death.
"All the big guys, they’ve got their hands tied by some tin-horned judge down there,” he said. "Common, when they want to whip a judge they got no problem getting Judge Moore in a heart beat.”
"It’s so wrong and I watch it, appalled and stunned, that we have gotten to this.”
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He's a local judge, elected and not appointed. The people of Pinellas County elected him and I think Pinellas county went Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004.
But you go ahead with your knee jerk and blame Jeb, when it has been proven that he has tried to do everything within the law to help Terri.
Thomas Moore Law Center.
I don't know, but you might look into the Pew Foundation and the other foundations recently revealed to be behind the "push" for CFR.
I guess Jeb should have gone the hillary route and not have said a word.
Then he wouldn't have the animus of you, IMO.
They are federally funded, donations, and of cousre settlements from law suits.
The ACLU also gets a lot money from people like hillary good friend and bush basher george soros.
BTW, jpsb, where has your hero Steve Forbes been on Terri's plight?
Notice who is not supporting Terri, the radical NOW womens lib types...not a word, not one.
The ultra-leftist NOW bunch would never support the right to life, since they ghoulishly champion 'Abortion Murder Inc', which is an intricate money making component of today's eugenicist's empire for the global death dispensing machine.
That would have been better, then turning this into a national right to life fight and losing. Terri is not the only Terri dying or about to die in the USA. Jeb picked this fight, made it a national fight and then walked away when things got real hot. Not a sterling performance.
http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/News-About-Us/Anti-cohabitation.htm
Florida Statutes - Chapter 798
798.01 Living in open adultery.--Whoever lives in an open state of adultery shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. Where either of the parties living in an open state of adultery is married, both parties so living shall be deemed to be guilty of the offense provided for in this section.
The Germans did "scientific" work in WWll to see what would hhappen when people were starved to death. Now 60 years later it is happening in the USA.
I notice they are feeding the Pope via tube.
Terri did nothing bad to deserve this fate other than marry the wrong person.
Marriage in the future could be harmful to life now that the guvment has performed starvation death.
"Last night I caught part of Hannity and Colmes with Catherine Crier and that gentleman lawyer or judge who cowrote their current bestseller. She went ballistic in defense of Schiavo and activist judges. Her coauthor...a sensible man, articulate, made her look like a fool. Crier doesn't care how or why Terri got in this state. All she cares about is preserving judicial power over the other branches of govt. The heck with checks and balances."
Make no mistake about it..Once many people gain visibility through their profession, they will condone anything to keep that dominance. Sounds like Catherine Crier is one of those. Remember the story of the frog being boiled in the water without even knowing it??
Prosecutorial discretion. The laws against adultery and lewd and lacscivious behavior are "dead letter" so far as practical effect goes.
This Judge Greer is some character!
Actually you're wrong. This case will have reverberations for years to come. The pro-death crowd wished that this would be hush hush.
People will digest this for years to come and people IMO, will not like what they see in the pro-death crowd the more they see.
IMO, those who ardently paint this a a legislative failure are enaging in misdirection.
Doing his day job, like all the other private citizens in the country. But I am certain that were Forbes president Terri woud not be starved to death by a two bit rouge court.
Talk is cheap and you are a big spender in that dept.
Greer is part of, sold out to the corrupt Florida system of bribed 'justice'. At this moment the tyrannical Greer is drunk with absolute judicial power.
Read the fate of Nazi 'judge' Roland Freisler
Talk about precisely timed reciprocity!
I have an idea for cutting government spending. Send everybody in the executive and legislature back home.
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