Judicial comment sets Crist apart

St. Petersburg Times ^ | July 31, 2005 | STEVE BOUSQUET

[Lancelot Jones]

Far be it for me to disagree with the illustrious Mr. Buckley, but the Elian Gonzalez analogy does not apply here.

In the case of the young Mr. Gonzalez, existing laws which would have surely given him a fighting chance at remaining in the U.S., were abrogated by force of government; all that the free Elian supporters wanted was a fair day in the State family Court, then a fair day in the Federal Court, but the forceful transfer of custody via the infamous raid decided the question of custody via the use of force, and without a paternity test.

The law was ignored by the Clinton Administration.

In another case, the Lawrence v. Texas case, the outcome of which effectively negated all sodomy laws in the United States, conservatives cried judicial activism when the Court struck down a duly enacted law down based on how they "felt" about the issue of same-sex sodomy, and conservatives were right.

In the case of Bush-Gore, conservatives/Republicans argued that the rule of law was more important that determining the intent of each and every voter, and that the elections needed to be certified according to existing State law. The Supreme Court agreed, and they were right in doing so.

As a movement, conservatives in general, and Republicans specifically, cannot argue on this subject out of both sides of the mouth, and they certainly cannot demand that Courts rule in some cases according to how they "feel" about the particular issue, rather than how existing law applies to it, while demanding that the rule of law be upheld when the outcome favors their opinion of the case.

That would make them no different than liberals and Democrats.

Beauseant!

[8mmMauser]

It's about Crist, but I am reminded of what happens to handicapped people in prominent families of our "leaders". I was reflecting on poor Terri as I came across this item in another thread about Mary Jo.

This is about how mildly retarded Rosemary was made into a "PVS" by the wonderful Kennedy family.

Rosemary Kennedy

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[T'wit]

>> Does this young woman look retarded to you?

Brain dead. Nobody "in there." Flat EEG, heart attack, all the usual. A tragedy for everyone on both sides of the issue, but the patient must be put to death.

[T'wit]

Another bioethics "hard case"

This young woman went out with a lowlife and ended up brain dead in suspicious circumstances. Hypoxia/anoxia leading to cardiorespiratory arrest. Flat EEG and all that. The coroner ruled it "accidental" so no charges were brought against her killer.

[8mmMauser]

Ahhhhh...those compassionate Kennedy's. Their methods are so......direct.....

Freeman and his associate drilled a hole in her skull and inserted a sort of spatula into her brain and began digging. They asked her to sing simple songs and perform basic addition and subtraction. As long as she could recite the doggerel, and handle third-grade arithmetic, they kept digging. Finally, though, Rosemary Kennedy fell silent, and the operation was over.

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[8mmMauser]

Teddy Bare

[T'wit]

Unsolved brain deaths reported in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Lizzie Borden's father was struck forty-one times times by an axe in an unfortunate hunting accident. Her stepmother was struck forty times. In both cases, cardiac arrest, flat EEG, all that stuff. You know, houseplants. We asked eminent bioethicist Dr. Ronald McDonald Cranford what he thought about the 79 axe blows after the first axe blows. He said, "You can't be too careful with PVS patients."

[8mmMauser]

Borden, Freeman, Felos, pioneers all....

[T'wit]

Historic rugby helmet may have prevented brain death in at least some unexplained collapses and unfortunate hunting accidents. Unfortunately, Fall River brain death victims were not wearing their helmets at the time the time they suffered their mysterious brain cessations.

Obviously, bioethicists don't want people wearing these things. Dries up their business.

[floriduh voter]

Ping. Meekie, can you ping your Fla list for me? This is the Terri August 2005 Daily Thread. They can return if they want throughout the month. No pressure here. Thanks, FV

[floriduh voter]

Welcome to the August Terri Dailies Thread.

Charlie Crist's remarks are developing into his worst campaign nightmare.

Other breaking news re: justice for Terri and the fight against forced exit here will be added throughout August and feel free to help us.

Fregards, FV

[tutstar]

I've been so busy lately!

A few weeks ago the pubs in Sen King's district got a color mailer paid for by the Republican Party to remind us of the tax break week for back to school items.

Did anyone else receive one of these from their Senator?
I'm wondering....

[T'wit]

Breaking news: possible bioethics case reported. This houseplant has a flat EEG and all that stuff and is in a persistent vegetative state from bulimia, a "thud," iced tea and failure to wear her steel rugby helmet. Fortunately she feels no pain. It's past time for her to go to a More Beautiful Place and we don't mean Pinellas County.

[T'wit]

Aye aye, suh. Time to get back to business. I'll stop having fun now :-)

[8mmMauser]

Close out pinged from

July Terri Dailies thread

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[STARWISE]

What a stunning and revealing remark by Crist ... he has now stamped himself with an unforgettable remark and mark. Quite an uphill fight he has.

[amdgmary]

TEJ has an editorial on Charlie Crist

[8mmMauser]

Sounds like Crist has a little problem of credibility on his hands.

Gary Cass, executive director of the Center for Reclaiming America, says that “Judge Greer is a poster child for everything that’s wrong with the judiciary. For Charlie Crist to hold that up as an example of good judicial practice concerns me. I think it was a mistake for Charlie to say that. I don’t know how anybody can be happy about a woman being deprived food and water”.

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[pickyourpoison]

"I always do insert the word "fishwrap"

I'm in Polk County, and when the Lakeland Ledger contacts me I tell them the same thing...liberal fishwrapper

[floriduh voter]

Thanks! I hope TEJ socked it to Crist.