Posted on 07/25/2007 4:17:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
Why, because my mom can’t stand ignorant idiots who have no compassion for their fellow human beings who demand people be forced to stay alive on machines even though they couldn’t survive otherwise? Allowing people who have no chance of recovery, staying alive indefinely only because of machines, to die is compassionate, not murder.
I have noticed a marked decline in society’s morals during my lifetime. I’m not at all surprised that there would be a lack of morals in New Orleans. I was surprised anyone was willing to prosecute. I’m not at all surprised at the grand jury’s decision.
“That is a popular perception, but we really don’t know if it’s accurate.”
Now you’ve just gotten ridiculous. It’s obvious you don’t actually care what the truth is if it doesn’t fit your agenda. A simple search would have told you, had you REALLY wanted to know. Here’s a quote from just one of many articles.
“Dean Morse found that in only 5.15 percent of the cases initiated by the prosecutor in which he expressed an opinion was there a disagreement between the opinion of the prosecutors and the grand jury dispositions.[21] Similarly, the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement concluded:
The grand jury usually degenerates into a rubber stamp wielded by the prosecuting officer according to the dictates of his own sense of propriety and justice. [The grand jury] has ceased to perform or be needed for the function for which it was established. [22]”
http://consumerlawpage.com/article/grand.shtml
Federal juries indict even more often, 99.9 percent of the time.
Measure your statements against a time when Americans held high ideals. When we were sending our sons off to fight against the very practices you’re advocating now. When they cared for their sick and elderly. They could not have imagined that their beloved country would ever become what it is today.
I would have to weigh the facts of the case to make an informed decision, wouldn't I? In this case, from what i know, I don't think I'd indict. Even our resident disgrace, a medical malpractice trial attorney, can't come up with the quote he attributes to the doctor.
BTW, I do not support murder. Tha's a gross mischaracterization to suit your minority agenda.
Fine. You don’t like the word “murder.” You prefer “euthanasia.” But you can’t change the meaning of words just through your wishes.
“You are the first person to say that it was a non-lethal dose.”
This is from an article posted earlier,
“The New Orleans district attorney’s office had argued that Pou and her colleagues killed the patients with a “lethal cocktail” of narcotics and tranquilizers — despite the fact that no toxicology results from the patients’ bodies indicated their deaths had been homicides.”
http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3409526&page=1
You should read the Statement by the founder of Free Republic.
I think the one lesson that nearly all of us can agree on was that Katrina proved beyond any doubt that the New Orleans government is and long has been grotesquely incompetent. I am not surprised that the district attorney there is every bit as worthless as Nagin.
Trying to transfer your childish playing at word games to me just won't work. I have asked you serious questions and you have refused to answer them. I have even answsered some of your insulting implications, and you still will not answer serious questions having to do with the case under discussion and your part in that discussion. You refuse to answer anything. Why?
And I'll bet you won't answer that one either.
I answer most anything that is asked of me in a thoughtful and respectful way. Just what have you asked me that I have not answered? Your posts are so full of screaming invective and hyperbole that if there was a decent question in there, I missed it.
You look foolish mischaracterizing me like that, and are being a liar, toots.
Exactly, and euthenasia does not equate to murder no matter how tightly you clamp your eyes shut and try to will it to. Sorry. You are wrong again.
Except for Oregon, euthanasia DOES EQUATE TO MURDER in the United States. The fact that YOU believe it to be justifiable in certain instances does nothing to change this.
It’s not just justifiable in certain (rare) cases, it’s the most humane thing to do, absolutely undeniably.
There are no legitimate news sources that I can find (and I'm pretty good at Internet research) to indicate she admitted to euthanasia. Even the quote you used said something to the effect of, "Rumors started to spread." Since when does someone get thrown in jail over a rumor?
She was Nifonged and the grand jury in this case figured it out.
By definition, for something to be "undeniable" there needs to be substantial unanimity on the matter. Euthanasia has never had the popular support that the culture of death portrays it to. Many try to equate euthanasia with the right of a person to decide for themselves to refuse treatment, but the two are totally different. This is one reason that the culture of death has tried to introduce new terms such as "mercy killing" and "assisted suicide," but the popular support isn't there.
But none of this even matters, moral issues are about right and wrong; the left has ALWAYS tried to make them about popular opinion, but morality has never changed.
Here is an example of what happens when popular opinion determines morality:
I will chastise him therefore, and release him. Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the feast day. But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: Who, for a certain sedition made in the city, and for a murder, was cast into prison. And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus.
But they cried again, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man done? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore, and let him go. But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified; and their voices prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
-- Luke 23:16-24
You are a very patient man to have gone this long with that type of person!
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