http://oldright.com/cartoons/2005/03/schiavo_18.html
Posted on 05/02/2005 5:06:09 AM PDT by Quaker
Not to mention a full employment plan for the legal profession.
Waiting for Godot?
When I read that, I thought it was either a typo or more likely, a Freudian slip.
How would you like to have this guy represent you? How'd you like to live there knowing guys like this get to be judges? How would you feel if every time you opened the phone book to call a lawyer you talked to someone with about the same emotional and professional development, if not the same ideologies?
An interesting analogy. In reference to my waste of time? However, it does seem appropriate to the endless round of posters and posts without a definite resolution. I do feel like the boy who never remembers the main characters. At my age that isn't surprising. And, as I recall, Becket wasn't particularly fond of any interpretation of the play. But then it's been a long time since I read it or saw a production. And I have to keep working on a report for work tomorrow, so this kind of philosophical discussion will have to wait for another time. Have a good evening.
It is unfortunate that lawyers so often confuse law and justice.
Your friend was lost to the light before the first letter, but you did the right thing to try to open his eyes.
Many Germans went to their end at Nuremberg proclaiming that the law and orders were on their side failing to see that morality was not.
http://oldright.com/cartoons/2005/03/schiavo_18.html
I have to tell you, the distinction between law and morals was articulated very well by another FReeper. I can't recall who or on what thread he said it. But it was an epiphany for me, even though it is obvious.
After reading dozens and dozens of EternalVigilance's postings, I can't for the life of me figure out how you and Central Scrutiniser can claim that ET is lying about anyone or making false accusations. Do y'all have guilty consciences that may be bringing on feelings of self-condemnation? If so, maybe you should see a priest and make a good confession...
NO the Judge didn't do his job. He failed to be an IMPARTIAL arbiter and he disregarded and thwarted the law, including the most revered legal document of all time, the United States Constitution.
You are just too blind to see it. Or maybe it's just your INTENSE dislike for the Religious Right.
boy, you accuse others of name-calling. "talk about the pot call the kettle 'black'". oops! that was name-calling, wasn't it? ;)
you really need to lighten up. But you should understand it's terribly hard for us who want to protect life to fathom that some want to argue in favor of the opposite.
Just noting the name-calling and pinging the one whom you accused of the same...
Men in authority have an even greater obligation to behave morally and responsibly. Thus, when their abuse of power results in the death of an innocent, they should recieve, no less than the death penalty. Unfortunately, in today's America, it will NEVER happen.
It is an OBSCENE NIGHTMARE that this Judge should be so honored and a further indication of what our Justice System has become.
There will be a day when GREER receives his just reward, and I look forward to THAT day.
It would be EXCELLENT if Florida Freepers got together to organize a FREEP of this event. I would suggest they FREEP any event that GREER attends. It is the VERY LEAST he deserves.
On all counts, just like the Liberals, they are guilty of that of which they accuse others.
I used to think that way regarding issues of this caliber. No more. NO WAY would any GOOD and DECENT person cognizant of the facts, be on the side of Michael Schiavo.
Only God knows how such people will ultimately be judged.
Saying people are pro MS or pro Felos, saying people are Nazis, saying people aren't conservatives and aren't pro-life when they have articulated otherwise is a lie.
Got that?
Do y'all have guilty consciences that may be bringing on feelings of self-condemnation?
No. And I'll point out that being accused falsely by others is by definition not "self" condemnation.
If so, maybe you should see a priest and make a good confession...
I suggest you take your own advice.
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." ~Albert Camus
I have not seen but a couple of the Schiavo tapes. But the ones that I saw, were ones that the family claimed showed her responding. Frankly, she did not appear to be as responsive as even a two month old baby, much less a two to four year old.
But the real point of my essay, and the real point that you choose to ignore is that we have a system of local justice in America--one of the principles fought for in the Revolution--and you refuse to accept the result, simply because it doesn't fit your spectator notion of what the result should have been. If you do not see how quickly this type of reasoning leads to absolute anarchy, where no body respects anyone else's legal rights--one of the ideas you claim to agree is important, at least by implication--you are simply too focused on your own immediate perceptions.
Again, I am not going to try to repeat the whole article, endlessly. My essay touches upon many of the things that you express concern over, and tries to put them into a broader context, both legal, historic, cultural and ethical. It won't, I am sure, convince you, when you can redefine words the way that you did at the beginning of your post, but it is at Terry Schiavo.
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