Posted on 02/14/2016 5:24:22 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
WASHINGTON – The seemingly quick conclusion that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of “natural causes†this weekend is prompting calls for an autopsy and toxicological reports by activists and across social media platforms.
William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee, noted the media’s “rush†to proclaim Scalia’s death in a rented room in a resort in Texas as either “natural causes†or heart attack within hours of the discovery of his body.
“Anytime a head of state, member of Congress, or the most conservative member of the U.S. Supreme Court is found dead, an extensive autopsy and toxicology examination should be both immediate and mandatory,†said Gheen. “The horrid reaction and comments about his death expressed by many liberals online illustrate that Scalia was hated by many people. His death hands the power of the Supreme Court to the modern left for the first time in American history. The court can now vote, even without a replacement of Scalia, to radically change the United States of America. Scalia’s death means the Supreme Court is now very likely to rubber stamp Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty orders, tear down Republican drawn districts in many states including North Carolina, and take deep left turns on abortion, gun rights, or anything the liberals have ever dreamed of. Scalia was a solid vote against Obama’s immigration orders to be decided by April of this year. We do not contend there is a conspiracy, we contend that there should be no doubts, and the way authorities and the media are rushing conclusions will leave major doubts and legitimate concerns about a death that could lead to a radical political transformation of America to the left.â€
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No it is not
Grow up
Here you go:
DEATHS CERTIFIED BY THE MEDICAL EXAMINER OR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Notify the medical examiner or justice of the peace for an investigation or inquest and cause of death certification if law enforcement or someone else has not already done so if any of the following circumstances exist [HSC 193.005, CCP Art. 49.04, CCP Art. 49.25 Sec. 6]:
• A body was found and the cause and circumstances of the death are unknown.
• The death is believed to be an unnatural death from a cause other than a legal execution (accident, suicide, or homicide).
• The death occurred in prison or in jail.
• The death occurred within 24 hours of admission to a hospital (refer to a medical examiner only CCP Art. 49.25 Sec. 6 (1) ).
• The death occurred without medical attendance.
• The physician is unable or unwilling to certify the cause of death.
• The deceased is under six (6) years of age.
The person conducting an inquest shall complete the medical certification not later than five (5) days after receiving the certificate and submit the record electronically [HSC 193.005]. The disease or condition(s) that initiated the events leading to death should be indicated on the medical certification. If the death was from external causes, state the means of death and whether the death was accident, suicide, or homicide. Complete other information as needed to properly classify the death [HSC 193.005(e)].
Go back to sleep, buttercup.
The Dem judge that said no autopsy called his doctor, was informed that he had just had an MRI for a shoulder injury so she felt comfortable calling the death a heart attack? WTH?
Oh, and he had a pillow laying over his face when found.
As another freeper pointed out, he doesn’t need a new justice appointed, to be able to undo America by judicial fiat. Scalia was one of 4 conservative justices, there are 4 liberal justices, and there’s one who sometimes goes conservative and sometimes goes liberal. With Scalia gone, the MOST conservative votes there can be is 4, and that’s only enough to tie the 4 liberal votes. To overturn a lower court’s ruling you have to have a MAJORITY, not a tie.
IOW, the 9th Circus can do whatever “fundamental transformation” they want, and there will be no SCOTUS to overturn them. Right now.
My response also. The judge wasn’t using HIPAA to claim she couldn’t talk about the shoulder MRI, and if the doctor had said anything about dangerous pre-existing conditions this would have been the time to say so (yet she didn’t). That sounds like the OPPOSITE of the doctor saying there were pre-existing conditions that explained the death.
WorldNetDaily isn’t perfect, but it gets skewered by the left for its “bias” while CBS, NBC, CNN, the New York Times invent things every minute in order to mislead and misinform the public, but the left doesn’t notice that.
I remember in the early 2000’s, when I was a Democrat and liberal Christian who hadn’t read the Bible, that some of the stories I came across on WorldNetDaily caught my attention as a Christian seeking to follow Christ.
And on this Scalia matter, why shouldn’t people be suspicious about it?
“Ordinary” people kill spouses who get in their way every day. And in all of human history, we continuously see people either openly assassinating powerful people, or plotting to do so in secret. Just the Bible alone records quite a few of these types of plots.
We also seem to take it as an unremarkable fact of life when it reportedly happens in other countries.
As one of the judges giving conservatives a 5-4 majority, Scalia held enormous power. And the timing of his death, and the suddenness of it, even at 79, should rightfully raise questions.
It’s appalling that there would even be an argument that because someone is 79, their death must be due to natural causes and can’t be murder. Older people can hold tremendous power, given people reason to kill them, but because they’re older, the younger are less likely to value their lives, so it’s easier to shrug off their deaths and assume the death was natural.
I’m sure, though, that if the situation was reversed, including with the left facing the loss of a 5-4 court majority, prominent liberals and quite possibly even some Democratic politicians would be calling for an autopsy.
And given Scalia’s powerful position, power he exercised over the people, and which he voluntarily undertook and kept while he might have retired, there is an overriding public interest to conduct an autopsy.
No it is not
Grow up
Check out the headline on Drudge, FRiend:
SCALIA FOUND DEAD WITH “PILLOW OVER HEAD”
UPDATE: ‘It wasn’t a heart attack’...
Now that the suspicions are rampant, and it is too late to do an autopsy which could have laid things to rest.
“IOW, the 9th Circus can do whatever “fundamental transformation†they want, and there will be no SCOTUS to overturn them. Right now.”
But it would not be considered a Supreme Court precedent meaning other courts outside the 9th District would not be bound by the decision.
** an extensive autopsy and toxicology examination should be both immediate and mandatory**
Amen!
The conflicting reports are what is making the circumstances questionable. I guess it would be up to his family or investigators to pursue that. May Justice Scalia Rest in Peace.
The suspicions of ordinary people are not indications for doing autopsies.
What's needed is either the permission of the family or, barring that, a legitimate forensic reason for doing it. Those reasons are spelled out in Texas law and public suspicion is not one of them.
Faith, take a look at #62. Thanks.
Why would they not want us to know whether he had blockages? If it was a heart attack from natural causes the evidence should be right there.
With Breitbart I think they found one artery that had 40% blockage, and that was pretty much it, IIRC. Didn’t have the “widow maker” physiology that most often causes sudden, unexpected death. He hadn’t seen a doctor within the previous year and he had no prescription or street drugs in his system, which doesn’t seem like somebody who was being treated for an urgent heart problem...They didn’t bother to look for a tiny dart-entry hole in his body.
So the autopsy raised questions. As did the acute arsenic poisoning death of one of the technicians at the coroner’s office shortly before the autopsy result came out - which should have been easy to prevent and to find the source of the arsenic but the LAPD lied about the death rather than genuinely investigating it...
Sometimes an autopsy is not wanted because it would raise even more suspicions. If there was a “natural” heart attack, then the physiology of the autopsy would substantiate the pre-existing condition that caused the heart attack. And that would go a long way toward dispelling the suspicions. Any judge would know that. So what is this gal’s problem?
Do you agree with this assessment - that if the 9th Circus ruled to “fundamentally transform” the US and SCOTUS couldn’t overturn the decision because there are at best only 4 votes to oppose the 4 liberal justices’ votes, the SCOTUS failure to overturn the decision would not be a SCOTUS precedent and thus only the 9th Circus would cease to live under the 2nd Amendment (for instance)?
We have a lot in common then, I’m the last in my family too. Thankfully, I have two sons, and have my brother’s family: my sister-in-law, my niece, her husband, and their four kids. We keep in touch, and visit each other regularly.
Okay, this has been on my mind since yesterday, and I just have to let it out.
Yeah, a conspiracy theory coming up...
Obama is on his last year, and he needs something big for his ‘legacy’, and transforming the country was/is his biggest goal, and, what could be bigger than getting another liberal appointed to the SCOTUS. That would make transform SCOTUS to being liberal for a long time. Republicans might be able to undo Obamacare, but, undoing the makeup of the supreme court could take a generation or more.
So, was Scalia taken out in order to give Obama one last chance? Did somebody put something in his drink or food?
As we all know, to socialists and liberals and progressives, the end justifies the means; iow, progressives will do whatever it takes to get their way.
I hate conspiracy theories, and I hope I’m wrong, but, the thought did enter my mind.
Actually, they can be.
And Justice Scalia himself wasn’t an ordinary person. He and his family accepted that.
I also took a look at post #62 and even by that see reasons for an autopsy to be done. One being that the reason for his death wasn’t obvious. That’s especially true because the question “why would anyone want to kill HIM?” isn’t just rhetorical.
Not so. When a body is found dead, it is up to the authorities whether or not to do an autopsy. An INQUEST is mandatory.
They could have done an autopsy, no questions asked. They chose not to, even though the guy had a pillow over his head when he was found. In addition, they rushed to embalm his body even when public questions were swirling.
An interesting point in one of the articles was that his son was supposed to be there for this outing but was called away for “unexpected reasons”. I’d love to know those reasons, and whether they had anything to do with the family going along with what they knew would raise questions the suspicions of the general public.
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