03-23-2005, 05:37 PM | #101 |
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Here are the latest updates, as far as I can tell:
Court Rejects Schaivo Parents' Request In short, the full panel of the 11th District Court ruled 10-2 against reinstating the feeding tube. The protesters have gotten a little more rowdy are are even allowing their children, one as young as the age of 10, to be arrested in acts of civil disobedience. However, Governor Bush and the Florida Legislature are trying to now claim, through the Florida Dept. of Adult Services, that Terri has suffered "abuse" and are attempting to pass a law that will remove Michael as her legal guardian and place her directly under the care of the State. [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] Ingenious! Underhanded, but ingenious. Jeb Bush Renews Call to Help Schiavo Since the District Court appeal has failed, the Shindlers are indeed going to the Supreme Court, as I have stated they would. If the Court hears the case, they will most likely uphold the findings of the lower Federal Courts, in which case all court appeals will have been exhausted. Strangely enough, we are only now hearing from the ACLU; Mr. Simon, an attorney from the ACUL, is stating the need for living wills to make sure politicians do not determine your final fate. I don't think anyone, regardless of philosophical/religious belief, would want a panel of politicians deciding what happens to us. How many failed appeals will it take until the Schindlers and their supporters realize that the Courts have found that Terri's rights have been given due process and protected? I suppose it will take one more--from the Supreme Court. I still suspect Jeb of preparing either APS or the National Guard in Florida to forcibly remove Terri and place her in "protective custody", subsequnetly restoring her feeding tube. That would be an extremely dangerous precedent, something on par with the evil that is the Patriot Act.
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Your post, glossed by a careless reader, is precisely how these myths are perpetuated. RevRuby - I'm not wasting my virtual breath arguing with you. Suffice to say the assertion that I find my own country "the best" is so completely ill-founded, ignorant and laughable that I don't even NEED to bother with it. The same goes for your tired old bleating about Anti-Americanism. Timber, I'd actually put my cards on you in an all-out wrestling match with Johnny. Any other type of match too, in fact. After all, YOU have legalised guns whereas we have only legalised weed (bleary eyes and mellow mood doesn't exactly help in battle) and maybe some dead babies to chuck at you. The only possibility would be a beer-drinking contest - naturally, American beer is nasty (oooh, how anti-American!). Anyway, I'm rooting for you - go whup our leftie blahblahblah asses. We're all citizens of the world anyway. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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03-23-2005, 07:23 PM | #103 |
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Oh... how lovely.
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I HIGHLY doubt that would happen, but, it is possible.
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Of course it could happen here, given the right circumstances. Especially these days, when I could be taken away as a suspected terrorist for no reason and denied legal counsel or due process. It has happened here. [img]graemlins/firedevil.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/5bloodymurder.gif[/img] The latest update, as of 9:20PM EST. Quote:
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This debate have taken an ugly turn somewhere...
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