Announcement

**Drake Tungsten** · March 20, 2005, 03:48

This law

Starving Terri Schiavo

That it had to come to this

**GePap** · March 20, 2005, 03:48

I refer to this thread

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=3685861#post3685861

**Imran Siddiqui** · March 20, 2005, 03:50

I'm guess, eventually, this will be struck down as Unconstitutional, since I'm really not sure what possibly authority Congress has to legislate on this issue. It just buys time...

Freaking idiots in Congress.

**Mr. Harley** · March 20, 2005, 03:54

Gepap posted the thread about the actual debate over the feeding tubes. This is about the federal intervention into the case, specifically by a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and -gasp- a Republican President. Imran, I thought you'd be consistant here.

**Imran Siddiqui** · March 20, 2005, 03:56

.... how am I not consistent here?

**Mr. Harley** · March 20, 2005, 04:07

You are - that wasn't sarcasm. It was a compliment. Hell, if I can compliment Ned at times, I certainly can find things to compliment you for (I added it after our recent Scalia thread - I plan to start a new one after the current one's die down, and do I have a speech to post.

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**Dis** · March 20, 2005, 05:00

this continued taking away and inserting the feeding tube is going to give her an eating disorder.

**Mr. Harley** · March 20, 2005, 05:15

That's terrible - funny in a sick sort of way - but terrible. Correction - Bush is cutting his weekend short so he can sign the law into effect. That's why we have a new flight restriction around Waco, TX - he's leaving early.

**Asmodean** · March 20, 2005, 05:15

This whole case makes me wonder why euthanasia in the form of administered drugs isn't legal all over the world. But that is not the point of this thread.

I will say, that the American Republican Party is the worst gang of moral hypocrites the world has ever seen. They f*ck up time and time again, and the worst thing is that they don't even see it.

Republicans

Euthanasia

Asmodean

**aneeshm** · March 20, 2005, 07:22

Euthanising Republicans ????

**Odin** · March 20, 2005, 11:20

Originally posted by aneeshm
Euthanising Republicans ????

**Kuciwalker** · March 20, 2005, 11:21

Re: Bush signs emergency law to preempt state courts ref Terry Schiavo

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
I just heard a BBC newfeed that Bush went and signed a Republican passe federal law to override the Florida state court's and stop, yet again, the removal of a feeding tube from Terry Schiavo. This is not a thread to argue over her conditions, that is already on it's fifth page. This is in response to some posters commentary about state's rights (good for you, DinoDoc) and, shall we say, a certain INCONSISTENCY that since we don't like the courts' decisions, we will pass an ex post facto law to nullify the courts.

Comment - inconsistancy with state's rights, commentary on judicial activitism, ad nauseum. I really want to see the tortured logic used to justify this one.

My beef is that Congress is, once again, lowering itself to the tabloid level. DEAL WITH IMPORTANT STUFF, YOU MORONS.

That, and they're deliberately trying to mess with the judiciary in a particular case. It's just absurd!

**asleepathewheel** · March 20, 2005, 11:55

to this crap

**Guynemer** · March 20, 2005, 12:08

God Bless America.

But **** the *******s in charge.