Schiavo Thread Part the Third

[Dinner]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

No, the Courts were on Elian's father's side.

Yep, the courts ruled the father had legal custody of his son since the mother was dead. An uncle and several aunts tried to say they should have custody but the law is clear a child stay with his parents unless that parent is a danger to the child. Just because the father is a communist wasn't enough reason to steal his child from him.

[Dinner]

The woman has no brain and the people who keep trying to prevent her wishes from being carriedout don't have one either.

[Berzerker]

"We dont let death row inmates starve to death"

"Its illegal to starve a dog to death in Florida"

These and many more come from people who oppose "euthenasia" so the government withdraws life support instead of hastening a speedy death. They oppose assisted suicide so she starves instead, then they complain that she's starving.

[Dinner]

In other news there is a morbidly funny Schiavo blog out.

http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/

[MRT144]

best blog yet

[Dis]

Originally posted by Oerdin
In other news there is a morbidly funny Schiavo blog out.

http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/

I already posted a link to this

[MRT144]

nobody listens to you unless youre getting laid

[MRT144]

or have herpes.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Ned


Horse, are all those trying to save Terri hypocrits even if one of them is?

No, I'm sure most people are sincere on both sides.

Is it a reason to ignore the those pleading for mercy?

No, the reason to ignore such pleas is those people don't have a right according to law. You change law.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Ned
the people making a political issue of this are the primarily from the left.

Conservative pundits compare those who consider this a private family matter to terrorists...

Conservative commentators liken to Nazis those who feel that the 40 judges who have weighed in on this -- most of them Republicans, by the way -- have deliberated fairly, and that the rule of law should be upheld...

The GOP circulates a memo delighting in the possibilities this issue has for "energizing the base"...

And Ned weighs in with this beaut.

Nediverse, indeed.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Yep, the courts ruled the father had legal custody of his son since the mother was dead. An uncle and several aunts tried to say they should have custody but the law is clear a child stay with his parents unless that parent is a danger to the child. Just because the father is a communist wasn't enough reason to steal his child from him.

The problem with this is that it ignores the sequence of events. After the 11th Circuit ruled against Reno in her request to take custody of Elian, she did it anyway. That is the point I am making here.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Oerdin
The woman has no brain and the people who keep trying to prevent her wishes from being carriedout don't have one either.

Why of course, her wishes were clear!

[Do you have any idea of the facts of this case?]

[Ned]

Originally posted by Oerdin
The woman has no brain and the people who keep trying to prevent her wishes from being carriedout don't have one either.

Also, the extent of brain damage remains in dispute. Read the original opinion of Judge Greer if you say that this is only propaganda.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Berzerker
"We dont let death row inmates starve to death"

"Its illegal to starve a dog to death in Florida"

These and many more come from people who oppose "euthenasia" so the government withdraws life support instead of hastening a speedy death. They oppose assisted suicide so she starves instead, then they complain that she's starving.

Berz, maybe. But the point is that starving a person to death if employed by executioners in putting criminals to death would most certainly be declared cruel and unusual.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
No, the reason to ignore such pleas is those people don't have a right according to law. You change law.

Just suppose, Horse, that this case was a miscarriage of justice, a result ordained by a judge who would not hear or credit witnesses for Terri, and who credited as believable Michael's Schiavo's brother and sister-in-law, who, in contravention of the LAW, showed up to testify on the day of trial without having been on the witness list and with no prior opportunity for Terri's parents or the Guardian ad Litem to depose them?