Sickened
What has our society come to? What has our judiciary come to?
These questions will haunt many for some time to come. We have found three different posts that provide further information on the Terri Schiavo case that is captivating the nation.
Hugh Hewitt, has written 2 posts on this issue. The first entitiled, Endangered Vegetables Get More Protections Than Terri Schiavo. Excerpts are here:
“On such category of special cases is the case where harm is alleged to be imminent to an endangered plant or animal, like the Riverside Fairy Shrimp, the Delhi Sands Flower-loving fly, the Stephens Kangaroo rat, or, yes, Munz’s Onion –a genuine vegetable as opposed to the horrific term that has been thrown around in this case.”
Mr. Hewitt’s second post entitled, In the Spirit of Pontius Pilate: Congress and the President be Damned, Terri gets no food or water, he expounds even further. Excerpts here:
“But it is a wholly different matter when a court simply ignores the obvious intent of an overwhelming majority of the Congress and the agreement of the president. Once again we have on display a judiciary that has grown contemptuous of the directly elected branches. When the Senate returns, the clash over judges will commence again, and proponents of nominees who understand that it is the role of judges to apply the law as intended by Congress will have another powerful example of why such nominees are so needed on the bench.”
Thomas Sowell provides our final article on this matter today in an article entitled, Cruel and unusual in Town Hall. An excerpt follows:
“No murderer would be allowed to be killed this way, which would almost certainly be declared “cruel and unusual punishment,” in violation of the Constitution, by virtually any court.
Terri Schiavo’s only crime is that she has become an inconvenience — and is caught in the merciless machinery of the law. Those who think law is the answer to our problems need to face the reality that law is a crude and blunt instrument.
Make no mistake about it, Terri Schiavo is being killed. She is not being “allowed to die.”
As the day has progressed, we have heard on the radio and seen on television, people who cared for Terri Schiavo, who allege convincingly, Michael Schiavo to have a conflict of interest in wanting to see Terri die. None of these people have testified in Terri’s behalf, nor are they being considered now.
Again we ask. What has our society come to? What has our judiciary come to?
We are sickend by the thought.
March 22nd, 2005 at 7:35 pm
Would we treat criminals or animals this way?
We woudnt treat Convicted murderers the way we are treating Terry nor an endangered species. So why is she not getting the consideration that we even grant to the condemned. Poor Country Boy takes a look at what some of the leading minds have to say.
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