This may have started out as a mediahype about a husband wanting to pull the plug on his 15 year vegetated wife, but it's now escalated into the most blatant powergrab by politicians over judges in recent history.
The courts and the politicians takes turns screwing each other over like this, but living in the era of the bush 2.0b administration, all subtlety is straight out the window as usual. They usually don't do this sort of massive violation of state courts over such a single individual and for such a narrow political group as well. The only ones they're trying to appease are the religious right-wingers and if you trust the polls, even they aren't all happy with it.
Meanwhile Tom DeLay is quite satisfied to have been known for something, anything, other than the suspicions of corruption that all his close friends were being investigated for.
The people on Terri's side now who are yelling the loudest for her cause are the same people who are against abortion and gays. Plus a teen abstinence advocate doctor who says AIDS is transmittable through sweat thrown in for good measure.
To me the Terri case doesn't even require my opinion. It's been through countless courts already, it's decided. What're the politicians gonna do? They're going to change court rule so that now the parents are the ones who decide when to pull the plug instead of the husband? What about that sanctified bond of matrimony that they're so fervently advocating? What happens when the next case of pulling the plug on a vegetable happens, but where the husband against all reason wants to keep his wife alive while her parents want to pull the plug?
Haven't they been reviewing this case in Florida courts for 5 years already? Don't you think they would have looked through all the evidence by now? Now they're just going to scrap all that work and start over in the federal court because someone screamed 'medical terrorism'.
Memos have been circulating about how the government really should get into this case because it'll look politically good for them. Bush 2.0b never fails to lower the bar of hypocricy. He even flew back especially just to sign the papers that he could easily have signed where he was already. 100,000 people dead in the Tsunami incident, 9/11 investigation with congress and military funerals sure as hell didn't get him out of his seat and going that quickly. Heck, not even 9/11 itself made him get off his chair and do something.
You have to be either unborn, brain dead or rich before the republicans as much as lift a finger to help you.
so a law allowing/requiring that people be able to apeal civil cases like this one to fedral courts is wrong? Is not the whole purpose of the fedral court system to serve as a court of appeals when all measures fail in lower courts?
And anyway, the judge in this case is not exactly a strait shooter anyway, and at this point is doing more of a "nobody can change it my mind is made up niener niener" than making real rulings based on the LAW and the CONSTITUTION of the state in wich he holds office.
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Oh PLEASE!
Date: 2005-03-26 11:54 pm (UTC)The courts and the politicians takes turns screwing each other over like this, but living in the era of the bush 2.0b administration, all subtlety is straight out the window as usual. They usually don't do this sort of massive violation of state courts over such a single individual and for such a narrow political group as well. The only ones they're trying to appease are the religious right-wingers and if you trust the polls, even they aren't all happy with it.
Meanwhile Tom DeLay is quite satisfied to have been known for something, anything, other than the suspicions of corruption that all his close friends were being investigated for.
The people on Terri's side now who are yelling the loudest for her cause are the same people who are against abortion and gays. Plus a teen abstinence advocate doctor who says AIDS is transmittable through sweat thrown in for good measure.
To me the Terri case doesn't even require my opinion. It's been through countless courts already, it's decided. What're the politicians gonna do? They're going to change court rule so that now the parents are the ones who decide when to pull the plug instead of the husband? What about that sanctified bond of matrimony that they're so fervently advocating?
What happens when the next case of pulling the plug on a vegetable happens, but where the husband against all reason wants to keep his wife alive while her parents want to pull the plug?
Haven't they been reviewing this case in Florida courts for 5 years already? Don't you think they would have looked through all the evidence by now? Now they're just going to scrap all that work and start over in the federal court because someone screamed 'medical terrorism'.
Memos have been circulating about how the government really should get into this case because it'll look politically good for them. Bush 2.0b never fails to lower the bar of hypocricy. He even flew back especially just to sign the papers that he could easily have signed where he was already. 100,000 people dead in the Tsunami incident, 9/11 investigation with congress and military funerals sure as hell didn't get him out of his seat and going that quickly. Heck, not even 9/11 itself made him get off his chair and do something.
You have to be either unborn, brain dead or rich before the republicans as much as lift a finger to help you.
Re: Oh PLEASE!
Date: 2005-03-27 12:31 pm (UTC)And anyway, the judge in this case is not exactly a strait shooter anyway, and at this point is doing more of a "nobody can change it my mind is made up niener niener" than making real rulings based on the LAW and the CONSTITUTION of the state in wich he holds office.