Some Terri Schiavo links:
Deacon at Power Line, has posted a concise indictment of those members of the judiciary who have flouted the Law that the People’s representatives in Congress assembled had established.
I agree with Hugh. Congress intended (and said) that the federal courts would decide de novo whether Terri's federal rights were being violated. De novo review basically means a fresh review that does not defer to factual findings made by other courts. The federal courts prevented de novo review from occurring because they refused to stop the court-ordered termination, by de-hydration, of Terri's life. She will die before there is time for the de novo review mandated by Congress to occur. That would not be the case had [the] temporary relief that was sought been granted. Thus, in my view the courts flouted the law that Congress passed.
Wesley Pruden, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Times has titled his regular Friday column The worms triumph and a woman dies:
Or maybe the judges are the worms. The justices of the Florida and federal courts, who ordinarily revel in their ability to make up laws when they can't find one in the law books to suit their purposes of the moment, have decreed that there's no legal way to save Terri from the death by starvation and dehydration that convicted serial killers, murderers of children and others on death row would be spared.
World Net Daily has had some of the earliest and has some of the most complete coverage. Their recent article The whole Terri Schiavo story puts the important events of a 15 year time line in perspective.
Major media organizations paint the pitched battle over the life of Terri Schiavo as a clear- cut debate between pro-life and right-to-die advocates, bankrolled by big money activist organizations on both sides. But the case of the 41-year-old brain-injured Florida woman is anything but clear cut.The little-publicized nuances of her 15-year saga often get lost amid the smoldering, post-election political warfare reignited by the intervention of Congress on behalf of Terri. But as President Bush pointed out in a statement on Terri Schiavo, "there are serious questions and substantial doubts" in her case.
Blogs for Terri is remarkably well organized and terse. It gives continuing evidence of the character of the non-worms amongst us.
Prior posts on In Two Cities give our take and link to important anti-worm voices: Send In the Florida State Police and State Police Intervention II .
