Pat Buchanan: Bush Should Use Federal Marshals to Save Terri
Family, Life, and the Body March 25th, 2005The other night on MSNBC, a justifiably angry Pat Buchanan said the following:
What George Bush ought to do right now is send federal marshals in and
pick up Terri Schiavo and put that breathing tube back into her—excuse
me, the food and hydration tube back into her, as this is taken up to
the United States Supreme Court. He took an oath, Chris, to defend the
Constitution of the United States. He has got an obligation, as well
as these judges do, to defend that Constitution. And that means to
protect this woman‘s life.
He later added:
The point is, the president of the United States—there‘s a woman dying,
sentenced to death because she‘s brain-damaged. She‘s committed no
crime. She‘s having food and water denied to her. That is a violation
of human rights and the president of the United States has an
opportunity, as does the governor of Florida, to step in as executives
and act.
Go Pat! I agree.
See the Transcript
Thanks to David for originally pointing me to this
March 25th, 2005 at 6:12 pm
To save money we should put all the inmates into a special “holding cell” with a really soft bed and allow them to move about the room and have visitors on the other side, but here is the catch. We give them no food if they are to be exicuted. That way we save money on the actual administring the leathal element and save money on the food and water he/she would have injested.
Or am I being “cold”.
March 25th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
Of course, if we did that to prisoners, there would be an outcry (and rightfully so). Yet, here is an innocent woman whose only “crime” is that she’s disabled and she’s being starved to death. And yet, poll after poll says most Americans agree with killing her. Our country has hit a new low point and that is pretty amazing given how low we’ve sunk already in recent years.