Schiavo case = America teetering on totalitarianism?

I take some comfort that the tri-cameral government is working partly as designed. The Congress and Executive were expected to be too subject to temporary passions. The Judicial was designed to slow those passions and has consistently done so in this matter.

Which doesn't mean I don't think it a distraction from matters of actual importance. I do see it polarizing the nation even further, but it doth appear not in the direction intended.

Thank you! Glad someone said it!

I don't know the man nor much about him, however, I think that is a rather brash way to talk about someone unless it's been proven. I did do some googling for that sort, though, apart from any media accusations, which I have found are often one-sided once the whole is revealed. http://www.randallterry.com/home/index.cfm?page=14. At the very least, this is the other side of the coin.

I would also like to point out that people treating their pets the way this woman has been treated are arrested, but it was allowed to a human. That's very scary. It's a very sticky, sticky wicket. On the one hand, if someone had locked her up in a basement and starved her, that person would go to jail, on the other, we have checks and balances in our government to keep us free. We send money all around the world to help feed starving people yet purposeful starvation has been allowed. What a mess. And how very, very sad.

That link is to his web site, which I would hardly call anything except self serving.

Randall Terry is a terrorist leader, no better than Osama Bin Laden. On April 21st of 1998 a U.S. District Court jury ruled that three anti-abortion leaders had violated federal racketeering laws by conducting a nationwide campaign to intimidate abortion providers and patients. (Randall Terry was one of the three).

The first person convicted of violence against a women's health center ignited a gas can in a crowded New York City clinic in 1979. Since 1982, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, there have been 169 arson and bomb attacks on women's health centers in 33 states. In the 1990s, five workers in such clinics have been murdered by people calling themselves "pro-life" who publicly advocate violence (as Randall Terry has publically done in the past) as a way to make legally sanctioned abortion impossibly unsafe.

Even the Wikipedia confirms what the Washington Post wrote about him with verifiable links:

Randall Terry is founder of the pro-life organization Operation Rescue.

According to a Washington Post report, Terry was censured in 2000 by the Landmark Church of Binghamton, New York, where he had been a member for 15 years, for a "pattern of repeated and sinful relationships and conversations with both single and married women." Terry, an evangelical Christian, denies the allegations.

After settling out of court with the National Organization for Women in a 1998 lawsuit seeking to force anti-abortion leaders to pay for damages in attacks on abortion clinics, Terry promptly filed bankruptcy, prompting Senator Charles Schumer to propose an amendment to a bankruptcy bill in Congress which would "specifically ... prevent abortion opponents from using the bankruptcy code to escape paying court fines." The amendment was not included in the final bill after meeting with resistance from House Republicans.

In 2003, Terry was soliciting non-tax-deductible donations on his web site. He later put a down payment on a $432,000 home in Ponte Vedra Beach. Terry explained that he and his family needed a place to be safe and to entertain "people of stature, people of importance. I have a lot of important people that come through my home. And I will have more important people come through my home." The same month, a New York State court found that Terry was not paying a "fair share of child support" to his first wife, whom he divorced. In an affidavit submitted to the court earlier in the month, Terry claimed that he was three months behind on his rent and had been selling items to live.

His adopted son wrote an article for Out Magazine which Terry says contains significant inaccuracies.

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This is not the reason the Judicial Branch was created. If you read any of the Federalist papers or constitutional history you will learn that the issue of "Judicial Review" (Marbury v. Madison) was a contentious point.

The judicial branch has ZERO power of enforcement and at anytime Congress can lessen the scope of power of the Judicial Branch [Supreme Court]. This is why the Supreme Court very carefully chooses the cases it will hear, it has to protect its legitimacy.

Briana Dawson

yep, but the court of public opinion is all the current admin cares about, laws be damned, as long as they pander to their perceived base....

This poor woman's family. Publicized to death and used as a political tool to wring on the hearts of the American (and international) public.

America has shown signs of moving to become a police state for a long time now.

Totalitarianism? I dunno... more like a wolf in the disguise of a lamb.

"Maintain the illusion of freedom and you can get away with anything."