Friday, March 25, 2005
Unlawful Law
Captain's Quarters has a post denouncing the call for Jeb Bush to intervene in the court enforced Shiavo murder:
Governor Bush swore an oath to uphold and enforce the law, even those with which he disagrees, and he has done his best to create law to allow him to act in this circumstance. He was not successful.
The "law" has failed us in this matter. Should a bad law, that harms it's citizens, be followed simply because its law? Instead of worrying over an overreaching executive branch we should be worried by a country that follows a law that is inherently evil.
Yes, Jeb would end his political career by stepping in and may even get impeached, but abiding a court order mandating an innocent person to die seems like a fate much worse to me. Bush knew what was happening was wrong or he wouldn't have taken the measures he did. Is he now going to wash his hands of the affair because it may injure his career? This is not a stand against a tax hike or corporate greed, there is human life at stake. The government and its citizens should stand up for those who cannot defend themselves. If they cannot protect the most basic tenets of our constitution, life, then the whole affair is worthless.
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Governor Bush swore an oath to uphold and enforce the law, even those with which he disagrees, and he has done his best to create law to allow him to act in this circumstance. He was not successful.
The "law" has failed us in this matter. Should a bad law, that harms it's citizens, be followed simply because its law? Instead of worrying over an overreaching executive branch we should be worried by a country that follows a law that is inherently evil.
Yes, Jeb would end his political career by stepping in and may even get impeached, but abiding a court order mandating an innocent person to die seems like a fate much worse to me. Bush knew what was happening was wrong or he wouldn't have taken the measures he did. Is he now going to wash his hands of the affair because it may injure his career? This is not a stand against a tax hike or corporate greed, there is human life at stake. The government and its citizens should stand up for those who cannot defend themselves. If they cannot protect the most basic tenets of our constitution, life, then the whole affair is worthless.
# posted by Joe Florida @ 6:39 AM 
