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April 13th 05, 02:30 PM

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On 12 Apr 2005 02:31:40 GMT, (Frank White)
wrote:

Jeb Bush could have taken her into protective custody at any
time and had the tube reinserted.

No, he coudln't. So you will be happy when I come to take your child
away from you, when I don't like the school you are sending him to,
right?

Florida's Child Protective Services would probably do that.

They may not be willing to remove a child from an abusive
home, even if it leads to that child's death (as the wealth
of news stories detailing exactly that can testify); but
cross one of their arbitrary rules and they'll be on you
like white on rice.

There is NO LAW that says one individual can arbitrarily take another
individual away from a family. Such a move would have been
kidnapping. What makes you think such a move would be legal?

We're not talking about one individual taking another from a
family; we're talking about THE STATE taking an individual away.
THE STATE doesn't have to worry about whether a move is legal
or not because IT makes the laws!

Jeb-boy could have had his rubber stamp state legislature pass a
law allowing him to take custody of Ms. Schiavo, if none of the
current ward of the State/endangered individual/medical
emergency laws applied and gave him that right. It would have
been thrown out of court in a heartbeat; but only after his
flunkies would have put the tube back in, starting the process
all over again. And if keeping Ms. Schiavo alive was as
SUPERHUMANLY IMPORTANT as he made it out to be when he was
making political capital out of this mess, then that's what
he would have done.

He didn't.

The hypocrite.

I thought Republicans were against Government control of people's
lives? Against Government intrusion into private affairs? This
was a private, family matter, and it was handled legally. It was the
parents who turned it into a circus sideshow, complete with Jesse
Jackson as MC. The parents who, BTW, had no legal standing in this
to start with.

Republicans SAY they are against government control of people's
lives. In reality, on those matters in which they feel they
know better/are more moral than 'the common folk', they're
even WORSE at interfering than the Democrats.

Jim

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