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Re: Terri Schindler's Murder Violates USA Patriot Act

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From: Tim Bruening
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:03
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NeoCon Trotskyite wrote:

> 765.309 Florida Statute: Mercy Killing of Euthanasia Not Authorized;
> Suicide Distinguished. -- (1) Nothing in this chapter shall be
> construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or
> euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act of omission
> to end the life other than to permit the natural process of dying. (2)
> The withholding or withdrawal of life-prolonging procedures from a
> patient in accordance with any provision of this chapter does not, for
> any purpose, constitute a suicide.
>
> 458.326 Florida Statute: Intractable Pain; Authorized Treatment. -- (4)
> Nothing in this section shall be construed to condone, authorize, or
> approve mercy killing or euthanasia, and no treatment authorized by
> this section may be used for such purpose.
>
> 782.08 Florida Statute: Assisting Self-Murder. -- Every person
> deliberately assisting another in the commission of self-murder shall
> be guilty of manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, punishable as
> provided in s.775.082, s. 775.083 or s.775.084.
> --------

But Terri wasn't murdering herself!

> Under Secton 802 of the USA Patriot act, any crime which endangers
> human life is an act of terrorism.

Does this mean that anyone who commits murder could get shipped off to
Cuba?

> So when Terri dies, Michael Schiavo, his lawyer and all of the judges
> who ruled against Terri can be arrested by Homeland Security under the
> USA Patriot Act and be shipped off to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

It would have been better to do the arrests BEFORE Terri died!  It would
have been possible too, since the Patriot Act says that "any crime which
ENDANGERS human life is an act of terrorism".

> Forward this to all of your representatives in Congress, Jeb Bush and
> President Bush.

Holy Smokes!  I joked on the humor newsgroups that President Bush save
Terri by arresting her husband for terrorism!
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