Drudge: Chairman HELP Enzi (R-WY) Steps in to Schiavo Case

**Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET** The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.

Members of Congress went to the U.S. Attorney in DC to ask for a temporary restraining order to be issued by a judge, which protects Terri Schiavo from having her life support, including her feeding and hydration tubes, removed... Developing...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Forgive me for posting Drudge - but this looked like a biggie of Repugs stepping in to what should be a State Court issue.

should be really interesting.

I don't know how this insanity will be stopped, but it must. Calling her as a witness is a charade and using the U.S. Congressional powers for a political agenda is a perversion of justice and of the very system itself. It is sad, disgusting, and terrifying that the right wing minority fanatics have gained the GOP as their spokesperson. They are using/abusing Terri as a poster child all the way. They are demeaning the sanctity of the marriage contract itself. I am hopeful that this political usage of Congress for an agenda will be found illegal. None should have any doubt that Bush wants a talibush government.

To: JeffMBattle

Brilliant! Maybe simply bringing her to Congress will cause her to brighten up and get all excited. Wouldn't that be sweet?

3 posted on 03/17/2005 10:00:15 PM PST by spycatcher

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To: JeffMBattle

If this is true---I hope she sings like a canary! Any consciousness she manifests, any open eyes, any response to anything seen or heard, will be testimony contrary to the claims of Michael Schiavo, attorney Felos and Judge Greer. Testimony loud and clear.

37 posted on 03/17/2005 10:15:41 PM PST by Graymatter

How sad for Michael as he tries to fulfill his wife's wishes. How sad that we actually have people in America who choose to avoid the truth so they may embrace a false right wing political agenda.

The positive side of the situation is that, at the cost of Terri's dignity, she will not be able to respond or perform tricks and the public might at last be educated on the limits of having no cerebral cortex. Why do they choose to negate the marital contract, where the man and woman join as one under the eyes of the law? Why do they fear going on to the next life as if it were some kind of punishment?
Is life on Earth so much more valuable than life in Heaven where Terri could be restored and happy?

The fact that a U.S. Congressional panel would subpoena a human who has no cerebral cortex solely for the purpose of avoiding the law is so disdainful.

This is so utterly sad.

But, only if given immunity.

The same kind of wit and sarcasm.

Or, even humor. Disgust is the only appropriate response towards the ghouls who are using it for political gain.

as stated earlier, an "abhorrent spectacle".

Shame and disgust for the behavior of the United States Congress.

Thousands die every day of poverty and disease.

and no one seems to care. Capitalism?