Nielk
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That's great news! If Dershowitz takes in the case, I'm confident a that they will win.
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This is dangerously parallel to the trend I see where police handcuff and arrest (often violently)
people who have not actually broken any specific code, and are then arrested for "resisting arrest" and "disobeying a police officer."
Both of which one would naturally do when being wrongly treated or accused.
There is a paradigm here, almost an entrainment to make people ever more compliant out of fear of this unreasonable power structure.
The family of Justina Pelletier, the 15-year-old girl at the center of a custody battle and diagnostic dispute between two of Boston’s top hospitals, plans to take legal legend Alan Dershowitz's offer to help.
Lou Pelletier told FoxNews.com on Tuesday he was thrilled to learn the high-profile Harvard Law professor who has won several high-profile court battles wants to help him win back custody of the girl.
“When you hear about a case like this you scratch your head and you say ‘something else must be going on,’” Dershowitz told Fox News Channel's Mike Huckabee over the weekend.
Dershowitz told FoxNews.com Tuesday he is interested in working with the family's current legal team on "broader Constitutional issues" surrounding the case. The attorney said he isn't looking to "micro-manage litigation," but was moved to offer his help on a pro bono consulting basis after reading about the family's plight in newspaper accounts.
"I have reached out to one of the family's representatives, and we are trying to set up a discussion on how to proceed," Dershowitz said.
“Parents have a right to be wrong, as long as they’re acting reasonably," Dershowitz said. "And if two distinguished medical centers have different diagnoses, it should be the parents, not the state, that determines the course of treatment.”
Dershowitz also said a gag order imposed by the judge to stop the family from talking to the press was "without a doubt unconstitutional."
Yeah, definitely. I wish they'd stop with the religious freedom angle though. Every article and pretty much every interview with the parents mentions Justina not being able to go to church. While church is probably important to the family, it's likely an extremely minor concern in the context of their child being kidnapped.If I were the parents, though, I'd be taking whatever help I could get to get the word out. There's no way to go this one alone.
One problem is that the focus on church is making them look similar to religious kooks who deny medical care for their children.
The parents are probably living in a rather conservative and religious community, and are accustomed to certain arguments being persuasive in that community.
While Justine was imprisoned at Boston Children's Hospital, it was a simple consequence of that imprisonment. Letting her go to church would have also allowed the family have less-supervised contact with her. Basically it was fall-out from the kidnapping itself, rather than specific denial of freedom to practice a religion.What's the rationale for not allowing her to have a religious activity? What is the psychiatric contraindication of that???
I totally agree with you.
But at the same time, I find very very shocking that the girl was not allowed to attend church, or meet a priest (and I am not religious at all!!). What's the rationale for not allowing her to have a religious activity? What is the psychiatric contraindication of that??? For people who believe in God, faith is a strong support, I don't see any reasonable argument that justifies her being preventing from religious help.
She might not be well enough to leave the hospital. She's probably on an IV and meds that can't be stopped abruptly as well.Do churches still offer sanctuary? Maybe the thinking is if she went to church she could escape their clutches by asking for sanctuary and not leave. I don't know what the legal standing of that is anymore. But I'm sure certain churches would still offer it in special circumstances, even if that meant they were in trouble w/ the law.
Really? I figured they had her drugged up on psych meds when she was in the hospital.@Ema, unfortunately for everyone, she's not in a hospital, she's in a child welfare facility and is being refused medical treatment.
That has been the case even when she was in the hospital, in a locked psych ward.