You're doing a good job putting words into my mouth. My first line was a statement, you don't have the facts. I never said that you claimed to. My second statement, was that the judges have no less information than you do, a point you cannot dispute. Thirdly, My initial claim was that no politician can side with allowing someone to die, it would be political murder - regardless of what they really think. Granted, it would be easier for them to just keep silent, so is likely validity to your claims about Bill Frist.

As for speed limits, if you read on how they are generally set, I do have as much information as those who set them. They are not arbitrary, neither are they scientific. They are set based on the average flow of traffic, and generally just below that. Yup, they make everybody speeders, it makes no sense but that's how they do it. The belief is people ignore the speed limits anyway and on average tend to drive a reasonable speed for the conditions of the road. Driving the same roads every day, its pretty easy for me to determine the average speed people drive. Oh, as a side note, it has been determined that the safest speed to drive is slightly faster than the flow of traffic. So, they set the speed limits below average and its safest to drive above average... making it illegal to be as safe as possible. But judges don't set speed limits, nor does the media, so I don't see how it pertains.