TERRI SCHINDLER SCHIAVO CALLING ALL FREEPERS Pt2 Disabled FL woman given Death Sentence by FL Courts

09-21-03 | pc93

[pc93]

Terri's Call to Action Part 1 is over 5000 posts. If you don't want to get caught up to speed at Part 1:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971896/posts?q=1&&page=5167#5167

Simply visit Terri's official web site at:

http://www.terrisfight.org

There are contact numbers at her web site for her core media team, legislators, media and for press updates.

See flash movies of Terri interacting with her mother, responding to a physician and see for yourself that she's not in PVS "persistant vegetative state").

In addition to access a text file with a lot of information see:

http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/c/pc93/FedCourtDktCaseNo8_03-cv-1860-T-26TGW.txt

If you want to join Terri's fight, it's important for us to CONTACT BUREAUCRATS, THE MEDIA and also your friends and family. It's up to you how you choose to Help Terri.

Pinellas Pasco Judge Greer set October 15, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. for her feeding tube to be removed. There's something wrong with Florida's exit protocols and the way the courts handle new information re: criminality (misrepresentation, attempted murder, etc.) affecting a case. There was no living will, only the assertion of a very suspect, so-called husband, his brother, etc. that Terri would not want to live on life support. Terri is not on life support, she is not comatose or PVS and she is not living "artificially". She does get sustenance from a feeding tube but only because she has been denied rehabilitation by her so-called husband after he won a malpratice lawsuit three years after her collapse (cause unknown but probably due to strangulation or physical abuse, or both) which is why Terri needs an army of supporters to spread her story from coast to coast. Terri has retained rights that are being sidestepped because she is disabled and has been denied rehabilitation! The technologies of rehabilitation have greatly improved exponentially yet Judge Greer has not let Terri have a chance to learn to eat or to be able to learn to speak/communicate again. Also new information bearing on the case which shows criminality on husband's side has not been considered by the 2nd District Court of Appeals who handed down Mandate for termination of Terri's feeding based upon testimony of criminal husband and brother as above stated. Who is next?

Let's make a difference! Thank you for your efforts.

[Theodore R.]

The latest St. Petersburg Times poll is running 76 percent in favor of starving and dehydrating poor Terri. She surely has few friends on that website. What sick "people"!

[iowamomforfreedom]

I wonder if there is anything on the record of Felo's stand on abortion. I find it extremely interesting that he thinks that the human soul exists even before conception.

On second thought, I imagine he believes in reincarnation since he is so new-agey. I guess I've never thought about what new-age people think about abortion. Anyone know?

[iowamomforfreedom]

Disgusting, isn't it?

[Theodore R.]

"New age" people are staunchly pro-abortion. One of the "New agers" in Congress was the late Sen. Alan Cranston, D-CA, who even had ties going back to 1930s-era socialists.

[MEGoody]

"the human soul exists even before conception."

Mormons believe this. I think there are other groups as well.

[iowamomforfreedom]

Thanks, I kinda figured as much.

I suppose they think that the unborn soul can just flit off to another body if the first one gets aborted. Unless they don't think the soul is there till the baby is born. In which case, Felos must have just been imagining his scolding from his not-yet-conceived son.

Hmmm, this is all so confusing...

[iowamomforfreedom]

Thanks, I didn't know this about the Mormon faith.

[sfRummygirl]

They support abortion because if you are reincarnated, you just come back again. At an "appropriate" time.
Hey, folks, the poll at the SPTimes is rigged. They are forcing the votes to go to the other side.

[sfRummygirl]

THE POLL IS RIGGED.....the votes at the bottom don't change in number.
Alright folks, we have to organize. Let's talk about getting out there, in person. I've had it.

[sfRummygirl]

Seriously, what is the best thing to do? Probably get out there around the 10th? Or the 15th?

[phenn]

Just out of curiosity, try clearing out your cookies and cache and see if your vote registers then.

[Ohioan from Florida]

I just read this fascinating article about new research that's being done on people like Terri, with amazing results. I'll put up the link, but Phenn, you should show this to Pat Anderson and the Schindlers. It shows that what we've been saying about Terri could be true, and scientifically proven!

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/28VEGETAT.html?ex=1065499200&en=e40d5c4281da3101&ei=5059&partner=AOL

[Ohioan from Florida]

I forgot to mention the title of the article. It's "What if There Is Something Going On in There?" by Carl Zimmer. It's a current article, and hopefully this time the NY Times is checking up on their reporters. Published: September 28, 2003 at nytimes.com. It's a MUST READ!

[phenn]

Thank you! I'll send it along straight away.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Here are the first four paragraphs of the article:

"Daniel Rios is 24 years old, with wavy black hair, a thick mustache and a glassy stare that seems to look both at you and through you. One day almost four years ago, while he was taking a shower, a blood vessel ruptured in his brain, and he collapsed on the bathroom floor. After emergency surgery, he lay in a coma for three weeks. When he finally opened his eyes, he could not speak or move his body; his head simply lolled. In the months that followed, the doctors monitoring him at the Center for Head Injuries at the J.F.K. Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, N.J., saw few signs that he had any meaningful mental life. Sometimes he looked as if he were crying. Other times his eyes would follow a mirror passed before his face. On his best days he was able to close his eyes on command. But those days were rare. For the most part he lay unresponsive, adrift in a neurological twilight."

"One morning just over a year after his accident, Rios was taken to the Sloan Kettering Institute on Manhattan's East Side. There, in a dim room, a group of researchers placed a mask over his eyes, fixed headphones over his ears and guided his head into the bore of an M.R.I. machine. A 40-second loop of a recording made by Rios's sister Maria played through the headphones: she told him that she was there with him, that she loved him. As the sound entered his ears, the M.R.I. machine scanned his brain, mapping changes in activity. Several hours afterward, two researchers, Nicholas D. Schiff and Joy Hirsch, took a look at the images from the scan. They hadn't been sure what to expect -- Rios was among the first people in his condition to have his brain activity measured in this way -- but they certainly weren't expecting what they saw. ''We just stared at these images,'' recalls Schiff, an expert in consciousness disorders at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. ''There didn't seem to be anything missing.''"

"As the tape of his sister's voice played, several distinct clusters of neurons in Rios's brain had fired in a manner virtually identical to that of a healthy subject. Some clusters that became active were those known to help process spoken language, others to recall memories. Was Rios recognizing his sister's voice, remembering her? ''You couldn't tell the difference between these parts of his brain and the brain of one of my graduate students,'' says Hirsch, an expert in brain imaging at Columbia University. Even the visual centers of Rios's brain had come alive, despite the fact that his eyes were covered. It was as if his sister's words awakened his mind's eye."

"To the medical world, Rios and the hundreds of thousands of other Americans who suffer from impaired consciousness present a mystery. Traditionally, there have essentially been only two ways to classify them: as comatose (eyes closed and responses limited to basic reflexes) or vegetative (eyes opening and closing in a cycle of sleeping and waking but without any sign of awareness). In either case, it has been assumed that they have no high-level thought. But Schiff, Hirsch and a small group of like-minded researchers are studying people like Rios and finding that the truth is far more complicated. Their evidence suggests that even after an injury that leaves a brain badly damaged, even after months or years with little sign of consciousness, people may still be capable of complex mental activity. ''If I say, 'Touch your nose,' and you touch your nose, and then I say 'Touch your nose' six more times, and you don't do it, how do we account for the one time you did?'' asks Joseph T. Giacino, a neuropsychologist who collaborates with Schiff and Hirsch."

What do you guys think?

[iowamomforfreedom]

Fantastic article! Thanks!

[syriacus]

'You couldn't tell the difference between these parts of his brain and the brain of one of my graduate students,''

What a great article!! It's a keeper.

[Ethan_Allen]

Thanks to all for the Felos/plane info. He doesn't appear to be dealing with a full deck. Or maybe he's got someone inside there with thim.

[Ethan_Allen]

Great find. Makes your heart break for all who have been x'd by their 'doctors' up to now. Great title on the hospicepatuents.org site (originally at WND): 'I'm your doctor, and I'm here to kill you.' Would make a great bumper-sticker.

[GWB and GOP Man]

I have just been informed by a member of the AnnCoulter.com forum, that he has just sent out the entire copy of the Terri Schindler Schiavo thread on the Ann Coulter Forum, to every government employee in Washington DC and the news of Terri's situation is now global.

If you like, take a look at the thread. I think you must register as a member of AnnCoulter.com before viewing threads though.