Posted on 05/11/2005 10:11:57 AM PDT by floriduh voter
Freerepublic.com has a super-sized archive regarding Terri Schiavo. The Dailies thread is a digest of breaking news, venting, ranting, photos, prayers, poetry, contact numbers and serve as a meeting place. The daily thread runs itself for the most part.
Please put your links regarding justice for Terri on this thread or articles re: people who are waking up all the time and speaking because they've been given new treatments. Terri was denied a chance to eat by mouth at the end and she was denied new groundbreaking tests by Judge Greer. Instead, he stuck to his guns that she would be starved and dehydrated beginning on March 18th. What a man. It takes a big man to starve an innocent woman to death. This was ALL AGAINST THE FLORIDA STATUTES.
EXPOSURE IS ON THE HORIZON: Mark Fuhrman's book will be available at www.amazon.com by the end of June, 2005. Another book by Cheryl Ford, RN will be available soon.
The GOP is getting phone calls but they are not listening to their constituents on the issue of George Greer. Does the GOP endorse judicial tyranny? Ask them. Find out.
Possibly we can mend a divide in the Republican Party that is turning into a dangerous crevasse by demanding the impeachment of Judge George Greer, Sixth Circuit Court, Pinellas County, Florida.
If that sounds radical, please note that the democrats are in trouble as well for not saving Terri's life.
Greer had super powers over the Governor of Florida, over the US Congress, the President and over the FDLE. Greer who was in defiance of the US Congress and President is the one who needs investigation and impeachment but the RINO's in Tallahassee are reluctant to do their duty.
If Terri was killed because of money and power, let us find out how RINOS like Senator Jim King went into battle against Terri with the death lobby and the national trial lawyers. Senator Jim King of Duval County should not get a pass either, not ever.
Thanx for the "free home demonstration."
Please see my post just before this one.
The script worked, but carriage returns did not.
What did I do wrong?
One more thing that you might want to know about html code. This is for any who were wondering.
In post 172, if you had used < > with the letter p in between the brackets, it would have given you a paragraph, so that you could separate the italics from the next part of your post.
The carriage return only works if there is no html code in your post.
Once you use html to make italics, then you have to keep on using it, for example, to make paragraphs.
Thanks for posting the photos. Good signs!
Yes, I often just use the quote marks, sometimes it's too much trouble to bother formatting!
You can end the line,
and create a single space like this
with <br>.
</br> will not work.
Click here: ::Prudent Press Agency - Media Megaphone for the Little Guy
http://www.prudentpressagency.com/CENTER/articlePreview.php?Article_id=2156
Terri Schiavo: It's Not Just About Terri Any More FREE
By Prudent Press Agency
Rex, GA -- I write this with tremendous sadness in my heart and a sense of guilt that I am alive. I am a 17-year survivor of ALS, often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Twelve years ago I made a decision to have a feeding tube placed in my stomach in order to prolong life. I had lost the ability to swallow due to the progression of the disease process. Seven years ago last week I had one foot in death's door, because my diaphragm muscle was becoming increasingly disabled. I was on the verge of respiratory failure.
I made a decision contrary to society, 95% of most ALS patients and against my personal feelings prior to my diagnosis to continue living by means of artificial ventilation.
Flashback to the spring of 1986, I was on a fast track to financial success. I was 6'3", 200 lbs. It was a beautiful spring afternoon that would often find me on the Chattahoochee river fly-casting to a rising trout. The doctor said you have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. You may have heard it called Lou Gehrig's disease. Without lifting my head I asked how long? Void of hesitation the doctor said three to five years.
Not long after the diagnosis, my wife at the time and I were discussing my future with the neurologist. He began going over the disease progression in a matter of fact way. He said your breathing muscles will become paralyzed and you will go to sleep and die. He quickly added that some patients decide to go on a ventilator, but there is no quality of life living that way. I shook my head in agreement.
It is extremely easy for a healthy individual to say how they would not live. I am guilty myself. If someone had told me prior to the diagnosis that I would be totally paralyzed, fed by a feeding tube, communicate via computer with a voice synthesizer and tethered to a ventilator that I would find more meaning in life and living I am certain that person telling me such a tale was insane.
Yes, my life is very difficult and requires a lot of resources to keep me alive, human and financial. I have considered disconnecting from the ventilator several times, but the reason is never because I had lost my appreciation for life and living.
I was admitted into the hospital and scheduled for tracheotomy surgery the next morning. That night my now ex-wife told me how selfish I was for wanting to live. That my young children had suffered enough and it would cause them only more pain. It was a sickening sense of abandonment. I have absolutely no doubt if I did not have the ability to communicate my desires the surgery would have not taken place.
I will not enter the he said she said argument of the Terri Schiavo case. I do pray that Terri did not suffer, but watching videos of her mother able to evoke a smile from Terri, I fear she was screaming silently in her final days. I cannot believe our courts. This was such a cruel death. The judge should have handed Michael Schiavo a gun and let him blow Terri's brains out. It would be less cruel instead of burdening the health care professional with guilt for removing the feeding tube.
I feel our abled society on average is clueless to the value of life and how precious it is, because they never have to seriously face death or an impaired life style personally. I have lived on both sides of the ability/disability fence. While I never took life for granted, I never thought of death like I have been forced to in the last 17 years and would have easily cast off the thought of a life with an impairment.
Society and lawmakers need education and awareness on the many levels of quality of life that exist and are fully enjoyed. The last four years I have fought to leave my home without losing my Medicare funded home health services. When lobbying in Washington many were surprised and amazed with the punitive nature of the homebound restriction. Ignorance is one of the largest obstacles the disability community faces.
I am embarrassed by Congress last hour effort to save Terri when this case has been at a critical point for over a year. Congress and President Bush should now pass meaningful legislation that reflects the spirit of the Constitution to protect the thousands of Terries that remain in our country.
The tragedy of Terri Schiavo should scare the Hell out of all Americans, because our courts have now established what level of human impairment is worth living. Mark my words, this benchmark will not remain static.
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Hmm, not sure I understand the question.
Just use the < > with a p inside those, to make the paragraph breaks.
If you just hit the preview button, you can practice all you want without actually posting, until it looks the way you want.
If I didn't explain it well, ask me again!
Also, take a look at this thread. It will help more than I have, probably.
HTML Sandbox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285967/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1402851/posts
New tragedy for (euthanasia advocate) Lesley Martin
This thread might interest some Terri supporters.
Thank you.
We're trying to get the President's judicial appointments moving.
Lots of people look for this running thread and are used to seeing it in news/activism. It's never been in bloggers. Please check with Jim R.
Thanks, floriduh voter
Thanx.
I'll try that when I'm less tired.
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