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Greer did not order the feeding tube or port to be removed. Greer ordered that Michael Schiavo "shall cause the removal of nutrition and hydration...". Even though she does not drool and therefore swallows up to a liter of saliva a day (and therefore could conceivably swallow water if allowed to) no one is allowed to attempt this. This is akin to the judge ordering the removal of all oxygen by tightly tying a plastic bag over a patient's head while unplugging the respirator.

This cannot be legal. I have read the constitution and nowhere does it give judges the right to order people to not be fed by mouth. Why hasn't this been declared unconstitutional by Jeb Bush or George immediately? Has this even been challenged by anyone by challenging Greer's authority to make such an order? Has the Florida legislature given Greer this power? This is not being "taken off life support" like all the news people are talking about. This is using government force to prevent a person from getting water which they could take on their own.

What can we do to get these questions and strategies addressed by Terri's defenders?

I've corrected a number of people on this. The fault is the MSM who keeps perpetuating the outright lie that the Judge is simply removing artificial life support.

You can see the actual document HERE.

Here are the relevant portions:

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Motion for Emergency Stay filed on February 15, 2005 is DENIED. It is further
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that absent a stay from the appellate courts, the guardian, MICHAEL SCHIAVO, shall cause the removal of nutrition and hydration from the ward, THERESA SCHIAVO, at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2005
DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers, at Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida, at 2:50 p.m. this 25 day of February, 2005.

SIGNED
GEORGE W. GREER
CIRCUIT JUDGE

This clearly is not the order for removal of "artificial life support" or even the removal of a feeding port - it is undeniably the order to starve Terri Schiavo to death.