Breaking: Public urging Gov. Bush to use National Guard to protect Terri Schiavo

The New Tech Diary | 3/18/2005 | 1stFreedom

[1stFreedom]

March 18, 2005 -- New York, NY

People across the nation are contacting the Governor's office encouraging him to utilize the Florida National Guard.

Under provisions of Florida Statute 250.28, the Governor may utilize the guard in order to execute the laws of the state when the local authorities are not able to.

Orders issued by Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer are in clear violation Article I Section 2 of the Constitution of the State of Florida.

These orders have created confusion as to what course of action is to be taken by local authorities, and has resulted in a resistance to protecting the rights of Terri Schiavo.

Under Florida Statue 250.28, the Governor is given authority to use the National Guard to prevent resistance to the execution of state laws.

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[Canadian Outrage]

I agree, don't waste a word on these trolls. Time for MUCH MORE IMPORTANT issues at hand.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Amen! When in doubt, choose life! The alternative is so permanent....

[greccogirl]

Well undoubtedly her parents love her. Not knowing details about her husband, it sounds like he has an incredibly dedicated love for her as well. What's the detailed story on him?

Oh absolutely. He is so incredibly in love with Terri that he has another defacto wife and two children. Not to mention the fact that after he tearfully testified about how he wanted to take care of Terri "for the rest of her life" he then began spending her malpractice award on lawyers to kill her.

I hope I'm never loved so well..................

[valleygal]

Troll alert

[Libloather]

Orders issued by Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer are in clear violation Article I Section 2 of the Constitution of the State of Florida.

The Constitution is supposed to live and breath but Terri isn't. Bizarro World at it's best...

[djreece]

Well I guess you should really take a closer look at your government and get busy.

I'm not really sure where you are coming from, but I have been busy for decades and I keep a very close eye on the government, thank you very much.

[AaronInCarolina]

Based on what you told me I accept the judges verdict. Its seems the doctors for the parents were not credible. I am sorry we disagree. I thank you for the time you took in posting that extra fact about te court case I was not aware of. I think we agree 90%.

I think a lot of us agree here more than we think. What we disagree over is her status/prognosis. I believe that if the Schindlers really thought she was that hopeless, and if they believed Michael's contention that she expressed the desire not to live, then they would concede. But the fact is that there is great dispute over her status and hopes for a better outcome. The Schindler's have numerous doctors who claim she can get better and are willing to treat her voluntarily. Michael Schiavo has denied these doctors ever since he won the million dollar judgement that she could live many years and would require the million dollars for her rehabilitation. Almost instantly, MS gave up on her chances and directed that she be starved to death. What is so wrong about letting a few doctors have another chance at rehabilitating her?? Does this throw her into some sort of indignity? I don't believe it does.

I think most people, on both sides of this issue, are taking their positions in a sense of good-faith. I don't dismiss your position on this. If I believed she had no hope for improving and if I truly believed that she had expressed the opinion that her husband said she had expressed, then I might also be for some means of letting her pass away peacefully. Unfortunately, and this is where the push for legalized euthanasia comes in, there is no good way to do this to someone who is medically quite stable. The pro-euth's crowd will cry that we need to change the laws so that someone can be injected with a lethal dosage of something to let them pass away instantly.

My own position on situations like this is that if I am in a similar situtation, I trust that my loved ones, in whom I have placed the power to make such decisions, will make the right decision. This places a tremendous burden to choose carefully the people that you entrust. I don't believe that Terri entrusted Michael to do this, and if she did, I think she made a very poor choice of people to place her trust in. I think he is self-serving.

[Canadian Outrage]

For God's Sake, STOP talking to these people. They are TROLLS. They are here to UPSET, and DISRUPT.

[Agamemnon]

I am not a rocket scientist but I know the principles of gravity and thrust and how they work and why they work. You disagree with what I defined as a vegetative state? Please correct me with a source. Thank you.

You are neither a rocket scientist nor are you credentialled medical professional with any experience in this area. It is as I suspected. You speak with no amount of personal credilbility on this matter, and reply by expecting other people to do your research for you. That simply manifests lazy forensic debating skills.

We may all safely conclude that, as many of us suspected from the start, you are simply uniformed.

[valleygal]

We're all going to die. Don't you think? Eventually the Lord will call each of us home.

Well, let's leave Terri's feeding tube in and when she dies it will be the Lord's doing, not man's.

[longtermmemmory]

I do not see this happening.

I think the present energies should be used to mount a recall effort on the judge.

[Libloather]

I wouldn't want to be artificially kept alive in a situation such as this...

Put it in writing & pass it around.

[xsmommy]

exactly. anyone worried about being kept alive against their wishes does not need this woman killed to bring that about, they need to write a living will and they won't have a thing to worry about. the precedent of allowing someone's feeding tube to be pulled based on the hearsay say-so of someone tainted by incredible conflict of interest is what should have people up in arms, not that their wish to have their own tubes pulled won't be honored.

[processing please hold]

For God's Sake, STOP talking to these people. They are TROLLS. They are here to UPSET, and DISRUPT.

And they are doing a very good job of it, aren't they? How they remain here being supporters of murder is beyond me.

[utcamper]

I posed a hypothetical situation to frame a question. I also clarified that I'm not very familiar with the case. Under the basis of my hypothetical situation, which seems plausible, he is fighting to fulfill his promise to the woman he loved, spending all that money to fulfill her wishes when he could have left her to fate and lived comfortably off of the malpractice award. Additionally, he's possibly trying to continue living himself, possibly even at her request. I hope for your sake that you are loved so well that your mate would so dedicate themselves to a promise to you.

Of course, perhaps this isn't the case here, but I haven't heard the contrary.

[Jrabbit]

I agree...

Weldon of Fla. was just on Fox.....said President Bush should send troops to take Terri into protective custody. I can only dream that it would happen

[valleygal]

Wow, the trolls arr really out today.

[Jrabbit]

I think they like the smell of death....I pray they're disappointed

[AaronInCarolina]

Do you consider a vegetative state a form of brain death that will allow for the medical profession to allow the body to expire/die by withholding what it needs to live (be it food or artificial support of some kind).

The question of whether Terri is truly PVS is the big question here. Doctors on both sides disagree. Videos (smuggled out by the way) seem to indicate that she may not be PVS. Felos and Schiavo claim the videos are misleading, but offer nothing to substantiate that except for their own hearsay that that the videos don't represent the reality. But they block any attempt for any information to leak out that would prove the Schindler's case. I like the idea of letting the whole world get a chance to see if she really is as hopeless as her husband says she is. Felos and company will never agree to such a thing on the bogus argument that they are protecting her privacy.

[l.tecolote]

> Since this went to court - facts were considered by a judge. No more need be said.

Wrong!! Lots more needs to be considered because this judge received financial campaign donations or in-kind assistance from a number of persons/entities either actively interested in seeing Terri die or to protect Greer and thus their own political situations. Tons of factual evidence exists that Greer has broken many Florida statutes, violated Florida's constitution and is entangled in corrupt dealings. Much of the factual background about Greer's unsavory rulings and lawbreaking can be found at the Schiavo reports section of theempirejournal.com