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This is going to get the attention it needs right now. Let's see how much Jeb drags his feet after this airs.

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BTTT

I don't see anything listed at the Fox News Website - But I will be tuning in! Everyone needs to know what is going on.

[sinkspur]

What can Jeb Bush do? This is in the judicial system of Florida, right now.

Get off your Jeb Bush rant.

And Randall Terry, with his very public dumping of his wife and kids four years ago so he could marry a much younger woman, ain't the Christian icon he used to be.

[LieFreeGov]

Bump for murder avoidance!

[CSXT]

What is it he's supposed to do? He has no authority over the judge who issued pulling the plug. From my communication with him he seems to be doing what he can do-getting interested parties to protest the action and get the judge to reverse himself.

[stanz]

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[AAABEST]

Doug,

There's also a thread on the local forum here and here.

[george wythe]

I support Jeb Bush.

I voted for Jeb twice as did my wife.

We will vote for him again if he were to run for any other office.

Jeb already did enough for this case.

People of good will disagree on this. . . the parents think that she is not a vegetable, the husband believes she is a vegetable.

So far, all the courts, at the state level and the federal level, have agreed with the husband's take on this.

[Armed Civilian]

Can anyone guess which way Alan will be leaning?

[tray-sea]

Glad you posted this thread.. however, I do think Jeb is trying to make waves.. he'll come through I am sure he's pulling strings..
i guess we'll see what happens.

[DrDeb]

"This is going to get the attention it needs right now. Let's see how much Jeb drags his feet after this airs."

I genuinely feel your pain; however, we must target the REAL villains in this heart-wrenching case! Jeb Bush has tried to intervene TWICE in this case -- he DOES NOT have the legal authority to do anything other than what he has already done!

The following article was posted on Glenn Beck's website:

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Federal judge says
Terri Schiavo must die
Rejects plea by parents to allow disabled woman to live

Posted: October 12, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Sarah Foster
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

A federal judge in Tampa, Fla., has ruled against Terri Schiavo, the 39-year-old brain-disabled woman, whose death by court-ordered starvation is scheduled to begin in four days. The ruling clears the way for her husband, Michael Schiavo, to remove the feeding tube his wife depends upon for food and hydration.

At the end of a three-and-a-half-hour hearing Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara rejected a plea by Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler of Gulf Port, Fla., to assume federal jurisdiction over the case, refusing to acknowledge that her constitutional rights, in particular her 14th Amendment right to due process, had been violated.

He also rejected a request by the Schindlers for a temporary injunction on removing Terri's feeding tube, until she has received sufficient therapy and training to enable her to be spoon-fed.

He granted a motion to dismiss the Schindlers' petition made Monday by Schiavo's attorney George Mr. Felos, a well-known "right-to-die" advocate.

The case was argued in court by Christopher Ferrara, of the American Catholic Lawyers Association, co-counsel with Patricia Anderson representing the Schindlers and Terri herself.

Pamela Hennessy, volunteer spokesperson for the Schindler family, attended the hearing and pulled no punches in comments to WorldNetDaily.

"I sat there in the courtroom, and it seemed that he cut off every other sentence Chris made. He interrupted him endlessly. I don't think [Lazzara] let him finish too many sentences. I don't think Chris was really heard."


Gov. Jeb Bush

Not even the fact that the Florida Gov. Jeb Bush had stepped into the fight for Terri last week by filing a friend-of-the-court brief on her behalf impressed the judge, said Hennessy.

"[Lazzara] didn't care," she said. "He said the governor's brief was well-written and he allowed him to be admitted as a friend of the court, but he said that [Bush] was only a friend of the court and had no power to intervene."


Hennessey took umbrage at the notion that as a federal judge he cannot take jurisdiction.

"Of course he can," she exclaimed. "[Terri's] constitutional rights have been denied. He could have stepped in, but nope – he washed his hands of it, he didn't want to get involved at all."

As WorldNetDaily reported, the Schindlers have been fighting with their son-in-law Michael Schiavo for 10 years over the lack of care and therapy Schiavo has provided for their daughter, who suffered massive brain damage when, at the age of 26, she collapsed at her home 13 years ago under mysterious circumstances.

The contentious family dispute escalated into a major euthanasia battle in 1998 when Schiavo petitioned the Florida courts for permission to end his wife's life by disconnecting her feeding tube, insisting she is in a "persistent vegetative state" and that in casual conversations she had told him she would not want to be kept alive "artificially." Although Terri breathes on her on and maintains her own blood pressure, she requires a simple tube into her abdomen to her stomach for nourishment and hydration.

Although Terri's parents and siblings have claimed for years that she recognizes them and tries to talk – and over a dozen prominent doctors and therapists have stated under oath that she is not in a persistent vegetative state and with therapy could be rehabilitated – a handful of doctors have testified she is "vegetative." They claim her expressions and vocalizations are simply reflex actions and that she will never regain consciousness. Despite a scarcity of expert testimony and evidence for Schiavo's position, Greer and Florida's appellate courts have consistently sided with him and Felos, his attorney.

When the seven-member Florida Supreme Court washed its hands of the matter in August by turning down an appeal by the Schindlers to review the case, the way was clear for Schiavo to starve his wife to death.

On Sept. 17, probate Judge George Greer, of the Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court, scheduled Oct. 15 as the day Terri's feeding tube would be removed.

At the same time but in separate rulings, Greer – who has been in charge of the case from almost the beginning – denied any rehabilitation whatsoever for the disabled woman. An Aug. 26 request by the Schindlers asking that their daughter be allowed an eight-week trial of speech, occupational and physical therapy, was summarily rejected by Greer along with a motion made Sept. 10 that she be taught to swallow food so she could be spoon-fed.

With the state courts closed against them, the Schindlers sued their son-in-law in federal court to block the scheduled Oct. 15 removal of their daughter's feeding tube. In their Sept. 22 request for a preliminary injunction, they asked Judge Lazzara that Terri be given therapy for a sufficient time to wean her off her feeding tube and return her to nutrition by mouth.

Friday's ruling by Lazzara has destroyed that opportunity and the hopes of Terri's family and supporters that she would be allowed to live.

Terri's feeding tube is scheduled to be removed at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Physicians say her slow death by starvation and dehydration will take anywhere from seven to 14 days.

The Schindlers and their attorneys were unavailable for comment.

Legal documents and information on Terri's fight for life are posted on the family's website.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35041

[pollywog]

Thank you Sean !!!! Bump and prayers for intervention from Jeb Bush!!!

[GOPCajunLady]

PING for a defenseless, precious life about to be taken away by a cruel Judge. This totally disgusts me! She is not in a coma nor is she in a vegetative state. :o(

[incindiary]

Awesome, thanks for the post! I want to see it, what time?

(sorry, i almost never watch tv)

[MindBender26]

Why is everyone targetting Jeb Bush? This is in the courts, the JUDICIAL branch of government. Jeb runs the EXECUTIVE branch.

Exec does not direct Judicial. the Gov. has no legal say in the matter, other than to REQUEST the court hear his friend of the court petition and allow her to live.

[jennyp]

Where is Michael Schiavo in all this? Does his home & neighborhood ever get beseiged by protesters? Does the media hound him at all? He's the one who's behind this all - hiding behind his lawyers while he manipulates the system to get "that b*tch" out of his way. He needs to be called to account.

[MainFrame65]

Remember Elian Gonzalez, the young child snatched by the jack-booted thugs if the INS and forcibly returned to Cuba? What was the authority for that travesty of justice?

I hesitate to suggest that the President take this initiative, because I think that it was a travesty then, but perhaps the precedent already, sadly, exists. At least saving Terri Schiavo would be a moral act.

[ladyinred]

I think this is an outrage just as you do, but from what I gather here, the judge is the person your anger should be directed to, not the governor who has no authority in this case.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

THANKS MUCHO for the head's up!!! Hannity just mentioned the story in his preview for tonight's show.

THANK YOU SEAN!!!!!!!

[nickcarraway]

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