Is Jeb About to Intervene!?!

AP via Miami Herald ^ | Posted on Wed, Oct. 15, 2003 | MITCH STACY

[oneday]

Posted on Wed, Oct. 15, 2003

Removal of brain-damaged woman's feeding tube to proceed MITCH STACY Associated Press

DOVER, Fla. - Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday he has ordered his legal team to try to find a way to intervene in the case of severely disabled woman who is scheduled to have the feeding tube keeping her alive removed.

Bush's comments came after a 20-minute meeting with the family of Terri Schiavo, who faces a 2 p.m. Wednesday deadline in the removal of the tube. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, has been granted permission to remove the tube in a six-year legal battle against her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.

Bush said his attorneys are looking for legal alternatives to somehow block the removal of the tube, but did not know yet what they might be.

"We are going to seek whatever legal alternatives are available and seek the best minds to find another avenue to submit to the courts to see if there can be a change in this ruling," Bush said at an appearance in Dover dedicating new housing for migrant workers.

"I am not a doctor, I am not a lawyer, But I know that if a person can be able to sustain life without life support, that should be tried," the governor said, adding the "ultimate decision of this is in the courts."

Bob Schindler Jr., Terri Schiavo's brother, said the family was heartened by the governor's last-minute effort. The Schindlers have pleaded with Bush - who in previous legal findings have supported their efforts to obtain therapy for their daughter - to intervene.

"The family has not given up hope on Terri," Bob Schindler Jr. said following the meeting with Bush. "We have spoken to the governor, and he hasn't given up hope either."

Terri Schiavo, 39, is expected to die within two weeks after the tube's removal. She's been in a vegetative state since suffering a heart attack in 1990. Her parents believe she is capable of learning how to eat and drink on her own.

A state appeals court in Lakeland rejected motions by an attorney for the Schindlers and their legal remedies have been exhausted, their lawyer said Tuesday.

Michael Schiavo says he is carrying out his wife's wishes that she not be kept alive artificially. The parents say their daughter has shown signs of trying to communicate and could be rehabilitated.

"In our eyes, it's murder," Bob Schindler said Wednesday on CBS' "Early Show."

George Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, said that the Schindlers were "still in denial" over Terri Schiavo's wishes not to be kept alive.

Doctors have testified that the noises and facial expressions Terri Schiavo makes are reflexes and do not indicate that she has enough mental capabilities to communicate with others.

[Skooz]

If my daughter (or other relative or friend) was about to be murdered, I wouldn't be worrying about what is legal and what is not.

Ditto. No one, no law, no cop, no judge, no government, no hospital, no husband, no one would keep me from doing everything in my physical power to keep my daughter alive. The legal consequences of my actions be damned.

[tazman3]

Governor has filed a motion to stop this insanity.

http://www.terrisfight.org/Framesets/CNewsFrame.htm

Here's the pdf, but you might have to use the link above.

http://www.zimp.com/100603ab.pdf

[Ohioan from Florida]

Hey, Theodore, do you think it's possible that Jerger & Centonze Insurance Agency eventually bought out the one that Michael got paid from? The Jerger guy used to be in insurance before he sold it off/merged with that other group. Wouldn't it be something if Michael's company held the money for his malpractice suit? I know, crazy, crazy! Sometimes weird things just hit me like that.

[angelwings49]

As much as I hate to say this, I am sad to be an American today, and I'm sad to be a Christian. I've always believed in my God and my Government, and they have both let Terri down today. None of this makes any sense to me and I don't know how or what to think anymore. What the hell is happening??!!

[Humidston]

WHY, WHY, WHY IS FNC NOT COVERING THIS TRAVESTY??

They're covering the supposed RAPE preliminary hearing, wall to wall, but NO STATE SANCTIONED MURDER coverage in Florida?

I can understand the liberal news, but why not FNC?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

FOX news reports that the feeding tube has been removed.

[Skooz]

Yep. Now he can throw up his hands and say, "Geez. We did everything we could. Our hands were tied. Sorry. Please don't hold it against me; it was out of my hands. Vote for me, I'm the Pro-Life guy."

[tazman3]

PDF link doesn't work but you can still use this one:

http://www.terrisfight.org/Framesets/CNewsFrame.htm

and click on the link to "Florida's Governor, Jeb Bush Files Amicus Memorandum"

[agrace]

Unfortunately, that's an old doc from 10/6.

[Theodore R.]

I don't know any of the insurance company names. It was Terri's brother who said some weeks ago that they tried to press for insurance fraud but ran into a brick wall there too.

FL seems to be wall-to-wall brick walls, doesn't it? No wonder the Floridians could not decide who they wanted for President. They are at odds with themselves.

[Humidston]

Look at the top... It's dated Oct 6th. That brief has already been thrown out.

[itsahoot]

What the hell is happening??!!

Total War from Satan and his minions, our job is to recognize who those minions are. Sadly they may appear as angels of light.

Jeb Bush could do what ever is necessary to prevent this. His hero brother President could pardon him from any legal repercussions. But he won't and neither will GW.

[Theodore R.]

So really what is the Republican Party for? What good does it do to have a Republican governor and GOP legislature in FL? How has this helped? FL Republicans achieved a long-term goal, but has this helped very many? It certainly has done nothing for the Schindlers. Who has this helped?

[spectre]

I don't know how the parents are going to survive the next two weeks, being isolated from Terri, as she lays there, starving and dehydrating till death.

I pray for her loving parents.I pray for our Nation.

Tears for sweet Terri.

sw

[tazman3]

Sorry, selective reading on my part.

[Theodore R.]

Someone could spend days making a list of Republican Party promises and how they were broken. He probably could not remember all the broken promises.

[RedRidingHood]

You are right, Jeb won't do anything. All his very last minute grandstanding!! My opinion they all knew the outcome. This is disgusting and anyone who would let this happen is a coward..

[Pegita]

Do you know the name of Michael's current girlfriend? If not, does anyone? Her last name starts with a "C" ...

[Skooz]

Don't give up. God knew this sort of thing was going to be pervasive in these last days:

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away

2 Peter 3:1-5

The parts which I deem relevent to this case are in bold.