Posted on 10/17/2003 10:16:11 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
Abuse report filed for Terri Schiavo
Judicial Watch says it now has given Jeb Bush premise to intervene
Posted: October 18, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The Washington, D.C., watchdog group Judicial Watch filed an abuse complaint it says will allow Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene on behalf of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the brain-disabled woman who is starving under a court order initiated by her husband.
Judicial Watch President Thomas Fitton faxed a "Form to Report Abuse/Abandonment/Neglect/Exploitation" with the Florida Department of Children and Families yesterday then sent a letter to Bush and DCF Secretary Jerry Regier.
The letter said, "Based on our formal complaint via the faxed report referenced above, you have the authority and sufficient cause to immediately order the Florida Department of Children and Family Services to intervene on behalf of Ms. Schiavo; to restore her nutrition; and to initiate a full investigation of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Schiavo’s disability."
Fitton said these actions are in accord with the U.S. Constitution, the Florida Constitution, Article 2, Section 5, and Florida statutes 825.102 and 782.04(2)(i), 77.04.
The abuse report, under "Description of Incident," says:
Thirteen years ago Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage from a sudden collapse. She receives her food and water by means of a feeding tube. Terri's other bodily functions are stable. She responds to voices, and is capable of smiling, laughing and crying. She vocalizes well.
Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, has denied her any rehabilitation treatment since 1993. On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, Michael Schiavo directed that Terri's feeding tube be disconnected, subjecting her to starvation and dehydration that will result in an anguishing death in approximately 10 to 14 days.
Judicial Watch is known for its many lawsuits against President Clinton's administration. But the group, led by Larry Klayman, also has taken on the current White House, including a lawsuit to force the release of information about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.
Klayman recently declared he will run for a U.S. Senate seat from Florida.
Legal documents and information on Terri's case are posted on the family's website.
Previous stories
Desperate parents plead to Jeb Bush
Lawyers: Bush can step in for Schiavo
Starvation begins for Terri Schiavo
Husband protests video showing alert Terri
Terri Schiavo wants to live
No intervention for Schiavo
Joni Eareckson Tada joins vigil for Terri Schiavo
Hearing today on woman scheduled to starve
Prayer vigil for Terri Schiavo
Bush steps in for Schindler-Schiavo
Florida AG intervenes in Schiavo lawsuit
Order signed for starvation of disabled woman
Disabled woman wins reprieve
Another 9-11 date with death
Federal judge considers Schiavo case
Federal Court grants emergency hearing in Schiavo case
Attorney: Jeb Bush letter only a 'good first step'
Gov. Bush's plea for Schindler-Schiavo rejected
Jeb Bush intervenes for Schindler-Schiavo
Legal setbacks clear way for Schiavo starvation
Schindler-Schiavo on 'death row'
Husband bars priest from brain-damaged wife
Brain-damaged woman hospitalized
Fight for life bombshell: Terri trying to talk
Petition drive launched for Terri Schiavo
Commentary: 'Murder is legal if we say so'
GOD WILL GIVE ME RELEASE OF SUFFERING IN HIS GOOD TIME!
Terri Shiavo is being murdered, in utterly cold blood. She's not the first. There is no hope in the courts or the elected officials of government.
Jeb Bush is not going to save Terri. He could. He could have the same chutzpah as the Clinton administration did with the Elian Gonzalez case and just do it. But he won't. She's going to die; we should all just realize that. "Jeb Bush can't do anything about it" say his supporters. BS. He could. But he won't because it might hurt his political career, which is more important than Terri's life. The perceived, skewed "separation of powers" is more important than a human life. Jeb's so-called "powerlessness" leaves me speechless. But not suprised. He's trying to cover his conservative base (and ass) by declaring he's done his best to intervene, but the pro-death media won't be *too* pissed off, because Terri will be dead, and Bush won't have defied its favorite judge. Or judges. Or culture. Anyone who says Jeb (or George) Bush "can't do anything" to save Terri Shiavo is deceiving himself. Teri Shiavo is going to die - AND SHE IS GOING TO DIE! - because those in power to save her will not sacrifice their political futures to save her. Jeb Bush is going to be oh so sad when she dies, oh dear. "I tried!" My dear Mr. Governor, if you care, if you really care, send in the National Guard, and let's see pictures, this time heroic pictures, of soldiers with machine guns, this time protecting doctors putting the feeding tubes back in.
More important than how I die is how I'm going to inculcate into my other five children is how to keep their two handicapped brothers from being legally murdered as Terri Shiavo is now. As if it is "kind." May God have mercy on the faithful in the United States of America, as it becomes another evil empire of death. His own Kingdom is the only righteous country left.
OK Mr. Know-it-all. I would be more than happy to do whatever I could, even bringing her to my home. I WILL contribute to her care if she is spared since her parents have spent everything they have over these years.
Why are you so angry and bitter? Has something similar happened to you? I have been through several cases with my own family - to pull the plug or not(total life support) and believe me you learn your priorities. If there is any chance - you take it!
The televised Senate debates are going to be Sizzling!!!
I can't wait to see Hillary's face when Larry Klayman faces-off with her on the Senate Floor!
You may find this one of interest as well:
www.sweetliberty.org/bulletins/bonescan.htm
The four paragraphs directly below this are taken from the Media Kit posted at Terri's website. Below that is a true transcript (also posted on www.terrisfight.org, in the download section titled "Bone Scan"). We've transcribed it here for easier reading, since the original was very faint with broken and blurred letters.
You will read a transcript of the doctor describing what he found on Terri's bone scan. We had help with definitions and will bracket those terms for further understanding of what you're reading.
Allegedly -- according to Michael Schiavo -- Terri's brain damage was due to a heart attack. Read this and then decide which you believe. -- Jackie -- October 16th, 2003
P.S. If you haven't made your calls for Terri, PLEASE DO.
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Terri was NEVER diagnosed as a heart attack victim when she was admitted to the Northside Humana emergency room in February 1990. To this day, her family does not know the true cause of her collapse.
Doctors immediately excluded heart attack as her blood enzymes were not elevated -- typical in all heart attack victims. Terri's toxicology screen also eliminated any suspicion of drugs.
At the time of Terri's admittance, blood tests revealed a depletion of electrolytes and her attending physician HYPOTHESIZED that low blood potassium MAY have caused her collapse. It was with this information that Michael Schiavo entered into a lawsuit against Terri's General Practitioner and Gynecologist, claiming negligence on their part.
In preparation for Terri's October 2002 trial, her ER records were reviewed and it was plainly noted in the "Admitting Summary" that Terri had a "rigid neck" when she was admitted to the hospital. These injuries were never disclosed to Terri's family, nor -- to their knowledge -- were they ever investigated. The doctor reviewing these records testified that the only other patient he treated with similar injuries was the victim of an attempted strangulation.
The prospect that foul play may have led to Terri's collapse and ensuing heart stoppage was enhanced when a bone scan was recently found. This scan, taken 53 weeks after Terri's collapse revealed that Terri had fractured ribs, damage to her pelvic area, LI vertebrae, spine, both knees and both ankles. It also revealed that Terri had suffered a broken femur and a broken back. Three doctors concluded that Terri had endured trauma of some sort. The radiologist responsible for the scan plainly stated: "This patient has a history of trauma". [excerpt from the media kit]
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831223741016
03-05-91
Theresa Schiavo
Nuclear Imaging
BONE SCAN
3-5-91
Indication: Evaluate for trauma
Procedure and findings. Multiple gama camera images of the axial [trunk] and proximal appendicular [limbs] skeleton in the anterior [front] and posterior [back] projections were obtained following 2.1 millicuries of technetium 99m HDP.
There are an extensive number of focal abnormal areas of nuclide accumulation of intense type. These include multiple bilateral ribs, the costovertebral [where ribs and vertebra come together] aspects of several of the thoracic [upper] vertebral bodies, the L1 [lower] vertebral body, both sacroliac joints, the distal right femoral diaphysis, both knees and both ankles, the right greater than the left.
Correlative radiographs are obtained of the lumbar spine and of the right femur [leg bone] which reveal compression fracture; minor, superior and plate of L1, and shaggy, irregular periosteal ossification along the distal femoral diaphysis, and metaphysis primarily ventrally. [calcification showing where bones were broken and have healed].
The patient has a history of trauma. Most likely the femoral periosteal reaction reflects a response to a subperiosteal hemorrhage and the activity in L1 correlates perfectly with the compression fracture which is presumably traumatic.
The presumptions is that the other multiple areas of abnormal activity also relate to previous trauma. Additional possibilities would be neoplastic bone disease, widespread disseminated infectious bone disease or multiple bone infarcts from abnormal hemoglobin.
CONCLUSION: Multiple areas of abnormal scintigraphic [actinographic?] accumulation, some of which are radiograph for differential as discussed above.
W. Campbell Walker M.D./mjt
Dictated 3-5-91
Transcribed ?-5-91
Lee Memorial Hospital
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NOTE: The person who helped with the spelling and definitions said simply, what the doctor described would be the results of someone who had been kicked, and kicked and kicked. The thoracic damage was possibly from strangulation. If a person is strangulated it follows there would be a loss of oxygen to the brain -- causing brain damage -- as the blood supply was blocked. - Jackie
Read the Nurse's affidavit indicating that she believes Schiavo has repeatedly tried to murder Terri since her hospitalization. http://www.cnsnews.com/pdf/2003/aff2.pdf
This is is more horrible than any fictional horror story. This judge and Schiavo's lawyers are committing murder for Schiavo.
I wonder if Terri has been sedated for these past months, to depress her ability to interact with her family.
I wonder if an autopsy would show that?.
Reasons to Have an Autopsy Performed
In an accompanying editorial, George D. Lundberg, MD, editor of JAMA, stated several reasons for performing autopsies:* establishing the cause of death
* comparing premortem (before death) symptoms with and postmortem autopsy findings
* monitoring public health
* assessing the quality of medical practices
* instructing medical students and physicians
* identifying new and changing diseases
*evaluating different therapies
* reassuring family members and
* protecting against false liability claims and settling valid claims
Interesting and bears repeating.
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Attorney Christopher A. Ferrara argues that Michael Schiavo has violated Terri's rights under federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, by withholding medical treatment and refusing to allow her to fed by mouth.
"(The Schindlers) are about to lose their daughter because no one wants to put a teaspoon of Jello to her mouth," Ferrara said. "It's insane."
Do something that will really tick 'em off!!! Let your pesky little envelope be one of many that will fill their offices with the dreaded packages of jello they dare not feed Terri. My family sent three envelopes addressed:
Give 'em a fit........but more importantly.........you're telling them.......
Change the way your running this country. We're watching you, and we don't like the way you're doing business in our name.
Related costs: Jello .99; Envelope 1.19, stamps 1.29
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Attorney Christopher A. Ferrara argues that Michael Schiavo has violated Terri's rights under federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, by withholding medical treatment and refusing to allow her to fed by mouth.
"(The Schindlers) are about to lose their daughter because no one wants to put a teaspoon of Jello to her mouth," Ferrara said. "It's insane."
Do something that will really tick 'em off!!! Let your pesky little envelope be one of many that will fill their offices with the dreaded packages of jello they dare not feed Terri. My family sent three envelopes addressed:
Give 'em a fit........but more importantly.........you're telling them.......
Change the way your running this country. We're watching you, and we don't like the way you're doing business in our name.
Related costs: Jello .99; Envelope 1.19, stamps 1.29
Florida Law seems to require the Medical examiners to investigate deaths in which the body is to be cremated..
(The investigation can be a simple one, without autopsy, but it is required, I think.)
You can see the two lists of circumstances that require investigation, side by side, here
Has the Florida law been changed? Is Pinellas exempt?
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