URGENT - ACTION NEEDED AT ONCE for Terri Schiavo

Children of God for Life ^ | 10-22-03 | Debi Vinnedge

[cpforlife.org]

URGENT - ACTION NEEDED AT ONCE While many have heard that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube has been re-inserted, her life is in eminent danger. Michael Schiavo is still her legal guardian. The would-be murderer is responsible for guarding his own victim! In addition when Terri was moved from hospice, he immediately blocked visitation rights at the hospital for her parents, siblings and family priest - the only source of Terri's comfort, love and joy. An emergency motion ordered visitation restored for the family but it was not received in the attorney's offices until 5:15PM today. By the time the family was able to get down to the hospital, her husband had removed her from the hospital and taken to an "undisclosed location" - we are told perhaps back to hospice.

In any case, the family has not been informed - they do not know her medical condition or whether the feeding tube has been reinstated or not. An IV was inserted at approximately 9:30 last night. This is a woman starved for 7 days with no food or water yet Michael has the audacity to remove her from the hospital care!

It is an outrage that Michael Schiavo and his attorney feel they can spit in the face of the governor, the Fl House and Senate - and trample Terri's rights with absolutely no regard for her health, happines or wishes.

Complaints have been filed through the Department of Health and Human Services yet nothing is being done to protect Terri from physical harm or to assure her rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Please take a moment and file your complaint with the Office of Civil Rights. Click here for the form: Discrimination Complaint Form or go to: http://hhs.gov/ocr/discrimhowtofile.html You can also file your complaint by email at OCRcomplaint@hhs.gov or call the District Office in Atlanta: Roosevelt Freeman, 404 562-7886. Tell them to immediately act and remove her care/custody from Michael.

In addition, please contact your US Congressman and ask him to investigate why the Department of Justice is not protecting Terri's civil rights as a disabled American and further request that the Department of Health and Human Services Civil Rights Office act at once to protect her.

Go to our website to read the formal letters of complaint filed by Children of God for Life, the family and medical personnel through Delegate Robert Marshall with Attorney General Ashcroft, the House Judiciary Committee and President Bush, asking for immediate federal intervention. You should read the facts to help explain the problem to your Congressmen. www.cogforlife.org/schiavo.htm

We will keep the site updated daily with new developments until Terri is safe and her rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the State of Florida are upheld! God bless, Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director Children of God for LIfe

[Republic]

CORRECTION-

MIKE BELL's phone number is

727-586-4432

Interesting...this area code is the same for the hospice Terri is in...and judge greer's area code.....the hospice headquarters for all of Florida, therefore, must be located in Pinellas county. No wonder Felos---associated with hospice....has so much pull.

[Republic]

What happened? I am off to call in moments

[SendShaqtoIraq]

AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

[pollywog]

Did you ever stop to consider that it might be God's plan for us to get involved and intervene?

Thank you for saying that. Let's roll . . . for life!

Yes, Let's ROLL!!!!!!for life!!!!! I agree Saundra. This is a excellent comment!

[pollywog]

Contact Us Attorney General John Ashcroft

AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.

[FR_addict]

You need to read the background of this case. Michael S. is suspected of trying to kill her.

His actions since then, refusing to use her lawsuit settlement funds for Terri's rehabilitation are also highly suspect. This is what he said he needed the settlement for in the papers he filed.

There is evidence she may have been strangled, but no one pursued this at the time. I imagine the parents were too busy watching over Terri to prod the police into investigating. Her husband was able to keep her records sealed for 10 years. In them, there is indication of a possible strangulation.

When Terri became unconscious 13 years ago, he called her father first, before calling 911. The father had to tell him to call 911. The brother who lived near-by and was able to get there before the paramedics said her hands were on her throat and in a very strange position.

Her brother has also stated that Terri had told him she planned to divorce her husband. She and her brother had plans to go out that night, but she called and said it wasn't a good night, that she and Michael S. had been fighting all day.

We are very afraid that the state is helping Michael S. complete the murder he started. There has been enough circumstantial evidence that he may have had something to do with her condition in the first place that the judge should have named another guardian.

[NebraskaTrailrider]

From what I read about the law passed on the 21st, the senate version which was passed did not include that Michael be removed as guardian. That is why he is still in charge of her 'care'. But even as guardian, he cannot legally dictate "how" the hospice is to 'care' for her, as they have lawful policies that have to be followed. That would include basic cares, such as bedside cares, grooming ect. If my immpression is correct, that group of nurses at the hospice are a bunch of whimps if they are letting M. Schiavo dictate how care is to be delivered. He has no legal right to do that. National and State Nurse Practice Acts are laws that forbid neglect of basic physical and spiritual needs. They are no doubt using the excuse that she never requested spiritual care therefore we don't have to provide it. What a bunch of sorry nurses, if this is the case.

[TigersEye]

Picture of an "unresponsive vegetable".

Were your friends like this?

[FR_addict]

It is circumstantial, but very likely, if you look at Michael s. past documented actions and his current actions.

They have some of the papers filed in this case and more information here:

http://www.terrisfight.org/

This post may explain where the attorney is coming from:
It is post 51 in the thread below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1005562/posts?q=1&&page=51

"Mr. Felos' book, Litigation as Spiritual Practice, contains numerous bizarre anecdotes about his ardent desire to end the administration of food and water to severely disabled or gravely sick patients."

"On pages 181-182 of his book, Felos claims that merely by visualizing a plane crash during a flight he was taking back to Florida, he caused the plane to begin to crash and that God spoke to him at that moment to warn him: 'Be careful what you think. You are more powerful than you realize'.....'I was startled, humbled, and blessed by God's admonishment.'"

Attorney George Felos believes God speaks to him and that God has told him he is a powerful man. Powerful enough to crash an airplane merely by thinking of it. Attorney Felos, prepare to be truly admonished. Only this time it won't be by the little voices that speak in your head.

http://webpages.charter.net/honeygrl/terri.txt"
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I looked up Felos on amazon.com and found this

http://www.bluedolphinpublishing.com/Felos.htm

Author of Litigation as Spiritual Practice

"Attorney George J. Felos is a nationally recognized expert in right-to-die cases. He is best known for the landmark case that helped establish an individual's constitutional right to refuse or have withdrawn unwanted medical treatment, Guardianship of Browning, and the current case of a vegetative young woman, Terri Schiavo, which was featured on NBC's Dateline program.

He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including CBS's Early Show, CNN's Burden of Proof, Daybreak and Greenfield at Large, Court TV's Pros and Cons, Inside Edition, The Kathy Fountain Show, and NPR's All Things Considered. He has also presented seminars and debated end-of-life issues for various professional, civic and religious groups, and leads meditation and personal growth workshops.

Felos is the creator of Meditation for Lawyers, the first-of-its-kind instructional course accredited for continuing legal education. His article by the same name has been published and posted in various journals.

Felos graduated from Boston University School of Law, has practiced in Pinellas County since 1978, was a founding member of the National Legal Advisors Committee on Choice in Dying, and served as Board Chair of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, the largest non-profit Hospice in the world.
A classical pianist, yoga teacher, Hospice volunteer, saltwater fisherman, and guest minister to various churches in his spare time, Felos resides in Dunedin with his son, Alexander."
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This attorney is a big-time right-to-die advocate, which I am not against when it is a case of truly "pulling the plug" and not starving someone to death. Starvation is illegal in many states.

I wonder when Michael S. first hired this guy who thinks he's god and can cause a plane to crash just by thinking about it.

[ChemistCat]

He doesn't want his activities with the trust fund to be noticed, and he doesn't want a criminal investigation into the causes of Terri's condition to have the use of her body (living or dead) for it. If she's dead and cremated he doesn't even need to save the records of how he spent the trust fund money that was supposed to be for therapy and maintenance. He gets off free. A judge has already issued a waiver against Florida State Law that says that Terri can be cremated immediately after death with no autopsy.

You do realize that a million dollars was awarded for her care and he swore to the jury it would be spent on her. After he had the money, that's when she was denied all rehabilitation therapy, including communication therapies that might have restored the ability to communicate her own desires. Even the right to swallow food--as she could do on her own--was denied her. Treatment for painful infections has been denied to her. It's ILLEGAL for her to even be in a hospice because her condition isn't (or wasn't!) terminal--but this way she's in a place where her husband and his co-conspirators have more control over her.

Terri may or may not want to have her life continued by feeding tube, but since she had no living will we don't know. I do know that Michael Schiavo's behavior is well-documented and he does not have his wife's best interest at heart. He looks and acts like a cold-blooded killer who has found a legal way to not only finish the botched job but also HIDE ALL EVIDENCE of what he did.

[diamond6]

Thank you for the info, however, I tried to send an email to this address and my computer said that it was an invalid address.

[FR_addict]

Here's an excerpt from Felos' book that is on his publisher's site:

http://www.bluedolphinpublishing.com/Felos.htm

"While standing in the house with the realtor, I knew I would live there, as improbable as the circumstances made it seem. Believing that something will happen is not foresight. Rather, it is the actual experience in the present of something that will occur in the future. The paradox with this form of intuition is that the future is no longer the future because it becomes for that moment the present. When I entered that house for the first time, I knew I would live there because, through foresight, I realized I was already living there.

Most times this "knowing" for me is sensed as a feeling. Sometimes I hear it, and sometimes I see it. This is not to say that I go around every day intuiting tomorrow's events. I'm stuck in my head a good portion of the time, like most of us in our mentally over-developed culture. This means that most of our energy is tied up intellectually, engaged in thought and reacting to thought. And much of the time our reactive thought process drives our emotions. How we feel depends upon whether we happen to be attracted to, averse to or indifferent to what we are thinking.

Intuition does not lie in the rational mind. Sometimes it is "seen" through other centers of the body, such as the heart or solar plexus. Everybody has had that "gut feeling." For me, the experience of intuition through sight is like seeing two different realities at the same time. To use a Star Trek analogy, it's dimensionally multi-phasic. (I wondered whether I could write this book without referring to Star Trek, and didn't get past page three!)

The crew of the Enterprise, beset in one episode by all types of strange maladies, discovered that they were infected by invisible parasitic creatures attached to their bodies. The creatures were unseeable because they existed in another phasic dimension. They occupied the same space and time, but at a different vibrational level. With the benefit of a hand-held "multi-phasic viewing device" constructed by our heroes, they could press a button and observe the creatures on their skin. Release the button and they were gone. Intuitive seeing is somewhat like that for me. A transparent image exists and is there, and then it's not. While extremely subtle, it is also undeniably real."

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Felos' thinks he can predict the future. No wonder he is so mad. All our emails and phone calls were not part of his "vision" of starving Terri to death.

[princess leah]

Too bad Terri's family couldn't get an "undercover cop" to go work in the hospice and keep a close watch on her from the inside...that's what I would do if I feared for my family member. Of course, I would probably go in and take her out of the hospice and remove her to some hospital that had specialized care in her type of case.

[firewalk]

bttt

[Salvation]

**Too bad Terri's family couldn't get an "undercover cop" to go work in the hospice and keep a close watch on her from the inside...**

Good idea!

[pollywog]

was this the email for John Ashcroft that didnt work , diamond6?

I know I have been trying to email annasantamaria at the hospice and that my server is refusing THAT address too. Freepmail if you wish.

[ZAKJAN]

POST # 73 quote

November 1992 – A medical malpractice trial is petitioned by Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo. He asks the jury for 20 million dollars to pay for his wife’s (Terri) future medical and neurological requirements. This request was based on estimates of her life expectancy, which Michael Schiavo and his attorneys were estimating at 50 years.
Medical Malpractice Trial – Testimony of Michael Schiavo
November 1992 – In a highly emotional trial, Michael Schiavo implored the jury to award money for his wife’s future medical and neurological care. Actual excerpts from the malpractice trial transcript reveal Michael Schiavo’s sworn testimony as he responded to his attorney's question. (It is important to note that Terri’s alleged wishes stating, "she wouldn’t want to live this way," are never mentioned by her husband at the 1992 malpractice trial).
Q: Why did you want to learn to be a nurse?
Michael Schiavo: Because I enjoy it and I want to learn more how to take care of Terri.


WOW what happened to the 50 yrs he expected to be taking care of his wonderful wife that he loves so much, and those vows until death do us part crap?
THE almighty dollar and a new chick and kids maybe? THIS IS SO OBVIOUS AND DISGUSTING IT MAKES ME SICK!!
JAN

[beachn4fun]

You know I kind of agree with your thinking. I keep wondering why this is happening after 10 years? Why has it taken the family 10 years to try to get their daughter back? Or to press their belief the son-in-law may have something to do with her condition. Where are the police and doctors? Why haven't they requested an investigation if there was something suspicious?? Something just seems strange about it all.

To me this is a perfect example of why one should have a living will. My husband and I have one. This way our wishes will be considered and not my family or his family.

[ruoflaw]

Beam him up Scottie!

[atruelady]

I have Bible verses e-mailed to me everyday. In fact, it is one of the things I look for first every morning. This is from today:

"Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles. When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Mathew 10:17-20"