Governor Seeks New Trial Over Brain Damaged Woman's Wishes

Tampa Bay Online ^ | November 19, 2003 | Vickie Chachere

[sweetliberty]

Gov. Jeb Bush fired a volley of legal shots Wednesday at the husband of a brain damaged woman who is at the center of a right to die case, saying there needs to be a jury trial on whether Terri Schiavo wanted to be kept alive artificially. The governor also sought to remove Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird from hearing the constitutionality of the new law enacted to keep Terri Schiavo alive after her feeding tube was removed last month. In yet a third legal filing, the governor argues that Terri Schiavo's rights under the Florida Constitution are being protected, not violated.

Terri Schiavo went for six days without food and water after her husband Michael Schiavo removed her feeding tube. Florida lawmakers and Bush intervened, enacting a hastily drawn law that allowed the governor to order the feeding tube be reinserted.

Michael Schiavo has challenging the constitutionality of the governor's action. He contends his wife had said she did not want to be kept alive artificially before she suffered severe brain damage in 1990. Doctors have ruled she has been in a persistent vegetative state since, but her parents believe she is aware of her surroundings and could be rehabilitated.

Bush's attorney Ken Connor said a jury has to establish what Terri Schiavo's wishes were before a court can decide whether her private health care wishes were violated.

George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney, could not immediately be reached for comment.

[msmagoo]

So far FeelLousy hasn't broken the law. But lately he behaves as if he's defending a criminal, especially by trying to seal the bone scan. If the bone scan is 'normal', why the major effort to keep it out of court? Makes ya wonder, doesn't it?

[TaxRelief]

I received the same response, but when I asked if they wanted specific information, the answer was a resounding "Yes!"

[TaxRelief]

Sedation makes her less able to respond. My guess is they are preparing for possible visits from people whom they want to impress with Terri's "vegetableness".

[msmagoo]

Is the hospice, MS or Felos so bold as to try to 'fix' the outcome of Wolfson's investigation?

Very bad idea.
Blood tests don't lie, and can be subpoenaed.

[exmarine]

Yes, in fact, the doctors were ordered by the Nazis to put to death all the retarded, mentally ill, or disabled, and phoney death certificates were sent to the relatives of such victims saying the death was by TB or heart failure or some other such lie. The Nazis also these defenseless people as guinea pigs to test the gasses for their death chambers.

If God doesn't exist, ALL THINGS ARE ACCEPTABLE. As Marquis de Sade said, "What is, is right." That is why the irreligious are dangerous to our Republic. They must be opposed at every turn. They will only be stopped when Christians get out of their stinking comfort zones and do something to oppose them. These secular humanists are relentlessly pursuing their nefarious goals - look at the gay rights movement, abortion movement, ACLU, etc., etc.

If Christians do not stand up to these blackguards now, we will be next!! Our republic is already gone - it's become a combination democracy/oligarchy (our founders HATED democracy - it's tyranny pure and simple).

It's time to take America back! It's time to enforce the Law of the Land - the U.S. Constitutuion as plainly written and originally intended.

[tuckrdout]

Felos actually called Terri a "houseplant"!

[AmericaUnited]

It's nice to hear from our Christian brothers and sisters that we're not all going to hell.

You keep your priests from our young boys and we'll do our best to keep our televangelists away from your women. Relax folks... it's a joke!

[tuckrdout]

I have to disagree with you. Our country has become an aristrocrisy. The Senators have made themselves above the laws they make for the "serfs"; they have made the "serfs" dependant on them; and they have appointed judges to make law from the bench.

Or perhaps an even more apt description of this nation is that it has become a "Judicial Tyranny"! The judiciary is far too powerful in the nation. The balance of power is out of balance.

When the people make their wishes known at the ballot box and a judge overturns it; when their elected officials pass laws which judges overturn, then we have an Tyranny! A country run by tyranical judges! The "people" can not have what they want! It is a country no longer, "for the people, by the people"...it is for the rich and powerful by the judges.

We must revolt against this and turn it around! In the words of our very own Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness....."

In the Declaration of Independence, the colonies listed the crimes the King had committed against them, which compelled them to declare a separate government. Amoung them was the very problem we now have with our judiciary!

"He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries."

Judges these days are dependent on the will of the liberal democrats or they may not even be voted on. The liberal democrats obstruct justice by refusing to allow any laws restricting judicial power, or even allowing a balance of opinion in the court by allowing Christian conservatives to sit on an appeals court!

The attempted killing of Terri Schiavo is another evidence of judicial tyranny. They are stepping on the "self evident, unalienable rights" of Terri Schiavo. Rights given her by her creator and not in the power of any government to take away. Our founders said that when a government acts in such a despotic way; "it is their (the people) right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security..."

I could not agree more.

[exmarine]

Thank you for your comments. We have a democracy in the sense that politicians rely too heavily on POLLS and special interest groups. We have an oligarchy in the sense that 9 robed morons try to rule by arbitrary fiat without regard to the rule of law. We are a nation of laws not men, and in that sense we have also leaned toward democracies which are rules by the arbitrary will of the majority or special interests, and not laws. We have the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights in order to ensure that we do not become a democracy, however, no one pays attention to the Constitution any more. Not Bush, not Congress, not anyone - to them it is a mere RELIC! The vast majority in our government have broken their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution and I won't waste my vote on anyone who ignores it. That means I don't vote Republican or Democrat - both are guilty as charged!

Lex Rex not Rex Lex. Law is King.

If you want to do something about this tyranny - then get a petition from the following website, fill it up with signatures and mail it in!

http://www.restoretheconstitution.org/campaigns/10cffr/ viewPetition.aspx

God bless.

[pickyourpoison]

Are you giving them any info? They can go to Terri's site and get plenty.

[exmarine]

More signs of an oligarchy/democracy: The illegal and unconstitutional use of Executive Orders by the President; the delegation of congressional authority to unaccountable bureacratic agencies (EPA, SEC, ETC.), and the continued expansion of the Federal Govt under the Republican leadership. All 3 branches are guilty of ignoring the U.S. Constitution, an impeachable offense, since the Constitution is the LAW OF THE LAND.

If you think republicans are much better than democrats, you are dreaming. There isn't more than a handful of people in our Congress who give a flip about what the Constitution says. Their behavior proves it.

[nicmarlo]

I just heard from my friend, whom I e-mailed concerning Terri and the bone scan. He is an Orthopedic Surgeon, Doctor of Osteopathy. He has been a doctor for about 20 years.

I asked him to look at the bone scan and give me his opinion at to the likely cause of the fractures (trauma v. osteoporosis).

Let me first clarify: Although he is aware of "Terri Schiavo," it is probably only through t.v. (and we know what coverage they have had). I do not believe he realizes that the length of time between Terri's initial admittance and the bone scan was only ONE YEAR. (So, I re-e-mailed him with that information and am, again, awaiting his "final opinion.")

With that clarification in mind, this is his initial response to my question as far as the cause of the fractures to Terri:

the terri schiavo case is a weird one. the bonescan sounds like trauma, but there's a remote possibility she has severe osteoporosis from being bed-ridden. they would need to do a bone density (dexa scan) to figure that out.

[pickyourpoison]

Sh didn't have to be bed-ridden. The money was there for re-hab. I'd love to see her well enough to sue everyone involved in squandering that money.

[TaxRelief]

I sent them the LKL text and pointed out several contradictions. I think we should all send them solid research and facts. Let's not send innuendos and emotional pleas.

[TaxRelief]

But convincing them to do blood tests to determine what drugs she has been given is probably the hard part.

[Saundra Duffy]

So, does this mean..Judge Greer can be removed as a Judge ?

I hope his sorry rear-end gets canned.

[Saundra Duffy]

According to Michael Schiavo, the Nazi's were kind to the Jews they starved to death. It was a such a peaceful way to die, and oh so natural.

[syriacus]

Thanks for the ping, editor-surveyor.

Jeb is carrying through very nicely, in his efforts for Terri.

You know...

I still think we could use someone like him as our US Senator up here, in NY. :-)

[Warhammer]

Where is that text located? Can you post a link?

[syriacus]

All she can do is subtract resources and consume time

Your message sounds like the message we in the US keep getting from Third World countries.