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Please see 504.

It will help you understand the strength of my feeling on this issue.

I do not think you are bad people. I just know from experience two things about PR and public perception.

1. PR is incredibly powerful. It elects Presidents and changes the course of history.

2. It is very easy to do bad PR, to hurt your cause. Elian is a perfect example of that with the babbling relatives and Cuban concentration.

The easiest way to hurt your cause is to keep beating on your own issues, while ignoring the issues of the people you want to influence. That must stop before the progress can be made. We must be seen as quietly reflective, reasonable, moral people (Jimmy Stewart, Will Smith, Meg Ryan types) that the public can agree with, not a bunch of sign waving crazies, as TV is now portraying some of her supporters.

It only takes one "crazy" to destroy the work of 100 lucid supporters.

REMEMBER; never measure your success by how your supporters think you did. Measure it by how many people from the other side now agree with you.

We must make Michael the fanatic, the bad guy. (Note: We also need to concentrate the "bad" on one person. Michael. Spreading it among Michael, Felos and the judge is a mistake and dilutes focus.)

We need ONE spokesperson for the family. Someone who is intimate with them, looks like the voice of reason, etc. I cannot be that person. They need to be in Pinellas and I'm in Orlando, and I'm also identified with other issues.

There is much more that needs to be done, because, even thought I hate the thought, they are winning.

As per 504, I'm ready to help in any way I can.

I heard about the puncture wounds on the radio! Maybe Terri Schiavo is coming into her own in the national consciousness! I am thrilled that it was reported!

I too am desperate for a course of action! However, I think Terri's advocates have done a marvelous job in an uphill battle against a deaf public and parrot media. Maybe we could all agree that:
1. We need to continue contacting people in Public Office
senators
governor
Attorney General
Disability office
2. We need to stress that Terri Schiavo deserves all of the treatments and therapies available to thousands of others in her condition as assured by Florida Law. She is not dying! She is simply disabled!
3. We need to demand that Michael Schiavo be removed as guardian because of his conflict of interest and poor record.
4. ping every all persons everywhere
5. Require the media get interviews with Judge Greer and Felos as well as the protesters.

Am I leaving out anything?

Mindleader - I understand your concern but America is built on the power of public protest and it is effective at gaining media attention and getting on the agenda when every other polite attempt has failed.

So maybe the rest of us who can't be there in person can augment the protest with public pressure and recruitment.

Time continues to be of the essence!

I don't know just what is that you think Terri's supporters are doing that is so horrible. All we do is pray, hold peaceful vigils, address our concerns to elected officials (it is our right to do so), and support Terri's family.

Now, if you think all of that is detrimental you are dead wrong or seriously confused. Coming here repeatedly and bashing away at us is going to accomplish nothing. We are going to keep supporting Terri, and we will help in whatever way we can.

When I read your criticisms of Terri's camp I just have to wonder if your not somehow convinced that you could fix the whole thing yourself if people would just step out of the way and let you take over.

But I also have to wonder if you really are not sympathetic with Felos on at least some subconcious level, or maybe you admire the guy. It just doesn't make sense for you to continually argue with Terri's supporters unless you have some sort of agenda that leads you to do so.

You are not going to discourage us, nor will you stop us from helping Terri...so why do you keep beating the same old drum over and over and over again unless there is something we don't know about your true wishes for Terri's well being.

There is also the outside chance that you are actually naive enough to think that the courts could really work this out on their own. If that's the case then you really are a lost sheep in the wilderness. The Florida courts have shown their prejudice against Terri time after Time. You don't have to be a lawyer to see that.

The bottom line is this...if the public ever dares to take its eyes off Terri for even a second she is dead..so, we are going to keep watching, and listening, and vigiling with our little signs, and we will never cease to hold these public officials accountable for what is going on.

So, whatever you problem with us is just get over it because none of us are going to be discouraged by your continual critisism.

If you want to help Terri, then by all means help her, but you are no more or less qualified to do so than the rest of us, no matter what little licenses or certificates you may have hidden away in your dresser drawer.

I dare say that if you had spent as much time and energy trying to help Terri's cause as you have spent bashing her defenders you might have actually done some good.

I respect your opinion as a freeper and a fellow American, but your criticisms have continued to the point that I am now growing suspicious of your motives. Do your self a big old favor and get over it.