Posted on 05/22/2004 7:07:30 AM PDT by floriduh voter
Believers in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence:
Where is Terri's independence?
I'm talking about her independence to learn and to be free from her lonely room.
To kick off Terri's May-June 2004 Dailies, our first article is by Deroy Murdock of Scripps Howard News Service.
Let Terri Schiavo's Parents Restore Her Dignity. May 22, 2004
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Derry Murdock
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Judge Lenderman, the no suicide on stage judge? He was the Chair of the Conference of Circuit Judges of Florida from 1998 - 1999. HE DID NOTHING.
If there were defects in the law anywhere in the state of Fla., he had a duty to report said defects to the legislature before their sessions.
Terri's Guardianship case was a major defect and JUDGE LENDERMANN had the authority to do something about her case and DID NOTHING.
Probably he stayed out of it BECAUSE HIS SISTER IS ON HOSPICE'S BOARD. This just keeps getting deeper and deeper.
JUDGE LENDERMANN SHOULD NOT BE EXCUSED OR GET A PASS. He passed Terri by and still is, if he is still on the Conference of Circuit Judges. Please email the media because Lendermann got an award recently for Restoring the Public Trust and Confidence in the Judiciary.
Awards are given in Pinellas County for covering for your buddies. There is no public trust or confidence in these vagabond Sixth Circus Judges!!! THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN... floriduh voter
Please ping your list. ANOTHER BAD JUDGE IS OUTED at 103. If anyone wants to research who the current Chair is for the Conference of Circuit Judges, Florida. I'd like to know who the current Chair is. Maybe another Greer buddy?
The JQC ARE reviewing written correspondence and judicial misconduct can be based upon "improper motivation"
As Chair and now a member for the entire State of Florida, IMO, Lendermann's improper motivation was that he kept silent about the goings on in his own Circuit instead of making recommendations to the legislature. He kept silent because the motivating factor was to protect the status quo, his pals, Judge Baird, Judge Greer and Judge Demers and his Hospice Board Sister is another improper motivating factor. PEER PRESSURE, FAMILY PRESSURE. Terri's Guardianship was ignored.
floriduh voter
The JQC is replying to written correspondence. How times have changed since last fall. I'm looking for their address.
Phone (850) 488-1581
If you want to write to them about Greer or Judges Baird or Lendermann, try basing it upon "improper motivation". They wrote back that's what they're considering.
Betraying Terri Schiavo Disability is not a reason to die
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 By Steven J. Taylor
http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/opinion-0/1085474424220055.xml
The judicial system has let Terri Schiavo down - again. The intervention of Florida's executive and legislative branches of government has been found unconstitutional. But intervention was the right thing to do.
On May 5, a Florida judge ruled "Terri's Law," passed by the Florida Legislature with the support of Gov. Jeb Bush, was unconstitutional. This law authorized the governor to prevent withholding of nutrition and hydration from Schiavo, a severely disabled woman, despite her husband's wishes. The decision should set off another round of debates between the "right to life" and "right to die" movements.
The Center on Human Policy at Syracuse University and other national disability groups filed amicus ("friend of the court") briefs upholding the right of Ms. Schiavo to nutrition and hydration - food and water delivered via a feeding tube. People with disabilities must never be denied life-sustaining treatment, absent clear, unambiguous wishes to the contrary.
The facts surrounding the Schiavo case are bitterly contested. Her husband Michael and his experts argue Ms. Schiavo is in a "persistent vegetative state" and incapable of responding to her environment. Her parents and their experts claim she responds to people and things around her by smiling, tracking objects with her eyes and making utterances when others speak to her.
Some of thefacts of this case are beyond dispute. Ms. Schiavo experienced brain damage in 1990, at the age of 26, after a sudden collapse. In a medical malpractice suit, her husband received approximately $700,000 for her future care. Since then he has denied Ms. Schiavo rehabilitation, physical, speech and other therapies. He also has attempted to block Ms. Schiavo from receiving routine treatment for potentially fatal infections.
Terry Schiavo is not terminally ill. She does not require a respirator, ventilator or any other medical technology. She needs food and water to live - just like anyone else. Without nutrition and hydration she will die.
Since 1997, Michael Schiavo has tried to have Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube removed. He has not even permitted attempts to wean her from the feeding tube. According to Mr. Schiavo, his wife stated this is what she would have wanted. Her parents never heard her say this, and one of her closest friends said Ms. Schiavo expressed contrary sentiments to her.
Shortly after Michael Schiavo's efforts to have his wife's feeding tube removed, an independent guardian was appointed. The guardian, attorney Richard Pearse, reported to the judge in the case that Mr. Schiavo was not a credible witness to his wife's end-of-life desires because he waited years to make his claim and stood to benefit financially if she died. Pearse was removed as guardian, at Mr. Schiavo's attorney's request, and another guardian was not appointed.
At the timethe Florida law was passed, Michael Schiavo was living with his fiancee, whom he expects to marry once Terri Schiavo dies. Mr. Schiavo and his fiancee have one child and were expecting a second.
Right to life; right to die; choice and self-determination; sanctity of life; these phrases evoke deeply personal and emotional responses. They raise difficult moral, ethical and public policy issues. As important as these issues are, they do not lie at the heart of Terri Schiavo's situation.
The Schiavo case raises two fundamental questions. The first:
Is there a human being in there? The "experts" disagree.
The husband says no, the parents and siblings say yes. Those of us knowledgeable about history understand that people with disabilities have been subjected to discrimination, a denial of basic rights and in some instances, "mercy killing." Regardless of her disability, Terri Schiavo is entitled to the same rights as anyone else.
The second question: Who should make decisions regarding Terri Schiavo's life and care? If she had written a living will, the answer would be easy. She did not. No one - especially a husband with an inherent conflict of interest -should be able to decide to withhold routine care, food and water from a person who is not dying and who has not unambiguously expressed his or her desires. To permit substitute decision-makers to make such life-and-death choices would place thousands of people with disabilities in extreme jeopardy.
Trial courts in the Schiavo case have sided repeatedly with Michael Schiavo, and state appeals and federal courts have refused to overrule these decisions. Now another judge has overturned a law passed to prevent Terri Schiavo from dying.
Judges are sometimes wrong.
Steven J. Taylor, Ph.D. is director of the Center on Human Policy at Syracuse University.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38648
"She was so excited to see us," Mary exclaimed. "She laughed and she cried, and she tried so hard to talk I think she even said 'uh huh,' twice. She kept following me back and forth with her eyes, and it was like she was saying 'please, don't leave.'"
We haven't launched an all out boycott of Florida at this time but Clearwater's got a black eye as long as Terri is denied her civil rights.
The emergency visitation hearing is tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. est unless we hear otherwise. I'll be putting my John Q Public impressions of J. Greer's proceedings here on the Dailies Thread.
Thanks everybody!
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Good evening, freepers. I'm taking the rest of the night off.
We knew that there was some 'butt covering' going on...but I think it goes a lot deeper than this. God willing it's just a matter of time before the shoe drops.
DELEGATE BOB MARSHALL #1-703-361-5416
And Lendermann got an award in 2002 for restoring public trust and confidence in the judiciary? WHAT FOR? lol lol lol lol
One of Terri's heroes.
Delegate Marshall's email addy: bob.marshall@trincomm.org
http://www.trincomm.org/marshall/
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