Posted on 12/29/2004 7:16:22 AM PST by floriduh voter
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Daily Threads are created month to month as we watch local and national news regarding Terri and her family.
Since Terri's supporters are in every time zone, you may see something FIRST. Please share news with us that you don't see here already. Now, why would you want to do that? Terri's Daily Thread for September/October of 2004 was viewed over 15,000 times. Terri's November Daily Thread was viewed over 6,000 times. December's thread is over 3,000 views.
More and more good folks are finding out about Terri and that judicial tyranny would take her life, but for lots and lots of prayer and non-stop lobbying of relatives, friends, clergy, our leaders, the media, a passerby, a cashier - ANYONE who you feel comfortable chatting with.
Folks always want to know how can this be in America or on earth for that matter? Unfortunately, this is really happening to an innocent woman who just celebrated her 41st birthday. She's not the only one but she's the one with devoted parents and siblings who knows what's in Terri's heart. Terri has a strong will to live. That's apparent. It's been 14 years.
Besides, feeding tubes have been around practically since the Civil War. They are not high tech devices. Terri is "not hooked up to machines". Her feeding tube is the diameter of a piece of spaghetti.
Talkin' about Terri is the best way to lobby for her. It is a salespitch to save her life and subsequently, many lives. If you've never sold anything in your life, START NOW. START WITH TERRI.
See Terri's flash movies if you need more information. You can see for yourself that's she's interactive and follows the doctor's instructions.
Visit: http://www.terrisfight.org
NOTE: Terri's December Dailies are noted as a source above. There are lots of important links at the very top of that thread. If you missed Terri's Celebration of Life, you can click on it from there.
I wonder if Lindsey Graham of SC prodded the US DOJ????? I said he was the only person in congress with any guts and he was a military prosecutor. If it was Lindsey, thank you, Senator LG.
(Senate President is TOM LEE and HIS PHONE NUMBER IS:
1-800-560-4403. (Please call him about Terri and say that it's time for an emergency session re: the forced exit of the disabled including Terri. NO MORE STALLING IT IN COMMITTEE! NO MORE! It is unacceptable to Floridians and Americans!
Thanks, nick!
-1- Provide that no guardian shall undertake any course of action which would be expected to cause a ward's death if a guardianship challenge is pending, except with the consent of the person or persons contesting guardianship.
-2- Provide that a guardian who fails to attend required depositions related to his guardianship shall be immediately removed as guardian. If the guardian can show that a good faith effort was made to appear, guardianship may be reinstated after, and only after, the person has attended all required depositions. Otherwise the (removed) guardian must seek guardianship 'from scratch'.
-3- IMPEACH JUDGE GREER
Anything else?
THE TRUTH IS BEING CENSORED AT BAY NEWS 9 and it's their poll to begin with leading to the topic. Guess they aren't interested in the Tourism Boycott which may be necessary. THE SLOGAN FOR THE TOURISM BOYCOTT: "NO TERRI, NO TOURISTS".
The band was HELL ON EARTH, the Judge was Lendermann and the town was St. Petersburg. There was no assisted suicide on stage - it would have given St. Pete a bad reputation.
What caught their attention?
Good points
St. Pete Mayor Rick Baker, a republican and FRIEND OF JEB BUSH, even held a special meeting he was so outraged re: a suicide on stage in St. Pete! You can google that out. None of our mayors or city managers have ever said boo about Terri.
Yes 19%
No 80%!
Why not arrange for an assisted suicide outside of Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc. if they try to starve Terri to death? Time for preperation may be now.
Why not arrange for an assisted suicide outside of Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc. Hospice Woodside if they try to starve Terri to death? Time for preperation may be now.
Yay! Now will Bay News 9 have the guts to report those results on my tv???
I think we could do a mock one and they couldn't do anything about it. It would be street theatre.
Well I'm serious about a real one. Let's see if there is any disparity between what is happening to Terri and that right outside of the building where they are going to try killing her for the 3rd time. Maybe people would get the message. I think it would be brought to a halt and I also think it would save Terri as well. What better way to get the message across? I know it's out there but hey. Just a thought. Perhaps not tenable.
They need to know that everyone in the world will learn that Pinellas County is not a tourist destination but a terror-filled destination.
Get added protections OUT OF COMMITTEE AND TO THE FLOOR. The United States is heading towards a very creepy cultural war if anything happens to Terri. I have emails that indicate same.
FROM: HERBERT W. TITUS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
TROY A. TITUS, P.C.
2400 CAROLINA ROAD
CHESAPEAKE, VIRGINIA 23322
SUBJECT: TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO
DATE: OCTOBER 15, 2003
In response to a request, this memorandum is submitted addressing whether the governor of the State of Florida has the constitutional power to stop a Florida court order conferring upon the husband of Terri Schindler-Schiavo the sole discretionary power to disconnect his brain-disabled wife’s feeding tube. Not only does the governor have such power, but the governor has a constitutional duty to prevent any action taken pursuant to such a court order, because such action would violate Ms. Schindler-Shiavo’s constitutionally guaranteed "inalienable right to enjoy and defend life" regardless of her "physical disability" as secured by Article I, Section 2 of the Florida State Constitution.
According to Article I, Section 2, "[a]ll natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law, and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life ...." Additionally, Article I, Section 2 provides that "no person shall be deprived of any right [including the right to enjoy life] because of ... physical disability." According to Article IV, Section 1, "the supreme executive power" of the state of Florida is vested in the "governor ... who shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Thus, the governor has the power, indeed the duty, to ensure that this constitutional guarantee of the "inalienable right ... to enjoy and defend life," regardless of physical disability, is preserved.
In the exercise of this his "take care" powers, the governor is not bound by a court order, such as the one in the Schindler-Schiavo case, when that court order is inconsistent with the actual constitutional guarantee. As President Andrew Jackson once observed, judicial "precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power." This observation is especially significant in determining the scope of the constitutional powers of the office of governor, a separate and independent branch from the judiciary. Again, as President Jackson put it, the chief executive officer of a government is bound by his oath of office to decide matters of constitutional right and power according to the executive’s interpretation of the constitution, not according to the judiciary’s interpretation. Therefore, if the governor believes that Ms. Schindler-Schiavo has the constitutional right to "enjoy life" regardless of her present disability, as he has stated in filings submitted to the courts, then the governor is duty bound to stop any action taken pursuant to that unconstitutional order that would result in the deprivation of Ms. Schindler-Shiavo’s constitutional right to life.
Such executive intervention into the judicial processes does not violate the separation of powers. To the contrary, as Alexander Hamilton stated in Federalist No. 78, the exercise of judicial power is subject to the check and balance of the executive branch which, alone, has the power to enforce a judicial order. Thus, if a court order is contrary to the law of the inalienable right to life — as the order in the Schindler-Schiavo case surely is — then according to Article IV, Section 1 of the Florida Constitution, the governor, vested with the "supreme executive power," should intervene to stop any action taken puruant to that court order. After all, as the great English legal authority — Sir William Blackstone stated — a court opinion or order and the law are not the same thing, in that a court opinion or order may be contrary to law, and therefore, not law at all. I W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 71 (Univ. Chi. Facs. Ed: 1765). If the governor allows a court order granting discretion to one person to decide for another person whether the latter person lives or dies to go unchallenged, then he would fail to "take care" that the "law" of the equal right to life, as secured by Article I, Section 2 of the Florida Constitution even for the physically disabled," is "faithfully executed."
If you have any questions concerning this matter, I would be most pleased to respond. E-mail is forecast22@pinn.net
Good Post!
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