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.
Make that Post 831 ...
Do you know the name of the judge who sent the little boy (3 1/2) to his biological parents (not married) yesterday? It happened there in Florida and was utterly traumatic for the little boy who had never seen his biological mother who lives in Illinois.
His adoptive parents (the only parents he's ever known) were completely devastated.
Could it have been Greer, Baird or Demer?
Prison Talk Online
MrCoffee
But there is one good thing to say about Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush is at least working to save the life of Terri Shiavo, who's guardian wants her dead. Michael Schiavo's method of execution is: death by starvation and dehydration, carried over a period of 7 to 15 days until death. We may not all back Jeb Bush's plan as far as the death penalty goes, but I can sure side with him when it comes to protecting the disabled.
MrCoffee
Used Coffin For Sale - only 400 years old
I can't remember HINO's brothers names. I believe its Scott, Brian and William (Joan's husband? )? Is there another brother and do they call William, richard?
Crosstalk 1-11-2005
Vickie Schaefer & Matthew Davis
01/11/2005 Vic Eliason: Terri Schiavo Update RealAudiohttp://67.36.84.226/crosstalk/ct050111.ram Windows Mediahttp://67.36.84.226/crosstalk/ct050111.asf
Guest: Vicki Schaffer & Matthew Davis
Vicki Schaffer is with the West Virginia chapter of a civil rights organization known as ADAPT. She opened the program discussing a candlelight vigil that's being held for Terri Schiavo this Thursday. Through seeing Terri smile, she realized that Terri is not in the condition portrayed by much of the secular media.
Matthew Davis is an attorney with the Gibbs Law Firm of Seminole, Florida, the firm now representing Terri Schiavo. While Terri's Law has sustained her life, the Florida Supreme Court has struck down this law and it's being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Interestingly, Terri has never had a lawyer. Davis feels that this voids the entire order that gave Michael Schiavo the right to remove Terri's feeding tube.
Tapes Available
http://www.vcyamerica.org/crosstalk/programs.cfm
I was just thinking that myself when I tried to read that sign. Sick , was the first word that came to mind.!!!!How sad. It sure looks like Coffin for sale to me...
Is it foolish for Newt to publish his book now? No. The ideas are so bold and imaginative that no opponent can utilize them without enduring a charge of plagiarism. For now, let's take Chapter 4, ''Bringing the Courts Back Under the Constitution,'' which I consider to be awesome in its simplicity but brilliant in concept. I am intrigued with it because it is an attempt to win to his side social conservatives -- those who have been generally ignored by him in earlier pronouncements. In his House service, Gingrich voted pro-life but was never a tiger on moral issues -- his libertarianism was too dominant. Not so for 2008.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321553/posts
After reading all of the above I decided to send Newt a plea for Terri. Who knows, it would score him a lot of points with conservatives if he was able to do something!
http://newt.org/index.php?submenu=contactus&src=forms&id=Contact%20Us
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321553/posts
http://newt.org/index.php?submenu=contactus&src=forms&id=Contact%20Us
"Her cow custom has devils horns."
Maybe she's as wrong about the gender of the bovine as she was her testimony.
Supreme Court to rule on Schiavo
Few experts expect Gov. Bush to win a federal appeal to keep a brain-damaged woman alive.
By Maya Bell | Miami Bureau
Posted January 16, 2005
The long legal saga pitting the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman against her husband may be winding down -- if, as widely expected, the U.S. Supreme Court refuses this week to consider an appeal filed by Gov. Jeb Bush.
It is risky to predict what the high court will decide Friday, when the justices are scheduled to accept or reject the governor's appeal in the case involving Terri Schiavo. No one knows what they will do, only that they could release some decision the following Monday.
But a number of legal scholars say there is little chance the high court will choose to review the Florida Supreme Court decision that struck down what is known as "Terri's Law" for encroaching on the role reserved for judges.
That's because, observers say, there are no federal issues at stake, giving the state Supreme Court the last word on the constitutionality of the statute that empowered the governor to order the reinsertion of the feeding tube sustaining Terri Schiavo six days after it was removed by court order last October.
Lawyers for the governor disagree. In their petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, they argue the governor's federal due-process rights were violated when he was barred from retrying the evidence that prompted a Pinellas County Circuit judge to rule that Terri Schiavo would chose death over her incapacitated state.
Should the high court fail to reinstate Terri's Law, they warn the case will have ominous implications for people with profound disabilities.
The arguments, however, convinced few professors interviewed at four Florida law schools.
"To put it crudely, it's none of the U.S. Supreme Court's business," said Bruce Winick, of the University of Miami School of Law. "The Florida Supreme Court is the final arbiter of what the Florida Constitution means and they have spoken."
Michael Allen, a professor at Stetson University College of Law, which is sponsoring a seminar on the Schiavo case Jan. 28, said he'd be shocked if the high court accepted the appeal.
"There is close to a zero chance," Allen said. "I think the court will see the governor's argument as smoke and mirrors."
If the professors are correct, the only thing stopping Michael Schiavo from halting the twice-a-day tube feedings that have kept his wife alive for nearly 15 years is another round of motions his in-laws are pursuing in state courts. Until they are resolved, a judge has set aside Michael Schiavo's authority to carry out what he says were his wife's wishes.
But even the new lawyers representing Bob and Mary Schindler concede they are waging an uphill battle to keep one of the most litigated right-to-die cases in history -- and Terri Schiavo -- alive.
"It's a long shot," said Barbara Weller, a member of the Gibbs Law Firm in Pinellas County, which assumed the case late last year. "If we get a miracle from God, we'll win, and that's what we're all praying for."
A one-time insurance clerk, Terri Schiavo collapsed from cardiac arrest in February 1990, enduring precious minutes without oxygen. Now 41, she lives in a Pinellas County nursing home, in what the courts have ruled is a persistent vegetative state that has left her with only the most primitive of brain-stem functions.
She can breathe on her own, but, according to court rulings, her cerebral cortex has all but disappeared, rendering the movements and noises she makes involuntary and meaningless.
Her parents, however, vehemently disagree. They insist their daughter is aware, purposefully interacts with them and could improve with proper rehabilitation.
They are asking Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer to set aside his prior ruling authorizing Michael Schiavo to discontinue his wife's assisted feedings. Although Terri Schiavo never wrote down her wishes in the event she became incapacitated, Greer agreed with Michael Schiavo that she made them clear in casual conversation: She never wanted to be kept alive artificially.
Now, echoing the governor's arguments, the Schindlers say their daughter's due process rights were violated because she never was represented by her own attorney, and Greer was allowed to act as both her judge and guardian. A hearing on their motion, which Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, says raises issues already settled, is scheduled for Jan. 28.
The Schindlers also are asking the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland to reconsider its Dec. 29 decision rejecting their argument that their daughter, a devout Catholic, would have changed her end-of-life wishes had she heard a recent papal declaration. Last year, Pope John Paul II said withholding hydration and sustenance from a person in a vegetative state is a sin.
Meanwhile, Felos, frustrated with what he regards as endless court proceedings that revisit issues already settled, has stopped filing responses to the Schindlers' arguments.
It's the same strategy he employed at the U.S. Supreme Court. Calling the governor's appeal "frivolous," he waived Michael Schiavo's right to respond.
By next Monday, he should learn if that was a miscalculation.
Maya Bell can be reached at mbell@orlandosentinel.com or 305-810-5003.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-locschiavo16011605jan16,0,2511161.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
search for the HTML Sandbox thread and do a post to someone in there. You might get a referral that way. Pretty insidious, wouldn't you say?
I DON'T LET THESE LIBERAL, JEB BUSH HATING NEWSPAPERS GET ME DOWN. They are trying only to SWAY PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST TERRI as a backup should Jeb get to have a fair trial and due process. BEWARE OF THE MIAMI HERALD AND THE ST. PETE TIMES. Their coverage is biased too. UNBELIEVABLY BIASED - they won't print any letters to the editor from Terri supporters.
It's in God's hands now. He may not cross paths with Cruzan in the next realm. But, what do I know? Just my thoughts.
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