Posted on 01/31/2005 9:14:49 PM PST by TAdams8591
*Michael, HAVE A HEART !!!!!For Valentines Day give Terri back to her MOM & DAD, The Schindlers!!!!!!!!*
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. January 2005 Daily Thread was a RECORD HIGH!!!!!!! 15, 103 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.
AGAIN WE HAVE A NEW RECORD: 15,103 views on the tote board for the Terri Schindler Schiavo January Daily Thread!
The most significant event in Terri's case in January, was the Supreme's Courts refusal to hear Governor Jeb Bush's appeal, after the Florida State Legislature struck down Terri's Law. This once again places Terri's life in extreme jeopardy, though there are other issues regarding her case before the court.
Fox news had a crawler today saying Terri was on hospital machines. LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES. A feeding tube is not a hospital machine. It's not even electrical. It's run by gravity. Shame on their crawler.
More prayers that this works and saves Terri!
I don't care for polls but here is one:
Unless you agree with these current polling results, please visit:
http://www.baynews9.com/ViewerCenter.html
NOW and voice Your Opinion!
How should the Terri Schiavo case be resolved?
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Tell us what you you think:
http://www.baynews9.com/Chat.cfm?event=evtListThreadsbyPollId&ThreadTypeId=2&PollId=120
http://www.baynews9.com/Vote.cfm?event=Vote&action=vote&pollid=120
http://www.baynews9.com/content/74/2005/2/22/72244.html
I am getting overwhelmed with all the information on the threads this past week. Are you saying that the legislature and Governor Bush are actively working on something as we speak?
These polls are so disrespectful, as if Terri was an auction item or something.
That said, let me go vote as many times as I can.
I agree with you, but I think rightmarch obtained the info from Terrisfight.org, and I also think it should included that Terri CAN swallow.
"Schiavo Must Die": Judge Fails
Clear and Convincing Standard
Go the The Empire Journal.com for entire story.
“I don’t want anyone feeding that girl….the rule of law is that this girl must die”.
(The above is a quote from Judge Greer when Terri's sister and brother fed her soft food with a spoon when they removed her feeding tube, in the past.)
WHAT?! Can Terri swallow? What's wrong with this picture?
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Let's ramp thing up a bit. Deo, my old friend in ramping.
Many thanks...
You Wrote:Fox news had a crawler today saying Terri was on hospital machines. LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES. A feeding tube is not a hospital machine. It's not even electrical. It's run by gravity. Shame on their crawler.
My reply: I e-mailed them. They had a special section for International Viewers so I got to fill it in that form. I am finding that writing from France gets my e-mails visability. I also wrote to ABC and told them that Terri is not "Dependent on Hospital machines"
I sent the bone scan report to my friend, a couple years ago, to get his opinion on this. He's an orthopedic surgeon. He opined that the results seen in the scan are more likely from trauma than from osteoporosis, especially given her age.
That will stop the slippery slope. I hope this bill is expedited. SENIORS IT SEEMS ARE SWAMPING THE LEGISLATURE. THEY ARE AFRAID OF EUTHANASIA. That is something new to me.
SHEP SMITH: The feeding tube keeps her alive. They have been battling for years. Feeding tube to stay - parents. Eric from the newsroom: There will be another day of legal wrangling in this battle that has lasted 7 years. Eric says "feeding tube is keeping her alive." (no). Michael's house picketed. Signs supported her parents to "Save Terri". Showing Michael's front yard in Clearwater. Terri's dad "We are begging and pleading with the legislature and governor bush for being murdered in cold blood." Felos: telegraphing to the legislature, telegraphing to the governor. He doesn't see intervention in this case.
FV: SOME PEOPLE ARE ALREADY COMING TO FLORIDA and MORE ARE JUST STARTING THEIR JOURNEY! I was giving directions to the courthouse today for tomorrow's hearing before J. Greer.
Why do the newsmedia always report as fact everything that is said by Michael Schiavo and his lawyer George Felos? Many of the things these people say are provably untrue, and yet the media keeps repeating their word as gospel.
Michael Schiavo claims that cameras would be an invasion of Terri's "privacy", but on a Larry King Live interview he seemed quite eager to describe her gynecological exams in indelicate detail.
Is it more likely that Michael Schiavo really is concerned about Terri's privacy, or is it more likely that he's afraid that if video of her was broadcast people would see she's not a vegetable?
If Michael really were certain his wife was in a permanent vegetative state, he should favor testing that would confirm that and bolster his case. Unless, of course, he thinks the testing might shows that she's aware and concious?
Finally, why does Michael not allow Terri's parents to make bona fide efforts to feed her by mouth? If, as he claims, doing so would risk causing her to choke, why should he object? He has openly stated that he wants her dead, and accidental choking would be a lot less painful than deliberate dehydration. The only reasonable explanation for his refusal is that something horrible might happen: Terri might be able to eat without a feeding tube. And if she could do that, he'd have no right to kill her.
Awww, come on, my post there was more scary than yours. :-)
And the SENATE BETTER JUST GET OVER IT. JIM KING BETTER JUST GET OVER IT. If the Senate tries to stop this legislation, we will need to BOMBARD THE SENATE. They are quite arrogant that we would ask for protections for the vulnerable. THEY CAN BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE if they don't abide by the principle that WE ARE A REPRESENTATIVE GOVT. We didn't elect them to STARVE OUR CITIZENS through fiat.
If you are getting overwhelmed by pings, may I recommend that you join "ohioanfromflorida's" ping list so that you can get the latest without being snowed under? She's doing an admirable job.
The following post was at the bay9 site (without paragraph breaks, btw, since apparently the site doesn't support them). It is reposted here to show people what we're up against.
Who is funding the Schindler fight to deny Terri's constitutional rights? Read the following -- they are not supporting the disabled -- they are promoting their own agenda.The Terri Schiavo case: Following the money
By Jon B. Eisenberg
Jon B. Eisenberg is an attorney who practices in Oakland, California and is an adjunct professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law. His specialty is civil appeals, on which he publishes a widely-used California treatise. His work mostly involves commercial and liability disputes, but his occasional forays into pro bono work lead him to cases like Terri Schiavo litigation, where he filed a amicus curiae brief in the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of 55 bioethicists and a disability rights organization opposing Governor Bush.
Have you ever wondered who is paying the lawyers and activists trying to keep Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube attached? The trail of money leads to a $2 billion consortium of ultraconservative Foundations with close ties to Governor Jeb Bush.
The Florida Supreme Court will soon decide whether Governor Bush violated the Florida Constitution when he squelched a court order for removal of artificial nutrition and hydration from Terri Schiavo, whom the courts have determined is in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) with no hope of recovery, I am a California attorney who filed a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of 55 bioethicists and a disability rights organization opposing the Governor’s action.
A few weeks ago, on the day before oral argument in the Florida Supreme Court, I participated in a public debate on the Schiavo case at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Among the other participants were four lawyers supporting Governor Bush’s position: Pat Anderson, the attorney for Terri’s parents, Mary and Robert Schindler; Diane Coleman, who heads a group of disability rights organizations that filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting the governor; and Wesley Smith and Rita Marker, two behind-the-scenes pro-life activists whose specialty is opposing surrogate removal of life-support from comatose and PVS patients.
On my flight home the next day, while contemplating the evident fact that these four attorneys have somehow made full-time jobs out of their causes, I found myself thinking: “Somebodymust be paying these people.”
It turns out to be a very interesting group of somebodies. Internet research reveals that funding behind all four attorneys; the lawyers representing Governor Bush before the Florida Supreme Court; the groups that filed two “friend of the court” briefs in his support; and two new lawyers for the Schindlers, can be traced to members of the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Philanthropy Roundtable is a collection of foundations that have funded rightwing causes ranging from ultraconservative mainstays like abolition of Social Security and religious social engineering to fringe-group anti-tax crusades and United Nation conspiracy theories. Its members’ founders include scions of America’s wealthiest families, including Richard Mellon Scaife (heir to the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune), Harry Bradley (electronics), Joseph Coors (beers), and the Smith Richardson family (pharmaceutical products).
The chart accompanying this article shows a dizzying web of funding connections between six of the Philanthropy Roundtable’s richest members and ten organizations behind the Schindlers, their lawyers and supporters, and the lawyers representing Governor Bush before the Florida Supreme Court.
Here are just a few examples: Pat Anderson works with the Alliance Defense Fund, which received $142,000 from Philanthropy Roundtable members that include the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation and the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation. Wesley Smith works with the Discovery Institute, which received $175,000 from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation. Diane Coleman’s “friend of the court” brief is signed by the World Institute on Disability and the National Organization on Disability, which are funded by the Scaife Family Foundations, the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, and the JM Foundation.
The other “friend of the court” brief supporting Governor Bush was filed by the Family Research Council, which was formerly headed by Bush lawyer Kenneth Connor and which received $215,000 from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation. Rita Marker’s organization, the International Task Force on Euthanasia, received $110,390 from the Randolph Foundation, an affiliate of the Smith Richardson family. Bush lawyer Robert Destro has tries to the Council on Economic and Policy Education, which is funded by the Randolph and JM Foundations.
The two new Schindler lawyers, Deborah Berliner and Brett Wood, are affiliated with Judicial Watch, Inc., which received $7,069,500 from the Scaife and DeVos foundations. And in the thick of this is Governor Jeb Bush, a former director of the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is a creation of Joseph Coors and one of the most prominent member of the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Heritage Foundation has been funded to the tune of $47 million by, among others – you guessed it – the Bradley, Scaife, DeVos and JM foundations.
That’s a lot of money. No wonder they’re been able to keep the Schiavo litigation going for 11years.
During the Watergate scandal, investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein werefamously advised to “follow the money.” In the Schiavo case, the money – all of it – leads to members of the Philanthropy Roundtable and Governor Jeb Bush.
Yeah, I saw Felos on Foxnews...he is a piece of work
So glad you're back!!!!! We missed you.
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