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Posted on 02/28/2005 7:08:08 AM PST by floriduh voter
The poor quality lawn in front of hospice is once again sacred ground. We have had visitors from many states who are dropping by for a day or staying a little longer.
For now, I must trust my Florida Legislature and Governor Bush and I must put my trust in Rep. Dave Weldon and Senator Martinez in the US Congress and In God We Trust, I still believe that, even during these trying times when the judges try to overpower us by MAKING LAWS THAT HARM OUR CITIZENS. A case for serious tort reform and judicial reform. JUDGES ARE NOT GODS. I REPEAT, JUDGES ARE NOT GODS and America better wake up to what I have written.
Please spread this:
Please call on Gov. Bush to visit Terri and place in protective custody
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/16/State/_Who_there_would_take.shtml
Michael Schiavo invites Florida Governor to visit Terri in person.
Please ask the Governor to do that.
Gov. Jeb Bush
850-488-4441
850-487-0801 (fax)
jeb.bush@myflorida.com, fl_governor@myflorida.com, jeb@jeb.org, jeb@myflorida.com
Executive Office of Governor, Legal Team to Jeb (ask to speak to the following individuals):
Robert H. Fernandez (Deputy General Counsel to Governor) -> fernanr@eog.state.fl.us
Raquel A. Rodriguez (General Counsel to Governor) -> raquel.rodriguez@myflorida.com
Christa Calamas (Assistant General Counsel to Governor) -> calamac@eog.state.fl.us
850 / 488-3494 (voice)
850 / 488-9810 (fax)
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Please call those FL House Reps / Senators, US Congressmen and Senators:
Contact info, etc.:
http://tekgnosis.typepad.com
Gov. Bush,
Please visit Terri. Per Michael Schiavo via the St. Pete Times has
given you an open invitation:
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/16/State/_Who_there_would_take.shtml
Regards,
Juan Schoch
Lake Mary, FL
407-925-4141
http://www.eeng.net/eeng/ribbon/Visit_Terri_Jeb.html
P.S. It is my opinion that Terri is in danger from Michael Schiavo as he is inviting you to visit her via the St. Pete Times while at the same time blasting you in the national media. Please place Terri into protective custody and appoint a special prosecutor.
Others believe that Terri is going to be medicated when you visit her so that you will believe she has no hope. Terri is in danger from this unstable man and the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc.
Terri is in danger and Michael is inviting you (via St. Pete Times) to visit Terri and blasting you at the same time. Terri needs protective custody and please Governor assign a special prosecutor. It's time that you stand up to Michael Schiavo.
From another:
Re: Niteline
Michael teased us with almost tears on Nightline tonight? I mean... it was difficult not to roll on the floor laughing one's rear off, don't you agree??? Did you watch his eyes? Did you look at him???? He looks like a pale pasty plastered on the wall of conversation and he doesn't even know anymore that lots of people don't care what he has to say. He has become a joke.
From another:
Re: Good Morning America
I just watch a tape message from Terri's husband and now more then ever I believe he is just getting rid of his excess baggage. He says he loves her and will always love her. Then blasted the governor and made remarks against people who are fighting for Terri to live. He says he will receive no money after her death. He has bags under his eyes and tears in his eyes ...
From another:
I called Jeb Bush re: Michael inviting Jeb to visit. I WARNED Jeb that if he takes Michael up on the offer, Michael runs the hospice and Terri will be heavily sedated so that Jeb will think Terri is pvs.
From another:
TERRI WILL BE DRUGGED-OUT IF BUSH COMES TO VISIT HER.
From another:
My first thoughts regarding MS's invitation to Governor Bush is that they're betting that he won't come. The second is that Terri will have been given drugs prior to Jeb's visit.
You think some people have hit rock bottom, then they find a way to dig a little deeper. MS and Felos are getting desperate.
Gotta love the merchandise description!
"I Starved My Wife To Death" Coffee Mug!
Nothing gets you going like a hot cup of coffee in the morning! Warning: Does not hold water!
The Empire Journal WAS HACKED AGAIN TODAY. I think Pinellas County Govt. is hacking TEJ because they have everything to lose including THEIR JOBS, THEIR HIGH POSITIONS, THEIR STATURE IN THE COMMUNITY. The criminals are falling from their pedestals and it's a long way down.
Who does graphics here who CAN PUT GREER'S HEAD ON THE FALLING STATUE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN????
Laura Ingraham talking about Terri now!
http://www.ksky.com
I wish this could be traced down!!!!!!!!!!
Laura saying this is chilling, what MS is doing.
MS doesn't seem to care about saving a life.
He has a girlfriend and children.
She'll be taking questions.
Mel Martinez may be on her radio show tomorrow.
Saying this is unbelievable.
Bump..thanks i'm there now.
Laura Ingraham talking about Terri now!
http://www.ksky.com
Greer has ordered major police and sheriff's presence at hospice inside and out WITH CAMERAS. Greer is determined to PULL OFF THIS MURDER. I don't think he's going to defer to Jeb and the legislature. If he doesn't, THEY NEED TO GET THE STATE TROOPERS TO GO IN THERE AND GET TERRI AND THEY NEED TO GO ARREST GREER. There's no excuse for this kind of police presence unless Greer is determined to MURDER A WARD OF THE STATE WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE UNDER HIS CARE. hAH!
URGENT ACTION ITEM
To: Terri Supporters
From: Cheryl Ford RN, Nurse spokesperson Terri Schindler Foundation
Last night I returned from three days in Tallahassee at the State House Committee meetings regarding HB701 which hopefully will help to save Terri's life if it is passed by Friday.
Tomorrow, Thursday, it will go before the Senate. Your emails and telephone calls are working. The State Representatives spoke about how they were flooded with your calls and emails. We at the Terri Schindler Foundation thank you for all that you are doing to help to save Terri.
ACTION ITEM NEEDED NOW:
This item is extremely important with how it is handled.
Please call and email Governor Bush with one item only.
Subject Line: Terri's tube MUST NOT be removed surgically on Friday. Have them cap the tube only while the investigations are underway. It is invasive and risky to have Terri surgically undergo removal of the tube when the same results can be achieved by it being capped off.
Call Jeb NOW!
Gov. Jeb Bush
850-488-4441
850-487-0801 (fax)
jeb.bush@myflorida.com, fl_governor@myflorida.com, jeb@jeb.org,
jeb@myflorida.com
Executive Office of Governor, Legal Team to Jeb
*Ask to speak to the following individuals*
Robert H. Fernandez (Deputy General Counsel to Governor) ->
fernanr@eog.state.fl.us
Raquel A. Rodriguez (General Counsel to Governor) ->
raquel.rodriguez@myflorida.com
Christa Calamas (Assistant General Counsel to Governor) ->
calamac@eog.state.fl.us
850 / 488-3494 (voice)
850 / 488-9810 (fax)
Section: 415:1051--- This allows DCF through adult protective services to provide protective custody for the victim of alleged abuse, neglect and/or exploitation.
The Terri Schiavo Case
'Who there would take Terri's place?'
Politicians are only seeking votes in trying to prolong Terri Schiavo's life, says her husband in a rare conversation.
By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, Times Staff Writer
Published March 16, 2005
Michael Schiavo, who spoke in his attorney's office for about an hour Tuesday, says he has avoided interviews because he has nothing to prove to the world. He also said he has many supporters, but they aren't as demonstrative as those of Terri Schiavo's parents.
THE LATEST IN STATE HOUSE
The latest version of a state bill designed to prevent a feeding tube from being removed from Terri Schiavo includes these provisions:
A feeding tube cannot be withdrawn from a person in a persistent vegetative state if the sole reason for doing so is to end a life; a conflict exists between a guardian and a relative; and the person has no written advance directive or living will.
A guardian or family can ask a court to prevent withdrawal of a feeding tube based on those factors.
The bill would apply to every living person the day it becomes law.
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Michael Schiavo, on a visit with Terri at a nursing home more than 14 years ago, says in the early years of his wife's illness he looked for signs of improvement but eventually realized there was no hope. "What's there is a shell of Terri," he says.
Michael Schiavo says he looks into his wife's eyes and sees no spark of consciousness, no recognition, no glimmer of any sort of response. He says he wishes he did.
And he invites Gov. Jeb Bush to have a look himself.
"If he had any care at all," Schiavo said, "he would take us up on the offer and visit Terri and examine the record. He hasn't. He could come and sit in that chair and talk."
Schiavo said Tuesday in a rare interview that he would gladly allow Bush to visit his wife, Terri Schiavo, at the Pinellas Park hospice where she lives to see her condition.
During the hourlong interview at his attorney's office in Dunedin, Michael Schiavo said he believes state and federal lawmakers have little information on his wife and have acted to serve politics, not medicine.
"They're all pandering to the religious groups and the antiabortion groups and the Christian Coalition," said Schiavo, 41, a registered nurse. "They're doing this for votes.
"There's not one person up there who would say, "I would take Terri's place.' I'd like to see who would. Who there would take Terri's place?"
The interview comes as the date for removing his wife's feeding tube approaches Friday. Both state lawmakers and Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, are working furiously to find a way to keep her alive.
The Schindlers and their attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
Schiavo said he would gladly sit down with Bush to talk about his wife's case and invited the governor's staff to review the court file. Bush's spokesman could not be reached late Tuesday.
"Jeb Bush's personal feelings can change the law?" Schiavo said. "We have to save her life? Who's he to make that decision?"
Schiavo said he didn't expect the governor to take him up on an offer he said he has made before.
"He was 20 minutes away from Terri on Saturday" in Seminole and didn't stop by the hospice, Schiavo said. "Lawmakers shouldn't be in this. They should not be butting their nose in private family matters."
And Schiavo's response to a move by the Department of Children and Families to intervene in the case: "DCF can't even keep track of kids in their care and they want to stick their noses in my business?"
Schiavo said he tires of people watching a video clip on the Schindler's Web site and concluding from it that his wife can recover.
"There's a whole other world on the other side of that Web site," he said.
Schiavo said he has avoided interviews with reporters because he doesn't have anything to prove. He said his family and friends and the courts all believe Terri Schiavo would not want to live by artificial means.
He said he has tried to continue living his life despite the right-to-life groups that have protested against him, even outside his Clearwater home.
"I get angry at the names," said Schiavo, who lives with another woman. "But I get over it. I don't really take it to heart ... I don't really care what other people think. I've been called a murderer. Adulterer. Yeah, it hurts."
And he acknowledges there have been some intrusions on his life. For example, he said, someone recently got a hold of his phone bill and an investigator has been calling friends.
Still, for the most part, Schiavo said he is able to go out in public without people trying to convince him that his wife should live. "Never, since this started, has one person come up to me and said, "You're wrong,"' he said.
"Trust me, I have my supporters. ... I receive flowers, post cards, e-mails. Probably more supporters than the Schindlers have. But unfortunately, they're the silent ones. They're not the radicals who stand out there and throw roses on the ground and kneel and throw their hands in the air."
He said one of the most painful things about the case is being accused by the Schindlers, once so close to him that they lived together, of abusing his wife. None of it is true, he said.
"They keep saying, "Boy, there's documentation. There's this and there's that.' But they've yet to prove anything. Where's the documentation? Tell me where I strangled Terri?" Schiavo said, visably angry.
Schiavo said his wife never wanted to divorce him, as her family has told reporters. He said they were a young, loving couple. He said she often told him that she loved him.
"She never missed a day without saying that to me," he said.
Terri Schiavo, 41, collapsed on Feb.25, 1990, from cardiac arrest, her brain deprived of oxygen for five minutes. Doctors believe a chemical imbalanced caused the collapse.
Schiavo said in the early days, he was like the Schindlers. He said he wanted to believe she would get better. He did everything, Schiavo said, to help her, even taking her to California for treatment.
Time eroded hope of any recovery at all, he said.
"Terri doesn't talk. That's so ludicrous," he said of people who suggest Terri Schiavo sometimes tries to speak. "Look at her CAT scan. The cerebral cortex is completely gone. Terri's emotions are gone. What's there is a shell of Terri. There's nothing there anymore."
Schiavo said he only slowly came to accept that his wife would not want to live. He said he recalled statements she made before about not wanting to live artificially. The Schindlers said she never made such statements.
Schiavo said the death of his own mother in the 1990s helped prepare him emotionally for the decision he knew had to be made. His mother, dying of cancer, had a living will and did not want life support. Schiavo agreed to let her die peacefully, he said.
"She looked at me and said, "It's okay,"' Schiavo said, wiping tears from his eyes. "I had to stop being selfish."
He said he spent sleepless nights considering whether to petition the courts for the removal of his own wife's feeding tube. "You toss and you turn and you think about it," Schiavo said.
He said the knowledge that his wife wouldn't want to live like she is "gave me strength."
Schiavo said he was puzzled when, in recent weeks, people began offering him money to walk away as his wife's guardian. A businessman offered him $1-million. Someone else offered $10-million. He turned both down.
"I laughed," Schiavo said. "It was absolutely bizarre. They should take their money and use it to educate people about dying and living wills. Give it to the legislators. They need a lot of educating about that. Ten million? Start a foundation.
"Teach people how to do living wills properly. You want to give me $10-million? That will keep a foundation going for a while. They could write your living will for free."
Schiavo said Floridians should be enraged at lawmakers for meddling in the private affairs of families.
"They're over there trumping the courts," Schiavo said. "They're going to say all these judges including the United States Supreme Court judges are wrong. We don't like what you said so we're going to change the law."
Schiavo said he still loves his wife, caressing and touching her face when he visits.
"I just hold her hand," Schiavo said. "She doesn't understand. I tell myself: "You will be with the lord soon and you'll finally be at peace."
[Last modified March 16, 2005, 04:38:46]
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Concerned officials and professionals, like Gov. Bush, state and federal politicians, THE MEDIA, and physicians, should be flooding $uncoast Hospice Terminal and MS-HINO demanding to see Terri for themselves, ESPECIALLY in a starvation/murder case!!!!
. Even juries in controversial cases request and ARE TAKEN TO THE CRIME SCENE!!!
Well, Laura's on to something else now, but let's hope Mel Martinez will be on her show tomorrow.
Laura sounded very upset about Terri, she played some of MS's comments from Nightline last night, and rebutted them forcefully.
I emailed Jeb the other day and gave him a quote (which I'm sure I found originally around here on FR) about Andrew Jackson and his problem with a judge back in his day.
Jeb is the one with the troops, NOT GREER.
"However, when Jackson heard of the Court's ruling, he is said to have muttered, "Well, [Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!" "
Please post and ping me if you hear Mel Martinez will be on tomorrow..I wouldn't want to miss hearing him.
Caller, a nurse from Indiana, saying this is so wrong to pull a feeding tube. She had a son who had one, so she knows. She has never heard of this happening.
Laura saying she should have been covering this, has been getting a lot of emails, but is covering it now.
Laura: "MS is going on with this life, BUT DON'T KILL YOUR WIFE!"
Laura: How can this be her husband doing this?
"Mel Martinez, you go!"
Laura says she has to take a break, she's got to get her blood pressure down!
I will. I start listening to Laura at 9 am ET, so will ping you if he comes on.
Laura says she won't be there tomorrow, but has a great sub, though I don't know who it will be yet.
Email to Jeb Bush
Please take Terri into Protective Custody
Please, dear Governor, the hours are ticking away.
It is already the eleventh hour.
Please do not let this lady even go through the REMOVAL of her g-tube again, while people are wrangling. SHE WILL KNOW WHAT IT MEANS when they come at her, and will experience fright and dread that may overwhelm her, because she will KNOW what is happening, will know that devastating pain is coming, because she's been through it all before. How much is she be expected to endure unnecessarily? PLEASE DO NOT let her go through the emotionally devastating experience even of the REMOVAL. It would be an additional CRUELTY that MUST be prevented.
You, or someone under your authority, MUST be able to take Terri into protective custody....BEFORE they touch her. I am begging you in the name of decency to save her this additional trauma. I am assured that your heart is good, and you strive to do right, it shows in what you say & do. PLEASE time your actions to spare her this suffering. She has been through enough at the hands of cold caretakers. May she be tended soon by the loving hands of her family.
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