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Posted on 02/28/2005 7:08:08 AM PST by floriduh voter
Terri's Freepers,
Judge George Greer denied Terri's parents' Motion for a Stay to protect their daughter's life while there are still pending issues in this LIFE AND DEATH MATTER. In addition the Department of Children and Family Services made a surprise visit to the court hearing the other day and asked Judge Greer if they could approach the bench. Judge Greer denied DCF the opportunity to speak. DCF asked for 60 days to conduct a complete investigation of allegations that have surfaced in the form of a Complaint to their agency.
What was set in motion instead? On Friday, February 25th, Judge Greer REFUSED TO issue another Stay because he was "not comfortable" issuing a say to protect a Ward of the State but instead "set a date certain" (on his calendar at least, not on mine) to BEGIN THE BARBARIC, ANTI-AMERICAN, STARVATION-DEHYDRATION SLOW MURDER OF TERRI.
Attorney Gibbs for Terri's parents held a press conference after J. Greer's order that was so tastefully written to indicate that "he was giving the Schindlers until March 18th so they could "prepare for Last Rites." Attorneys Gibbs called this ruling and prior rulings "Hitler-resque". Indeed.
If Judge Greer wasn't LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA in his courtroom, why any need for Last Rites? Greer's urgency to fulfill this killing places urgency on every one of us to lobby Governor Bush, Florida's House and Florida's Senate.
A Judge in America is ordering the manner of someone's death, a disabled woman who is healthy but needs rehabilitation.
Time is short so we don't really have time to get into Greer's mind to see why he is Florida's Til of the Hun.
What can we do?
1. LOBBY TO SAVE TERRI
2. HELP BUMP THIS THREAD.
3. POST ARTICLES YOU SEE ABOUT TERRI.
4. VISIT PINELLAS COUNTY FLORIDA AND VIGIL WITH US AT HOSPICE WOODSIDE.
5. VISIT TALLAHASSEE AND LOBBY IN THE HALLS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
6. HOLD A DEMONSTRATION AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION.
7. Join the Message Board that freepers started at the Crystal Cathedral/Hour of Power. TELL YOUR CHURCH ABOUT TERRI.
8. Tell your friends that Terri is alert and aware of her surroundings and to visit www.terrisfight.org to see her videos.
9. PETITIONS. We will gather current Petitions here for you. At this time, you can sign a SAVE TERRI PETITION AT www.renewamerica.us. THERE ARE ALSO IMPEACH GREER PETITIONS ABOUT.
Finally, the Pope has no Living Will. He will be SAFE as long as he stays away from George Greer's courtroom. The Pope is in our thoughts and prayers and he knows of Terri. He wants Terri to be freed from oppression and from a painless death by starvation-dehyration.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO EVERY DAY, THE PAY ISN'T VERY GOOD BUT THE FRINGE BENEFITS ARE THE GREATEST. You are Great Americans and liberty is Terri's and freedom from oppression. Freepers, that is the big payoff if we continue our daunting task.
Terri's family is grateful to you and all of your prayers are being heard by the Giver of Life.
This is Terri's Fight and the battle is enjoined. JOIN US TO SAVE TERRI FROM FORCES THAT HAVE BUT ONE GOAL THAT IS AGAINST EVERYTHING AMERICAN.
GUIDELINES: If you want to start frivolous discussions, please start your own thread in chat.
If you like something from www.theempirejournal.com, please do not post the entire article at Free Republic. Unless I hear otherwise, I believe that we are allowed to post the title and link. TEJ is a great team member of Terri's network. Thanks, TEJ for making a difference and for getting the truth out there.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CONTACT INFO, IT IS ON THE WAY. Thanks, floriduh voter
Durbin's office claim that can't speed it up and that they would be doing this into late into the night. Then when I said there has to be a way to speed it up, he admitted they are trying to take 3 amendments at a time. I said well reduce the time or take more amendments. The admendments are only stalling tactics to slow down the budget process.
He was trying to play cute and tell me there were no stalling tactics on Terri's bill. I said I realized that the stall is on the budget amendments.
Evidently the budget bill has amendments that were placed on it just to slow down the budget process. They know most of the amendments are junk.
They must be feeling the heat since they changed it from 15 minutes to 5 minutes and are considering 3 amendments instead of one.
JUST CALLED BOTH REED AND REID--HOLDING UP BILL.
GOT THROUGH TO BOTH--CALL NOW!
Both Senators with Last Name Reed Are Holding Up Legislation For Terri
Blogs for Terri ^ | 3-17-2005 | Editor
Posted on 03/17/2005 1:23:59 PM PST by AliVeritas
It's both Senator Reeds that need to be encouraged to support Terri - Urgent that everyone call now.
Ask them to please support: "The Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act."
Reed, Jack - (D-RI) Class II 728 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-4642 Web Form: http://reed.senate.gov/form-opinion.htm
AND
Reid, Harry - (D-NV) Class III 528 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-3542 Web Form: http://reid. senate.gov/email_form.cfm
US Senate Enters Feeding Tube Fray
TAMPA, Fla., March 17, 2005
Congress was immersed Thursday in the controversy over removing the feeding tube from a brain-damaged Florida woman whose husband has been given permission by a state court to let her die.
Within hours of the Republican-controlled House's passage of a bill to block the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., announced the Senate would take up a separate bill to address the situation before leaving for its Easter recess on Friday.
"The immediacy has played out in the last several days because of this decision that has been made not by her parents who want to keep her alive, not by her family who wants to keep her alive, but by her husband," said Frist, a physician.
"The question is, should we allow her to be starved to death?" Frist said Thursday in a Senate speech. "It has to do with the culture of life. And I believe this body is going to have to speak on this particular matter before we leave."
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said he sees potential problems with the legislation, but said he was willing to work with the Republicans to try to resolve them.
"We have been in touch with Rose Kennedy School of ethics at Georgetown, we have spoken to ethicists there," Reid said at a news conference.
At the White House, press secretary Scott McClellan said the case raises "a lot of complex issues" and declined to comment on specific legislation. But he said Mr. Bush "stands on the side of defending life."
Schiavo's husband has battled her parents over his efforts to allow her to die, which he contends she would prefer rather than live in a vegetative state.
On Thursday, Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, filed an emergency motion at the Supreme Court to stop the removal of her feeding tube so lower courts can consider whether their daughter's religious freedom and due process rights have been violated.
In Florida, the state House on Thursday passed a bill aimed at keeping Schiavo's feeding tube in place. But the Senate was expected to take up its own bill later in the day, and the differences could be impossible to reconcile before Friday, some legislators have said.
The House bill is more stringent. It would require that patients in a persistent vegetative state receive nutrition and hydration unless they had a living will or left specific oral instructions refusing the measures. The Senate bill would block the denial of food and water only in cases where family members disagreed on whether to keep it in place. Then, the patient would be kept alive unless he or she had expressed different wishes in writing.
It passed 78-37.
"This provides a safety net where the government stands up for the vulnerable who don't otherwise have a voice," said Republican Rep. Kevin Ambler.
Gov. Jeb Bush has strongly urged the Legislature to pass a bill that would save Schiavo, as it did in 2003. That law, which allowed Bush to order doctors to restore Schiavo's feeding tube six days after it had been removed, was later declared unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court.
The bill in the U.S. House passed on a voice vote. It would move such a case to federal court. Federal judges have twice turned down efforts by the parents to move the case out of Florida courts, citing a lack of jurisdiction.
Under the House legislation, a federal judge would decide whether withholding or withdrawing food, fluids or medical treatment from an incapacitated person violates the Constitution or U.S. law.
It would apply only to incapacitated people who had not left directives dealing with being kept alive artificially and for whom a state judge had authorized the withholding of food or medical treatment.
Schiavo, 41, suffered severe brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped temporarily, and court-appointed doctors say she is in a persistent vegetative state. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, says she told him she would not want to be kept alive artificially. Her parents disagree that was her wish and say she could improve with proper treatment.
Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, are taking the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court, reports Gordon Byrd of CBS radio affiliate WHNZ in Tampa.
"We're going to be petitioning Justice Kennedy for the stay and ask that Terri's life be spared," said David Gibbs, their attorney.
The Schindlers planned to ask the Supreme Court to consider whether their daughter's religious freedom and due process rights have been violated.
Meanwhile, the Florida Department of Children and Families, rebuffed last week when it tried to enter the case, was asking for its own stay.
Florida Circuit Judge George Greer has granted Michael Schiavo permission to remove the feeding tube, a ruling a state appellate court upheld Wednesday. Without the feeding tube, which the state court allowed to be removed as early as Friday, Terri Schiavo would likely die in one to two weeks.
"What's going on in Florida regarding Terri Schiavo is nothing short of inhumane," said House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., who introduced the bill with Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/17/national/main681114.shtml
Thank you Marmema. When they stick a microphone in my face, I ALWAYS say helping Terri is the AMERICAN thing to do.
Did you find it???
I'm still holding................
A friend at work just came up to me and said, "HEY! I saw you on the news holding a sign on Sunday night!" I guess that's my fifteen minutes of fame. I didn't even see any cameras where I was standing.
if you go to your profile page by clicking on your name, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LOCALE to "Utah" so that you can see the freepers in Utah and leave an announcement there is you want. You can change back to your real locale when you're done.
I had to call the San Franscisco office for Boxer because her DC office had a message on that there were lots of calls waiting. The gentleman who answered the San Francisco office sounded weary ... said there had been LOTS of calls on the subject ... and that they were all in favor of "keeping the woman alive." (his words).
Keep up the pressure!
Boxer and Feinstein are in favor of "keeping the woman alive?" Now THERE'S interesting news!
I wonder if the senators are finally beginning to realize that this is BIGGER than THEY are?
Helping Terri is so all consuming it's easy not to see cameras rolling. I am always tired. I look like I need to do a geritol commercial instead of talking about Terri's civil rights. I'm going back LATER TODAY to see how the Vigilers are doing. They are talking about rushing Hospice tomorrow with bread and water if the tube is pulled. Ones that do that will be arrested but they are younger and would probably not mind going to jail for history's sake.
those whipper snappers can go to jail. I'll be there somewhere sneering at law enforcement.
DEVELOPING..... there is going to be another blockbuster on www.theempirejournal.com STAY TUNED.
I got Clinton's office this morning- Actually, (surprisingly!) they were nice- they said they were gotting ALOT of calls on this bill. They asked for my name and address.
Also spoke with Schumer's office. Not as nice - They just wanted the name of the county where I live.
Thanks. I can't keep holding on.
I'll call back in a jiff.
He had an answer machine on earlier. Must have been at lunch.
HA HAHA HA! Now won't answer.
They want to deprive poor Terri of what's necessary for themselves!
I told Schumers office that I was an aging baby boomer and I didn't like the idea that a court could starve me if they thought I was useless and I wanted that Da*& bill passed. Now!
Baby Boomers don't age...they just switch toys.
GO BO!!! Hey, last I heard, Bo's wife had left him and he tried to kill himself. Gosh, I am glad to hear he is back in the saddle again. Ya gotta love him! He is a nut!
"Jack Reed from RI
(202) 224-4642
They'll ask where you're from. Tell them RI anyway."
I called that number . The woman didn't ask where I lived or anything. She was "huffy" towards me. I ask if she was going to pass my message on to Mr. Reed...she answered with 'uh huh'.
Lord...............I hope so!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/17/national/main681114.shtml
"The immediacy has played out in the last several days because of this decision that has been made not by her parents who want to keep her alive, not by her family who wants to keep her alive, but by her husband," said Senator Frist, a physician.
"The question is, should we allow her to be starved to death?" Frist said Thursday in a Senate speech. "It has to do with the culture of life. And I believe this body is going to have to speak on this particular matter before we leave."
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said he sees potential problems with the legislation, but said he was willing to work with the Republicans to try to resolve them.
"We have been in touch with Rose Kennedy School of ethics at Georgetown, we have spoken to ethicists there," Reid said at a news conference.
THANK HARRY REID FOR HELPING US SAVE TERRI. TOLL FREE #1-877-762-8762 (CAPITAL SWITCHBOARD).
Thanks....I got a email off to Utah Girl and now I have to stop and make supper. If anyone can check that list for Terri supporters, please let me know so I can appeal to them to call their Senator. When a call comes from a constituent...it has alot more clout. I appreciate any help I can get! This will be one fast supper!
Didnt the 2nd DCA promise to have answered ALL the outstanding appeals by 5pm Thursday?
I believe they still have one or more left to rule on, right?
If the 2nd DCA shoots down EVERY appeal, and one or more of those are taken to the FLSC, is that likely to trigger at least
a day or two longer stay?
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