Posted on 02/28/2005 2:45:29 PM PST by CHARLITE
"No one can be the arbiter of life except God himself." [1]
America suffers from the rule of judges supplanting the rule of law and the will of the people. Men in black robes, rather than legislators, are making and repealing laws. Man's laws and natural laws are being undermined not by legal reasoning but fiat. [2]
Let us look at the judicial homicide case of Terri Schiavo.
In 'virulent judicial activism,'[3] Circuit Judge George Greer of Pinellas County, Florida has recently stated he is no longer "comfortable" in granting Terri Schiavo another 'stay of execution.'
And so, Judge Greer next issued a court order mandating that on March 18, 2005, Terri's palliative care, which is ordinary 'nutrition and hydration' (also crudely known as a 'feeding tube') will be removed, commencing her most painful death by starvation/dehydration.[4]
It is important to understand that a person's 'nutrition and hydration,' whether they are sick or dying, is palliative [normal] care. It is certainly not extraordinary care, as many 'right-to-die' left-leaning judges, attorneys, and the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops wish us to believe. Contrary to what Terri's own Bishop Robert Lynch[5] falsely teaches, the Vatican teaches that 'nutrition and hydration' can never be withheld [see Pope John Paul II teachings below].
Earlier this year, in a 27-page brief, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, on January 21, 2005, asked the U.S. Supreme Court justices to review and reverse the Florida Supreme Court's Sept. 23 ruling that struck down Florida's "35E Bill - Terri's Law" as unconstitutional. Bush's attorneys argued that the lower courts had denied federally protected rights to due process and equal protection.
Three days later, the nation's nine top justices declined to review the Florida Supreme Court's rescission of "35E Bill - Terri's Law." Gov. Bush vows to continue pursuing all legal options available to him before the March 18 death knell.
Activist Judge Greer has subverted the law by rejecting mountains of evidence and medical information that would have saved Terri from husband Michael and attorney George Felos' suspicious quest to have her murdered. Under Greer's liberal judicial rulings, Terri has been denied her Constitutional right to life and lawful due process.[6]
Subsequently, Judge Greer, the evil facilitator, wrongfully serves as 'God' and arbiter of Terri's life and death.
Is it possible that a criminal case can be made against Michael Schiavo, Attorney Felos, and Judge Greer for 'conspiracy to commit murder?'
Concerning the decades-long despotic exploitation of power by activist judges supplanting the will of the people, outspoken and fearless Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote:
"The Court must be living in another world. Day by day, case by case, it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize."[7]
Justice Scalia, a Roman Catholic, whose jurisprudence emphasizes the original meaning of the Constitution and its literal wording of statutes, calls himself a Constitutional 'textualist.'[8] He recently said his colleagues might soon discover a right to assisted suicide between the lines of the text of the Constitution:
"We're not ready to announce [euthanasia] right now. Check back with us," he sarcastically warned.
Another [former] judge who also advocates original or textual interpretation of the Constitution is former U.S. Solicitor General[9] and U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Bork. In his new book, Robert Bork, describes the judicial oligarchy[10] enforcing a new ideology that he calls "lifestyle socialism."[11]
"We are increasingly governed not by law or elected representatives, but by unelected, unrepresentative, unaccountable committees of lawyers applying no law other than their own will. … What judges have wrought is a coup d'etat – slow-moving and genteel – but a coup d'etat nonetheless."
Recently, Roman Catholic Robert Bork wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
"The Supreme Court has created a more permissive abortion regime than any state had enacted; prohibited any exercise or symbol of religion touching even remotely upon government; made the death penalty extremely difficult to impose and execute; disabled states from suppressing pornography; catered to the feminist agenda, including outlawing state all-male military schools; created a labyrinth of procedures making criminal prosecutions ever more difficult; used racial classifications to exclude children from their neighborhood public schools; perverted the political process by upholding campaign finance limits that shift political power to incumbents, journalists and labor unions; licensed the advocacy of violence and law violation; and protected as free speech computer-generated child pornography. These decisions are activist, i.e., not plausibly related to the actual Constitution."[12]
World moral leader Pope John Paul II declared recently that withholding 'nutrition and hydration' is "euthanasia by omission" and is forbidden.[13]
"No matter how sick a person is, he is and will always be a man, never becoming a vegetable or animal," said the Holy Father. Thank God, the ailing Pope does not reside in Pinellas County.
Nonetheless, disregarding Terri's personal Catholic faith, the arrogant activist Judge Greer had twice before ordered Terri's 'nutrition and hydration' removed. The first execution was commenced in April 200l, whereas Terri suffered two-and-a-half days of starvation and dehydration. Again, another execution was commenced in October 2003.
Due to the 'special session' intervention of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the Legislature on October 21, passed "35E Bill – Terry's Law," allowing Terri's palliative care resumed after six days of excruciating pain.
On May 6, 2004, liberal activist Judge W. Douglas Baird of Pinellas Circuit Court, ruled "35E Bill - Terri's Law" unconstitutional.
Terri Schiavo is non-terminal, non-PVS, she is not near death, she is not even sick. Terri can speak a few words and expresses joy and excitement at seeing her family. In fact, Terri can be trained from requiring the 'feeding tube.' Terri suffers from brain damage or cognitive disability, which can be treated and improved, although there are varying 'opinions' as to the degree of improvement expected. To date, her estranged, adulterous husband, Michael Schiavo, has curiously withheld this traditional, basic therapy from Terri.
The Catholic Church teaches that morally no one may remove 'nutrition and hydration' from another simply because they suffer from illness or are near death. If a person were near death, and Terri Schiavo certainly is not, compassionate caregivers and loved ones would not want to cause excruciating pain and agony due to withdrawal of food and water to a terminal patient in their last days. Nutrition and hydration should always be administered as humane, palliative, and ordinary care.[14]
Recently, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, spoke to Vatican Radio in an appeal to Judge Greer, Terri's husband Michael and Michael's 'right-to-die' attorney George Felos to save Terri's life.[15]
"If Mr. Schiavo succeeds legally in causing the death of his [16] wife, this not only would be tragic in itself, but would be a grave step toward the legal approval of euthanasia in the United States.
"I would like to remind everyone in this connection, about all that the Holy Father has said in past days to the Pontifical Academy for Life, confirming that the quality of life is not interpreted as economic success, beauty and physical pleasure, but consists in the supreme dignity of the creature made in the image and likeness of God," Cardinal Martino said.
"No one can be the arbiter of life except God himself" [Pope JPII].
Even dogs and cats as cows and horses have to be fed by law in Missouri, and if the are not, the law as a remedy for evil people who would starve their animals.
Michaek Schaivo is a your basic homicidal bigamous husband (with his common law wife and kids) trying to murder the "wife" Terri he physically abused for many years (and probably nearly killed), for the proceeds from the phony malpractice suit he scammed. He is blessed by locking into Greer, a narcissistic Judicial Tyrant of the worst sort, a living testimany for the need for massive reform of our corrupt courts.
This is trash masquerading as "information" and clearly does not address the many questions surrounding Terry's husband's behavior or that of his attorney or the Judge...this junk should not be injected into a forum whose objective is to preserve life. The blogger is a known advocate of right to die causes and not nearly as "uninterested" as he claims.
Can President Bush intervene using one of the civil rights laws? I've heard of the feds prosecuting murder cases using one of those statutes.
Nonesense.
The case has been to the USSC. You may not like the decision, but the Judge is doing his job and following the law.
Blatant lies serve no ones interest.
I posted this a a source for people to learn the facts that were brought before the court. Freepers are smart enough to separate truth from hype and distortion. I can also post the Guardian ad litems report. The GAL appointed under "Terri's Law" to advise the Governor.
The terricultists like those facts even less.
I don't understand how they came to the conclusion that Terri would not want to live as she is. If she didn't take the initiative to choose death in a will, how can anyone presume to know what she wants? Apparently, Michael is claiming Terri wouldn't have wanted to live in an assisted state. Well, it sure must not have been that important to her if she never left it in writing. I also don't understand why Terri's parents weren't given custody when it was learned Michael was shacking up with a bimbo.
It will be referenced on every thread on this subject I see.
Under rules of judicial procedure, a judge's findings that particular witnesses and pieces of evidence are credible or not credible are not subject to appellate review.
Judge Greer's rulings may be almost reasonable if all the evidence he regarded as 'credible' was actually true and all the evidence he regarded as 'not credible' was actually false, but that doesn't mean they're right. Any reasonable person would be able to see that Greer has accepted evidence that should not be considered nearly as credible as some of the evidence he has rejected. Unfortunately, the appeals process offers no protection against such things.
Whatdya wanna try to be sensible for? I also don't understand why Terri's parents weren't given custody when it was learned Michael was shacking up with a bimbo.
They filed a challenge to Michael's guardianship in 2002. Greer refuses to schedule it.
Rather than make the decision himself, Michael followed a procedure permitted by Florida courts by which a surrogate such as Michael can petition a court, asking the court to act as the ward's surrogate and determine what the ward would decide to do. Michael did this, and based on statements Terri made to him and others, he took the position that Terri would not wish to continue life-prolonging measures. The Schindlers took the position that Terri would continue life-prolonging measures. Under this procedure, the trial court becomes the surrogate decision-maker, and that is what happened in this case.
I'll bet he wishes he'd not bothered to take the parents doubts into court. Otherwise he could have arbitrarily refused treatment and ordered the tubes removed and a DNR on his authority as guardian.
So much for the attempted murder theory.
13 posted on 02/25/2005 1:44:54 PM EST by KDD
Feeding and hydration are not 'life-prolonging measures' in the sense you culture of death frauds try to portray.
They sure seem to serve your purposes real well.
The Legislature recognizes that for some the administration of life-prolonging medical procedures may result in only a precarious and burdensome existence. In order to ensure that the rights and intentions of a person may be respected even after he or she is no longer able to participate actively in decisions concerning himself or herself, and to encourage communication among such patient, his or her family, and his or her physician, the Legislature declares that the laws of this state recognize the right of a competent adult to make an advance directive instructing his or her physician to provide, withhold, or withdraw life-prolonging procedures, or to designate another to make the treatment decision for him or her in the event that such person should become incapacitated and unable to personally direct his or her medical care. § 765.102(3), Florida Statutes.
The Legislature has also defined what is a "life-prolonging procedure":
"Life-prolonging procedure" means any medical procedure, treatment, or intervention, including artificially provided sustenance and hydration, which sustains, restores, or supplants a spontaneous vital function. The term does not include the administration of medication or performance of medical procedure, when such medication or procedure is deemed necessary to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain. § 765.101(10), Florida Statutes (italics added by me).
That was what the Nazi prison guards and SS officers said, once upon a time.
But in any case, the Judge is not following the law. Read the Declaration of Independence, the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution in the Bill of Rights, and the Florida constitution. All of those documents, the documents that are the basis of all of our laws in this country, spell out the unalienable right to life clearly and unequivically.
You're a ghoul.
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