Feeding Tube Being Removed: Greer Gives Order

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Greer gives order

[Michael81Dus]

Your post made me smiling (I actually don´t think this story is funny at all), no offense! There must have been 50+ decisions of judges - federal and state - and still no final decision on this case. But, please, don´t try to explain this complicated history of rulings to me! For me, all that matters is that Schiavo lives and the legal problems are far less important.

[snowsislander]

Judge Greer said today, "I have heard no cogent reason why the committee should be able to intervene," he told attorneys in a conference call, adding that last-minute action by Congress does not invalidate years of court rulings. "I don't think legislative agencies or bodies have business in the court's proceedings."

Well, Judge Greer certainly likes to live on the edge; his life would be far less interesting at this point if he had just complied.

[grassboots.org]

"We have a legal definition of brain death: NO more brain activity."

You are badly misinformed. You must think that "brain death" is determined by some machine that measures waves and when the waves stop you are dead. That is science fiction, not science. Read up on it. Yours is not a medical definition of "brain death"
If there is no brain activity, no machine can keep you "alive" in a body that is functioning in any way. The bodies of people who are supposedly "brain dead" do all kinds of functions. The blood that circulates is not hand-walked through your body. The "nerve" lines between the brain, heart and lungs are working (alive).


If what you say was true we could go take bodies out of the ground and make their hearts beat and their lungs breathe, we cannot.

Give your organs if you wish, but know that they will be taking them from you, a person still alive.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Prez in Fl? Good. Maybe the Bush Brothers can walk on up and feed her personally.

[Rebelbase]

"But after a feeding tube is insterted, they don't yank it out and starve their parents."

Trust me, it does happen.

[shellshocked]

"I don't think legislative agencies or bodies have business in the court's proceedings."

In other words, he believes that he is a dictator without oversight by the people or our representatives. He follows OUR laws, not his.

[cyborg]

Prayers offered up on this end too :(

[Boardwalk]

Three cheers for King Vanity!!! Here's to 101!

[mjtobias]

"And, now, they are saying she reacted to the news that her tube was to be removed by trying to get up out of her bed"

>I feel like crying.<

We're all crying here. I feel like driving down to Florida and raise hell. And no one will be able to stop me! Storm the place! Storm it now! Send in the state troopers!

From Cheryl Ford:

PRESS RELEASE: MARCH 18. 2005 2:00 PM EASTERN TIME

ATTORNEY BARBARA WELLER TOLD TERRI THAT THEY WERE GOING TO REMOVE HER FEEDING TUBE , TERRI BEGAN TO CRY AND TRIED TO SAY "I WANT TO LIVE" ATTORNEY WELLER SAID SHE HAD A DIFFICULT TIME CALMING TERRI DOWN.

WE NEED PEOPLE TO SURROUND HOSPICE IN PROTEST TO JUDGE GREER'S RULING STATING HE WILL OVER RIDE FEDERAL SUBPOENA AND WILL REMOVE TERRI'S FEEDING TUBE IMMEDIATELY.

FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT COME TO FLORIDA...PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS. PLEASE DO NOT STOP YOUR CALLS.

ACTION BY THE PEOPLE MUST TAKE PLACE TO SAVE TERRI FROM JUDICIAL HOMICIDE.

JUDGE GREER IS WRONG AND IS NOT LISTENING TO CONGRESS.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365111/posts?page=1678#1678

[Terriergal]

...Kenneth W. Goodman, co-director of the Florida Bioethics Network and head of the University of Miami Bioethics Program..... said the legislation would create barriers for people who want to control the end of their lives.

Same crap we got with partial birth abortion ban. The leadership of this country is becoming more and more pro-death, and it will not be long before conservatives will be deemed 'mentally incoherent' and a 'drain on society' and be drugged into a 'persistently vegetative state' to prove it.

"When I Woke Up..." (EERY parallel to Schiavo case)- meditation given at Terri Schiavo vigil

[Mikecan1978]

Some info on the Judge from the SFGATE.com

"And Greer, vilified by many religious protesters, is a church regular. He also is a conservative Republican in a state whose conservative Republican governor tried to overturn one of Greer's orders.

"George is the religious right," said lawyer David Kurland, a longtime friend.

Friends say Greer's intellect is perfectly formed to withstand the very tempest he now faces. Always calm, not prone to mood swings or flares of temper, unerringly polite, he is not easily ruffled, they say.

But the criticisms sting, friends say. His relationship with his church, for example, has changed.

"He's been through a lot of storms in his life," said Mary Repper, a political consultant and friend. "This is just another one. George takes everything in stride."

[syriacus]

Time to go vomit. The amount of ignorance on this site lately astounds me.

Bears repeating.

I'm glad Delay, Sensenbrenner, and Frist seem to understand what is really going on.

CBS can't even get Felos's first name right.

And one channel, I think MSNBC, had a newswoman who kept calling Bobby Schindler, "Bobby Schumer."

[Rutles4Ever]

Michael is from Germany - he's talking about German laws.

[Brad’s Gramma]

UPDATE FROM 8mm AND FV

Hi, this is a rush and breaking from me and Floriduh Voter.

We got news on what happened to Terri. Terri said "I--want--to--live" and was heard from a policeman. They ushered out the Schindlers and the policeman now denies the story. They went ahead bent on continuing. Terri is talking, and she is being silenced!!!!

Time for action. I can do little, could be bumped any moment from the library computer. Please whoever needs to know this and can help now it the time to step in. Floriduh Voter is doing an incredible job in getting the word out but we need your help.

If I do not reply it is because I am being bumped off this access. Also this may be overtaken by events, but this just happened and I was privy to the info when it broke.

8mm



853 posted on 03/18/2005 2:14:22 PM CST by 8mmMauser

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365111/posts?page=1855#1855

[RoseofTexas]

Newt on with Hannity! He said, he Can't understand why the judge hurried to pull the feeding tube after the subpoenas were ordered! He said the congress ain't finished yet! WELL, I HOPE THEY MOVE QUICKLY!!

[Boardwalk]

How shocking! He almost killed her then and he's finishing her off now.

[Michael81Dus]

I SEE! I wasn´t talking about Terri in this post, just about a theoretical (but for many patients a practical) problem. The will of the patient is above all - I hope nobody disagrees with that.

[amdgmary]

Activist Rebekah Gatlyn, 19, wears tape over her mouth, which represents the silencing of Terri Schiavo, during a protest outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Clearwater.

[Terriergal]

"And Greer, vilified by many religious protesters, is a church regular.

Ain't that special.

Throw him in jail. He's a RINO.

[meanie monster]

I am so distraught, I feel an anxiety attack coming on. I can't stop crying. I am a member of the grassroots org have faxed called emailed, all I can do. If anyone is headed to Florida from the North Tn area please give me a ride.

I will go to jail they will go to hell.