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Posted on 03/20/2005 10:27:03 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida
Continuation of Terri Schiavo daily March threads. Due to overwhelming participation we reached over 5000 posts in three days time!
People who take our calls to congresscritters and other complaint departments---they usually merit a lot of slack, IMO. You never know what kind of abuse they got just before you called. Much less the aggregate of many hours of phone duty. I always make nice and give them a hearty "pat on the back" across the wires. I'd find experimental space flight less stressful than what they do.
I turned him off. [I'm only human.] I still have to look into something else he said though....
Thank you and FReegards....
polly, can you or someone briefly catch me up?
There is a hearing scheduled in court today at 3:00 PM ET before Honorable Judge James D Whittemore in Tampa today for a restraining order to be placed on Judge Greer, Michael Schiavo and the Hospice of Florida Suncoast for denying Terri food and water. Please continue to pray. We are concerned why the judge is not alowing the immediate reinsertion of her feeding tube and is waiting until 3:00 PM ET. Please watch for further updates.
Never mind polly, I'm catching up already... I just read post 819!!
I also called Tom Delay's office. They are kind but offered no opinions. I was boo hooing when I called. Over come with emotion, I guess. They were kind.
My heart is trembling and I'm sorta shaking.
I have a bit of high blood pressure. And right now I'm not going to take it.
Super-sleuths requested!
Terri ping to 826! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!
we're currently researching and cross referencing right now
Need my memory refreshed. Last time this happened, it also took them several hours to get the tube reinserted. Does anyone remember how long, exactly? She'd gone two days longer by that time...I remember the anticipation was intense.
I have been sending this to every constitutional argument I find on the web.
If the DCF in Florida had been doing their job in the first place, all of this would have been averted. There are statutes and policies in place for disabled Americans. 1. Hospice policy, procedures and services are for the terminally ill, usually a prognosis of 6 months or less. Terri Schiavo has been in a hospice for over 4 years and is definitely not terminal. 2. There is no precedent for removal of food and water strictly for being disabled. Medical professionals will tell you that those are removed only when a patient is terminal and only because it provides more comfort to a body that is already shutting down. 3. Disabled Americans are entitled to treatment and therapies (statutes won by the diligent efforts of the Kennedy women) and those therapies are not contingent on rehabilitation to normal but rehabilitation to the level that is possible. Terri Schiavo has consistently been denied those normal treatment and therapies available to every other disabled American, despite the 1.25 million dollars he had won purposed to her care and therapy. 4. Michael Schiavo et.al. had Terri Schiavo declared indigent shortly after receiving those funds and her care is provided by Medicaid being housed in a hospice for over three years must be contrary to Medicaid policies.
Apparently not as precisely as you thought. In any case, we agree.
For real? There is a federal investigation of Woodside Killing Fields?
God bless you!
I cannot find any substantiation that he was a Pinellas County Judge. He was a 13th Circuit Court Judge, Hillsborough, not Pinellas
Fox news is going to talk about the judge...coming up
Congress passed Terri's law last night shortly after midnight.
Bush signed it into law almost immediately.
It has been sent to a Federal Judge, James Whittmore(sp?)
He has called a hearing at 3:00pm EST
In the meantime Terri's Parents have ask for a emergency hearing to have the tube re-instated.
There is a lot of concern here on FR about the relationship of this Federal Judge with Pinallas County.
We are asking everyone to call JEB BUSH and see if he will/can take Terri in to protective custody.
Jeb Bush's # 1-850-488-4441
"Sometimes they seem so cold. It's just a job."
It's apathy. [even the best congressmembers have apathetic staffers.] Few of us are cold on this. Several people have been making songs. Many people here stayed up all night. We care. Even Peggy Noonan surprised me. She was a lioness!
FReegards....
bump for later
We need a cross check of George Greer and James Whittemore who is now going to hear Terri's case in Tampa at 3:00 pm today. DO THEY HAVE A PAST? WHITTEMORE USED TO BE A PINELLAS COUNTY JUDGE.
CALLING ALL FREEPER SLEUTHS TO THIS THREAD. Ping your sleuth friends, please. Thanks, FV gotta go to Hospice.
Excellent points! Will borrow if you don't mind, I post to a lot of lists.
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