If this is a legitimate affidavit, from a neurologist who apparently has examined Terri Schiavo within the last few weeks, it's time for Governor Bush to send in the state troopers, or for President Bush and his Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to send in the federal Marshals, accompanied by this doctor and doctors from the Public Health Service or from the military (perhaps from the Florida National Guard).
"I'm doing everything within my power to make sure that Terri is afforded at least the same rights that criminals convicted of heinous crimes take for granted," Bush said."
"If a prisoner comes forward with new DNA evidence 20 years after his conviction that suggests his innocence, there is no doubt the courts in our state and all across the country, for that matter, will immediately review their case. We should do no less for Terri Schiavo," Bush said.
"Along with the petition alleging abuse, the Bush administration has filed with the Pinellas Circuit Judge George W. Greer an affidavit from Jacksonville neurologist William Polk Cheshire, Jr., who concluded from examining videotape of Schiavo that the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman may not be in a persistent vegetative state."