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Jeb Bush urged to intervene immediately:
WorldNetDaily ^ | March 24, 2005 | WND

Posted on 03/24/2005 10:24:20 AM PST by spycatcher

STARVATION: DAY 7
Jeb Bush urged to intervene immediately
Keyes, Klayman in Tallahassee for face-to-face meeting


Posted: March 24, 2005
11:35 a.m. Eastern


© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

With legal and legislative options apparently exhausted, former Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes are in Florida's capital trying to persuade Gov. Jeb Bush to use his executive powers to save Terri Schaivo's life.

Klayman, a candidate last year for the U.S. Senate from Florida, believes that since Bush "is the supreme executive power of the state of Florida, he has the right and duty to step in and, in effect, pardon Terri Schaivo from the death sentence that has been unduly placed upon her by the court system."

The Schaivo case presents a "vacuum" for the judicial system, Klayman and Keyes contend, because it "failed to act to save Terri's life" and "all Americans that want to see justice done would like for that vacuum to be filled before it is too late."

In a unanimous decision, just announced, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from Terri Schiavo's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, for an emergency order allowing Schiavo's feeding tube to be reinserted.

Klayman met with Bush's general counsel yesterday afternoon to outline the legal justification for Bush to act and present a legal brief prepared by Keyes.

They expect to meet with Bush today to "stress that time is of the essence, that Terri can die at any moment."

Keyes wrote a column published this morning by WorldNetDaily, arguing for Bush to step in and save Schiavo amid judicial abuse of the separation of powers.

Larry Klayman is legal counsel for William Greene's RightMarch.com and Alan Keyes' Declaration Alliance, both advocates for saving Schiavo's life.

Yesterday, religious and political groups banded together to urge Gov. Bush and his brother, President Bush, to use their executive powers to order police to take Terri Schiavo into protective custody.

As WorldNetDaily reported, the Florida judge who has consistently ruled against efforts to keep Terri Schiavo alive has said no to an effort by the state's Department of Children and Families to rescue the brain-injured woman by physically removing her, but a department spokeswoman says the state agency still could take action without judicial approval.

Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer said the state cannot take Schiavo into custody, nor provide her food or water.

The possible "rescue" scenario emerged today with Schiavo now in her sixth day without food or water. Florida's DCF indicated it might remove the brain-injured woman, by force if necessary, from the hospice where she has lived the past five years.

At a news conference yesterday, Gov. Bush confirmed the DCF, under his authority, was considering the move.

Bush said new information had come to light warranting intervention, including a review of Terri Schiavo's condition by neurologist Dr. William Cheshire, who claims she may have been misdiagnosed. Cheshire believes Schiavo to be in a "minimally conscious state," not a "persistent vegetative state" as courts have determined.

"It is imperative that she be stablized so the DCF team can fulfill their statute to review the facts surrounding the case," Bush said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: executivepower; jebbush; pontiuspilate; schiavo; terri; terrischiavo
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To: ravingnutter

Here in WV they gave us 72 hours to try to find another
hospital once the meeting (which they never actually
called an Ethics Committee meeting) decided to stop all
care for our mother. I assumed this is the same in every
state?


61 posted on 03/24/2005 10:55:56 AM PST by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: American Quilter

He's, also, denied her last rites...Isn't that denying her religious freedom?? I heard on the Today show that the Judge(Greer?) ordered ALL law enforcement to respond if Bush tries to take her into protective custody


62 posted on 03/24/2005 10:56:01 AM PST by SuefromIN
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To: spycatcher

Where has Larry Klayman been all this time?


63 posted on 03/24/2005 10:56:09 AM PST by Saundra Duffy ("Where there's life, there's hope." Theresa Marie Schiavo)
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To: All
Governor's Office: 850-488-4441
Fax: 850-487-0801

jeb.bush@myflorida.com

Frankly, if this goes on after noon tomorrow, I will begin to think it more humane to let her go than bring her body through the trauma of recovery.

But, Jeb can act tonight one minute after midnight and not have to go to court until Monday.

Tell Jeb save her!

64 posted on 03/24/2005 10:57:24 AM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Saundra Duffy

Whats the matter with Larry doesn't he realize that were killing someone!


65 posted on 03/24/2005 10:59:11 AM PST by chas1776
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To: 1Old Pro

Jeb might be toast whichever way he chooses to proceed. If that's the case, he might as well end it by doing the right thing. If he pulls something out of his executive bag of tricks the Dems, the idiots that support them, the media, and a lot of pundits will be all over Jeb and maybe a few on the right side, but that's always the case--at least he will have most conservatives supporting him. If he doesn't act, he's going to have the Dems still hating him like usual plus a lot of conservatives.


66 posted on 03/24/2005 11:00:07 AM PST by beaversmom (The Democrats--The Right to Kill party.)
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To: Another-MA-Conservative
I guess I better hurry up and get a living will written...

A living will expresses what your desires are when it comes to life-sustaining medical treatment. They are by necessity limiting due to their inability to foresee all things that might happen to you.

In NY, we also have health care proxies, which permit you to appoint someone else to make medical decisions for you if you are incapacitated. It's kind of like a power of attorney for medical decisions. Check to see if MA has these.
67 posted on 03/24/2005 11:00:57 AM PST by BikerNYC
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To: 1Old Pro

What in the hell do you expect?


68 posted on 03/24/2005 11:02:42 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: drjimmy
This is Flordia, remember. You've got to at least throw Jack Thompson into the mix. I'm surprised he has not yet found a way to sue someone over this case.

Did J. Orlin Grabbe's invitation get lost in the mail?

69 posted on 03/24/2005 11:02:53 AM PST by bigeasy_70118
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To: wildandcrazyrussian
That is the way our law used to be...the bill that Bush signed into law in 1999 specifies 10 days...

From a NRO Corner article:

In August 1996 the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article describing procedures then in effect in Houston hospitals. Under these procedures, if a doctor wished to deny a patient lifesaving medical treatment and the patient or the patient's surrogate instead steadfastly expressed a desire for life, the doctor would submit the case to the hospital ethics committee. The patient or surrogate would be given 72 hours notice of the committee meeting would be allowed to plead for the patient's life at it. During that short 72 hour period, the patient or surrogate, while preparing to argue for life, could also try to find another health care provider willing to give the lifesaving treatment, food or fluids.

If the ethics committee decided for death, under these procedures there was no appeal. There was no provision that the food, fluids, or lifesaving treatment be provided after the decision while the patient or family tried to find another hospital willing to keep the patient alive.

So under these procedures, the hospitals in Houston were denying life-saving treatment, food and fluids against the wishes of patients and their families, when the hospital ethics committees said their quality of life was too poor. Patients and families were being given only 72 hours after being notified of the proposed denial to find another health care provider.

In 1997 there was an advance directives bill going through the Texas legislature that would have given specific legal sanction to such involuntary denial of life-saving treatment. An effort in the Texas legislature to amend the bill to require treatment pending transfer to a health care provider willing to provide the life-saving treatment had been defeated. When that bill reached Governor George Bush’s desk, he vetoed it, and said he was vetoing it precisely because it authorized hospitals to deny lifesaving medical treatment, food, and fluids against the will of the patients.

But even without that bill, these procedures were still going on. So there was an effort in the next sitting of the legislature, in 1999, to pass protective legislation. Unfortunately, the votes just weren’t there to require lifesaving treatment, food, or fluids be provided by unwilling hospitals. So there were negotiations that resulted in a bill that gave partial protection. That 1999 bill:

first, formalized more protections for in-hospital review second, gave patients 10 days of treatment while seeking transfer, and third, authorized court proceedings to extend the 10 days for reasonable additional periods to accomplish transfer.

70 posted on 03/24/2005 11:06:23 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: BikerNYC

Thanks BikerNY, I'll do that. I ride too, which is part of the reason I'm so interested in this. I do everything I can to reduce the potential for injury and increase my odds of surviving a crash (always wear a helmet & armor, ride defensively and with caution, never drink & ride, etc). But nevertheless, if my luck runs out I most certainly do not want to be kept in a state like Terri Schiavo for 15 years.


71 posted on 03/24/2005 11:07:10 AM PST by Another-MA-Conservative
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To: Trust but Verify

I don't think so.


72 posted on 03/24/2005 11:08:27 AM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Gnome sayin'?)
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To: spycatcher

As expected, Greer denies...........Gov. Bush is the last hope.


73 posted on 03/24/2005 11:08:31 AM PST by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: Another-MA-Conservative
If your premise is that she is in a permanent Vegatative state you, have been watching the MSM too much

grow set yourself this woman has some potential, and her husband has prevented her from gaining anything back

you need to look at it from someone else's view rather than CBS,
74 posted on 03/24/2005 11:09:27 AM PST by vin-one (REMEMBER the WTC !!!!!!!!)
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To: beaversmom

I agree, this is too big an issue to hope that people will not form opinions.


75 posted on 03/24/2005 11:09:49 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Logical me
What in the hell do you expect?

A backlash.

76 posted on 03/24/2005 11:10:22 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Logical me

You have to have made the nuttiest,most irrational,lunatic fringe post I have ever seen. Hysterical flaming is not going to save Terri. Get a grip,this is not the time to be committed to a funny farm.


77 posted on 03/24/2005 11:12:39 AM PST by samantha (relax, and cheer up the adults are in charge)
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To: spycatcher
Florida's new slogan:

"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and we will kill them under state law."

78 posted on 03/24/2005 11:25:11 AM PST by A. Patriot
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To: A. Patriot


New ad campaign: Visit Florida and make your nightmares come true.


79 posted on 03/24/2005 12:07:32 PM PST by spycatcher
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