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Posted on 03/27/2005 6:45:08 PM PST by tutstar
After much hard work that has gone on for well over a year, it's been a week and 2 days since Terri has been without food and hydration.
Many asking the question how we could have become such a callous society as to deny a helpless human the basic necessity of food and water.
Terri's plight has brought to light many problems in the judicial system and opened our eyes to the fact that some laws need to be changed.
The work will continue to protect helpless individuals from suffering the same injustice as Terri.
Heavenly Father - We come before you exhausted but refusing to give up - Please save our little Sister, Theresa Marie, and avenge her enemies - In the Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Master. Amen.
AMEN!!!!!
Judge Greer must go. On www.PetitionOnline.com there were 28,267 signatures already to impeach Greer. Today's frontpage article in The Washington Times pointed out some of the outrageous decisions Greer has made in the Schiavo case.
IMHO, there is more involved that Greer possibly being bought off. I believe he is getting a high from this.
Good morning!
Psalm 121
Psa 121:1 [[A Song of degrees.]] I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Psa 121:2 My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
Psa 121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Psa 121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psa 121:5 The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand.
Psa 121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psa 121:7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psa 121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
The Lord gave me those verses you posted from Ps. 121 earlier today.
I posted this yesterday because the Lord seemed to speak to my heart, concerning this Psalm.
Psalm 41
1.How blessed is he who consideres the helpless; The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.
2.The Lord will protect him and keep him alive, And he shall be called blessedupon the earth; And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.
3.The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed; In his illness, Thou dost restore him to health.
4.As fo me, I said, "O Lord, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee."
5.My enemies speak evil against me, "When will he die, and his name perish?"
6.And when he comes to see me he speaks falsehood; His heart gathers wickedness, to itself; When he goes outside, he tells it.
7.All who hate me whisper together against me Against me they devise my hurt, saying,
8.A wicked thing is poured out upon him, That when he lies down, he will not rise up again."
9.Even my closest friend, in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.
10.But Thou, o Lord, be gracious to me, and raise me up, That I may repay them.
11.By this I know that Thou art pleased with me, Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.
12.As for me, Thou dost uphold me in my integrity, And thou dost set me in Thy presence forever.
13.Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. Amen, and Amen!!!!!
Lord we praise You for Terri! Bless her Lord!!! In Jesus!!!
God Bless all of us today as we bow before the throne of grace and that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help, in time of need! Heb 4:16.....
Jesus is our blood sacrifice! He BOUGHT our salvation!
This smallish man (mentally off-a perverted human, fascinated with death and a strong advocate of euthanasia (see his membership in the euthanasia society of America...now renamed something with the word 'caring' in it, you know how the evil always word twist in order to cover up their agenda) and has been active in hospice activities for years.
I would not be surprised to learn that this man, one we know is a death worshiper from his own book (was weird and unsettling to watch Greta Van Susteran question a reporter, last night on her show, who held up Felos's book-the topic of their interview. This reported talked about Felos's claimed experiences of 'soul speaking' with those disable who are unable to verbalize).
Wish the 11th court whatever it is called today WERE all watching THAT INTERVIEW.
At any rate....felos is a very spiritually sick man. It reeks off him....and one cannot help but feel the blackness that has covered this man's thinking.
To learn of his association with the FLORIDA 'PROJECT GRACE', and oh my gosh, TO LEARN that Mary Labyak (the administrator, right now, I walked PAST HER OFFICE in WOODSIDE in January of this year, entered the Hospice through the Chapel side door, of the hospice where Terri has been imprisoned for FIVE YEARS) was ALSO on the 'PROJECT GRACE' project.....
(This group was formed to establish florida's view of end of life procedures.. to advise the Florida State legislature's END-OF-LIFE panel......FELOS was a PART OF PROJECT GRACE...along with a bunch of EUTHANASISTS. Felos and Mary LABYAK worked to INFLUENCE FLORIDA LAW on this issue...and if I read the REPORT RIGHT...Their ENTIRE FOCUS was to get HYDRATION AND FOOD labeled 'EXTRAORDINARY LIFE SUPPORT...artificial...as it were............
DID NOT REQUIRE A VOTE...that"project grace" and the end-of life panel WROTE their advice into the law and it was accepted as valid without debate.
WORSE....FELOS WORKED TO GET THIS LAW WRITTEN WHILE HE WORKED as MICHAEL SCHIAVO's ATTORNEY....
I cannot believe this is legal....just as I cannot believe that Greer is allowed to sit on a bench without taking an oath of office.
There is something insidious and very black snaking through pinellas county....
There is something very rotten and smelly that rolls off george felos....
His fascination and desire to kill couched in the twisted words all evil people use, words like 'DEATH WITH DIGNITY..."....MAKE ME SICK.
Don't you JUST CRINGE when they save give Terri DEATH WITH DIGNITY................and THEN YOU CONSIDER that these SATANIC FREAKS, who are stimulated by the death process...........ARE STARVING someone.....REFUSING WATER TO SOMEONE...........................
AND TELLING US THIS HAD DIGNITY?
FOR WHO?
It can't hurt- we need all the help we can get.
I saw the webcam, and it's a nice touch.
That's what I keep saying...
THE CASE OF TERRI SCHIAVO
Let us take the example of Terri Schiavo. She is not brain dead nor is she terminally ill. She is brain damaged and remains in what appears to be a persistent vegetative state. All of her bodily functions are essentially normal, but she lacks the ability to "meaningfully" interact with the outside world (although her parents claim that she does minimally respond to their presence and to outside stimuli).
To remove the feeding tube from a patient whose only impairment is cognitive is simply murder.
Her impairment is cognitive and Judaism does not recognize any less of a right to treatment for one cognitively impaired than one mentally astute.
It is a denial of the Jewish ideal of the fundamental value of life that drives the forces that wish to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. While Judaism does recognize quality of life in certain circumstances (such as the incurable terminally ill patient in intractable pain mentioned above), the Torah does not sanction euthanasia in any situation. To remove the feeding tube from a patient whose only impairment is cognitive is simply murder.
We must ask ourselves when we view images of cognitively impaired patients such as Terri Schiavo whether the pain that we feel is Terri's or whether it is our own. While we may suffer watching movies of the severely brain damaged, it is our own thoughts of the horror of a life without cognition that drives us to project that pain onto the victim who may not be suffering at all.
The key to analyzing any situation is to realize that good ethics start with good facts. One must provide the posek (halachic decisor) with an accurate, honest, and thorough assessment of the patient's medical condition. Only then can a halachically valid and ethically proper decision be made.
Adapted from an article that appeared in Viewpoint: National Council of Young Israel, Winter 1996 entitled: "HALACHIC ISSUES REGARDING FUTILITY OF MEDICAL TREATMENT: Applications To Nutrition And Hydration In The Terminally Ill Patient
I haven't been replying, but I've been here the whole time. Thank God for the wonderful prayers everyone has posted! Yesterday I had a thought. What if those police officers have been sneaking her water? God is working through Jesse Jackson, so why can't he work through policemen? Yeah, crazy thought...
Gosh, what a darn shame...
Amen & amen!
Where there is life, there is always hope even for those that are spiritually and mentally deficient......
Dear God, Please hear our prayers. Please allow Terri to be with those that love and want to care for her. I ask this in your's son name. AMEN
Yes, just reading that 1999 FL law is terrifying. Certain irreversible nervous disorders? That could be anyone in a wheelchair seems to me. That law says they can off whoever they want if a doctor will do it.
Amen, Lady...and pat your husband on the back for all of us.
Yes, still believing for a miracle. In the Name of Jesus Christ, our Master and Soon Coming King. Amen.
I know this is frivolous, but you know Felos said yesterday that Terri looked peaceful and had a stuffed toy under her arm. Why does a vegetable need a stuffed toy for comfort?
We're going to see our miracle...and Jesus Christ the Lord will receive ALL the glory...when it happens, please let's not forget that the glory is His. There will be a tendency to praise this person and that court and that agency and on and on...but the glory is GOD'S.
If this case has emphasized anything to me it's that the Republican Party is not necessarily America's Great Answer. It is certainly an alternative to the evil of most of what the Democrats stand for (abortion being one of the biggest), but there are just as many cruel and heartless people within the Republican party as there are anywhere else. Look to God for answers...and vote for what's right, be it Republican or otherwise.
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