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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.
Schindler family supporters head back to Congress
Monday, March 28, 2005
Supporters of the Schindler family continue the fight to save Terri Reverend Patrick Mahoney is headed to Washington Monday to speak with Congress.
Schiavo's life, though she may have only hours to live without her feeding tube.
In the latest twist, a group led by Reverend Patrick Mahoney said Sunday evening that Circuit Court Judge George Greer could be held in contempt of court by a federal judge for not allowing Schiavo to appear before Congress on Monday.
The original appeal was made only hours before Schiavo's feeding tube was removed March 18. Schindler supporters are saying Greer didn't uphold two subpoena issued by the House Committee on Government Reform demanding Schiavo appear before Congress.
The committee claimed they were launching an investigation concerning the medical equipment used to treat and care for Schiavo, the daughter of Bob and Mary Schindler. Federal laws protect anyone issued a subpoena to appear before Congress.
In a teleconference on March 18, Greer denied the motion, saying the committee had no business attempting an intervention in the case.
Mahoney, who is with the Christian Defense Coalition, is in
Washington, DC., today to demand Congress enforce the subpoenas.
Mahoney will lead a protest in front of the White House at noon and then head to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert's office, to demand the congressional subpoenas be honored, with the goal of having Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted.
Earlier in the day, Schiavo was administered Catholic last rites and given Holy Communion by the family's spiritual advisor, Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski.
This was amid conflicting reports about Schiavo's condition.
Family supporters of Mary and Bob Schindler said she was fighting but rapidly losing strength. Supporters of her husband, Michael Schiavo, said Terri Schiavo was at peace and in no pain. Michael Schiavo has said his wife would not want to live in this condition.
Schindler family spokesperson Randall Terry said there are still ways lawmakers can keep Schiavo alive.
"We know that there are members of Congress right now, who are scrambling, looking for a way to intervene," Terry said. "We're asking them, 'Use that authority.' "
A new face Sunday was attorney Larry Klayman, founder and former chairman of Judicial Watch, the group that filed lawsuits against the Clinton and Bush administrations. Klayman spoke about legal issues and how Governor Jeb Bush could still intervene in the case.
"The governor must come forward today, on Easter, and do what we asked him to do when we elected him as governor of the state of Florida under the Constitution, articles one and two, to protect the life of a Florida citizen,'' Klayman said. "And to exercise his supreme authority as the executive, and to step up to the plate, to be a man, put politics aside and to do his job.
"The fact that Terri has been subpoenaed, and she's now being put to a death sentence, to kill a witness is obstruction of justice. The Congress has no choice but to enforce that subpoena and to hold Judge Greer in contempt of court.''
Governor Bush still has several state appeals pending in the case. However, his office said he plans on filing no further appeals, and it is unlikely any of the appeals in the case will cause any type of last-minute intervention.
The governor and President George Bush have both said they have done everything in their power to have Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted.
"I cannot violate a court order," Bush said Sunday. "I don't have powers from the United States Constitution, or for that matter from the Florida Constitution, that would allow me to intervene after a decision has been made.''
The governor added he would be at peace knowing he did all he could if Schiavo dies. He's made efforts to have her feeding tube reconnected, including pushing state legislation. He's also brought forward a neurologist, who said he does not believe Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state as some doctors have said since she lapsed into a coma 15 years ago.
Demonstrators who want to keep Schiavo alive continued to demonstrate throughout the weekend outside the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park where Schiavo resides.
Demonstrators on both sides of the issue prayed for Schiavo during vigils. Terry prayed for Schiavo not to die and once again urged Governor Bush to get involved.
"God have mercy, God don't let that happen," Terry said. "I still cannot in my mind picture Terri dying. I can't think about it. I can't focus on it."
Pinellas Park Police beefed up security at the hospice in light of a rumor of a possible security breach. They are also searching vehicles that go to the hospice.
Thirty-eight protestors outside the hospice have been arrested since the vigil began last week. Four more were arrested Sunday as demonstrators became restless.
Another man was arrested Monday morning as supporters on both sides grow restless awaiting either news about Schiavo's condition or something being done on her behalf.
Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, urged people to remain calm.
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/3/28/75906.html
Always piss off as few people as possibe in a PR fight.
Why do the Schindlers leave? I have heard that Mike is living at the hospice now.
good point.
Michael Schiavo hasn't been seen at hospice by the media recently. He's doesn't live at hospice. Meanwhile, Terri's family visit her frequently throughout the day. The few times that Michael has visited Terri, he banns the family from visiting her while he and his girlfriend are in the room with Terri.
Reverend Patrick Mahoney is headed to Washington. I admire this man. God bless him.
Could they AT LEAST stop the cremation and order an autopsy? Could they AT LEAST do that, for God's sake?
If Terri's body is cremated - which BTW is against her faith and her family's wishes - there will be no evidence so that an investigation can be conducted into charges of abuse and neglect.
I really still feel that she is being protected by God............if God brings her to it, HE CAN BRING HER THROUGH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michael apparently goes in a side entrance away from the media so that he will not be seen. He and his fiance go in with Terri together and they won't allow Terri's family to to be there with them. Terri's family is there when they are allowed to be there!
Okay,,okay,,watch your blood pressure and just in case, have some pepcid on hand!
I agree Polly! I think God has been good to Terri and He will decide when it is Terri's time. God has never failed Teri, men have!
This is what I have been hearing too. People just don't know this issues here. Even good conservatives and Christians. My precious neighbors felt the same way until I spelled it out for them. God help US!!
Michael, Felos, and Greer might be laughing now, but this is not the end even if Terri dies. There will be lawsuits and there will be those who will keep reminding them (as well as those who could have but refused to prevent her death) of the horror the committed.
With new medical advances over the past years, Terri could have been significantly helped, but Michael and Greer refused to allow it.
That is my sister yesterday Polly. My sister kept trying to say to me that Terri's husband was the gaurdian so therefore he got to choose what to do with her. And than she said that is the law and I just need to let it go! I couldn't believe her! I totally ripped into her and told her a person may be a gaurdian but murder is murder!
Oh God in Heaven, please send a miracle to help her.
ugh...
Just saw Jeb on Fox. I'll not post what I was screaming at the TV...
He's done all he can do. It's such a sad situation....but there's nothing he can do, lawfully. He was critisized before for doing too much....now he's critisized for doing too little....so he feels he must be doing everything right. HUH?
What a whiner! Poor pitiful Jeb. Makes me sick!
HAhahaha (/s), as if our history books report anything correctly. When Hillary becomes president, she'll have the texts written that the Bush brothers threatened local citizens and it was only the bravery of an elderly disabled judge and a handful of loyal police saved our country.
What really gets me about Jeb and Dubya is that many liberals are acting in accordance with their beliefs on this... the Bush brothers are acting against what they claim they believe in. Now they are posturing that they have done "all I can do." As far as I'm concerned this chant should greet them at every public event they attend, "all I can do." They need to know that they copped out on this issue and their purported belief in life.
Judge Greer issued an order that Terri is to be cremated and her ashes to be taken to Pennsylvania. He also ordered that an autopsy is not to be performed.
I've been calling Senator Pat Roberts since I found out that he was on the HELP committee that issued the 'subpoena' for Terri to be in DC today. He is trotting around Kansas, filling his face with farmers. I can only let his clerks know how thoroughly disgusted I am with him.
38 in 10 days isn't that momentous, especially since a portion of those were children and disabled persons. Ooooh, big bad police handcuffing little kids and the media loves it. The only non-disabled adults I've seen arrested did nothing but carry across the line. Come on, let's actually SEE the violence.... I'm waiting... still waiting...
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