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Mainstream media unreported conflicts of interest in Schiavo tragedy (Rush read this article today)
Toronto Free Press ^ | March 31 05 | Judi McLeod,

Posted on 03/31/2005 10:43:08 PM PST by churchillbuff

Every time a rock is lifted in the Terri Schiavo tragedy, another conflict of interest comes slithering out.

The conflict-of-interest potential in the right-to-die connections among current figures involved in the case are only outdone by the Woodside Hospice board of director’s conflict of interest reality.

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There’s the death-is-beautiful, right-to-die activist Michael Schiavo attorney George Felos.

Don’t make eye contact with Felos, who claims he can ascertain a person’s desire to die by "looking into their eyes" and letting their spirits speak directly to him.

A jumped-up volunteer at Woodside Hospice, Felos became chairman of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, which runs Woodside, and only came off the board about a year after Michael Schiavo placed his estranged wife there.

Then there’s Dr. Ronald Cranford, handpicked by Michael Schiavo to examine Terri and on whose say-so Terri was categorized in "persistent vegetative state". Cranford is the MD who officially ordered Terri’s feeding tube removed on March 18. A neurologist, Cranford testifies in cases such as Terri’s around the country, always pumping the dehydration and starvation side. He was 1992’s featured speaker for the pro-euthanasia Hemlock Society, which was renamed The Choice in Dying Society. (WorldNetDaily).

Cranford nicknamed himself, "Dr. Humane Death".

A bioethicist, and a pioneer in euthanasia and right-to-die issues, Dr. Humane Death is a fully-fledged member of The Choice in Dying Society.

At least Cranford is not a board member of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.

Mary Labyak, CEO of Woodside Hospice has direct ties to the Euthanasia Society of America and Hemlock for Hospice, described by Hyscience.com as "an organization that seeks to accelerate the dying process."

Everett Rice, former Pinellas County Sheriff (1988-204) endorsed Judge George Greer for reelection in campaign ads. Rice, a former board member for the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, hired Michael Schiavo while Schiavo’s guardianship proceedings were being heard in the courtroom of his longtime friend, Judge George Greer.

Senator Jim King, who originally upheld the passage of "Terri’s Law", was a board member of Woodside.

Then there’s Gus Michael Bilirikis, Florida State representative 1998-2000 and between 2001-2003, who was on the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast board of directors.

As a county commissioner, Judge Greer was a working colleague of Barbara Sheen Todd (county commissioner) for eight consecutive years. Sheen Todd is also on the board of the hospice where Terri lingers.

Judge Greer’s fellow judge, Judge John Lenderman is the brother of Martha Lenderman, on the same board.

The mainline media has not reported on the myriad conflicts of interest connected to the Terri Schiavo tragedy, although any one interested can read about them on the Internet.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: hospice; schiavo
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Civil courts in general (probate, divorce, bankruptcy, etc.) are not equipped with the same safeguards that appear in criminal courts, or where the stakes are life & death.


61 posted on 04/01/2005 5:55:32 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Psycho_Bunny
When the hit men in Black Robes do anything illegal that
can get away with it because other judges will cover up for
them and no single lawyer will try and bring down a judge.
The lawyer would never win a case.
The corruption in the court rooms is all across the country. Now we have Doctors,Lawyers,Judges and Hospitals
that are interested in the dying, they no longer want to
cure people, wealth and fame come from body parts, research
and organ transplants.
Two years ago I went to the hospital with 2 broken arms,
due to a fall. The hospital left me laying there all day,
didn't help me until late that evening, they were trying
to over dose me with morphine. One person yelled out look
at all those bubbles, the nurse got mad and pull the tube
out. By an act of God the morphine wouldn't kick in. I also
had a serious head injury and they refuse to check it out.
One of the workers at the hospital called my daughter and
my daughter and granddaughter came to get me.
Rose De Lima Hospital in Henderson,Nev.
62 posted on 04/01/2005 6:37:11 AM PST by rebapiper (.)
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To: PJBlogger

That's how long they have been actively trying to kill her.


63 posted on 04/01/2005 7:18:31 AM PST by Sioux-san (Two attorneys donated to Greer)
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To: mlc9852
I am wondering how our guys in Iraq feel about Terri's death after all they are doing to protect people's lives. I would like to hear from them.

I would be willing to bet they are LIVID!

64 posted on 04/01/2005 8:37:42 AM PST by Slyfox
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To: Slyfox

They should be livid as should every person in the world who values life.


65 posted on 04/01/2005 9:38:02 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: dennisw

They also control a lot of school boards also. It's not by accident, it was planned.


66 posted on 04/01/2005 11:10:49 AM PST by John Lenin
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To: John Lenin; RushCrush; Mo1
OMG!!

Did anyone just hear the "commercial" that Rush just played?

67 posted on 04/01/2005 11:37:01 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA

No, in L.A. ABC has taken Rush off the air and put the Idiot Ken in his place. Ken is an obnoxious left wing lawyer with the personality of rattlesnake.


68 posted on 04/01/2005 11:40:28 AM PST by John Lenin
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To: John Lenin

http://wlsam.com/listenlive.asp


69 posted on 04/01/2005 11:44:46 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: FairOpinion
And why does a Probate Court judge allowed to make life or death decisions?

I don't think he has jursidiction. Someone should examine that.

Greer is not simply a probate court judge. He is a judge of a court of general jurisdiction meaning that he hears all types of cases including probate law, family law, criminal law ...

70 posted on 04/01/2005 11:51:46 AM PST by writmeister
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To: OXENinFLA

"Did anyone hear the commercial Rush just played..."

Was it the soccer moms one? I love that one...


71 posted on 04/01/2005 11:56:13 AM PST by RushCrush (Some people think I should provide equal time. Wrong. I AM equal time.)
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To: OXENinFLA

No I missed it

can you gice details?


72 posted on 04/01/2005 12:05:29 PM PST by Mo1
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To: churchillbuff

bttt


73 posted on 04/01/2005 12:06:47 PM PST by Dante3
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To: LOC1

Felos has figured out how to legally be a serial killer.


74 posted on 04/01/2005 12:08:20 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Never let your life be determined by the prejudice of a Physician.)
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To: Mo1
It was for a Felos diet program.

He used the "we have the right to disagree with any Gov't" Hillary sound bite as a before and a flat line sound for an after.
75 posted on 04/01/2005 12:20:02 PM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: RushCrush
No it was a new one for a Felos diet program.
76 posted on 04/01/2005 12:21:27 PM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA

Will have to que up my 24/7 and listen. Do you remember which hour in the show?


77 posted on 04/01/2005 12:37:32 PM PST by RushCrush (Ideas are like children: there are none so wonderful as your own.)
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To: restornu

Well stated!


78 posted on 04/01/2005 4:11:04 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: JennysCool
"Sheesh. Just follow the money people. It ain't that hard."

That is exactly what I've been saying too. After Michael turned his nose up at the Million dollar offer to transfer guardianship to the parents and get on with his "common-law wife" and kids: I figured he was either a willful idiot, or he had much more to gain. It will be interesting to see just exactly what he's has gained from all this.
79 posted on 04/01/2005 6:27:27 PM PST by Hillarys nightmare (So Proud to be living in "Jesus Land" ! Don't you wish everyone did?)
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To: writmeister

"Greer is not simply a probate court judge. He is a judge of a court of general jurisdiction meaning that he hears all types of cases including probate law, family law, criminal law ..."

Thanks for the info. I read somewhere that he was only a probate court judge.

But this makes it that much worse, that he was ignoring important evidence and accepting tainted hearsay evidence in life or death decision, and sentenced an innocent woman to death, because her husband living with his mistress wanted her dead.

Scott Peterson should have checked with Michael Schiavo first on how to kill his wife legally. Maybe MS will write a "How to" book about it.


80 posted on 04/01/2005 7:52:49 PM PST by FairOpinion
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