Theresa Marie Schindler... May Daily Thread 2005 CALL TO ACTION: Our Fight for Justice Continues

Various Sources ^ | April 3, 2005 | floriduh voter

[floriduh voter]

Freeper friends, Terri's Memorial Service is this coming Tuesday night in Gulfport, Florida. Please check and see if www.baynews9.com will carry it on the internet.

I'm still sad and in disbelief that the rescue fell apart. It was on it's way. We were waiting there for ambulances but instead two Sheriff's cruisers arrived.

There's much work to do. There are many work groups here carrying on for Terri.

The April Daily Thread as before will be a meeting place, a news digest and even in the midst of sorrow, a place to make friends.

I want to thank everyone who did everything humanly possible for Terri and her family. Terri's safe now from a room with the blinds closed, strange people and armed guards. She'd still be here if it wasn't for judicial despots who it appears have never read the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. or Florida Constitution.

Freepers, Republicans and Democrats alike voted against Terri or didn't do enough to save her from Judge Greer.

I'd like to thank Ralph Nader, David Boies, Joe Lieberman and Wesley Smith, Phd, author of Forced Exit.

I have disdain for the Naughty Nine Republicans in the Florida Senate who vote "No" which barred Terri from legislative relief. The GOP House Members who voted "No" on Terri, shame on them too.

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE AGENDA AND WHO IS IN CHARGE? I'm afraid that Judge George Greer is in charge - of everything.

PLEASE HELP FLORIDA... CALL YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN/WOMEN.

HELP US. We feel stranded by tyranny today, but Florida is ripe for change. We will demand it together as Americans.

Thanks, FV

[TAdams8591]

I must say I agree with Jim Robinson about Terri AND Elian and also with everything else he wrote. Good to read it and thanks for posting it.

[cyn]

from your link to: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43624 - - -

Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. of the Atlanta-based U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took 15 hours to hand down his denial – Terri's last. After he lambasted the legislative and executive branches of government for what he interpreted as stepping on the judiciary, he said "... the time has come for dispassionate discharge of duty."

Translated: Terri had to die.

She did.

While each court and judges might be preening that they followed the law, the truth is they killed Terri Schiavo by omission. Their not reviewing the case sealed her death warrant.

Our judicial system, which is supposed to administer justice, instead ordered – no, demanded – cold-blooded murder in the case of a handicapped woman who could not speak for herself.

It's not the first time people have been allowed to die by stopping food and water. It's the dirty secret of medicine that it goes on all the time, but usually it's hidden – people are lied to and families suffer in silent grief.

However, this is the first time it's been done in the glare of media coverage, however biased, misleading and inflammatory it was and is.

It's also the first time, such a death has been ordered by the courts, ignored by elected officials who claim they could do nothing and, in fact, used police to enforce the killing. How do they live with themselves?

I guess they were just following orders.

It's not a proud moment for this country. It's an indelible stain on our honor and freedom. Whatever happened to justice tempered with mercy?

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Barbara Simpson, "The Babe in the Bunker" as she's known to her KSFO 560 radio talk-show audience in San Francisco, has a 20-year radio, television and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.

[cyn]

good night everyone -- ya'll take care.

[Sun]

"Many people who have ruled out feeding tubes for themselves may one day find themselves in the situation of the woman you describe. For that reason, present oral wishes from the patient should supercede past written directives. One would think that would be common sense. Today's courts are sorely lacking in this regard. The courts denied that poor woman food when she asked. Ridiculous that it even had to be taken to court."

Well said.

[Abby4116]

also believe that when the law was changed in states about this that they had no idea that it would be interpreted the way it was in Terri Schindler's case. But who knows!

I suspect most residents of those states have no idea that a law was passed that allowed starvation/dehydration.

[windchime]

Sun, please see #296 for CBS info.

Two Decades to an American Culture of Death  Timeline  Lifetree.org  html

Foundation Collaboration: Two Decades to an American Culture of Death  Lifetree.org  PDF

Dying for the Cause  Foundation funding for the “right-to-die” movement  Philanthropy Roundtable    January 2001

Reflections On Death In America A speech given by George Soros on November 30, 1994 for the Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture Series at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

[STARWISE]

I'd love to hear what that song was .. if dear Pope John II did that, I'm just crushed again with sadness and melancholy.

Rev. Msgr. Thaddeus Malanowski presides over the Liturgy of the Eucharist during the funeral Mass for Terri Schiavo in Gulfport, Florida, April 5, 2005.

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SWEET TERRI, ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS

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Kristol: Why No 'Evolving Standards of Decency' for Terri Schiavo

In March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that convicted killers who have been sentenced to death by state courts could not, in fact, be put to death if they were juveniles when they committed the crime.

That's because, the court ruled, "evolving standards of decency that mark a maturing society" make such sentences unconstitutional. So, the death penalty laws of 19 states suddenly became moot, and scores of convicted killers were given their lives back.

Yet, notes Weekly Standard co-founder William Kristol, there were no such "evolving standards of decency" applied by federal courts in the case of Terri Schiavo. In fact, despite an extraordinary law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush requiring federal courts to re-examine her case, federal jurists repeatedly blew off those instructions and, in essence, declined to step in to save her life.

"In a series of decisions in Florida state courts, Circuit Judge George Greer and his colleagues have chosen to credit the claim of Michael Schiavo that his wife long ago" expressed a will to die, Kristol writes in the April 4 issue of the magazine.

Those same courts "have chosen to deny efforts by Terri Schiavo's mother and father to assume responsibility for their daughter's care. They have chosen to strike down legislation passed by the Florida legislature, and signed by the governor, to permit the governor to allow water and nutrition to be given to patients who leave no written directive, and to allow some recourse for family members who wish to challenge the withholding of nutrition and hydration."

Federal courts did the same thing, notes Kristol, though they "chose not to explain why 'evolving standards of decency' might not allow Terri Schiavo to be kept alive until the case was argued in federal court."

Among the courts failing to employ the "evolving standards of decency" for a woman who had never committed any crime, who was unable to speak for herself, and who had parents willing to accept responsibility for her care: The same U.S. Supreme Court that ruled "evolving standards of decency" made it unconstitutional to put killers to death.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri ping to 277! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for your update.

Here is the article about it.

Hundreds Mourn Schiavo at Mass in Florida
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378235/posts


Your post about your experience had more meaning, than the entire article reporting it clinically.

[Sun]

Wow!!

Thanks for all of the info.

Soros is doing so much evil with his money.

I didn't have time to check out all of the links, yet; am still working on it.

Soros probably is behind Terri's movie.

Think I'll post the CBS contact info again:

Tell CBS not to show the Terri movie, which depicts Michael as a loving husband (when he murdered her) or their advertisers will be notified and boycotted.

cbs phone # is 212-975-3247; e-mail is audsvcs@cbs.com

[Sun]

Here's a nutshell version for very busy folks:

In 1995, the newsletter of a group called Choice in Dying listed seven organizations in a “Guide to Right-to-Die Organizations.” At least four of them (Compassion in Dying, Death with Dignity Education Center, the Oregon Death with Dignity Legal Defense and Education Center, and Choice in Dying itself) have attracted funding from large foundations.

One such foundation is George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI). The OSI, through its Project on Death in America, gives millions of dollars for enhancing end-of-life care and none of the Project’s money is used for assisted suicide purposes. But the OSI provides grants for assisted suicide advocacy through OSI’s President’s Fund in its U.S. Programs office.

http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2001/january/marker.html

[PhilDragoo]

Senator Bill Frist
509 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3344
202-228-1264 (fax)

Frist Says Courts in Schiavo Case Acted Fairly

"I believe we have a fair and independent judiciary today," said Frist, "I respect that."

[PhilDragoo]

Senator Bill Frist Contact Form

[valleygal]

I agree, too. Terri Schindler is how I will always refer to her.

[windchime]

"I didn't have time to check out all of the links, yet; am still working on it."

After a year and a half, I'm still checking links out, too. I think the number is infinite.

[chgomac]

thanks--had to go to work and just now catching up.

[chgomac]

thanks much

[syriacus]

The three points sound good.

[syriacus]

The Pinellas Park Police Chief was pleased with their work as well protecting everyone and a worldwide audience saw tje PPPD's good job.

A few years down the road, someone should interview the men and women of his department. Here's a 2003 quote from an officer of the law, who was involved in guarding Nancy Cruzan.

"[Nancy Cruzan, three days before her death from starvation] turned and looked at me and stared at me with a panicky look, sweating profusely, and the thought I had was, she was thinking, ‘Oh, here’s a policeman, he’ll help me.’ But we weren’t allowed to do that,"...Doug Seneker

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks Phil- I called and spoke with a nice gal there, I told that I disagree with Senator Frist's statement and want to see Judge Greer brought to Justice for breaking the laws and determining which las to enforce in the Terri case.

I told her I hardly think that is fair. Independent-YES, but fair -no. I told her the people-thru their federal reps spoke and Judge Greer laughed. The lady I spoke with told me there are many people who agree with me.

Let's all call and make our voices heard!