Posted on 04/03/2005 5:19:05 PM PDT by 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
Hi guys. I have been completely out of contact for the past week while my association's spring conference was going on, so forgive me for being clueless, but did Sean come out with some news about Terri? Perhaps he has some inside info about the results of her autopsy?
Terri's brother and sister (maybe Mom and Dad) will be on Hannity & Colmes TONIGHT. Don't miss it!!
While they were killing Terri, I was so disturbed!! I will never be the same. Even looking at President Bush on TV kind of makes me sick. I don't trust any of them. Left the Republican Party.
Wouldn't that be great if the autopsy showed she was not PVS and had some cerebal cortex left. Actually, it is not great, it is sad. However, she should have been killed PVS or not. But whatever Sean knows I wish he'd spill it.
That's right. They would have found another excuse to kill her.
Just cause she was brain damaged was their excuse. Pathetic!
I heard him on his radio show yesterday. I wonder if he is going to spill the beans tonight with Terri's family by his side? I heard from the Brother last night that MIchael still has NOT followed the court order and told the parents what he did with her body.
I heard that as well. He is ordered by the court to tell them where he is taking her remains at all times and where he is going to bury her, etc.. He hasn't even communicated with them at all. He won't either and will get away with it. Greer isn't going to hold him in contempt and Michael knows it.
I wish I would have heard Sean yesterday. Did he sound like he knows something big and made a huge deal out of it or did it sound like he just knows something and will let everyone know later like it is no big deal? I'm just curious.
I'm not a lawyer but if a civil case is filed, wouldn't the family have access to the documents that Judge Greer has and will not release???
It's pretty sickening.
It seems as if you HAVE a will, death is chosen, and your wishes in the will don't count, and if you DO NOT have a will, death is chosen.
They always choose death.
I'm hearing more and more stories about hospices throughout the country, I would definitely not want to go to one - ever.
That isn't a surprise to me. I have never doubted that the family would file a civil case. I'm sure they already have their lawyers working on it and I plan to donate to their funds again when they do so.
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PINELLAS BOYCOTT because they ARE ACCOMPLICES IN A MURDER ORDERED BY JUDGE GREER IMO.
Freepers who said they weren't spending tourists dollars here or moving here BECAUSE TERRI WAS NEGLECTED AND KILLED, please call the PVB and tell them why you are boycotting Pinellas County. Thanks, FV --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm cutting out watching news for awhile. The space shuttle Discovery is on the launch pad. I don't want to know when it takes off, when it lands.
Do I have post traumatic stress after what they did to Terri? Yes, I do. I'll recover. I doubt I'm the only one who can't stand the news right now.
Hospice did a public service announcement on wfla 970 radio's morning show. THEY ARE GIVING AWAY LIVING WILL FORMS FREE OF CHARGE. How many people do they want to kill anyway? I bet their donations are down. Who'd want to end up in one of their special rooms?
Judge George Greer: Tyrant on the Bench
by Phyllis Schlafly
Mar 29, 2005
Florida Probate Judge George Greer has taken judicial supremacy to new abuses in ordering the starvation of an innocent woman against the will of her parents, her brother, her church, thousands of volunteers, and, as far as we know, herself. We wouldn't permit anyone to treat a dog this way.
Judge Greer not only ordered the cruel withholding of food and water from defenseless Terri Schiavo, he also set in motion the arrests of many Good Samaritans attempting to bring her sustenance. The television pictures of armed police barring people from attempting to take her food or water were shocking.
For seven years, this single judge has ruled like a dictator over Terri, determined to ensure her death. In 2001, he reportedly said from the bench, "The law of this case is that she will die."
Five times he was asked to recuse himself from the case, and five times he refused. He also denied requests, based on numerous affidavits, to allow a recent medical examination of Terri that would take advantage of improvements in medical technology.
Judge Greer's own pastor recently felt compelled to write, "It would seem the logical and, I would say, Biblical course" for Judge Greer to withdraw from the congregation, and he did.
Florida has term limits applying to its legislators and governor, but nothing to curb Judge Greer's obsession and power to terminate Terri's life. It is long overdue to pass term limits for how long a single judge can preside tyrannically over one case.
Those who insist that the government should stay out of the Schiavo case can direct their ire at Judge Greer, who has forced Terri to die of thirst. If the government stayed out of this case, then Terri would be receiving food and water from her parents and others.
Judge Greer advances the "right-to-die" cause of attorney George Felos, who publicly pretends that Terri's "death process" has been peaceful. But videotaping of Terri in her final days was forbidden, in order to conceal from the public how barbaric this process really is.
By fiat, Judge Greer declared that he had "clear and convincing" evidence that Terri would want to be starved to death rather than provided good medical care. That preposterous claim relies on assertions made by her husband's family after he hooked up with another woman, and many years after husband Michael testified to a jury that she needed a large award to provide for her life-long care.
According to Terri's brother, Michael told three different accounts of Terri's original collapse that caused her unusual condition at age 26, and that a bone scan showed broken bones indicating possible abuse. Yet Florida authorities have steadfastly refused to fully investigate, bring charges, or even act to preserve evidence.
Perhaps the movie Million Dollar Baby, so praised by the critics, was meant to prepare the public to accept euthanasia. But smart moviegoers evidently did not like its message and it did far worse at the box-office than is typical for a "best picture" winner.
Jack Kevorkian is serving a long prison sentence for assisting the death of a patient. Yet Judge Greer has perverted the judicial function just as surely as Kevorkian perverted the medical function.
Michigan had the good sense to prosecute Kevorkian. Where is the Florida prosecutor? Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist is busy campaigning to become the next governor of Florida.
In California, the Democratic Attorney General personally intervened in the Laci Peterson case to ensure that her killer was brought to justice. But even Scott Peterson benefited from a full jury trial before being sentenced to death, and he will still enjoy numerous appeals and years of delay. Terri Schiavo was ordered to die by one man who served as judge, jury and executioner.
This is judicial arrogance at its ugliest. The public should reject the myth that supremacist judges can override the governor, the legislature, Congress, the president, common sense, and even the right to life, and use armed police to protect judicial supremacy.
The Terri Schiavo case has blanketed the news for several weeks, but there are two usually noisy factions we haven't heard from.
Where are the feminists who are forever whining about abusive husbands? Why are they mute about a husband conniving with a lawyer and a judge to kill his wife?
There is also a thundering silence coming from the people who have been so confidently predicting miracle cures of brain and spinal cord damage by the use of stem cells. Can't Terri be fed for a few more months or years so she can try one of these promised cures?
As this drama played out over Easter weekend, we were reminded of Pontius Pilate washing his hands and putting politics above injustice. Pilate would have been popular in polls of his time, but history has rendered a different verdict.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6993
Tell them you aren't the only American who is suffering along with Terri's parents, bro and sis. I'm going to call them too. This has been a nightmare and they better CHANGE THE FED AND STATE LAWS.
I cannot watch the news. If I see the Bush's on my tv, I mute the sound, just like I did in the Clinton era. I have no leaders. (except for Dennis Baxley and Wise of Florida. They both attended the Memorial Service). That's what gentlemen do, at least they pay their respects. Jeb has been hiding since Terri passed, anyone notice?
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