"Further, the Court held that a surrogate could exercise this right for people who (a) were in a “persistent vegetative state” (PVS) and (b) had convincingly expressed a desire not to be sustained if they ever reached that state. "
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As you pointed out in your post 43 on another thread,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379488/posts?page=43#43
Greer referred to Michael Schiavo as a surrogate, when in fact, he was a proxy.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The illegalities in Judge Greer's behavior just keep piling up. This is the "rule of law" that was so sacred to Jeb Bush that Terri Schiavo had to die in order to preserve it.
Terri died not just be court order but by Executive Cowardice.
The real problem is not the courts, but the widespread belief in Absolute Judicial Supremacy.
Excerpt from Blogs for Terri:
April 15, 2005
Another Terri Schiavo-Like Case - This One's in Chicago
Several people have emailed me the following story about Clara Martinez, a Chicago woman who is reportedly being starved to death.
Martinez suffered a debilitating stroke a year ago and her husband signed a "Do Not Resuscitate" order that led to the disconnection of her feeding tube. She is able to consume liquids through her mouth and, so far, has survived for thirty days without food.
Under "normal" circumstances her situation would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the intervention of a pastor of the Hispanic Evangelical Church. Her family also opposes the husband's decision.
I spoke to the article's author, Jorge Mederos. He said the family feels "powerless" and has called the media without response. "No one is paying attention," he said. "The family is planning a protest tomorrow or over the weekend."
http://www.blogsforterri.com/archives/2005/04/another_terri_s.php#more
***ATTENTION PLEASE:
Since the family is looking for media attention, perhaps we can help them out. If you don't have much time, please at least make one contact:
Sean Hannity's e-mail: James.Grisham@abc.com
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Make no mistake, there were parallel battles going on:
• Terri Schiavo’s fight for life
• The deatheaters right to murder
• The judicial branch’s fight to remain omnipotent in violation of the Constitution
The judge, acting in addition as jury and executioner, is the enemy of our country. The judicial system uniformly supported him, showing their loyalty to their guild far exceeded their loyalty to God, Honor, Country.
The President swore to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. To protect our rights to LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. He did "what he could".
The world watched as he stood by, hands in his pocket, claiming to be “for life” and doing nothing.
Doing your best is always good enough for God. Claiming to do your best is not.
When he allowed Terri Schiavo’s murder, a part of his soul died, too. He had the power. He wasn’t the man.
Bump.
The medical industry and the penal industry are closer to each other than most people realize, but if you think about it, it seems they met, coincided, at the point of the TS events. Same mechanism, same methods, same thinking. This point is where a new power is growing, and this is where we ought to start thinking about what is going on.
I am still so sad about her suffering that I can barely stand to read this stuff.
It's obvious her husband for whatever specious reasons he could concoct, treated Terri as if she were an albatross chained around his neck. A lingering presence that he had to eliminate. The only way he could affect this was through a judicial system to maintain his own freedom, and fortunately for him, not for Terri or her loving family, he found Judge Greer and Attorney Felos.
Terri was treated no better than a slave. Damaged property to be disposed of because she was no longer useful to her husband.
All the wondrous and gallant words of our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence, and our Bill of Rights could not save her from this heinous death order. A husband's desire based on his recall seven years after his wife's collapse of Terri's plea to do her in, starve her to death if she should become a 'vegetble' was all that was needed for Judge Greer to agree, of course the judge did take into consideration Michael's brother and sister-in-law confirmation of Terri's wishes. but, all others who disagreed and refuted these claims were not heard.
The question I have for Michael Schiavo is based on whether he is sane. For what madness must lurk in the mind of a man who stands by while his wife suffers and slowly dies by starvation and dehydration. He sees her tongue swell and crack, he sees a thick film appear around her mouth and throat which will eventually clog up her respitory system. He sees her gasping for air. He stands by. No succor, no water for her cracked lips. Nothing. He stands and watches. Counting the hours to her death. Her death, his freedom.
The doctors give Terri morphine. Is it more for Michael's need for a semblance of 'euphoria' and 'peace' that Felos told him would come as a result of starvation?
Her eyes hollow and dull, perhaps Terri feels fear. Some recognition that something is terribly wrong. Her throat is dry, no one gives her water. Her skin is cracking, no one puts lotion on to soothe her. Her organs are drying up, and why is her mother, her father, her brother and sister standing by with horror in their eyes and horror. Why aren't they touching me? A priest comes. Why?
Michael is surely insane to allow this to happen, to see the truth of his barbarey when all he should have done was to release her to her parents. Why was it so imperative that she die? Why could he not let her live?
"The standards to convict criminals are infinitely higher
than the standards to order the death of an innocent
defenceless person." This is a frightening truth,
and Cruzan was a major step into the abyss. The NR excerpt
states that the Cruzan court mentioned the "PVS" syndrome.
I've found several published articles by Chris Borthwick,
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~borth/PVS.htm discussing the
dangers and pernicious simplification of the so-called PVS
diagnosis. Death by definition, not diagnosis.