Ex-Sheriff Gets Probation in Schiavo Case

Just some background info for newbees:

Carla's story can be found at ProLifeBlogs.com

"Terri Schiavo: March 15, 2005

Former Nurse Reveals Terri Schiavo's Capabilities

Carla Sauer Iyer, a nurse who cared for Terri Schiavo from April 1995 to July 1996 at Palm Garden of Largo Convalescent Center was recently interviewed by David Allen. Although we’ve posted several articles in the past based on her affidavits, she revealed a few additional details in the interview that have not been widely reported.

During the period in which she daily cared for Terri there was no publicity. “Just Michael [Terri's husband] trying to accelerate her death,” she said. Iyer explained that she would often sneak Terri’s parents, the Schindlers, into see her and that Michael refused to allow therapy of any kind. In fact, he was physically intimidating and would very loudly command the nurses “this is my order and you're going to follow it.”

“We were very intimidated … the whole place,” Iyer revealed, adding that some nurses had a restraining order against Michael Schiavo because his “behavior was so bad.”

When Terri had a urinary or upper respiratory tract infection Michael was visibly excited and would visit more often, asking “is she dead yet?” According to Iyer, at one point Michael exclaimed, “When is that b**** going to die?”

After Michael’s visits, Iyer stated that Terri, at times, became symptomatic for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Iyer said she found an unexplainable bottle of fast acting insulin concealed in Terri’s wastebasket that she speculates could have been used to induce the condition. She filed a police report but heard nothing further regarding the incident. Subsequently she received death threats she believes were related to notifying the authorities and was later released from her position as a caregiver because of her actions in support of Terri.

The nurses, including Nurse Carla Iyer, interacted with Terri and daily witnessed her respond, laugh, and make requests. “We had her at the front of the nurse’s station… everyone loved Terri,” Iyer said.

When asked about the accuracy of the videos available on the internet Iyer said they were realistic but failed to capture Terri’s personality and, if anything, did not represent the extent of Terri’s ability to respond and communicate.

Iyer witnessed Terri consuming pudding and milkshakes every night and has previously testified that she fed Terri Jello. She witnessed Terri responding to her name, following others with her eyes and head and even moving her body with purpose.

In her prior affadavit, Iyer documented Terri's vocabulary:

Terri’s medical condition was systematically distorted and misrepresented. When I worked with her, she was alert and oriented. Terri spoke on a regular basis while in my presence, saying such things as "mommy," and "help me." "Help me" was, in fact, one of her most frequent utterances. I heard her say it hundreds of times. Terri would try to say the word "pain" when she was in discomfort, but it came out more like "pay." She didn’t say the "n" sound very well. During her menses she would indicate her discomfort by saying "pay" and moving her arms toward her lower abdominal area. Other ways that she would indicate that she was in pain included pursing her lips, grimacing, thrashing in bed, curling her toes or moving her legs around. She would let you know when she had a bowel movement by flipping up the covers and pulling on her diaper.

Certainly this is a story that is not being carried by the mainstream press and has been supressed from judicial decisions. Iyer's testimony brings to light several facts including:

Terri Schiavo is not a "vegetable" and is not "brain dead". She recognizes and responds to others and makes attempts to verbally communicate.

Terri is not on life support but does receive food and water through a removable tube, which experts testify would not even be necessary if she were given therapy. This assisted feeding is a natural means of preserving life and not a medical act of life support or heroic measures.

Twelve medical experts and nurses who cared for her confirmed these facts. Video available through BlogsforTerri.com shows Terri responding and interacting with others. Health care workers have testified under oath that she expresses herself using words, such as "mommy" and "help me".

Terri is a person with disabilities who thinks and expresses her moods and desires. She is loved by her family and responds to their visits with smiles and laughter.

Terri Schiavo may be the victim of ongoing negligence and injustice. She has been denied therapy and rehabilitation by her guardian since 1991. Florida’s guardianship laws REQUIRE that these necessary services be given to her.

Terri Schiavo deserves to have medical tests and therapy. She does not deserve to be starved and dehydrated to death."
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ALSO, when Terri's brother and sister tried to have Terri fed by mouth in a previous starvation attempt, when FL Judge Greer found out about it, he said:
"I don't want anyone trying to feed that girl.
The law of the case is that she is going to die."

November 8, 1999

What the Sheriff Said
by Sheriff John J. McDougall

John J. McDougall was elected sheriff of Lee County, Florida, in 1988. Currently serving his third term, he has periodically attracted national attention for his outspoken advocacy for the unborn and his staunch moral stance on law enforcement issues.

On September 20th, Sheriff McDougall sparked another wave of controversy when he posted on his office’s website a statement captioned "Wake Up America! Before It’s Too Late." Some critics have been so incensed by the statement that they have accused the sheriff of using a tax-supported website to espouse what they call his "personal" religious views and political agenda. On September 28th, during a joint appearance with McDougall on NBC’s "Today" show, Howard Simon, executive director for the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, claimed that the statement "calls into question his [McDougall’s] fitness to serve as a public official." McDougall told host Matt Lauer, "We have a very strong faith-based community here in Lee County. The people understand exactly what I’m talking about." Here (bearing in mind Sheriff McDougall’s jestful reflection that he is a lawman, not an English major) is what the sheriff said.

The Constitution of the United States begins with the preamble: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Sealed under glass in archival preservation in Washington D.C., the Constitution of the United States of America lulls Americans into a false sense of security, believing that nothing can change the ideals and intent of its God-fearing framers. Most Americans believe that our Constitution has survived intact for more than 200 years without any significant change. Nothing can be further from the truth.

The U.S. Supreme Court after 150 years of bible study in the public schools of this country banned bible reading and prayer in our public classrooms and declared in 1962, 1963, and 1992 the following practices to be violations of the First Amendment: The recitation of prayers composed by anyone including school officials, bible reading and recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, and prayers at public school graduations.

Since the first of those Supreme Court decisions, juvenile crime has sky-rocketed, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases have increased dramatically, over 400%, violent crime (including domestic violence) has risen 600% over the last 30 years, teen suicide is up 300%, and depression among children is up 1000%. Every day television and newspapers inundate us with horrific accounts of crime in our communities.

Daily we learn of the mass killing of students in our schools, shootings taken place in day-care centers, and places of worship. Is there any wonder why so many young people are committing such horrible crimes against innocent victims, when we protect the rights of atheists, and abolish the recognition of Almighty God in our classrooms?

The vast majority of Americans are hardworking, God fearing people busily caring for their children and families; contributing to their communities; paying their taxes, and trusting public officials to run the daily business of their government, in the best interest of the people.

What many fail to see, however, are the diabolical forces of moral corruption working feverishly, behind closed doors. They are out there every day walking through the halls of Congress, State Legislatures, and the courts. The Gay and Lesbian coalitions, rabid feminist groups, United Nations one-world government radicals, and the American Civil Liberties Union all competing for power, and many using their political action committee funds to influence elected officials to represent these parasitic groups who proselytize and force us under the protection of law to tolerate and accept their despicable conduct and agenda.

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union constantly use their influence to promote their own self-centered philosophy. All the while, these individuals make concerted efforts to ensure that any public reference to God, prayer, or family values, remain relics of the past. Their members become upset when caring parents speak out against the perversion of the Internet, cyber-porn and cyber-sex chat rooms, violent video games, wrestling mania, and music videos, designed and targeted to compromise the morals of innocent children. We are losing our voice America; we have allowed special interests and lobbyists to control our government.

So many contradictions confront the American people. We stood by silently and watched atheistic malcontents abolish school prayer and replace it with (the all too familiar) yellow crime scene tape, metal detectors, and drug-sniffing dogs.

Daily we witness aberrant behavior in the classrooms because we have stripped teachers and principles of the authority necessary to do their jobs. As parents we teach our children to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. We also pledge that we are one nation "Under God." But to some that’s not true, thanks to gutless liberal judges who wage tyrannical power against the citizens of this country, and power hungry politicians who are more concerned about being politically correct, than morally wrong, and sell their vote to the highest bidder or support group who will radically distort the mandate of our Constitution to fit their agenda. How do we combat this insanity?

As concerned citizens and Christians, we need to display and read in our classrooms once again, and with pride, the Ten Commandments — the Judeo-Christian foundation of our entire Constitutional system of law. We need to display them in other public buildings with as much pride as they are in the Supreme Court of the United States.

To our disgrace as a nation we have caved in to the wishes of the depraved, and have allowed them to systematically exclude God from our midst. All at an incalculable cost to our very survival.

They have legalized abortion and caused the deaths of 40 million children. Now Americans must desperately seek adoptions from Korea, China, and other foreign countries to fill this nation’s void of childless marriages. Are we so blind to this insidious culture of death that we have completely lost sight of the basic fundamental relationship that exists between God and ourselves? He is our creator, God, and we are his creation made in His image, adopted Sons and Daughters of a loving Father, who requests only that we love Him, and each other in return for the gift of life.

Stop and think what we, the United States of America as a nation, have condoned and sanctioned — the wholesale killing of all those innocent children as a direct result of the action of unchecked special interest groups, and the arrogant United States Supreme Court’s unjust 1973 (Roe v. Wade) decision (which now includes the full-term barbaric partial birth abortions). Consider for a moment the magnitude of this crime (a holocaust in the eyes of God,) and how it will affect us as a nation. God hears the cry of the poor, especially the silent screams of the unborn.

These deaths will not go un-avenged. God will judge those people in the abortion industry, and those individuals who continue to promote it, and cause it to happen. God will condemn them for bringing about the catastrophic loss these children and their offspring represent to suffering humanity. Generations of children, whose promise and contributions known only to God, will not be forgotten.

Abortion is not about a woman’s right to choose — it is about a billion-dollar industry, it is about death, and it is about despair during a moment of crisis.

Every woman, who chooses abortion over life, not only destroys her child, but victimizes herself, her family, and humanity forever. Everyone is included in that countless number of victims including both physical and spiritual injury.

This is the inevitable consequence of abortion, and unless these misguided mothers repent and ask for God’s forgiveness and mercy, despair and loneliness will follow them all the days of their lives. Contrary to the propaganda espoused by the National Organization for Woman, abortion is not a woman’s right, it is a woman’s wrong. Abortion is not a woman’s liberation; it is a woman’s worst nightmare. The secret of life is to conform our will to the will of God. The promise of death is to conform our will to ourselves.

If we fail as a nation to ask God’s mercy and forgiveness, take back our inheritance as a holy people of a loving God, demand respect for God and His commandments, our nation as we know it will no longer receive His blessings or protection. We will deservedly be left to our own sick demise; consumed by our chosen sexual perversion, and drug-infested, hedonistic lifestyles, just like the Romans and all the other atheistic civilizations that followed their gods of lust to the doomed altars of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Planned Parenthood, a worldwide organization dedicated to using abortions as a means of population control, has set up clinics throughout this country, supported by the courts and legislature. They are without the authority and consent of parents distributing free condoms to our children, thereby encouraging dangerous pre-marital adolescent sexuality under the pretense of "Safe Sex for minors." Those of us in law enforcement, call this behavior "pedophilia."

Did you know that Planned Parenthood has successfully lobbied and received legislative approval that justify giving your children free condoms whether you approve it or not? They have, by way of "Judicial Tyranny," successfully blocked the state of Florida and other states from enforcing laws that make it mandatory for abortion providers and other health care facilities to notify you as a parent if your underage daughter seeks an abortion or if any of your underage children is under the care and treatment of a psychiatrist, or being treated for a sexually transmitted disease, including AIDS, that could be introduced to the rest of your family without your knowledge.

Like you, I am concerned about the safety and quality of life for our families.

As a Christian I am disturbed by the sacrilegious offenses our nation is committing against God, and the number of lives, juvenile and adult, that are needlessly wasted in prison, and addicted to drugs. I cannot help but wonder: is there a correlation between the sickening moral bankruptcy of today and the liberal court decisions that began in the ’60s? As a people, we have failed to accept the hard evidence of subtle but dramatic destructive change that commenced in this country with those decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

The Court interpreted acknowledging God, under whose protection we publicly place our nation, as a violation of the First Amendment when it is recited in our public schools. For these reasons, and with an urgent cry, I write this letter, Wake up, America! I write to warn Americans lulled into apathy and carelessness: be aware, there is an insidious diabolical scheme supported by media moguls, and Washington politicos that are robbing us of our true religious heritage and Constitutional freedoms.

Our country is in great peril, not from an approaching army, but from a satanic pestilence that has already invaded South America, and our own nation with a drug-infested culture littering our country and neighborhoods with untold corpses, and its collateral family damage. It is the United States Government prohibition against Almighty God that continues to feed this immorality and insult His Supreme Majesty.

Only prayer and the ability to say Lord Jesus, we are sorry for having betrayed our promise to you by having turned our backs on you and your Commandments.

Please give us the grace to confess our sins and humbly ask your forgiveness.

Restore us once again, as a holy people, and one nation truthfully Under God.

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