Posted on 01/03/2006 2:43:26 PM PST by cyn
Pamela's guardianship renewed for another six months! Please see "Scott's News" for more information. (continued at link)
http://scottsfight.com/Scott's%20News.htmJanuary 3, 2006
Today was the long-anticipated status hearing on guardianship for Scott.
The hearing took place in judge's chambers with Pamela and her attorneys and Eliza and her attorneys. Pamela presented the judge with information that she has now filed with the court to have Scott declared "partially capacitated". This means, at the very least, that he would then be allowed to indicate his preferences for his social environment, such as who is allowed to visit. He has repeatedly indicated that he does not want to see Eliza, but he does wants to see his son.
Pamela also informed the judge that, after Scott is legally determined to be "partially capacitated", they would be filing for a divorce for him. [emphasis mine]
Eliza indicated to the judge that she would fight any divorce proceedings.
The final item that Pamela presented to the judge is that Scott is scheduled for surgery to close his tracheotomy opening, which should allow him to regain his ability to speak and make sound.
Based on all the above information, Judge Wilkes ruled to grant Pamela another six months of full guardianship of Scott. This will be a crucial time for Pamela and Scott, as they continue to work, not only for Scott's recovery, but for him to regain the right and ability to truly "speak for himself".
Please continue to join us in prayer and other support for Scott and Pamela as they continue the battle for LIFE.
Anyway, Jeb Bush's phone number is on my tag line. Maybe Jeb needs some calls too. It's getting out of hand...if the United States doesn't condone torture, there's sure a lot of it going on in Florida.
"The man was responding", Vinson says, "it's baby steps but he was responding. He would take my hand if I told him to, he was responsive to commands. They allow you a swab to wipe the lips off--he would take it from my hand, put it in his mouth and suck for all he was worth. He could raise his hands, raise his legs, hold his leg up on command. At one point, someone told him to pick up his right arm which he can't do so he took his left arm over and picked up his right. One of the doctors came in Sunday morning and asked me how I am and I said well, you know at this point I'm not fine. He said what's the problem and I said this man doesn't belong here. He says why do you say that and I said because of all the things that he can do. He said, well, what can he do?"
"What would impress you", Vinson said to which the doctor responded, 'to hear him speak".
FV says: Ted only 73 years old. From New York, visiting Florida, ends up in a hospice for a stroke. Last time I looked strokes were NOT A TERMINAL ILLNESS.
Strokes can be fatal, but Ted apparently survived his. Now that he has, he should be given a chance to recuperate, rather than be put on his deathbed. Is he on a feeding tube, I wonder, otherwise, how can they deny him food and water? We know that is against the Florida law. Is there anything saying that he will aspirate it into his lungs?
When I called Bishop Lynch's and Charlie Crist's office, I told them that I would NEVER retire in FL when the time comes. After this, I would not even go there for a visit.
If Ted didn't visit FL, he would not be dehydrating and starving in a hospice right now.
Father God, you and you alone know the fate of Ted
Sith.
Your Terri warriors pray for his survival, knowing
full well that the forces of darkness are arrayed
against him.
We pray for your wisdom and guidance, in order
that we might stay his execution by the state
of Florida.
Lord we ask that this vacation destination might suffer
from the wicked decisions it perpetrates.
May Florida's pro-death policies awaken our nation
to tourists avoiding spending $$ in a state that
might facilitate a visitor's premature demise!
Let me offer a slightly different take. I view the 1930s -- aka "the Red Decade" -- as the breaking of an Old World tidal wave on the American shore. Iow, it was new and alien to us rather than (or far more than) an expression of the totalitarian undercurrent you refer to. It was the arrival of the French revolution supplanting our own libertarian beginnings.
We like to point our fingers at the nasty statists in Italy, Germany and Russia. Albert Jay Nock pointed out -- contemporaneously -- that the same statist philosophy prevailed in England, in France, and was very much at work here, in the New Deal. (Survivors of the New Deal era still think FDR sits next to, and slightly above, God.) It was all the same stuff.
Now, there is nothing like internecine warfare for bloodletting! The differences were miniscule, but the socialist brothers -- red, brown, black shirts -- fought it out furiously for their particular doctrines. From the old American libertarian view, there's not two cents worth of difference in the bunch. Hitler's standing in the club is just as authentic as Mao's or Lenin's. Mussolini wrote purer expressions of statist belief than any of them.
We remember that they fought on the streets of Berlin. We forget that they fought on the streets of New York -- in uniform! All those Nazi and Fascist rallies and Communist May Day marches in Europe -- we had them here, in uniform. I remember coming across a column by Walter Lippmann, the liberal's liberal, treating Hitler with utmost respect. FDR's NRA, the old Blue Eagle, was expressly modeled on Mussolini fascism. Yes, of course there was strong support here for the Axis.
From the nativist view, again, they were all the same critters. They thought so too, in their fashion! In the street wars here as well as in Europe, the Red shirts and the Brown shirts were each other's best recruits. And look at the two years of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact when Hitler and Uncle Joe were buddies! They all had the totalitarian frame of mind. Of course that kind of thinking is still around, big time.
Amazing how WWII blinded us. We entered the war (and remained) aligned with the Reds. Opinion was shaped accordingly against the Blacks and the Browns. But it was much more a brothers' war than we are yet willing to admit.
All this ranting and I'm not even on my third cup of coffee :-) Take with the usual dose of salt.
PORT CHARLOTTE, FLA---For the last 25 years, he's given food to the needy by the basketful.
Now he's being starved to death.
Ted Stith, a farmer from Cincinnatus, NY, went to Florida to visit a friend but after the 73-year-old man suffered a stroke, his son put him in a hospice, ordered all food and water stopped and left him to die. The son then went back to New York to sell his father's possessions at auction---at his father's own auction house.
Ted Stith Wants To Live, Son Busy Selling His Possessions
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That would be hilarious if it weren't so... true.
Schindler Says Globe Article Most Irresponsible Ever On Terri's Case
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I'll take 10 pounds of that, please. Nicely written.
Horrible.
Are severely ill patients no longer "persons"?
Great, great letter by Bobby Schindler. Thanks for posting the link.
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