Posted on 01/06/2007 5:52:57 PM PST by wagglebee
Dallas, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Judge George Greer continues to travel the lecture circuit despite his controversial ruling allowing Terri Schiavo's former husband to kill her via euthanasia. Greer is slated to speak at a national summit concerning jury trials, even though he unilaterally allowed the taking of Terri's life without a jury deliberation.
Greer will be one of the speakers at next month's National Jury Summit hosted by the American Board of Trial Advocates.
The conference is an opportunity for legal experts to discuss the threats to the jury system.
The presentations will deal with the civil jury system, factors causing its deterioration, the benefits of preserving the jury trial, and what changes are needed to bring about recovery.
ABTA lists Judge Greer as the first in the line of speakers at the conference.
According to a press release of the event LifeNews.com obtained, ABTA says Greer "will address judicial independence and the civil jury system. He will discuss how the Terri Schiavo case and other recent events impact and damage the civil jury system in America."
Despite Greer's condemning Terri to a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death, Greer was also a featured speaker at Loyola Law School Los Angeles last June.
There, Greer instructed members of the mainstream media in how to report on significant legal stories like the battle over Terri's life.
According to a statement from the school provided to LifeNews.com, Greer served on the faculty of the inaugural "Journalist Law School" at Loyola. The journalist law school was a three day long intensive seminar for reporters who write on the government, the courts, and individual court cases.
Journalists from CNN, CBS News, ABC News Radio, Bloomberg WNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution attended the conference.
Greer also previously came under fire for speaking engagements at a bioethics forum at the University of Pennsylvania and a local Bar Association event in Florida.
Terri's brother Bobby Schindler has said that his family saw Greer's "pro-euthanasia, pro-death bias" for years during the legal battle and indicated the bias "tempered his decisions in my sister's case and caused him to unethically, immorally and illegally ordered her to die."
"How can any citizens of Florida have confidence that Judge Greer will remain unbiased now that he is on the speaking circuit justifying the killing of an innocent, disabled woman without any proof of her consent?" Schindler asked.
Schindler said Greer's public speaking "makes a mockery of the entire judicial system" and "certainly shows his bias against the disabled."
ACTION: You can protest Greer's ABTA speaking engagement by emailing ABTA Executive Director Brian Tyson at briant@abota.org. You can also contact the group at: American Board of Trial Advocates, 2001 Bryan Street, Dallas, TX 75201, or call (800) 932-2682 or fax a letter to 214-871-6025.
Related web sites: Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
The whole case was framed on the ludicrous fiction that Terri made the decision, as is her right (to refuse treatment). The feeding tube was added by law to life-prolonging devices AFTER Terri's injury, so she could not possibly have given informed consent.
Does not matter.
The guardian has the right to make any and all medical decisions concerning treatment, including withholding treatment on the advice of doctors. We don't expect people to have specifically prepared for every possible situation - if we did, doctors could just follow those instructions and there would be no need for a guardian. Sometimes the guardian is left without explicit instructions, and he has to choose what he thinks she would want. Such is the nature of guardianship.
It is his legal right and responsibility, and moral obligation to make those difficult decisions in what he and he alone determines to be in the patient's best interest.
Just because you don't personally like the decision he made does not mean we should go crying to the State to save us from having to make those difficult decisions.
Is there something strange to you about my Christian belief that we are each judged separately, and that none of us will be punished for the sins of another? What faith do you profess?
The core Christian belief is that on our merits alone, we ALL deserve death. I'm just wondering what sect teaches that we can get to heaven by being good boys and girls.
I'd like to know what cult preaches that you will be judged for your neighbor's sins.
By law, if Michael made the decision, it was murder. Which, of course, is why Michael and his lawyers always vehemently deny that it was his decision.
I don't understand your question. Who argued that?
You seem to be having difficulty grasping the concept that we are not judged for each other's sins. I'd like to know where you got your indoctrination.
I can't grasp where you got the idea I think that. I've never heard such a belief before. It's totally buzarre.
Well, there are a lot of people who don't think it's "totally buzarre." It seems perfectly natural that we are not judged for the sins of others. I don't see why that would seem strange to you.
Have fun. Find someone else to play your game.
My game? You're the one who jumped in with the make-believe religion of everyone being judged guilty of everyone else's sins. Now you're whimpering because it didn't work out your way. Too bad. So sad. I pity you, but I'm not going to try to change God's laws to satisfy your fake religion.
Don't get huffy. Ok let's talk about your belief in the Great Girble Borat. It's a new docrine to me. Explain it.
Before you call God any more insulting names, maybe you should read Statement by the founder of Free Republic. If you can't refrain from insulting God, maybe you don't belong here.
Sounds like you are threatening me. You'll get yourself kicked off if you keep that up.
Turn me in to the moderators then. Tell them that I threatened you, by giving you a link to Jim Robinson's thread regarding what he and his site stand for. Tell them that you are threatened by my refusal to renounce God. See how far that gets you.
I did. Let them decide.
My core Christian belief is that Jesus died for our sins. It's a little further along in the story. It is how we got saved from your core belief.
Meanwhile, I am very fond of this thought from Mother Teresa. How simple are the chores of the faithful :-)
"At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made or how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.’" -- Mother Teresa
You mean we're not judged by other people's sins? That's bazaar!
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