Terri Schiavo's Family Continues Effort to Block Jack Kevorkian UF Speech

Life News ^ | 9/3/07 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Gainesville, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The family of Terri Schiavo is continuing its efforts to block a speech by Jack Kevorkian scheduled for the middle of next month. The speech would be the first for the former assisted suicide crusader following his release from prison for killing a disabled man and showing the death on national television.

Kevorkian would speak to students at the University of Florida on October 11 and receive $50,000 for the talk, as long as his parole officers approve the trip.

The family of Terri Schiavo has been leading an effort to stop the speech by gathering petitions from concerned citizens so Kevorkian doesn't get a platform in their home state.

They don't want the former pathologist telling students that people with disabilities should be killed, like their sister, rather than receiving appropriate medical treatment or rehabilitative care.

Bobby Schindler, Terri's brother, told LifeNews.com, "We have collected thousands of petitions (and they are still coming in) to deliver to the Office of the President of the University of Florida."

"We're demanding the University rescind its offer to pay $50,000 for Kevorkian to address the students," he added.

"Despite the ongoing message of death spreading through our society and those, like Jack Kevorkian, who attempt to justify killing the most vulnerable among us, we are committed to fight against this death-obsessed culture and spread Terri's legacy of life, hope and love," Schindler explained.

He said there is still time for pro-life people and others worried about Kevorkian's pro-assisted suicide message to sign a petition asking the University of Florida to cancel the speech.

The petition can be found at the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation web site.

ACTION: You can also contact the University of Florida President J. Bernard Machen at 352-392-1311 or president@ufl.edu.

[wagglebee]

Thanks for reminding me that I haven’t eaten at the Melting Pot in a couple months, I need to call and make a reservation. Their fondue is incredible!

[PrepareToLeave]

Haven’t talked with you in a long while. It’s good of you to keep our memories refreshed. I posted this here because I want to get the word out about his flippant response to Terri. Isn’t it amazing though when you think about it, Terri lingers on (and powerfully so) in the political arena. She lives on as a LITMUS TEST for candidates! The fact that she is even referred to by the MSM shows us that they know how hot this event was and still is.

[Dante3]

I know also of cases where the doctors said there is no hope but the patient recovered.

[MountainFlower]

Thanks for the link, 8mm! COOL! I have great respect for the man. May God’s blessings rest on his race.

[8mmMauser]

Honor to the Schindlers...

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The National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund will hold its 14th annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner on Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 7:00pm at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in Washington, D.C. A pre-dinner reception will be held at 6:00pm.

The Proudly Pro-Life Award highlights the diversity of pro-life people and honors those with a long-standing commitment to courageously defend innocent human life. This year, National Right to Life will honor the family of Terri Schindler Schiavo: Robert and Mary Schindler, Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo.

The Schindler family came to national and international prominence in their fight to save their daughter and sister, Terri Schindler Schiavo, from death by starvation and dehydration. Terri died on March 31, 2005, after fourteen days without nutrition and hydration. Since then, the Schindler family has created a foundation to help those, like Terri, who are medically dependent and disabled.

~Snip~Past honorees include actor, lawyer, and writer Ben Stein; actress Jennifer O'Neil; actress Margaret Colin; Dr. James Dobson, founder and president of Focus on the Family; the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta; and the late Robert Casey, former governor of Pennsylvania; among others. Last year, then-Congressman Henry J. Hyde (R-IL) was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

National Right to Life Honors Schindler Family

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[8mmMauser]

Alan Keyes radio interview after the debate...

JAN MICKELSON, HOST: Also last night in one of the debates, a new face showed up to debate some of the values issues. Alan Keyes has joined the presidential debate, and he is on our newsmaker line. Alan Keyes, thank you for joining us this morning, sir.

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MICKELSON: You mentioned something a few seconds ago about judges usurping the proper role of the legislature. When they do that, and the legislature complies and allows them to get away with it and say, "Well, I guess the only way we can overcome judicial tyranny is to wait until we can elect new guys that we can use to pack the court with judges who will exercise their form of judicial tyranny," what is the proper role in dealing with judicial tyranny?

KEYES: It's very simple, really. All three branches are independent. The executive — the president, the governor — has a responsibility to the constitution of the state or of the national government. If it's the president, it's the national Constitution. He swears an oath to uphold it. If the judges tell him to do something, or if the judges are doing something that is against that Constitution, he has an obligation by his oath to refuse to file their opinion, and to step in and protect the country from the destruction of rights, our constitutional rights.

MICKELSON: What is the way to step in and do that?

KEYES: Look at Jeb Bush. The Jeb Bush situation down in Florida is a good example: Terri Schiavo was being done to death by judicial fiat and murder, and the Florida constitution says a citizen has an unalienable right to life that must be respected. In light of that, the governor should have gone down there, put in that feeding tube, and said that he has the responsibility under the Florida Constitution to defend this woman's life.

Alan Keyes on Jan Mickelson in the Morning

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[8mmMauser]

The St. Pete Times publishes this today:

BRANDON - Hundreds of conservative Christians are expected to converge here today for a three-day meeting intended to mobilize support for the bedrock issues of the religious right.

Dubbed the Family Impact Summit, the nondenominational event will feature a variety of speakers and panelists who represent a Who's Who among the Christian Right. Scheduled presenters include Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council; Richard Land, who leads the Southern Baptists' lobbying arm; and former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.

Former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer will serve as a keynote speaker, and Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo, is expected to talk about right-to-life issues.

Religious right set to gather

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[8mmMauser]

This is my tiny excerpt from the New York Times today...

Mom and Dad taught me to respect my Elders, but they didn't know of this one, Janet Elder, who wishes us to swallow a whopper, more than a burger with one side.

We are to suppose that married women as a block wanted innocent Terri dead and they would support the democrat party because it called for her death in similar manner to that of Nicole Simpson, at the hands of approved murderers. Convolute that thought a bit, wad it up and stuff it down collective mouths, shouting loud enough and presto, lie becomes truth.

But shortly after that, married women started to see things differently. Some say it was the war. Others say it was the Terri Schiavo case or Hurricane Katrina or changing views of the threat from terrorism. Married women, including the ones who live in the suburbs, now appear more likely than in 2004 to vote for a Democrat this time around. In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted in July, a plurality, 46 percent, of married women who live in the suburbs said that if the presidential election were held today, they would vote for a Democrat, while 29 percent said they would vote for a Republican.

Soccer and Security Moms Unite

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[8mmMauser]

The media hasn't let go of Fred yet on Terri. He has been meeting with Charlie and the New Crist Minstrals so I am not sure how much he heard on the positive side of Terri's fight.

Perhaps after watching one of his episodes on Terri rerun, it will all come back and he will know for sure just who Terri was. But which perspective will he follow?

I will watch to see if Mikey endorses him.

Among those he lobbied: Tennessee Republican and then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who was at the center of the 2005 nationally watched Terri Schiavo euthanasia case. Thompson said last week in The Villages, a Central Florida retirement community, that he had no position on the Schiavo case and couldn't recall it, though opponents have pointed out the case underpinned a story line for "Law & Order," in which he starred.

Thompson Skims Over 'Lobbyist' on Resume

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[8mmMauser]

Possession is nine tenths of the law evil.

Now we know what happened to some of our trolls on these threads. I wonder what his screenname was. Thread from uca99. Thanks to TheSarce for the ping.

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An inmate filed a $500 million civil rights complaint last week against Terri Schiavo, her parents and husband, claiming her feeding tube was diverting food from his stomach. He also sought a restraining order against them.

But a U.S. district judge in Tampa tossed out the complaint Tuesday, saying it describes several “fantastic and delusional scenarios.”

South Carolina inmate Jonathan Lee Riches’ handwritten complaint said Schiavo’s feeding tube caused him to suffer hunger pains and dizziness and that her family conspired with the Bureau of Prisons to prevent him being provided food with proper nutritional value.

Schiavo died in a Pinellas Park hospice in 2005 after doctors removed a feeding tube from the brain-damaged woman. Her parents wanted the tube to remain in her system, while her husband, Michael Schiavo, fought that option.

Inmate Claimed Terri SchiavoÂ’s Feeding Tube Diverted Food From His Stomach

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Continuing PP's quest to do harm in a thread by wagglebee...

I told the little girl, whom I will call “Emma,” about Peter and the suspicions that he might have been “very special and different” when he was born. Had Emma's response come from an adult, I probably would have not been surprised. But I was shocked when she said something along the lines of, “But you wouldn’t want a baby like that.”

Planned Parenthood's Abortion Values -- Making Children Seem Unwanted

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[8mmMauser]

Keeping with the theme this morning, of evil apparent, I ping to the thread by UKrepublican brought to me by LilAngel. Distasteful as the deeds are, they portray the existance of a wave of raw evil similar to which we have faced on these threads.

Sometimes we don't see it and sometimes the mask slips.

A MAN who urinated on a stricken disabled woman as she lay dying in a street is facing jail after admitting outraging public decency.

Anthony Anderson admitted the single charge when he appeared before magistrates today.

After hearing how his actions robbed the 50-year-old woman of “any dignity”, magistrates agreed that their maximum sentencing powers of six months in prison were insufficient and transferred the case to Crown Court.

They heard how Anderson, 27, shouted “this is YouTube material” as he urinated on and later smothered shaving foam over the hapless victim who had collapsed near his home in Hartlepool.

Man urinated on dying woman

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[8mmMauser]

One more note of the face of evil in this thread by narses...

No statutory rape charges filed even though man admitted sexual affair with 16-year-old girlfriend COEUR d'ALENE -- The 20-year-old man who admitted torching the Lake City Junior Academy might not spend a day in prison, but his underage girlfriend could spend 20 years there thanks to his testimony.

Arson suspect agrees to plea deal (Satanism and Wicca)

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[floriduh voter]

The TAMPA TRIBUNW blasted Fred Thompson in today's op-ed section because FRED suggesting drilling for oil in the EVERGLADES and also because Fred had no recollections of TERRI SCHIAVO.

And, NANCY GRANT NEEDS MORE MEDIA COVERAGE. She's being railroaded by a judicial tyrannist in DESOTO COUNTY. Her court documents are at this link in addition to a detailed press release. She was and is a TERRI SUPPORTER.

http://www.ahrc.com/new/index.php/src/news/sub/article/action/ShowMedia/id/3834

[floriduh voter]

Terri is a phenom. If even the sick are saying her name, why doesn't Fred Thompson know who she was?

Terri was a special person and nobody should ever doubt it.

[floriduh voter]

Terri's litmus test will always be around. Children know of her. They will ask when we are gone and these children will tell their children what unruly, unjust people did to an innocent woman. Terri is also helping people through faith to confront their own mortality and get past it.

The issue is that natural death will come to everyone. Second, murder is a crime and is also a sin. Terri was murdered. We must never forget.

She's not only a martyr but a role model and a heroine. IMO, she's Joan of Arc for our times. The death cultists hate to read that but it's turning out that way, isn't it?

[floriduh voter]

JILL FINLEY is alive. Patience and love instead of intimidation and the sham rule of law in the most corrupt place in Amerika!

Prison bars for everyone mentioned here:

http://www.judgegeorgegreer.com

[floriduh voter]

Many judges act like Judge Greer. Many of the worst judges happen to be in Florida but they're all over the place.

Look a how the ninth circuit in San Fran holds the entire Western half of the country hostage.

[floriduh voter]

Read Helen Valois' columns here.

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/valois

[floriduh voter]

You know, Frist owned Tenet, now Jeb is on their Board. Frist and Fred are from Tennessee. Maybe Frist advised Fred to feign ignorance re: Terri. Anyway, Fred Thompson, looky here. Here are the locals you said should make decisions. They are corrupted and they know what they did.

www.judgegeorgegreer.com and www.michaelschiavo.org