Posted on 09/21/2003 12:13:53 PM PDT by pc93
Terri's Call to Action Part 1 is over 5000 posts. If you don't want to get caught up to speed at Part 1:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971896/posts?q=1&&page=5167#5167
Simply visit Terri's official web site at:
http://www.terrisfight.org
There are contact numbers at her web site for her core media team, legislators, media and for press updates.
See flash movies of Terri interacting with her mother, responding to a physician and see for yourself that she's not in PVS "persistant vegetative state").
In addition to access a text file with a lot of information see:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/c/pc93/FedCourtDktCaseNo8_03-cv-1860-T-26TGW.txt
If you want to join Terri's fight, it's important for us to CONTACT BUREAUCRATS, THE MEDIA and also your friends and family. It's up to you how you choose to Help Terri.
Pinellas Pasco Judge Greer set October 15, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. for her feeding tube to be removed. There's something wrong with Florida's exit protocols and the way the courts handle new information re: criminality (misrepresentation, attempted murder, etc.) affecting a case. There was no living will, only the assertion of a very suspect, so-called husband, his brother, etc. that Terri would not want to live on life support. Terri is not on life support, she is not comatose or PVS and she is not living "artificially". She does get sustenance from a feeding tube but only because she has been denied rehabilitation by her so-called husband after he won a malpratice lawsuit three years after her collapse (cause unknown but probably due to strangulation or physical abuse, or both) which is why Terri needs an army of supporters to spread her story from coast to coast. Terri has retained rights that are being sidestepped because she is disabled and has been denied rehabilitation! The technologies of rehabilitation have greatly improved exponentially yet Judge Greer has not let Terri have a chance to learn to eat or to be able to learn to speak/communicate again. Also new information bearing on the case which shows criminality on husband's side has not been considered by the 2nd District Court of Appeals who handed down Mandate for termination of Terri's feeding based upon testimony of criminal husband and brother as above stated. Who is next?
Let's make a difference! Thank you for your efforts.
Everyone who's helping Terri, you are participating in one of the finest freeps ever. BAR NONE.
In Coon v. Ledbetter , 780 F.2d 1158 (5th Cir. 1986), we allowed a § 1983 claim for excessive force on behalf of a young child under circumstances somewhat similar to ours. In Coon , the police allegedly fired into a trailer attempting to apprehend the trailer's owner, Billy Dan Coon. Coon's four-year-old daughter, Racheal, was inside the trailer when the shot was fired. Although the facts do not indicate that Racheal suffered anything but "sleeplessness and nightmares" after the incident, we nonetheless found that she had sufficiently alleged a violation of her constitutional rights. Id . at 1160-1161.In Coon , we addressed the contours of the excessive force claim in the context of whether the plaintiffs had adequately alleged a constitutional violation. Id . at 1160-61. We discussed the officers' defense of qualified immunity only insofar as it could arise on retrial. Id . at 1164. We did not, in any case, squarely address the question whether non-physical injury alone could satisfy the Shillingford test (although we certainly implied that it would). Regarding the applicability of qualified immunity, we merely observed that "[u]se of excessive force in making an arrest violates clearly established rights, and the doctrine of qualified immunity therefore does not shield an officer who uses excessive force."
We do not call Coon into question, however. In 1986, Shillingford was "clearly established law" in this area and we had not yet drawn any "bright lines" between constitutional and non-constitutional violations on the basis of physical or non-physical injuries ( see discussion infra at III.B.3). Thus, the Coon court's implicit finding that the officers' conduct there satisfied the Shillingford test (and in particular that Racheal Coon's injuries were "severe," see Shillingford , 634 F.2d at 265) appears justified in light of "clearly established" legal rules at that time.
I knew our GOP leaders wouldn't let us down but PARTY doesn't matter. They should do this because IT'S THEIR JOB!!! Keep praying.
The attorneys of record are listed on the signing page.
I wanted yestv to see this too.
GO, CRIST!!!
Political speak for 'I'm watching the polls'.
This guy's had 13 years to "....monitor...." the sins of late great State of Florida applied to Terri and on 25 September 2003. His office, not him with a mike in his mouth, says their "....CLOSELY MONITORING...." the eventual execution of Terri by the 'system' the Honorable Governor Jeb Bush says elected officials put in place to "protect the incapacitated".
The Florida 'system' is "....CLOSELY MONITORING...." their barbaric murder of a woman who's only offense against the 'system' is she can not speak.
I will pray God's punishment of them will be equal to the punishment they have imposed on the long line of men and women who have been received by Him by their hand.
I pray this effort will halt government sanctioned executions by doctors of the feeble and incapacitated.
When did you become associated with Ferrara and company?????
ATTENTION: If you'd like to attend rallys for Terri in the Tampa Bay Area please sign up for TERRI RALLY SIGN UP ping list by doing a post to floriduh voter.
Nothing is scheduled at this time but we'll be ready if it is.
Call Glenn Beck and ask that he have another Rally for Terri. 1-888-727-2325. BURN GLENN'S PHONE LINES.
"Federal judge Richard Lazzara says he now wants Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist to represent the state's interests in the Terri Schiavo case.
The judge made the request on Tuesday as he agreed to hold a hearing Oct 10. Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, asked for the hearing. They want Lazzara to block a ruling that orders doctors to remove the feeding tube that has been keeping their daughter alive on Oct. 15.
The Schindlers claim Schiavo's husband, Michael, has denied Terri treatment that could help her to learn how to eat on her own. They say that's a violation of her constitutional rights.
Michael Schiavo maintains his wife wouldn't want to live in this condition. Schiavo is the Pinellas County woman who has been in what some doctors call a persistent vegetative state for more than 13 years.
"CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A brain-damaged man whose family disagreed over whether to remove his ventilator has been moved to a nursing home, nearly two weeks after the breathing tube was removed."
Immediately, the directors of the fair received a tactful, "educational" letter from Crist explaining the federal Americans With Disabilities Act and the U.S. Constitution. They then changed their minds."
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