[tutstar]

food is artificial sustenance....

I'm going to post some info following this re Felos

[ChewedGum]

I would post more, but I need to go get some artifical sustinance. Be back later.

Gum

[shhrubbery!]

Same article, different website, has a different headline:

Fla. Senate Gets Into Comatose Woman Tiff

So the headline writer, at least, wants to trivialize the fight for Terri's life into a "TIFF."

[tutstar]

Author of Litigation as Spiritual Practice

Attorney George J. Felos is a nationally recognized expert in right-to-die cases. He is best known for the landmark case that helped establish an individual's constitutional right to refuse or have withdrawn unwanted medical treatment, Guardianship of Browning, and the current case of a vegetative young woman, Terri Schiavo, which was featured on NBC's Dateline program.

He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including CBS's Early Show, CNN's Burden of Proof, Daybreak and Greenfield at Large, Court TV's Pros and Cons, Inside Edition, The Kathy Fountain Show, and NPR's All Things Considered. He has also presented seminars and debated end-of-life issues for various professional, civic and religious groups, and leads meditation and personal growth workshops.

Felos is the creator of Meditation for Lawyers, the first-of-its-kind instructional course accredited for continuing legal education. His article by the same name has been published and posted in various journals.

Felos graduated from Boston University School of Law, has practiced in Pinellas County since 1978, was a founding member of the National Legal Advisors Committee on Choice in Dying, and served as Board Chair of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, the largest non-profit Hospice in the world.

A classical pianist, yoga teacher, Hospice volunteer, saltwater fisherman, and guest minister to various churches in his spare time, Felos resides in Dunedin with his son, Alexander.

[tutstar]

guest minister.........?????????

minister?????

[tutstar]

The spirit and the law

How many lawyers does it take to find enlightenment? There's no punch line; one of the lawyers in the Terri Schiavo case has spent his life seeking the way to "litigate without becoming a combatant.''

By SHARON TUBBS

© St. Petersburg Times, published May 25, 2001

[Times photos: Scott Keeler]

Lawyer George Felos practices yoga at his Dunedin home to help him cope with the stresses of cases such as that of Terri Schiavo. Felos represents her husband, Michael Schiavo, in his efforts to have her feeding tube removed.

DUNEDIN -- A cluster of reporters wait, notebooks and pens poised. A cameraman counts down the seconds to the start of the press conference, which will be televised live. In walks lawyer George Felos, wearing a navy suit jacket, beige slacks, blue shirt, tie and -- excuse me? -- brown socks and Birkenstocks.

If he had his druthers, Felos and his Birkenstocks would be at a West Virginia monastery, where he'd sit cross-legged and meditate for hours at a time, as he did on vacation last year. Or maybe he'd be doing yoga and centering his chi.

Instead, in a controversial case, he is here to argue that 37-year-old Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die. Felos represents Schiavo's husband Michael Schiavo, who has been waging an intense and public fight to have her taken off life support after 11 years in a vegetative state.

Felos, 49, has taken on about 10 right-to-die cases in the last decade. He balances his quest for spiritual growth with his lawyerly duty to fight.

"Many people find the litigation process to be aggressive, to be combative, to be harsh," he says. "And the question is: How do you work within that type of system and not become hardened . . . and maintain a spiritual center? How do you litigate without becoming a combatant?

"I look at (the profession) as the opportunity to become more centered. To use it as an opportunity for growth, rather than a reason not to be spiritual."

A soul connection

Felos' spiritual and professional lives intersected in a public way 12 years ago, in the case of Estelle Browning. The case gained him a reputation as the person to see when you want to let someone die.

Browning, of Dunedin, had written a living will in 1985, saying she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means if she ever became ill. A year later, she had a stroke. But the nursing home refused to stop feeding her because she was not technically brain dead. Her cousin and former roommate, Doris Herbert, asked Felos to take the case.

He wanted to see Browning for himself. She could not speak, but Felos says his spiritual side picked up on something. He says her soul cried out to his soul and asked, "Why am I still here?"

Browning died in 1989 of natural causes while the case was still unresolved, but the suit has had a lasting effect on the law. In 1990, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that a living will can allow caregivers to withhold food and water from an incapacitated person, even when death is not imminent.

After the Browning case, Felos became a volunteer for the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, sitting and talking with terminally ill patients. On his living room shelf sits a book for hospice training, Dying Well, by Ira Byock.

In recent years he has been writing a book of his own: Litigation as Spiritual Practice. In 320 pages, to be released this fall by Blue Dolphin Publishing, Felos contends that his belief in God is what drives him, even in the civil courtroom where the object is to win, or at least settle for an adequate sum.

A spiritual being

Who is George Felos?

"Well, what we are in essence can't be described by words," he says. "The mind is finite, and what we are is infinite. We know what we're not. We're not the body. We're not the mind. We're not our thoughts. We're not our emotions.

"In essence," he says, "we're spiritual beings."

Felos was a spiritual being first and a laywer second. He was in law school at Boston University when a friend asked if he wanted to try yoga as a stress-reliever.

Felos learned how to meditate, to "notice" his reactions to his thoughts. He says he learned the events in his life were only as important as he thought they were.

And he learned about other cultures and Eastern religions. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Greek Orthodox worship -- all may have a point, Felos says.

"I believe that Christ was God incarnate and was resurrected. But, by the same token, I believe that there were other incarnations of God as well," he says. "All the great religions in their essence express the same fundamental truths."

Sometimes, Felos says, he gets nervous or anxious before a hearing.

"If I find that I'm getting nervous or keyed up or off-center, what I'll do is -- which is a type of meditation -- just focus on my breathing," he says. "Home in on the sensation of breathing, the sensation of the air entering the nostrils and exiting the nostrils. If you do that for 30 seconds, you'll find that you're more relaxed."

If people are truly spiritual, that will permeate all aspects of their lives, not just during worship, not just at home, but at work too, Felos says.

"You can't separate your work life from your spiritual life," he says. "A spiritual seeker has no spiritual focus."

At least one opposing attorney sees little spirituality in Felos. Pat Anderson, one of the lawyers representing Terri Schiavo's parents, questions Felos' ethics in fighting to remove the woman's feeding tube.

Furthermore, Anderson says, "I find him to be uncommonly persnickety in his diction."

George Felos begins his morning with yoga, which he has been practicing for 25 years. That’s about as long as he has been practicing law: “How do you work within that type of system and not become hardened . . . and maintain a spiritual center?” he says.

Orthodox beginnings

Raised Greek Orthodox in New York, Felos did not aspire to follow his father into law. He spent too much time at his father's office, supposedly on his way to father-son outings but actually waiting for his dad to finish talking to clients.

"I went to law school because I couldn't think of anything else to do at the time," Felos says.

After law school -- and his spiritual awakening -- Felos and his first wife lived on a small Greek island for three months. Each morning, they would wake up and buy a fresh quart of goat's milk for 9 cents and a 10-cent loaf of steaming hot bread. It was one of the best times in his life, Felos says.

Then it was back home and back to reality. His family had moved to the Tampa Bay area, so Felos decided to try for work here. He got an interview with the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's office.

"This is a tough job," Felos remembers the prosecutor telling him during the interview. "You've got to be hard. You've got to hit! It's a tough job. Can you do it?"

Having just spent three months living on an island and drinking goat's milk, Felos looked at the man and said, "You know, I really don't know."

He didn't get the job and eventually went into civil practice with his father. The two worked together as Felos & Felos until James G. Felos died in 1995.

Every morning these days, Felos is 160 pounds of elastic on his bedroom floor. He does yoga, inspired by a framed portrait of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of spiritual realization. He does more stretches and takes out a machine that helps with his chi, or body energy.

The purpose of the morning routine is to be "present in the sensation of his body."

He takes out a throw pillow and meditates for a half hour before showering and drinking a concoction of protein powder, banana, orange juice, yogurt and goat's milk.

Each morning he checks to see if something has grown on the mango tree and bamboo he planted in the front yard.

Felos visits different places of worship about twice a month, he says. He has spoken at several, including the Palm Harbor Unity Church, the Center for Conscious Living and a spiritual awareness center in Crystal Beach.

He hangs out with friends -- ministers, yoga teachers, but no lawyers. He bought a Steinway grand piano and plays Beethoven on it. He invites friends over for chanting -- "I am that I am. I am that I am." -- while he plays the harmonium.

"He has a good sense of humor, and he has a gentle and kind soul," says Debi Chapman, a Palm Harbor yoga instructor who met Felos about seven years ago at a retreat. "It's just a heartfelt space, a very spirit-filled connection that George and I have."

Felos' reading material includes Handbook to Higher Consciousness, God Talks With Arjuna, The Experience of Insight, In the Meantime.

His home looks more hippie-ish than lawyerly -- red couch with big pillows, multicolored chair in hot tones, mint green carpeting, spry yellow kitchen and one living room wall painted neon blue.

He spends weekends with his 14-year-old son, Alexander, from his first marriage. They fish for mullet in St. Joseph Sound, the body of water that doubles as Felos' back yard. Caladesi and Honeymoon islands are in the distance.

Felos is in the final stages of a divorce from his second wife.

"If I did relationships as well as I did law," Felos says, "I'd probably be happily married." The journey continues

Felos does not mention Schiavo in Law as Spiritual Practice, but says he wants to start a second book when the case is over. He may talk about his spiritual journey with Schiavo then. For now, he is preparing for a hearing before the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland on June 25. He thinks the court will agree that her feeding tube should be removed.

That is what is necessary, he says, "to accomplish what I believe are Terri's wishes."

Does Felos believe Terri Schiavo's soul has spoken to his?

Felos declines to answer, showing his lawyerly side. "It's a pending case," he says.

[tutstar]

http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200309/CUL20030917c.html

Conflict of Interest Charged in Florida Euthanasia Case
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief
September 17, 2003

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Supporters of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the 39-year-old disabled Florida woman whose husband is attempting to remove her feeding tube which would end her life, charged a possible conflict of interest in the case Tuesday, one day after the judge postponed a decision on therapy for the woman to help her re-learn to swallow nutrients given to her by mouth.

The group working to get therapy and rehabilitative services for Terri alleges an improper link between the husband's attorney, George Felos, and court-appointed physician Dr. Peter Bambakidis, who was charged with providing an impartial review of the medical evidence in the case. Felos refused to comment on the allegation.

"Supporters of Terri believe that attorney George Felos had a personal relationship with either the Bambakidis family or with Peter Bambakidis prior to Dr. Peter Bambakidis being assigned as an independent examining physician in April of 2002," said Pamela Hennessy, spokeswoman for the group.

Hennessy referred to marketing materials distributed by Felos in which he lists some of the professional and social organizations in which he holds membership.

"A member of the Florida Bar and Clearwater Bar Association, Felos served as a member of the Clearwater Bar Appellate Law Committee, as governor of the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association (AHEPA), and as chair of numerous National Association of Securities Dealers arbitration panels," the document states.

AHEPA is a Greek fraternal organization that counts among its members Gust Bambakidis, chairman of the physics department at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and the older brother of Peter Bambakidis.

The elder Bambakidis confirmed to CNSNews.com Tuesday that it was his brother, Peter, who testified in the Terri Schindler Schiavo case.

"He was down in Florida because he was, I think he was asked to be an expert witness in a case. I think that's what that was all about" Gust Bambakidis said.

Gust Bambakidis said his younger brother is not a member of AHEPA, which was confirmed by the group's national headquarters. The older brother also said that he does not know George Felos.

Peter Bambakidis did not return calls to his office seeking comment for this report.

Felos refuses to answer questions

Felos Tuesday refused to answer questions about his client's case or about any possible relationship with the Bambakidis family, saying CNSNews.com's coverage of the controversy was "atrociously biased so I'm just not going to participate in it."

"In one of your articles ... I was described, not by someone else, but by the author of the article as a 'euthanasia attorney,' or 'pro-euthanasia attorney,'" Felos claimed, "which is inaccurate. I don't support euthanasia, I never have, I've been very clear about my position."

Felos was unable to identify any article in which the alleged description of him occurred.

Of the 16 articles CNSNews.com has published regarding the Terri Schindler Schiavo case, only six have contained the word "euthanasia" and none have done so referring directly or indirectly to Felos.

He has been identified by CNSNews.com as "a noted author and advocate in Florida's so-called 'right to die' movement," and as "a well-known advocate of the so-called 'right-to-die'," along with variations of the phrase "Michael Schiavo's attorney."

Felos authored the book Litigation as Spiritual Practice, which includes in its promotion by Blue Dolphin Publishing the statement that "Attorney George Felos became the legal advocate of Estelle Browning's right-to-die and in the process plumbed the depths of death and dying and spearheaded a social revolution to enable death with dignity in the state of Florida."

Felos has been described as a "right-to-die lawyer" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Orlando Sentinel has described Felos as the author of "a book about his right-to-die advocacy."

Judge set to rule on removal of feeding tube, swallowing therapy

Pinellas-Pasco, Florida, Circuit Judge George Greer refused to hear the Schindler family's motion that Terri be given immediate therapy to help her re-learn to swallow food on her own, before her feeding tube (technically referred to as a "gastrostomy" or "g-tube") is removed. Greer told attorney Pat Anderson that the issue is still being considered as part of the decision about when the tube will be removed.

"He told litigating attorneys that he would deliver a ruling on the removal of Terri's feeding tube as well as the emergency motion for immediate therapy ... on Wednesday," Hennessy told CNSNews.com. "But he's not calling another hearing. It's assumed, at this stage, that he's going to deliver whatever ruling he has via facsimile or courier."

Terri Schindler Schiavo suffered a brain injury due to oxygen depravation in 1990 under questionable circumstances. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, first petitioned the court to remove her feeding tube in 1998 shortly after winning a $1.2 million medical malpractice lawsuit on his wife's behalf. Terri's parents and siblings are seeking therapy and rehabilitation for her based on claims by some medical professionals that she could partially recover with additional care.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

This is where he made his mistake, He has been trying to sell this as a right to die case. This is not a right to die case. Now everyone knows it.

[tutstar]

Independent Doctor had relationship with Shiavo's Attorney Contact: Pamela Hennessy

Phone 727-445-1766

email: phenn@zimp.org
1133 Drew Street

Clearwater, FL 33755


Press Release

Assignment – Terri Schiavo Case

Has collusion been a factor in the Terri Schiavo case? Supporters of the disabled Pinellas woman think so.

Clearwater, FL September 16, 2003: Supporters of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation have uncovered a possible link to collusion in the legal proceedings involving attorney George Felos (representing Michael Schiavo) and the neurologist Dr. Peter Bambakidis (court appointed, independent, examining physician).



During the 2002 trials, the court ordered that two physicians would be chosen by Michael Schiavo, two would be chosen by Bob and Mary Schindler (Terri Schiavo’s parents) and one would be appointed by the court as an independent examining physician. All five physicians would later give testimony to the condition of Ms. Schiavo. The independent physician, Dr. Peter Bambakidis of Ohio, would testify in favor of Michael Schiavo in that Ms. Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state and without hope of recovery.



Supporters of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation have learned that Dr. Bambakidis and attorney George Felos may have had a personal relationship prior to Dr. Bambakidis being assigned to the case on April 24, 2002.



In marketing materials promoting his seminars, Mr. Felos notes that he has served as a Governor for the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association (document here).


Upon research, supporters discovered that the Ohio chapter of the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association was managed by Gust Bambakidis (link here).



Both Gust and Peter Bambakidis are graduates of Case Western University (Gust, Peter) and are believed to be related. Both were born in Ohio and live there currently. Additionally, Nicholas Bambakidis (son of Gust and a neurologist) had, for some time, worked with Peter Bambakidis (link here).



During testimony in 2002, Dr. Peter Bambakidis was asked repeatedly by attorney Patricia Anderson (representing Bob and Mary Schindler) if he had any personal relationship with attorney George Felos (link here). Dr. Bambakidis insisted that he did not know of Mr. Felos prior to being appointed by Judge Greer though he could not provide sufficient explanation as to his appointment nor had he ever testified in any similar court case prior to the 2002 trial of Terri Schindler-Schiavo.



The supporters of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation believe these coincidences to be indication of possible collusion in the case and are calling on state officials to launch a full and thorough investigation. This apparent connection raises many questions by the Foundation as to the neutrality and integrity of the proceedings. Supporters have complained that neither state officials nor press have investigated these irregularities. By copy of this release, notice will be given to Governor Jeb Bush, State Attorney Bernie McCabe and Florida’s Attorney General Charlie Crist.


http://pub162.ezboard.com/flacipetersonmurderforumfrm30.showMessage?topicID=13.topic

[incindiary]

A spiritual being

Yeah. What kind of spirits?

[tutstar]

20.10.2003
Pres of Hospice Patients Alliance Announces WorldWide Boycott of Florida
COPY OF LETTER SENT:
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY NOTICE OF THIS BOYCOTT
The Honorable Jeb Bush, Governor
Executive Office of the Governor
400 S. Monroe Street
The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0001
Dear Governor Bush,
Your inaction with regard to the Schiavo case is abominable, and I am not
fooled by your public posturing. You are allowing the terrorizing of the entire disabled community, who fear being put to death now as a result of YOUR inaction!

You know you could act AS GOVERNOR to intervene to save her life, until the fraud perpetrated through the courts against Terri Schiavo were to be
investigated.
She is NOT in a coma, and YOU know it! She is responsive and YOU know it!
She has a right to live! and you know it. And Michael Schiavo's testimony
about her supposed wish to die, is obviously fabricated, and YOU know it!
A WORLDWIDE BOYCOTT HAS BEEN INITIATED AGAINST FLORIDA TILL YOU ACT, not
promise to do something. There are too many vulnerable elderly, disabled
and chronically ill in Florida for you to let this precedent stand.

You have bit off more than you can chew and infuriated those who are YOUR
BASE OF SUPPORT! Reconsider and act now. We will NEVER forget what you
have NOT done to protect Terri Schiavo. Your legal action was bogus and
did not include all the reasons the Greer court was biased and unfair.
Your posturing by visiting the Schindlers was disgraceful since you
obviously never intended to use YOUR AUTHORITY as Governor to save Terri.

It is one thing to say you cannot question the court, but as Governor you
COULD order an independent investigation into all the myriad of obviously
flawed conclusions of the Greer court which clearly violate the laws of
Florida regarding the rights of Florida citizens to live
(something quite basic!!)
Sincerely,

Ron Panzer
President, Hospice Patients Alliance
4541 Gemini Street
Rockford, MI 49341
616-866-9127

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1005175%2C1

[tutstar]

SEE IS INTERESTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They link it back to FR but I never saw the post tmr....


http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:lXzmCxQs7_IJ:www.m-blog.com/terrischiavo/+george+felos&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Thursday, October 2, 2003 2:51 PM
More Conflicts of Interest than Letters in Alphabet Soup - Something REALLY stinks!!!!!

1.Michael Schiavo's Attorney:
George Felos

It's posted that attny George Felos has received almost 500K so far.

2.The Judge presiding over this case is:
Judge Greer

3. Both George Felos (Schiavo's attorney)
and
Judge Greer (presiding judge)
served on Hospice's Board at one time or another.

There was an overlap between when Felos was on the Board and when he took her husband as his client. We believe the Board position and representation of hubby were concurrent for a brief time.

4. County Commissioners together:
Judge Greer was a county commissioner from 1984-92.

Barbara Sheen Todd - hospice board member also a county commissioner from 1980-98

5. Gus Michael Bilirakis is on the board at Sun Coast Hospice. His father, Michael Bilirakis (the elder) has been a congressman for many years. He also was recently elected as a congressman or representative or something of that nature.
994 posted on 09/02/2003 9:39 PM PDT by Ohioan from Florida

Link: at Free Republic

[tutstar]

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/sep/03091707.html

Supporters of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation have learned that Dr. Bambakidis and attorney George Felos may have had a personal relationship prior to Dr. Bambakidis being assigned to the case on April 24, 2002. In marketing materials promoting his seminars, Mr. Felos notes that he has served as a Governor for the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association. Upon research, supporters discovered that the Ohio chapter of the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association was managed by Dr.
Bambakidis' brother Gust. Moreover, Gust's son Nicholas had worked with Dr. Bambakidis.

During testimony in 2002, Dr. Peter Bambakidis was asked repeatedly by attorney Patricia Anderson (representing Bob and Mary Schindler) if he had any personal relationship with attorney George Felos. Dr. Bambakidis insisted that he did not know of Mr. Felos prior to being appointed by Judge Greer though he could not provide sufficient explanation as to his appointment nor had he ever testified in any similar court case prior to the 2002 trial of Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

[Agnes Heep]

Refusing food and water is not keeping someone alive artifically. It's active destruction of life. The result would be the same if they put a pistol to her head, left her exposed naked to the elements, or threw her into a open fire.

[tutstar]

Medical Expert Suspected of Bias in Case of Disabled Woman in Danger of Death by Starvation

excerpt

Supporters of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation have learned that Dr. Bambakidis and attorney George Felos may have had a personal relationship prior to Dr. Bambakidis being assigned to the case on April 24, 2002. In marketing materials promoting his seminars, Mr. Felos notes that he has served as a Governor for the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association. Upon research, supporters discovered that the Ohio chapter of the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association was managed by Dr.
Bambakidis' brother Gust. Moreover, Gust's son Nicholas had worked with Dr. Bambakidis.

During testimony in 2002, Dr. Peter Bambakidis was asked repeatedly by attorney Patricia Anderson (representing Bob and Mary Schindler) if he had any personal relationship with attorney George Felos. Dr. Bambakidis insisted that he did not know of Mr. Felos prior to being appointed by Judge Greer though he could not provide sufficient explanation as to his appointment nor had he ever testified in any similar court case prior to the 2002 trial of Terri Schindler-Schiavo.




In June 1998, soon after Michael asked the court for permission to remove Terri's feeding tube, the court appointed Richard Pearse as Terri's guardian ad litem. His job was to investigate the facts of Terri's case and represent her interests in court.

At the 2000 trial, Pearse concluded that he had not found clear and convincing evidence that Terri would have rejected life support.

Pearse said he was troubled by the fact that Michael waited until 1998 to petition to remove the feeding tube, even though he claims to have known her wishes all along, and that he waited until he won a malpractice suit based on a professed desire to take care of her into old age. As her husband, Michael would inherit what is left of her malpractice award, originally $700,000, which is held in a trust fund administered by the court. Accounting of the fund is sealed. But Michael's lawyer, George Felos, said most of it has been spent on legal fees associated with the custody dispute.

Pearse also said he did not find Joan and Scott Schiavo's testimony credible.

Greer ruled in Michael's favor. Appeals by the Schindlers failed. A state appeals court upheld Greer's decision; the Florida and U.S. supreme courts declined to hear the case. And on April 24, 2001, hospice staff stopped feeding her. But two days later Pinellas County civil court Judge Frank Quesada ordered that feeding be resumed when evidence suddenly surfaced suggesting that Michael never really knew what Terri's wishes were.

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/sep/03091707.html


and again...Felos admitted the money has been used for legal fees....WHY IS THIS NOT BEING CHECKED INTO???

[tutstar]

THIS IS REALLY WAY OUT!

Michael Schiavo has sought to use an unjust and immoral civil law to cause her death, ridding himself of the "burden" of caring for his incapacitated wife. The fact that he has been aided by one of the leading "right to die" advocates in this country, George Felos (a man who believes he has the ability to "read the souls" of disabled persons unable to speak for themselves), means nothing to either Governor Bush or to Bishop Lynch.

http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:FL5-hQsI89oJ:www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20030904.html+george+felos+supernatural&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[tutstar]

http://www.iahl.org/articles/11_Meditation_for_Lawyers.htm

INTERNATION ASSOCIATION OF HOLISTIC LAWYERS
Felos article on meditation

[tutstar]

To: najida

What absolutely terrifies me is that two of the NAY's sit on Health, long term care and aging committees.

It's also scary that Greer has been a speaker at least one conference for the elderly and disabled.

"Facing the Future," the fourth annual conference hosted by the Florida Coalition for Optimal Mental Health and Aging, will be Oct. 25-26 at the Travelodge Hotel, 820 E Busch

"Soaring to New Heights in Elder Care"

is the theme for this year's Guardian Association conference. The conference will be from 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, 11 Central Ave.Scheduled subjects include right-to-life issues, addressed by Judge George Greer, and sessions on community resources, Medicaid qualifications, ethics and incapacity. Attendees may be eligible for continuing education credits. Fee for the conference is $75, which includes continental breakfast and lunch. Call 360-3622 or visit www.guardian-association.com.

I know that the article is 'old' when considering Terri's fate.....but it does show him fighting for the elderly and disabled. Why his terrifying stance on Terri?

1,705 posted on 10/21/2003 4:18 PM EDT by Krodg (I believe, I pray and I fight.)

[tutstar]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/971896/posts?q=1&&page=1

[tutstar]

good insights here.....

http://groups.msn.com/IronsidesWorldHeadquarters/whenmouthylawyerslieincourtrooms.msnw

Once again, the most threatened minority on Earth have experienced that the Right-to-Life is only recognized, and socially and politically acceptable by those who are capable of violently and militantly defending their rights. As Hitler insisted, the weak and the strong cannot coexist, especially in war. So, the weakest people have to be killed off by the strongest, so that only the strongest will survive.

Disabled People are not going to be allowed to survive, unless they become the strongest and most militant force on Earth. Governments and courtrooms are demonstrating that, and today's repeat execution order by the same judge in Tampa Bay, Florida clarifies that point. That is the way American society and culture is, and is why the entertainment industry specializes in violence more than any other type of movies and television shows produced.

In a seemingly deliberate attempt to win their case, regardless of the intense level of domestic violence which Terri Schiavo was subjected to prior to her alleged attempted murder, Michael Schiavo's lawyer fired away with absolutely proveable lies last Friday, November 15 which witnesses can testify to. Because of George Felos' strategy, conditioning the court and the public to assimilate everything he says as fact, and the way it is, I take pleasure in stripping him down of any credibility he hopes to have in the results of Terri Schiavo's death row judgment. The point is well illustrated when Felos replied to questions regarding beating or hurting Terri. He replied: "Absolutely not!--Never!" In this response, George Felos is conditioning the court to refute and discredit the witnesses to Michael Schiavo's behavioural disorders, and psychotic rounds of violence. This should alarm and move people to action against lying, belligerent lawyers.

Diana Lynne, a WorldNetDaily news editor reported in a November 19, 2002 article "Removal of guardian sought in right-to-die case", that Judge Greer's first verdict was appealed and an appellate court scheduled another trial, which was held during October 2002 to assess Terri Schiavo's current condition, possible treatments available and whether they would be efficient for her, as well as their acceptance by the medical community. In a medical community which is divided by those seeking to promote recovery, advances in therapy and the right to life on one hand, and those who impose their personal contempt and prejudices against people they don't consider worth living, Terri Schiavo's chances of fairness in such a decision are slim. Last Friday, in an emergency motion submitted by Pat Anderson, on behalf of Terri's parents and family, to take legal guardianship away from her abusive husband and suspected assailant, Michael Schiavo and George Felos worked hard to discredit information which surfaced in last month's trial, and are aggressively bullying through with Terri's court ordered execution by starvation and dehydration.

A clear example of his agenda to disregard the many years of injustices against Terri-Schindler Schiavo, and instead of compensating her for her sufferings and enabling her to recover and enjoy the rest of her life, but rather, railroad her execution, George Felos flew off at the mouth on November 15 among several babblings, that claims of abuse and neglect were raised in three prior petitions denied by the court. Schindler's lawyer stressed the bone scan had never been litigated nor came to light in the trial record, in the medical malpractice lawsuit. So, I have a serious challenge for such irresponsible, if not criminal negligences in courtrooms: If claims in three petitions had previously been denied by the court, of neglect and domestic violence, that judge needs to be dealt with, as well as any other elements of obstruction to true justice. Courts are supposed to be halls of justice. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "justice" as: "the maintenance or administration of what is just, especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments". Don't you think it is high time to clean up courtrooms, and repair the disabled justice system? In no uncertain terms, isn't it time the judicial system got fitted with a feeding-tube?

The argument over Terri Schiavo is over life-support. In Florida, feeding-tubes are considered a form of life-support. The Right-to-Genocide terrorists insist that feeding-tubes are a means of keeping people alive artificially. If we want to maintain an execution list of people being kept alive artificially, we can safely shutdown the entire genetic engineering industry. That alone can free up probably tens of billions of dollars annually, since one of the chief cards the Right-to-Genocide militants play, is the cost of healthcare to help people like Terri recover, and enjoy her life, regardless of her disability. To disconnect her feeding-tube, she would die of starvation and dehydration they say.

Well, guess what!--If you, me or anybody else stop eating, and drinking fuids, just what would you expect to happen? In April 2001, poor Terri already got a taste of what it is like to be starved to death, while her courtroom killers, namely Judge Greer, Michael Schiavo and his lawyer went out to fill their own guts, and drink to their victory. All that saved her after three days of a slow, gruesome fate, was the intervention of an appellate court. If we allow Terri's execution for using a feeding-tube, next on the growing list will be everyone using ventillators.--Get the point?

A Brooklyn, New York Orthodox Rabbi named Yehuda Levin, at the rally outside the courthouse in Clearwater, Florida, represented approximately 1200 North American Orthodox Rabbis in support of Terri Schiavo's right to live. Here are a few of his statements: "What happens here will have a profound effect on what happens to life and living in America." "If death by electric chair is 'cruel and unusual punishment,' what is death by starvation? A party? A bar mitzvah?" "Terrorists will not get death by starvation, why Terri?"

In Diana Lynne's article of November 19, she quotes George Felos as saying: '"The opposition has a pattern of dredging up filth in order to attack my client because ultimately they're going to lose on the merits of the case, which is what the current medical condition of Terri is and what her wishes are. ... They're just attempts by the Schindlers to run an end-run around the ruling to end life support," Felos told WND.' It seems like Geroge Felos is a self-appointed expert on filth. He presents himself like an expert on everything. How dare any other witnesses be listened to, because this guy is getting rich and famous from Terri's dwindling malpractice funds, which were intended for her medical care! Maybe the merits of Terri's case shouldn't revolve around her current medical condition. As far as her real wishes, how can we know her real wishes, when the witnesses who insist that she let them know her choices, are the conspiring killers themselves? On Friday, I plead with everyone who reads this article, to stop any decision to execute Terri Schiavo.

To show how docile Felos really is, he considered the note on the bone scan report "evaluate for trauma" as only "defensive medicine" on the radiologist's part. Mouthy, arrogant Felos spewed out that the radiologist was trying to protect himself, and justify his conclusion. This guy isn't really a lawyer. I think he is a sick piece of work, who needs to be treated. Just what the hell did the radiologist have to protect himself from? What justification did he need to have in any conclusion he reached? I think George Felos has serious mental disorders, and doesn't deserve to be treated like royalty. Put a stop to the Right-to-Genocide terrorists, and stop any judgment which prevents Terri's real family to gain legal guardianship, and help her recover from twelve years of horror.

Before I close, I hereby challenge the dishonourable, verbally militant and psychologically abusive George Felos, to his puny effort to explain away the nuclear imaging bone scan performed approximately one year after her supposed heart-attack and brain injury. At the time of the bone scan, Terri was around 27 years old. He claimed that the scan was done to determine whether Terri suffered from heterotropic ossification. Felos' wimpy explanation of Terri's multiple bone fractures and broken neck nearly seem like a doctor's hypothesis. All it really is, is his attempt to portray Michael as a poor victim of the Schindlers, so him and Michael can continue to cozy up with each other in making profits from Felos' book, and popularity wave lecture circuits. Personally, I don't buy this garbage propaganda that a twenty-five to thirty year old woman suffers from Osteoporosis, and I couldn't care less about Felos' medication and laying in bed fairy tale. If she had been between fifty-ninety years old, I might have considered it possible. But, any court which blows off and plays down the likely cause of her broken neck and multiple bone damage due to her spouse's known violent temper and behaviour, needs to be shafted.

George Felos is no more a bone specialist than I am. George Felos actually had the balls to explain away a detailed report by a skilled technician who deals in such technolgy. The only skill I attribute to Felos is his ability to be a mouthy, disrespectful charismatic preacher of death. His performance in last month's trial, and last Friday's petition illustrates his agenda to finish off Terri's execution, and get paid for being Michael's accomplice to murder--the legal way! The time to stop court-ordered execution of domestic abuse victims, and Disabled People is NOW!

Email and phone government officials, the media and healthcare providers. Get vocal, and if necessary take to the streets. Are you going to allow Terri Schiavo to be executed by starvation and dehydration, while her courtroom killers wine and dine to their latest victory? Demand that the US government STOP the AMERICAN GENOCIDE!

[tutstar]

Felos to write a book about Terri.....have we found the $$$$$$???????

Prayer Trumps Politics and Evil
in a Florida Courtroom

Cecilia H. Martin and Jackie Doucette

The day opened ominously for Robert Schindler. While many citizens were hanging out their American flags and remembering the events of September 11, the darkest day in recent U. S. history, Bob Schindler shook the depressing thoughts from his shoulders and prepared for a court hearing. This was the long awaited day, the day of the “death hearing,” the day he would hear Florida probate Judge George W. Greer issue a starvation order for his thirty-nine year old daughter, Theresa Schindler Schiavo. Bob Schindler was tired; he and his wife, Mary had been locked in a major battle with Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, her court appointed guardian, ever since she mysteriously collapsed thirteen years ago. The last five years were spent trying to prevent the Florida courts from granting Michael’s petition to remove her feeding tube through which she receives food and water.

Although brain damaged, Terri smiles at her mother and is capable of a limited range of actions. A number of medical experts believe Terri can learn to eat and drink on her own, but the courts denied a swallowing test. Thirteen doctors have testified that she is not in a persistent, vegetative state. Nevertheless, the courts consistently ruled in favor of Michael Schiavo in his relentless pursuit of Terri’s death. After Michael was awarded in excess of a million dollars from a malpractice suit, he remembered that Terri once said she never wanted to live on life support systems and began preparing for her funeral.

As Bob Schindler apprehensively approached the courthouse, he saw a number of supporters holding signs, “Let Terri Live.” When Schindler entered Judge Greer’s courtroom accompanied by his son and daughter, he quickly realized that most, if not all of the occupants were either supporters of Terri or members of the media. Nearly everyone was dressed in black. Terri’s mother was at the St. Petersburg Hospice at her daughter’s bedside, seemingly to ward off any news of the judge’s decision from reaching the ears of her handicapped child. When attorney George Felos, entered the courtroom with his partners, his client, Michael Schiavo, was noticeable absent.

A hearing presumably planned for thirty minutes at most, turned into a three-hour struggle between the Schindler’s two female lawyers, Pat Anderson and co-counsel Celia Bachman and Schiavo’s right-to-die advocate, George Felos. Anderson and Bachman were outstanding in their defense of Terri’s constitutional rights. Anderson read into the record the statements of two speech-language pathologists who claim Terri is an excellent candidate for rehabilitation.

Bachman presented new insights on Florida’s guardianship laws, laws that apparently have been flagrantly ignored by Schiavo and the administrative system. The attorney’s fiery presentation appeared to catch Judge Greer off-guard, as she forcefully demanded the court do its duty to see that Terri’s welfare and rights are secured.

When a soft-spoken Greer asked shouldn’t he schedule a date to remove the feeding tube, Bachman fired back, “…fine, go ahead. But your obligation is to give her a transition into being able to ear naturally, by herself, because doing anything else is against the law, against Florida statuettes, and it is state-assisted homicide.” Anderson came in with a thrusting challenge, “…guess what – Terri never said she didn’t want to eat.”

Felos went pale. “Terri wants to die,” he said. He said she must die, because this is what she wanted. “We owe it to Terri.” The previously solemn crowd yelled “NO.” Felos consistently referred to Terri as PVS and a “lifeless human.” He characterized the Schindler’s efforts in trying to save their daughter’s life as “ludicrous” and a “waste of the court’s time.” He accused Terri’s parents of “creating confusion” with their desperation tactics. Lastly, Felos played the religion card.

Felos claimed that Father Gerard Murphy, a former St. Petersburg priest who gave inaccurate and muddled testimony regarding euthanasia in Terri’s case several years ago, was the “end-of-life” spokesman for the St. Petersburg diocese. Felos attempted to use the priest’s statement to prove that the Catholic diocese was in favor of euthanasia. He also claimed that former retired Bishop Thomas Larkin, who supported Terri, agreed she should be allowed to die.

The audience was made up largely of Catholics who were familiar both with Bishop Larkin’s support for Terri and Fr. Murphy’s false testimony. They had long deplored the fact that Bishop Robert N. Lynch did nothing to correct Murphy’s testimony or to support the Schindler family in their battle against euthanasia. In response to Felos’ comment on Larkin, they spontaneously shouted, “Not TRUE!” and said “Felos is lying.” The bailiffs appeared ready to escort the people out of the courtroom but didn’t ask anyone to leave. Two women sat silently praying the rosary. Others were praying silently also. David Pritchard, the Webmaster for the Terri Schiavo Foundation ( http://www.terrisfight.org) whispered, “Can you feel the evil in here?”

Anderson countered Felos’ statement regarding Fr. Murphy’s testimony saying the priest was not speaking on behalf of the diocese but was expressing his personal views. It is well recognized that the Catholic Church opposes euthanasia. Fr. Murphy has since asked for a leave of absence from active ministry and is no longer working in the St. Petersburg Diocese.

The noon hour approached; Judge Greer repeatedly looked at his watch. Felos approached the bench and asked that Terri’s feeding be disconnected at 5:00 p.m. Eastern standard time. Felos had commented earlier outside of court that he intends to write a book about the Terri Schiavo case. No doubt having Terri’s death begin on the date of the infamous terrorists’ attack of 9-11, would add even more drama to an already agony-saturated saga. Judge Greer’s announcement to postpone scheduling until next week so that he may study the latest presentations came as a much-welcomed surprise to all, probably the first significant set-back Felos and his client Michael have experienced. For once, prayer trumped politics and evil in a Florida courtroom.

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:ku7VVbLQ3TsJ:www.tcrnews2.com/genbioethics3.html+george+felos+euthanasia+minister&hl=en&ie=UTF-8