Posted on 05/15/2004 8:11:04 AM PDT by amdgmary
Schiavo Appeal May Get Fast Track
The Associated Press May 15, 2004
LAKELAND - The law pushed by Gov. Jeb Bush to keep Terri Schiavo alive may be headed to the state Supreme Court. The 2nd District Court of Appeal indicated Wednesday it wants the case expedited to the high court. It gave Bush and the woman's husband 10 days to show why it should not be certified to the Supreme Court as ``a matter of great importance requiring immediate resolution by that court.''
Schiavo, who has severe brain damage, was disconnected in October from the feeding and hydration tube that has kept her alive for more than a decade. Six days later, the law pushed by Bush gave him the power to order the tube reconnected.
Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird ruled ``Terri's Law'' unconstitutional May 6, saying it violates Terri Schiavo's right to privacy and delegated legislative power to the governor. The governor's office filed an immediate appeal that kept the tube in place.
The appeals court indicated in a ruling obtained Friday that it wanted to skip a step and send the case to the high court.
Schiavo's husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, has fought a long court battle to carry out what he said were his wife's wishes not to be kept alive artificially. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, say they doubt those wishes were made and believe her condition could improve with therapy.
``We believe this case is of great public importance and should be viewed by the Florida Supreme Court,'' said George Felos, an attorney for Michael Schiavo.
The governor's legal staff will review the request to bypass the appeals court before deciding whether to oppose it, Bush spokeswoman Alia Faraj said.
Also Friday, a police investigation into suspicious marks found on Terri Schiavo's arm found no evidence of foul play.
Michael Schiavo banned all visitors from the Clearwater nursing home where she lives after an aide found what appeared to be needle marks on his wife's arms after the Schindlers visited March 29.
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They might as well have ordered hospital staff to take her out back and shoot her in the head. It would have been a lot more humane than starving her to death.
For whatever reason, after the Florida Supremes' misbehavior in the chad wars, Florida Republicans never took the impeachment route. Now we may have reason to regret that decision, because the same corrupt, left-wing tyrants control the court. Evidently Felos sees it that way, or he wouldn't be so eager to expedite the appeal.
The law in Florida has allowed Michael Schiavo to continue in control of Terri Schiavo, even though he has a live in Mistress and two children in his care. Michael has wanted Terri dead for so long, and the courts should have given guardianship to her parents, who love her and want her.
Michael has been guilty of gross abuse, and the state of Florida has permitted this. God help the USA, we are sinking fast!
I fear Terri's going to be used to set in stone the mechanism by which court's already are ordering human beings be starved to death.
It is so obvious this man is trying to murder his wife and he is using his legal buddies who want their agenda to be able to murder anyone to pass. The only people that care about this human being is the human beings who love her. Poor Terri. This is horrible. Can you imagine the horror of passing such a law where people can be murdered if their relatives or anyone else thinks they should not live?
That judge has got his head up his you know where.
Can we get a fast track of Michael Schiavo, etc. to prison?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1135763/posts?page=57#57
Prayers for Terri.
Can we get a fast track of Michael Schiavo, etc. to prison?
Apparently, this "nurse" is one of the most popular persons in Clearwater, FL. An in the continuing Age of Clinton popularity trumps everything.
Florida Republicans never took the impeachment route. Now we may have reason to regret that decision, because the same corrupt, left-wing tyrants control the court. Evidently Felos sees it that way, or he wouldn't be so eager to expedite the appeal.
If only that were true. They are RINO's. Take at a look at their party affiliation. GOP. What I see happening here, hospice will become warehouses for non terminals as well. What a lot of these lawmakers are not looking at, is that this route will lead straight to socialized medicine.
So, the petition tut has to recall King is of extreme importance in getting sigs in order to deal with him. Take a look at King's voting record. He votes against party line more than he does for. Sadly, district 8 folks are not being told truths by their media up there.
I fear Terri's going to be used to set in stone the mechanism by which court's already are ordering human beings be starved to death.
Then you are not making enough noise. This cannot happen. We have to stop it.
Can you imagine the horror of passing such a law where people can be murdered if their relatives or anyone else thinks they should not live?
That judge has got his head up his you know where.
We need to support Govan against greer in Aug. We have got to get greer out. RINO death advocate
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I believe you are right. We are headed faster than I would have ever believed, down a steep incline towards a pagan society. God will not be mocked. Judgement is coming!!!!!!
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be that lucky in the Age of Atheism that's dawning.
A CLICHE CAME OUT OF ITS CAGE
Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes, And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes, Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses To pay where due the glory of their latest theorem. Hestia's fire in every flat, rekindled, burned before The Lardergods. Unmarried daughters with obedient hands Tended it By the hearth the white-armd venerable mother Domum servabat, lanam faciebat. at the hour Of sacrifice their brothers came, silent, corrected, grave Before their elders; on their downy cheeks easily the blush Arose (it is the mark of freemen's children) as they trooped, Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance. Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods, Shun Hubris. The middle of the road, the middle sort of men, Are best. Aidos surpasses gold. Reverence for the aged Is wholesome as seasonable rain, and for a man to die Defending the city in battle is a harmonious thing. Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions; Heathendom came again, the circumspection and the holy fears ... You said it. Did you mean it? Oh inordinate liar, stop.
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I love it when people see the real deal. You're exactly right.
Florida is a state in which an incapacitated person can be assigned a professional guardian if no next of kin are living in the state.
We have a lot of people who retire to Florida. They bring their life savings with them. Quite a few dollars.
A guardian has access to those dollars.
An elderly person gets to a stage where their death is not necessarily imminent, but they become severely incapacitated and fully dependent. Lots of those folks require feeding tubes ('artifical life support' since 1999). Off to Hospice they go.
If Felos and Greer get away with forcibly ending Terri's life by removal of her feeding tube and not allowing sustenance by mouth, you have case law in place to forcibly end the lives of a whole lot of people - whether or not you have their permission.
This is the nut of this case - to be able to do it without permission. Judge Greer has accepted very flimsy testimony as 'clear and convincing' evidence that Terri had a death wish. That is outside our current laws and wrong.
If you try to follow the crumbs, your head will hurt:
Greer - former County Commissioner and now Judge on Schiavo case - board member of Hospice of Florida Suncoast.
Felos - death attorney on Schiavo case and self-proclaimed 'right to die export - former Chairman of Florida Suncoast
Jim King - Florida's Senate President who refused to hear a bill that would protect vulnerable patients from wrongful death and who was responsible for many of Florida's current 'death with dignity' laws - Hospice Hall of Famer
Ridenour, Director of Hospice of Florida Suncoast - contributor to Judge Greer's Reelection campaign
There's not enough room to post all the players, but you probably get my meaning. This may have stopped being about Michael and what he wants back in 1998. This may be nothing more than a legal train out of control trying for the case law that will loosen up all those dollars, free up those beds and 'help these poor people go on to better things'.
It's sick.
Footnote: Between 1992 and 1998, the average length of stay in Hospice declined 27%, but the amount of Medicare benefits received by Hospice increased 151% (Quality of Life Matters, Jan 2002)
Follow the bouncing dollar....
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