Posted on 05/22/2004 7:07:30 AM PDT by floriduh voter
Believers in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence:
Where is Terri's independence?
I'm talking about her independence to learn and to be free from her lonely room.
To kick off Terri's May-June 2004 Dailies, our first article is by Deroy Murdock of Scripps Howard News Service.
Let Terri Schiavo's Parents Restore Her Dignity. May 22, 2004
http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/images/columnists/deroymurdock.jpg
Derry Murdock
Yes, and I had no idea she was going to be a witness. She was the most credible of the Hospice witnesses and talked about Terri like she was a person, not an object with a blanket and feeding tube. She may have mixed up where she was or who she was with when witness #1 told her. I have to get those notes done by the end of the weekend.
To all who are Scripturally minded, here is more.
Luke 11:44 -- And He said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Good thing that Jodi's mom is watching this ordeal. If Schiavo gets away with this, her daughter could be in a similar situation next. And NO ONE will have one ounce of pity for her.
Oh my gosh, how I HATE that droll newscaster Aaron Brown! He use to be on our local Seattle newscast...was I ever glad when he left! Isn't he just the best sleeping pill ever?
I think you are right about the cats! We need to publisize this! I had never heard it before today! People would get into an uproar if we publisize this more.
Are we sure that this is true? Where can we find MS say this?
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The Kangaroo Courts of the Pinellas Outback Reign Again
By Cheryl Ford RN Fight4Terri@aol.com
Yesterday, in the Clearwater Court, Judge Greer was again his usual self and caught nodding off three times during the witnesses testimony.
The visitation hearing turned into an evidentiary hearing. Though the police report concluded that all was clear and there were no wrong doings, Schiavo and his attorney's STILL insisted there was cause for suspicion. Thereby, attempting to rationalize why Michael Schiavo (their client) feels the Schindler's should not be free to visit with their daughter.
I will begin by reporting that what I witnessed in the courtroom yesterday was as heinous a judicial crime as the one Michael Schiavo committed in 1990.
The corruption in Judge Greer's courtroom and Judge Greer himself is like watching a clone of Saddham Hussein and his Al-Qaida terrorist, Bushnell and Swope at work.
I am still waiting for someone to awaken me from this nightmare and tell me that I am in America, the so-called land of the free.
Pat Anderson, the Schindlers' attorney should have received a standing ovation for how hard she performed as an attorney. She is a one woman army and professionally pulled from every available resource when it was her turn to question the eight witnesses.
The first witness on the stand was nurses aide, Janice Vangelino. Vangelino is the trouble maker who set this entire case into play by reporting the alleged marks on Terri's arm. Taken under oath, during her testimony, Vangelino directly contradicted what she had originally stated to the police. In the police report, Vangelino was cited as telling Dorothy Swanson, the charge nurse, that she had seen the scratch marks and dots on Terri's arm before the Schindlers' had visited Terri. During yesterdays testimony, Pat Anderson asked Vangelino if she had "agreed" or "disagreed" with such a statement. Vangelino stated she "disagreed."
The second witness who spoke with either a British or south African accent was nurses aide Janice Boutin. Boutin testified that she did not think the parents would hurt Terri. Boutin is the nurse aide who has stated in the police report that the incident had occurred early,............ "before the lunch trays went out."
The third witnesses testimony was that of Dorothy Swanson RN. Swanson stated she had been a nurse for 30 years. She testified that the wounds on Terri's upper arm appeared to be that of a needle mark. Although Nurse Swanson questioned the marks of those being possible needle marks and stated that she had "some" concern over Terri's well-being ........she opted to first telephone Michael Schiavo as opposed to telephoning the patient's doctor, as any prudent and knowledgeable Registered Nurse would know to do. Swanson's actions are in contradiction with regard to all protocol for how a licensed nurse should initiate an action when suspecting a patient has been potentially compromised. Swanson was quoted as saying, "if there are problems with Terri, she always calls Mr. Schiavo first."
Five hours after Nurse Swanson, Michael Schiavo and George Felos had time to corroborate their stories, Terri Schiavo was transported to Morton Plant Hospital where Michael is employed as a nurse.
Terri was later transported back to Park Side from Morton Plant that same evening, after the hospital had run toxicology screening. The toxicology reports were negative. However, that did not stop George Felos from releasing a press statement accusing the parents of bringing harm to Terri.
The court discussions were then moved to the infamous videotape which Bushnell attempted to accuse the Schindler's of selling off of their website by stating they are linking to a Life Legal website. Attorney Swope presented a video wrapped in a large envelope which apparently had the address sticker on it from Life Legal.
Swope then moved to call the fourth witness to the bench by the name of, Jane Davis. Jane Davis is the sister of Deborah Bushnell's legal assistant, Francine Henderson. Davis testified that she had ordered a video from Life Legal and when the video had arrived at her residence she passed the video on to her sister, Francine Henderson, Bushnell's legal assistant. When asked if either women had viewed what was on the video, both denied they had ever watched the video, or knew of its contents.
Bushnell obviously used her two legal assistants as witnesses to try and convince the court that the Schindlers' were attempting to profit from selling a video from Terri's website, which was not true.
It was also clear how Bushnell and her legal assistant Francine had used Francine's sister Jane,....to make a request from Life Legal that the video be sent to her residence.
Pat Anderson however, again did an excellent job questioning the two witnesses from Bushnell's office. Anderson showed via her excellent questioning, the correlation of how Bushnell had obviously USED her legal assistant's sister to order the video tape from Life Legal and have it be sent to her residence, as opposed to Bushnell's office.
Another blatant example how Bushnell stages these events so to falsely accuse the Schindler of wrong doings.
Another witness was then called to the bench who was also a legal assistant from Bushnell's office. She was there to basically testify how the video was obtained in Bushnell's office. She attempted to convince the audience that Bushnell wasn't the one who ordered it..and that it was the sister of Bushnells legal assistant who ordered it. When Anderson questioned her about her knowledge of how a hyperlink worked, she denied knowing the functionality of hyperlinks.
It was again obvious from the witnesses response and through Anderson's thorough questioning, the tape had NOT be sold or obtained via www.terrisfight.org.
The entire scene in the courtroom displayed obvious and blatant corruption behind Bushel and how she uses her staff.
For the duration of their questioning by Anderson, Bushnell sat coaching the witnesses by nodding her head "yes" or "no."
Bob Schindler Sr., his son Bobby were also called to the stand to testify. Attorney Swope grilled Bobby as to whether he had ever moved his sister to a window and had opened the blinds so people could see her. Bobby stated that his sister had not been outside for over 3 years and that he had wanted his sister to feel the sunshine. Swope then grilled Bobby about whether he had ever repositioned his sister in her bed. Bobby replied, he had lifted his sister in her bed with the assistance of a nurse when he had concerns that his sister had been laying too flat while being fed.
The cruel suggestions coming from Attorney Swope, suggesting that Bobby had done anything of malicious intent was enough to make your skin crawl.
In all the years of my nursing, I can attest that I have never seen family member visit a loved ones room and not feel a need to comfort or reposition them. Attorney Swope attempted to make Bobby appear like he was a criminal for doing the same.
In the last 45 minutes of the hearing, Mr. Schindler was then grilled more about the infamous video. When he denied knowing anything about the sale of such a videotape, Attorney Swope decided it was time to rattle Judge Greer from his naptime, by bringing up the time when Mr. Schindler took a videotape of his daughter after Judge Greer had ordered him not to photograph her.
Bob Sr. replied, they were trying to kill my daughter, I took the videotape because I wanted pictures of my daughter before she was killed. When pressed again by Swope about knowing that he would be violating Greer's order during Terri's court ordered murder, a nearly broken Bob, Sr. could only repeat, .....my daughter was dying. It was quite obvious to everyone in the room that they were looking at a man driven to disregarding a court order in his desperation to save his last few visual memories of a daughter he loved.
With that an outburst and gasps of sadness and outrage came from the audience in the courtroom. The people were with grief over how Swope and Bushnell attempted to again accuse yet another family member of criminal activities. They were trying to turn the video taping of his healthy but disabled daughter, who they (Schiavo, Bushnell and Felos) were killing via dehydration and starvation, into something that was wrong!
By this time in the hearing, Greer was annoyed because he had been reminded of the time Bob Sr. had gone against his order by taking pictures of his daughter. Greer's reprimands emanated throughout the courtroom stating "If anyone violated orders out of his court, he would personally make himself available for emergency hearings."
Judge Greer obviously neglected to remind himself how he has IGNORED how Michael Schiavo has violated and disobeyed the 1996 and 2003 court orders which allows the Schindler's visitation to their daughter, and the rights to access her medical records.
Based upon Greer's annoyance, as opposed to how the laws are to be upheld,.....Greer then ruled that the Schindlers' essentially could not be trusted and he would decide what their visitation would be within the next few weeks.
In the interim of the Schindlers' waiting for Greer's final ruling, Greer granted the Schindlers' visitation to see their daughter every Saturday from 1:00-2:30 PM.
In my opinion, Judge Greer operates a courtroom as though he was under the tutelage of Saddham. He should no more reside in the position of a judge, nevertheless as a free man given the authority to dictate the innocent lives of the people in this country.
Ping to Post #286
Ping to 286! Kangaroo court back in session!
http://www.nbc6.net/news/3350996/detail.html
There is a god awful poll again.
Was Gov. Jeb Bush right to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose husband wants to remove her feeding tube?
Votes - Choice - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Percentage of 71 Votes
30 - - - Yes, the governor did the right thing. - - - - - 42%
39 - - - No, it should have been left to the husband. - 55%
2 - - - Not sure. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3%
I saw it and responded. Thank you for alerting me.
Anyone want to freep this poll? Vote yes, that Bush did the right thing!
I cannot BELIEVE they tried to nail Bobby Schindler for trying to give his sister some relief! How did the death mongoring attorneys look when Bobby said he only wanted Terri to feel some sunshine upon her face??? Horror of HORRORS, he placed her near a window and actually had the NERVE to open the blinds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does this make you as sick as it does me? It is heartbreaking!!! Those people are sick...Bushnell, her little slaves who do her bidding collecting video tapes and attempting to help kill Terri.
HORRIBLE HUMAN BEINGS.
PATHETIC!
At any rate-thank you for posting Cheryl's take on events in the courtroom.
Geeez. Madness.
HORRIBLE HUMAN BEINGS.
PATHETIC!
How do the people of FL tolerate this madness?
How do the Schindlers stand it?
And 49% say the Govenor was wrong to intervene.
This poll is looking better, please do vote if you have not.
Tough stough-this entire case is madness. Talk about the twilight zone. I cannot understand how felos, bushnell, and their creepy sidekicks can stand to look in the mirror.....
The vote is now even at 49% with 42 votes Yes and 42 votes No ...
And as for the cats...I don't know....he certainly did not try to find them homes. And knowing his cruelty towards the Schindlers, I can easily imagine him torturing them to death.
THANKS, PAT.
Hi, fv -- thank you for this additional info and photo montage. May God work in ways we cannot understand to bring about the removal of this mountain.
Thanks for the ping to the poll, pc.
It is extremely unnerving and upsetting, indeed.
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