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
On right, Terri's warrior, Pat Anderson who's one heck of an attorney. As of the date of this post, the parents received ONE DAY OF VISITATION from 1:00 to 2:30 pm this past Saturday. Judge Greer is going to have another hearing on this issue but there's no date and time yet. Judge Greer goes through the motions in his courtroom, imo a little play acting when Terri's dad was on the stand.
You can find your local TV listings on http://tv.yahoo.com.
Also, click here for Oprah's after the show segment about Terri:http://www.oprah.com/video/200311/promo/tows_promo_20031114_qx_f.jhtml
Three people give their personal opinions on Terri's situation. The first favors her receiving care and the love of her parents. The second (a nurse) states that she judges such things on a 'quality of life' and that she personally wouldn't want Terri's situation. The third is a big burly dude who is quickly reduced to tears when he says he would fight for his own mate's life.
Trouble? Why is a nurse, or any member of the medical community, focused on quality of life issues when their job description is to care for all patients with utter dedication? I find it very, very alarming that a nurse would publicly admit to preferring abandonment of a patient based on her own views.
This is supposed to air on June 1, 2004 on OPRAH. Please ping your list. it's a repeat... FV
Could you put the correct link for Oprah here? I understand I have an incorrect one posted.
This is the correct link. My apologies. Click "After the Show".
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200311/tows_past_20031114.jhtml
Thirteen years in a persistent vegetative state. Her husband and family at odds. Should Terry Schiavo live or die?
From the original airing. Mary, Bobby and Suzanne.
I am the mother of a daughter who was severely injured in an auto accident 5 years ago. My daughter has a Traumatic Brain Injury, is in a wheel chair, and has a feeding tube.Terri Schiavo did not have a living will, she sustained her anoxic brain injury when she was 26 years old.
The Schindlers, her mother/father/sister/brother have been fighting for the last 10 years for guardianship of their beloved daughter. Terri is not in a coma, as the media claims, she is not in a persistant vegetative state, as the media claims, she is a severly disabled woman who has been handed a death sentence by her husband who is estranged from her.
Terri should not have to prove to anyone that she is worthy of living, she is cognitively alert and responding. We all accept the fact she is brain damaged, now can we move on and let her go home to her blood family and let them care of her and nurture her, so she can reach her full potential, instead of sitting there in a hospice around death and dying.
Terri needs to experience life and the living!I don't think any parent should have to watch their very own child starve too death for no reason, no reason whats so ever, this is ludicrous. Where is Terri's freedom, her right to happiness, she has been lost in the judicial shuffle and its time for all of us to band together and help the schindlers take their daughter home, where she can enjoy a family life and set all of us free who have come to Love and Support Terri in her hour of need.
This torture of these courts and bad decisions has taken its toll on all of us, but mostly Terri. We all enjoy food and water everyday of our lifes, she, to, deserves that basic necessity. Feeding tubes are not life supports,
I don't think the average Joe realizes just how many children and adults are on feeding tubes in this country, it really isnt such a big deal. The difference between my daughter and Terri, besides the obvious age difference, is the fact that my child has progressed to where she is at with Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Horse Therapy, Massage Therapy, and Music Therapy, for the past five years, it takes a lot of dedication and patience, time and energy.
Brain Injury is not for the meek or mild, it takes a strong person to pull through this long drawn out process of rehabilitation.
Give her the chance that people with brain injury's deserve, she hasn't been given a fair shot. It's time to band together and give to her what has been taken from her, slowly.
prayers for Terri
bttt for Terri. Watch this thread for latest news from Pinellas County, Florida.
Last call on these items - by midnight tonight... Just copying them. I'm not the originator.
The FOLLOWING two petitions will be closing at midnight tonight.
1- Petition to the Fla Bar to disbar George Felos and Deborah Bushnell
http://www.petitiononline.com/Felos518/petition.html
2- Petition to request that Governor Bush take Terri Schiavo into protective custody. ,p> http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?chisana7&1
Please, I ask that if you have not signed either petition please do so and forward on to others. One moment of your time to sign the two petitions may help to save Terri Schiavo from being murdered by her estranged spouse.
Thank you so much for your support and caring.
Cheryl Ford RN Fight4Terri@aol.com
BTTT
I missed the first few minutes of Oprah. But I didn't see Terri.
Hi. See, that didn't hurt a bit...
Terri was on for a long time. Is your Oprah a day behind? They showed a lot of Terri.
Thanks to you, my faithful "pingers." I literally have only a half hour to be online tonight. Although I haven't had time to post, for the last few days, I'm following everything very closely. So, I want to let you know I'm here, even when I don't seem to be.
Am curious to know if Oprah was moved by the story and willing to show it.
FYI
There is a comment online in reference to the petition to impeach Judge Greer:
Schiavo News
Well, this is more opinion than news. Below is an email I received today from a reader who wanted my reaction on an Internet petition to impeach Judge Greer. My response follows.
Reader Email:
I know that something similar like this was used to get to get Governor Bush involved in the Terri Schiavo case. Now, it appears they are going about it on a different route. Would a petition of this sort carry any weight into impeaching Judge Greer? and would you care to comment on any of the 30+ transgressions?
www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html
My response:
I will comment on how sad that petition is. Judge Greer is an honorable public servant who does not deserve such treatment.
Our judicial system utilizes a system of checks through the appellate process, and the bottom line is that Judge Greer's rulings have been repeatedly affirmed on appeal. Most of what I see in that list I do not think the Schindlers have argued in court, let alone on appeal, which says much about the merits of those allegations.
Some of those allegations are so legally baseless that they are amusing.
As for the points in the list that the Schindlers have previously raised on appeal, those arguments have been rejected, which definitively resolves their merits as nonexistent. In that sense, the petition may just as well name the Second District judges who affirmed Judge Greer's decisions and the Florida Supreme Court justices who found the Second District's decisions not to be in conflict with prior precedent. Judge Greer has not been a lone wolf here -- he has made his decisions, and all sides have had, and will continue to have, every chance to challenge his findings and conclusions on appeal.
I suppose the people who authored that petition and who support it are comforted by their actions, but that does not make their allegations of error and misconduct correct. I wonder if any of those persons has a law degree, with the education and training to opine on what constitutes a violation of the law or the canons of judicial conduct. I suspect I know the answer.
I understand your comment about Governor Bush, but he did not become involved in this case because of anything similar. He became involved because numerous persons asked him to do something, and he responded to those requests by advancing the bill that eventually became "Terri's Law." I have never heard Governor Bush state that Judge Greer has violated the law or the canons of judicial conduct in any way.
To answer your question about whether this will carry any weight, I am confident the answer is no. None whatsoever.
Let me clarify that all this does not mean that I believe Judge Greer has been correct in every decision he's made in this case. What it means is that his decisions have thus far been determined by higher courts to be consistent with the law of Florida. Attacking him -- with a petition for impeachment, no less -- is simply absurd.
How very sad. Thanks for sharing it with me, though. It's good to be aware of what's going on, even if it's depressing to hear.
...posted by Matt Conigliaro Û 4:10 PM Û #
http://abstractappeal.com/archives/2004_06_01_abstractappeal_archive.html#108612124775615797
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.