Posted on 09/24/2004 4:00:36 PM PDT by NYer
Man "finds" Wife unconscious.
Man keeps Wife unconscious.
Man gets malpractice money for Wife.
Man wants Wife's money.
Man wants Wife dead so Man can have money.
Man gets Lawyer.
Lawyer is/was Hospice Board Member.
Lawyer promises Man that Wife will die at the Hospice...
Man "finds" Wife unconscious.
Man keeps Wife unconscious.
Man gets malpractice money for Wife.
Man wants Wife's money.
Man wants Wife dead so Man can have money.
Man gets Lawyer.
Lawyer is/was Hospice Board Member.
Lawyer promises Man that Wife will die at the Hospice...
bttt
FLORIDA LEGISLATORS CAN STILL ACT TO SAVE TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO
Today’s Florida Supreme Court decision striking down “Terri’s Law” under which Governor Jeb Bush had ordered that she not be starved and dehydrated to death is not necessarily the last word. Although the court struck the protective law down because it overruled the judiciary in one particular case, the way is still open to pass a law that would be generally applicable to people with disabilities, including Terri Schindler-Schiavo.
Currently, the state requires that someone present Florida courts with “clear and convincing evidence” showing that the patient wanted to be denied food and fluids. In the Schiavo case, Terri went six days without food and fluids because the judge ruled that an alleged casual comment fulfilled the clear and convincing evidence standard. A bill introduced earlier this year, the Florida Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Act, would mandate that a decision to put someone to death by starvation or dehydration could only occur if the patient had made the statement under express and informed consent. It is carefully written to be “constitutional” under prior decisions of the Florida Supreme Court.
Concerned Florida citizens are urged to click on http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/officials/state/?state=FL&lvl=L to contact Florida representatives and senators to urge them to commit to support, in a special session if necessary, enactment of the Florida Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act, similar to last year’s S.B. 692, to save Terri Schindler-Schiavo and others like her.
IF YOU ARE NOT A FLORIDA RESIDENT, you may wish to contact:
Senate President James King, Jr.
9485 Regency Square Blvd., Suite 108
Jacksonville, FL 32225-8145
Email: king.james.web@leg.state.fl.us
(904) 727-3600
Fax: (904) 727-3603
This statement may be attributed to Burke J. Balch, J.D., Director of National Right to Life Committee’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics.
See Questions and Answers on Florida Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Act
See text of Florida Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Act
See Wesley Smith column on why informed consent to denial of nutrition and hydration should be required: The Consequences of Casual Conversations
Florida Supreme Court opinion striking down "Terri's Law"
LARS LARSON ON 1040 RADIO IN TAMPA BAY is talking about Terri's case RIGHT NOW..... TUNE IN. If you get Lars Larson, he's really in Terri's corner.
Remember that two judges sworn by the governor to be judicial conservatives sided with the liberal majority to produce a unanimous agreement. Apparently, Jeb Bush was misinformed about his judicial selections, the way his father was misinformed by John Sununu and Warren Rudman about David Souter.
I think the parents made a big mistake in not trying to get her divorced
I think Mr. and Mrs. Schindler tried to get a divorce for Terri, but the corrupt FL judiciary blocked them at ever turn. They have never received justice in FL. I am pretty sure that they will leave that corrupt state after Terri dies. Surely they must forever regret moving to the "Land of Sunshine."
If Terri had ever made mention that she would not want to be kept alive by artificial means, her frame of reference would have been Karen Ann Quinlan, kept alive on a respirator.Feeding tubes were not considered artificial means at that particular time; therefore, she could not possibly consent to something that wasn't in existence.
No matter what wonderful prayers and sound arguments you voice, Pegita, it makes no difference. "The die is cast," as old Julius Caesar said in ancient times. And I seriously wonder if old Julius Caeasar would order Terri starved and dehydrated. Perhaps he would have too along with the other would-be "Caesars" of FL politics.
Do not lose heart, dear FRiend ... our God is an awesome God.
Of course, Pegita, our God is an awesome God. He will not "allow" Terri to be murdered. However, ungodly men will disregard the law of God and allow, even entertain, this murder. God is slow to act, it seems to us, but he will act, just not in time to save Terri.
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They seek to remove the true God from His throne so they can ascend to it and rule in His place.
They should no longer be called a Supreme Court Justice but Supreme Court Deity.
Such is the nature of our courts today.
I do not think Michael would accept such a proposal, but it would be interesting for him to articulate reasons for refusing it. If Terri is as totally incapacitated as he claims her to be, oral feeding and hydration would not extend her life appreciably. And if he's correct in his belief that she's brain-dead, she shouldn't mind one way or the other who provides care in her last days.
I wonder what specific objections Michael would offer to such a proposal?
I do not think Michael would accept such a proposal, but it would be interesting for him to articulate reasons for refusing it.
This has already been proposed and rejected by Michael R. Schiavo. He wants "the bitch" dead; what is it about this that people cannot "understand"?
Yet, so many Americans depend on these liberal judges (some of whom have conservative views if such views do not conflict with raw judicial power) to "take care" of "their needs" and "their rights." People really are blind. They are not "funny," in this case, as the great Art Linkletter used to say.
Bump!
They casually deny life to the innocent and strain to keep alive convicted murders.
Imagine what Shakespeare could have written about the Schiavo case. And the national media just ignore these horrors. Maybe if Terri were "a minority" person she would get the attention she deserves.
Supreme ignorance
By David N. Bass, World Net Daily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40619
September 25, 2004
The so-called "right-to-die" movement was handed another victory this week when the Florida Supreme Court struck down a law designed to prevent the starvation death of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman who has been the latest target in the left's crusade against the elderly and disabled.
The ruling by the Florida high court is the most recent episode in a six-year legal struggle by Terri's estranged husband, Michael Schiavo, to end her life. Mr. Schiavo contends that Terri is in a "persistent vegetative state" and therefore should be condemned to a starvation death by having her feeding tube removed, even though her condition does not meet the medical or statutory definition of "persistent vegetative state." To the contrary, she responds to communication, recognizes her family, receives no life support or respiration and is considered physically stable.
But apparently, the seven justices of the Florida Supreme Court couldn't care less. On Thursday, the court unanimously declared "Terri's Law" unconstitutional, claiming it violates the separation of powers and encroaches on the authority of the judiciary.
Passed by the Florida Legislature in October of 2003, "Terri's Law" granted Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to counter a court order by Judge George Greer to remove Terri's feeding tube. Clearly, the measure was designed to both protect Terri Schiavo's life and provide a "check" on a court run amuck – both actions supported and even required by the Constitution.
But not according to Chief Justice Barbara J. Pariente, who displayed an alarming ignorance of both history and constitutional law in the Court's written opinion. In it she writes, "The continuing vitality of our system of separation of powers precludes the other two branches from nullifying the judicial branch's final orders." Doing so would lead to the judiciary's subordination "to the final directive of the other branches."
The judiciary has hung its hat on bizarre reasoning before, but this ruling really takes the cake. In the view of Chief Justice Pariente, the judiciary should be considered "untouchable" by the other two branches of government. The courts can nullify or rewrite the laws passed by the legislative branch to suit a certain agenda, and it's perfectly fine. But if the Florida Legislature takes action to halt a court ruling decreeing the starvation death of an entirely innocent woman, that's a flagrant violation of the separation of powers.
So much for consistency in the courts.
Unfortunately, Pariente doesn't stop there. She goes on to warn that if the judiciary is subordinated to the other branches, the rights of every American citizen will also be subordinated, "including the well-established privacy right to self determination."
Apparently, elected members of the Legislature are all boogeymen out to strip away our rights, but un-elected judges and justices have nothing but benevolence in their hearts for freedom and the American way. I think Terri Schiavo and the Schindler family would disagree.
The chief justice continues by saying that if restraints are placed on the judiciary, "the essential core of what the Founding Fathers sought to change from their experience with English rule would be lost, especially their belief that our courts exist precisely to preserve the rights of individuals, even when doing so is contrary to popular will."
Such statements are fine and dandy as long as you're ignoring both history and facts. Chief Justice Pariente would have us believe that the Founding Fathers possessed a deep abiding trust in the judicial system, but that's simply not the case. The Framers specifically designed the judiciary to be the weakest of the three branches of government, not the strongest. The only reason the judiciary carries so much clout today is due to recent actions by activist judges to reshape our courts into something they were never meant to be.
Instead of praising the Florida Supreme Court's ruling, the Founding Fathers would be horrified by what is transpiring today. Not only because it virtually spits on the sacred American institution of checks and balances, but also because it shows absolutely no regard for the life of an innocent woman. Pariente continually references individual rights in the court's opinion, but she apparently has little concern for the individual rights of Terri Schiavo. She is more concerned with idealism than with the sacred life of a fellow human being. Perhaps that is the most troubling aspect of the court's ruling.
The Florida Supreme Court has made its decision, but the battle to preserve Terri's life is far from over. The so-called "right-to-die" crowd is fighting furiously to set a precedent in this case, a precedent that will be the basis for outright legalization of euthanasia on demand. It's up to life-honoring Americans who have already seen abortion's devastating effect on our culture to ensure that this week's ruling by the Florida Supreme Court does not lead us into another American holocaust, a holocaust of euthanasia.
David N. Bass is an 18-year-old homeschool graduate who writes for World Newspaper Publishing and is a regular columnist at AmericanDaily.com, ARationalAdvocate.com and RenewAmerica.us. He is also a contributing writer to many other online sites, including Tolkien-Movies.com. Bass is currently working on his first novel.
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