Posted on 01/31/2005 9:14:49 PM PST by TAdams8591
*Michael, HAVE A HEART !!!!!For Valentines Day give Terri back to her MOM & DAD, The Schindlers!!!!!!!!*
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Since Terri's supporters are in every time zone, you may see something FIRST. Please share news with us that you don't see here already. Now, why would you want to do that? Terri's Daily Thread for September/October of 2004 was viewed over 15,000 times. Terri's November Daily Thread was viewed over 6,000 times. December's thread is over 3,000 views. January 2005 Daily Thread was a RECORD HIGH!!!!!!! 15, 103 VIEWS!!!!!!
More and more good folks are finding out about Terri and that judicial tyranny would take her life, but for lots and lots of prayer and non-stop lobbying of relatives, friends, clergy, our leaders, the media, a passerby, a cashier - ANYONE who you feel comfortable chatting with.
Folks always want to know how can this be in America or on earth for that matter? Unfortunately, this is really happening to an innocent woman who just celebrated her 41st birthday. She's not the only one but she's the one with devoted parents and siblings who knows what's in Terri's heart. Terri has a strong will to live. That's apparent. It's been 14 years.
Besides, feeding tubes have been around practically since the Civil War. They are not high tech devices. Terri is "not hooked up to machines". Her feeding tube is the diameter of a piece of spaghetti.
Talkin' about Terri is the best way to lobby for her. It is a salespitch to save her life and subsequently, many lives. If you've never sold anything in your life, START NOW. START WITH TERRI.
See Terri's flash movies if you need more information. You can see for yourself that's she's interactive and follows the doctor's instructions.
Visit: http://www.terrisfight.org
NOTE: Terri's December Dailies are noted as a source above. There are lots of important links at the very top of that thread. If you missed Terri's Celebration of Life, you can click on it from there.
AGAIN WE HAVE A NEW RECORD: 15,103 views on the tote board for the Terri Schindler Schiavo January Daily Thread!
The most significant event in Terri's case in January, was the Supreme's Courts refusal to hear Governor Jeb Bush's appeal, after the Florida State Legislature struck down Terri's Law. This once again places Terri's life in extreme jeopardy, though there are other issues regarding her case before the court.
The best bet seems to be Bill 701!
I read Judge Greer's motion, but I didn't see where it dismissed the motion to remove Michael Schiavo as guardian. It says that the stay is lifted and that Michael, the guardian, can proceed, but I don't see where it addreeses the motion to remove Michael S.
He plans to keep putting that motion off until after he kills Terri and the filing is moot. We should make Greer address the issue now. He is being allowed to pick and choose which motion to review.
I think it was to be at 4:30 but she only told me the location and who would be speaking. She was in a hurry.
This stay gives us a little breathing room. That's it. There is still much work to be done.
Judge George Greer, wrong choice to fix problems with Florida's 6th Circuit
Posted: 1/6/2005 9:34:05 AM
Author: Wesley Fager
Judge George W. Greer is challenging incumbent Chief Judge David A. Demers for top judge on Florida's Sixth Circuit. In 1992 St. Petersburg Times staff writer Jon East wrote an article about George Greer's first run for a circuit judgeship and titled it Electing judges is a farce. He noted that Greer's only credentials were his well-publicized name as a two-term county commissioner and his "healthy campaign bank account." George Greer had been a zoning lawyer before becoming a county commissioner and had raised his substantial war chest for that run from "developers, contractors, law firms and investment companies." I do not believe Judge Greer is the best choice for chief judge. The election of the chief judge for the 6th Circuit is the most important selection of a chief judge in all the Florida circuits because of the plethora of bad national press that circuit has received of late. So before stating what's wrong with Judge Greer, I should first state what's wrong with the 6th Circuit.
The skinny on Florida's royal court. In 2002 the Columbia Law School released a study finding that the 6th Circuit leads the nation with an 89% error rate of death sentences. This means that Pinellas County Florida is more likely than any other county in the land to send an innocent man to death. Former 6th Circuit Chief Justice Susan Schaeffer was part of that court before she retired. She personally sentenced so many people to their death (8) that she is known as "Ms. Death." She even wrote a handbook on how to sentence people to death which is required reading for all circuit judges in the state. In 2003 The Reader's Digest named Judge Charles W. Cope as one of the worst judges in the land after he tried to break into the motel room of a woman. Yet Chief Judge Schaeffer stood by him during his tribulations publicly declaring, "He has one of the best work ethics of all our circuit judges." The 6th Circuit's current Chief Justice David A. Demers was another Cope enabler. In 2002 former Chief Judge David Patterson committed suicide. Two years ago attorney Leonard Englander convinced 6th Circuit Judge Walt Logan to issue a gag order to silence a man from sounding off about consumer issues with a major furniture company. USA Today did that story. Next year Englander got Judge Logan to sign a gag order to keep a man from sounding off about his client Ambassador Mel Sembler--parts of that story made it to the Washington Post. Later Logan, Englander, the CEO of the furniture company and the son of Mel Sembler served together on a social committee. There's the misrepresentation by Circuit Judge John Renke III; the endorsement of the controversial Narconon™ program by some justices; and the partnership of the 6th Circuit and Operation PAR, PAR's ties to Betty Sembler, and Betty Sembler's and the 6th Circuit's ties to Straight and The Seed--two defunct juvenile drug rehab programs that closed under charges of child abuse.
Judge George Greer. With all the national attention on the 6th Circuit, the chief justice must be beyond reproach. And Judge Greer is not. By 1992 Pinellas County had 70,000 blacks but there had never been one black county commissioner. That year Sevell Brown of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference asked the U.S. Justice Department to challenge the county's system of at-large elections. One man who could help then was chief county commissioner George Greer who was also chairman of the county's Charter Commission. In that capacity he could have worked to do away with the at-large system or even to increase the number of commissioners in order to make it easier for blacks to gain a seat. But he did absolutely nothing to help blacks gain a seat. In 2000 Chief Judge Susan Schaeffer lamented that her 6th Circuit had only two black judges. There is still a racial imbalance on the circuit. Thirty-nine percent of those on death row in Florida are black and George Greer is not the man to rectify these problems. When he was a county commissioner George Greer met with the mayor and two commissioners from Largo, Florida to try to convince them to allow his clients to build more condominiums than codes allow on the golf course they owned. This was at a time when he was a county commissioner who acted on issues affecting Largo. In 1990 Greer was publicly criticized for being one of four commissioners who took a boondoggle trip to the Cayman Islands ostensibly to look at the water desalinization plants there. The trip cost taxpayers over $4,000. And who can forget The Great Cooper's Point Land Scam when Michael Kenton, a Clearwater County employee, jointly purchased with the Sembler Company a swamp in Pinellas County for $ 1 million. Kenton became a consultant for Sembler and the team almost got away with selling the property overnight to Clearwater, with the help of Kenton's lobbying, for $2.65 million. But the local press got whiff of the story. Sembler hired attorney Tim Johnson who was the campaign aid for and a good friend of county commissioner George Greer and a $1,000 donor to Greer's camapign. A majority of commissioners including Greer voted to help Clearwater buy the swamp for $ 1.95 million.
Wes Fager
ed, www.theStraights.com
eMail: wes@wesfager.com
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He is being allowed to pick and choose which motion to review.
This reminds me of the popular JFK. In the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy got two missives from Nikita S. Khrushchev. He only addressed the one that was favorable to the U.S. and ignored the other. It was the one in which Khrushchev offered to remove the missiles from Castro-land in exchange for the U.S. removing the missiles from Turkey. Oh, well, I forget the details. George W. Greer is no JFK -- Greer is "Republican."
I'm struggling to remember, and I think she was a senator. I bet we could go through old Terri threads and find it. Not the whole transcript, but parts of it. It was so moving!
Let's keep reminding the public of this:
"Schiavo Must Die": Judge Fails
Clear and Convincing Standard
Go the The Empire Journal.com for entire story.
“I don’t want anyone feeding that girl….the rule of law is that this girl must die”.
(The above is a quote from Judge Greer when Terri's sister and brother fed her soft food with a spoon when they removed her feeding tube, in the past.)
He cannot remove the tube TODAY.
I believe that was the first person to speak at that incredible hearing. I thought it took place in the House. She was blonde and I will recognize her if I search through the list.....doing now....
Well, it has a slight perfume of noblesse oblige about it. But in this case, I like the scent!
We have 3 more weeks to pound the media, FL DCF, FL legislature, Jeb Bush and plead for the life of an innocent, conscious human being ... who only requires food and water, like we all do. Prayers for Terri!
I want all the Terri Freepers to know that I do not believe that the Lord has brought us this far, only to have us fail Terri. We MUST keep the faith! We MUST stay the course! Please, if you are new to Terri's fight, and even if you have been here awhile, do not get discouraged! Now is NOT the time to retreat. Please continue to call, write, and pray. Put Terri on every prayer chain that you know. Get personally involved. Talk with your pastor. This is not over, and Michael, Felos, and Greer must be made aware of that in the most certain of terms. God bless you all!
Sandy Adams I don't think this was her.
right hair color, but I thought it was shorter
I appear to be bombing out. As my memory serves me she was blonde, of the bleached type, and had glasses, and was most emotional. I had thought her name was something classic such as Barbara, and she was either Methodist or Baptist, with a strong leaning that it was Baptist.
I do remember sitting and looking up their religious affiliations as they spoke.
Adam C. Smith can be reached at (727)893-8241 or adam@sptimes.com.
I am thinking it was an older woman, 50-60, who was a senator, but maybe it was the house. At any rate, she appeared to be someone who was well aware of what they were intending when the law was changed in 1999, so we need to make sure it was someone that was present for both sessions (1999 and 2003).
Somewhere on those old threads we had listed all the names of the yays and the nays.
Where are the old threads? I have searched and searched for a transcript of that session. It was the among the most wonderful things I have ever seen in my life. I will never forget it.
All bookmarked in my favorite places! At least a lot of them! Give me a minute and I'll paste links here.
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