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Schiavo case faces new deadlines, and state intervention

By:Dave Bohman

Clearwater, Florida - Outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in downtown Clearwater, right-to-life activist Randall Terry proclaimed the efforts of the Florida Department of Children and Families, the latest, in a string of legal victories.

Terry believes this move will almost certainly force Judge George Greer to extend the stay in the removal of Terri's feeding tube, beyond today's 5PM deadline.

That's when a current stay expires, and when Terri's husband Michael Schiavo could have the legal right to remove the feeding tube that is keeping her alive.

But Terry's optimism is not keeping his Society for Truth and Justice from continuing the pressure up in the court of public opinion.

Randall Terry, Society for Truth and Justice
"Michael Schiavo is going to have his whole world crash down on him."

Terry plans to continue to have picketers outside Michael Schiavo's home, where Wednesday, he tore up a "Save Terri" sign in defiance to the demonstrators watching.

Terry also plans a protest outside the law offices of Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, whom he calls, "the Dr. Kevorkian of Law."

St. Petersburg attorney Mark Kamleiter has been taking part and organizing civil rights, and anti-war protests since the 1960's, and is politically as liberal as Randall Terry is conservative.

When it comes to reaching people, Kamleiter says the prayer vigils in front of the hospice where Terri is staying are emotional, and effective at reaching the public through television.

But Kamleiter says Terry's confrontational demostrations run the risk of alienating even those who agree that this is a right-to-life, and not a right-to-die case.

Mark Kamleiter, Anti-War and Civil Rights Activist
"It's one thing to draw attention to your issues. If it were to slide over into wanting to intimidate people who are using the legal process to be heard, I'm not sure it's very effective."

Dave Bohman Tampa Bay's 10 News
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