Florida DOH Destroyed Records After Schiavo Doctor Cleared Of Wrongdoing
Following Investigation
http://www.theempirejournal.com/SCHIAVO_florida_DOH_destroyed_records_after.htm
Judge George Greer Making Mockery Of Florida Judicial System
http://www.theempirejournal.com/judge_greer_fraud_in_the_court.htm
PLEASE DEMAND A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IN THE SCHIAVO CASE!!!!!!!
ALSO A REAL KEY, NEW TALKING POINT: Terri was NEVER represented by counsel while
others decided to starve her to death. That's against Florida and U.S. law. Even
criminals on death row are entitled to legal counsel. BILL TO THE FLOOR TO
PROTECT TERRI AND FUTURE TERRI's. A NEW Bill 692 please!
Florida Attorney General's Charlie Crist, AG Citizen’s Services & Office
1-850-414-3990 / 850-414-3300
Bernie McCabe, State Attorney Pinellas and Pasco Counties
727-464-6221
bmccabe@co.pinellas.fl.us
Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities 800-342-0823
850-488-9071
info@advocacycenter.org
Pinellas County GOP 727-539-6009
Gov. Jeb Bush 850-488-4441
jeb.bush@myflorida.com, fl_governor@myflorida.com,
jeb@jeb.org,jeb@myflorida.com
State of Florida Office of Civil Rights 954-712-4601
Senator Mel Martinez
Washington: Phone: 202-224-3041
Congressman Jim Davis
Washington: Phone: (202) 225-3376
FAX: (202) 225-565
DISTRICT: Phone: (813) 354-9217
Florida Toll Free: 1 (888) 266-0205
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Florida Senate 800-342-1827
http://www.flsenate.gov/Legislators/index.cfm?Mode=Member%20Pages&Submenu=1&Tab=legislators
Senate President Tom Lee: 1-800-560-4403
Daniel Webster
Capitol Office: Phone: (850) 487-5047
District Office: (407) 656-0066
The Florida Senate-2004-2006 Senators
alexander.jd.web@flsenate.gov, argenziano.nancy.web@flsenate.gov,
aronberg.dave.web@flsenate.gov, atwater.jeff.web@flsenate.gov,
baker.carey.web@flsenate.gov, bennett.mike.web@flsenate.gov,
bullard.larcenia.web@flsenate.gov, campbell.walter.web@flsenate.gov,
carlton.lisa.web@flsenate.gov, clary.charlie.web@flsenate.gov,
constantine.lee.web@flsenate.gov, crist.victor.web@flsenate.gov,
dawson.mandy.web@flsenate.gov, portilla.alex.web@flsenate.gov,
dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov, fasano.mike.web@flsenate.gov,
garcia.rudy.web@flsenate.gov, geller.steven.web@flsenate.gov,
haridopolos.mike.web@flsenate.gov, hill.anthony.web@flsenate.gov,
jones.dennis.web@flsenate.gov, king.james.web@flsenate.gov,
klein.ron.web@flsenate.gov, lawson.alfred.web@flsenate.gov,
lee.tom.web@flsenate.gov, lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov,
margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov, miller.lesley.web@flsenate.gov,
peaden.durell.web@flsenate.gov, posey.bill.web@flsenate.gov,
pruitt.ken.web@flsenate.gov, rich.nan.web.@flsenate.gov,
saunders.burt.web@flsenate.gov, sebesta.jim.web@flsenate.gov,
siplin.gary.web@flsenate.gov, smith.rod.web@flsenate.gov,
villalobos.alex.web@flsenate.gov, wilson.frederica.web@flsenate.gov,
daniel.webster.web@flsenate.gov
Florida House of Representatives 850-488-6026
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/legislators.aspx
Speaker Allan Bense
Capitol Office: Phone: (850) 488-1450
District Office: Phone: (850) 914-6300
speaker@myfloridahouse.gov
Frank Peterman
Capitol Office: Phone: (850) 488-0925
District Office: Phone: (727) 552-1370
Florida Department of Law Enforcement 850-410-7000
Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities 850-488-4257
Federal Bureau of Investigation
202-324-3000
tampa@fbi.gov, jacksonville@fbi.gov
U.S. Department of Justice
AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
202-514-2000 Main Switchboard
202-353-1555 Office of US AG
U.S. DOJ Disability Civil Rights
Section Chief John L Wodatch
Phone: (202) 307-2227
Fax:(202) 307-1198
John.L.Wodatch@usdoj.gov
Section Deputy Chief Renee M Wohlenhaus
Phone: (202) 307-0663
Renee.Wohlenhaus@usdoj.gov
Philip Breen
Special Legal Counsel
U.S. Department of Justice
Phone: (202) 616-7526
Fax:(202) 307-1198
Philip.L.Breen@usdoj.gov
Liz Savage
U.S. Department of Justice
Phone:(202) 514-7173
Fax:(202) 514-0293
E-mail: liz.savage@usdoj.gov
PLEASE TAKE TIME TO MAKE SOME CALLS ON BEHALF OF TERRI!!!! THE CALL YOU MAKE MAY
BE THE ONE THAT SAVES HER LIFE!!!!
Terri Schiavo's Imminent Murder by Dehydration and Starvation
Commentary by Leslie Tignor
February 1, 2005
On May 6, 2004, Pinellas County Florida Circuit Court Judge Douglas W. Baird ruled that a state law, which allowed Florida Governor Jeb Bush to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, a disabled woman whose estranged husband had ordered her feeding tube removed, is unconstitutional. It infringed, he said, on Terri's "right to privacy." The state filed an appeal immediately after the ruling was announced yet, on September 23, 2004, the Florida State Supreme Court also struck down "Terri's Law." The justices said it was unconstitutional because Governor Bush overstepped his authority by intervening and overriding a court decision. Now, the Supreme Court of the United States, without comment, has rejected any further appeal. The case is going back to a Florida circuit court now – to be heard by the same judge who originally ordered the tube removal! This travesty of judicial proceedings is beyond all logic. It is no secret that Michael Schiavo, Terri's estranged husband, along with many in the court system, would prefer to see Terri dead.
Despite what Michael Schiavo, some media outlets and various "right-to-die" groups in Florida and around the country report, Terri Schiavo is not dying; she does not have a terminal illness; she is not comatose; she is not, even by Florida state statute, in a persistent vegetative state. She is cognitively and physically disabled — period. Any reasonable person who views the video clips on the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation's website would recognize the truth of her condition. Terri's disability requires that she be given fluids and nutrition through a gastronomy tube – at meal times – much the equivalent of giving a baby formula through a bottle, and the removal of which would irrefutably cause her death by starvation and dehydration.
Under Florida statute 765.309 concerning such patients, only "life-prolonging procedures" may be removed, not regular food and water; the law does not "permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying." Terri is kept alive by the same things that keep all people alive — food, water, and air. It would be murder to cause her death by denying her the food she still has the ability to digest and continues to provide for her a definite benefit — life itself.
For the past 14 years, Terri's civil rights have been under direct and constant attack. Medical records sealed by her husband for ten years revealed that Terri had several fractures and was the victim of "abnormal activity" that caused "previous traumas," indicating she may have been beaten or abused. When Terri's parents discovered the shocking bone scan and medical reports, they were denied the right to have the case investigated because "too much time had elapsed."
Additionally, Terri has been denied the right, under Florida statute 744.3215, to rehabilitation and has suffered under substandard medical and dental treatment since Michael received almost $2 million in medical malpractice awards. He has denied Terri any services or treatments that would help to improve her condition. Terri may not even require a feeding tube, yet Michael refuses to allow a "swallowing test" to determine if she could be spoon-fed. Michael has even refused, for extended periods of time, to allow Terri's parents to visit her. Meanwhile, Michael has taken up residence with another woman and fathered two children – without having divorced Terri. Full criminal investigations should have been conducted and Michael Schiavo should have been removed as Terri's guardian years ago.
Furthermore, Terri's spiritual rights have also been attacked. Terri is a Catholic woman and her spirituality has always been an important part of her life. She has been denied, on numerous occasions, the right to receive Communion and to be visited by her clergy.
Bishop Paul Louverde of Arlington, Virginia wrote in a letter dated August 13, 2003, "The Church has taught consistently and without compromise that every human life has a value and dignity that cannot be measured by standards of productivity, competence, or even physical health. Each human life is incomparably precious and inviolate. Such is the case with Theresa Schiavo. As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities has stated (April 2, 1992), decisions about patients who are diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state 'should be guided by a presumption in favor of medically assisted nutrition and hydration.' The inherent worth of the life of Theresa Schiavo obligates all concerned to provide her with care and support and to reject any omission of nutrition and hydration intended to cause her death."
More recently, on January 8, 2004, in a message given at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II stated the "disabled person, even when wounded in the mind or in his sensorial and intellective capacities, is a fully human individual, with the sacred and inalienable rights proper to every creature." On March 20, 2004, the Holy Father again reiterated "the sick person in a vegetative state, awaiting recovery or a natural end, still as the right to basic health care (nutrition, hydration, cleanliness, warmth, etc.), and to the prevention of complications related to his [/her] confinement to bed. He [/she] also has the right to appropriate rehabilitative care and to be monitored for clinical signs of eventual recovery."
Recall also what the pope wrote in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, making it clear that "euthanasia in the true and proper sense must be understood as an action or omission which by its very nature and intention brings about death;" such an act is always "a serious violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person."
In the words of disabled activist, Mark Pickup, "Despite her disability, Terri has inalienable rights, and the first is the right to life. Why is it the first right? Because liberty and the pursuit of happiness are never found in the grave. If Terri has inalienable rights like the rest of humanity, then nobody has a right to take them from her."
It is a tragedy that Terri and her family have been forced to endure this abuse. It is time that Terri's life and rights as a human being be defended and this evil being perpetrated against her is stopped. The battle to save Terri Schiavo from murder by starvation and dehydration will not end until there is victory for Terri.
Leslie Tignor is the director of the associate program for American Life League.
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