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Posted on 02/28/2005 7:08:08 AM PST by floriduh voter
Terri's Freepers,
Judge George Greer denied Terri's parents' Motion for a Stay to protect their daughter's life while there are still pending issues in this LIFE AND DEATH MATTER. In addition the Department of Children and Family Services made a surprise visit to the court hearing the other day and asked Judge Greer if they could approach the bench. Judge Greer denied DCF the opportunity to speak. DCF asked for 60 days to conduct a complete investigation of allegations that have surfaced in the form of a Complaint to their agency.
What was set in motion instead? On Friday, February 25th, Judge Greer REFUSED TO issue another Stay because he was "not comfortable" issuing a say to protect a Ward of the State but instead "set a date certain" (on his calendar at least, not on mine) to BEGIN THE BARBARIC, ANTI-AMERICAN, STARVATION-DEHYDRATION SLOW MURDER OF TERRI.
Attorney Gibbs for Terri's parents held a press conference after J. Greer's order that was so tastefully written to indicate that "he was giving the Schindlers until March 18th so they could "prepare for Last Rites." Attorneys Gibbs called this ruling and prior rulings "Hitler-resque". Indeed.
If Judge Greer wasn't LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA in his courtroom, why any need for Last Rites? Greer's urgency to fulfill this killing places urgency on every one of us to lobby Governor Bush, Florida's House and Florida's Senate.
A Judge in America is ordering the manner of someone's death, a disabled woman who is healthy but needs rehabilitation.
Time is short so we don't really have time to get into Greer's mind to see why he is Florida's Til of the Hun.
What can we do?
1. LOBBY TO SAVE TERRI
2. HELP BUMP THIS THREAD.
3. POST ARTICLES YOU SEE ABOUT TERRI.
4. VISIT PINELLAS COUNTY FLORIDA AND VIGIL WITH US AT HOSPICE WOODSIDE.
5. VISIT TALLAHASSEE AND LOBBY IN THE HALLS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
6. HOLD A DEMONSTRATION AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION.
7. Join the Message Board that freepers started at the Crystal Cathedral/Hour of Power. TELL YOUR CHURCH ABOUT TERRI.
8. Tell your friends that Terri is alert and aware of her surroundings and to visit www.terrisfight.org to see her videos.
9. PETITIONS. We will gather current Petitions here for you. At this time, you can sign a SAVE TERRI PETITION AT www.renewamerica.us. THERE ARE ALSO IMPEACH GREER PETITIONS ABOUT.
Finally, the Pope has no Living Will. He will be SAFE as long as he stays away from George Greer's courtroom. The Pope is in our thoughts and prayers and he knows of Terri. He wants Terri to be freed from oppression and from a painless death by starvation-dehyration.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO EVERY DAY, THE PAY ISN'T VERY GOOD BUT THE FRINGE BENEFITS ARE THE GREATEST. You are Great Americans and liberty is Terri's and freedom from oppression. Freepers, that is the big payoff if we continue our daunting task.
Terri's family is grateful to you and all of your prayers are being heard by the Giver of Life.
This is Terri's Fight and the battle is enjoined. JOIN US TO SAVE TERRI FROM FORCES THAT HAVE BUT ONE GOAL THAT IS AGAINST EVERYTHING AMERICAN.
GUIDELINES: If you want to start frivolous discussions, please start your own thread in chat.
If you like something from www.theempirejournal.com, please do not post the entire article at Free Republic. Unless I hear otherwise, I believe that we are allowed to post the title and link. TEJ is a great team member of Terri's network. Thanks, TEJ for making a difference and for getting the truth out there.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CONTACT INFO, IT IS ON THE WAY. Thanks, floriduh voter
This is definately a NIGHTMARE, Republic.
Who or what STOPPED an investigation into this years ago?
Any word if Greer will give the DCF the 60 days they are asking for to investigate the 30+ detailed cases of abuse against Terri?
I pray that our Father directs each of us to follow His will for Terri. I pray that each of us experiences an opening of the eyes and ears and becomes an instrument through which our Father works His mighty will.
My mother just sent me a great quote: The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers...but mostly the world needs dreamers who do.
Talahassee bump!
We must pray....I don't know how I forget to do it as much as I do, but I do. I am going to begin anew, and pray often for Terri and her family and attorneys and all who support this effort.
And it would make a terrific tag line!
http://www.lifenews.com/bio759.html
Terri Schiavo Shouldn't be Starved, Florida Agency Argues Before Judge
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 10, 2005
Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A Florida state agency told a local judge on Wednesday that there should be a 60 day reprieve before Terri Schiavo is starved to death so it can investigate allegations that she was abused and neglected.
Department of Children and Families supervisor Susan McPhee told Circuit Court Judge George Greer that Terri's estranged husband Michael has denied her medical treatment and isolated her in her hospice room with the blinds closed and prevented her from going outdoors.
Those are just some of the "30 detailed allegations of abuse, neglect or exploitation" the agency received in a 34-page document in February.
"This is a heightened situation because we are talking about the life of Terri Schiavo," DCF attorney Kelly McKibben said at a hearing before Judge Greer Wednesday, according to an AP story.
However, the Associated Press reports that euthanasia advocate George Felos, Michael's lead attorney, scoffed at the delay request.
"DCF is simply acting as an arm of the executive branch to try to undo a court order they don't like," Felos said.
He says Judge Greer has no jurisdiction to allow the investigation to proceed and claims dozens of previous complaints to DCF failed to substantiate any allegations against Michael.
Judge Greer could rule on the 60 day delay request as early as Thursday.
Other DCF concerns include Michael's failure to follow state law and provide an annual guardianship and medical care plan for Terri, failure to provide Terri with medical care and rehabilitative therapy as he told a court he would do, and lack of moving Terri from her bed which has caused her "severe contractures."
"The allegations ... go to the heart of whether abuse, neglect and/or exploitation has been perpetrated by the guardian such that any relief afforded by this court to this guardian prior to the conclusion of such investigation would be tragically misplaced," the petition said.
DCF adult investigations supervisor Michael Will wrote the paper.
I've been praying so much. Couldn't sleep again last night.
I saw Rep. Weldon on IMUS this morning. He is a doctor and was talking about Mercury in Vaccines, which he feels is causing Autism in thousands of children across this country.
I e-mailed IMUS to ask him to talk about Terri, but it didn't happen. Weldon truly does support Terri, but I'm worried about the clock that IS ticking so fast.
Do you happen to have the DCF email address handy-I would love to write to Michael Will, DCF adult investigations supervisor, and thank him and encourage his team to stand up against greer and felos....felos LOVES to outrage greer by always making this a contest between the executive and the judicial branches of government, loves to tease Greer with the threat of impotence if he relents and actually demonstrates fairness.
Please report back to the list.
Judge Greer admitted he made a technical error in evaluating the date of the conversation, but he ruled Wednesday that it had no bearing on his ultimate decision to allow Michael to starve Terri to death.
http://www.lifenews.com/bio760.html
Terri Schiavo Judge Rejects Motions on Medical Testing, Stopping Starvation
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 10, 2005
Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- On Wednesday, Circuit Court Judge George Greer rejected two motions put forward by Terri Schiavo's parents Bob and Mary Schindler. One asked that Terri be given neurological tests prior to her estranged husband Michael starving her to death and another sought to overturn Greer's initial starvation order.
The Schindlers have argued that Terri should be given extensive neurological tests using new medical technology.
On Tuesday, Schindler attorney David Gibbs presented affidavits from doctors and other medical professionals who, based on seeing videotapes of Terri interacting with her parents, believe that her condition would improve if she received the medical care and rehabilitative treatment Michael has denied her for years.
Gibbs told Judge Greer that Terri deserves another neurological evaluation because the last one that she received was in 2002.
"We do believe Terri should get this benefit," Gibbs said, according to an AP report. "She deserves to have the tests run."
Greer rejected the request and noted that doctors and the court have already determined Terri's condition, wrongly claiming that she is in a persistent vegetative state.
Meanwhile, Greer threw out a request to overturn the 2000 ruling allowing Michael to remove Terri's feeding tube. That ruling has been tied up in courts ever since.
Gibbs says say Judge Greer misinterpreted a conversation Terri had with her friend about Karen Ann Quinlan, another disabled woman previously in the national spotlight over euthanasia. Terri had told a friend she would not want her food and water taken away, as happened to Quinlan.
Judge Greer admitted he made a technical error in evaluating the date of the conversation, but he ruled Wednesday that it had no bearing on his ultimate decision to allow Michael to starve Terri to death.
Michael is set to take Terri's life by removing her feeding tube on March 18 unless Judge Greer postpones the date.
Dr. William Hammesfahr, a Nobel Prize nominated researcher who is an internationally recognized expert on cases of brain-injured patients, disagrees with Greer about Terri's condition.
"We, and others I know, have treated many patients worse than Terri and have seen them regain independence and dignity," Hammesfahr said.
"There are many approaches that would help Terri Schiavo," Dr. Hammesfahr explained. "I know, because I had the opportunity to personally examine her, her medical records, and her X-rays."
I believe with all my heart that God speaks to us in Scripture and that these Psalms are for us, today, to claim for Terri. God has told us that He rescues those in trouble and I believe that He will rescue Terri. He has also told us that He punishes the wicked and that their plans will be exposed. I believe that is exactly what is happening now.
Let's pray that the DCF will take Terri into protective custody.
I'm sure they have the right to do that. Or they better have the right.
No I don't. I fixing to get off the pc.
This is DCF main site
http://www.state.fl.us/cf_web/
I want to contact Will and McKibben to make sure they have pc93's case #, and inquire if they are going to examine the previous investigation.
If someone can help locate email for these two it would be appreciated.
Good idea! It is very easy to send an email to your Congressmen form this site.
http://congress.cwfa.org/cwfa/issues/alert/?alertid=7179036.
The letters at this site are already written.
"HB 701 won't be heard again until next Wednesday, March 16.
The pro-euthanasia groups (such as the ACLU) are fighting to have this bill killed."
Do you know why they put it off for so long?
It's Cheryl Ford's piece. I know I feel the same way.
Very good site!
Adding to Chocolate Rose's post. To make sure you have the schedule too.
I'm reposting this info:
Wanted to make sure you or anyone else going down have the schedule of events and hotel/motel info from Cheryl:
Schedule:
http://fight4terri.blogspot.com/2005/03/eventscourt-hearings-for-terri-week-of.html
Hotel-motel:
http://fight4terri.blogspot.com/2005/03/hotelmotel-info-near-woodside-hospice.html
and her home page:
http://fight4terri.blogspot.com
Michael Schiavo has even more to panic about. Whether they succeed or fail, Felos OWNS Mikey. Felos has every right to charge him for his services and by now that fee would be WAY over a million. What if Felos waived the fee, you say? Ah, but did he mention the fuel surcharge? :)
Aside from the tab this has run up, let's say the case ends---either way---and it's time to write our histories, hawk our books and TV movies...What's to stop Felos from saying things like "It troubled me that Michael always refused to take a lie detector test"---what but cash is to stop him from fueling speculation and hyping the story at Michael's expense?
Felos can always stand on his abstract "moral" grounds and say he had no personal feelings about Terri either way, and thus no ulterior motive beyond abstract compassion and philosophical belief in the virtues of euthanasia. But from that "high ground" he can take all kinds of free shots at Michael Schiavo.
It could wind up costing Michael Schiavo a heap of money to keep Felos under control. George Felos has the upper hand in that relationship. Goons like Schiavo are usually slow to figure this out about granola eaters like Felos. Monkeys are slow to understand organ grinders.
Also, Schiavo's in greater danger than Felos if Terri wins, because if Schiavo's worst nightmare starts to develop and he is prosecuted, Felos can cut a deal and save himself at Schiavo's expense. Michael Schiavo has no such leverage.
Yes, George Felos is going to have a long, long list of expenses for Mikey to cover.
25 posted on 03/09/2005 9:22:02 AM CST by Graymatter [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
I keep reading this description of the guy. I'm not clear what it means to be "Nobel Prize nominated"? Is that an honor in and of itself - or can anybody send in a nomination? Wasn't Clinton nominated? I'd like to know something more about Hammesfahr other than that he was nominated by somebody for an award he didn't win. (I'm hoping that his credentials are impressive in other ways)
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