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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
Do you live in NYS? I do, and listen to Levin all the time. He also livens up Sean's show, or any show when he's a guest.
Terri Schiavo is my hero! She is the only perfect person I know. She is incapable of evil. I'm sure she communes with the angels. Though she has been abused and neglected by the monsters, she is absolutely beautiful and regal. She is an amazing woman.
Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL) and Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) have just introduced the "Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act" (H.R. 1151, S. 539). If passed into law, this bill would make an immediate impact toward protecting the lives of people like Terri Schiavo, insuring that a disabled person's constitutional rights are not trampled, simply because that person is unable to speak for him- or herself.
With time running out for Terri, we must take immediate action to create a groundswell of support for this legislation.
Action Item #1--Contact Your New York Senators! Please call your U.S. senators and urge them to stand for those who cannot speak for themselves by co-sponsoring the "Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act" (S. 539).
+ + Action Item #2-- Contact Your Representative Today! After contacting each of your senators, take a few extra moments to contact your New York representative, urging him or her to give full and immediate support to the "Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act" (H.R. 1151). Make certain that your representative understands this bill will benefit those citizens who simply cannot fight for themselves. If you don't know who your New York representative is, call the Capitol Switchboard, and they will connect you quickly. Here is the number: 202-224-3121
You can also find your representative and his or her contact information by clicking here: http://www.reclaimamerica.org/contactCongress.asp?lk=house After you call, please let us know you
Many disabled people require feeding tubes in order to receive nourishment.
Food and Hydration are the basics to life, and should be classified as “Ordinary Care”
Catholic activist invokes spiritual power of the disabled
Friday, March 11, 2005
By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
When Mary Jane Owen was hospitalized with pneumonia, her doctor suggested that she decline antibiotics.
She was, after all, elderly, blind and used a wheelchair.
"He thought pneumonia would be such a wonderful way to die," said Owen, who fired him and continued her career as a disability activist.
"It lets me know how some doctors value my life."
It fueled her activism on behalf of Terry Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman whose parents are trying to stop her husband from disconnecting her feeding tube. She has also denounced the movie "Million Dollar Baby" for what she calls its unrealistic portrayal of the options after spinal injury.
Owen, who spoke last night at St. Paul Seminary in East Carnegie, formerly worked with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and has spoken at the Vatican. She is founder and national director of Disabled Catholics in Action.
Her criticisms of the Schiavo case are many. She cites affidavits from friends and nurses who swear that Schiavo recognizes them and can swallow unaided. Newly published research shows that when loved ones speak to someone in a "permanent vegetative state," there is activity in the parts of the brain that would respond in a normal person, she said.
The Oscars rewarded two films about killing disabled people. Owen has no quarrel with "The Sea Within," about a quadriplegic who campaigned for the right to assisted suicide, because it is a true story.
But "Million Dollar Baby" was a fantasy about a paralyzed boxer in a hospital where no one offered rehabilitation, where she rapidly developed bed sores so severe that her leg was amputated, and where the medical staff was indifferent, she said.
"It feeds into the most negative fears of people who don't know that much about disability anyway," she said.
"Not every person who is newly quadriplegic is going to want to work through rehabilitation, but at the very least they should get to know some people who have made that transition. This is an artful attempt to promote and normalize euthanasia."
Owen was not born disabled. The daughter of two Methodist ministers, she was teaching in the graduate school of social work at San Francisco State University in the 1960s and 1970s when she lost her eyesight. She quit teaching.
"I didn't realize what people with blindness could do. I didn't know anybody who was blind. That's the sad thing about disability. We often don't know the people who are successful," she said.
She had a poorly understood genetic condition, which 30 years later was unexpectedly cured by a cornea transplant undertaken solely to stop pain. Cumulative car accidents put her in a wheelchair in 1986. Surgery for an inner ear problem left her partially deaf.
In 1979, she joined the Carter administration as a consultant on disability issues, and eventually moved to church work. She was struck by how many disability activists are estranged from their faith. When she began asking if there was a Catholic theology of disability, she was told it was "the theology of the wounded Christ."
"I said, well that is probably why so many people who are disabled have fallen away. They don't identify with their brokenness as much as with what they can do. It dawned on me that the theology of disability should be the theology of resurrection," she said.
"So many of the saints have been disabled. I think they recognize the power of the soul or the spirit."
(Ann Rodgers can be reached at arodgers@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1416.)
Yes, but she cannot swallow oral nourishment if she's not given any.
Actually, Mark, Terri and I all grew up within a few miles of one another, though I grew up within the city (Phila), about a mile from the suburbs, while Mark and Terri grew up in suburban Philadelphia.
I saw Mark appear as a guest on many of the cable programs just prior to and during Clinton's impeachment season. He is very bright and has an excellent sense of humor and always (then and now) well represents the conservative viewpoint. He was and is my favorite pundit though we don't get to see him as often on TV.
I'm listening to it on the net, right now...it's 1400 AM. That was some touching post you put up (#4676). I read it really slowly - to let every word sink in.
So far, the guest host has been talking about Robert Byrd.
Liberals believe that something good makes everything else bad by comparison, and something bad makes everything else comparatively better.
It is entirely logical, then, that they oppose the execution of murderers while condoning the murder of innocent people.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Brie!
A little Brie not only makes life go more smoothly, it also makes scrambled egg Life Support taste divine! :o)
Thanks Scoop 1. It is enraging to read about what JUDGE GREER has done. He TRULY believes he is GOD.
I like ALLRED too!
Judge says DCF can't intervene in Terri Schiavo case Associated Press ^ | March 10, 2005 | Mitch Stacy
and help some of our team instruct those who suffer from a great lack of knowledge about Terri....some are really anti-Terri over there, believing Felos's brain scan thing that was totally discounted later.
And Lauren---I try to find 1400 and hope it makes it here to southern Indy, would love to go to sleep hearing a radio host defend our girl!
No, GREER thinks he's GOD!!!!
Good to have you back, FV!
Mark presents the truth in such an interesting way.
I wish Rush would let him substitue for him, so the entire country could hear him more often.
Cardinal Keeler
http://www.catholic.org/cathcom/international_story.php?id=13165
Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL) and Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) have just introduced the "Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act" (H.R. 1151, S. 539). If passed into law, this bill would make an immediate impact toward protecting the lives of people like Terri Schiavo, insuring that a disabled person's constitutional rights are not trampled, simply because that person is unable to speak for him- or herself.
With time running out for Terri, we must take immediate action to create a groundswell of support for this legislation.
Action Item #1--Contact Your New York Senators! Please call your U.S. senators and urge them to stand for those who cannot speak for themselves by co-sponsoring the "Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act" (S. 539).
+ + Action Item #2-- Contact Your Representative Today! After contacting each of your senators, take a few extra moments to contact your New York representative, urging him or her to give full and immediate support to the "Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act" (H.R. 1151). Make certain that your representative understands this bill will benefit those citizens who simply cannot fight for themselves. If you don't know who your New York representative is, call the Capitol Switchboard, and they will connect you quickly. Here is the number: 202-224-3121
You can also find your reps and his or her contact information by clicking here:
http://www.reclaimamerica.org/contactCongress.asp?lk=house
Many disabled people require feeding tubes in order to receive nourishment.
Food and Hydration are the basics to life, and should be classified as “Ordinary Care"
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