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TERRI SCHIAVO MARCH 2005 DAILIES Fla's Til of the Hun Sets March Date to Starve Terri
Terri's Fight, The Empire Journal, World Net Daily, Life News ^ | February 28, 2005 | floriduh voter

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


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To: Republic

I don't think that pro-Euthanasia Judge Greer cares if Michael is a serial killer (and maybe he is). He did admit on Larry King's show that he had BOTH of his parents starved to deah.


481 posted on 03/01/2005 5:45:36 PM PST by Sun (Visit www.theEmpireJournal.com * Pray for Terri. Pray to end abortion.)
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To: Chocolate Rose
Thank you for that post.

This could be copied and each of us could take it to our place of worship.

The prayers for Terri should shake the rafters of every church across America.

As Christians, how can we do less?

482 posted on 03/01/2005 5:47:12 PM PST by Republic (Will michael shiavo and his concubine and children now preside over the murder of Terri?)
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To: Sun
Sun, I know this is shallow. And I know our eyes sometimes only see what our perceptions dictate. And I also know this really doesn't mean much, but...

when you see the pic they post of Greer here on this thread, do you see a compassion-less face. Even a cruel face?

I have wondered, at times, if the face does not reflect the soul. Not talking about physical beauty here, but spiritual light. Something in the eyes (our windows of the soul).

When I consider that photo, and the ones I have seen of felos and shiavo, both on the TV and here on FR-I always feel a chill at the coldness that reeks from their countenance.

483 posted on 03/01/2005 5:53:38 PM PST by Republic (Will michael shiavo and his concubine and children now preside over the murder of Terri?)
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To: TAdams8591

The Great One is simply that .. always has been.


484 posted on 03/01/2005 6:08:40 PM PST by STARWISE (JUDGE GEORGE GREER'S CREDO: LAST RITES INSTEAD OF CIVIL RIGHTS. Greed & Greer KILL!)
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To: All
God Bless The Schindlers .. Dear Lord, hold their hand, quiet their fears, take their pain and anguish, console their grief, be their strenghth and give them Your love, patience, endurance and faith for the hours and days ahead. Amen.


485 posted on 03/01/2005 6:17:15 PM PST by STARWISE (JUDGE GEORGE GREER'S CREDO: LAST RITES INSTEAD OF CIVIL RIGHTS. Greed & Greer KILL!)
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To: Chocolate Rose

Magic City Morning Star

"The Bottom Line" : Money Trumps Life With Northeast "RINOS"
By Doug Wrenn
Feb 27, 2005, 22:51

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From California mudslides and floods, Fox News then went to Florida, specifically, the Terri Schiavo case. Terri Schiavo is the woman who is in a (disputed) vegetative state. Unconfirmed allegations are that her husband put her in that state, and is trying to make money off of her. He has been living with another woman for about ten years now, and he plans to marry that woman once Terri is dead. Terri is on life support. An intense legal battle has been ongoing in Florida with this case, even involving Governor Jeb Bush. Bush, Terri's parents and other supporters are trying to keep her alive and contend that Terri is aware and responsive. The husband wants the tubes pulled, resulting in agonizing death via slow starvation and dehydration, a slow, inhumane and torturous fate we do not even apply to convicted murderers on death row, or terrorist POWs. Barring any further appeal, Terri is scheduled to die (or begin to die) on March 18 at 1:00 PM, as per a recent court decision. There is also an ongoing argument between both sides if this fate is what Terri wanted or not.

"(Expletive deleted), Pull the plug! Yank out the tubes! Get it over with for crying out loud! I am sick of this! The woman isn't getting any better! Get it over with! Do you know who is paying for this? WE ARE, THAT's WHO! Pull the tubes!" Aha! The infamous northeast "RINO" ("Republican In Name Only) has just been sighted! Unlike the other "rhino" that hides in tall grass, this RINO hides under the guise of conservatism, but is not conservative, just greedy! My unwanted neighbor at the bar has just exposed his true colors. Shame on me. I am more savvy than that. I should have known better than to think that he was a real conservative in this part of the country. I couldn't blame my bad judgement on intoxication, as I was only drinking ginger ale. I was just simply duped!

"Well, you know, don't forget, we are talking about a human life here," I reminded "Mr. Softy." "Do you know what this woman is costing us?," He replied? "Yes, I know," I said, "but she is still a person, and a person, who perhaps very much wants to live." "Pull the tube!" Enough of this nonsense!" Do you know what she is costing us?" "But what if you were her?," I persisted." "I wouldn't be in her position. My kids already know, when I am ready to go, let me die!, " he said. (I didn't bother to tell "Mr. Warm and Fuzzy" that such a reminder to HIS children probably won't be necessary when HIS time comes!) "But that is different," I said. "You already made that decision. The matter gets much stickier once life support is begun." Again, that fell on deaf ears, either in the figurative or literal sense. "Pull the tube!", he yelled again. "Enough of this expense!" "But this is human life.", I tried again. "Isn't that worth more than money?" (More deaf ears.) "Pull the tube, get it over with! I just came back from Florida myself. I had a dying uncle down there. I told the docs in the hospital, let him go, and they did, and I came back home. He already had it written out, besides, I wasn't about to pay all that extra money for nothing! Why? For what?" Again, I said, "Yeah, but you are talking about a living will. There is still an argument in the Schiavo case about what her previous wishes were and how responsive she is. The parents claim one thing, and the husband claims another, and there are suspicions about the husband's motives as he has something to possibly gain from her death. This is actually a different type of situation." "Pull the tube! Why are we wasting all this money? Do you know how many better things we could spend our money on?" (Pork belly stock came to mind as a sarcastically witty response to prove a point, but again, I chose politeness over my usual biting sarcasm!) In the absence of my reply, "Cuddles" ranted on some more about some kind of retina laser therapy just improved in Europe, the new world capital of hedonistic secular socialism. This ping pong like back and forth debate continued, but thankfully concluded when the besieged bartender emerged from exile, and gave me my check, and not a minute too soon. I paid my bill forthwith and wished "Mr. Happy" a good day, and vacated the premises as expeditiously as possible. Much to my chagrin, I never got the chance to come back with my next argument, but that would have invoked the word "God" and I doubt that ideal would have gained much traction, let alone, understanding with my barstool debate partner. Just as well Assault on a person over the age of 60 is a felony in my state, and with my Irish/Italian temper, I think if I heard "Pull the tube!" from that jerk one more time, I may have forgotten his age and knocked that arrogant, sanctimonious loud mouthed buffoon off his bar stool and then HE would then be on life support! (And yours truly, in jail!) Actually, maybe that would not have been such a bad idea after all. It would have been worth it just to go visit him in the hospital (after serving my jail sentence) and yelling to him, "Pull the tube!" I wonder if he would object to all that expense then?

Radio talk show host Michael Savage recently brought up a good point in discussing the Terri Schiavo case. He questioned where all these do-gooders are, who stand outside prisons, holding candle lit vigils to spare convicted serial killers from the death penalty. Where are these people now? Yes, thankfully, Terri Schiavo and her parents do have supporters, but why aren't their voices heard as loudly in the (liberal) press and media as those trying to spare some evil, degenerate cretin who kills other human beings for profit, or for fun? Sadly, I think we all know the answer. Those of us who believe in capital punishment believe in it because it protects society from those convicted by a judge or jury of heinous crimes, and proven to be a menace to society, with that threat exacerbated by a woefully over worked and inept criminal justice system that allows dangerous, recidivist felons to go back onto the street after a certain number of years, regardless of crime or sentence. But what did Terri Schiavo do to deserve her fate? Why is it that in a society in which certain rare and endangered species of animals and their eggs are protected with heavy criminal sanctions under law, the very same government that legislates and enforces such laws justifies and allows the killing of unborn babies, or the elderly, disabled, and infirm, who some deem inconvenient or not worthy of living? If we do not defend the very weakest and most innocent among us, what does that say about our culture? And worse yet, who is next to be killed?

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The entire article can be found here:
http://magic-city-news.com/article_3225.shtml


486 posted on 03/01/2005 6:18:13 PM PST by Chocolate Rose (FOR HONEST NEWS REPORTING GET THE SCOOP HERE : www.theEmpireJournal.com/)
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To: Republic

Bump. She needs out of his killing hands and back into caring hands.


487 posted on 03/01/2005 6:27:22 PM PST by pc93 (http://www.blogsforterri.com)
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To: Republic; Sun

What was MS under a psychiatrist's care for? Not that I don't think he really needs it. ;)


488 posted on 03/01/2005 6:30:10 PM PST by gopheraj
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To: Chocolate Rose

Bump.


489 posted on 03/01/2005 6:31:30 PM PST by pc93 (http://www.blogsforterri.com)
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To: gopheraj
What was Michael Shiavo under a psychiatrist's care for?

FReeper Sun posted the following:

"Some Background Information on Michael Schiavo:

Most people, particularly Terri, were easily intimidated because of Michael’s size (6' 6", nearly 250 lbs.).

It has been documented that Michael had rages of anger and would use his physical stature to bully people, and as indicated in their attached personal experiences and affidavits, it was mostly women that were the subject of Michael’s episodes of anger.

In the early 1990’s, Michael Schiavo’s treating psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Kaplan, stated in a phone conversation with Terri’s father, in regards to a violent episode occurring between Michael and Terri’s younger sister Suzanne, that Michael was potentially dangerous and should a situation re occur, to call the police. In a deposition from November 1992, that Michael admitted Dr. Kaplan prescribed Welbutron, Paneior, Elavil and Prozac medication to treat his condition.

Additionally, contrary to everything Michael admittedly learned in his CPR training, he did not turn Terri over and clear her airway the night that she collapsed. His CPR training could have re-started her heart.

(Excerpt)

http://www.zimp.org/stuff/01%20-%20MICHAELSCHIAVOPROFILE.htm "

End of Sun's post

I sure would like to read some of those affidavits that speak to Michael's violence.

490 posted on 03/01/2005 6:37:52 PM PST by Republic (Will michael shiavo and his concubine and children now preside over the murder of Terri?)
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To: ruoflaw
"think about it... Greer enables Michael Schiavo to do as he pleases. In fact, Greer bends over backwards for Michael Schiavo. Why?"

This has bugged me to no end since 2003, and I'm glad I'm not the only one asking. Sorry to sound like a conspiracy wacko, but there's more here than what's on paper, and it's not just the remaining money in Terri's trust fund. The Schindlers have offered to let Michael KEEP THE D**N MONEY if he would just sign over guardianship. But the unholy trinity is BENT on murdering this woman, regardless of cost or risk to their own lives and careers. It doesn't make sense. What's the REAL motivation?

491 posted on 03/01/2005 6:43:08 PM PST by oprahstheantichrist (Terri's battle is NOT against flesh and blood....)
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To: Republic
He is a sick puppy Republic.

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Cna H. Law
"When Terri would get a UTI or was sick, Michael’s mood would improve." H. Law - 1997 H. Law affidavit

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CARLA SAUER IYER, R.N
" I was employed at Palm Garden of Largo Convalescent Center in Largo, Florida from April of 1995 to July 1996, while Terri Schiavo was a patient there."

“Can’t you do anything to accelerate her death - won’t she ever die?” When she wouldn’t die, Michael would be furious. Michael was also adamant that the family should not be given information. ".....

" I ultimately called the police relative to this situation, and was terminated the next day...." CARLA SAUER IYER, R.N - Affidavit

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Dep. of Michael Schiavo Nov. 19, 1993

13 Q.It's my understanding that you, at least at one
14 time, were treating with a psychiatrist?

15 A. Right.

24 Q Did you ever express to Mr. Schindler or Mrs.
25 Schindler at any time that you felt like committing
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1 suicide?
2 A Oh, yeah, felt like dying lots of times. Human,
3 you know, a lot of people like to die, you know, expressed
4 that to my own parents.

492 posted on 03/01/2005 6:48:25 PM PST by bjs1779 ("I fed Terri small mouthfuls of Jello, which she swallowed and enjoyed immensely" Cna H.Law 1997)
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To: Ohioan from Florida; floriduh voter; Chocolate Rose; Pegita; amdgmary; pc93; All
Just a short personal note: I received news re March 18th, from my brother, while I was in the hospital dealing with a very serious high blood pressure problem I didn't even know I had. I posted on Friday, then went to see a doctor about an unrelated thing, and before I knew it, I was in an ambulance on my way to the ER. The worst thing was not knowing if Terri was off the feeding tube at 5:00PM.

Now I'm home and catching up with the Terri news. I can't help but think that Greer is making the biggest mistake of his life in denying the new tests for Terri. Plain stupid as well as just plain murderous. Bishop Lynch is as whitened a sepulcher as ever. Felos-The-Shark thinks he's smelling blood in the water. Etc., etc.

God literally saved my life last Friday. I believe He will save Terri's. To Him be thanks, praise and glory!
493 posted on 03/01/2005 7:13:12 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (Can Michael's award for "lack of consortium" be pro rated?)
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To: Saundra Duffy; pc93; Ohioan from Florida; Republic; russesjunjee; cyn; tutstar
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLES AT LONG LAST... The Republican Assembly has been following Terri's fight for some time but they don't publish anything unless it is first approved of by their Board. This is Major that they have published this...

The Court-Ordered Death of Terri Schiavo

William Federer

This weeks Poll deals with the subject of the removal of food and water from seriously injured persons. Click Here to weigh in.

Even before the rise of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich, the way for the gruesome Nazi holocaust of human extermination and cruel butchery was being prepared in the 1930 German Weimar Republic through the medical establishment and philosophical elite's adoption of the "quality of life" concept in place of the "sanctity of life." The Nuremberg trials, exposing the horrible Nazi war crimes, revealed that Germany's trend toward atrocity began with their progressive embrace of the Hegelian doctrine of "rational utility," where an individual's worth is in relation to their contribution to the state, rather than determined in light of traditional moral, ethical and religious values.

This gradual transformation of national public opinion, promulgated through media and education, was described in an article written by the British commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, entitled "The Humane Holocaust," and in an article written by former United States Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, M.D., entitled "The Slide to Auschwitz," both published in The Human Life Review, 1977 and 1980 respectively.

Malcolm Muggeridge stated: "Near at hand, we have been accorded, for those that have eyes to see, an object lesson in what the quest for 'quality of life' without reference to 'sanctity of life' can involve....[namely] the great Nazi holocaust, whose TV presentation has lately been harrowing viewers throughout the Western world. In this televised version, an essential consideration has been left out - namely, that the origins of the holocaust lay, not in Nazi terrorism and anti-Semitism, but in pre-Nazi Weimar Germany's acceptance of euthanasia and mercy-killing as humane and estimable.... It took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion, thereby enabling the victors in the war against Nazi-ism to adopt the very practices for which the Nazis had been solemnly condemned at Nuremberg."1

The transformation followed thus: the concept that the elderly and terminally ill should have the right to die was promoted in books, newspapers, literature and even entertainment films, the most popular of which were entitled Ich klage an (I accuse) and Mentally Ill. One euthanasia movie, based on a novel by a National Socialist doctor, actually won a prize at the world-famous Venice Film Festival! Extreme hardship cases were cited which increasingly convinced the public to morally approve of euthanasia. The medical profession gradually grew accustomed to administering death to patients who, for whatever reasons, felt their low "quality of life" rendered their lives not worth living, or as it was put, liebensunwerten Lebens, (life unworthy of life).2

In an Associated Press release, published in the New York Times, October 10, 1933, entitled "Nazi Plan to Kill Incurables to End Pain; German Religious Groups Oppose Move," it was stated: "The Ministry of Justice, in a detailed memorandum explaining the Nazi aims regarding the German penal code, today announced its intentions to authorize physicians to end the sufferings of the incurable patient. The memorandum...proposed that it shall be possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon request, in the interest of true humanity. This proposed legal recognition of euthanasia - the act of providing a painless and peaceful death - raised a number of fundamental problems of a religious, scientific, and legal nature. The Catholic newspaper Germania hastened to observe: 'The Catholic faith binds the conscience of its followers not to accept this method'...In Lutheran circles, too, life is regarded as something that God alone can take.... Euthanasia... has become a widely discussed word in the Reich.... No life still valuable to the State will be wantonly destroyed."3

Nationalized health care and government involvement in medical care promised to improve the public's "quality of life."4 Unfortunately, the cost of maintaining government medical care was a contributing factor to the growth of the national debt, which reached astronomical proportions. Double and triple digit inflation crippled the economy, resulting in the public demanding that government cut expenses.5

This precipitated the 1939 order to cut federal expenses. The national socialist government decided do remove "useless" expenses from the budget, which included the support and medical costs required to maintain the lives of the retarded, insane, senile, epileptic, psychiatric patients, handicapped, deaf, blind, the non-rehabilitable ill, and those who had been diseased or chronically ill for five years or more. It was labeled an "act of mercy" to "liberate them through death," as they were viewed as having an extremely low "quality of life," as well as being a tax burden on the public.

The public psyche was conditioned for this, as even school math problems compared distorted medical costs incurred by the taxpayer of caring for and rehabilitating the chronically sick, with the cost of loans to newly married couples for new housing units.6

The next whose lives were terminated by the state were the elderly in institutions who had no relatives and no financial resources. These lonely, forsaken individuals were needed by no one and would be missed by no one. Their "quality of life" was considered low by everyone's standards, and they were a tremendous tax burden on the economically distressed state.7

The next to be eliminated were the parasites on the state: the street people, bums, beggars, hopelessly poor, gypsies, prisoners, inmates and convicts. These were socially disturbing individuals incapable of providing for themselves, whose "quality of life" was considered by the public as irreversibly below standard, in addition to the fact that they were a nuisance to society and a seed-bed for crime.8

The liquidation grew to include those who had been unable to work, the socially unproductive, and those living on welfare or government pensions. They drew financial support from the state, but contributed nothing financially back. They were looked upon as "useless eaters," leeches, stealing from those who worked hard to pay the taxes to support them. Their unproductive lives were a burden on the "quality of life" of those who had to pay the taxes.9

The next to be eradicated were the ideologically unwanted, the political enemies of the state, religious extremists, and those "disloyal" individuals considered to be holding the government back from producing a society which would function well and provide everyone a better "quality of life." The moving biography of the imprisoned Dietrich Bonhoffer chronicled the injustices. These individuals also were a source of "human experimental material," allowing military medical research to be carried on with human tissue, thus providing valuable information which promised to improve the nation's health .10

Finally, justifying their actions on the purported theory of evolution, the Nazi's considered the German, or "Aryan," race as "ubermenschen," supermen, being more advanced in the supposed progress of human evolution. This resulted in the twisted conclusion that all other races, and in particular the Jewish race, were less evolved, and needed to be eliminated from the so-called "human gene pool," ensuring that future generations of humans would have a higher "quality of life."11

C. Everett Koop, M.D., stated: "The first step is followed by the second step. You can say that if the first step is moral then whatever follows must be moral. The important thing, however, is this: whether you diagnose the first step as being one worth taking or being one that is precarious rests entirely on what the second step is likely to be.... I am concerned about this because when the first 273,000 German aged, infirm, and retarded were killed in gas chambers there was no outcry from that medical profession either, and it was not far from there to Auschwitz."12

Can this holocaust happen in America? Indeed, it has already begun. The idea of killing a person and calling it "death with dignity" is an oxymoron. The "mercy-killing" movement puts us on the same path as pre-Nazi Germany. The "quality of life" concept, which eventually results in the Hegelian utilitarian attitude of a person's worth being based on their contribution toward perpetuating big government, is in stark contrast to America's founding principles.

This philosophy which lowers the value of human life, shocked attendees at the Governor's Commission on Disability, in Concord, New Hampshire, October 5, 2001, as they heard the absurd comments of Princeton University professor Peter Singer. The Associated Press reported Singer's comments: "I do think that it is sometimes appropriate to kill a human infant," he said, adding that he does not believe a newborn has a right to life until it reaches some minimum level of consciousness. "For me, the relevant question is, what makes it so seriously wrong to take a life?" Singer asked. "Those of you who are not vegetarians are responsible for taking a life every time you eat. Species is no more relevant than race in making these judgments."13

Singer's views, if left unchecked, could easily lead to a repeat of the atrocities of Nazi Germany, if not something worse. Add to that unbridled advances in the technology of cloning, DNA test which reveal physical defects, human embryos killed for the purpose of gathering stem cells to treat Diseases...and a haunting future unfolds before us. President Theodore Roosevelt's warning in 1909 seems appropriate:

"Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us."14

In his State of the Union address in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt stated:

"There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality. There is only true Christian ethics over against which stands the whole of paganism. If we are to fulfill our great destiny as a people, then we must return to the old morality, the sole morality.... All these blatant sham reformers, in the name of a new morality, preach the old vice of self-indulgence which rotted out first the moral fiber and then even the external greatness of Greece and Rome."15

In biblical comparison, Jesus showed mercy by healing the sick and giving sanity back to the deranged, but never did he kill them. This attitude is exemplified today by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whose version of "death with dignity" is to gather the dying from off the street, and show compassion to these rejected and abandoned members of the human race, all the while knowing that they may only survive for another half hour. Her "mercy-living" movement goes to great trouble to house, wash and feed even the most hopeless and derelict, because of inherent respect for the "sanctity of life" of each individual. This attitude is summed up in her statement: "I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus."16

Will America chose the "sanctity of life" concept, as demonstrated by Mother Teresa, or will America chose the "quality of life" concept, championed by self-proclaimed doctors of death court decisions - such as in the case of Terri Schiavo - and continue its slide toward Auschwitz? What kind of subtle anesthetic has been allowed to deaden our national conscience? What horrors await us? The question is not whether the suffering and dying person's life should be terminated, the question is what kind of nation will we become if they are? Their physical death is preceded only by our moral death!

1 Malcolm Muggeridge, "The Humane Holocaust," The Human Life Review, Winter, 1980. Ronald Reagan, Abortion & The Conscience of the Nation (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc. 1984; The Human Life Foundation, Inc.), pp. 85 - 87.

2 C. Everett Koop, M.D., "The Slide to Auschwitz," The Human Life Review, Spring, 1977; quoting from Leo Alexander, "Medical Science Under Dictatorship," New England Journal of Medicine, July 4, 1949, 241:39 - 47. (C. Everett Koop, M.D., originally delivered as an address to The American Academy of Pediatrics, on the occasion of his receiving the William E. Ladd Medal, the highest honor given to pediatric surgeons in America.) Ronald Reagan, Abortion and The Conscience of the Nation (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc. 1984; The Human Life Foundation, Inc.), pp. 61 - 63. Die Freigabe der Vernichtung liebensunwerten Lebens (Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life) 1920. Adolf Jost, Das Recht auf den Tod (The Right to Death) 1895. Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors (N Y: Basic Books, 1986), p. 27.

3 New York Times, October 10, 1933, Associated Press release, "Nazi Plan to Kill Incurables to End Pain; German Religious Groups Oppose Move." Noah H. Hutchings, "Nazi Euthanasia" (Oklahoma City, OK: Bible in the News, published by the Southwest Radio Church, P.O. Box 1144, Oklahoma City, OK 73101, October 1996), Vol. 1996, No. 10, p. 16.

4 Koop, p. 70.

5 Ibid., pp. 61, 70. Muggeridge, p. 90. The World Book Encyclopedia 19 vols. (Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957), vol. 7, p. 2975.

6 Koop, pp. 61 - 63; Muggeridge, pp. 86 - 89.

7 Ibid,

8 Ibid, 9 Ibid, 10 Ibid, 11 Ibid,

12 Koop, pp. 67 - 70.

13 Peter Singer. October 5, 2001, comments at the Governor's Commission on Disability, Concord, New Hampshire. Harry R. Weber, Associated Press, Boston Globe,10/5/2001 17:46 "Singer gets respectful reception." http://www.boston.com/dailynews.

14 Roosevelt, Theodore. 1909. Noah Brooks, Men of Achievement - Statesmen (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904), p. 317. George Grant, Third Time Around (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Inc., 1991), p. 118. George Grant, The Quick and the Dead (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1981), p. 134. John Eidsmoe, Columbus & Cortez, Conquerors for Christ (Green Forest, AR: New Leaf Press, 1992), pp. 296-297.

15 Roosevelt, Theodore. 1905, in his State of the Union address. David, L. Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt: American Monarch (Philadelphia: American History Sources, 1981), p. 44. George Grant, Third Time Around (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Inc., 1991) pp. 118-119.

16 Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Statement. Bless Your Heart (series II) (Eden Prairie, MN: Heartland Sampler, Inc., 1990), 10.15. Muggeridge, pp. 91 - 92.

Other sources include: Fr. Virgil C. Blum, S.J. & Charles J. Sykes, "The Lesson of Euthanasia," The Human Life Review, Spring, 1976. A.J. Dyck, "The Value of Life: Two Contending Policies," Harvard Magazine, Jan., 1970, pp. 30 - 36. Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1995). Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing & the Psychology of Genocide (Basic Books, 1986). William Brennan, Medical Holocausts: Exterminative Medicine in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America (Norland, 1980). William Brennan, Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives (Chicago, IL: Loyala University Press, 1995; 3441 N. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL. 60657). Eleanor Schlafly and John D. Boland, "Word Warfare: Giving Evil a Tolerable Name" (Mindszenty Report, Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, P.O. Box 11321, St. Louis, Mo. 63105), Apr. 1996, Vol. 38, No. 4. "Protection of Life" series, Sanctity of Life or Quality of Life, Law Reform Commission of Canada. Francis Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop, M.D., What Ever Happened to the Human Race? (1979).

William J. Federer is a nationally known speaker, best-selling author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to research America's noble heritage. His AMERICAN MINUTE radio feature is aired across the country recalling events of American significance on the date they occurred. The American Minute is published each day on Townhall.com. You can also sign up to receive The American Minute via email directly from Bill. He is also an active member of the Missouri Republican Assembly.

FV SAYS: Now if the PINELLAS COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY WOULD STAND WITH GOVERNOR BUSH INSTEAD OF WITH THE WORST JUDGE IN AMERICA, GEORGE GREER, I would have no problem with the GOP. 727-539-6009 Pinellas GOP HQ (if you want to get hung up on, call them and say you support Governor Bush and the Legislature's efforts to save Terri Schiavo. THEY WILL HANG UP ON REPUBLICANS BECAUSE THEY ARE GREER MINIONS.

494 posted on 03/01/2005 7:14:53 PM PST by floriduh voter (PRIMO TERRI NEWS www.theempirejournal.com Send everybody there!!!)
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To: Sun

Phone numbers are at the top of every Daily Thread. The Empire Journal has numbers posted in their sidebar too. What phone numbers or email addresses were you looking for? I have my special notebook if you need more contact numbers. FV


495 posted on 03/01/2005 7:17:42 PM PST by floriduh voter (PRIMO TERRI NEWS www.theempirejournal.com Send everybody there!!!)
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To: TAdams8591

Father Murphy is dead. He had a mysterious accident, was backed over by a hit and run driver on a dark night last year.


496 posted on 03/01/2005 7:19:17 PM PST by floriduh voter (PRIMO TERRI NEWS www.theempirejournal.com Send everybody there!!!)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

I'm glad your back!


497 posted on 03/01/2005 7:19:44 PM PST by amdgmary (Please visit www.terrisfight.org & www.theempirejournal.com)
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To: atruelady

that was me. they are cereal killers. animals, people, other living things.


498 posted on 03/01/2005 7:21:31 PM PST by floriduh voter (PRIMO TERRI NEWS www.theempirejournal.com Send everybody there!!!)
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To: Lauren BaRecall

I am so glad you are alright Lauren. I know the feeling when you go to the doctor and boom, you are in the hospital!! Take it slow and easy. Welcome home, and to God be the glory!!!!!


499 posted on 03/01/2005 7:23:38 PM PST by pollywog (Psalm 121;1 I Lift my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.)
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To: Lauren BaRecall
Heavenly Father, we return to thank You for Your goodness and mercy to Lauren ... great is Your faithfulness, O God, in the midst of trial. Thank you for placing Your healing hand upon her ... may she continue to be strengthened daily, both physically and spiritually, as she rejoins the fight for the life of this mother's child. We again pray that the Holy Spirit will so touch the hearts of the Merchants of Death that they will relent, and repent. And if they do not repent, O God, we pray that Divine Protection continues to surround Terri and her family unto the time when this wounded woman returns to the love and care of her devoted family. In the Name of Jesus, may it be thus ... Amen ...
500 posted on 03/01/2005 7:24:10 PM PST by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His Word ...)
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