TERRI SCHIAVO DAILY MARCH 2005 PART 5 NO FOOD OR WATER FOR 5-6 DAYS

various ^ | 3/23/05 | many

[Ohioan from Florida]

Day 5 going into Day 6 of no food or water for Terri.

Affidavit of William Polk Cheshire, Jr., M.D., M.A., F.A.A.N., who Examined Terri Schiavo on 3/23/05:

http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/Affidavit.pdf

Florida DCF files petition for intervention:

http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/Petition%20for%20Intervention%20in%20Schiavo%20Case.pdf

[amdgmary]

I'm very sad. :(

The judges's behaviors are very sad. They act so barbarically towards Terri's family. It's beyond human comprehension.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

His dying crimson, like a robe,
Spreads o’er His body on the tree;
Then I am dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.

midi: http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/h/e/whenisur.htm

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm NOT being a smart mouth (which in and of itself is a major miracle!)....BUT! We've all phoned, we've faxed, some are at the hospice, we've had talk radio and cable news on.

What's left? The very thing that we all SHOULD HAVE BEEN doing, a LONGGGGGGGG time ago. Gather in prayer.

We also have more than one window open to check on things. (well....I do).

Hang around, please?

[SvdByFaith]

That's right. Hot or cold...not lukewarm.

I was just picturing what it would be like if every single christian man, woman and child gathered into one place. It just popped into my head. Then it hit me. We are not to gather together in the true sense of say, meeting in Indiana on Tuesday...But we are to gather together as one body in Christ. Not by fearing the one who can kill our bodies, but by standing firm in fear of the One who can kill both body AND soul!

[Sun]

I heard Jay Seculo say that Gov. Jeb Bush could be arrested for going against the courts. I don't know if that's true, but I read in TEJ's most recent article, about the threat of an arrest.

If that's true, President George Bush needs to step up to the plate, and stop the judicial tyranny, and defend the Constitution "....LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

[pollywog]

What is the latest? Did Whithmore come to a decision yet? I cant seem to find anything here......just came back on for a minute.

[nicmarlo]

: )

[SeasideSparrow]

STARVATION: DAY 7
Minister to Jeb Bush:
Disobey court order
D. James Kennedy says governor
must 'disregard' judge to save Terri

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Posted: March 24, 2005
5:00 p.m. Eastern



© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

With all legal remedies apparently exhausted, a prominent evangelical Christian leader is urging Jeb Bush to disobey a judge's order barring the Florida governor from intervening to save the life of Terri Schiavo.

In a statement shortly after Judge George Greer's decision today, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., minister D. James Kennedy pointed to Bush "as the only legal authority who can save the life of Terri Schiavo. "


Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge Ministries, said Bush "must act and he must act immediately on her behalf."

"He must disregard the order of Judge Greer," Kennedy said. "He has both the authority and the duty to do so under the state constitution."

This afternoon, Greer rejected Bush's request to grant the governor protective custody. Yesterday, he barred the Department of Children & Families from taking custody.

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from Terri Schiavo's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, for an emergency order allowing Schiavo's feeding tube to be reinserted.

As WorldNetDaily reported, Bush appeared to be clearing the way for unilateral action when he appeared at a news conference yesterday afternoon to confirm the DCF, under his authority, has the legal right to remove Terri Schiavo, by force if necessary, from the hospice where she has lived the past five years.

Bush said new information had come to light warranting intervention, including a review of Terri Schiavo's condition by neurologist Dr. William Cheshire, who claims she may have been misdiagnosed. Cheshire believes Schiavo to be in a "minimally conscious state," not a "persistent vegetative state" as Greer has determined.

"It is imperative that she be stablized so the DCF team can fulfill their statute to review the facts surrounding the case," Bush said.

Kennedy said Bush should be commended for his efforts over the past two years -- which include the state legislature's passage of "Terri's Law" -- but he noted those efforts "thus far has proven fruitless." The law later was declared unconstitutional.

"Neither the state legislature nor the courts, state or federal, have been willing to act on behalf of this helpless woman who is now within hours of death," Kennedy said.

Kennedy points out the Florida constitution states in Article I, Section 2, that "[a]ll natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law, and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life ... ." According to the Constitution, "no person shall be deprived of any right [including the right to enjoy life] because of ... physical disability."

As governor, Jeb Bush has the "supreme executive power," and the constitutional duty, stated in Article IV, Section 1, to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," Kennedy said.

The governor, who is sworn to uphold the constitution, is obligated to safeguard this constitutional guarantee of the "inalienable right ... to enjoy and defend life," regardless of physical disability, he argued.

"The governor may not disregard that obligation even if a member of the judiciary has ordered otherwise," Kennedy said. "He is not bound by a court order that is at odds with a constitutional guarantee."

Kennedy cited Thomas Jefferson, who said, "[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy."

Abraham Lincoln, Kennedy pointed out, disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

"Governor Bush has tried patiently to work with the courts and the legislature but to no avail," Kennedy said. "Now, at the very last moment, he has a constitutional duty to protect Terri Schiavo’s 'inalienable right ... to enjoy and defend life.'"

After all the "praying, petitioning, and lobbying," it comes down to this, Kennedy said: "Jeb Bush must choose between the clear mandate of Florida's constitution and a judiciary which, in this case, has acted in defiance of that state supreme law."

Similar arguments were brought to Florida's capital this morning by former Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes.

Klayman, a candidate last year for the U.S. Senate from Florida, believes that since Bush "is the supreme executive power of the state of Florida, he has the right and duty to step in and, in effect, pardon Terri Schaivo from the death sentence that has been unduly placed upon her by the court system."

Keyes wrote a column published this morning by WorldNetDaily, arguing for Bush to step in and save Schiavo amid judicial abuse of the separation of powers.

Yesterday, religious and political groups banded together to urge Gov. Bush and his brother, President Bush, to use their executive powers to order police to take Terri Schiavo into protective custody.

Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, said that by requesting permission from Judge Greer, Bush appears to have limited his options.

"By going to the court you set yourself up for a difficult problem, because if Jeb Bush were to send in the police now, he would set up the risk for contempt of court," Sekulow said in an interview on the Sean Hannity radio show today.

Sekulow said that while sympathetic, as an officer of the court, he could not advise Bush to defy the judge.

Schindler family spokesman Randall Terry, however, who also was on the phone with Hannity, contended Bush does have statutory authority.

"The question is, can a judge tell a governor he can't obey the law," the pro-life activist said. "The law allows the DCF to intervene. Even by asking [whether or not a judge should be defied] we are playing into the hands of judicial tyrants ... ."

[CindyDawg]

Lucky you. My husband thinks I'm nuts, hard to get along with and too emotional:') Oh, he's also afraid I'm gonna get chair sores!

[SoCar]

There is news. Read post 4,424. The hearing tonight went terribly. Not just because of the judge, but because of bad legal representation by Gibbs. This is NOT about whether Terri is being murdered, That is not a good legal argument. Congress passed a law requiring the Federal Court to do a de novo review of the facts of the case. Such as is Terri in PVS and did she wish to die this way. That is what is in dispute and what Gibbs should argue. He did not and we most probably lost the hearing. That is news.

Praise, pray all you want. That is a passive response. I prefer action. We might have won this if we had better lawyers that concentrated on winning legal issues. Gibbs & Co were in over their heads. We needed a David Bois or even Alan Dershowitz. Maybe you should have prayed for better legal council. Maybe we lose on these kind of important issues because many on our side are so busy praying, which is a passive activity, rather then taking real action.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I don't know...they had a bomb scare this evening...

[TAdams8591]

Very interesting. I wonder if it will be introduced in court to Judge Whittemore.

Thank you for your perserverence in this matter.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Regarding the disciples falling asleep, and us not....

I disagree. We fell asleep YEARS AGO and have let this country slide down so far that we're here tonight...on this subject that I wouldn't have THOUGHT POSSIBLE even 10 years ago...

[valleygal]

OK, this is the last time. Go start another thread, then.

I have been on this thread for four days with little sleep and so have most of those here tonight and now you want US to leave!!??

[Republic]

OH Scoop, I just went to your journal and read the evidence of new abuse allegations........the timeline of her CT scans being first normal then ABNORMAL a couple of weeks later, massively different, is JUST SURREAL.

TheEmpireJournal.com article is chilling and so relevant it breaks the heart..........was this information NOT AVAILABLE to the JURY when Michael was suing for the big money, blaming her doctor for a mis-diagnosis?

[nicmarlo]

All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In his presence daily live.

I surrender all, I surrender all;
All to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Humbly at His feet I bow,
Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
Take me Jesus, take me now.

I surrender all, I surrender all;
All to thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

[gentlestrength]

I've been reading back tonite, 50 posts at a time, and didn't know it had turned into a prayer time!! I felt scared to death to pray, since I've noticed some vocal anti-Christians too!

Thank you all for praying...I don't know many of you well, or long, but when I read your prayers, I do know you. You know my same Savior. You love Terri. You are being obedient to follow Him in sharing His Gospel and love. Christian love for one another was such a big thing that kept me in the church in my early days. Maybe someone else reading can see His love is offered for them too!

[Lauren BaRecall]

Amen!

[CindyDawg]

2 special children weren't afraid of getting arrested. Jeb Bush shouldn't be either. We'll make his bond:') Seriously, I'm wondering more and more if God isn't placing this on his heart alone. If so, I hope he says "Yes Lord"

[sissyjane]

We think praying is taking real action !! What real action have you taken??