Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify

Renew America ^ | March 13, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

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Anything we can think of to help Simplemines? Post# 3,094.

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"Ouster"? "Disciplinary actions"?

Florida has really tough battery and murder laws, doesn't it? They can put an official letter of reprimand in your file! They can suspend you with or without pay! You might even get fired!

For the really bad cases they use very strong language like "shame on you" in their letter and if it is bad enough, a note to Mom.

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No, the reporter doesn't quite get it. We seldom find one who does, do we? However, Bobby speaks well and we can suppose that the sizeable audience (800) got the message just fine.

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There they go again. Nothing more edifying than Democrats writing about the woes of the Republican Party. Of the Democrats' own woes, we shall hear little in this gutless age. In more spirited times, Will Rogers had something to say about it. "I'm not a member of any organized political party," he said. "I'm a Democrat."

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>> Do you know how to get in touch with Wendy Murphy?

Snail-mail ought to be findable. I don't know of either a phone or e-mail address.

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Someone needs to be held accountable for this boys death. Has anyone even been fired or arrested for this!

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>> BOTTOM LINE: A dubious autopsy leaves it to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission to salvage a profession's reputation.

That's not much of a "bottom line" when one M.E. rules that Martin died of natural causes and that the beating he took had nothing to do with it. For my two cents, that doc put his reputation on the line to cover up the circumstances of Martin's death, and he lost. The other M.E. ruled ruled that it was suffocation from upper respiratory blockage due to ammonia inhalation. Now, that could not be missed by a real autopsy.

Natural causes vs. a highly unnatural death for a teen. One of the docs used an official autopsy report to shield a crime by law enforcement officials. There's your true bottom line.

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So far not a lot has happened, but Jeb Bush indicated he would look into it and urged some action. And now we have a federal probe. (my post #3,071)

A federal probe into the death has also been initiated by the U.S. Attorney's office in Tallahassee and the U.S Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. 5-10-06

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Maybe it is just business as usual in those parts.

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>> Doctors who hold such ultimate high esteem in our minds bolstered by decades of reinforcement become omnipotent...

Yes.

Similarly, we still hold teachers and "education" in high esteem though education had been all but totally eradicated by 1900 by the socialist reformers of that era. Education means the transmission of civilized values from one generation to the next. Nowadays, public schools labor mightily to stay "value-free" and good values are usually illegal. If a government school today stumbles into five minutes worth of actual education, it is a complete accident.

All reform movements depend on the moral capital of the very systems they attack. Reformers, knowingly or not, smuggle their values from the religious belief they mock. Western civilization is still held together with Christian morality, though our defenses are thin and tattered, and under constant attack.

If the reformers think civilization is so bad, wait till they experiences the joys of Dark Ages.

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>> a note to Mom.

Oh, no!!

And NO RED STARS OR SMILEY FACES on your performance evaluation sheets for the rest of the week.

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They can get a glimpse of Iran and what the mullahs are trying to do to bring Iran back into the Dark Ages.

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>> Maybe it is just business as usual in those parts.

I am particular impressed with law enforcement officers mounting a pack attack on a helpless boy. What a bunch of spineless, gutless piglets.

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Some friends of ours right now have a typical problem/case. One had slipped and hit the back of his head. Certainly he needed care and treatment for the possible concussion but that is all that happened.

He needs to be at home, recovering.

Now it is expanded into a multiple ailment crisis.

The hospital and doctors have been going over him like a critter in a science lab. He has been tapped into, jabbed, given a trachiatomy, tons of antibiotics and the prospect looks more grim with each procedure.

Soon he will be a parts supply. We seriously doubt that he will be recovering unless he is removed from that Mengele lab.

Yet our friends cannot see it, trust the doctors blindly and will not listen to our advice. They have been conditioned to believe their fate is in the hands of doctor/gods.

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One of my favorite talk show hosts and pastors, Bob Enyart of
Bob Enyart Live, Denver Bible Church and kgov.com likes to say
"It's no longer a justice system; it's just a system!"

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From Joseph Farah, World Net Daily...

I don't know much about Jeb Bush, other than the fact that he seemed gutless and weak in standing up for Terri Schiavo as she was murdered in his state by out-of-control judges. But I do know that, as governor of Florida, he has reached the highest executive office he will ever achieve. But it's thanks to his brother, mainly, that his political career has been short-circuited. It's thanks to his brother that the "Bush Dynasty" will soon come to a merciful end. It's thanks to his brother that a generation of Republicans, for the foreseeable future, has become disenchanted with and disfranchised from party politics.

President Bush III?

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 1.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

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North Country Gazette's June Maxam on bullies...

Lawyers and jurists in the state of Florida have spent the past year rubbing the public's nose in the robes of George Greer, that short, dictatorial, bald-headed egotist who exerted his power over a disabled woman, not only ordering that her feeding tube be removed but taking the extraordinary, inhumane step of ordering that no efforts could be made of even oral hydration or nutrition. He claimed he was her guardian, looking after her best interest. He never ever once personally visited his ward.

Michael Schiavo loves to condemn Bill Frist and others for deciding that Terri Schiavo wasn't in a persistent vegetative state by watching videos and without having examined her or visited her. Of course Michael controlled who did visit her.

COMMENTARY - Adding Insult to Schiavo Death

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Response to Bobby Schindler talk...

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To the editor:

I would like to thank KU Students For Life for bringing Bobby Schindler to Kansas University last month. For those of you who were not there, I would like to summarize some of what Mr. Schindler said.

First, although Terri Schiavo’s case was very much a pro-life issue, it was also very much a disability rights issue. Media coverage tended to focus on the support given by pro-life groups, but failed to give adequate coverage to the more than 25 local and national disability rights groups that also supported Schiavo’s family in its fight to keep Terri’s feeding tube intact.

Despite all the opposition against them, I believe that Bobby Schindler and his family are sincere in their fight against the euthanasia movement. If a society is judged by how it treats its weakest members, then the United States is failing.

As Mr. Schindler stated at his talk on April 26, the majority of Americans may have believed that it was right to remove Terri’s feeding tube, but 100 percent of Terri’s family did not want her to die. All they wanted was to be given the responsibility of caring for her for the rest of her life when it became obvious that her husband would not.

Micah Shilling,

Lawrence

Schiavo support

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More fawning over bullies...

CLEARWATER, Fla., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Circuit Judge George W. Greer (Sixth Judicial Circuit) will serve on the faculty of the inaugural "Journalist Law School" at Loyola Law School Los Angeles June 14-17. Judge Greer's participation is being sponsored by the Florida chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates (FLABOTA).

Judge Greer to Be Featured Speaker at Journalist Law School

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Bobby Schindler spoke Thursday night in Massachusetts...

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Last night, the former high school teacher in Tampa, Fla., brought his story to the region, telling a crowd of nearly 800 at a Massachusetts Citizens for Life dinner held at Chez Josef that people need to realize there is a cultural war going on over right-to-life issues.

Schindler, 41, said in many cases, economics has become the driving factor in why people are in favor of euthanasia and letting disabled people like Schiavo, who was in a persistent vegetative state for years, die.

"It's a pre-Holocaust mentality," Schindler said. "Based on someone's disability, we are justifying and rationalizing it (letting people die) because we look at them as being too expensive to care for. That's extremely frightening, troubling and disturbing to me."

For Schindler, speaking before a crowd is no longer unique. Since his sister's death, he said he has traveled the world, visiting places like Italy, Ireland and England to speak on the issue.

Though Schindler said his trip to Western Massachusetts was planned before the case of Haleigh Poutre made headlines, he said he sees similarities between the two cases.

Insights shared on right-to-life

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