Posted on 07/31/2006 4:58:07 PM PDT by Quiet Man Jr.
Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die
by Robert Schindler, Sr. Posted Jul 31, 2006
As most Americans know, on March 31, 2005, my daughter, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order. The sad chain of events that concluded with Terri’s death ignited a media firestorm nationally and internationally. What few saw or heard was the callous inaction of aspiring governor Charlie Crist.
Florida Atty. Gen. Charlie Crist let my daughter die. He had it within his authority to save her life, but he turned a blind eye to her suffering. Even worse, he worked to ensure her death.
Terri lived in a neurologically compromised state for reasons that are still unknown, and my family wanted nothing more than permission to care for Terri for the span of her natural life. We were denied.
My daughter tenaciously fought for her life for more than 13 days after being deprived of the most basic, natural and constant need that we all share—the need for nourishment—food and water. Terri was not on a respirator, nor terminally ill. She was not dying, nor succumbing to a dreadful disease. She was disabled. She was dependent on others, but still very much a life, a woman, and a person.
Over the course of several years, our family, our lawyers, and our friends pleaded for help from local, county, and state police and regulatory agencies with constitutional and statutory authority to investigate the many sworn statements of extreme abuse and neglect suffered by our daughter.
Hoping to save my daughter’s life, our family sought the help of Attorney General Charlie Crist. Not only did Charlie Crist refuse our family lawful access to the assets of his office, but he violated his oath of office by actively cooperated with those in positions of political and judicial authority whom denied us legal access to the police and regulatory systems meant to protect the weak. Multiple sworn agents from responsible police and regulatory agencies who found probable cause to investigate allegations of abuse in Terri's judicial and physical care, were ordered to shut down those probes. This heavy-handedness made us powerless.
Information of direct interest to Attorney General Charlie Crist's office was directly delivered to his personal hands, and he refused to properly execute the duties of his office. And it was with deliberate decision that he failed to attend a scheduled Tallahassee meeting with our family. On another occasion, we approached each other by chance. Upon recognizing me, Charlie Crist abruptly stopped and walked away.
That callous action encapsulates Charlie Crist. He walked away from a man whose daughter’s fate he controlled. At that moment, he turned his back on Terri. And he turned his back on the most fundamental duties of his office.
It is quite clear that Charlie Crist, to this day, has demonstrated no public affection for the cause of life, or Christianity, or any set of core values. He has been posturing to become governor for decades. With each voting audience he has crafted a message based on the expediency of the moment.
To add insult to injury, at a recent banquet, our alleged pro-life candidate for the Governor of Florida said the following about Judge George Greer and other judges involved in the death of my daughter, "You are heroes to all of us, and your defense of the judiciary and what is right is beyond admirable."
Through his actions, Charlie Crist has demonstrated that he has no regard for our most vulnerable citizens, the high duties of public office, or life itself. Charlie Crist’s celebration of the merciless judges who condemned Terri to death speaks to his true character.
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fudd fan, thanks for visiting this thread. We have been posting Terri threads for over three years. If we didn't counter the death cultists who are in public office and orgs like the aclu and moveon.org, America would fall.
Forrest Gump said hello too but I don't want Forrest to be governor of Florida.
Good will is gone. What the heck went wrong?
BTTT
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I joined FR officially (after lurking off and on for a while) during the height of the Terri threads. I always say if I made it through that, I can make it through anything.
I just finished Mark Fuhrman's book about Terri. Maybe I had overly high expectations but it was a bit of a let down... it didn't change my mind about anything, and I'm even more convinced that Michael, along with his attorney and their henchmen, are pure evil.
I was in FL in 1989 and have not been back. We never consider it as a vacation destination any more, but largely because of the humidity. Then the extermination of poor Terri made me never to think about going to FL again. I would though go to SC and NC.
Yes, we survived Terri's holocaust. It certainly opened my eyes to a dark underworld I knew nothing about before.
Are you now going to pretend that you didn't support the killing of Terri Schiavo? Or are you pretending that she was a terrorist or a terrorist supporter?
I supported removal of the pretense that what remained of Terri was "life".
In other words, you supported killing her. Now that she's dead, do you support killing Haleigh Poutre and Scott Thomas?
I support killing no one except killers. Refusing to go along with artifical prolongation of some life functions is not support for "killing". Such sophistry goes nowhere with me.
You never did answer the question. Do you advocate the same outcome for Haleigh Poutre and Scott Thomas, as you advocated for Terri Schiavo?
When Terri's father spoke those words about Crist, he was being way too kind. Crist didn't "let Terri die"--he Michael et al kill her.
There are other books now. Mark wrote his MUCH too hastily, no doubt at the urging of a publisher to be the first on the market. He didn't even wait for the autopsy report. It had a few insights, but I agree, it was somewhat disappointing.
If you are going to read more, I recommend Diana Lynne's book next: "Terri's Story -- the court-ordered death of an American woman." It is well researched and written, loaded with factual material.
Fortunately for Michael, the malpractice jury thought she had over a million dollars worth of life left. That's a lot of money saying Terri was not vegetative. Twelve years later, one of the coroners said she could live ten more years; the other, who examined her brain, said that his findings did NOT rule out her interacting with her family. These are official legal and medical findings. One could cite many others.
Therefore, when you opine that Terri's had no "life" (your own ironic quotation marks), you ignore the official record. Isn't that playing God? The way you rationalize killing her is by making up a fairy story that she wasn't really alive. But she was. You deceive yourself.
He supported school vouchers, driving teachers unions to oppose him and help Lamont. He questioned affirmative action, raising questions among African-Americans despite his work on civil rights. He worked on a Senate compromise that allowed some of Bush's judicial nominees to be confirmed while preserving the Democrats' right to filibuster. He supported congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo death case in Florida.
Even worse to voters, he was caught on camera being hugged and perhaps kissed on the cheek by Bush at a State of the Union address.
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Weasel talk. Taking your food and water away would just as artificially un-prolong your life.
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