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WILLIAMSBURG -- Terri Schiavo's death was not a right-to-die issue but a battle over the rights of people with disabilities, her brother said Wednesday night.

Bobby Schindler, brother of the brain-damaged Florida woman who died last year when doctors removed her feeding tube after years of legal conflict between her family and her husband, spoke to about 100 College of William and Mary students Wednesday. He urged them to think of how they would care for a spouse or family member who became disabled.

Terri Schiavo sibling: Care for disabled kin

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Terri's Legacy List

(Original Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to September 7.)



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

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Look who Charlie chooses: Mikey is sad...

Kottkamp ''is a very wise and stable choice,'' said Rep. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala Republican who is among the most outspoken conservatives in the Legislature. ``I think he does help give some comfort to many of us who know he has a heart for social conservative issues.''

Kottkamp voted in favor of the governor's effort to pass a law to reinsert the feeding tube of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo -- an effort that Crist did not support.

Crist's selection of Kottkamp prompted Schiavo's husband, Michael Schiavo, to issue a statement condemning Kottkamp as representing ``everything that is broken in Tallahassee.''

Crist chooses a conservative... Charlie Crist named a conservative trial lawyer and legislator, Jeff Kottkamp, as his running mate.

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[T'wit]

>> Schiavo had heart failure and collapsed in her home in 1990, leading to brain damage due to lack of oxygen.

Another reporter practices medicine with predictable results. Terri did not have heart failure as we usually understand the term. No natural cause for her so-called "collapse" was found and she did not have a heart attack. She was found in a state of cardiac arrest, but that is an effect not a cause. So what caused the cardiac arrest? Or rather, who?

There is only one suspect and he doesn't have an alibi.

[floriduh voter]

Easy email to: Ellen Goodman

ellengoodman@globe.com

In today's column from the W Post Ellen said among other things: "But what about the rest of us who were fully aware that Terri had no inner life, rich or poor?"

FV SAYS: Ellen Goodman isn't alert and aware if you know what I mean.

Terri was alert and aware but the liberals keep mis-diagnosing her condition to write columns.

[syriacus]

The Goodman column mentions that Terri's brain, unlike the brain of the woman who mentally plays tennis, suffered from oxygen deprivation. I think the longish article about the people who have gained increased consciousness after receiving a sleeping pill mentioned that one of those patients suffered oxygen deprivation.

BTW, the pro-death crowd (as usual) wants to have it both ways

A. On the one hand they want to determine if a patient is worthy of being kept alive by relying on signs of activity in the patient's brain

B. On the other hand signs of activity in the brain of a patient aren't good enough to preserve the patient's life, if the patient has little use of her body.

In other words, your brain has to be active in order for your life to have any worth AND, at the same time, having an active brain is not good enough to endow your life with worth.

The vaunted "brain activity" threshhold, for being allowed to live, is negated by the very people who demand it.

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Petition to Gov. Jeb Bush

Please sign the petition to Gov. Jeb Bush requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Judge George Greer's 2004 campaign for judge.

The specific allegations are:

On or about July 2, 2004, a political commercial promoting the reelection of George W. Greer to the office of Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge, Group 18, was filmed on government property, a courtroom in the Pinellas County Courthouse. Participating in the political activity on governmental property in uniform, allegedly while on duty, was William Cunningham, a deputy with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department. Deputy Cunningham engaged in the political activity with the full knowledge and consent (and perhaps order) of Sheriff Everett Rice, according to Marianne Pasha, PCSO public information officer, and according to payroll records, was paid with taxpayer funds for doing so. Deputy Cunningham appeared in the political with a government-owned vehicle, a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department patrol car.

Also appearing in the political ad with their names and positions identified in writing on the screen were James Hellickson, assistant prosecutor in the office of Sixth Circuit state attorney Bernie McCabe and Paula Shea, assistant in the office of Sixth Circuit public defender Bob Dillinger, allegedly unlawfully using the influence of their titles and positions to attempt to influence a judicial election.

Also appearing in the political advertisement, allegedly improperly, were court officers and employees of the Sixth Circuit, names unknown. Elected public officers Everett Rice, Bernie McCabe and Bob

Dillinger in addition to William Cunningham, James Hellickson and Paula Shea in addition to as yet unidentified court employees, knowingly, willfully and intentionally used the influence and power of their offices and positions and in the case of at least William Cunningham, with the use of taxpayer funds, to attempt to influence the outcome of a judicial election, in essence controlling a judgeship and controlling the outcome of the Terri Schindler Schiavo case at a time when Sheriff Rice and Prosecutor McCabe had steadfastly refused to perform the duties of their respective offices to investigate matters of alleged criminal wrongdoing in the Schiavo case.

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