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Judge George Greer ruled that the State of Florida has no right to take custody of Terri Schiavo, which ruling came hours after an appeal by Terri's parents to re-insert the feeding tube was refused by the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, another hearing was scheduled tonight before US District Judge James D. Whittemore .. the same judge who previously heard and denied the request subsequent to the 'de novo' intention of the law past last weekend by the Congress and signed by President Bush, in an effort to confirm that no stone was left unturned before Terri would endure legally...

STARVATION: DAY 8 Jeb Bush not likely to ride to rescue Florida governor indicates he won't defy court order Posted: March 25, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Those hoping Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will step forward to save Terri Schiavo from imminent, court-ordered starvation death are likely to be disappointed, based on his comments to a group of reporters following county court Judge George Greer's ruling against the state's effort to take custody of the brain-injured woman at the center of a worldwide euthanasia controversy. While Bush reiterated his motivation to save Schiavo, based on new evidence that...

Congress and the Bush administration could still save Terri Schiavo – if they would simply enforce legal subpoenas that were issued last week demanding that Congress be allowed to interview Terri and others in the controversial matter. Those Congressional subpoenas, however, have been wantonly ignored by a Florida state judge and local authorities in a brazen act.

THANK GOD FOR OUR JUDGES. (Oops! Sorry. No offense, your honors. I didn't mean to write "God." Or at least I didn't mean anything specific or exclusionary or sectarian or unconstitutional by writing "God." It's just an expression I occasionally use. It does go way back in U.S. history. I hope it's okay.) Anyway. Thank God for our robed masters. If it weren't for them, Christopher Simmons might soon be executed. In September 1993, seven months shy of his 18th birthday, Simmons decided it would be interesting to kill someone. He told his buddies they could get away with it...

STARVATION: DAY 7 Minister to Jeb Bush: Disobey court order D. James Kennedy says governor must 'disregard' judge to save Terri Posted: March 24, 2005 5:00 p.m. Eastern 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...

Legal experts say that if Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defies state judge George Greer and orders state troopers to rescue Terri Schiavo, he and any other officials who participate in such a move risk a contempt citation from Greer that could put them in jail. But with a powerful ally in the White House, Terri Schiavo's would-be rescuers have nothing to fear from the runaway judge. In 2001, President Clinton pardoned drug dealers, international money launderers - even FALN terrorists, who were spared in a blatant bid to win votes for his wife's Senate campaign. The episode taught a bewildered...

Editor's Note: Since this column was written the federal appeals court has turned down the appeals of Terri Schiavo's family. --- Prospects for saving Terri Schiavo appear increasingly dim. Unless a federal appeals court acts immediately to instruct the district court to order a feeding tube re-inserted, she will die of dehydration and starvation in a matter of days. A surprising number of Americans believe this is a good thing, at least according to some polls taken over the last few weeks. An ABC poll taken this week showed that 63 percent of Americans favored the removal of Schiavo's feeding...

By the time you read this, Teresa Schiavo may be dead of starvation as required by Florida Judge George Greer. Thousands of people have produced millions of words on this subject. I should write nothing, unless I have more to offer than the MSM (mainstream media). I do. Personal experience colors what I say. On 1 January 1994, my mother was taken to Mission Memorial Hospital in Asheville with serious injuries from an auto accident. She’d suffered both a heart attack and a stroke after the accident. She was in a coma, but still alive. Seven years before, her life...

Commentary & News Briefs March 24, 2005 Compiled by Jody Brown OUR COLUMNISTS http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/242005h.asp ...The state judge at the center of the Terri Schiavo case in Florida has heeded a suggestion from his Southern Baptist pastor to withdraw his church membership. Judge George Greer has been consistent in his rulings in the Terri Schiavo case. He has repeatedly supported Michael Schiavo's demands that the feeding tube keeping his wife alive be removed. Through the years of these rulings, Greer has maintained his membership at Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater. But as the Florida Baptist Witness newspaper noted this week, his...

When it comes to the protection of physically endangered women, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer rates a zero. Long before finding himself at the epicenter of the Terri Schiavo tempest, Greer was on the wrong kind of the headlines. In 1998, Greer denied an injunction for a wife seeking protection from her husband. In the paperwork presented, the august Greer noted that the woman had not listed any acts of violence by the man. The injunction was denied. Within days, the husband stabbed the woman to death. The members of any women’s’ shelter would attest that sometimes desperation, sheer...

Judge refuses...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- A state judge refused Thursday to hear Gov. Jeb Bush's arguments to take custody of Terri Schiavo, leaving the brain-damaged woman's parents with only the slimmest hopes in their fight to keep her alive. Bush's request cited new allegations of neglect and challenges the diagnoses that Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state, but Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer wasn't convinced. Greer's decision came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to order her feeding tube reinserted. The decisions reduce chances for quick intervention to reconnect the tube, which was pulled last Friday. Doctors have said...

CLEARWATER - Some of the hundreds of e-mails and letters he gets call him a "murderer." "Are you related to (Josef) Mengele, or just a student?" one man wrote, referring to the ruthless Nazi doctor. An indignant woman who believed his decisions weren't Christian once called and asked if he thought he was going to heaven. Deputies who fear for his safety escort him to and from work. That's life these days for Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer, who has ruled that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube could be removed, allowing her to die. Greer sits at the epicenter of...

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Florida intervenes again in Schiavo case Agency alleges new abuses; questions 'vegetative state' TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- The state judge who ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed says he will rule by noon Thursday on the latest effort by Florida officials to intervene in the brain-damaged woman's case. A petition by the Florida Department of Children and Families said a neurologist who examined Schiavo's medical records found she was "most likely in a state of minimal consciousness" rather than the persistent vegetative state previous doctors have diagnosed.The agency's petition also alleges that 30 "detailed allegations of abuse, neglect or...

Clearwater, Florida - Judge George Greer admits there was an error in fact in the 2000 trial that established Terri Schiavo;s "right to die." When a family friend claimed a 19-year-old Terri was upset that right to die icon Karen Ann Quinlan's parents removed her from life support, the Judge discounted the testimony, reportedly because the Judge said Quinlan died in 1976. Quinlan was taken off life support in 1976, but died in 1985. A technical error, yes. But Wednesday afternoon, Judge Greer ruled it was not enough to affect the outcome of the 2000 lawsuit that held Terri would...

The Bias of Judge George Greer -Dirty Connections After reading the following information, I am in shock that this can be allowed in our country. Judge George Greer, who has consistently ruled against Terri Schiavo's right to life, clearly has a conflict of interest in this case. Why isn't the media questioning this? Why is he being allowed to get away with this? Read for yourself and see if you aren't as outraged as I am. From Hyscience: Judges are impartial, right? Not Judge George Greer, the judge that has ordered Terri Schiavo executed by starvation and dehydration, twice. Our...

Impeach Judge George W. Greer of Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit - Sign the petition: To: Florida House of Representatives Whereas the Florida Constitution Article III Section 17 provides for the impeachment of judges for misdemeanor in office, misdemeanor being defined as a misdeed or offense less than a felony. Whereas Judge George W. Greer is a judge in the 6th circuit court of Florida and bound to rule in agreement with Florida Statutes and the Judicial Code of Ethics, The undersigned are petitioning Florida House Speaker Johnnie Byrd and the Florida House of Representatives to impeach Judge George W. Greer...