Terri Schiavo Speaks with dad
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Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:25 AM
Subject: Our Sister Terri was murdered today The Terri Schiavo Tragedy + George Orwell & Terri Schiavo +
This is a Hospice Patients Alliance Newsletter March 31, 2005, 1st edition, sent out periodically reporting about news affecting hospice and end-of-life care.
Dear friends,
Pray for Terri's Family & Our Nation!
Our sister Terri is dead.
Terri Schindler was murdered today, 9:05 a.m. Eastern time, March 31, 2005 at the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, a hospice known for its active participation in the spread of the euthanasia agenda, in the elimination of the severely disabled, cognitively disabled and other vulnerable citizens. Its leaders, George Felos and Mary Labyak, are well-known for their links to the pro-assisted suicide and euthanasia movement. The practices they promote are directly connected with the former Euthanasia Society of America and the Nazi agenda to kill the severely disabled, those they considered unfit for life or "useless eaters." Terri was among the targeted.
Terri Schindler's murder was ordered by the court at the request of Terri's (in name only "husband") and guardian Michael Schiavo by dehydrating her to death. Judge George Greer ordered her death when he ordered that no nutrition or hydration be given to Terri, even though she could take in food or liquids by mouth. Judge Greer forbade further tests to determine Terri's cognitive condition with certainty, and forbade tests to see how well Terri could take in oral food and liquids.
Terri Schindler was made to be disabled under suspicious circumstances in 1990 after a huge fight with her husband, Michael Schiavo. Terri's friend asked her if she wanted to stay over at her house that night, Terri decided to stay at home. That was the last conversation Terri's friend had with her.
Michael Schiavo was found to be doing nothing to help Terri when Terri's brother, Bobby Schindler, Jr., and the emergency medical services arrived and found Terri face down at the time.
Michael used Terri's disability in a malpractice suit to win more than a million dollars supposedly for Terri's care, but Michael heaped years of abuse and neglect upon Terri shortly after taking control of the money. He immediately began to search for a way to kill Terri, trying one method such as withholding treatments for infection, and then others, according to the court records and affidavits. Strikingly, Michael Schiavo never mentioned Terri's wishes to be killed until after he met up with pro assisted-suicide guru, George Felos
Judge Greer refused to hear any testimony or evidence that might have saved Terri, while accepting blindly anything put forward by Michael Schiavo, though Michael's statements were contradicted by his own prior actions and statements and, though the court's own appointed guardian ad litem for Terri, Richard Pearse, found that Michael was unfit to be guardian.
Scott Peterson has been sentenced to death for killing his wife. Michael Schiavo has been assisted in killing his wife by the system of justice that should have found him guilty. This is a tragic day for our nation!
Book of Nahum 1:2-6
2. God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Terri Schiavo's beliefs? "Where there is life, there is hope."
[spoken to her best friend Diane Meyer in regard to Karen Ann Quinlan]
Terri's torture and ordeal is over.
For us, our nation's torture and ordeal is just beginning.
Now we must decide how to deal with the open murder of a nonterminal patient in a nation that once regarded the right to live as "inalienable," something that could not be questioned. If the citizens do not raise their voices in an outcry over this murder and stop the wave of killings that are victimizing our nation's vulnerable, we will have become what we once detested, a nation that implements the values of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Third Reich.
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Articles & Updates
The Terri Schiavo Tragedy
George Orwell & Terri Schiavo,
Euphemisms about life and death
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The Terri Schiavo Tragedy
by Mitchell S. Felder, M.D.
by Mitchell S. Felder, M.D.
March 31, 2005 www.savethis.co
During the time of the Holocaust the Nazi SS sadistically punished rebellious prisoners by simply putting them in a cell without food or water. The hapless victim would be driven insane with hunger and thirst and would die a horrific, excruciating death. This would serve as an example to the other victims of the utter hopelessness of their condition. The man-made laws of Nazi Germany enabled the legal murder of millions. Likewise, the distorted logic of the American legal system has allowed a patient to be condemned to death in the cruelest fashion imaginable.
As a board certified attending neurologist, I would immediately question the constant refrain during this tragedy that "Terri didn’t feel a thing" during her forced starvation. I would contend that the opposite is much more likely. Terri was brutally trapped in the worst of all worlds. Widespread laminar necrosis of the cerebral cortex is typically found after the anoxic encephalopathy that Terri initially suffered. However, the more primitive areas of Terri’s brain: the hypothalamus, amygdala and brain stem remained intact. As Terri was starved, the primitive factors that regulate food intake such as blood glucose and amino acid concentrations set off the physiologic equivalent of an air raid siren in the feeding center of the hypothalamus screaming "feed me." However, the cortical area of her brain which would have allowed for a cognitive comprehension of this dilemma was dysfunctional. Likewise, a massive transmission of pain signals flooded into her hindbrain and thalamus without a subsequent cognitive interpretation. In order to begin to disprove my conviction that Terri suffered during her forced starvation her doctors would have had to perform an (1) EEG (electroencephalogram) showing cortical brainwave activity (2) PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Scan to show a reduction in cerebral metabolism (3) SSEP (Somatosensory Evoked Potential) to show brainstem neurophysiologic functioning and (4) MRI scan of her brain to show anatomical disruption. I understand that either these tests had not been performed in years or were never done in the first place. Although Terri was judicially condemned to death, she met almost none of the standard Harvard criteria for brain death.
Around the time that I first started practicing as a neurologist I was called by my hospital’s emergency room doctor to see a comatose patient. He was apologetic in asking me to come in to see a patient with the absolute worst type of malignant brain tumor, a Glioblastoma multiforme. When I arrived in the ER I was met by the patient’s former wife, who between loud sobs, pleaded with me to "save" her ex-husband. At that point, I wouldn’t have given this 63-year-old profoundly comatose patient a thousand to one odds for remaining alive another hour, let alone having any future life. Reluctantly, I went through the motions of putting the patient in the ICU and putting him on steroids in a cookbook fashion. Miraculously, the man slowly improved, left the hospital and lived another eight years, during which time he joined a number of local clubs. Likewise, even when considering Terri’s purported diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state (in my opinion, not properly supported by the above elucidated tests) "The occurrence of rare instances of very late recovery in adults must be acknowledged." (Adam and Victor’s Principles of Neurology, Seventh Edition, p. 370). Even more disturbing, in this standard teaching textbook of neurology, is the statement on the same page, "At no time after the onset of coma was it possible to distinguish patients who would remain in a vegetative state from those who would die." Killing Terri destroyed the hope for any possible future potential therapeutic modality such as stem cells, hyperbaric oxygenation or neurotransmitter treatment. There have been at least four confirmed cases of patients with persistent vegetative state who have recovered some neurologic functioning. Dr. Ronald Cranford, the neurologist who diagnosed Ms. Schiavo’s condition, was the attending physician in one of those cases. Dr. Cranford later admitted, "Yes, I made a mistake and to this day no one can explain these cases." Isn’t it obvious that this could be yet another "mistake"? The most basic principal in medicine, based on the Hippocratic Oath is to "do no harm." I would tend to believe that actively killing one’s patient violates this most basic principal.
The forced death of Terri by our judicial system sets a horrific precedent. Should we now begin starving anyone with a neurodegenerative condition? That would include patients with Alzheimer’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, ALS, Tay-Sachs Disease, Canavan’s Disease, and the list goes on and on.
Ultimately, a society must be judged by the manner in which it treats its most vulnerable members. Like the one and one-half million children slaughtered by the Nazis, Terri Schiavo was totally helpless and vulnerable. The tragedy of her needlessly imposed death greatly lessens us all.
Mitchell S. Felder, M.D. is a board-certified attending neurologist at UPMC Horizon in Pennsylvania.
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National Review March 29, 2005
George Orwell & Terri Schiavo, Euphemisms about life and death
Denial is not just a river in Egypt, goes the saying. Indeed, it is something very important to supporters of ending Terri Schiavo’s life, judging by their head-spinning evasions.
A woman who might (or might not) be in a persistent vegetative state, but who is otherwise not ill and can continue to live for years despite her profound disability, is dying because we are refusing to give her sustenance. We are affirmatively ending her life, perhaps against her will, because there is no way now to know her will. Supporters of this act feel compelled to try to pretty it up.
They say that Terri is being “allowed to die.” No. She is being made to die. All across America, in hospitals, mental wards, and institutions for the severely disabled, there are people who, if we withdrew our care for them, would die. We wouldn’t call this “allowing” them to die. We would call it scandalous neglect.
George Felos, the lawyer for Terri’s husband, Michael, explains his position in the case thusly: “I firmly believe in the right of individuals to make their own medical-treatment choices.” But Terri is not making her medical choices. Choices are being made for her, perhaps (if you believe Michael Schiavo) on the basis of things she said a decade ago, perhaps (if you don’t) in the absence of any stated preference.
After visiting her bedside recently, Felos declared, “In all the years I’ve seen Mrs. Schiavo, I’ve never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her.” Maybe Felos has forgotten: If she is indeed in a persistent vegetative state, as he maintains, she can’t feel anything, let alone a sense of peace that would make her radiant with beauty.
One expert told the New York Times that “no one is denying this woman food and water.” Really? Then why is she dying? Is it merely a coincidence that she might experience kidney failure from dehydration at any time?
This expert’s argument is that, since she is in a persistent vegetative state, she has “no knowledge of food.” By this logic it would be morally acceptable to suffocate her with a pillow since she has “no knowledge of air.” She could be dropped out of a 15-story window because she has “no knowledge of gravity.” She could be shot because she has “no knowledge of ballistics.”
Then there is the misuse of words that are thrown at Republicans to prove their alleged hypocrisy. For example: Why aren’t conservatives respecting the “sanctity of marriage” here? But Michael Schiavo perhaps understandably, given the wrenching circumstances long ago moved in with another woman, with whom he has two children. This is no longer a case of simon-pure “sanctified” marriage.
Or how about “federalism,” supposedly trampled by the GOP Congress? But federalism means a division of the branches of government, all with their designated powers. When state and federal courts willfully strike down or ignore laws passed by democratically elected legislatures, this is not “federalism,” but a perversion of the country’s constitutional scheme.
Felos says Terri would want us to “ask ourselves the questions: What’s the purpose of my life? And how can I best fulfill that? And how can I be of service to others?” Those are important questions, but ones liable to produce answers that might confound all our expectations. Terri Schiavo might have believed, before her tragic injury, that her purpose was to be a loving wife and mother. Now, in circumstances that would have horrified her, her purpose might be to give a kind of comfort to her family and to demonstrate to those around her the value of life, even when our capacities are heartbreakingly diminished.
Despite the spiritual-sounding mumbo jumbo, Felos and his allies want to foreclose the possibility of this purpose. They believe that some people’s lives are meaningless and expendable. There is something chilling about that, which is why they so often resort to weasel words and gauzy euphemisms.
Rich Lowry is author of Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.
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"Disabled? Dead!"
by Ron Panzer Hospice Patients Alliance March 30, 2005
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Till next time,
Ron Panzer
President, Hospice Patients Alliance
"What I do you cannot do;
but what you do, I cannot do.
The needs are great, and none of us,
including me, ever do great things.
But we can all do small things, with great love,
and together we can do something wonderful." - Mother Teresa
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Action Item ~ Arrest Terri!
Mon Mar 28, 2005 01:49
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TERRI SCHIAVO: Jeb Bush is courting dereliction of duty
Tue Mar 29, 2005 21:05
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JEB & GEORGE BUSH IS KILLING TERRI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeb Bush is courting dereliction of duty
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Posted: March 29, 2005
11:44 a.m. Eastern
By Alan Keyes
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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
The Florida state constitution declares unequivocally that in the state of Florida "the supreme executive power shall be vested in a governor . ." The word supreme means highest in authority. There can be no executive authority in the state of Florida higher than the governor. No state law can create an executive authority higher than highest in the Florida constitution. Therefore no court order based upon such a law can constitutionally create such an authority.
If the governor tells the local police in Pinellas County to step aside, they must do so, or else be arrested and tried for an assault on the government of the state, which is to say insurrection.
(If Gov. Jeb Bush fears that for some reason they would question the authority of his representatives, then he should take the necessary law enforcement officials to Tampa in person, thus making the situation crystal clear.)
Since Florida's highest law grants him supreme executive power, the governor's action would be lawful. No one in the Florida judiciary can say otherwise, since the whole basis for the doctrine of judicial review (which they invoked when they refused to apply "Terri's law") is that any law at variance with the constitution is no law at all.
Gov. Bush has said that he recognizes the injustice being done to Terri Schiavo but is powerless to stop it. He is obviously not powerless, and his view of injustice is fully warranted.
The Florida state constitution declares: "All 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 and liberty . ."
The word "inalienable" means that the rights in question cannot be given away or transferred to another by law. Now, by allowing Michael Schiavo to starve his wife to death, Judge George W. Greer transfers to Schiavo the exercise of her right to life, doing on her behalf what the Florida state constitution declares she herself could not do (since an inalienable right cannot be given away).
Schiavo's decision, and any element of the law it is based on that has the same effect, are therefore unconstitutional on the face of it.
The governor of Florida cannot be obliged to enforce unconstitutional edicts, nor can he be faulted for acting to stop an evident violation of the constitution. In his oath as governor he swore to "support, protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and of the state of Florida."
As supreme executive, he is obliged to act in their defense, and no court order can relieve him of this responsibility.
Any order by Judge Greer that seeks to prevent him from doing his sworn duty, as he sees fit, is invalid, and any attempt by the judge to incite armed forces to enforce his order would be an act of judicial insurrection against the constitution and government of Florida.
The judge may have whatever opinion he pleases, but when he attempts to use force to back it up, he breaks the law, going against the constitution of the state, which is to say against the supreme law in Florida.
In Federalist 81, when Alexander Hamilton lists the safeguards against "judiciary encroachments on the legislative authority," he cites in particular "its total incapacity to support its usurpations by force."
Accepting the notion that judicial orders at any level may constitute an executive power superior to the chief executive would give the judiciary just such a forceful capacity.
When every judicial decision carries the implied threat of armed insurrection, a key safeguard of liberty and self-government is removed. If any state governor, or the president of the United States acts so as to encourage the judiciary to assume such executive power, or the people to believe that it may constitutionally do so, he undermines the integrity of all our constitutions, and of American self-government as a whole.
This constitutes a grave dereliction of duty and would in saner times clearly be grounds for his impeachment by a legislature intent on defending the Florida constitution against "judiciary encroachments."
By God's grace, however, Terri Schiavo still lives, and Gov. Bush may yet act to redeem himself and his constitutional authority. Courageous action would be an act of statesmanship, defending the integrity of our constitutional system and the ultimate sovereignty of the people.
We have long been awaiting the statesman who could turn a crisis into such healing. Like Ronald Reagan before him, Jeb Bush could prove himself such a man. For Terri's sake and for the sake of constitutional self-government in America, he should act now. For failure to do so, he has no excuse.
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Former Reagan administration official Alan Keyes, was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Social and Economic Council and 2000 Republican presidential candidate.
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This Week's Rulings by the Death Judge Greer
Thu Mar 10, 2005 01:14
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From: TERRISHOPE@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: Judge Greer denies "any efforts" to protect Terri's life!!!!!!! ACTION ITEM
Judge Greer Obstructing Justice
Terri Schiavo and her family flagrantly denied due process by probate judge
Clearwater, FL – On February 28, 2005, the parents of Terri Schiavo were informed, through their Attorney David Gibbs, III that Judge George Greer of Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Circuit has denied, without access to hearing, motions filed by Terri Schiavo’s immediate family for
Updated neurological evaluations based on new MRI testing protocols;
A motion to compel the deposition of Michael Schiavo;
A petition for extraordinary authority to provide Terri Schiavo with updated rehabilitative protocols;
A petition for divorce, citing open adultery on the part of Terri Schiavo’s husband and guardian;
An objection to the guardian’s annual guardianship plan ;
A motion to remove Michael Schiavo as guardian, citing his failure to comply with Florida Law mandated guardianship requirements. This motion dates back to November of 2002, but the court has never ruled on it.
Judge Greer has stated that he will only consider motions from Terri’s family as they relate to the death process, which include but are not limited to a motion to allow Terri Schiavo to die at home instead of a Hospice facility, a motion for a Florida burial, and a motion allowing her immediate family uninterrupted access to her throughout the death process.
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation finds the actions of Judge Greer reprehensible and a clear denial of the due process rights afforded to Terri Schiavo under Federal and Florida law.
With new medical diagnosis protocols and new levels of rehabilitation protocols, Terri Schiavo’s adjudicated condition of ‘persistent vegetative state’ is no longer equitable and any responsible jurist would eagerly recognize and accommodate more thorough means of determining the disabled woman’s true condition – a condition that remains in great dispute.
Additionally, the Foundation finds the behavior of Judge Greer an absolute obstruction of due process for Terri Schiavo by his refusal to hold the guardian accountable for violation of Florida’s guardian laws. The guardian has spent Terri Schiavo’s medical fund on representing his own legal interests, has denied her necessary medical services, lives in open adultery with his girlfriend and their two children, has petitioned the courts to cremate Terri immediately upon her death and has repeatedly and flagrantly failed to comply with Florida Statutes that mandate the terms of guardianship. Judge Greer couldn’t be bothered with those details so long as Terri Schiavo’s death is a guaranteed outcome.
Statement of Pamela Hennessy, Media Representative of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation: Never in my life have I seen a judge so afraid of the truth. Why is it that admitted criminals are protected to every reasonable measure of law, but our disabled and vulnerable citizens are discarded by the courts as unworthy lives?
So Please sign the petition below to have Judge Greer Impeached!
WE NEED YOUR SIGNITURES!
PLEASE READ & SIGN IT!
A note from Janey.....
Please...Forward this to your lists. It is very important that we, as a society,speak up against this absolute travesty. This is unbelievable... andI pray we can stop it before it is too late.PLEASE stress to your friends and family, to educate themselves onTerri's Fight for life! I believe it goes without saying, once the infois learned, it would be impossible not to have a very strong opinionon the matter. Below is a link to request that Judge Greer be impeached.Love,Jane========================================================
02/28/05
Terri Schiavo's parents ask judge to let her divorce her husband
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/11015203.htm
TAMPA, Fla. - Terri Schiavo's parents asked a judge Monday to allow the severely brain-damaged woman to divorce her husband, accusing him of adultery and not acting in his wife's best interests.
It was one of a flurry of 15 motions filed by Bob and Mary Schindler, who have less than three weeks to find a way to keep their daughter alive.
Michael Schiavo says his wife, who has spent 15 years in what doctors call a vegetative state, once told him she would never want to be kept alive artificially. Her parents have fought his efforts but Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer ruled that Schiavo can have her feeding tube removed on March 18.
The Schindlers' attorney, David Gibbs, said Greer had indicated he will not hear the divorce request and five of the other motions filed Monday, but that only means that the matters are now on their way to being appealed.
[go online for complete article]
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Legalized Murder Looms in Florida
by Michael Reagan
http://www.sitnews.us/Reagan/022805_reagan.html
Unless Florida courts or the U.S. Supreme Court reverse themselves, Michael Schiavo will be allowed to kill his wife, Terri, and do it in the most horrific way.
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Not long ago, I had the unpleasant task of putting my dog to sleep. I used a hypodermic needle and he simply went to sleep and died. Had I done to him what Michael Schiavo wants to do to his wife starve the animal to death - I would have been arrested. And in Florida which prohibits the inhumane treatment of animals, where the starvation of one's pet is a criminal act, the courts have ruled that it legal to kill Terri by starving her to death.
[go online for complete article]
and see:
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_release.php?rID=3791
For Immediate Release
February 28, 2005
Contact: www.notdeadyet.org
Disability Advocates Shocked By Judge Greer's
Order of Execution for Terri Schiavo
/24-7PressRelease.com/ - February 28, 2005 - In a shocking move, Judge George Greer ordered court-appointed guardian Michael Schiavo to begin starving and dehydrating Terri Schiavo on March 18, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. "This is not simply a court order removing a judicial stay and allowing the guardian to proceed as he sees fit," said Diane Coleman, President of Not Dead Yet, which was joined by sixteen other national disability rights groups in three amicus briefs filed in support of Terri Schiavo's right to food and water.
"Judge Greer's exact language is, 'Ordered and Adjudged that absent a stay from the appellate courts, the guardian, Michael Schiavo, shall cause the removal of nutrition and hydration from the ward, Theresa Marie Schiavo, at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2005,'" said Coleman, quoting from the three page order. (http://www.tampabaylive.com/onair/misc/schiavo0225.pdf) "This is an order of execution."
But the new issues before the guardianship court are as significant as new DNA evidence in a criminal case. In fact, the new evidence affects not only Terri Schiavo, but thousands of others. How can it be ignored?
[go online for complete press release]
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From: TERRISHOPE@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 12:17 AM
Subject: FLORIDA SUPREME COURT 4-3 ON SURPRISE SCHIAVO FILING
YOU GO GORDON! OMG YOU ALMOST DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooooo proud of you, you need help email me..... GOD BLESS YOU... THIS IS HOPE!!!!!!!
02.25.05
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT 4-3 ON SURPRISE SCHIAVO FILINGSpecial to The Empire Journal
LAKELAND, FL--While many parties have become involved in the Terri Schiavo case,
there has been much activity under the radar, not reported by the
mainstream press.
Terri Schiavo supporters have been bolstered by a surprise, last-minute filing from an unexpected source.Lakeland, Fl. resident, Gordon Watts, who filed a
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_Docket048132.htm ) regarding a situation
petition for writ of habeas corpus with Florida’s high court on behalf
of Schiavo in late November of 2003, shortly after Schiavo’s feeding
tube was removed and re-inserted, has struggled against powerful
interests who have attempted to discredit and dismiss his involvement in
this high-profile case. Watts also has experience in the U.S. Supreme
Court, which is expected to hear his racial profiling case today, and
can be found at the court’s official website:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/04-8132.htm (mirrored at
in which he was asked to leave an establishment based allegedly on his
minority ethnic background.
In spite of much opposition and ridicule from mainstream media and other
parties, however, Watts’ case has remained alive in Florida’s Supreme
Court for over a year until this past Wednesday.
Watts, who learned of the Schiavo case in 2003 from news reports,
immediately moved to file as “next friend” to challenge Schiavo’s
alleged illegal detention in hospices, which, according to State Law,
are only allowed to admit terminal patients, which are expected to die
within six or fewer months. Watts’ filings bear many similarities to
filings made by the immediate family, but have additional elements, such
as the direct challenge to the placement of Schiavo in a hospice
facility and the use of the writ of habeas corpus. Watts has said that
the immediate family would be more appropriate to file, but seeing no
one else make these legal arguments, petitioned the court, noting that
he need not be “closest friend” to satisfy legal due process
requirements for the handicapped woman, who has been denied legal
representation for much of her ordeal.
Watts also took issue with the fact that court orders only spoke to
the feeding tube, but that parties removed both the feeding tube and
also denied natural food, the latter a felony under chapter 825 state laws.
Due to the recent developments, many parties have asked Watts to request
that the high court issue a stay on the probate court proceedings while
the Supreme Court justices have a chance to review his petitions on an
expedited basis. This past Tuesday, Watts requested the court review his
legal arguments, and late Thursday, it was learned that the court had
quickly moved the previous day to issue a decision. Justices voted 4-3
to uphold a previous tentative decision to dismiss the filing based on
technical errors.
Voting to dismiss, without a written opinion, were Justices Kenneth
Bell, Raoul Cantero, Peggy Quince, and Charles Wells. Voting to allow
Watts to continue to file on behalf of Schiavo were Justices Harry Lee
Anstead, R. Fred Lewis, and Chief Justice Barbara Pariente. The terse
ruling can be found on the official website at:
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/disposition/2005/2/03-2420reh.pdf
and is expected to be posted soon on Watts’ online newspaper.
Responding to claims that he does not have legal right to challenge
Schiavo’s detention in the hospice network, Watts declares that
“non-lawyers” may intervene in rare instances and quotes “The Operation
and Jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court” by Gerald Kogan and
Robert Craig Waters, the court’s current spokesperson (18 Nova L. Rev.
1151, at 624., Fla. 1994), which states that “Even detention imposed on
someone by a private individual potentially can be tested by habeas
corpus. The most common use is where one parent alleges that the other
parent has taken custody of a child wrongfully.” Mr. Watts also cites
other landmark cases to support his claim that he may intervene: State
ex rel. Deeb v. Fabisinski, 111 Fla. 454; and, the U.S. Supreme Court’s
holding in Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149, which held that that to
be a ‘next friend,’ one need only “provide an adequate explanation--such
as inaccessibility, mental incompetence, or other disability--why the
real party in interest cannot appear on his own behalf.”
Some in the news media have made issue with the fact that Watts has
filed other cases and labeled him as a “frivolous lawsuit” filer. Watts
responds: “When, in the court of public opinion, a news writer wants to
write multiple articles and deny me any coverage, I do not call him a
‘frivolous news article’ writer, and likewise, when I find several
injustices, I would like to have my right to get a fair day in court to
have our freedoms protected in this country of declining morals.
Therefore, with everyone distracted by ‘Terri’s Law’, I think it right
for me to try to help Theresa Schiavo, the person.”
Watts, a biology and chemical science honor student and alumni from the
Florida State University, hopes that the combined efforts of many people
can prevent the danger of placement in medical facilities in which they
are prohibited by law.
After being narrowly denied at Florida’s High Court, Watts plans to
appeal to the United State Supreme Court and ask the nation’s highest
court for permission to directly intervene on behalf of Terri Schiavo.
For further information, one may visit Watts’ web paper at:
http://hometown.aol.com/Gww1210 or
http://www.geocities.com/Gordon_Watts32313 or contact him at
Gww1210@aol.com <mailto:Gww1210@aol.com> or 863-688-9880.
His personal website is: http://gordonwatts.com/ <http://gordonwatts.com/
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From: TERRISHOPE@aol.com
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: JUDGE GREER RULED TO "REMOVE" LIFE SUPPORT
Gave Parents until March 18th to say goodbye to Terri... stay tuned for more.
Take Action NOW CALL & EMAIL
Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him at:
Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
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TAKE ACTION
Email Judge Greer 02/24/05 pm
Judge Set To Starve Terri Schiavo To Death (Info for Judge Greer at bottom)
Terri Schiavo's life hangs in the balance. Your actions could help prevent
her from being starved to death.
Sixth Judicial Circuit Judge George Greer has put a temporary stay on his
order to pull the tube on Terri and let her die a slow, agonizing death by
starvation. Here is the short version of what's happening.
In 1990, Terri suffered a serious brain injury. In a 2000 trial Terri's
husband asked for the feeding tube to be removed. He had abandoned their
marriage long ago by living with another woman and having two children with
her. He has claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars from disability
insurance.
According to Tony Perkins at Family Research Council, her husband pocketed
the money and let Terri live without the medical attention he had promised
to provide.
Terri's parents want to take care of her, but her husband wants her to die.
The court has sided with the husband. Terri's parents have renounced any
settlement claims and are willing to care for their daughter at their own
expense. The judge has refused to grant their request.
In Florida, starving an animal is a criminal offense but starving a disabled
woman is not.
Please ask Judge Greer not to punish an innocent, disabled woman by starving
her to death. **Lisa is adding this... Ask him to allow her to have her day
in court and for this case to be INVESTAGATED NOW!
TAKE ACTION
Please send the e-mail to Judge Greer asking him not to kill Terri. Please
NO treats, that will not save Terri's life. And I personally know her
family, they are good people, they would NEVER want that. Hugs, Lisa
Judge George Greer FAX (727) 736-5050
Judge Greer Email Addy courts@jud6.org
Rm. 484, 315 Court Street
Clearwater, FL 33756
Primary Phone: (727) 464-3933
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
P.S. Please forward this email to family and friends.
Judge George Greer
Judge Greer
Rm. 484, 315 Court Street
Clearwater, FL 33756
Primary Phone: (727) 464-3933
E-Mail: Judge George Greer, Judge Greer
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From: Mofmars3@wmconnect.com
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:38 PM
Subject: [WETHEPEOPLE_UNITED] Judge Set To Starve Terri Schiavo To Death
Please forward this message to your family and friends!
Judge Set To Starve Terri Schiavo To Death Dear Marsha,
Terri Schiavo's life hangs in the balance. Your actions could help
prevent
her from being starved to death.
Sixth Judicial Circuit Judge George Greer has put a temporary stay on his
order to pull the tube on Terri and let her die a slow, agonizing death by
starvation. Here is the short version of what's happening.
In 1990, Terri suffered a serious brain injury. In a 2000 trial Terri's
husband asked for the feeding tube to be removed. He had abandoned their
marriage
long ago by living with another woman and having two children with her.
He
has claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars from disability insurance.
According to Tony Perkins at Family Research Council, her husband pocketed
the money and let Terri live without the medical attention he had promised
to
provide.
Terri's parents want to take care of her, but her husband wants her to
die.
The court has sided with the husband. Terri's parents have renounced any
settlement claims and are willing to care for their daughter at their own
expense.
The judge has refused to grant their request.
In Florida, starving an animal is a criminal offense but starving a
disabled
woman is not.
Please ask Judge Greer not to punish an innocent, disabled woman by
starving
her to death.
TAKE ACTION
Please send the e-mail to Judge Greer asking him not to kill Terri.
http://www.afa.net/Petitions/TakeAction.asp?id=121
Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
P.S. Please forward this email to family and friends.
http://www.afa.net/donate.asp
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From: TERRISHOPE@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:34 AM
Subject: You ALL NEED TO READ THIS Please
First OFF I just opened this from one of ours...