Posted on 11/05/2003 12:14:25 AM PST by sweetliberty
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Resource links to search business and criminal records in Florida, info on special guardian ad litum meeting (attempt to change qualifications?), Michael Schiavo parody, link to referral letter for Dr. Hammersfahr to the Nobel committee, transcript to Abrams Report closing commments - Nov.3, e-mail address for Larry King Live, Florida statutes on guardianship and some damning statements against Michael.
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I know we're all getting tired, but we have to hang in there. This isn't just Terri's fight anymore. It is our fight too. To everyone who has worked tirelessly to gather information, write letters, make phone calls, spend time in prayer, be at the vigil supporting Terri's family and all the many other offerings you have given for this effort, thank you and may the Lord richly bless you.
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Professor Appointed to Probe Schiavo Case
DFU SONG: Candle in the Wind (for Terri)
Coral Snake Song: When Johnny Comes Marching Home (The conspiracy against Terri Schiavo)
Should Terri Schiavo Live or Die?
Michelle Malkin: Starvation nation
Eyes on judge in Schiavo petition>
FL ACLU Files Brief in Effort to Starve Disabled Woman, as Bush Acts to Save Terri Schiavo
Terri Schiavo: Myths and Facts - Dr. Dianne Irving, PhD
Recovering from a 'Persistent Vegetative State'
Husband in Right to Die Case Moves to Block Parents in New Trial
Pro-Lifers Link Euthanasia to Abortion
Florida Court Prohibits Terri's Parents From Joining "Terri's Law" Battle (ACLJ)
Terri Schindler Schiavo Guardianship Hearing Wednesday November 5, 2003
ROTFL! Perhaps he was too busy making sure he didn't accidentally cause any airplanes to fall out of the sky with his massive brain leaks waves.
There's still the Schiavo v. Jeb Bush matter but maybe that would go away if Michael Schiavo is removed as guardian once and for all...
Reporting which doctor REFUSED to re-insert it (under the apparent direct threats of MS at the hospital after the law was passed) ....
THAT is worth reporting.
What? MS threatened a doctor knowing that the law had passed - perhaps the doctor did not...but MS sure did....seems to be this should be actionable and should be used in the case against MS remaining her GUARDIAN! This is explosive!
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - A state circuit judge Wednesday refused to block an effort by the parents of a brain-damage woman to try to get her husband removed as her legal guardian.
Also Wednesday, an attorney for Gov. Jeb Bush asked another judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Michael Schiavo challenging the constitutionality of the law that allowed the governor to order reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube two weeks ago.
That action argues that the governor was never served with the suit, which would make it invalid. It also argued that it should have been filed in Leon County - where Bush is based - instead of Pinellas County.
Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, questioned Bush's integrity in filing the motion, calling it "a legal move out of the gutter" and "low-ball delaying tactic."
In the guardianship matter, Michael Schiavo likely will now be forced to respond in court to charges in the petition that he withheld proper care and therapy from his wife and that he has a conflict of interest because he's in a romantic relationship with another woman and has fathered her children.
Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of Terri Schiavo, have asked Circuit Judge George W. Greer to appoint Terri's brother or sister as guardian instead. Michael Schiavo had asked for the Schindler's request to be dismissed, but after a hearing Greer said he will allow it to proceed.
Greer has already denied three previous requests by the Schindlers to remove Michael Schiavo as guardian and has repeatedly affirmed his legal right to remove his wife's feeding tube and allow her to die, as he says she would have wished.
Pat Anderson, attorney for the Schindlers, said she was pleased with the decision from Greer, who she has claimed is biased in favor of Michael Schiavo.
"It's very important because the fact of the matter is, Michael should not be her guardian," said Pat Anderson, attorney for the Schindlers. "He has a gross, gross conflict of interest."
Some doctors and Greer have ruled that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state with no hope for recovery. She suffered severe brain damage in 1990 when her heart temporarily stopped, cutting off oxygen to her brain, because of a chemical imbalance.
But the Schindlers said their daughter had no end-of-life wishes and believe she could be rehabilitated. They also dispute that she is in a vegetative state and believe she has enough mental abilities to respond to them.
Scott Swope, who argued for the dismissal on behalf of Michael Schiavo, called the ruling "unfortunate" and said his side will prepare to fight the petition.
"(Michael) should remain her guardian because he has her best interests at heart," Swope said.
Terri Schiavo had gone without food and water for six days when the Florida Legislature passed a law Oct. 21 giving Bush authority to order that her feeding tube be reinserted.
Felos filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the law. In a brief filed last week, he charged that the hastily passed law infringed on Terri Schiavo's right to privacy and the separation of power provisions of the Florida Constitution.
Attorneys for Bush were given until Thursday to file their own arguments supporting the law, but instead filed the motion to dismiss Wednesday. Attorney Kenneth L. Connor, representing Bush, said the governor is not shying away from judicial review of the statute, but that proper procedure must be followed first.
Connor said that starts with having the lawsuit filed in Tallahassee and having the governor properly served.
"The governor has the right to a home venue privilege," Connor said. "As you can imagine, this is not the only lawsuit brought against the governor, so if you wind up forcing the governor and the staff to trot all over the state, that winds up being an extraordinary consumption of state resources."
Felos said his lawsuit was faxed to Bush's office, and counsel for governor was present at the emergency hearing Oct. 21 and did not raise those concerns.
"It's almost unbelievable that the governor of our state and someone who we hope would show some integrity and leadership would resort to such a low and trashy legal move in this case," Felos said.
Connor said the governor's motion was not a delaying tactic.
"Mr. Schiavo could have avoided the delay had he simply complied with the rules," Connor said. "If there's a delay as a result of the way in which this case has been handled it's because of the way in which Mr. Schiavo's lawyers conducted themselves, not the governor."
Connor also disputed Felos' claim that Bush improperly stepped into the business of the state's courts.
"This is not an encroachment on the judicial powers," he said. "What this is an extra added layer of protection that the Legislature passed to help assure that the lives of the disabled and their health care choices are in fact protected and respected."
And that piece of garbage has the nerve to call something "out of the gutter" or "trashy." Take a look at yourself, FELON-OS!
All I can say is, THANK GOD for the internet!!!! It has given us power and a HUGE voice. Imagine all the decades of abuse we knew nothing about. Keep it up, Freepers!
Having Your Cake And Eating It
I think it's been pretty clear to most of my readers that I don't think much of Michael Schiavo. I find his story about Terri's "wish" to not be kept alive incredible, I find his efforts to portray himself as the caring husband unbelievable, and his attempt to portray Bob & Mary Schindler as the villains of the conflict contemptible. Furthermore, if, as I suspect, it was his actions which put Terri in her current state, his behavior would have been despicable.
These sentiments, as they have found their way into my writing about Terri, have prompted some to accuse me of "hating" Michael or of being uncharitable towards him. This, of course, is false. I don't hate Michael: I think he is pursuing an evil course of action against an innocent third person, and as such, it is my duty, and that of every other decent person, to try to stop him. If he relented from his relentless pursuit of Terri's death I'd be perfectly content to let him go about his life and never utter another word about him.
But I am not, in charity, obliged to pretend his actions and stated intentions are somehow less evil than they are, or to make believe that whatever good Michael might do in other spheres of his life somehow makes up for or negates the evil he is inflicting on Terri. That is, it would be silly for me to say, "Michael is nice to the child he had by his girlfriend, so he must be a decent guy, and he must have a point in wanting Terri dead." It is not charity to ignore or make light of evil actions or designs, especially when they involve the life of an innocent person.
Which brings me to my point. After reading today's article "The Guardian", by Wesley J. Smith, I realize now what it is about Michael's actions and statements that I find so reprehensible: It is that Michael is trying to have it both ways. He is trying to have his cake and eat it too.
The Schindlers have not made their allegations of abuse (which are founded on medical evidence), or disputed Michael's claim to be acting upon Terri's wishes out of some desire to hurt him. They have not challenged his self-touted image as the caring husband because they have some ill-will toward him. They're doing so, and I have taken up their cause, because his claims and image are false.
It was Michael who went to the court and, in effect, said, "my wife told me she didn't want to live like this, so please let me kill her." It was Michael who claimed that he was acting out of his love towards Terri. It was Michael who went on Larry King Live and tried to convince us that he was the caring and long-suffering husband.
And, as the Schindlers told me last week, they find his claims to be false and his pose as the loving husband to be unbelievable. I was convinced of that by what the Schindlers told me, what I read in court documents and medical testimony, and by Michael's own performance on Larry King.
The Schindlers told me that the first court-appointed guardian ad litem, Richard Pearse, found Michael to be incredible. Now, as Smith's article makes clear, Pearse's report and recommendations substantially support Bob & Mary Schindlers' statements to me:
Bob & Mary told me that Michael withheld treatment from Terri for an infection. The treatment consisted of a routine course of antibiotics. Mr. Pearse found that "Early in 1994, for example, he refused to consent to treat an infection from which the ward was then suffering and ordered that she not be resuscitated in the event of cardiac arrest. "
Furthermore, the Schindlers, in their account of the initial dispute that caused their estrangement, said that it became clear to them at that point that Michael didn't intend to follow through on his promises to seek rehabilitation for Terri. Mr. Pearse saw it the same way. Smith wrote:
Pearse confirmed the charge by the Schindlers that once the medical malpractice money was in the bank, Schiavo began to refuse medical treatment for Terri, writing:
After February 1993, Mr. Schiavo's attitude concerning treatment for the ward apparently changed.
"It is apparent to me," Pearse wrote the court, "that he has reached a point that he has no hope of the ward's recovery and wants to get on with his own life." Smith adds: To say the least. At the time of Pearse's investigation, Schiavo was already living with the woman who would become the mother of his children.
his credibility is necessarily adversely affected by the obvious financial benefit to him of being the ward's sole heir at law in the event of her death while still married to him. Her death also permits him to get on with his own life.
Not neccessarily. Noory reporting it would be relevant for those who believe that a person has a moral duty to refuse such an order.
"Reporting which doctor REFUSED to re-insert it (under the apparent direct threats of MS at the hospital after the law was passed) ....
"THAT is worth reporting."
Very good point. That would be worth reporting, maybe more so. I'll email Noory with that suggestion.
Does anyone have confirmed information that a doctor refused to reinsert the tube, and if so, who it was?"
Hey... what can I say? ... If it irritates 'em, it's just because it's supposed to irritate 'em...
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