Terri's Fight - (Daily Thread/Updates) November 8 -10

Various | November 7, 2003 | sweetliberty

[sweetliberty]

Maybe....blonde bimbo, all mouth, little sign of brain activity. You reckon she'd want to live like that?

[msmagoo]

Journalist BARF/Troll Alert! Jeb imposes personal belief

Schiavo action disrespects democracy, family

Guest opinion: Gema Hernandez
Published by news-press.com on November 8, 2003

Many articles have been published about Terri Schiavo and Gov. Jeb Bush’s intervention in preventing an individual her right to die with dignity, but none of the articles has addressed a more troubling situation for our state and for our nation: that of imposing a personal belief on all the citizens of the state.

Molding public policy or ignoring established public policies for the sake of a personal belief is not the American way. This is troubling because our country just fought a war for the sake of democracy, and in a democratic system the needs of the many supercede the need of the one, particularly if that one is a governor elected to represent the wishes and desires of many people. Jeb’s actions not only blur the separation of church dogma and state, but also fuse the three branches of government into one, the executive branch eliminating the checks and balances established by our Constitution and weakening our already wounded judicial process.

The decision to extend the dying process is incomprehensible because it goes against the Republican party’s basic core values: less government interference, more personal responsibility and support of family values.

Now government is interfering more and more in personal and private decisions to a point that it is up to the government and not the family or the individual to decide when a person like Terri should live or die. His decision has now created another ward of the state in an institutional care situation rather than in a community care situation like he said he favors. This decision has also removed all financial responsibility from the family, placing the financial cost in the hands of the state and creating a third contradiction. Most importantly, it redefines what constitutes a family by negating the rights of the husband who, with the wife, forms the essence of the American nuclear family.

Once a man and a woman get married, in the words of the church, the IRS and all civil institutions, a family is formed, “for this man this woman will abandon her parents.” Therefore, Jeb’s actions in support of the parents bring new meaning of what constitutes a family, and this meaning excludes husbands or wives in favor of parents. Jeb’s actions against the wishes of the husband and the courts once again contradict his preaching, presenting a fourth contradiction between actions and words in the lives of politicians.

Yes, the dangers of his actions go beyond the obvious. Privacy rights are becoming an endangered species and our right to die with dignity is the first casualty.

— Dr. Gema G Hernandez is former secretary of the department of elder affairs.
She lives at Fort Myers Beach.

[Ohioan from Florida]

That whole "Jerger & Centonze Insurance Agency" really bugs me. Lately I've been wishing I was still down in FL so I could do even more nosing around.

[Ohioan from Florida]

That's her! LOL, blonde bimbo...glad I'm not a blonde!

[trussell]

What about the money from the "undisclosed settlement"? HINO probably put that up or used it to buy his car and home.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Un-bee-leev-able!!!

[Ohioan from Florida]

Weitraub=Weintraub

[Ohioan from Florida]

I think that I've read that he used his money from his loss of consortium to build his house and to refurbish his mom's apartment/condo (or something to that effect).

[trussell]

That's not the settlement I was asking about. There was an award of 1.3 million-750,000 for rehab, 300,000 for HINO.

There was another suit that was settled out of court for an "undisclosed amount". I'm wondering what he did with that money.

[pollywog]

`I don't think there are any words to can express the outrage that he feels and the pain in the heart that he feels'' because his wife will now continue to suffer, Felos said.

Can someone please tell me how a person who supposedly cannot feel, hear, or see anything can " suffer"???????Felos is wicked to the core!!!!!!!!

[Ohioan from Florida]

Agreed, that would be nice to know.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Probably one of our trolls can answer that. Not that it would make any sense!

[Wampus SC]

(long string of expletives deleted) GigaBarf alert.

It figures the Death Brigade would also infiltrate the Dept. of Elder Affairs. I'd place bets that they're in Child Protective Services, too.

Before this is over with - and for safety's and survival's sake - every relevant hospital, nursing home, HMO and government agency will have to be investigated for Death Culture connections.

[lonevoice]

Still looking for some help to get this message to someone at Terri's foundation who can follow-up on it.

Radio host, George Noory, wants to do a 1-hour interview with Dr. William Hammesfahr, the neurologist who has testified on Terri's behalf. Noory's show is broadcast on 480 stations in the overnight slot to an estimated 10 million listeners. He is very sympathetic to Terri's fight. He interviewed Bobby Schindler for about 10 minutes the day after Terri's feeding tube was restored.

This message was put out a few days ago with a request that anyone who can relay info to someone that can act on it in the Schindler's behalf, please freepmail me for a forward of Noory's email stating his wish to interview Dr. Hammesfahr that includes contact info for the show's producer.

I've already left an email with terrisfight.org using the "media request" link but there has been no response. Someone posted an email from the foundation here this morning (on the previous Terri's daily thread) stating that they'd like help with more media exposure.

[msmagoo]

I Love the website! Oh my, it's even got Jodi! :)

[sweetliberty]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[msmagoo]

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