Posted on 11/14/2003 2:06:57 AM PST by sweetliberty
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Radio interview with one of Michael's ex-girlfriends, transcript from CBS News Sunday Morning - Sunday 11-09-03 (Martha Teischner reports over a series of pre-recorded video clips in this news magazine's lead story...), possible link to collusion in the legal proceedings involving attorney George Felos (representing Michael Schiavo) and the neurologist Dr. Peter Bambakidis (court appointed, independent, examining physician), information on Judge Greer not being a judge, Tiger Bay Club Schiavo Debate Info, Michael Schiavo charged with perjured testimony, Michael Schiavo is this month's "black boot" award winner from conspiracyworld.com, Schiavo case timeline and 2 informative letters to Gov. Bush.
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This thread serves as a place for posting all new general information and references, along with links following Terri's case, plus information on cable news and talk radio shows dealing with the issue, court cases and press releases. This is also the place to post contact information, prayers and general discussion.
If you have something that qualifies as BREAKING NEWS or FRONT PAGE NEWS, please post it on a separate thread in that category in order to give it maximum exposure and then post a link to the article/thread here so that it will be included in the next update of links. Also, if you post links to articles from original sources and there is also a thread on FR, please link to the FR thread. Many original links become corrupt over time and we want to be able to access the information at will.
ATTENTION friends of Terri! I have been asked by the folks in Florida to post the following message:
PLEASE HONOR THIS REQUEST FROM TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA: DO NOT PUT NAME AND TOWN or other personal info of TERRI VOLUNTEERS in public posts on the Terri threads. If in doubt, DELETE THEIR NAME OUT!!! Please do not post personal addresses and phone #s, towns re: Terri's volunteers and her family. PLEASE SEND PEOPLE TO terrisfight.org for the Foundation Address. Thanks.
Many thanks to all of you who are helping keep FReepers and others up to date with information and for all your efforts in making this thread work. All the research, transcripts, prayers and contact information are invaluable. Special thanks to Calpernia for the header graphic.
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Terri Schiavo, life insurance, and insurers duty to cancel if beneficiary is trying to kill insured
Governor Sidetracks Schiavo 's Lawsuit
Oregon Bishop Speaks Out in the Case of Terri Schiavo
A thousand words about the Terri Schiavo you never knew
Florida governor, lawmakers defend 'Terri's Law'
Schiavo's case is really about religious right
Roy Moore:Media 'will not print the truth' (While this article isn't only about Terri, Judge Moore does address the issue in this interview)
Remove Dennis Kucinich's Feeding Tube! (Terry Schiavo's Case By Ann Coulter!)
Please check out this case of a man in a "locked in" condition (alert wakefulness, paralysed but unable to speak) - HE WROTE A BOOK even though he can only BLINK ONE EYELID.
A look at the achievements of some extraordinary people who suffer from this syndrome - which is a diagnosis applied to people who are able to demonstrate alert wakefulness but are paralysed and unable to speak.
Book mentioned in talk: THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY by Jean-Dominique Bauby and published by Fourth Estate, London.
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Roger Rees, Director, Institute for the Study of Learning Difficulties, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide.
"Since taking up life in my cocoon, I have made two brief trips to the world of Paris medicine to hear the verdict pronounced on me from medical heights. I shed a few tears as we passed the corner cafe where I used to drop in for a bite. I can weep discreetly, yet the professionals think my eye is watering.' How many people in this state in enclosed half-lit hospital beds are never stimulated, never recognised as people with intact minds who can still contribute if only their talents are acknowledged?"
Assoc. Prof. Roger Rees: "Isn't Bauby justified in being indignant and hurt about a prognosis that classifies him as a vegetable, or that holds the view that only a visit to Lourdes and a subsequent miracle cure could save him? Having read Bauby's book, we now recognise that he is a unique person whose mind and being still needs to feel strongly, to love and admire just as desperately as he needs to breathe."
"From an economic rationalist's view of rehabilitation or of a simplistic absolute view that a person is either cured or not cured, people in the locked-in state are considered of no account. There is a young woman in an Adelaide hospital who now uses a large felt-tipped pen to write notes and letters about the poetry of Eliott and Whitman, the prose of Jane Austen, or record her feelings about Mozart's music. She has been in a locked-in state for six years, swaddled like a newborn, unable to move or speak unaided, often experiencing a total lapse into infancy. Yet in these six years her mind has remained intact, eager to emerge when the appropriate time arrived. Her parents have maintained a six-year vigil, believing that an intact person still existed in their daughter's paralysed body. She still cannot speak, but her writings now invoke the supremacy of her memory, dreams, reasoning and imaginings."
"There is now a curious reversal of views by those who believed that her brain damage was global and total. Her parents are surely vindicated as their daughter's meticulous writings spread before our eyes, and along with [Jean-Dominique] Bauby, they provide evidence of the mystery of human resilience and the duality of the interaction of the brain and the mind."
You're preaching to the choir. Perhaps your post should be directed to those that splatter the Terri threads with prayers, religious quotes and dogma to support their position and attack those that disagree with them.
Florida inmates are covered under a law allowing them to ask for DNA testing to prove their innocence. The law took effect two years ago after DNA proved the innocence of two Broward men convicted of murder. One of them [Frank Lee Smith] was cleared 11 months after he died of cancer on death row.
From the Miami Herald:
Florida legislators created the two-year window for testing after DNA exonerated Frank Lee Smith, a Broward County man who died of cancer on Death Row nearly a year before new testing cleared him of the 1985 rape and murder of 8-year-old Shandra Whitehead.
Since then, another South Florida man, Jerry Frank Townsend, was exonerated by DNA after having served 22 years in prison for a rape and murder that he did not commit.
High-profile national cases have brought increased attention to the issue of post-conviction testing. Last year, for instance, DNA disproved the convictions of five teenagers in the 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger in New York City.
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Note: Section 925.11 of the FL Code, which allows post-conviction DNA testing for a period of up to two years, was cited in Johnnie Bryd's Friend of the Court brief on behalf of Schiavo vs. Bush, as an example of valid legislative intervention.
from a CP legal resource site:Acquired Cerebral Palsy causes:
Anoxia (carbon monoxide poisoning, smoke inhalation, strangulation and near drowning)
Neoplasams of the brain (tumors, cysts, and hydrocephalus) Infections (high fevers, meningitis, encephalitis, or brain abscesses)
Head traumas (wounds, severe concussions, or fractures)
Vascular problems of the brain (thrombosis or hemorrhage)
Terri's Birthday is December 3rd. So many people have contacted us, recently, to ask how they may participate. We are so delighted that so many people want to help Terri enjoy her special day and we appreciate the kindness that people have shown to Terri.
Because Terri's husband does not permit her to have flowers in her room, we ask that you consider doing something else that would be as meaningful. Here are some things you can do:
Join us in wishing Terri a very happy birthday.
If you've placed a light in your window for Terri, please send us a picture.
Terri adores animals. If you have a picture of your favorite pet, feel free to send it along!
Terri enjoys music. Piano music, John Denver, Journey and Wham! are just some of her favorites. Since she has a CD player in her room, a CD would make a great birthday gift.
Terri enjoys lotions and nice-smelling things for her skin.
Would you like to send a personal message to Terri? Tape record your own message and we'll play it for her!
So many people have already sent a prayer to Terri on our Share a Prayer page. We read these to her as often as we can. Be sure to include yours.
Terri's husband does not permit her to receive physical therapy, but "stress balls" are great for relieving the contractures in her hands.
If you haven't done this yet please commit to doing it today.
The only Investigation that is taking place right now is the Advocacy organization.
This Organization is chartered by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate crimes against persons with disabilities who reside in Florida.
http://www.advocacycenter.org/
Write to them and give them your support and encouragement. Here is their e-mail address: info@advocacycenter.org Everyone will write what they want, for me the biggest (and there are sooooo many to pick form) evidence that points to Terri as being denied her civil rights and being mistreated by her Guardian, her Husband (In Name Only), is the fact that he and his lawyers, after they had already removed her feeding tube and had started to starve her, denied her priest permission to administer Holy Communion. That to me was their most flagrant and aggrieves action, their actions denied Terri her Freedom of Religion, on top of denying her the Right to Life. They were well on their way already taking away her number on right established by the United States Constitution Bill of Rights, the Right to Life, now they were taking away her freedom of Religion. Our Right to Life was the very first Right that our founding fathers wrote down when declaring our Independence from England.
Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
Bill of Rights to the Constitution of the United States
Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment XIV - Ratified 7/9/1868 I am sure that the Advocacy Center in Florida would appreciate getting support from their core organization out of Washington DC. Write a paper letter to the Federal Secretary of Health and Human Services, they are probably the ones funding the Florida Advocacy Organization. Secretary Tommy Thompson The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Room 615F Washington, D.C. 20201 That Room 615F in the address? That gets the letter directly on top of the desk of Tommy Thompson. I would also recommend calling the Press office as they have the ability to listen and and report back to the Secretary what is on the public mind. Toll Free: 1-877-696-6775 - Ask for the Press Office - Talk to them Follow up with a paper letter suing the address I have provided above. Wm ... Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good (wo)men do nothing. Help Terri do something!!!!!!!!!!! Copy and paste this message into other Message Boards, each one reach one..
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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