Posted on 03/25/2005 10:18:53 PM PST by churchillbuff
Terri Schiavo's parents renewed their call late Friday night for Florida Governor Jeb Bush to intervene and prevent Terri's painful starvation death. However, Governor Bush has said court rulings prevent him from doing so.
"With a stroke of his pen, he could stop it immediately," said Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, said. "He's put Terri through a week of hell and I implore him to put a stop to this. This is judicial homicide and he has to stop it."
However, Bush, who has strongly supported the Schindlers at every turn in the last two years, is constrained by court rulings that prevent the Florida Department of Children and Families from taking Terri into protective custody.
Circuit Court Judge George Greer has even called on Pinellas Park police and county sheriffs to prevent DCF officials from taking the disabled woman and providing her with food and water.
In fact, the Miami Herald reports that state and local police nearly had a face off on Thursday.
The newspaper said state officers were on their way to take Terri into protective custody and were told by local police that they could not do so under Greer's order.
The paper reports that Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents and DCF officials backed down over concerns the actions would lead to a confrontation.
Bush said the decisions by Greer and a failed appeal to the Florida Supreme Court prevent him from removing Terri from the hospice.
"If we had that ability to do it, if there wasn't an injunction, we would do it right now," Bush said Thursday. "We would stabilize her by giving her hydration."
"It is frustrating for people to think that I have power that I don't," Governor Bush added in an AP interview. "I don't have embedded special powers. I wish I did in this particular case."
this is taken from Fox News
Doctors have said Schiavo would probably die within a week or two of the feeding tube being removed, which was done March 18 after a judge sided with her husband's argument that she would not want to be kept alive artificially.
As she entered her second week without the tube that sustained her life for 15 years, dehydration took its toll on the 41-year-old woman. Her tongue and eyes were bleeding and her skin was flaking off, said Barbara Weller (search), the Schindlers' attorney.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151571,00.html
AH, dying with dignity in action.
Quite "euphoric"
Nice, real nice. Call me cynical, but I bet these facts won't appear very prominently on some MSM stations.
Terry Swindel , on day 9 of a fast to support Terri Shiavo.
If this is what we do to the innocent, then it's good enough for the guilty. Since starvation is euphoric, perhaps we can implement it at Guantanamo?
No, starvation would be against Islam's dietary rules or something. Some lawyer will argue euphoria is prohibited by Islam, like dancing and fire water.
"Her tongue and eyes were bleeding and her skin was flaking off"
This is sick, unconscionable, immoral. I'm still praying for someone to do the moral and right thing..
If a little baby crawled out into a busy highway and sat in
the middle of the road, I'm quite sure that Governor Bush
would risk a jaywalking ticket to rush into the street and
save the child even if the Don't Walk sign was flashing !!!
Terri is an innocent and helpless child right now. Therefore, she
desperately needs someone to bravely risk arrest for jaywalking
to save her life from that evil mob of monsters who are blatantly
attempting to murder her ... in plain view of the entire world !!!
Jaywalk NOW Jeb !!!
Dammit... Jaywalk NOW !!!
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZE ????
Jeb Bush is in a corner big time !
And that's exactly where they want him.
This is the ultimate "payback" for the FL "chad" outrage of 2000 & the re-election of 2004.
Hegel would be proud.
Richard Thompson, the president and chief counsel of the Thomas Moore Law Center, says doing so would preserve the life of a material witness in a potential criminal case.
The launching of a formal criminal investigation into possible abuse of the helpless patient would allow the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to remove Schiavo from the custody of her current guardian – husband Michael Schiavo, who has been for years dedicated to terminating the artificial feeding of his brain-damaged wife.
He should have said "it's frustrating for people to think I have balls when I don't". Send the state guys in and, if the locals think they want to face off, so be it.
I've gotten some flack for saying that I've lost all respect for courts AND law enforcement. Oh, no, they say, you can't blame the cops! Well, maybe someone can show me ONE of these cops who has refused to make overtime handcuffing kids who have tried to bring water to this woman.
Jeb Bush is?
???
Any more understatements to offer?
It's not like Jeb is promoting this horrific debacle.
No they will show up in Mr. Schiavo's $100 million gross profit movie showing the he!! "HE" has gone through.
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