Posted on 07/31/2006 4:58:07 PM PDT by Quiet Man Jr.
Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die
by Robert Schindler, Sr. Posted Jul 31, 2006
As most Americans know, on March 31, 2005, my daughter, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order. The sad chain of events that concluded with Terri’s death ignited a media firestorm nationally and internationally. What few saw or heard was the callous inaction of aspiring governor Charlie Crist.
Florida Atty. Gen. Charlie Crist let my daughter die. He had it within his authority to save her life, but he turned a blind eye to her suffering. Even worse, he worked to ensure her death.
Terri lived in a neurologically compromised state for reasons that are still unknown, and my family wanted nothing more than permission to care for Terri for the span of her natural life. We were denied.
My daughter tenaciously fought for her life for more than 13 days after being deprived of the most basic, natural and constant need that we all share—the need for nourishment—food and water. Terri was not on a respirator, nor terminally ill. She was not dying, nor succumbing to a dreadful disease. She was disabled. She was dependent on others, but still very much a life, a woman, and a person.
Over the course of several years, our family, our lawyers, and our friends pleaded for help from local, county, and state police and regulatory agencies with constitutional and statutory authority to investigate the many sworn statements of extreme abuse and neglect suffered by our daughter.
Hoping to save my daughter’s life, our family sought the help of Attorney General Charlie Crist. Not only did Charlie Crist refuse our family lawful access to the assets of his office, but he violated his oath of office by actively cooperated with those in positions of political and judicial authority whom denied us legal access to the police and regulatory systems meant to protect the weak. Multiple sworn agents from responsible police and regulatory agencies who found probable cause to investigate allegations of abuse in Terri's judicial and physical care, were ordered to shut down those probes. This heavy-handedness made us powerless.
Information of direct interest to Attorney General Charlie Crist's office was directly delivered to his personal hands, and he refused to properly execute the duties of his office. And it was with deliberate decision that he failed to attend a scheduled Tallahassee meeting with our family. On another occasion, we approached each other by chance. Upon recognizing me, Charlie Crist abruptly stopped and walked away.
That callous action encapsulates Charlie Crist. He walked away from a man whose daughter’s fate he controlled. At that moment, he turned his back on Terri. And he turned his back on the most fundamental duties of his office.
It is quite clear that Charlie Crist, to this day, has demonstrated no public affection for the cause of life, or Christianity, or any set of core values. He has been posturing to become governor for decades. With each voting audience he has crafted a message based on the expediency of the moment.
To add insult to injury, at a recent banquet, our alleged pro-life candidate for the Governor of Florida said the following about Judge George Greer and other judges involved in the death of my daughter, "You are heroes to all of us, and your defense of the judiciary and what is right is beyond admirable."
Through his actions, Charlie Crist has demonstrated that he has no regard for our most vulnerable citizens, the high duties of public office, or life itself. Charlie Crist’s celebration of the merciless judges who condemned Terri to death speaks to his true character.
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BB, Here's the August Dailies.
There are two things they say. "Cause of Death" and "Manner of Death." He doesn't know how she ended up dead. If she got her neck sliced, it would be an aorta problem as cause of death. Who slit her throat is another matter.
Cause of death is dehydration. Everyone but the M.E. knows how she came to be dehydrated. I guess no one told him about the court order.
The M.E. admitted that I think. 'Manner of Death' is still an open case.
It's no mystery. Manner of death was court ordered murder.
You can't kill animal or humane any worse than what they did FV.
By proxy, yes in a way. What I am getting at is who put Terri in a fragile state? That would be the manner of death if we could prove it.
It would be wonderful to see the wall around Greer begin to crack.
The title of this thread is so true. I cannot support this man who told lie after lie to protect the status quo back in Pinellas Crony. Strike that. Pinellas County. (it gets confusing crony-county, what's the real difference here anyway?).
Tom Gallagher's web site: http://www.tg2006.com
They know it, we know it.
That would be a contributing factor. It is what put her in a vulnerable state, though it was not the direct cause of her death. She survived that injury, and would have continued to survive, if she hadn't been starved and dehydrated to death.
If you were beaten, and left to die, that beating would be the manner of death. But if you survived, and during your recovery someone came along and shot you dead, the shooting would be the manner of death.
Crist gets no pass from me either.
I would hope he would do a live presser. I would hope that Timmerman burned plenty of copies of Greer's illegal tv spot to pass around.
No matter what the FEC says, it was in violation and the FEC can either join the liar's club or find probable cause.
Jeb is close to Betty Sembler. The Semblers were at the Bush 43 inauguration. They are loaded and have donated oodles to Crist's campaign, way beyond the $500 limit. Nobody's investigated that.
Exactly. The M.E. stated that he had no idea why I was beaten or if I was. I just died. "Manner of Death: Unknown"
But Terri didn't die from the beating. She died from the act of deliberately dehydrating her.
Do you mean this commercial? http://home.comcast.net/~mercymercy/GreerAd.ram
Twit is great for words. I see it, but I can't say it BB. : )
When will these loons go away?
I would think that the person who did the beating, would be an accessory. Those who planned and carried out the dehydration would still be guilty of murder, with or without a determination regarding the beating.
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