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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That's just a statement to comfort yourself. After all, this is all about YOU and YOUR '3rd world' thoughts and not about reality.
you may have a long wait, justshutup.. probably went to get a glass of water.
Terri had no money other than that a brain dead jury extorted out of an insurance company. This means it came from ALL its policy holders. But hey, it was ok because it was "free" money to the jury.
Pointing out realities is not "histrionics" that is the speciality of your side in this charade.
It was doctors who said her brain was liquid. Oh, but I forget they weren't the "right" kind of doctors.
Name one.
I have not "advocated" anything. Objecting to the falsehoods and attacks on the Medical professional, the judiciary, the Congress, the Florida legislature, the Govenor, the President, the legal professional and anyone not buying the "murdered Terri" bilge is NOT advocating anything but the truth.
I generally do avoid it. There is no damage now since there are no longer dozens of threads with hundreds of posts squeezing out other rational thoughts on important subjects.
If that last nonsense was supposed to be an insult consult a teenager for better since yours does not rise above elementary school. What next? I know you are what about me?
Why bother?
Hahahaha! Good answer, good answer :-)
Rehab was no use. Stop pretending.
With no functioning brain how does "pain" get into the issue?
God does not say to hook people up to artifical feeding mechanisms when there is no point. In fact, in Jesus's time Terri would have been dead YEARS before the final admission was made. This would have been the case only a few decades ago as well. Only when the costs are paid by someone else do these things happen anyway.
Because the Lord wept at the sight of death and kept urging us to seek life. Death is the wages of sin, you know. It's enemy turf.
There are fifteen years of medical records showing that Terri could feel pain and could call attention to her pain and was routinely treated for pain.
It's you who need to stop pretending that her brain was dead. If it had been, she couldn't have lived without a respirator.
The autonomic functions are not controlled by the higher brain.
Actually, I agree that the money was extorted, not because the jury was brain dead but because Michael was crooked and hired slip-and-fall lawyers willing to work for contingency fees. They cooked up a crooked case and got away with it. One of the shysters actually invented the silly "bulimia" theory that was later debunked by several doctors and by the coroner. The jury substantially cut the award (by 70%, as I recall) from what the lawyers tried to extort.
>> But hey, it was ok
It certainly wasn't. It was a swindle. Now remember who ran the swindle? Who got $600,000 for himself out of it? Who spent another $400,000+ of it to kill his wife? Michael.
And whose lawyer was paid all that money to spread all of those stories that you believe about Terri's brain being liquefied and non-functional? Yes, Michael's lawyer, George Felos. They had to paint Terri as hopeless in order to win the court case and kill her.
... a candidate who was supposed to protect his daughter but refused
When the Governor could do nothing, when the legislature could do nothing, when every court that heard the case sent it back to judge Greer to handle - what makes you think he could have or even should have done anything? The courts were clear in this case that no one but the presiding judge and Mr. Schiavo had any say in the matter.
She actually exploits his death to advance her own political agenda.
What then is he doing using his daughter's name in an attempt to influence the governor's race? He has voluntarily stepped into the political fray holding high his moral opinion of the circumstances of his daughter's death. Sound familiar? Just because you agree with him does not make it any more right or any less distasteful. If it's ok - then it's ok - if it's not, then it's not. Moral relativism is a cancer eating at our society daily.
Now, go ahead, accuse me of being some idiot out in CA who doesn't even know the details of the case beyond what I have read in the national liberal media. That's usually the next line.
OK, sure, think that if you want. But I actually lived in Pinellas County when this whole thing was nothing more than a local story. The local press was giving the case a nightly 30 sec fly-by. No one except Glenn Beck (he was still local then) really gave the case much attention. Let's just say I am keenly aware of the situation and followed it closely.
Again - let me be clear - I think that her death under these circumstances was a tragedy. Even those who believe she was in an unrecoverable state will often agree that Mr. Schiavo would have suffered no loss had he given over her care to the parents, and that it would have been the right thing to do. That said, it is Mr. Schiavo who made these decisions. Judge Greer ruled that it was he and he alone who had the right to make these decision. Every legal avenue available failed to make a difference.
Mr. Crist was not more powerful than the governor or the legislature. He was not more powerful than the FLSC. He was not more powerful than the Federal courts involved. To insist that he should have done something in the face of clear legal opinions is, to use your term, demented.
de·ment·ed-adjective-Definition: 1. entirely irrational: completely unreasonable
Mr Crist stated as early as 2003 that this case was a matter for the courts to decide - this is not an unreasonable position. Mr. Schindler is the one who brought the lawsuit - he obviously felt that the courts were a reasonable avenue through which to pursue his claim. Had Mr. Schindler been able to convince a court that his legal position was in fact the correct position we would not be discussing this today. SCOTUS had the opportunity to take up this case and refused it without comment. This case went through the entire legal gauntlet of the American court system, and yet you folks want to blame Charlie Crist, a state AG.
He was without power in this case. Any intervention on his part would have immediately been ruled out of jurisdiction by the courts as a matter pending before the judicial branch and therefore out of the reach of executive authorities. So, if you ask me, blaming the guy 3rd on the totem pole when the top 2, the legislature, and the entire court system could do nothing to change it - that my friend meets the definition listed above.
You have repeatedly stated that she was "dead." She was not. Medicine has two definitions for death. The old one: cessation of all bodily functions. The newer one (though still not universally accepted): "brain death." Terri was neither. Your private definition, whatever it is, is yours alone and is not a part of medical science. Unless you give us your own definition, -- define your terms, -- your use of the word "dead" for Terri is deception. It is a cheat. Stop it.
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