Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die

Human Events ^ | July 31, 2006 | Robert Schindler Sr.

[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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Copyright © 2006 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.

[8mmMauser]

I agree. When they pull 5 of her teeth with no anesthetic just for fun though, I might disagree. Poor Terri.

We discovered when our son was staying in a facility for awhile they would use student dentists to work on his teeth without giving us any warning, asking or anything. No novacaine, no painkillers whatsoever.

Few kids in that facility ever had their families visit, so who would know? When we discovered it, they said it would be dangerous to give him painkillers, no explanation of the need in the first place, just practice. Shucks, who would complain? Only us. We did so noisily.

[8mmMauser]

Signs of the (New York) Times...

Mikey is back, ready to help the far left with his expertise. Meanwhile, Fidel Castro is not yet available to lead cheers.

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CLEARWATER, Fla. — The curtains are still drawn tight at Michael Schiavo’s home on a quiet cul-de-sac here, and in some ways he remains as private and unknowable as when his wife Terri was the focus of a fervent national debate last year about life and death.

Husband Takes Schiavo Fight Back to Politicians

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to July 23.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[8mmMauser]

T'wit, this is keeping in tone with your earlier posts...

Walker says doctors have a special name for patients with terminal diseases, whose families refuse to issue a "do not resuscitate" order. They call them "futility cases."

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WALKER: And what do we do when we have a clear-cut case of medical futility, where we have families saying, "no, we're not going to make them DNR, we can't stop the ventilator, no, we don't want the hospice, do everything." So that's a tough, tough problem. It's very demoralizing for the caregivers, because in some cases, they feel like they're really torturing individuals. So what's the answer there?

The most famous such case, of course, was Terri Schiavo. Her parents wanted her kept alive at all costs; while her husband wanted her feeding tube removed.

Life and Death and the Bioethics of Elder Care

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[8mmMauser]

Brownback's bill, dubbed the Assisted Suicide Prevention Act, marks the first legislative assault on assisted suicide since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon's law in January.

"When the law permits killing as a medical 'treatment,' society's moral guidelines are blurred, and killing could gain acceptance as a solution for the chronically ill or vulnerable," said Brownback, a favorite of religious conservatives who is considering a run for president.

Kansas senator wants to derail Oregon assisted suicide law

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[8mmMauser]

Oh, what heady days those were, when Lieberman rode shotgun for his entire political party. But then came the Iraq war, Terri Schiavo, the imminently blog-a-licious kiss, and a stunningly whiny campaign in which Lieberman took umbrage that the electorate was willing to offload him after 18 years of free haircuts and multiple rides in the senator-only elevator. He did more than that, but he also attached his wagon to Bush's fading star once (or twice) too often. And so the electorate handed the election to upstart Ned Lamont, who presented himself as the anti-war candidate and more.

Night Of The Living Democrats

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[8mmMauser]

Mikey's pals and others who take cheer in the killing of innocents like Terri can take solice in support from friends like The Progressive...

The anti-war left is not some crazy fringe group. It is the American mainstream. And it is not Lamont or MoveOn and DailyKos that are out of touch. It is the politicians and pundits in Washington who continue to kowtow to this incredibly destructive Administration.

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Alter even stoops to armchair psychology, diagnosing Lamont supporters, especially bloggers, with a case of "projection"-- i.e. their real beef is with Bush, but they take it out on Joe Lieberman. But if anyone needs a shrink, it's Lieberman, who spent years bashing his own party--from his sanctimonious cameo in the Monica Lewinsky affair, to his repeated appearances on Fox News to warn that Democrats were giving aid and comfort to America's enemies when they criticized Bush' conduct in Iraq (shades of Cheney), to his bizarre stand for government interference in the Terri Schiavo case.

The Anti-Anti-War Campaign

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[8mmMauser]

Surprise, surprise! Ping to wagglebee thread...

UNITED STATES, August 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Scientific researchers are now beginning the tedious task of altering the public’s expectations of the aims of human embryonic stem-cell research, deviating from the primary goals of providing stem-cell therapies to cure diseases. In what amounts to a bait and switch, these researchers, no longer promising immediate theoretical cures for a myriad of diseases desired by a desperate public, are now justifying the research by claiming that human embryonic cells are instead marvelous research tools for investigating the mechanisms of disease rather than actively curing them.

Scientists Backtrack on Embryonic Research Claims: No Hope for Cures for 5 to 10 Years

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[8mmMauser]

With a friend like McCain, who needs...(Mikey? Fidel?)

Ping to thread from neverdem.

McCain and NRA endorse Crist (FL AG)

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[T'wit]

Btw, merciless though they were, the Nazis would have hooted at the notion that their victims had a "duty" to die. It took a modern American liberal, Richard Lamm, to outshine them on the point!

Lamm, former Colorado governor, is ex-brother-in-law to Peggy Lamm, a Democrat congressional candidate in Colorado who has received the dubious support of Michael Schiavo.

A newspaper story reporting on the above was headlined, "Terri Schiavo's widower to host Lamm fundraiser." Calling Michael a widower is like calling Lizzie Borden an orphan.

[T'wit]

I commend your strength, determination and courage, if not your good sense, in actually reading passages from the New York Times -- and about Michael Schiavo! If you could bottle writing like this, you could sell it as oven cleaner.

I need more coffee fortification before I'm going to look at this one :-)

[8mmMauser]

Ping again to the ongoing thread by davidosborne...

Crist worries conservatives

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[T'wit]

Here's a web site for another "mainstream" progressive (Ned Lamont's great uncle, I believe).

Corliss Lamont -- unrepentant (and rich) Communist

[8mmMauser]

BBButtt..The Times is the paper of record, the, uhhh friend of Mikey(??) greatest invention since toilet paper.

Wonder where they stand on Coreless Lamont.

[floriduh voter]

Mikey has such a neat job at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Dept. He has more personal days than a down on their luck homeless person.

I hope someone is investigating how he rakes in $70K per year, is a supervisor but I thought supervisors were supposed to actually go to work so they could supervise.

Why'd they hire him anyway? Seems like it was a payoff for something.

[T'wit]

>> So that's a tough, tough problem. It's very demoralizing for the caregivers, because in some cases, they feel like they're really torturing individuals.

What world are these people in? Terri wasn't a "problem" and nobody claimed she was. Her maintenance costs were minimal. She wasn't suffering.

They did TORTURE her, not by continuing care for her but by NOT caring for her. They tortured her when they took away her water and food.

"At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made or how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.’" -- Mother Teresa.

[8mmMauser]

There is a place for Mikey, in Havana. Fidel really needs him...or a taxidermist.

[T'wit]

>> greatest invention since toilet paper.

That honor goes to the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. The Times is but a gray imitator that will get ink all over your bum.

[Jezebelle]

Beautifully stated.

Charlie Crist is an evil, pandering, conscienceless, useless bum and should be sent packing.

[Jezebelle]

Bull. What a despicable thing to say.

[T'wit]

>> Wonder where they stand on Coreless Lamont.

Well, either WITH him or with his enemy, Sen. Joseph McCarthy. That's a tough call, isn't it? :-)