Florida Voters: Don't Forget Terri Schiavo!

World Net Daily ^ | 8/28/2006 | Joseph Farah

[Godzillie]

Florida Voters: Don't Forget Terri Schiavo!

Florida voters have a chance next week to avenge the cold-blooded, public execution of a handicapped woman by depriving her of water and food for 13 long, harrowing days that captivated not just the attention of the nation, but the whole world.

Instead, I fear, too many Americans have forgotten Terri Schiavo and all her killing represented about the declining moral standards of our nation and the cowardice of our public officials.

Tuesday, Sept. 5, is Election Day in Florida. A primary vote is being held to determine who will be the candidates for governor, succeeding Jeb Bush.

The leading Republican candidate, Attorney General Charlie Crist, currently ahead in polls by some 20 points, played an instrumental role in the official neglect that snuffed out the life of Terri Schiavo.

I can tell you many Republican voters and activists have already forgotten Crist's role. Some "conservative" media outlets have gone so far as to endorse Crist.

Let me remind you about Crist's role in the dehydration death of Terri Schiavo.

Terri's father, Robert Schindler Sr., has this to say: "Florida Attorney General 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."

Crist, like many Republican politicians, likes to play the role of "defender of life." But actions speak louder than words. You can always tell the phonies on this issue by what they do rather than what they say.

But even what Crist says on this issue is worth noting.

Crist has even denounced Jeb Bush's meager efforts to avert the killing of Terri.

"There are some decisions that ought to be left to God and family," he said last spring. "Had I been governor, I would not have done the same thing (as Bush)."

As attorney general of Florida, Crist was constitutionally charged with protecting the civil rights of the state's citizens. Yet he did nothing to protect the life of an innocent handicapped woman wrongly and unjustly committed to a horrible death sentence by a rogue judge.

Crist is the kind of power-hungry, ambitious politician we don't need in America. He will evidently do or say anything to achieve power. For instance, when he ran for U.S. senator in 1998, he thought it would serve his purposes to be "pro-choice." So he ran as a "pro-choice" – meaning pro-abortion – candidate. He lost.

Now he's back again because he has discovered he really needs to be governor of the state. Now he says he's pro-life.

Crist is running, not just for governor. He is running away from his shameful and decisive role in the death of Terri Schiavo. He was the guy who told the public there had been no complaints of abuse to the state Department of Children and Families. Such a complaint had been personally handed to him and returned without action.

"Hoping to save my daughter's life, our family sought the help of Attorney General Charlie Crist," reminds Terri's father. "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 cooperating with thos in positions of political and judicial authority who 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."

Remember Judge George Greer – the black-robed god who ruled from on high as a county official to enforce Terri's death? Crist honored Greer and the other judges who backed his hideous decisions by saying: "You are heroes to all of us, and your defense of the judiciary and what is right is beyond admirable."

Every day, people ask me what we can do about the problems we all see within our political class. If only Americans would hold their elected leaders accountable for their actions, we could drive out many of the impostors – the purely political creatures who seek only their own empowerment.

Florida voters have a chance to remember Terri Schiavo next week. They have a chance to make their voices heard about a matter of life and death – not just Terri's, but many future Terris. They have a chance to send one of those responsible back home to earn an honest living and think about his actions.

I urge Floridian Republicans to support Crist's opponent, Tom Gallagher, to be their next governor.

[Godzillie]

VOTE TOM GALLAGHER FOR GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA ON SEPTEMBER 5!

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[Aussie Dasher]

How could anyone - anywhere in the world - EVER forget what was done to Terri?

[SoldierDad]

Liberals have seemed to have had no problem forgetting the beheading of Nick Berg and others. Why would forgetting Terri be a problem for them?

[I still care]

To me it's very simple.

If you are a strong social and fiscal conservative, devoted and 100% behind the culture of life, and you think what happened to Terri was disgraceful, Gallagher is what you want.

If you think Terri was a vegetable who needed to be euthanized, you are a little mushy on social issues and you like your conservatives a little more moderate, than Crist is your man.

I have no doubt Crist will win. The powers that be are behind him, and Terri's case has been so misrepresented by the area papers that most people here think she is better off dead, the heck with her parents.

I am voting Gallagher.

[Aussie Dasher]

I dearly wish I had a vote in Florida!!!!

[zot]

Bump/

[caresistance]

It is very simple, unless the family can pay for unlimited medical care, for the duration, don't expect the taxpayer.

[SoldierDad]

I unfortunately live in California. If I lived in Florida Mr. Gallagher would have my vote.

[sten]

she would have gotten better treatment if they dropped in the NM / AZ desert near the border. There would be water buckets and groups of people to help her. Not to mention the cops that found her would have given her food, clothing and hospital care.

and if they didn't, some mexican president would claim the US was violating some international law somewhere....

[Pajamajan]

BUMP

[HiTech RedNeck]

Push polls as always did wonders with their wording. People who saw the case up close enough to understand the Goethesque drama playing out were quite likely to come up with a different impression.

[backhoe]

To me, these are the defining issues of our times:

-Men(ace) in Black? SCOTUS goes Rogue...--

-Useless Eaters vs The Death Cult--

-Thunder on the Border-- (Minuteman Project)--

1- an unaccountable Judiciary.
2- whose life is it, anyway? Yours, or someone else's?
3- whose Country is it?

There are other vital issues, of course- but these three will determine just who we really are as a nation.

[srmorton]

I do not believe that would have been true if the MSM had accurately reported the facts of the case. Most people thought that Terri was on a respirator and would die in a few minutes or hours if it were turned off. They also thought that Terri had explicitly expressed to Michael that she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Michael "remembered" that Terri had said that years later, despite the fact that none of her family had ever heard her make such a statement.

As I so often do, I thought of Terri today, There was an article in our local newspaper about a woman with ALS. She can no longer swallow and must receive all of her nourishment through a feeding tube. Should she be starved to death as well? Of course not. She is a blessing to everyone who knows her - especially her mother, daughter (in college), and her 17 year old son.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Johnny, what were the abortion stances for Crist and Gallagher again? I remember that they were not very clear.

[JohnnyZ]

Johnny, what were the abortion stances for Crist and Gallagher again?

Er, last I knew Crist was pro-life and Gallagher pro-"choice". Then it seems Gallagher ran right and Crist ran left. I gave up trying to follow those two a while ago.

[mission9]

When asked directly, what would you do, if the Supremes overturn Roe v Wade, and the Florida Legislature sends a bill banning abortion to the the desk of Governor Charlie Crist, Crist refuses to answer hypothetically, in favor of a bland, talk fest that features "we need to change hearts, not laws". Gallagher has accepted Christ, and he would sign that bill with gusto.

[supercat]

It is very simple, unless the family can pay for unlimited medical care, for the duration, don't expect the taxpayer.

Terri was awarded a substantial legal settlement to pay for her care. Had such funds become exhausted as a consequence of having been spent on her care, then there would have been considerable room for debate as to who should pay for what. Given that only a small portion of those funds were ever spent on her care, though, any supposed "lack of funds" is a smokescreen.

Note, btw, that Michael Schiavo did have taxpayers pick up the tab, but that wasn't because Terri was broke--rather it was because he wanted her money and didn't want it to get spent on silly things like her care or treatment.