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Judge Who Ordered Euthanasia of Terri Schiavo Retires
LifeNews.com ^ | January 3, 2011 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/03/2011 10:37:07 AM PST by julieee

Judge Who Ordered Euthanasia of Terri Schiavo Retires

St. Petersburg, FL -- The Florida state judge who allowed the former husband of disabled patient Terri Schiavo to take her life by depriving her of food and water, has retired from the bench.

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/03/judge-who-ordered-euthanasia-of-terri-schiavo-retires

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; goodriddance; greer; judge; judicialhomicide; prolife; retires; terrischiavo
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To: julieee
When the Judge meets Lucifer, He will find out how it feels to have his water removed. . . . . .
I am so thirsty . . . . . . .
21 posted on 01/03/2011 11:00:40 AM PST by DeaconRed (Everything IS Broken. . . . MSM won't report it. . . . The community organizer can't fix it.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

This judge even denied her ice chips & mouth swabs. Inhumane would be putting it gently.

It is easier to go without food than water - I have fasted for days in the past. But, to go without water is something very painful. I hope the judge has long hours of leisure time filled with the picture of a dying woman deprived of food and water until her eventual death and hearing the screams for help within her mind. I still grieve for her. God have mercy on those who thought that was a humane act.


22 posted on 01/03/2011 11:09:07 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: DManA

The court order that denies food and water, by any means, to Terri Schiavo:

http://libertytothecaptives.net/greer_deniesf&w_bymouth.html

Only the would be murderer (who achieved his goal), the “husband” who was living with and fathering children with another woman, was allowed to make decisions whether Terri was to receive food and water.

Greer’s court order violated both Florida statutes and constitutional guarantees of life and liberty. Hence my tagline.

Some further analysis:

http://libertytothecaptives.net/greer_doublespeak.html


23 posted on 01/03/2011 11:15:58 AM PST by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: julieee

I was living in Japan then. I remember harboring hopes that people would take matters into their own hands, removing her from the hospital to a secret location and keeping her alive.

Using whatever degree of force was necessary.


24 posted on 01/03/2011 11:17:35 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: bronxville

“I wore a bulletproof vest for months,” Greer said.”

And did anybody take a shot at him?

A drama queen and a killer. Great combo.


25 posted on 01/03/2011 11:19:43 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: DManA
Another chief doubt distinguishing the contentious tussle over Terri's life from a clear-cut, right-to-die case is whether she remains in a persistent vegetative state, or PVS, which is one of the conditions necessary under Florida law to legally permit the removal of her feeding tube.

Serendipitously, the Florida law governing end-of-life care was revised, effective Oct. 1, 1999, to the benefit of Michael Schiavo's petition to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. Prior to this date, it was necessary for two physicians to determine the patient had a "terminal condition" from which there is no reasonable probability of recovery in order to withhold or withdraw their life-prolonging procedures.

The revised law now allowed two physicians to deem the patient is in an end-stage condition and/or a persistent vegetative state, or PVS.

Four short months after the revamped law took effect, Greer ruled in February 2000 that Terri Schiavo was in PVS. Her feeding tube was subsequently disconnected for three days in April 2001 before a series of appeals put Greer's order on hold.

In fact, it was this ruling in February of 2000, retroactively applied, that was the basis of Greer's final solution for Terri Schiavo. He refused to consider anything else and irrevocably made up his mind that she should die. Greer, Felos and Schiavo are all guilty of this murder.

26 posted on 01/03/2011 11:19:48 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe!)
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To: DManA; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; Sun; EternalVigilance
The first sentence belies the headline. The judge ordered that the husband be allowed to decide. If he’d decided to keep her on life support she would have been kept on life support.

Not true.

Greer ordered that Terri be deprived of nutrition and hydration and his orders were carried out at gunpoint.

27 posted on 01/03/2011 11:28:12 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: dsc

It appears there is still too much respect for the “system” here (in this case the court), to take necessary action when it is clearly wrong. The people are waiting for the leaders to act (the executive), and the leaders are too timid to keep their oath to uphold the constitution. If self-government is to survive, then “we the people” are going to have to correct our own government, or replace it, even as did our founders.

It is kind of like a house that was built according to a good plan (three main supports) with a good foundation (self-evident truth and God given rights), but termites have infested the supports making them unsound and unstable, even as those pillars have abandoned their foundation, (God — NOT government — given rights).

If the house called America is to stand, she must return to her foundation, and “we the people” must replace those who constitute the pillars of our government with decent (moral) people who actually believe in and will support and defend God given rights and liberties, NOT erode them through government power grabs.


28 posted on 01/03/2011 11:30:04 AM PST by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: julieee

You would be thrown in jail for killing a dog or cat the way this creepy judge and the vicious husband murdered Terry.


29 posted on 01/03/2011 11:33:31 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: wagglebee
Don't complain to me. Write a letter to LifeNews.com for messing up the story.

The Florida state judge who allowed the former husband of disabled patient Terri Schiavo to take her life

30 posted on 01/03/2011 11:35:07 AM PST by DManA
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To: wagglebee

“Greer ordered that Terri be deprived of nutrition and hydration and his orders were carried out at gunpoint. “

Because Terri’s husband requested that action be taken.


31 posted on 01/03/2011 11:38:10 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: treetopsandroofs
One of the brothers Bush’s biggest failures.

I think they both took extraordinary measures. What else could they have legally done?

32 posted on 01/03/2011 11:40:47 AM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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To: DPMD

Concur.


33 posted on 01/03/2011 11:41:18 AM PST by MeganC (January 20, 2013 - President Sarah Palin)
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To: DManA; driftdiver
Okay, I see your point.

Mikey asked Greer to murder Terri and Greer complied. The execution was carried out on Greer's orders, though Mikey could have probably stopped it.

34 posted on 01/03/2011 11:45:15 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Moonman62; treetopsandroofs
Both Bushes had the constitutional authority to take Terri into custody.
35 posted on 01/03/2011 11:46:46 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
Mikey could have probably certainly stopped it.
36 posted on 01/03/2011 11:47:37 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Again, it must be repeated, the court came down on the side of a man who when married to Terri Schiavo, came under suspicion, never disproven, of having caused her initial injury.

He then went on to live with and father children by another woman while still “married” to Terri and relentlessly crusading for her death.

He found a judge who, in violation of the law, ordered natural means to preserve her life (food and water ingested directly through the mouth) not be given, unless given by the man who wanted to end her life without suffering the consequences of murdering her.

You may call him her husband if you wish, I choose not to dignify him with that title based on his actions and the violation of (at least formerly) standard marriage vows.

Both the judge and the “husband in name only” got away with murder for the time being, but will face ultimate judgment for their actions along with the rest of us.


37 posted on 01/03/2011 11:49:03 AM PST by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: Moonman62

This is a copy of an actual letter I sent to Jeb Bush and others:

GOVERNOR BUSH,
IT IS LONG PAST TIME THAT YOU STOP TRYING TO FOLLOW THE GROUND RULES SET OUT BY THE HEMLOCK SOCIETY, VIA JUDGE GREER. TAKE IT COMPLETELY OUT OF THE CIVIL COURT AND DIRECTLY INTO CRIMINAL COURT.
THERE IS AN EXTREME AMOUNT OF PRIMA FASCIAE EVIDENCE THAT FOUL PLAY HAS OCCURRED HERE...MORE EVIDENCE THAN THE SCOTT PETERSON CASE WHICH WAS ONLY CIRCUMSTANTIAL AND NOT NEARLY AS COMPELLING, BUT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY.
YOU HAVE SWORN AFFIDAVITS, THE TESTIMONY OF PEOPLE WHO KNEW TERRI BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE PARENTS MADE THE MISTAKE OF PURSUING CIVIL RESOLUTION, YET YOU ALLOW HER TO REMAIN TRAPPED AND CONTROLLED BY MADMEN.
INITIATE A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND SEIZE TERRI SCHIAVO AS EVIDENCE.
GET TERRI OUT OF THE HANDS OF GHOULS WHO ARE TRYING TO MURDER HER INCLUDING THOSE OF THE FLORIDA CIVIL JUDICIARY. CONVENE A CRIMINAL GRAND JURY IMMEDIATELY AND BEGIN THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION THAT IS OF ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OR FLORIDA WILL BE THE STATE FOR WHICH I, AND MANY OTHERS, INTEND TO PURSUE A MOST VIGOROUS BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN.
FLORIDA WILL FOREVER BE KNOWN AS THE *STATE OF DEATH* AND PEOPLE WILL FEAR YOU FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
THIS IS NOT A CIVIL CASE. IT IS A CRIMINAL CASE AND YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY AS EXECUTIVE TO COMPLETELY CHANGE THE RULES OF THIS HORRIFYING GAME, AS DOES YOUR BROTHER, PRESIDENT BUSH, TO WHOM A COPY OF THIS HAS BEEN SENT AS WELL.
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN IT WAS SAID THAT POLITICS ENDS AT THE WATER’S EDGE. NOW IT IS CLEAR THAT THE SKINNERIST REVOLUTION BEGUN BACK IN THE 20’S IS ONCE AGAIN ON THE RISE GROWING STRONGER BY THE MOMENT. OLD EUROPE IS LOVING THIS AND IF IF THIS IS ALLOWED TO STAND, THE US WILL HAVE FORFEITED ITS OWN RIGHT TO SPEAK TO THE WORLD ON MORAL ISSUES AND THE SANCTITY OF LIFE. IT WILL BE THE UNDOING OF THE CONSTITUTION, AND FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES, THE END OF USA MORAL AUTHORITY.
YOU KNOW THESE ARE MADMEN. YOU KNOW JUDGE GREER WAS ON THE BOARD OF THIS INFAMOUS HOSPICE WHICH IS A COMPLETE CONFLICT OF INTEREST, NOT TO MENTION HIS PAST CORRUPTION WITH VAST CORPORATIONS.
HEARSAY SHOULD NEVER BE ADMISSIBLE IN A COURT OF LAW, HOWEVER, THIS HAS MAINTAINED ITSELF IN THE REALM OF CIVIL LAW BECAUSE OF ONE CORRUPT JUDGE.
TERRI IS EVIDENCE AND SHOULD BE PROTECTED. MANDATORY REHABILITATION SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE ORDERED, IMMEDIATELY INSTITUTED, AND EVEN IF IT TAKES 10 OR 20 YEARS OF INTENSIVE THERAPY IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH, THAT SEARCH CAN NOT BE ABROGATED. FURTHER, HER BODY IS EVIDENCE BY ITSELF, EVEN IF SHE CAN NEVER SPEAK, THAT INDEED FOUL PLAY HAS OCCURRED.
GOVERNOR, YOU HAVE THE POWER. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE US HAS THE POWER.
MAKE IT HAPPEN BEFORE THIS LADY DIES. SUBPOENAS TO APPEAR BEFORE A GRAND JURY COULD BE CALLED FOR AND IN HAND WITHIN A MATTER OF HOURS IF YOU DO THIS. YOUR OWN ATTORNEY GENERAL CAN DO THIS USING CRIMINAL LAW, NOT CIVIL LAW, AND STOP PLAYING BUTTON BUTTON WITH CIVIL PRETENDERS CALLING THIS THE RIGHT TO DIE. THERE IS NO SUCH RIGHT IN THE CONSTITUTION. THE RIGHT TO LIFE IS. THE RIGHT TO ALLOW MURDER ON BEHALF OF THE STATE IS NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE DEATH PENALTY FOR HEINOUS CRIMES IS NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION WITHOUT A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL.
NONE OF THESE GUIDELINES HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED FROM DAY ONE. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN A RELIGIOUS CASE. IT IS A PURE, UNADULTERATED CRIMINAL CASE.
CRIMINAL!!!


38 posted on 01/03/2011 11:49:08 AM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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To: Moonman62

Considering that a president can and does order “hits” on individuals — Saddam’s sons and bin Laden, a president can order a life saved.

What “extraordinary measures” did either Bush take?


39 posted on 01/03/2011 11:49:48 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: driftdiver

“Because Terri’s husband requested that action be taken.”

What the hell does that have to do with anything? The judge could have made her a ward of the state & told the bozo husband to go fly a kite. Just because the “husband” asked for the tube feedings to be withheld, dosen’t mean the judge should have done so. The judge should have stood up for what was right. Your argument is ridiculous.


40 posted on 01/03/2011 11:53:47 AM PST by surroundedbyblue
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