Posted on 01/31/2005 9:14:49 PM PST by TAdams8591
*Michael, HAVE A HEART !!!!!For Valentines Day give Terri back to her MOM & DAD, The Schindlers!!!!!!!!*
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Daily Threads are created month to month as we watch local and national news regarding Terri and her family.
Since Terri's supporters are in every time zone, you may see something FIRST. Please share news with us that you don't see here already. Now, why would you want to do that? Terri's Daily Thread for September/October of 2004 was viewed over 15,000 times. Terri's November Daily Thread was viewed over 6,000 times. December's thread is over 3,000 views. January 2005 Daily Thread was a RECORD HIGH!!!!!!! 15, 103 VIEWS!!!!!!
More and more good folks are finding out about Terri and that judicial tyranny would take her life, but for lots and lots of prayer and non-stop lobbying of relatives, friends, clergy, our leaders, the media, a passerby, a cashier - ANYONE who you feel comfortable chatting with.
Folks always want to know how can this be in America or on earth for that matter? Unfortunately, this is really happening to an innocent woman who just celebrated her 41st birthday. She's not the only one but she's the one with devoted parents and siblings who knows what's in Terri's heart. Terri has a strong will to live. That's apparent. It's been 14 years.
Besides, feeding tubes have been around practically since the Civil War. They are not high tech devices. Terri is "not hooked up to machines". Her feeding tube is the diameter of a piece of spaghetti.
Talkin' about Terri is the best way to lobby for her. It is a salespitch to save her life and subsequently, many lives. If you've never sold anything in your life, START NOW. START WITH TERRI.
See Terri's flash movies if you need more information. You can see for yourself that's she's interactive and follows the doctor's instructions.
Visit: http://www.terrisfight.org
NOTE: Terri's December Dailies are noted as a source above. There are lots of important links at the very top of that thread. If you missed Terri's Celebration of Life, you can click on it from there.
AGAIN WE HAVE A NEW RECORD: 15,103 views on the tote board for the Terri Schindler Schiavo January Daily Thread!
The most significant event in Terri's case in January, was the Supreme's Courts refusal to hear Governor Jeb Bush's appeal, after the Florida State Legislature struck down Terri's Law. This once again places Terri's life in extreme jeopardy, though there are other issues regarding her case before the court.
Thanks for alerting me to this article.
My prayers continue for the Fight for Terri's Life!
FL Freepers.......PING
URGENT HELP needed.....please SIGN this petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/766881322
FL Freepers: URGENT your HELP is needed ......Ping
Please sign this petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/766881322
Is Brooke Taylor Becker a friend of Terri?:
"For two years Brooke had to be fed by a pump through a tube directly into her stomach.:
http://www.brookebecker.com/story.html
1869 Paradise Lane
Clearwater, FL 33756
Phone: 727/581-3677
Email Brooke at brooketb@tampabay.rr.com
Schiavo Death Judge Vying To Be Chief Judge--
http://www.theempirejournal.com/schiavo_death_judge_vying_to_be_Chief_Judge.htm
LOL - You pegged that one! I reviewed some of his posts, and you could tell he was troll before he showed up here. He started out by trashing our troops.
Kate Adamson added terrisfight.org to her links section upon my asking her. That was very nice of her:
http://www.katesjourney.com/extlinks.html
Thank You Kate Adamson ! Yes that was very nice of her:
http://www.katesjourney.com/extlinks.html
Thank You too pc93 for asking here.
Just wanted you to know I'm thinking of you--miss you much.
There SIMPLY MUST be a rally with hundreds of Terri's supporters protesting Judge Greer and the very notion of his becoming Chief Judge. His handling of Terri's case was appalling and abysmal. He lacks the ability to correctly apply law to the facts and uses his office to further his own political agenda, i.e. Euthanasia!
JUDGE GREER should be picketed DAY and NIGHT! JUDGE GREER is a DISHONEST, UNCOMPASSIONATE, ELITEST TYRANT.
After his rulings in the Teri Schiavo Case, HE SHOULD BE FIRED AND DISBARRED or IMPEACHED AND DISBARRED. That Judge Greer should get a promotion is Truly LAUGHABLE!!!
Thanks
That Judge Greer should get a promotion is Truly LAUGHABLE!!!
How sad, but the people of FL disagree with us. They gave George W. Greer 65 percent of the vote on Aug. 31, 2004, in a "nonpartisan" election in which Greer was "endorsed" by the Pinellas-Pasco county Republican organizations. FL people, they are something else. And these are NOT even those 2000 FL voters too ignorant to understand the "butterfly" ballot prepared by the Democrats in West Palm Beach.
Brooke and her family came to Terri's vigil in Oct 2003 in front of Woodside Hospice. Brooke always had the most beautiful smile on her face at the vigil.
Thank you amdgmary. [blushing]I found her site linked at Terri's site after I asked that question.
Is this the link?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/766881322
More anent:
We have a potential legislative crisis in Florida that affects vulnerable persons.
Florida’s Evidence Code may soon be modified in such a way that hearsay testimony (of an incapacitated person’s oral declarations) from potentially conflicted guardians, beneficiaries or heirs at law could become admissible in a court of law.
Currently, Florida Statute 90.602 provides protection for incapacitated persons by forbidding self-serving hearsay of alleged oral declarations as admissible evidence in court:
(1) No person interested in an action or proceeding against the personal representative, heir at law, assignee, legatee, devisee, or survivor of a deceased person, or against the assignee, committee, or guardian of a mentally incompetent person, shall be examined as a witness regarding any oral communication between the interested person and the person who is deceased or mentally incompetent at the time of the examination.
Link: 90.602 Testimony of interested persons.
http://flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0090/SEC602.HTM&Title=-%3E2004-%3ECh0090-%3ESection%20602#0090.602
But some Florida lawmakers are interested in eliminating this particular protection for vulnerable persons by repealing FS-90.602 and incorporating the following measure titled HB-0523. An identical Senate Bill exists under the title S-0988. This would change the evidence code in the following fashion:
13 Section 1. Section 90.602, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
20 (e) Statement by deceased or ill declarant similar to one
21 previously admitted.--If a declarant is unavailable as provided
22 in paragraph (1)(d), a written or oral statement made regarding
23 the same subject matter as another statement made by the
24 declarant that has previously been admitted in evidence.
25 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.
Links: House Bill 0523 Senate Bill 0988
http://flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?File=hb0523.html&Directory=session/2005/House/bills/billtext/html&Tab=session&Submenu=1
http://flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&Submenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Billnum=0988&Year=2005
This bill, if passed into law, may serve to eliminate a very important standard of evidence and reduce the rights and protections of incapacitated Floridians yet another notch. Considering the dangers that already exist for Floridians who have been deemed incompetent by the court, this act could effectively remove bars against abuses of the incapacitated person’s financial interests and medical treatment desires by the guardian or other interested parties by allowing hearsay to be considered evidence in guardianship proceedings.
House Bill 0523 has been pre-filed as of January 25, 2005 and is slated to be heard by the House Judiciary Committee sometime leading up to regular session in March. The anticipated effective date of this act is July 1, 2005.
According to the committee’s Council Director, David de la Paz, it is not too late for Floridians to make their displeasure with this bill known. It is important that Floridians, disability advocates, elder care advocates and advocates for medical ethics reform express their deep concerns over any measure or act that would further encroach upon the rights of our most defenseless citizens.
I ask that you take the time to read and sign the following petition, circulate it to people you know and urge them to commit their signatures. The petition upon the Florida's House and Senate to discontinue consideration of these bills can be found and signed here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/766881322. This will be presented to every member of Florida's legislature as well as the House Judiciary Committee.
You can also call or email these committee members and ask that they not give favorable consideration to any measure that would adversely affect Florida’s vulnerable population or give guardians yet another avenue for abuse.
Please circulate this. If you would like to contact Florida’s representatives individually, their contact details follow:
Link: House Judiciary Committee Home Page
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/committees_detail.aspx?id=2267&sessionID=38
Bill Sponsors
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
850-488-4202
Anitere Flores
850-488-2831
House Judicial Commt.
Email
Telephone
David Simmons
SIMMONS.DAVID@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-2231
Juan-Carlos "J.C." Planas
PLANAS.JUAN-CARLOS@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-3616
Kevin Ambler
ambler.kevin@myfloridahouse.com
850-488-0275
Dennis Baxley
baxley.dennis@myfloridahouse.com
850-488-0335
Frederick Brummer
BRUMMER.FREDERICK@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-2023
Dan Gelber
GELBER.DAN@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-0690
Michael Grant
grant.michael@myfloridahouse.com
850-488-0060
Jeffrey Kottkamp
KOTTKAMP.JEFF@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-7433
Sheri McInvale
MCINVALE.SHERI@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-0660
Joe Pickens
PICKENS.JOE@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-0665
Curtis Richardson
RICHARDSON.CURTIS@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-1798
Dennis Ross
ROSS.DENNIS@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-9890
John Seiler
SEILER.JACK@MYFLORIDAHOUSE.COM
850-488-0880
Stephen Hogge
STEPHEN.HOGGE@myfloridahouse.gov
850-488-3088
David De La Paz
DAVID.DELAPAZ@myfloridahouse.gov
850-488-6333
Link: Appearance Request Form (PDF)
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Files/H-16%20Appearance%20Record.pdf
Our right to live
Sunday, February 6, 2005
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_300467.html
Mike Schiavo of Florida maintains that it was his wife's wish to die rather than to live handicapped ("High court won't touch right-to-die case," Jan. 25).
Terri Schiavo, who is now 41 and has been handicapped for the past 11 years, cannot speak to confirm or deny the veracity of that wish, or say that she just changed her mind.
Mike Schiavo placed Terri in hospice care, seeking neither rehabilitative nor therapeutic treatment for her. And even though he lives with his mistress and their two children, he will not relinquish custody of Terri to her family, who desperately want to love and care for her.
Instead, he, his lawyer and Florida Judge George Greer have determined that Terri should die. Her feeding tube will be removed as soon as the appeals are over, and she will be "privileged" with the right to die by starvation.
Although this case is euphemistically labeled as the right to die, it is clearly nothing less than protected corruption and murder. Have Terri and others like her forfeited their right to life because they became handicapped?
The determination of life for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society is not the judgment call of any one of us, but the duty of all of us to protect, defend and support.
We are all Terri Schiavo, and the fight for her right to live is ours -- now or later.
Maria Mollura
McKeesport
I don't get it. The courts are doing it already. Heads I win, tails you lose?
hearsay testimony
This means that the FL courts will accept hearsay testimony if the judge agrees with the "testimony" being presented, right? The Huns had Atilla, the Austrians Hitler, and the Soviets, Lenin and Stalin. But FL can compete too with its George W. Greer, Douglas Baird, and Judge Demers.
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