MESSAGE TO PERTINENT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: STOP THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF TERRI SCHIAVO OR SUFFER LAWSUITS ON THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS

SPREAD THIS AROUND AS FAR AND AS WIDE AS YOU CAN!!!
 

[3/24/2005 11:51:22 PM] *** F. Gregg Meagher added pc93 to this chat ***

[3/24/2005 11:51:24 PM] pc93 says: there?

[2:15:03 AM] pc93 says: FOR GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION - PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

BREAKING NEWS: DOCTOR STATES that Terri hit on head

between day 2 and 6 after collapse FEB/March 1990;

Suffered intracranial hemorrhage while in hospital

"In another emerging revelation, another neurologist who examined the timeline of Terri’s brain scans found that for the first three days of her initial hospitalization in 1990, her brain scans were normal.  Then suddenly, on the sixth day, her brain scan showed evidence of a massive injury.  He concludes that Terri was hit on the head and suffered intracranial hemorrhage while in the hospital. The physician maintains that she did not suffer her brain damage outside the hospital but while she was hospitalized.

According to the physician, if the reports produced are accurate (normal CT brain on Feb. 27, injury on Feb. 25, 1990) then she did not suffer an event of massive ischemia on Feb. 25, 1990, the date of her alleged “collapse”  The physician says that there is no radiologist or neurologist or neurosurgeon in the world that would dispute this as it is impossible.  The CT on Feb. 27, 1990, would have been grossly abnormal."

The entire article including Terri's NORMAL original brain scan is at:

http://theempirejournal.com/14902_new_evidence_of_alleged_as.htm

[2:58:02 AM] pc93 says:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=lifetree+euthanasia

[2:58:20 AM] pc93 says: http://home.earthlink.net/~joyinlife/

[4:35:10 AM] pc93 says: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=clergy+end+of+life

[4:36:28 AM] pc93 says:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22wenski%22+%22goodman%22

[4:36:52 AM] pc93 says: Catholic Bishop Wenski and Ken Goodman

[4:37:02 AM] pc93 says:

https://www.hospicefoundation.org/hfaPublications/clergyEducation/IV.asp

[4:38:24 AM] pc93 says:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22wenski%22+%22goodman%22&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

[4:38:45 AM] pc93 says:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=11&q=https://www.hospicefoundation.org/hfaPublications/clergyEducation/documents/book.pdf&e=912

[4:42:32 AM] pc93 says:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22ken+goodman%22+%22veterans%22

[4:42:44 AM] pc93 says:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=https://www.citiprogram.org/citidocuments/biomedfaculty.htm&e=912

[4:43:26 AM] pc93 says: http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=6&q=http://www.afela.org/Elder_Concert_05.pdf&e=912

[4:46:46 AM] pc93 says: Ken Goodman and Kathy Cerminara

[4:46:48 AM] pc93 says: http://www.miami.edu/ethics2/schiavo/timeline.htm

[4:47:25 AM] pc93 says: Kathy Cerminara is from same law center as Michael Masinter (Chair of ACLU and disability advocate) .. she co-authored a book on right-to-die

[4:52:42 AM] pc93 says:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:YbYb956WDCcJ:www.democracynow.org/article.pl%3Fsid%3D05/03/22/1529259+%22ken+goodman%22+%22pbs%22&hl=en&start=1

[4:59:16 AM] pc93 says: URGENT!!! PLEASE ACT. PLEASE GET OTHERS TO ACT. PLEASE GET OTHERS TO GET OTHERS TO ACT. PLEASE CONTACT THE LEGISLATURE, ETC. SAVE TERRI NOW.

PLEASE SEE THE CONNECTIONS. See the CONFLICT of GOODMAN in this. He has an agenda to see Terri dead. 13 YEARS OF PERMENANT UNCONSCIOUSNESS???!!! I could have done more research but I simply don't have the time to put this all together for everyone. He is connected to Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc., Michael Masinter of Nova Law College (sic) in Miami- (of course they have connections to Stetson Law College where Felos hails from) and others, who no doubt have connections to Wolfson as well. They all have connections to the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc. where Terri is being held hostage, being neglected, and under threat of being murdered by Hospice, etc. Please see what Johnny Byrd says.. WE need to hold the legislature to their word. They were supposed to revisit. WE MUST DEMAND THAT THEY DO REVISIT AND THAT THEY SAVE TERRI LIKE PROMISED. THIS TIME CONSTITUTIONALLY!!!

Google -> "Ken Goodman" "Terri Schiavo"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22ken+goodman%22+%22terri+schiavo%22

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Google -> "Ken Goodman" "Byrd" "pbs"

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:E-CHUPSA6mIJ:family-source.com/offsite/8657783/+%22ken+goodman%22+%22byrd%22+%22pbs%22&hl=en

October 22, 2003 -- Right to Die Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ordered a severely brain-damaged woman be placed back on life support, at the request of her parents, after the woman's husband won a court order to have his wife removed from life support six days ago. Speaker Johnnie Byrd of the Florida House of Representatives and Kenneth Goodman, director of the bioethics program at the University of Miami, discuss the unique circumstances of this case with Ray Suarez.

Google -> "pbs" "right to die" "goodman"

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:ECa1mmz7I9cJ:www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec03/lifesupport_10-22.html+%22pbs%22+%22right+to+die%22+%22goodman%22&hl=en

The decision of the legislature and the governor

RAY SUAREZ: For more on this controversial case, we're joined by speaker Johnnie Byrd of Florida's House of Representatives -- he is also a lawyer -- and Kenneth Goodman, the founder and director of the Bioethics Program at the University of Miami. Speaker Byrd, why did you and your legislative colleagues in both the Florida House and Senate intervene in this case?

JOHNNIE BYRD: Well, something had gone terribly wrong with this process. The vast majority of the legislators in Florida and thousands of Florida citizens were -- completely lost confidence in this process that seemed to be replete with conflicts of interest between the husband and the best interest of this beautiful lady. So, we had to intervene to give a clear signal to the Florida courts what the legislative intent and the public policy of Florida would be in cases such as the Terri Schiavo case.

RAY SUAREZ: Professor Goodman, is there anything wrong with the legislature stepping in when it finds it can't abide a court decision, when it strenuously disagrees?

KENNETH GOODMAN: It's not merely a court decision but a series of decisions made by physicians and others over 13 years. It's been through the courts quite a bit. And it has been the topic of extensive debate during all that time. It seems to a lot of people -- and with all due respect to Representative Byrd -- I think a lot of Floridians are actually quite troubled that the idea that, in fact, this process might run its course naturally be intervened with at the last minute is actually troublesome.

We agree completely that this is a beautiful woman. She's undergone an extraordinary and difficult ordeal, but the right thing to do -- and I think the legislature while it may have believed that, was actually on the wrong side -- THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS AFTER 13 YEARS OF PERMANENT UNCONSCIOUSNESS THAT SHE BE ALLOWED TO DIE WITH DIGNITY. I think most Floridians would support that.

RAY SUAREZ: In your reading of the law, Professor, what should have happened in the years after Terri Schiavo first was diagnosed as having severe brain damage?

KENNETH GOODMAN: Well, in fact, what should have happened is I think what happened. Certainly nobody was in a hurry to deprive her of life support. It has been 13 years. A number of neurologists and others have examined her. Whenever you have a family dispute, though, this is something we try and teach our students everywhere, and I assume representative Byrd agrees, the idea that all of us should take away is make clear that your loved ones know what your wishes would be.

There's a dispute about whether or not her husband, who according to the law of Florida, would be her surrogate -- HAS SOME CONFLICT OR OTHER -- SOMETHING I'M NOT COMPETENT TO ADDRESS. Normally people want their spouses to make those decisions for them. In fact, a lot of people think that the parents of adult children actually don't make particularly good surrogates for a bunch of reasons.

End of life and legal guardianship

RAY SUAREZ: Well, what does the law say though? Has there ever been any challenge to Michael Schiavo's legal standing as his wife's guardian?

KENNETH GOODMAN: Not as such, only the allegations against him in particular. The law puts after, for example, a court-appointed guardian, the spouse of someone who is unable to speak for him or herself as the primary proxy to make those kinds of decisions. That's true in Florida. It's true in many other states.

The problem, of course, is when you have a family dispute -- and of course everyone's heart goes out to the Schiavo family -- when you have a dispute like that, courts are sometimes clumsy mechanisms for resolving it. But the best process that anyone could think of went forward and did over the last several years.

RAY SUAREZ: Mr. Speaker, is the professor right when he says that this is sort of complicated by the fact that there was no written end of life directive, that there was no document codifying Terri Schiavo's end of life wishes?

JOHNNIE BYRD: Well, certainly, Floridians as well as Americans have the right of self-determination. Yes, if there had been a written declaration in this case, this case would not be here at all. The problem is, is a very cloudy section of law. The legislators, three out of four legislators, thought that the courts had gone off on a tangent. Above all, I don't think you can cast this as just an inter-family dispute. Here we have loving parents who want to take care of their daughter -- their only daughter. And if you look at these videos, I think you cannot characterize her as being in some sort of a coma. She responds to her parents.

The testimony I think in this case was is that she could have therapy and live a higher quality of life. And It's not for us to say whether her life was worth living. We just need to err on the side of life. And I believe now with this new law, we will have another guardian ad item appointed, someone who has no conflicts of interest, you know, there were monetary incentives, I understand that Mr. Schiavo has another lady that he lives with and maybe even a child or one or more children by this other person.

And so I think to say that Terri Schiavo would like for her husband to make a decision to have her die a terrible death now -- that assumes a whole lot that I don't think the people of Florida see, nor does the legislature. I think the bottom line is we're going to stop; we're going to make sure that she has a chance to live and that hopefully her parents, who love her very much, can take care of her. And I think that a new objective guardian would be a good first step.

The legislature's deliberations

RAY SUAREZ: But in debating this bill, in writing it down and getting it through the House and Senate, were expert witnesses called to explain Terry Schiavo's brain scans, people testify on her condition, that kind of thing -- because you've expressed your impressions of the videotapes that the family has distributed.

JOHNNIE BYRD: I think that's the whole point is that, you know, the more facts that come out of this case, each fact, each excruciating fact that came from this case led to a conviction by both legislators and lay people and citizens in Florida that something terribly had gone terribly wrong with this case, that there was a lawsuit in which the husband promised that he would take care of her for the rest of her life if only he could recover these dollars.

Then, you know, after the dollars had been recovered, all of a sudden he's saying that she wanted to die. And I think that, you know, there's something to this case that is disturbing to most people as these facts came out. I think that the only thing we could do is make a decision to respect life. You know, we're talking about a human life. We don't have any second chances on this case. And slow this thing down and let's let another guardian take a look. And I think that we did the right thing. We protected life in this case.

RAY SUAREZ: But it wasn't for the legislature a medical decision, was it?

JOHNNIE BYRD: No. The legislators make public policy. I think, you know, if the step back away from this case, you know, we have three branches of government. I'll say that the legislatures have maybe, you know, delegated their authority too much to the court system. We've relied too much on the judicial system to make public policy when, in fact, the judiciary is very good at resolving disputes but very poor at making public policy.

So in this case I think some in the judiciary, some officers of the court, lawyers, have been somewhat -- had maybe apoplexy over the fact that the legislature actually stepped in and said wait a minute, the public, what we meant when we passed this statute was this and that the public policy of Florida should be in cases like Terri Schiavo, that she does have the right to life and a right to a quality of life. It is not for us to judge the quality of that life. It is for us to protect that life. And so I think what you've had is a very clear signal from the legislature as to what our legislative intent was when we passed this law.

The issue of feeding and hydration

RAY SUAREZ: Professor, you've heard the speaker refer to weaknesses in the system as it existed in adjudicating these cases. Are these matters, like for instance, his objections to the way the courts have acted in this 13-year saga a call to Florida to sort of address these so that every time there's a right to die case, it doesn't end up in the governor's lap?

KENNETH GOODMAN: Well, the question of where right to die cases should end up is itself quite an interesting one. I actually agree with Speaker Byrd that the legislature thought it was doing the right thing. Unfortunately, I think the legislature was mistaken for a number of reasons. And it's going to produce some very interesting constitutional questions that legal scholars will need to sort out. One thing that needs clarification in boldface is that the withdrawal of artificial hydration and nutrition does not produce a terrible death.

If that were the case, then Florida law and the law of 49 other states would not permit it. In fact, it's done all the time at hospitals around the country and it can be done with dignity and it can be done in a way that shows as much respect for life as anything that we can imagine. Surely no one can say that after 13 years that we've been hasty in these sorts of decisions.

In fact, a lot of reasonable people in cases where there's confusion I think would say -- this is what I hear from ordinary Floridians I speak to -- "for heaven's sakes we're really concerned about this. We want to make sure that this is not a debate about partisans trying to hustle the legislature. But now I'm worried. I mean, is there something I need to worry about -- about the refusal of hydration and nutrition?"

The answer is absolutely not. Once again there's obviously conflicting testimony in any kind of court case. But the courts ruled that the evidence before them from neurologists and other experts was that poor Terri is in a persistent vegetative state. What that means is she's not having any conscious actions or thoughts or anything else. She's not seeing. She's not hearing. And she's not feeling. Respect for life is something precious. And we all do agree that it's important for courts and legislatures to protect it.

On the other hand, the right of people to say no to burdensome treatment has also been protected heretofore by Florida statute. The concern here is a dispute about, one, whether or not the diagnosis is accurate and, two, whether or not the husband is a good surrogate or not. But as I say, I think most reasonable people, a direction by the way the Florida statute takes elsewhere, would say that after 13 years of unconsciousness with the best experts saying there's no alternative, surely morality makes room for that kind of treatment to be removed. That's what the law says. That's what ethics says, and, by the way, it's what most of our major faith traditions say.

RAY SUAREZ: Professor, Speaker Byrd, thank you both.

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http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/stewart/03/will.html

Indeed, Terri is teaching us a lot. But is the living will what we really need to learn? Is "put it in writing" really the moral of Terri’s story?

Many attorneys and bioethicists think so. "If you don’t want your loved ones fighting at your deathbed, make sure they all know what you want and what you don’t want," says Ken Goodman, director of the University of Miami ethics program.

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http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:q8-wBkveP5EJ:www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/8612555.htm%3Ftemplate%3DcontentModules/printstory.jsp+%22ken+goodman%22+%22terri+schiavo%22&hl=en

The legal battle is being closely followed nationwide by partisans on both sides of the right-to-die issue. Kenneth Goodman, who heads the University of Miami's bioethics program, called Thursday's ruling ``an antidote to legislative civil disobedience.''

''Nobody who knows how law is supposed to work in a free and open society is surprised by this'' decision, Goodman said.

Goodman, who has followed the case closely and offers historical information on the case at the ethics' program's website, calls Terri's Law ``one of the darkest days of the Florida Legislature.''

Goodman said that lawmakers cynically injected themselves into a family's tragedy in order to score votes with a well-organized movement.

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  Google -> "ken goodman" "terri schiavo" "brain"

http://www.miami.edu/ethics/schiavo/Schiavo_links.htm

CT scan of Ms. Schiavo's brain, showing extensive cortical regions filled with spinal fluid.

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Making Choices - Beginning to Plan for End-of-Life Care sponsored by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs in collaboration with the FLORIDA PARTNERSHIP FOR END-OF-LIFE CARE

Terry White, Secretary of Florida Department of Elder Affairs

Jeb Bush, Governor

June 2002

Message from Jeb Bush

Floridians are living longer today than at any point in our history. And thanks to advances in technology, we are living a better quality of life. With these advances often come difficult decisions about end-of-life care, and the effect it will have on our families and loved ones. By talking with family members and planning for our care, we can ease the burden of making some of life's most difficult decisions. Florida is taking the lead in helping caregivers and individuals prepare for these challenging choices. In an effort to continue helping our most vulnerable citizens, I encourage all Floridians to begin discussing end-of-life care with your family and loved ones.

Acknowledgements - These articles first appeared in the Elder Update, a publication of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs from April 2001 to April 2002. The original articles have been edited for this volume. The series of 13-articles were developed by the Department of Elder Affairs in collaboration with the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care, a community and state partnership partially funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Special acknowledgement is given to the members of Florida Partnership who authored these articles

* Florida Hospices and Palliative Care, Inc.

* Florida Department of Health

* University of Florida, Program of Law, Ethics, and Medical Professionalism

* University of Miami, Ethics Program (Goodman)

* Florida Bioethics Network

Statewide Network of 23 Community Coalitions

The members of the Florida Partnership would like to acknowledge the encouragement and support of numerous individuals including State Senator Ron Klein from Boca Raton, Florida.

If you have any questions about the information provided or would like to contribute, call the Department of Elder Affairs at 1-850-414-2000 or the Florida Partnership office at 1-850-878-2632

(see above and below - Goodman is a founding member of Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care and Director of University of Miami Ethics Program)

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:HS6OL3ccBlkJ:elderaffairs.state.fl.us/doea/english/LMD/EOL/EOL.pdf+%22ken+goodman%22+%22terri+schiavo%22&hl=en

Has a piece in this document:

The Moral and Legal Equivalency Between Withholding and Withdrawing of Treatment - Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D. - Highlighted" "Rights are slippery things".

Florida Partnership for End-Of-Life Care Advisory Committee (Founding Members) - Ken Goodman, Ph.D., Director University of Miami Ethics Program

Phone (305) 243-5723

Hospice of the Florida Suncoast (where Terri is being held hostage by those trying to murder her):

Communicating End-of-Life Choices to Family and Loved Ones: Isn't It Time We Talk About It? - Kathy Brandt, MS, and Karen Lo. M.S., R.N. - The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, in partnership with many local organizations, participated in a statewide effort in 2000, to encourage everyone to discuss advance care planning and communicate wishes to friends and families through conversations, and by completing advance directives. The "Isn't It Time We Talk About It?" campaign focuses on the importance of these discussions.

Kathy Brandt, M.S., Director of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Rallying Points Regional Resources Center, an initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Last Acts Campaign. She serves on the board of the Florida Counsel on Aging and is an active member of Florida Hospices and Palliative Care, Inc.

Karen Lo, M.S., B.A., R.N., Curriculum specialist, trainer and consultant at The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast and with K-Lo Training & Associates, Inc.

2,050 posted on 01/31/2005 10:15:45 AM EST by pc93

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[4:59:55 AM] pc93 says: To: pc93

I GET IT. ELDER AFFAIRS COLLABORATED WITH PARTNERSHIP (the gentle name for the euthanazi's) to create a handbook or guidelines??? Is that it?

  2,054 posted on 01/31/2005 10:29:50 AM EST by floriduh voter (SEE TERRI ALERT & AWARE - VIDEOS AT

www.terrisfight.org)

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[5:00:18 AM] pc93 says: To: pc93; tutstar; windchime; cake_crumb; Republic; Chocolate Rose; Ohioan from Florida; FR_addict

Grant by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Need to look into the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

MAYBE THE DECK IS STACKED AGAINST TERRI AND FUTURE TERRI's. Who likes to do research??? ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION. Thanks in advance. I need to go do laundry. Be back later. I'm ignoring my real life again. lol

2,055 posted on 01/31/2005 10:33:38 AM EST by floriduh voter (SEE TERRI ALERT & AWARE - VIDEOS AT

www.terrisfight.org)

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[5:00:25 AM] pc93 says: probably on the lifetree timeline

[5:01:43 AM] pc93 says: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310171/posts?page=2062#2062

[5:02:39 AM] pc93 says: To: Ohioan from Florida; All

Department of Health connection to Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care connected to Office of Elder Affairs; both connected to Hospice of Florida Suncoast, Inc. (the people who are accommodating Michael in trying to murder Terri and also holding Terri hostage, with sensory deprivation Terrorist style. DOH not doing anything to get Terri out of this mess but in bed with Partnership for End-of-Life Care, etc.!!!! Ken Goodman says Terri permanently unconscious for 13 years!

Google -> "Florida Partnership for End-Of-Life Care" "die"

Department of Health (DOH) and Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/workforce/ems1/Administration/MedclDir/EOLCInstctrManual503.pdf

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http://www.doh.state.fl.us/workforce/ems1/Administration/MedclDir/EndofLifeCareCurlum503.ppt

[PPT] End of Life Care for Emergency Medical Services Providers

File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint 97 - View as HTML

... The Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care. End-of-Life Care ... Define and

discuss the stages of grief and reactions to death and dying as defined by ...

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make the process of life and death a little more pleasant or at least ...

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HFA Publications - Statewide Hospice Clergy End-of-Life Education ...

... or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief. ...

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HFA Publications - E-Newsletter - March 2001

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NursingCenter - Professional Development - CE Article

... the location of death (in relation to patients’ wishes), hospice use, ...

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FOW

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Dr. Kenneth Goodman

Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is founder and director of the University of Miami's Bioethics Program. He holds appointments in the university's Department of Medicine, Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and School of Nursing. He shares responsibility for ethics education of UM students, trainees, and faculty. His research has focused on ethical issues in medical informatics, including bioinformatics or computational genomics, and in epidemiology and public health. Recent work has emphasized end-of-life issues, especially in conjunction with the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded initiative to improve care of the dying. Goodman is a PI along with colleagues at the University of Florida and other institutions in this statewide effort.

Dr. Goodman collaborates with a broad variety of institutional ethics committees and review boards, providing education, policy review and consulting services. The university's Bioethics Program produces an annual ethics conference ("Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions") which is in its 9th year and which has emerged as one of the largest (if not the largest) community ethics conference in the nation.

He is the editor of Ethics, Computing and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care (Cambridge 1998) and co-author of books in artificial intelligence and public health ethics. He is writing a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge University Press and, with a colleague, collecting and commenting on case studies in health informatics.

Selected Recent Bibliography

1. Coughlin S, Soskolne C, Goodman K. Case Studies in Public Health Ethics. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association, 1997.

2. Goodman K., ed., Ethics, Computing and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

3. Goodman, K. End-of-Life Algorithms. Journal of Psychology, Public Policy and Law 1998;4:719-727.

4. Goodman K. Philosophy as news: Bioethics, journalism and public policy. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1999;24:181-200.

5. Nelson W, Angoff N, Binder E, Cooke M, Fleetwood J, Goodlin S, Goodman K, et al. Goals and strategies for teaching death and dying in medical schools. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2000;3:7-16.

 

pc93 says: FELOS WAS ON CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC.

F. Gregg Meagher says: HAVE YOU SEEN FOX - POLL 82% LET TERRI DIE??? FIND THAT HARD TO ACCEPT

pc93 says: THAT HE ILLEGALLY ADMITTED HER TO HOSPICE IN 2000

pc93 says: WHILE HE WAS STILL ON THE BOARD

pc93 says: AND THAT HOSPICE DEFRAUDED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF OVER 14 MILLION DOLLARS

F. Gregg Meagher says: I BELIEVE THAT THOSE INVOLVED --- KNOW VERY WELL THE TRUTH

pc93 says: OR WAS IT 40

F. Gregg Meagher says: THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO CONFRONT IT

pc93 says: AND THAT WHITEMORE LET THEM OFF WITH A SMALL FINE

pc93 says: ALSO

pc93 says: THAT THE END-OF-LIFE MOVEMENT

F. Gregg Meagher says: I READ A REPORT OF 89+MILLION DOLLARS PROVEN FRAUD

pc93 says: INFILTRATED THE FLORIDA GOVERNMENT

pc93 says: VIA THE OFFICE OF ELDER AFFAIRS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

F. Gregg Meagher says: WHY NOT? HE WORKS WITH THEM

pc93 says: THAT THEY INFILTRATED THE FEDERAL LEVEL VIA THE OFFICE OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (VA)

F. Gregg Meagher says: DOESN'T SEEM TO BE FLORIDA'S GOVERNMENT ... BUT THE 'GUYS' COVER-UP SYSTEM

F. Gregg Meagher says: SEEM

pc93 says: THAT THEY ARE LETTING HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST, INC. ATTEMPT MURDER ON TERRI (ALMOST GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER WITH NO PLAN TO STOP THEM) BECAUSE OF THE INTERTWINED RELATIONSHIP HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC HAS WITH THEM AND THAT IS FULLY AWARE OF THEIR INVOLVEMENT WITH FLORIDA GOVERNMENT

pc93 says: VIA PARTNERSHIP FOR END-OF-LIFE

pc93 says: HEADED BY KEN GOODMAN

pc93 says: IN WHICH GOODMAN IS PART OF THE BIOETHICIST NETWORK

pc93 says: FROM THE MIAMI AREA (UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI)

pc93 says: AND THESE BIOETHICISTS ARE THE ONES WHO REVIEW OR THAT THE LEGISLATURE WANTS TO SET UP TO REVIEW CERTAIN CASES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSEDLY PVS OR COMATOSE

F. Gregg Meagher says: FACT IS WE ARE AT THE ONE POINT THAT WHITEMORE DECIDES ALL ... TERRI LIVES OR ALL HELL BREAKS OUT!

pc93 says: TO DECIDE IF THEY ARE SUITABLE TO LIVE OR NOT

pc93 says: AND THAT GOODMAN

pc93 says: WAS SAYING IN NOVEMENT OF 2003 AFTER TERRI'S SECOND STARVATION/MURDER ATTEMPT

pc93 says: THAT TERRI WAS PERMANENTLY UNCONSCIOUS FOR 13 YEARS

pc93 says: AND HAD NO BRAIN

pc93 says: THAT HE FURTHERMORE

F. Gregg Meagher says: THEY ARE REFUSING TO LISTEN TO ANY FACTS AGAINST WHAT THEY ARE DOING - WHICH IS MURDERING TERRI!!

pc93 says: IS CONNECTED TO KATHY CERMINARA VIA A TIMELINE THEY CREATED TOGETHER RE: TERRI SCHIAVO

pc93 says: AND KATHY CERMINARA CO-AUTHORED A BOOK ON RIGHT-TO-DIE

pc93 says: SO WE HAVE THE END-OF-LIFE / RIGHT-TO-DIE MOVEMENT INTERTWINED

F. Gregg Meagher says: THEY KNOW THAT- INVESTIGATIONS OF WHAT IS BEING BOUNCED-OUT NOW WOULD TAKE MONTHS OR EVEN YEARS

pc93 says: AND GEORGE FELOS IS A RIGHT-TO-DIE CRUSADER

pc93 says: VIA HIS BOOK LITIGATION AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE ESTELLE BROWNING CASE

pc93 says: KATHY CERMINARA HAD CONNECTION TO THE NANCY CRUZAN CASE

F. Gregg Meagher says: GEORGE FELOS IS A PROFESSIONAL ASSASSIN USING THE 'RIGHT TO DIE ISSUE' TO KILL!!!

pc93 says: AND THAT KATHY CERMINARA IS FROM NOVA SOUTHEASTERN SHEPHERD BROAD LAW CENTER

pc93 says: FROM WHICH MICHAEL MASINTER (SUPPOSED DISABILITY ADVOCATE) TEACHES AND THAT HE IS A CHAIR OF THE ACLU

F. Gregg Meagher says: WHAT THEY ARE WATCHING NOW --- ARE THE 'MESSAGES WHICH SKIRT LEGALLY AROUND DESTROYING THEM IF TERRI DIES'...

pc93 says: THE MIAMI BRANCH OF THE ACLU INVOLVED THEMSELVES BECCAUSE OF FELOS' CONNECTIONS WITH THESE PEOPLE

F. Gregg Meagher says: IF THEY BECOME CONCERNED THAT 'PEOPLE' WILL FOLLOW THROUGH - THEY WILL WORRY ABOUT TERRI'S DYING

pc93 says: SO WE HAVE A WHOLE NETWORK TRYING TO AID AND ABET MURDER ON A DISABLED INDIVIDUAL WHO MICHAEL SCHIAVO AND HIS ATTORNEYS HAVE PREVENTED THERAPY (ON PURPOSE) TO KEEP HER FROM BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE

F. Gregg Meagher says: THEY KNOW THAT THEY CONTROL THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL ARENAS

F. Gregg Meagher says: YEP

pc93 says: AND THAT THIS IS A HIT ON HER

pc93 says: TO SET A PRECEDENT

pc93 says: AND TO INCLUDE THE DISABLED AND MOST VULNERABLE ALONG WITH THE ELDERLY

pc93 says: IN THEIR MONEY MAKING SCHEMES

F. Gregg Meagher says: AND ??? PROBABLY SHE FOUND OUT ... BEFORE ALL THIS CAME DOWN ON HER!

pc93 says: IN REGARDS TO FLEECING THEM

F. Gregg Meagher says: TERRI

pc93 says: VIA TRUST FUNDS

F. Gregg Meagher says: NO - I THINK TERRI DISCOVERED THE 'GAME'

pc93 says: IN WHICH THEY DON'T HAVE TO ACCOUNT WHERE THE MONEY GOES

F. Gregg Meagher says: AND PROBABLY THREATENED TO EXPOSE IT

pc93 says: AND VIA CORRUPT JUDGES LIKE GREER

F. Gregg Meagher says: THIS IS TOO ESTABLISHED TO BE ALL ABOUT TERRI

pc93 says: WHO IS CONNECTED TO OTHERS CONNECTED TO HOSPICE

pc93 says: AND GUARDIANSHIPS

F. Gregg Meagher says: AND IT IS TOO ESTABLISHED TO BE ONLY 15+ YEARS OF OPERATIONS

pc93 says: PLAYS PARTY TO THIS CRIMINAL RACKET WHICH AMOUNTS TO RICO CRIMES

F. Gregg Meagher says: YEP

pc93 says: AND IT IS INDEED A CONSPIRACY (BREATHING TOGETHER)

F. Gregg Meagher says: AND THE JUDICIALS OF FLORIDA MAKE CERTAIN WHO IS GUARDIAN AND CONTROL (PROTECT) ALL

pc93 says: TO COMMIT FRAUD AND MURDER ON HELPLESS INDIVIDUALS

F. Gregg Meagher says: YEP

F. Gregg Meagher says: REMEMBER - EVEN CEMENT BREAKS AND STEEL MELTS!

pc93 says: AND WHITEMORE IS MORE THAN LIKELY INVOLVED WITH THESE PEOPLE IN ADDITION TO JUDGE LAZARRA

F. Gregg Meagher says: YEP! IT IS OBVIOUS!

pc93 says: SO TWO CORRUPT FEDERAL JUDGES

pc93 says: AND A WHOLE MESS OF CIRCUIT JUDGES

F. Gregg Meagher says: BUT MAYBE HE DOESN'T HAVE THE GUTS TO MAKE THE FINAL 'MURDER DECISION'???

pc93 says: AND EVEN APPEALS COURT JUDGES ON UP TO THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT

F. Gregg Meagher says: AND PROBABLY MANY MANY MORE

pc93 says: AND INTO THE FEDERAL COURTS EVEN ON UP INTO TAMPA

pc93 says: AND ON UP TO WASH.  D.C.

F. Gregg Meagher says: I SMELL THE KKK IN THIS ALSO

pc93 says: WHEREBY THE SOLDIERS WHO ARE IN IRAQ

pc93 says: COME BACK IN THE 10'S OF THOUSANDS

pc93 says: MAIMED AND DISABLED

F. Gregg Meagher says: ARE STUPID GOD CARING AMERICANS

pc93 says: AND THE V.A. HAS THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC. PROGRAMS READY FOR THEM

F. Gregg Meagher says: WHO WILL FACE THIS 'PRECEDENT'

F. Gregg Meagher says: SURE THING

F. Gregg Meagher says: A FACTORY

pc93 says: MARY LABYAK'S DEATH FACTORY

F. Gregg Meagher says: AND SALES SYSTEM

F. Gregg Meagher says: YOU KNOW BETTER THAN I

pc93 says: AND PROBABLY SUITCASES OF CASH BEING EXCHANGED BY HAND TO THE PLAYERS

pc93 says: OR OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS

F. Gregg Meagher says: TRUCKLOADS

pc93 says: SHALL I SEND THIS CONVO OUT?

pc93 says: BURST THEIR BUBBLE?

F. Gregg Meagher says: WHY NOT

F. Gregg Meagher says: WHAT CAN WE LOSE - THEY DON'T WANT TO BATTLE ANYONE

F. Gregg Meagher says: IT IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR THEM TO OPEN UP THINGS FURTHER

pc93 says: I GUESS HAVE TO INCLUDE THE TIMELINE OF DEATH TOO

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~joyinlife/

 

pc93 says: PER CHESHIRE AND TONS OF OTHER DOCTORS TERRI IS NOT PVS OR COMATOSE, IS NOT TERMINAL AND IS HAVING ATTEMPTED MURDER ON HER LIFE BY THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST, INC., PINELLAS PARK POLICE AND OTHER CONSPIRATORS WHO ARE TAKING PART IN EFFORTS TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM HELPING HER AND ARE PARTICIPATING IN EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT TERRI IS MURDERED!

pc93 wrote:

Gov Bush/Christa:

Then where were the US Marshalls or FDLE yesterday? I was there and it was a repeat of Oct. 2003. It is as if your hand surgically removed Terri's feeding port.

You are torturing Terri... she needed rehab and therapy and you removed her feeding port. She told her parents yesterday that she wanted to live twice by saying "yeaahhh" and they were kicked out of the room and the Pinellas Park police said she said "nnoooo".

WAKE UP AND TAKE ACTION TO STOP HER MURDER, AS I AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHERS HAVE BEGGED YOU.

A DCF investigator in Pinellas County who I spoke to yesterday was apathetic and non-helpful to me when I answered her call back. As far as I am concerned the person I spoke to is incompetant and should never have said anything about THE GRAND CONSPIRACY. I never said anything about a conspiracy on the phone and she just brought this up.

You are killing Terri. Once again I beseech you to please stop her murder.

Juan V Schoch
407-925-4141

Governor Jeb Bush wrote:

 

Thank you for writing me regarding the tragic case of Terri Schiavo.  People on all sides of this issue know that Terri has been severely impaired since 1990, and that she unfortunately left no written directive detailing her wishes regarding actions taken by her doctors to keep her alive.  Her condition has been the focus of an emotional and lengthy legal battle.  On more than one occasion, the courts have ordered that she starve to death.
 

Many Floridians, like the Schiavo and Schindler families, disagree about what should be done.  However, I believe that we should err on the side of life.  I am therefore committed to use all lawful means to keep Terri Schiavo alive and to work with the Florida Legislature on appropriate legislation to expand those lawful means as necessary.  I also applaud the efforts of Florida Congressman Dave Weldon and Senator Mel Martinez for sponsoring legislation to address these issues at the federal level.

 

Please know that I respect the opinions of those who disagree with the actions I have taken.  This is a heart-wrenching case, and I have not taken any action without thought, reflection and an appreciation for other points of view.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Jeb Bush

pc93 wrote:

Demand Protective Custody for Terri Schiavo!
24 March 2005 9:28 AM (Central)

The Supreme Court has denied hearing Terri's Case!!! The only option is the Executive powers of State of Florida and Federal. The hands of the Chief Executive of the State of Florida (Governor, law enforcement, etc.) and Federal (President of the U.S.A., law enforcement) will be aiding and abetting murder if they do not put Theresa Schiavo into protective custody and begin investigations.

Please spread this and ask for the Governor to order DCF or whatever agency to put Terri into EMERGENCY protective custody.

Greer put a restraining order on DCF to prevent them from helping Terri.. but they have EMERGENCY protective custody power which Greer cannot restrain.

Call the Governor and the President and ask for EMERGENCY protective custody and investigations.

Send this to all your contacts and more!

DCF Kelly McKibben - 407-245-0530

Dept. of Children and Family Services is considering taking Terri into protective custody due to so many phone calls about abuse......Help them decide,
CALL NOW!
1-850-487-1111
1-850-488-2381

The White House

Phone Numbers

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461 TTY/TDD

TTY/TDD

Comments: 202-456-6213
Visitors Office: 202-456-2121

SPREAD THIS AS FAR AND WIDE AS YOU CAN

Also the Governor's and President's info.

http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/government/contacts/contactGov.htmlv

E-mail:
Governor Jeb Bush
jeb.bush@myflorida.com <mailto:jeb.bush@myflorida.com>

Telephone:
850/488-4441
Fax: 850/487-0801

Executive Office of Governor, Legal Team to Jeb (ask to speak to the following individuals):

Robert H. Fernandez (Deputy General Counsel to Governor) -> fernanr@eog.state.fl.us

Raquel A. Rodriguez (General Counsel to Governor) -> raquel.rodriguez@myflorida.com

Christa Calamas (Assistant General Counsel to Governor) -> calamac@eog.state.fl.us

850 / 488-3494 (voice)

850 / 488-9810 (fax)

State of Florida Office of Civil Rights 954-712-4601

*Disability Rights Section Mailing Address* (updated November 13, 2001)

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Civil Rights Division
Disability Rights Section - NYAV
Washington, D.C. 20530

*Section Fax Number*

(202) 307-1198

*Chief*

John L. Wodatch
(202) 307-0663

*/Deputy Chiefs/*

L. Irene Bowen
(202) 307-2245

Allison J. Nichol
(202) 514-8301

Renee Wohlenhaus
(202)514-5527

Jeanine Worden
(202) 514-5527

*/Special Legal Counsel/*

Philip L. Breen
(202) 616-7526

+++

PLEASE Read this testimony before Greer yesterday (23Mar2005). The attorney
for the DCF stated that it DOES NOT HAVE TO ASK GREER'S PERMISSION TO
INTERVENE! *IF* this is the case, they need to STOP dragging their feet and
get in there and take Terri into PROTECTIVE CUSTODY! This is a SWORN
TESTIMONY before Greer.

Feel free to write to me if you need help with faxing from the internet, or
finding information or contact info, or email addresses, or if you have an
idea or question! Just put "JANE!" in the subject line so I can find it right
away. You can send to me at _JaneyButtn@yahoo.com_
(mailto:JaneyButtn@yahoo.com) or _JaneyButtn@aol.com_ (mailto:JaneyButtn@aol.com) I will do
whatever I can to help you or get your word spread out to all the boards and groups
I belong to. I promise to help Lisa and Tammy however I am able. And... I'm
honored to be a part of such a wonderful group. Thank you! You are all
really wonderful people!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
State Told Not to Enforce
Law Protecting Terri Schiavo
_www.Townhall.com_ (http://www.Townhall.com)
3/24/05

(CNSNews.com) - The Florida judge presiding over the
Terri Schiavo case ordered the state agency charged
with protecting vulnerable adults to make no attempt
to take the brain-injured woman into protective
custody late Wednesday. The order appears to be in
direct contradiction to a state statute that requires
the agency to act.

Mayo Clinic neurologist Dr. William Cheshire -- who is
also a member of the Florida's Adult Protective
Services team -- said late Wednesday that Terri
Schiavo "may have been misdiagnosed" by one court
appointed doctor and two other physicians chosen by
Michael Schiavo.

Those three doctors declared Terri to be in a
persistent vegetative state (PVS), but Cheshire said,
based on his examination of Terri and review of her
records, she is more likely in a minimally conscious
state (MCS). The term is a new diagnostic description
that has come into acceptance since Terri was last
examined.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said the new information "raises
serious concerns and warrants immediate action.

"Terri is now going on her sixth day without food or
water," Gov. Bush told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
"It is imperative that she be stabilized so that the
adult protective services team can fulfill their
statutory duty and thoroughly review all the facts
surrounding her case."

One member of the media asked if the state Department
of Children and Families (DCF) planned to take Terri
Schiavo into protective custody, remove her from the
hospice where she is being dehydrated and starved to
death or try to reinsert her feeding and hydration
tube.

"We are looking at every potential opportunity to be
of assistance," replied DCF Secretary Lucy Hadi.

That response apparently prompted the attorney for
Terri's estranged husband and legal guardian, Michael
Schiavo, to contact Pinellas County Circuit Court
Judge George Greer, requesting a court order barring
the state from acting. Noted "right-to-die" attorney,
author and activist George Felos argued during a court
hearing later Wednesday that DCF had "no more power
than ... a person walking down the street," to place
Terri in protective custody.

"Any action would be a violation of Mrs. Schiavo's
constitutional right to refuse medical treatment. It
would be a violation of her civil rights. It would be
an assault, a battery, a trespass on her," Felos
argued, following his assessment with a threat aimed
at DCF officials, "and, should that occur and should
that be attempted, we will hold those to the fullest
extent of the law."

But Florida statute
2004-Ch0415-Section%201051#0415.1051"415.1051 seems to
contradict Felos' claim.

The statute states, "If it appears that the vulnerable
adult ... is likely to incur a risk of death or
serious physical injury if such person is not
immediately removed from the premises, then the
representative of the department shall transport or
arrange for the transportation of the vulnerable adult
to an appropriate medical or protective services
facility in order to provide emergency protective
services."

Jennifer Lima-Smith, an attorney for the DCF, reminded
Greer that the agency does not need his permission in
advance to act.

**Jane's NOTE: IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN THE DCF
NEEDS TO STOP DRAGGING THEIR FEET, GIVE A
BIG "HIGH-FINGER" TO GREER AND DO EXACTLY
AS THEY ARE ABLE (AND REQUIRED) TO DO!!!**


"The law allows the department to exercise both
emergency protective services -- intervention and
emergency removal -- either one or both," Lima-Smith
told Greer.

The statute also appears to specifically exempt DCF
from an otherwise enforceable mandate to seek Michael
Schiavo's permission to remove Terri.

"If the vulnerable adult's caregiver or guardian is
present, the protective investigator must seek the
caregiver's or guardian's consent ... before the
vulnerable adult may be removed from the premises,"
the law states, "unless the protective investigator
suspects that the vulnerable adult's caregiver or
guardian has caused the abuse, neglect, or
exploitation."

The only authorization or requirement for the
involvement of the courts in an emergency intervention
or removal comes after DCF has taken its action. "The
department shall, within 24 hours after providing or
arranging for emergency removal of the vulnerable
adult, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal
holidays, petition the court for an order authorizing
emergency protective services."

Nonetheless, Greer rebuked the agency, ordering it not
to attempt to enforce the state law.

"Since it appears imminent that the department is
likely to do something in contravention of that rule
of law, this court is going to grant the oral motion,"
Greer said. "DCF is hereby restrained from taking
possession of Theresa Marie Schiavo or removing her
from Hospice Woodside, administer (sic) nutrition or
hydration artificially or otherwise interfere (sic)
with this court's final judgment."

That final portion of Greer's oral order seems to
contradict yet another portion of the statute,
entitled "Emergency medical treatment.

"If, upon admission to a medical facility, it is the
opinion of the medical staff that immediate medical
treatment is necessary to prevent serious physical
injury or death, and that such treatment does not
violate a known health care advance directive prepared
by the vulnerable adult," the statute states, "the
medical facility may proceed with treatment to the
vulnerable adult."

Terri Schiavo has no such advance directive.

At approximately 11:00 p.m. EST, attorneys for Terri
Schiavo's parents filed a 40-plus page request for an
emergency injunction with the U.S. Supreme Court. The
pleading asks the justices to order Terri's feeding
and hydration tube reinserted while the lower federal
courts conduct a completely new trial of the facts in
the case. That review was mandated by special
legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by
President George W. Bush earlier in the week.

+++

In a place that we call the land of the free, we are not. In the
place we call America the Beautiful, we are not. Instead Live free,
and die, and America we are the Ugly.

Ive lost faith in our Judicial System, simply for the fact that they
themselves can not determine a life from a food. They dont realize
that once, themselves, they have been in a state like Mrs. Terri
Schiavo. You were once in a state that you responded to stimuli but
could not talk. You were in your mothers womb. You are a daughter,
you are a son. You may or may not be a husband or wife.

Terri's Parents are the closest of Kin to her. They want
responsibility for their daughter, but because of court ruling she
cant get the adequit care that could improve her chances.

Terry is not a vegetable, she has movements, she makes noise, she
comprehends certain things. She responded to Stimuli. Terri was put
into a position that she will never be able to get out of because of
her husband and for the Judicial System of the United States.

Terri's husband should be investigated for attempted murder, and if
these court dont do what is right, soon should be looked at for
murder. There was evidence that she was reacting to something when a
nurse found insulin in the garbage. They did not act. They fired the
nurse.

The courts, which they wont, should place out an order that requires
a divorce. He obviously created bigamy and betrayed his wife.

God Created Everyone Equal. No, its apparent that he didnt. God
created murderers and people like her husband. He clearly doesnt want
her to be a live, and he doesnt want to go to "hell" for divorce, but
he still.

In god we Trust. Trust we dont. The United States has turned itself
into a mad house. A house that murder and masacre are "ok" because
shes a "vegetable", oh shes good as dead anyway, right? Wrong. Fact
is, Terri really isnt a vegetable shes a human being with a heart, a
will and the ablity to do things that a vegetative state person could
not.

Her husband, should be forced to sit in there with her and watch her,
see what shes going through (because hes to busy with his Tator ToT
on the side). We should stick him in a room and starve him, its an
eye for an eye.

United States Judicial System, you've dissapointed many. Its apparent
that Life to you isnt worth living. She was denied proper care, and
you see it fit to deny her more. You've Truly discusted me and all
faith Ive had in the United States.

This country has lost its sense of morals.
I hope one day- good will come from all of this.

Sincerly
Patron Of the United States
in the land of the dead.

This Brings new meaning to the word Pro-Life.

Congratulations!
You've turned the United States into something it wasn't meant to be.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369363/posts?page=2#2


THE ‘CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM’ OF SCHIAVO, FELOS AND GREER … AND
ACCOMPLICES

HAVE MISJUDGED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE…

ALL ‘HELL’ IS BREAKING-OUT AND THE ‘PROOF’ AGAINST THEM IS MOVING
RAPIDLY INTO DIVERSE INTERNATIONAL DATA BANKS … FOR RESEARCH,
ACCUMULATION, AND FINAL DOCUMENTATION OF FACTS WHICH WILL, I SAY
WILL, DEMONSTRATE:


MURDER IN THE PREMEDIATED FIRST DEGREE CLASS
VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
ABUSE
TORTURE THROUGH MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION
KIDNAPPING AND HOSTAGE
MEDICAIDE FRAUD
AND ON-….

CORRUPTION AT JUDICIAL LEVELS
BRIBE
FAILURE TO PERFORM
CRIMINAL COVER-UP OF FACT
ETC.

WHAT THE ABOVE HAVE WITNESSED AS A ‘JUST REACTION’ TO THEIR
CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS NOTHING …
FACTUAL MATERIALS ARE NOW BEING ‘MASS DISTRIBUTED’

TO THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC COMMUNITY!!!

OPINIONATED ‘MEDIA’ WILL BE ELIMINATED AND FACTS WILL BE
BROADCAST … WATCH THE FORTHCOMING ADDS … AT NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL LEVELS…

HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE STANDING-BY AND
BELIEVE THAT TERRI DESERVES ‘JUSTICE’ UPON HER TORTURERS
AND MURDERERS!!!

IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME … AND TERRI SCHINDLER WILL HAVE
HER ‘JUSTICE’!!!


F. Gregg Meagher
Terri’s Justice in the World

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

QUESTION PLEASE:

IS IT WRONG TO FIGHT FOR LIFE AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF OUR CONSTITUTION?

IT IS WRONG TO FREELY EXPRESS YOUR BELIEFS AND OPINIONS?

IS IT WRONG TO FOLLOW THE PATH WHICH YOUR ‘CREATOR’ SHOWS YOU TO BE THE EFFECTIVE PATH?

IS IT WRONG TO ‘SPEAK’ FREELY?

IS IT WRONG TO SAY THAT WHICH IS OBVIOUS AND DOCUMENTED FACT?

IS IT WRONG TO BE AN ‘AMERICAN HERO’ WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM, IRAQ, IWO JIMA, ETC.?

IS IT WRONG TO BE AN ‘AMERICAN’ WHO IS WILLING TO LEGALLY FIGHT IN FLORIDA TO PRESERVE ‘LIFE’

AND AMERICA’S VALUES???



PLEASE ANSWER, SO THAT I KNOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S POSITION! AS I HAVE BEEN VERBALLY ACCUSED

OF BEING WRONG IN DOING SO; AND IF I AM WRONG … I WILL START PROCESSING MY CHANGE OF ‘CITIZENSHIP’ INTO

LIBYA OR SYRIA … WHERE THE SAME ‘WRONG’ APPLIES – HOWEVER, IT IS UPFRONT AND HONEST!!!



THANK YOU, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT:::

F. Gregg Meagher

Citizen of the United States of America and Highly Decorated Combat Veteran.

 

---

 

Subject: pass it on

From: pc93 <pc93@bellsouth.net>

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:30:49 -0500

To: cheryl ford <fight4terri@aol.com>, justice1949@aol.com, "terris >> \"TERRISHOPE@aol.com\"" <TERRISHOPE@aol.com>

THIS MESSAGE MUST REACH THE PROTESTERS, NOW
NEWS REPORTING  LOSING HOPE BUT STILL PRAYING
FACT>>>LOST MODE TO PRAYER  REDISCOVERED IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS...
PRAY AS IT IS ALREADY DONE AND  BELIEVE GOD'S WILL BE DONE...BE JOYFUL NOW IN THE EYE OF THE CAMERA'S...THE  CALVARY IS ON THE WAY...GOD PROMISED
MOFMARS...THE OTHER TRUTH  WARRIOR


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PLEASE EVERYONE! CONTINUE TO CONTACT GOVERNOR JEB BUSH. MAKE YOUR EMAILS
OR FAXES OR PHONE CALLS "SHORT AND SWEET!" THIS IS IMPORTANT!

First Point: Terri is being neglected, abused and exploited. Terri's
rights have been stripped from her, merely and only because she is disabled.

Point Two: Judge Greer PRESENTLY is under CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS! Greer
should recuse himself and not be allowed to hear ANY motion on the matter.

Point Three: The Governor has and should execute his powers to TAKE TERRI
SCHINDLER SCHIAVO INTO PROTECTIVE CUSTODY!

Keep the Faith,
Jane


Remeber to visit Terri's site: _www.terrisfight.org_
(http://www.terrisfight.org/) <http://www.terrisfight.org/%29>

I got through too: 850-488-5603

Ask them to please put Terri Schiavo into protective custody as their attempted murder against her.

Was able to get a fax through to president at 1-202-456-2461 Was able to get calls through to Jeb at these two numbers:

850-488-5603

850-488-5000 (Gov. Legislative Affairs Office)


_Jeb Bush_ (mailto:jeb@myflorida.com <mailto:mailto:jeb@myflorida.com>)
_Jeb@MyFlorida.com <mailto:_Jeb@MyFlorida.com>_ (mailto:Jeb@MyFlorida.com <mailto:mailto:Jeb@MyFlorida.com>)
_Jeb@jeb.org <mailto:_Jeb@jeb.org>_ (mailto:Jeb@jeb.org <mailto:mailto:Jeb@jeb.org>)
Governor Jeb Bush
850 / 488-4441
850 / 487-0801 (fax)
Executive Office of the Governor
400 S. Monroe Street
The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0001

The Governor is the supreme executive power in the state. Article IV,
Section 1(a) of the Florida Constitution provides that "he shall take care that the
laws be faithfully executed, commission all officers of the state and
counties, and transact all necessary business with the officers of government."

Denver J. Stutler, Jr., Chief of Staff
850 / 488-5603
850 / 922-4292 (fax)
Patricia Levesque, Deputy Chief of Staff
850 / 488-5603
850 / 922-4292 (fax)
William Large, Deputy Chief of Staff
850 / 488-5603
850 / 922-4292 (fax)
Deirdre Finn, Deputy Chief of Staff
850 / 488-5603
850 / 922-4292 (fax)
The Chief of Staff and Deputy Chiefs of Staff assist the Governor in the
formulation and implementation of his policies through legislation, the
budgetary process, and supervision of state agencies, and through management of
relations with the Cabinet, constituencies, other governments and institutions,
the press, and the general public. They also manage the Executive Office of the
Governor in the pursuit of this mission.

_Toni Jennings_ (mailto:fl_ltgov@myflorida.com <mailto:mailto:fl_ltgov@myflorida.com>)
_fl_ltgov@myflorida.com <mailto:_fl_ltgov@myflorida.com>_ (mailto:fl_ltgov@myflorida.com <mailto:mailto:fl_ltgov@myflorida.com>)
Lieutenant Governor
850 / 488-4711
The Lieutenant Governor assists the Governor in the performance of his
responsibilities and carries out specific duties as assigned by the Governor.
Mark Kaplan, Lt. Governor's Chief of Staff
850 / 488-4711
850 / 921-6114 (fax)
The Chief of Staff assists the Lt. Governor in the performance of her
responsibilities and carries out specific duties as assigned by the Governor.

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Gov Bush fax - 850-681-0184
DCF fax - 850-922-2993

Carrie <carriekae3@yahoo.com> wrote:
I need Governor Bush's fax number as well as the fax number of the DCF, please.


Keep fighting for Terri!  She NEEDS our Voices! 

Alan & Suzanne Nevling wrote:

Hi, David,

This just in; nearly made my 7 day bread and coffee fast puke dry....OMG

BREAKING NEWS: DOCTOR STATES that Terri hit on head between day 2 and 6 after collapse FEB/March 1990; Suffered intracranial hemorrhage while in hospital

I saw that at the Empire Journal yesterday afternoon.

It's becoming more and more obvious that all levels of government have abandoned this innocent lady.   Disgusting is a mild description term of how I feel.   Last night I was sobbing over the situation.

Certainly Jeb Bush has authority to pardon Terri.   Similar power of authority might be available to George -- if he cared to utilize it.   I 've been sending out text of Florida's Constitution section on pardons to radio hosts, etc.  I'll be sending to WorldNetDaily later and hope an outcry and demand will ensue.  Greer would not be able to do anything legally against Bush for use of the pardon option.

This Rich Galen article is new information for me.   Thanks for sending.

Suzanne Nevling

Schindler v. Schiavo II [Judge Whittemore willfully ignored Public Law 109-3]
[ HOT STUFF ]   Mullings.com E-Mail ^ | Friday, March 24, 2005 | Rich Galen
 

Posted on 03/24/2005 11:15:30 PM EST by CyberAnt

According to a few Members of the US House of Representatives, I was incorrect in my assertion on Wednesday that the bill signed into law early Monday morning (Public Law 109-3) simply gave Terri Schiavo's parents access to the Federal Courts and did not require the reinsertion of her feeding tube.

The "few Members" of the House of Reps include Speaker Dennis Hastert, Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Majority Whip Roy Blount, and Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner as well as Florida Congressman Dave Weldon (who is an M.D.) submitted a "friend of the court" brief asserting the legislative intent of the law.

Their brief stated that Public Law 109-3, requires US District Court Judge James Whittemore to have Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted pending the outcome of the federal court reviews.

The section of the brief in question reads, "Clearly, the Middle District of Florida is required by Public Law 109-3 to keep Theresa Marie Schiavo alive until such time as a de novo review of her claims occur."

According to the Findlaw.com legal dictionary, "de novo" means, "over again; as if for the first time."

When the Supreme Court, in a 33-word order, ruled unanimously that Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube should not be reinserted, it rendered PL 109-3 moot, whatever the intention of the Congress was and whatever its Constitutionality.

But let's track back over this anyway.

Either PL 109-3 is Unconstitutional, meaning the Congress, under the doctrine of separation of powers, cannot require a Federal judge to issue a specific order in a specific case; OR Judge Whittemore chose to ignore a Constitutionally acceptable law, which might well qualify as bad behavior on his part.

Let's go to the rule book:

Article I, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states that "The House of Representatives … shall have the sole Power of Impeachment."

Article I, section 3 states "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments."

Article III, section 1 states that Federal judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behavior," which is the basis of the lifetime appointment for Federal judges.

There is a concept in US Constitutional law of "Judicial Review" which has been in force since 1803 when Chief Justice John Marshall first asserted it in Marbury v Madison.

Judicial Review grants Federal courts the right - and responsibility - to (according to findlaw.com) "strike down an act of Congress as inconsistent with the Constitution."

My excellent memory of Dr. Robert Hill's Con Law class at Marietta College does not include in that doctrine, the Judiciary's authority to simply ignore a law which is otherwise Constitutional.

So,

If PL 109-3 is Constitutional; and

If the House was serious about the passage of PL 109-3; and

If the intent of the legislation was to have Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted; and

If U.S. District Judge Whittemore willfully ignored PL 109-3; and

If a Federal judge can only continue to serve "during good behavior;" and

If defying a lawful statute is bad behavior; and

If the House of Representatives has "the sole power of impeachment;" then,

The House Judiciary Committee should immediately being impeachment proceedings against Judge Whittemore.

Whew!

I do not expect that the House will impeach Judge Whittemore and if they did, I would not expect that the US Senate would convict.

Articles of Impeachment have only been adopted by the House 62 times since 1789. Of the cases which went to a Senate trial only seven resulted in convictions. All seven, interestingly, were Federal judges.

The appalling case of Terri Schiavo and her family is coming to an end. It may not have lasting significance from a political standpoint, but its impact on the legislative/judicial relationship may echo for years to come.

On the "Secret Decoder Ring" page today: The text of the Supreme Court's order; the text of the House Leadership's friend of the court brief; a eye-wiper of a Mullfoto, and an extremely clever Catchy Caption of the Day.

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