http://saveterrislife.com

Dear Friends of Terri,

Now is the time to help the Schindlers save their daughter. It is
imperative that we maintain a stream of steady protesters at 3
different locations during the next three weeks.

The pickets will last anywhere between  4 to 6 hours each day.

If you can PLEASE help Terri by commiting to any number of days to
participate in peaceful picketing from now until the 18th of March,
please email me your availability immediately.

Fight4Terri @aol.com

(fight4Terri at aol dot com)


Please forward this email on to others.

Thank you so much,

Cheryl Ford, RN



Fight4Terri @aol.com


Visit Terri's site: www.terrisfight.org



Cheryl Ford, RN (Fight4Terri@...) is not affiliated with any
other group and works as an independent volunteer promoting the
protection of Florida's disabled community.

The following was written by an avid Terri supporter and researcher,
Melissa Roxanne Stanley.

I have 2 websites dedicated to Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

Extensive evidence & information can be found on my yahoo site,
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/
which you can easily find by typing saveterrislife (all one word)
into google or yahoo or go to http://www.saveterrislife.com
There is also a link there to my yahoo site.

Click on any post on my websites and find FAR MORE information,
evidence, and links than only what the TITLE of each post states.

Melissa Roxanne Stanley
saveterrislife
DeLand, Volusia County, Florida




Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)








There is actual proof Terri never had a heart attack, that proof
being the medical tests done on Terri after she was taken to the
emergency room and admitted to Northside Hospital on February 25,
1990.
Potassium causes damage by causing heart attacks.  Since Terri did
not have a heart attack, the potassium is not a factor in her so-
called collapse.  Neither is a heart attack.

The electrolyte issue being talked about in the above interview /
transcript you will read below is not a factor in Terri's so-called
collapse, either.  Terri didn't "collapse".  There is no proof Terri
ever had bulimia or any other eating disorder.

There is proof Terri was severely beaten on February 25, 1990, that
proof being the bone scan http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg
done on Terri on March 5, 1991, which was 53 weeks after Michael
severely beat, strangled, and probably injected Terri with insulin on
February 25, 1990, per all of the evidence.  Terri was a victim of
severe domestic violence by her husband, Michael Schiavo, and he
continues to attempt to kill her to this very day.  He has attempted
to kill her many times in the past as well, not only the 2 times her
feeding tube was removed in April 2001 and in October, 2003.

Michael Schiavo was appointed Terri's guardian by the court on June
18, 1990, soon after he almost killed her by his severe beating,
stranulation, and most likely injected her with insulin on February
25, 1990.



I was watching the TV program cited directly below and have the
entire interview on videotape.  The title alone makes me SICK!

Please read the following transcript of an interview full of TOTAL
DISINFORMATION about Terri, which cannot be backed up by any
evidence, and to see what the INNACURATE INFORMATION SPOUTERS /
PROPAGANDISTS just claimed, (on TV last Thursday night), happened to
Terri on February 25, 1990:

Terri Schiavo's Condition Explained

Fox News

This is a partial transcript from "On the Record," February 24, 2005,
that has been edited for clarity.

(Note from Melissa / saveterrislife:  This is the full transcript of
the interview.  I have it on videotape and it is all there.)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RANDALL TERRY, FIGHTING FOR TERRI SCHIAVO: This guy is the Dr.
Kevorkian of law, and he has dragged Michael Schiavo down the path of
his own agenda!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Terri Schiavo's (search) supporters are
waging war on her husband's attorney just hours ago in Florida.

In less than 18 hours, a Florida judge will decide whether the
feeding tube that keeps Terri Schiavo alive will remain in place.
Schiavo has been in a vegetative state for 15 years. What happened to
put her in this tragic situation?

Joining us in Miami is Gary Fox, the lawyer who represented Terri
Schiavo and her husband, Michael, in a malpractice case. And on the
phone is forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. Gary, let's start
with you. First of all, 1990, what happened to your then client?

GARY FOX, 1992 ATTORNEY FOR SCHIAVOS: What happened, Greta, as best
we know, is that Terri had a condition known as bulimia (search).
It's an eating disorder. She'd had it for many years. She grew up as
a chubby, overweight child, and over time, she coped with that
condition by developing this eating disorder, bulimia.

One night, Michael and Terri had had dinner. And she had had a large
meal, and not long after the meal, he heard a thumping sound in the
couple's bathroom, went to investigate, found Terri lying on the
floor of the bathroom. She had just purged, apparently, or vomited,
binged, which is what bulimics do and had a heart attack. And by the
time that fire rescue arrived at the Schiavo home, why, she had
suffered severe brain damage.

VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Now, you sued on behalf of Michael and Terri
successfully, a malpractice claim. What's the short answer to what
the malpractice was?

FOX: The short answer? The short answer, Greta, is that Terri had
bulimia, an eating disorder. She had symptoms of the eating disorder.
She had abnormal menstrual bleeding. She went to the doctors time and
time and time again. They didn't ask her the appropriate questions,
did not ask her to take the appropriate tests, as a result of which,
the cause of the bleeding went undiagnosed and untreated, and she
ended up, as many bulimics do, purging once too often, and her
electrolytes were thrown out of whack. She had a heart attacking and
resulting brain damage.

VAN SUSTEREN: And how much money, or was it sealed? Is it public or
not, the amount of money.

FOX: No, it is public. The jury returned a verdict after about a two-
week trial of between $8 million and $9 million for Terri and
Michael. The jury also found Terri to be 70 percent responsible for
her own condition because she induced herself to vomit.

VAN SUSTEREN: So they ended up with what?

FOX: I can't remember exactly the amount, Greta, but I think the
gross recovery was between $2 million and $3 million.

VAN SUSTEREN: OK. Dr. Baden, you've looked at this.

DR. MICHAEL BADEN, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: Right.

VAN SUSTEREN: Any chance that Terri can recover, at least in your
opinion? I know that you're not treating her, but what you know about
it.

BADEN: I think from all that I reviewed, she's not going to get any
better than she is. As she is now, she will not improve because of
all the brain damage that's there.

VAN SUSTEREN: Gary, did you actually get to see Terri when you were
handling the case?

FOX: I did, Greta. We went to visit Terri at the nursing facility
(search) where she was. We spent a lot of time with her because I
wanted to meet her and determine for myself whether she was
responsive, what her condition was, how she dealt with Michael, the
kind of treatment she was getting from the nurses and the doctors. So
the answer is, yes, we went out and spent many hours with Terri.

VAN SUSTEREN: While you were there, did you see any sort of
improvement from the first time you saw her to the last time you saw
her? I know this is a long time ago, but did you see improvement?

FOX: I did not.

BADEN: Greta?

VAN SUSTEREN: Yes. Go ahead, Dr. Baden.

BADEN: Yes. No. What's interesting about what Mr. Fox is saying,
there were lots of diets, especially many years ago, that had bizarre
dietary eating habits and got electrolytes mixed up, as Mr. Fox said,
mostly the potassium. If you got too high potassium or too low
potassium, then the heart stops...

VAN SUSTEREN: And that's what happened.

BADEN: But it's not from a hardening of the arteries. It stops the
heart. If there's not enough blood going to the brain for five
minutes because of the heart stoppage, then it causes permanent brain
damage.

VAN SUSTEREN: All right, Gary, Dr. Baden, thank you both very much.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,148756,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148756,00.html



Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...



These are the most BLATANT LIES I have heard yet regarding Terri,
though just about every single article about Terri that comes out of
the mainstream press and just about every single TV program about
Terri and this case gives out disinformation, this interview
absolutely BLEW ME AWAY with it's falsities!

I have the court transcripts which will prove there are many lies
stated in the above interview, as well as other evidence and I will
be writing about this in the future!  Terri was NOT throwing up in
the bathroom right before Michael claims he heard a thud and claims
he found her on the floor, which he, his attorneys, and the comlicit
media propagandits always refer to as Terri (so-called) "collapse"!
Terri and Michael had NOT gone out to dinner the night before,
either, as Gary Fox, Miachael's former attorney, claims in the above
interview!

Michael was working very late that night, and arrived home well after
midnight!  Terri was home alone that night, until Michael arrived.
There is no proof whatsoever that Terri was throwing up just before
her so-called collapse on February 25, 1990!  In fact, Michael's own
court testimonies at various times NEVER ONCE mentions this little
throwing up episode just before he claims he found Terri lying on the
floor.

He actually beat her severely, strangling her, cutting off her oxygen
supply for anywhere from 5-8 minutes, resulting in her brain injury
which caused brain damage, and from the evidence, including what the
paramedics found when they examined Terri after arriving at their
residence that morning.  Michael also, per the evidence, most likely
injected Terri with insulin, though Terri was not a diabetic!)  The
police came out since there was no reason for Terri, a 26 year old,
healthy woman, to be found on the floor, face down, clutching her
neck, with no known cause.  The police report was routed to Homocide
due to these reasons, but the police never did any investigation
whatsoever.  Why this was never investigated at the time is still
unknown to this day.

Now for the actual TRUTH, according to the actual EVIDENCE:

FIRST of all, Dr. Michael Baden, the Forensic Pathologist being
interviewed by phone on TV as cited in the transcript above, was
singing a very different tune in October of 2003 about Terri and her
injuries from 1990, and how she received them, as you will read in
the following transcript, which I have been unable to find at this
point on the Fox News website, but which I watched at the time, and
most likely still have on videotape.  Note that Dr. Baden does state
in the transcript of the interview below, that Terri
is "vegetative".  This is not true.  Terri is not vegetative, nor is
she in a Persistent Vegetative State, or PVS, nor is she in a coma of
any kind.

Here's the transcript from an October 24, 2003 TV show on
Fox News Channel's "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
interviewing Dr. Baden about Terri's injuries:

"On the Record" with Greta van Susteren

Interview with Dr. Michael Baden, a Forensic Pathologist from NY

10-24-03

Greta: Dr. Baden, a potassium imbalance, let's first talk about if
you have a potassium deficiency, can that cause the condition that
Terri Schiavo has?

Baden: Um, can, but unlikely. Potassium is very interesting. It's
probably the most lethal poison we have when it's injected rapidly,
and that's why it's the poison that kills people, capital punishment
by lethal injection. And it stops the heart from beating properly —
too much of it. But also too little of it., hypo-potassium, can also
cause the heart to stop beating properly and lead to lack of blood
flow to the brain and death of brain cells by lack of oxygen. But
that's very unusual, Greta, extremely unusual.

Greta: A normal healthy woman, I assume, would have no reason, for
instance, to take potassium supplements unless, perhaps, she's on a
diuretic or some other medication that would cause a potassium
depletion. Is that right?

Baden: That's correct. That's right.

Greta: Is there any explanation then in your mind, and I realize you
were not her team physician, but why would a woman at her age have a
potassium imbalance?

Baden: Extremely unusual unless she had certain kinds of diseases,
which she doesn't have. She was in her twenties. The reason that
she's in the state she's in is because there was a period of time,
maybe 5 minutes or 8 minutes, when not enough oxygen was going to
her brain. That can happen because the heart stops for 5 or 8
minutes, but she had a healthy heart, from what we can see. The
other thing, though. . . I'm sorry Greta?

Greta: No, go ahead.

Baden: Yeah, your staff has provided me with a bone scan that you
guys obtained ah from her initial admission in 1991 to the hospital.
And that bone scan describes her as having a head injury. That's why
she's there, that's why she's getting a bone scan. And a head injury
can cause, lead to the vegetative state that Ms. Schiavo is in now,
(continues below)

(Note from saveterrislife: Terri is not in a vegetative state, nor
is Terri in a Persistent Vegetative State, known as PVS, as you can
see by clicking on this link:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/balloon.rm

(Now, continuing with Dr. Baden's quote from above):

and it does show evidence that there are other injuries, other bone
fractures, that on healing-stage, so that....

Greta: So, let me back up a second. Head injury. Could she have had,
could she have passed out from a potassium imbalance causing a
falling head injury? Is that what you're talking about, or are you
suggesting some pre-existing head injury to her passing out?

Baden: Something totally different. That it's extremely rare for a
20-year-old to have a cardiac arrest from low potassium who has no
other diseases. So the other issue is could it have been due to some
other cause, which is raised by the family, has to be looked at.

Greta: Alright, other injuries and bone injuries, what does that
suggest to you?

Baden: Some kind of trauma. The trauma can be from an auto accident,
the trauma can be from a fall, or the trauma can be from some kind
of beating that she obtained from somebody somewhere. It's something
that should have been investigated in 1991 when these findings were
found, and….

Greta: They were fresh.

Baden: Maybe there were, Maybe they were investigated by police at
that time.

Greta: Alright. Dr. Michael Baden, thank you.

Baden: Thank you, Greta.

(End of transcript)


Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...


______________________________________________________________________
_____________________________

(More notes from Melissa / saveterrislife: Check out these articles
regarding
what Forensic Pathologist Michael Baden said about Terri in October,
2003):

Questions raised about Terri's collapse
Celebrated forensic pathologist says
1990 injuries should be investigated
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35276


Doctor Says Terri Schiavo Likely Victim of 'Some Kind of Trauma'
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/29/100629.shtml


Was Terri Schiavo Beaten in 1990?
Will There Be an Investigation in Time?
http://tilrc.org/docs/1203schiavo.htm


State-Funded Agency to Probe Claim of Spousal Abuse
in Terri Schiavo Case - Bone scan and injuries indicate severe
trauma and strangulation
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03102701.html


Plus, see this recent article:
Florida Officials Must Impanel Grand Jury
On Alleged Schiavo Abuse
http://theempirejournal.com/alleged_schiavo_abuse_florida_of.htm


______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________

Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

(Note:  Over 100,000 People Had Signed As of Last Night-Melissa
Roxanne Stanley/saveterrislife)



FORT LAUDERDALE-More than 5,000 people an hour are signing an online
"Petition to Save Terri Schiavo." Schiavo, a 41-year-old brain-
injured
woman who has the capacity to respond to her environment, recognize
voices, and who brightens at the presence of her mother, may be
starved to death by court order, starting today at 5 p.m.

"This is one of the strongest responses we have ever seen for an
online petition," said Dr. Gary Cass, Executive Director of the
Center
for Reclaiming America, which is sponsoring the petition campaign.
"The life of an otherwise healthy 41-year-old woman is in jeopardy
today, and thousands of concerned Americans are pleading for action
from Governor Bush," said Dr. Cass, who will personally deliver the
names on the petition to Gov. Bush and Florida legislative leaders in
Tallahassee on Friday, February 25.

The petition urges Governor Bush "to take immediate action to stop
the
forced starvation of Terri Schiavo," and calls for "legislative,
judicial and executive efforts that will stop the forced starvation
of
Terri Schiavo."

The petition may be accessed at http://www.reclaimamerica.org.



Cass also urged that calls and e-mails on Schiavo's behalf be sent to


Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)

Food and water may be denied to Schiavo beginning today at 5 p.m.,
when an emergency stay of an order to remove her feeding tube will
expire. Michael Schiavo, the estranged husband of Terri Schiavo, has
battled Terri's parents in court for years in an attempt to end her
life. Michael, who has lived for at least nine years with another
woman by whom he has had two children, claims Terri would not have
wished to be kept alive. There is no written request from Terri to
document his claim.

"Death by starvation is an extremely cruel and painful ordeal," said
Dr. D. James Kennedy, President and Founder of the Center for
Reclaiming America. "Unless Governor Bush, the Florida legislature,
or
a court intervenes, the court-imposed torture of Terri Schiavo will
take 7-10 days and end in what will be a tragic and, mark my words,
criminal death."

Human starvation and dehydration is attended by hunger pangs,
cracking
of the skin, lips, and tongue; nose bleeds as mucous membranes dry
out; and vomiting as the stomach lining dries out. As the process
goes
on, blood pressure drops, the heart rate increases, and blood is
withdrawn from the extremities and redirected toward vital organs.

"Thomas Jefferson," Dr. Kennedy noted, "said 'the care of human life
and not its destruction is the first and only object of good
government.' A court order that mandates the cruel and unusual
sentence of death by dehydration has violated the very first purpose
of civil government-the care and defense of life. Governor Bush and
the legislature must act now to protect the life of this defenseless
woman. Along with Dr. Cass, I urge concerned Americans to sign the
Center for Reclaiming America's online petition and to flood Governor
Bush, Senate President Lee, and House Speaker Bense with phone calls
and e-mails on her behalf."

To request an interview with Dr. Gary Cass, please contact John Aman
at

(954) 334-5330, or CRMNews@....



US Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Numbers
1-877-762-8762
1-800-839-5276
The White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111
The line only accepts calls from 9-5 EST., Monday thru Friday.
A machine will detain you for only a moment and then a pleasant live
operator says "White House Comment Line" and then you can tell
her/him
how you feel.

Take Action NOW CALL & EMAIL
Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at: Governor Jeb Bush (850) 488-4441 jeb.bush@... WE CAN
MAKE THIS HAPPEN! CALL, CALL CALL!

Take Action!

Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at:

Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@...



______________________________________________________________________
____________



Press Release

For Immediate Release - 02-24-2005 4:00 PM (GMT-5)


Associated Press Targets Terri Schiavo

Media repeats misrepresentations in Terri Schiavo case.


Clearwater, FL - On February 24, 2005, Associated Press released a
report penned by Vickie Chachere which cited an eating disorder as
the cause of Terri Schiavo's mysterious collapse and ensuing brain
injury on February 25, 1990.

Contrary to the account of writer Chachere, there was never a
determination by any court nor the Florida Department of Health that
Terri Schiavo ever suffered from any eating disorder, bulimia,
anorexia or compulsive behavior that would lead to a heart failure at
the age of 26.

Indeed, Florida's Department of Health had completely and absolutely
cleared Terri's general practitioner of any negligence or wrong-doing
in her case. This was after the physician had been accused by Terri's
husband of ignoring evidence of an eating disorder.

Additionally, at the time of her mysterious medical episode, Terri
Schiavo stood 5'3" and weighed somewhere between 115 and 118 pounds -
a slim, but normal stature and weight.

Associated Press writer, Vickie Chachere cites not ONE medical
document that would affirm her careless contention that Terri Schiavo
was an irresponsible dieter or a compulsive victim of an eating
disorder. The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation asks Ms. Chachere to
readily produce the facts upon which she penned such assertions.

The parents and siblings have repeatedly offered to media and press a
copy of a bone scan conducted on Terri Schiavo just one year after
her incident that reveals multiple sites of trauma and broken bones
throughout Terri's body. Neither the law enforcement agencies nor the
media or press have made any effort to investigate why Terri
Schiavo's body was seemingly broken by battery.

Instead, they perpetuate the unsubstantiated claims that Terri
Schiavo suffered from an eating disorder that rendered her healthy,
26 year-old heart incapable of carrying on.

Statement of Robert Schindler, Terri's' Father: ""This is a
slanderous accusation against my daughter with no basis in fact.
Certain members of the press seem determined to spread misinformation
to kill Terri."

The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is calling upon all of media
and press to take up the task of investigating allegations of serious
abuse against Terri Schiavo as are evidenced in the 1991 bone scan
and well as ongoing violations against Terri under Florida's
Guardianship Statutes.

http://terrisfight.org



______________________________________________________________________
_____________________________

Much evidence can be found here that I provided, which was NOT
included, by the writer, in an article about Michael:

Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or MONSTER?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/65

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________

(Note from saveterrislife: Also see Dr. William Hammesfahr's
Complete Report including these quotes about Terri):

"Spinal Exam: The patient's exam from a spinal perspective is
abnormal. The degree of limitation of range of motion, and of
spasms in her neck, is consistent with a neck injury. The abnormal
sensory exam, that shows evidence of her hypoxic encephalopathic
strokes (right side sensory responses are different from left) also
suggests a spinal cord injury at around the level of C4. Her
physical exam and videotapes also suggest a spinal cord injury is
also present, as she has much better control over he face, head, and
neck, than over her arms and legs. This reminds one of a person
with a spinal cord injury who has good facial control, but poor use
of arms and legs."

"It is possible that a correctable spinal abnormality such as a
herniated disk may be found that could be treated and result in
better neurological functioning. This should be looked for, as may
be treatable. Thus, there may be an injured disk or spinal cord; the
disk injury is more treatable, the spinal cord injury, if present
without a disk injury, may be more difficult to treat. A person with
a spinal cord injury and hypoxic encephalopathy will need different
treatment and rehab recommendations than one who just has a hypoxic
encephalopathic."

*** "Interestingly, I have seen this pattern of mixed brain
(cerebral) and spinal cord findings in a patient once before, a
patient who was asphyxiated." ***
http://libertytothecaptives.net/hammesfahr_dr._report.html




See link to entire Complete Report by Dr. Hammesfahr, directly
below, IT IS WELL WORTH READING THE ENTIRE REPORT! Melissa)

http://libertytothecaptives.net/hammesfahr_dr._report.html



Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...



Make sure Jeb Bush knows we know he can stop this attempted murder of
an innocent, disabled woman!

Look on this website for statues (state laws) being broken and which
have been broken in this case. Quote these to Governor Bush's office
and in e-mails, faxes, phone calls to officials and media!

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/1

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/7

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/17

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/18

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/19


Florida Governor Jeb Bush
phone: 850-488-7146
email: jeb.bush@m... or jeb@j...
fax: 850-487-0801 or 850-922-4292
Press Secretary - phone: 850-488-5394
Assistant Donovan Brown - phone: 850-410-0501


PHOTOS/INFO RE: LISA MCPHERSON OF CLEARWATER, FL, WHO DIED OF
DEHYDRATION (CLEARWATER FLORIDA IS THE SAME EXACT CITY TERRI LIVES IN
AT THIS VERY MOMENT!

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/29


Note from saveterrislife (Melissa Roxanne Stanley):
Terri never had a heart attack or cardiac arrest.

See proof of this at http://www.libertytothecaptives.net
Look for "must see articles" including
"Terri Schiavo and the Cardiac Arrest Lies"

See more proof in this interview of Dr. Hammesfahr, Neurologist who
examined Terri. He states that Terri did not have a heart attack.

HAMMESFAHR: I saw her last about a year ago and as part of the court
ordered evaluations.

HANNITY: Yes, but you basically said that she could be rehabilitated,
that she showed...

HAMMESFAHR: Absolutely. She is not in a coma. She did not have a
heart attack. She is not in a coma presently. She absolutely can be
rehabilitated. There's no question about that.

HAMMESFAHR: But the medical record clearly shows that there has never
been a heart attack. Potassium causes damage by causing heart
attacks, so we know the potassium is not an issue



______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________

Police Report re:  Terri Schindler-Schiavo incident, February 25,
1990:

ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT

INCIDENT
90-024846

----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Report Title: CALL FOR ASSISTANCE
Occurred: SUN 02/25/1990 05:40 To:
Call Received:
Dispatched: 02/25/1990 06:11 Arrived: 06:33 Completed: 08:55
Incident Address.: 12201 9 ST N Apt/Unit: 2210
City.:ST PETERSBURG State: FLORIDA Zip: 33716
Census Tract: 0462 Zone: 23 Dist: 2 Area:


------------------------------------ PERSONS -------------------------
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Relationship: WITNESS Type: OTHER
Name.: SCHIAVO, THERESA MARIE W/F Dob: 12/03/1963 Age: 39 Aprx Age:
26
Occupation: FIELD SERVICE RBP.
Address: 12201 9 ST N Apt/Unit: 2210 City: ST PETERSBURG
State: FLORIDA Zip: 33716 Home Phone: 813-577-0012
Employer: PRUDENTIAL INS./SEMINOLE Work Phone: 813-391-2410
Synopsis:


Relationship: WITNESS Type: OTHER
Name.: SCHIAVO, MICHAEL RICHARD W/M Dob: 04/03/1963 Age: 40 Aprx Age:
26
Occupation: GENERAL MANAGER
Address: 12201 9 ST N Apt/Unit: 2210 City: ST PETERSBURG
State: FLORIDA Zip: 33716 Home Phone: 813-577-0012
Employer: AGOSTINOS RISTORANTE/CLRWTR Work Phone: 813-573-2040
Synopsis: FOUND WIFE UNCONSCIOUS ON FLOOR/CALLED PARAMEDICS


----------------------------------- EVIDENCE -------------------------
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Processed: NO By: Photos: NO Prints: NO

-------------------------------- ADMINISTRATION ----------------------
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Officerl: BREWER, PHILLIP R #: 24914 Unit: Date: 02/25/1990
Officer2: TOWER, RODNEY L #: 28194 Unit:
-Route...: HOMICIDE
Sao.....: N/A Date: Division:
Clearance: Exception: Cl. Date: 02/25/1990
Supervisor: CHAPMAN, GEORGE B RET #:11657
Approved By: <unreadable signature> #:24914

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**** This investigation was originally conducted by myself and
then-probationary officer Rodney Tower. The date of the investigation
was
February 25, 1990. The report was typed and uploaded into the Police
Information computer system by me at the end of that shift. The
report was
transferred to microfilm some time ago and is no longer stored in P.I.


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Similarly, no entry exists in the P.I. system that this report was
ever
generated or uploaded. The quality of the microfilm onto which the
report was
transferred has degenerated; the report can be read on the microfilm
screen
but it is largely unreadable in printed form. Due to the
circumstances of
this case, I have reproduced the report in its entirety so the record
can be
preserved. This new entry is absolutely accurate as to the content of
the
narrative, which could be easily read on the microfilm screen. The
captions
are also easily readable on the microfilm screen and they, too, were
reproduced accurately as to content. Only small, technical aspects of
the
captions are different because the report writing format has changed
since
1990. The date and times listed in the first and last captions
reflect the
date and times recorded during the original investigation, not the
date and
times this report was reproduced, which was Wednesday, October 22,
2003.
Below is the narrative as it was written on February 25, 1990. ****

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WRITER RESPONDED TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS IN REFERENCE TO PARAMEDICS
NEEDING
ASSISTANCE ON A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.

UPON ARRIVAL, WRITER SPOKE WITH FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC J. RADJESKI. HE
STATED
HE RESPONDED TO THE ADDRESS FOR A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. THEY FOUND A
SUBJECT IN
QUESTION (THERESA) LYING FACE DOWN AND UNCONSCIOUS HALFWAY IN AND
HALFWAY OUT
OF A BATHROOM. SHE WAS UNRESPONSIVE THE ENTIRE TIME AND WAS
TRANSPORTED TO
HUMANA NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL BY SUNSTAR MEDIC ONE AMBULANCE #328 (J.
CAMPBELL AND
J. EISENBRANDT). SHE WAS FOUND WITH HER HEAD FACING EAST OUT INTO A
HALLWAY
AND HER FEET AND LEGS POINTING WEST ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR. HE STATED
SHE
SHOWED NO OUTWARD SIGNS OF VIOLENCE. THE POLICE WERE CALLED BECAUSE
OF HER
AGE AND BECAUSE THE SITUATION SEEMED UNUSUAL.

WRITER FOUND NOTHING UNUSUAL INSIDE THE APARTMENT. THERE WERE NO
SIGNS OF A
STRUGGLE OR ANYTHING THAT WOULD INDICATE A CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED.
VARIOUS
BOTTLES OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION WERE PRESENT IN THE KITCHEN;
HOWEVER, ONLY
TWO WERE PRESCRIBED TO THERESA.

WRITER SECURED THE APARTMENT AND BROUGHT THE KEYS TO THE HOSPITAL.
WRITER
SPOKE WITH THERESA'S HUSBAND (MICHAEL) WHO STATED HE WAS AWAKENED
THIS MORNING
WHEN HE HEARD A THUD. HE THOUGHT HIS WIFE HAD FALLEN DOWN AND GOT UP
TO CHECK
ON HER. HE FOUND HER UNCONSCIOUS ON THE FLOOR AND CALLED PARAMEDICS.

MICHAEL STATED HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT COULD BE WRONG WITH THERESA.
THERE
HAVEN'T BEEN ANY PROBLEMS AT HOME WHICH WOULD LEAD TO HER WANTING TO
TRY
SUICIDE AND THEY HAVE HAD NO MAJOR ARGUMENTS LATELY. SHE IS ALLERGIC
TO
CERTAIN ITEMS BUT KNOWS WHAT NOT TO INGEST. SHE DOESN'T HAVE A
HISTORY OF
HEART DISEASE. SHE HAS HAD RECENT "FEMALE" PROBLEMS AND IS SEEING HER
GYNECOLOGIST ON A REGULAR BASIS. SHE HAS BEEN TIRED LATELY AND NOT
FEELING
WELL.

WHEN WRITER OBSERVED THERESA SHE WAS STILL UNCONSCIOUS AND ON A
RESPIRATOR.
MEDICAL PERSONNEL ADVISED THAT SHE WAS UNRESPONSIVE UPON ARRIVAL. A
DRUG
SCREEN REVEALED NO AMOUNTS OF ILLEGAL NARCOTICS PRESENT IN HER SYSTEM
AND HER
BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL MEASURED AT "LESS THAN 10", WHICH A NURSE
DESCRIBED AS
BEING THE BOTTOM OF THE SCALE. A PHYSICAL INSPECTION BY WRITER ALSO
REVEALED


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NO SIGNS OF TRAUMA TO HER HEAD OR FACE.

WRITER REMAINED AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE CAT SCAN. THE
SCAN
REVEALED NO "MID-LINE SHIFT" OF THE BRAIN WHICH WOULD INDICATE AN
OBVIOUS
ABNORMALITY. ADDITIONAL TESTING IS NECESSARY TO DETECT A POSSIBLE
ANEURYSM
OR PULMONARY EMB0LISM.

WRITER GAVE MICHAEL A BUSINESS CARD WITH THE OFFENSE NUMBER. HE WAS
TOLD THAT
WRITER WOULD CALL FOR AN UPDATE OF HER CONDITION AND NO FURTHER
ACTION WAS
TAKEN.

EOR


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Top Speech Pathologist's Affidavit-Terri Not PVS,Vocalizing,Therapy
Would Help

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/3

One of the top Speech Pathologists / Cognitive Rehab Specialists
at the TOP Facility in the U.S. states in her affidavit
that Terri is clearly vocalizing, is not PVS,
responds and reacts, swallows her saliva,
would benefit from many forms of therapy

Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

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Northside Hospital discharge summary records explain that the doctors
involved with diagnosing what happened to Terri Schiavo were
mystified with what caused her to collapse





1.)   The toxicology screen was negative indicating that there were
no drugs being used by Terri.



2.)   Terri's echocardiogram was normal, which would rule out any
congenital cardiac anomaly.



3.)   A heart attack – or technically, a "myocardial infarction"
or "MI" – is eliminated because her enzymes are not elevated.



4.)    A doctor's note in the discharge summary stated that maybe a
low potassium level may have caused the arrest.  The doctor was not
able to think of anything else; clearly puzzled.


http://zimp.org/stuff/19%20-%20NorthsideHospSumDocsMystified.htm



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Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...


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Please read the following transcript of Fox News Channel's Hannity
and Colmes TV cable news TV program, which airs right before Greta
Van Susteren's cable TV news program "On the Record" which is also
carried on Fox News Channel!  In this interview, Dr. William
Hammesfahr, Neurologist who practices in Clearwater, Florida, gives
evidence that Terri never had a heart attack, and that a potassium
imbalance also is not a factor in Terri's so-called collapse on
February 25, 1990, fifteen years ago.

Dr. Hammesfahr also examined Terri for several hours as part of a
court ordered examination, and his examination was more thorough and
lasted longer than any other doctors' exam.  He made extremely
detailed notes about his exam of Terri which I implore all of you to
read.  His notes from this exam on Terri can be read here:
http://libertytothecaptives.net/hammesfahr_dr._report.html

Foul Play In Terri Schiavo Case?

This is a partial transcript from Hannity & Colmes, October 27, 2003,
that has been edited for clarity.

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: A 1990 heart attack left Terri Schiavo with
severe brain damage. Since then a legal battle has raged over whether
or not to keep her alive. On October 15 her feeding tube was removed,
according to her husband's wishes.

Last week, after intervention by the Florida legislature, Governor
Jeb Bush ordered that her feeding tube be reinserted. Now time is
running out for Terri's husband to challenge the constitutionality of
the law that's been dubbed by many as Terri's Law.

So what will happen next in this tragic case? Joining us now is
Terri's father, Robert Schindler. And also joining us, a neurosurgeon
who has examined Terri, Dr. William Hammesfahr.

All right. Thank you both for being with us.

How is she doing first of all, Mr. Schindler, after the tube now has
been reinserted?

ROBERT SCHINDLER, TERRI SCHIAVO'S FATHER: She's really made a
remarkable combat. She's very, very tired naturally, being without
food for seven days and hydration. But today, she was probably a
little more responsive than yesterday, and she was very agitated
today. She didn't want to bother with anybody or anything.

HANNITY: Yes. Doctor, you've examined her, and you've come to the
conclusion, No. 1, that can she can be rehabilitated. And when is the
last time you evaluated her and what else did you find?

DR. WILLIAM HAMMESFAHR, NEUROLOGIST: I saw her last about a year ago
for the court. I want to just jump in here for a second. I'm a
neurologist and not a neurosurgeon.

HANNITY: I'm sorry.

HAMMESFAHR: I saw her last about a year ago and as part of the court
ordered evaluations.

HANNITY: Yes, but you basically said that she could be rehabilitated,
that she showed...

HAMMESFAHR: Absolutely. She is not in a coma. She did not have a
heart attack. She is not in a coma presently. She absolutely can be
rehabilitated. There's no question about that.

HANNITY: You know, Mr. ...

HAMMESFAHR: In fact, she follows commands right now. She follows
commands right now.

HANNITY: Well, I can see that.

HAMMESFAHR: She's not in a coma.

HANNITY: I'm not a doctor, but when I see this video it's heart-
wrenching to me and the fact that this poor women went six days
without a feeding tube is frightening to me.

The last time we had you on, Mr. Schindler, you were very harsh in
your comments about the husband. And you believe his fear is, is that
if your daughter wakes up, she will have to -- a tale to tell about
him. Can you...

SCHINDLER: That comes from the evidence that there's medical evidence
that she had a neck injury. And as the doctor said, she had no heart
attack. And her ribs and parts of her body suffered fractures.

HANNITY: Yes.

SCHINDLER: And there's really no explanation for what her collapse
was. Not at all.

ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Doctor Hammesfahr, I read the medical report.
There was a report that when she came into the E.R., she had a rigid
neck. Is that consistent with a neck injury?

HAMMESFAHR: Absolutely, yes, it is. They also did X-rays at the
emergency room and the X-rays showed straightening of the normal
spinal curvature, which is very typical of a new neck injury.

COLMES: We heard a lot about low potassium, but this neck injury
stuff is very interesting. Would that kind of a situation be
consistent with the possibility of foul play?

HAMMESFAHR: I'd like to go back to the potassium for a second,
because he talked about the potassium and about the diet pills issue
or some other drugs.

COLMES: Sure. Sure.

HAMMESFAHR: But the medical record clearly shows that there has never
been a heart attack. Potassium causes damage by causing heart
attacks, so we know the potassium is not an issue.

COLMES: But with the rigid neck, is that consistent with what could
be foul play?

HAMMESFAHR: I have seen a neck that rigid from trauma to the neck.

COLMES: All right. So you wouldn't venture to say foul play but --
are you intimating that?

HAMMESFAHR: I think that that type of a neck that shows a degree of
injury, and I think that it needs to be looked at much more closely
to find out the exact cause.

Right now we have a woman who had a collapse with no known cause. No
evidence of infection, heart attack, respiratory failure or anything.
The only thing found in the emergency room is a damaged neck.

COLMES: Mr. Schindler, are you going to try to prove foul play at
some point and try to press some kind of a case here against your son-
in- law?

SCHINDLER: Well, what we're trying to do, there are two issues. One
is to get Terri therapy, because we believe she can recover.

And the second thing is we want to have an investigation. We're
asking the local police, the attorney, and no one will touch it.
There's a cap on it. Someone's blocking everything.

HANNITY: Mr. Schindler, we're going to continue to follow this story.
I'm very, very grateful to the Florida legislature and Jeb Bush. I
think they did the right thing, and we'll monitor this and have you
back on again.

SCHINDLER: So were we. Thank you very much.

HANNITY: Doctor, good to see you. Appreciate you being with us.

http://foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,101458,00.html


Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

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Here is a link to the bone scan done on Terri Schiavo on March 5,
1991, 53 weeks after her husband, Michael Schiavo, attacked her
during a severe domestic violence attack on February 25, 1990.  The
bone scan was ordered immediately sealed by Michael Schiavo and was
KEPT SEALED, along with all of Terri's medical records, and all
medical information and records were kept secret from and kept off
limits to Terri's family FOR YEARS!  Terri was NEVER treated for any
of her broken bones, hot spots, injuries, closed head injury, etc.
Michael would not allow it, and Terri's parents did not know she had
these injuries until very recently!  In fact, the bone scan was not
discovered by Terri's family until November, 2002!
http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

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Evidence of Physical Abuse Haunts Michael Schiavo
Fractures in wife's ribs, pelvis, spine and ankle point to prolonged
violent abuse

To: National Desk

Contact: Gary McCullough for the Schindler Family, 202-546-0054

CLEARWATER, Fl., Feb.10 /Christian Wire Service/ -- On May 6, 1990,
two months after the mysterious incident that left Terri Schindler
Schiavo severely mentally disabled, Dr. Hamilton, an Orthopedic
Surgeon, examined her.   A year later Terri was demonstrating painful
reactions to physical therapy treatment, so on March 5, 1991, the
Mediplex therapist director ordered a bone scan.

This bone scan revealed a healed broken right femur bone and healed
bone fractures in Terri Schindler Schiavo's ribs, pelvis, spine and
ankle.

Dr. W. Campbell Walker concluded that Terri has a history of trauma
and presumed that the other multiple areas of abnormal activity also
relate to previous trauma.

As Terri's lone guardian, Michael Schiavo has been able to conceal
the bone scan and examinations from her parents, brother, and sister
for over ten years.  To date, Michael Schiavo has not allowed the
family to see the results of the May 6 examination, the emergency
room records from the day of the incident,  nor any of the
accompanying x-rays.

Michael Schiavo's inability to be forthright over the bone scan
brings into question his lone description of Terri's activity at the
time of the incident.  His choice to have his wife terminated rather
than rehabilitated may not be in pursuit of her interests, but to
continue to conceal the level of physical violence he displayed
toward Terri.

The bone scan evaluation is available online at
www.earnedmedia.org/bonescan.htm



The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is the official organization
responsible for speaking on behalf of the Schindler family.  For more
information and background on the case, visit the foundation's
website at www.terrisfight.org.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/tf0211.htm



Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

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Dr. Hamilton, Orthopedic Surgeon, consults Terri a short time after
her collapse, on February 25, 1990

While Terri was a patient at Northside Hospital, unbeknownst to
Terri's family, and according to the Northside Hospital discharge
summary, Dr. Hamilton, an Orthopedic Surgeon, consulted Terri on May
6, 1990.  This was just two months after Terri collapsed (February
25, 1990) and just three days before Terri was discharged from
Northside Hospital.

Michael Schiavo, acting as Terri's guardian and in control of what
medical information was revealed, and also any medical decisions
regarding Terri's treatment, did not report this information to
anyone in Terri's family.  Therefore, Terri's family did not have any
knowledge that Dr. Hamilton consulted Terri or what was disclosed as
a result of Dr. Hamilton's examination of Terri.

It was only a year later, on March 5, 1991, after Terri was
demonstrating painful reactions to physical therapy treatment, that
the Mediplex therapist director ordered Terri to have a bone scan.

This bone scan taken of Terri on March 5, 1991, revealed a healed
broken right femur bone and healed bone fractures in Terri's ribs,
pelvis, spine and ankle. The injuries more than likely occurred at
the time of Terri collapse. The radiologist (Dr. Walker) concluded
that "Terri has a history of trauma" and presumed "that the other
multiple areas of abnormal activity also relate to previous
trauma."

It wasn't until November 2002 that Terri's family discovered this
information regarding the multiple fractures found throughout her
body.

Michael Schiavo never disclosed that Terri had a bone scan image
taken just a year after her collapse to anyone in Terri's family and,
as mentioned, never disclosed that Terri was consulted by an
Orthopedic Surgeon.

http://www.zimp.org/stuff/10%20-%20DrHamilton.htm



Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

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Dr. William Hammesfahr testimony on Terri's neck injury



PLACE: Pinellas County Courthouse

315 Court Street North

Clearwater, Florida

DATE: October 11, 2002

TIME: All day

REPORTED BY: TONYA H. MAGEE, RPR

Court Reporter and Notary Public

Sixth Judicial Circuit

Page 279

4    Anoxic and hypoxic encephalopathies are

5    characterized by multiple small strokes. So depending

6    upon where that stroke is, is where your deficiency is.

7    In your average stroke, the entire side of the body is

8    affected. But in a hypoxic or anoxic episodes, or

9    cerebral palsy, you will see lots of different areas

10   affected. And there may be another injury, a neck

11   injury with her also, which compounds her examination.

12         Q.   Compounds what, her condition?

13         A.   Her condition, yes. There is a neck injury.

14   There may be a spinal cord injury, also.

15         Q.   How were you able to determine a neck injury?

16         A.   By physical examination. On physical

17   examination, she has several characteristics that are

18   not typical of a stroke. First, she has very severe

19   neck spasms. That's typical of the body's response,

20   splinting the area to prevent injury to that area.

21         Q.   Splinting the area?

22         A.   Yeah. If you injure your arm, you will move

23   it. Your muscles will contract around it to keep that

24   area moving. Her muscles around the neck area are

25   heavily contracted to help prevent movement around that

Page 280

1    area. Later on in the videotape, we actually show that

2    it's almost impossible for her to bend her neck.

3    You can pick her entire body up off the bed

4    just by putting pressure on the back of the neck area,

5    which is not typical in brain injury patients but in

6    neck injury patients. In addition, her sensory

7    examination is nothing like a typical stroke patient or

8    typical anoxic encephalopathy.

9          Q.   Are you experienced in treatment of patients

10   with spinal cord injury?

11         A.   Yes, I am.

Page 282

What is interesting is I'm not able to flex

5    the neck. There I tried to bend the neck forward and

6    she doesn't flex forward. What I'm doing to her feels

7    as almost a massage.

8    We are going to come back to that neck a

9    little bit more because I clearly have not completed all

10   of my examination at that time.

Page 325

Q.   Now, her chin does not go down?

18         A.   Her chin does not go down. My hand is

19   essentially on the back of the scull here, not on the

20   neck area. She is rigid in the upper spine area, and

21   that goes along with a neck injury. And that's

22   important for several reasons. First one is that there

23   is a change in the neurological exam. We had a person

24   essentially here that has had brain injury and probably

25   also a spinal cord injury.

Page 326

1          Q.   Spinal cord or vertebral injury?

2          A.   Vertebral injury, but I also suspect, from

3    other parts of my examination, spinal cord injury along

4    with it.

5    In addition, when you have a neck injury, it

6    causes irritation to the sympathetic nerves that control

7    blood flow into the brain. Much of the blood flow to

8    the brain goes in through that area. So when they're

9    damaged, you narrow the blood flow. There is a

10   restricted blood flow to the brain.

http://www.zimp.org/stuff/11%20-%20TestimonyHammesfahrRidgeNeck.htm



Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

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Dr. Peter Bambakidis testimony on Terri's neck injury



BEFORE: THE HONORABLE GEORGE W. GREER

Circuit Court Judge

PLACE: PINELLAS COUNTY COURTHOUSE

315 Court Street

Clearwater, Florida

DATE: October 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th & 22nd, 2002

Page 222

1         MR. FELOS: Thank you, Your Honor.

2         THEREUPON,

3         PETER BAMBAKIDIS, M.D.

4         WAS ADDUCED AS THE WITNESS HEREIN AND AFTER

5         BEING DULY SWORN ON OATH WAS EXAMINED AND

6         TESTIFIED AS FOLLOWS:

7         DIRECT EXAMINATION

Page 302

21        Q.   Did you happen to be provided with an

22   admission record at Northside Hospital when she

23   had her collapse back in February of '90 that

24   noted that on admission she presented with a

25   rigid neck?

Page 303

1         A.   I believe I do recall that, correct.

2         Q.   So she may, in fact, have had this

3    rigid neck all these years?

4         A.   Yes, she may have.

5         Q.   Do you treat patients with spinal cord

6    injury in addition to patients with brain

7    disorders?

8         A.   On occasion, yes.

9         Q.   Is excessive sweating and facial rashes

10   and cyanosis in the extremities, are those

11   symptoms of a cord injury or can they be?

12        A.   They can be.



http://www.zimp.org/stuff/12%20-%20TestimonyBambiRigidNeck.htm


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Humana Discharge Summary, Terri's neck was, "somewhat stiff"

As stated in the discharge summary dated May 9, 1990, the doctors
involved in Terri's care, while she was initially admitted and then
remained as a patient at Humana Northside, did not know what caused
Terri's collapse the night of February 25, 1990, there was only
speculation.

However, according to the discharge summary the doctor reported that
Terri's neck was somewhat stiff, as well as the rest of her body, the
night that Terri was admitted to the hospital.

Since 1993, all medical information including all of Terri's medical
records have been sealed by Michael Schiavo's orders.  It was just
prior to the January 2000 trial that they were released to the
Schindler's lawyer for review.  At that time, there were volumes of
information, containing thousands of unsystematic medical documents
that the attorney was allowed to search through.

The discharge summary revealing the information regarding Terri's
neck was discovered only recently, and after Judge Greer made his
original ruling, February 11, 2000, to discontinue Terri's food and
hydration.

This information regarding Terri's neck is consistent with the 2002
testimony of Dr. Bamabkidis and Dr. Hammesfahr stating that they both
noticed something abnormal with Terri's neck, and also the additional
testimony of Dr. Hammesfahr where he compared Terri's neck to that of
another patient he treated, which was caused by attempted
strangulation.

  http://www.zimp.org/stuff/13%20-%20DschrgSumStiffNeck.htm

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Dr. William Hammesfahr testimony possible strangulation



PLACE: Pinellas County Courthouse

315 Court Street North

Clearwater, Florida

DATE: October 11, 2002

TIME: All day

REPORTED BY: TONYA H. MAGEE, RPR

Court Reporter and Notary Public

Sixth Judicial Circuit



REDIRECT EXAMINATION

17         BY MS. ANDERSON:

18         Q.   You said that you had never felt a neck like

19   that except for one other patient, right?

20         A.   Correct.

21         Q.   What was the cause of injury in the other

22   patient?

23         A.   The person had an anoxic encephalous due to

24   attempted strangulation.



http://www.zimp.org/stuff/14%20-%20TestimonyHammesfahrStragOnly.htm

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Michael Is a Criminal According to Florida State Law:
798.01. Living in open adultery
Whoever lives in an open state of adultery shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s.
775.082 or s. 775.083. Where either of the parties living in an open
state of adultery is married, both parties so living shall be deemed
to be guilty of the offense provided for in this section.
http://www.sodomy.org/laws/florida/cohabitation.html



Much evidence here that I provided which was not included in an
article about Michael:

Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or MONSTER?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/65

Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or Monster?

By Bonnie Chernin Rogoff (02/21/05)

As national pro-life groups and prominent leaders converged in
vigils outside Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, Terri
Schiavo is inside the building in her bed, still hooked up to the
feeding tube that has been center-focus of this so-called "right-to-
die" case for the past several years. Ms. Schiavo is profoundly
disabled and cannot communicate with words at this time.

But she knows. She feels. There's expression in those eyes. Just one
look at her in a video with her mother and everyone except the
Scarecrow on his way to Oz knows it, too.

Recently, another presumed "brain-dead" woman made news in Kansas.
In a coma after becoming the victim of a drunk driver, Sarah
Scantlin snapped out of a twenty year silence and began to speak.
Memories are now coming back to her. By legal definition, Miss
Scantlin's life is valid. Yesterday, it was not. Was she ever in a
persistent vegetative state, or PVS? She'd respond to questions by
blinking once for no, twice for yes, but since she couldn't speak no
one was ever sure she understood the questions.

That's the problem. No one is ever sure. The only ones who claim to
know what's best for the profoundly disabled are those who seek to
benefit the most by having them legally murdered.

On Monday, February 21, new hearings will commence before Judge
Greer with regard to the Schiavo case. The Empire Journal reports
that David Gibbs III, attorney representing Terri's parents Robert
and Mary Schindler, will argue that new medical tests be ordered for
Terri based upon a new brain imaging study published in the
journal "Neurology." These tests could determine whether Terri
Schiavo is, in fact, in a PVS. Since Judge Greer believes she is,
ruled to have her killed and has thus far refused the admission of
any medical evidence that would save Terri's life, I'd be shocked to
see him budge.

Greer has been acting in the dual role of judge and guardian ad
litem. He previously denied a petition by Terri's parents that their
daughter be given a swallowing test, and has denied them the right
to visit Terri. He continues to promote the interests of Michael
Schiavo by refusing Terri the right to independent counsel, a right
which even serial killers like Ted Bundy received.

Whenever people discuss euthanasia, you'll always find those who
will defend the odious practice. However, no one defends domestic
violence. That leads to the 6 ft. 6 inch, 250 pound problem: Michael
Schiavo. The evidence compiled against him suggests a history and
pattern of domestic abuse against Terri and other women that is
strong and significant. An immediate criminal investigation is
warranted.

The main evidence comes from a bone scan (article continues below)

(Note from saveterrislife website owner: See Bone scan done on
Terri here):
http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

(continuing with the article,
"Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"):

taken on March 5, 1991. As Terri's guardian, Michael Schiavo denied
her family access to Terri's records, the results of which were not
made available until November, 2002. This scan indicated numerous
broken bones in various stages of healing, including compressions
fractures, a broken back, pelvis, ankle, bone bruises and
ossifications.

Board certified radiologist Dr. Walker read the scan in 1991 and
interpreted the results as abnormal, which he attributed to either
an accident or earlier trauma. Based on the remodeling process of
her bones, Dr. Walker stated in his deposition that a) the injuries
indicated by the scan occurred on or around the time that Terri
Schiavo collapsed; b) the abnormalities on the bone scan were not
typical of someone suffering cardiac arrest and collapsing to the
floor, and c) the fractures indicated by the bone scan are not
typical of patients bedridden only thirteen months. As recorded in
Dr. Walker's November 21, 2003 deposition, Terri might have been the
victim of foul play via a blow to her body, being thrown into a
sharp furniture corner, or assaulted with a blunt object.

On October 24, 2003, renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden
was interviewed by Greta van Susteren on Fox News. He disclosed that
with low potassium and no elevated enzymes, it would be extremely
rare for a young woman to collapse as Terri did from a heart attack.
When asked what the bone injuries suggest to him, Dr. Baden
replied, "Some kind of trauma. The trauma can be from a fall, or the
trauma can be from some kind of beating that she obtained from
somebody somewhere. It's something that should have been
investigated in 1991 when these findings were found."

(Note from saveterrislife: Here's the transcript from a TV show on
Fox News Channel's "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
interviewing Dr. Baden about Terri's injuries:

"On the Record" with Greta van Susteren

Interview with Dr. Michael Baden, a Forensic Pathologist from NY

10-24-03

Greta: Dr. Baden, a potassium imbalance, let's first talk about if
you have a potassium deficiency, can that cause the condition that
Terri Schiavo has?

Baden: Um, can, but unlikely. Potassium is very interesting. It's
probably the most lethal poison we have when it's injected rapidly,
and that's why it's the poison that kills people, capital punishment
by lethal injection. And it stops the heart from beating properly —
too much of it. But also too little of it., hypo-potassium, can also
cause the heart to stop beating properly and lead to lack of blood
flow to the brain and death of brain cells by lack of oxygen. But
that's very unusual, Greta, extremely unusual.

Greta: A normal healthy woman, I assume, would have no reason, for
instance, to take potassium supplements unless, perhaps, she's on a
diuretic or some other medication that would cause a potassium
depletion. Is that right?

Baden: That's correct. That's right.

Greta: Is there any explanation then in your mind, and I realize you
were not her team physician, but why would a woman at her age have a
potassium imbalance?

Baden: Extremely unusual unless she had certain kinds of diseases,
which she doesn't have. She was in her twenties. The reason that
she's in the state she's in is because there was a period of time,
maybe 5 minutes or 8 minutes, when not enough oxygen was going to
her brain. That can happen because the heart stops for 5 or 8
minutes, but she had a healthy heart, from what we can see. The
other thing, though. . . I'm sorry Greta?

Greta: No, go ahead.

Baden: Yeah, your staff has provided me with a bone scan that you
guys obtained ah from her initial admission in 1991 to the hospital.
And that bone scan describes her as having a head injury. That's why
she's there, that's why she's getting a bone scan. And a head injury
can cause, lead to the vegetative state that Ms. Schiavo is in now,
(continues below)

(Note from saveterrislife: Terri is not in a vegetative state, nor
is Terri in a Persistent Vegetative State, known as PVS, as you can
see by clicking on this link:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/balloon.rm

(Now, continuing with Dr. Baden's quote from above):

and it does show evidence that there are other injuries, other bone
fractures, that on healing-stage, so that....

Greta: So, let me back up a second. Head injury. Could she have had,
could she have passed out from a potassium imbalance causing a
falling head injury? Is that what you're talking about, or are you
suggesting some pre-existing head injury to her passing out?

Baden: Something totally different. That it's extremely rare for a
20-year-old to have a cardiac arrest from low potassium who has no
other diseases. So the other issue is could it have been due to some
other cause, which is raised by the family, has to be looked at.

Greta: Alright, other injuries and bone injuries, what does that
suggest to you?

Baden: Some kind of trauma. The trauma can be from an auto accident,
the trauma can be from a fall, or the trauma can be from some kind
of beating that she obtained from somebody somewhere. It's something
that should have been investigated in 1991 when these findings were
found, and….

Greta: They were fresh.

Baden: Maybe there were, Maybe they were investigated by police at
that time.

Greta: Alright. Dr. Michael Baden, thank you.

Baden: Thank you, Greta.

(End of transcript)



(More notes from saveterrislife: Check out these articles regarding
what Forensic Pathologist Michael Baden said about Terri in October,
2003:

Questions raised about Terri's collapse
Celebrated forensic pathologist says
1990 injuries should be investigated
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35276


Doctor Says Terri Schiavo Likely Victim of 'Some Kind of Trauma'
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/29/100629.shtml


Was Terri Schiavo Beaten in 1990?
Will There Be an Investigation in Time?
http://tilrc.org/docs/1203schiavo.htm


State-Funded Agency to Probe Claim of Spousal Abuse
in Terri Schiavo Case - Bone scan and injuries indicate severe
trauma and strangulation
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03102701.html


Plus, see this recent article:
Florida Officials Must Impanel Grand Jury
On Alleged Schiavo Abuse
http://theempirejournal.com/alleged_schiavo_abuse_florida_of.htm


Also see:
Evidence of Physical Abuse Haunts Michael Schiavo

Fractures in wife's ribs, pelvis, spine and ankle point to prolonged
violent abuse

To: National Desk

Contact: Gary McCullough for the Schindler Family, 202-546-0054

CLEARWATER, Fl., Feb.10 (2005) /Christian Wire Service/ --
On May 6, 1990, two months after the mysterious incident that left
Terri Schindler Schiavo severely mentally disabled, Dr. Hamilton, an
Orthopedic Surgeon, examined her. A year later Terri was
demonstrating painful reactions to physical therapy treatment, so on
March 5, 1991, the Mediplex therapist director ordered a bone scan.

This bone scan revealed a healed broken right femur bone and healed
bone fractures in Terri Schindler Schiavo's ribs, pelvis, spine and
ankle.

Dr. W. Campbell Walker concluded that Terri has a history of trauma
and presumed that the other multiple areas of abnormal activity also
relate to previous trauma.

As Terri's lone guardian, Michael Schiavo has been able to conceal
the bone scan and examinations from her parents, brother, and sister
for over ten years. To date, Michael Schiavo has not allowed the
family to see the results of the May 6 examination, the emergency
room records from the day of the incident, nor any of the
accompanying x-rays.

Michael Schiavo's inability to be forthright over the bone scan
brings into question his lone description of Terri's activity at the
time of the incident. His choice to have his wife terminated rather
than rehabilitated may not be in pursuit of her interests, but to
continue to conceal the level of physical violence he displayed
toward Terri.

The bone scan evaluation is available online at
www.earnedmedia.org/bonescan.htm

The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is the official organization
responsible for speaking on behalf of the Schindler family. For
more information and background on the case, visit the foundation's
website at http://www.terrisfight.org.


(End of Press Release)
http://www.earnedmedia.org/tf0211.htm



Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)



(Now, back to the article,
"Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"):


Other medical testimonies are in agreement. One medical expert
testified that a diagnosis of a heart attack was never made.

(Note from saveterrislife: Read what Neurologist Dr. William
Hammesfahr said regarding this in his Complete Report regarding his
examination of Terri): "In the Emergency Room, a possible diagnosis
of heart attack was briefly entertained, but then dismissed after
blood chemistries and serial EKG's did not show evidence of a heart
attack. Similarly, a pulmonary or lung cause of the disorder was
ruled out in the Emergency Room after normal blood gases and Chest
X-Rays were obtained. The possibility of toxic shock syndrome was
also entertained. The diagnosis of the cause of her condition was
unknown. Her admission laboratory studies showed low potassium
level, markedly elevated glucose level, and a normal toxic screen
without evidence of diet pills or amphetamines."
http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm )

Or, see this link for Dr. Hammesfahr's Report:

http://libertytothecaptives.net/hammesfahr_dr._report.html



(Note from saveterrislife: The reason why Terri's admission lab
studies
showed markedly elevated glucose level is because Michael most
likely injected Terri with insulin on February 25, 1990, though
Terri was not and is not diabetic, and the EMT's had to give Terri
DW5, a sugar solution, dextrose, to normalize her blood sugar
level! Read what Terri's former nurse, Carla Iyer stated regarding
Michael injecting Terri with insulin on 5 other occasions LONG AFTER
Terri's so-called collapse, which was really a severe beating,
strangulation, and injection of insulin, per all of the evidence, on
February 25, 1990:

11. "When Michael visited Terri, he always came alone and always had
the door closed and locked while he was with Terri. He would
typically be there about twenty minutes or so. When he left Terri
would would be trembling, crying hysterically, and would be very
pale and have cold sweats. It looked to me like Terri was having a
hypoglycemic reaction, so I'd check her blood sugar. The glucometer
reading would be so low it was below the range where it would
register an actual number reading. I would put dextrose in Terri's
mouth to counteract it. This happened about five times on my shift
as I recall. Normally Terri's blood sugar levels were very stable
due to the uniformity of her diet through tube feeding. It is my
belief that Michael injected Terri with Regular insulin, which is
very fast acting."

http://terrisfight.org/documents/CIyerAffidavit090203.htm )

(Note: Carla Iyer also found an empty vial which had contained
insulin in Terri's room in the garbage can, immediately after one of
Michael's visits, and Terri was again showing all of the symptoms of
hypoglycemic shock! Carla again gave Terri dextrose to save her
life, turned in the empty insulin vial, and reported this to the
nursing home authorities where she worked. She was promptly fired
the next day! Check THIS out):

Ron Panzer's Notes: Interview With Dr. Hammesfahr

Startling details about Terri Schindler Schiavo Revealed!

Excerpt from the Hospice Patients Alliance Newsletter
January 8, 2004

Notes on Wednesday nights' interview (1/7/04) with neurologist,
William Hammesfahr, MD.

WILLIAM HAMMESFAHR, MD was interviewed Wednesday night on
Highway2health.net by Ron Panzer, President of Hospice Patients
Alliance. Dr. Hammesfahr is board certified in neurology and pain
management. He has spent many hours directly with Terri Schiavo and
reviewed the medical records directly. Dr. Hammesfahr unequivocally
stated that Terri is absolutely NOT in a persistent vegetative state
and definitely responds to instructions from those around her, that
she makes choices and shows decision-making ability in how she
responds.

Dr. Hammesfahr stated that the medical record was in a state of
shambles when it was given, that it was out of order by date and
that much of the medical record was never given to the Schindlers or
Dr. Hammesfahr! NEVER! Dr. Hammesfahr stated that there are notes in
the medical record by nurses who were NOT working at the time they
stated they were caring for Terri. Also, Dr. Hammesfahr stated that
parts of the medical record were completely missing! Dr. Hammesfahr
explained that Terri's blood sugar level upon admission to the
hospital was about 400 (373). When asked why it would be that high,
since Terri was NOT and is not a diabetic, Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed
that the emergency medical technicians who arrived by ambulance
probably gave Terri D-5-W, a dextrose in water solution. Dr.
Hammesfahr confirmed that EMTs would check a patient's blood glucose
level as part of their routine, when assessing a patient like Terri
who had collapsed. The only reason they would give D-5-W would
likely be that they discovered upon testing Terri, that her blood
sugar was LOW at the time of the collapse. Since Terri was not HYPO-
glycemic and was not diabetic, a POSSIBLE explanation for Terri
having LOW blood sugar at the time of her collapse is that she may
have been injected with insulin.

Noted, of course, was the sworn AFFIDAVIT/testimony of a nurse who
cared for Terri later on in the early 1990s, that Terri was found
shaking, pale and agitated after a visit by Michael Schiavo. In that
nurse's affidavit, the nurse stated that she found a vial of insulin
in Terri's PRIVATE room. Since Terri did not have diabetes, there
would be no reason for a vial of insulin to be in the garbage can in
her room at the nursing home. Dr. Hammesfahr and I agreed that we
had never seen any nurse or physician bring a vial of insulin into a
patient's room when administering insulin. The standard of practice
is to prepare a medication beforehand at the nurse's station, note
what medication is given in the medication administration record,
and then bring the syringe with the insulin in it to the patient,
but NOT the vial.

That a vial of insulin was found in Terri's room is not normal
practice even if Terri were getting insulin, but she was NOT and
never was on insulin! Dr. Hammesfahr explained that, although
Michael Schiavo admits to "shaking Terri up" Terri's injuries and
condition are not explainable due to anyone shaking her head ...
that her clinical condition would have been different if that was
the sole cause of her brain injury. Dr. Hammesfahr stated that the
type of injury and clinical condition Terri had at the time of her
collapse could be explained by a possible strangulation attempt
and/or an insulin injection combined with some form of attack or
trauma.

Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that no police investigation was done to
look into Terri's condition, even after a bone scan (13 months after
her collapse) revealed multiple TRAUMA and broken bones. Dr.
Hammesfahr stated that the broken bones could NOT be explained by
any form of bone disease, that these were ABSOLUTELY broken bones
and that it must have been done through trauma, injury to her. Dr.
Hammesfahr said that other physicians had also come to the same
conclusion. Dr. Hammesfahr stated that Michael Schiavo kept these
bone scans and other medical records secret for over a DECADE. [They
were only released in 2002!]

Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that not only has Terri NEVER had a heart
attack as widely reported in the major media, she also NEVER even
had a cardiac arrest (her heart never stopped)! [she had arhythmias
of the heart but not a "stopped heart."] He explained that Terri's
injuries were multiple and showed injury TO her. He stated that
Terri had marked injury to her neck which still exists today, and
that he has only seen a similar injury, with spinal cord involvement
as well as brain injury, in one case where a patient had been
strangled. He stated that Terri had an L-1 injury to her spine,
which he stated is common among persons being thrown against a
table, for example. Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Terri could talk
and was improving in the very first year when she was getting some
rehabilitation (BEFORE Michael got the money), and that the medical
records confirm, that after Michael got the money, rehabilitation
was completely stopped!

Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that in the early years, Terri had had a
very small device surgically implanted into her brain to provide
therapeutic very low dosages of electrical stimulation to the brain,
which could help Terri, and which DID help Terri when it was first
started. However, after Michael got the money, Michael did not allow
further attempts to help Terri in this way. In addition, Dr.
Hammesfahr explained that the device (or any device) implanted,
would normally be carefully monitored so that no infection would
occur and no harm come to the patient. However, in Terri's case that
was not done and has not been done.

Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Terri has at least 75% functional brain
tissue and that the stories circulating in the media about a head
full of fluid "only" are totally false. He has had patients with
less brain function doing much more than Terri is doing, and Dr.
Hammesfahr believes that Terri is being kept to a lower level of
function by her being denied opportunities to do anything, have any
rehabilitation, and that she her improvement is being sabotaged by
her being kept in isolation, with very few visitors or other input.
Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Larry King had suggested to Michael
Schiavo that he let Mr. King's news crew go in to film Terri, to
settle once and for all what Terri's condition is, and that Michael
REFUSED!

Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Terri has been sedated at various
periods of time and that the sedation of Terri would make Terri less
responsive, especially during an examination by physicians who would
try to see what her condition was. He explained that physician
assessments of Terri made when she was sedated would necessarily NOT
be accurate, that they would UNDER-estimate her level of cognition
and abilities. Dr. Hammesfahr also revealed that Terri suffers from
some hydrocephalus, or fluid buildup in the brain. This is a serious
condition that must be treated to avoid further damage to the brain.
Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Michael has NOT allowed Terri to be
treated for her hydrocephalus. [This is in violation of Florida
guardian laws]

Dr. Hammesfahr, whose field is neurology, explained that an EEG
(electro-encephalograph reading) test which did not show much brain
activity was BOGUS! because it was done after Terri had been
transported to a facility for the testing and Terri had been
restless at the time, moving around quite a bit. Muscular movement
during an EEG produces readings on the EEG which must be filtered
out. Dr. Hammesfahr explained that by "filtering out" the EEG
activity Terri had due to the muscular movements, those filtering
that brain activity out had also filtered out Terri's brain
activity. In other words, the EEG done was worthless because it was
not properly done and several doctors have agreed with that.

Dr. Hammesfahr pointed out that Terri was also tested with balloons
to see if she would follow the balloon with her eyes and head when
instructed to do so. Dr. Hammesfahr pointed out that Terri did
follow the balloons when instructed, and that she did so, even
though turning her head far enough to the side caused her pain. He
pointed out that reflex actions are usually to avoid pain, but in
Terri's case she turned her head into painful positions in order to
follow the instructions of the physician testing her. Dr. Hammesfahr
confirmed that several experts in neurology agree that Terri could
improve, can improve and that everything that should be done for her
is NOT being done. In fact, Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that the
isolation and deliberate removal of all stimulation from Terri is
harming Terri, depriving her of the input and stimulation which
would help her reach a higher cognitive level and ability. He stated
that Terri should be getting much exposure to sights, sounds and
other forms of rehabilitation.

Dr. Hammesfahr explained that Dr. Ronald Cranford (who testified for
Michael Schiavo and George Felos' side - the right to die
agenda) ... that Dr. Cranford was NOT a neurologist and was not an
expert in the field. Also, that Dr. Cranford spent less than ONE
hour with Terri totally! Yet the court relied on Dr. Cranford's
testimony, rather than several other neurologists, including Dr.
Hammesfahr. [The court was not gathering information in order to
rule based on fact, it was simply following an agenda.]

Dr. Hammesfahr explained that as a physician and a person, he is
outraged at the mistreatment Terri is receiving and that the denial
of rehabilitation for Terri violates the standards of medical
practice! He can be contacted at: William M. Hammesfahr, M.D. 600
Druid Road East Clearwater, Florida 34616 Tel: 727.461.4464 [end of
notes on the interview - Ron Panzer]

(Note from saveterrislife: Continuing with more quotes from
Neurologist Dr. William Hammesfahr regarding Terri):

"The abnormal potassium level and sugar level were found on
admission to the Emergency Room and were successfully corrected by
the hospital staff over the next several days. The patient had a
difficult hospital course with the development of poorly controlled
seizures and prolonged coma state requiring, for a time,
ventilator support. However, the staff noted improvement, and it was
recommended by several physicians that she be discharged to an
intensive rehabilitation center.
http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm

Or, see this link for Hammesfahr's report:

http://libertytothecaptives.net/hammesfahr_dr._report.html



Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)




(Now, back to the article,
"Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"):



Another testified that Terri's rigid neck indicates she may have
been the victim of strangulation.

(Note from saveterrislife: Also see Dr. William Hammesfahr's
Complete Report including these quotes about Terri):

"Spinal Exam: The patient's exam from a spinal perspective is
abnormal. The degree of limitation of range of motion, and of
spasms in her neck, is consistent with a neck injury. The abnormal
sensory exam, that shows evidence of her hypoxic encephalopathic
strokes (right side sensory responses are different from left) also
suggests a spinal cord injury at around the level of C4. Her
physical exam and videotapes also suggest a spinal cord injury is
also present, as she has much better control over he face, head, and
neck, than over her arms and legs. This reminds one of a person
with a spinal cord injury who has good facial control, but poor use
of arms and legs."

"It is possible that a correctable spinal abnormality such as a
herniated disk may be found that could be treated and result in
better neurological functioning. This should be looked for, as may
be treatable. Thus, there may be an injured disk or spinal cord; the
disk injury is more treatable, the spinal cord injury, if present
without a disk injury, may be more difficult to treat. A person with
a spinal cord injury and hypoxic encephalopathy will need different
treatment and rehab recommendations than one who just has a hypoxic
encephalopathic."

*** "Interestingly, I have seen this pattern of mixed brain
(cerebral) and spinal cord findings in a patient once before, a
patient who was asphyxiated." ***
http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm

Or, see this link for Hammesfahr's report:

http://libertytothecaptives.net/hammesfahr_dr._report.html


See link to entire Complete Report by Dr. Hammesfahr, directly
below, IT IS WELL WORTH READING THE ENTIRE REPORT! Melissa)

http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm

Or, see this link for Hammesfahr's report:

http://libertytothecaptives.net/hammesfahr_dr._report.html




(Now, back to the article, "Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or
Monster?"):

Psychiatrist and expert witness Carole E. Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H.
offered preliminary thoughts and provided a chilling profile of
Michael Schiavo as an abusive husband.

(Note from saveterrislife - see the following regarding the above
paragraph):

Psychiatric Expert Witness profiles Michael Schiavo
2/9/2005 10:04:00 PM - http://hyscience.typepad.com

In response to several reader's emails asking if a psychiatrist had
ever profiled Michael Schiavo's demeaner or possible psychiatric
problems, I offer the following 2004 expert witness testimony.
Mindful that this is an expert witness in behalf of the Schindler's
position and therefore prejudicial to Michael's case. However,
according to Dr. Lieberman's testimony, Michael's own psychiatrist
warned the Schindlers to call the police.

--- "Michael has been under psychiatric care, including being
prescribed several psychotropic medications. One of his treating
therapists, Dr. Peter Kaplan, told Terri's father that he should
have called the police after Michael argued with Terri's sister,
Susanne, and Michael tried to attack her. This occurred right after
Terri's collapse, when they were all in a house together. Terri's
father told Susanne to lock her door and keep a hammer nearby."



--- "Michael fits the profile of an abusive husband. He should most
definitely be investigated as the perpetrator of the `incident' that
caused Terri's collapse and her current condition."


Testimony of Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Psychiatrist/Expert
Witness

Diplomat, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology

Clinical Faculty, UCLA Department of Psychiatry

247 South Beverly Drive, Suite 202

Beverly Hills, CA 90212


July 12, 2004


Preliminary Thoughts On How Terri Schiavo's Husband, Michael, Fits
The Profile Of A Wife Abuser.


Based upon my interviews of Terri's father, Robert Schindler, and my
research into media accounts of her case, I can provide the
following preliminary opinions at this time:


--As the author of the book, Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live
with Them and When to Leave Them, I have studied men who exhibit
pathology in their relationships with women. Profiles of the twelve
different types of bad boys are explained. Michael Schiavo fits the
profile, described in the book as the Prince of Darkness (see
chapter 13). O.J. Simpson was cited as a classic example of this
type, and there are indeed similarities between the two men. It is
especially significant to note that O.J. flew into a homicidal rage
when he realized that Nicole was totally abandoning him, as is
characteristic of these impulsive men who most dread being abandoned
by their woman. Similarly, Michael Schiavo was likely to have known
that Terri had begun making plans to divorce him, since she had told
a coworker and family member. Stalking is characteristic of this
type of man, as well. And a girlfriend of Michael's, Cindy, accused
him of stalking her in 2001.


--Terri's personality fits that of a woman who would have been
attracted (and attractive) to such a man. She was a loner as a
child. In high school she was overweight and not popular with boys.
She had low self-esteem. She was extremely compassionate, nurturing
and subservient. They met when Terri was 20 years old, and married
by the time she was 21. Such whirlwind courtships are typical of
these men, who are able to spot a vulnerable woman they can
dominate, and eager to seal her commitment to him.


Terri was frightened to object to Michael's pathologically
controlling behavior. For example, he would monitor her odometer to
control where she went. He tried to isolate her from her friends and
family. She had to account for every penny, though they often lived
on her income, since he would be fired, sometimes only after two
weeks. He would splurge on $400 suits for himself, while she had to
economize. He called her at work 3-4 times a day, often complaining
of hating his job because no one appreciated him. He was often
observed scolding her.


--Terri's family observed black and blue marks on her before the
incident that plunged her into her current state. Medical records
and/or experts have revealed that her neck injury was consistent
with strangulation. A bone scan revealed multiple fractures
occurring within 1-2 months before or after the incident, which has
been described as equivalent to her being "hit by a mack truck".
Michael has given three different explanations of how he found Terri
after the incident.




--Michael has had Terri's jewelry re-set into a ring for himself.
Terri had two beloved cats that she adopted from an animal shelter,
where they'd landed after being mistreated. When he moved in with
his girlfriend, Cindy, he had Terri's cats euthanized.
Psychologically, this is symbolic of what he is trying to do now to
Terri.


--Michael has been under psychiatric care, including being
prescribed several psychotropic medications. One of his treating
therapists, Dr. Peter Kaplan, told Terri's father that he should
have called the police after Michael argued with Terri's sister,
Susanne, and Michael tried to attack her. This occurred right after
Terri's collapse, when they were all in a house together. Terri's
father told Susanne to lock her door and keep a hammer nearby.


--As a psychiatric expert witness, I have had experience performing
psychiatric examinations of men like Michael Schiavo, and testifying
in court about similar cases. The above is simply meant to
illustrate some of the indications that Michael fits the profile of
an abusive husband. He should most definitely be investigated as the
perpetrator of the `incident' that caused Terri's collapse and her
current condition. If Terri were to be allowed to die, as Michael
has been desperately struggling to achieve for years, it could help
him escape detection. This would be a grave miscarriage of justice.


For more information, you may contact Dr. Carole Lieberman at (310)
456-2458 or via email at drcarole@d....


http://hyscience.typepad.com/hyscience/2005/02/_2004_psychiatr.html

http://www.catholiccitizens.org/press/contentview.asp?c=22809

(Now, back to the article, "Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband or
Monster?"):

Prior to Terri's collapse, there were serious financial problems in
her marriage and her husband Michael tried to control her behavior.
He was fired from six jobs in two years, some of which he held only
two weeks. They often lived on her income, which Michael often spent
on himself. He monitored her odometer and isolated her from her
family and friends. On the day of her collapse, Michael and Terri
had a bad fight after he accused her of spending too much money at
the hairdresser.

Dr. Lieberman concludes: "He (Michael) should most definitely be
investigated as the perpetrator of the `incident' that caused
Terri's collapse and her current condition."

Michael Schiavo insists that Terri stated early in their marriage
that she never would want to be kept on life support.

(Note from saveterrislife: Read this about what Terri really did
say, according to her best friend):

Diane Meyer can recall only one time that her best friend, Terri
Schiavo, really got angry with her. It was in 1981, and it haunts
her still.

The recent high school graduates had just seen a television movie
about Karen Ann Quinlan, who had been in a coma since collapsing six
years earlier and was the subject of a bitter court battle over her
parents' decision to take her off a respirator. Meyer says she told
a cruel joke about Quinlan, and it set Terri off.

"She went down my throat about this joke, that it was
inappropriate," Meyer says. She remembers Terri saying she wondered
how the doctors and lawyers could possibly know what Quinlan was
really feeling or what she would want.

"Where there's life," Meyer recalls her saying, "there's hope."

Twenty-two years later and suffering from brain damage, Terri is now
the subject of a similar debate -- and so is the question of what
choice she would make about her life and death.)

(Now, back to the article):


Michael Schiavo insists that Terri stated early in their marriage
that she never would want to be kept on life support.

Even if that were true, Terri is not on life support; she breathes
on her own. Since Terri has no written will, everything Michael
Schiavo says is hearsay. He violated numerous Florida statutes and
the Americans for Disabilities Act by failing to perform his duties
as his wife's guardian, most notably by denying his disabled wife
basic medical care as part of a malpractice settlement award he
received.

(Note from saveterrislife: See the following):
Petition to Remove Guardian
http://terrisfight.org/documents/PetitiontoRemoveGuardian111502.htm

(Also, see):
Violations of Florida Statutes against Terri Schiavo
http://www.zimp.org/

(Now, back to the article):

However, of all Michael's offensive actions against his wife, what I
deem most suspicious was his decision to have Terri cremated
immediately upon her demise. (Note from saveterrislife: One of
Michael Schiavo's attorneys, Deborah Bushnell, in a motion to the
court, asked for permission to use funds from the money set aside
solely for Terri's therapy and medical needs, to pre-pay for Terri's
cremation and burial expenses and corrupt Judge Greer okayed it!
See quotes below regarding this):

WorldNetDaily has reported Michael Schiavo won more than $1.2
million in 1992 that was to be earmarked for Terri's care and
therapy but was never spent for that purpose.

Felos told reporters yesterday the sum in Terri's trust fund had
been whittled down to $55,000. While he and Michael Schiavo's other
attorney, Deborah Bushnell, say they haven't been paid in over a
year, Felos was previously paid $358,434 out of the fund. Bushnell
told the St. Petersburg Times she had been paid approximately
$80,000 from the fund.

In a move that horrified Terri's family last year, Bushnell also
filed a petition with probate Judge George Greer seeking
authorization of pre-payment for Terri's cremation and burial
expenses out of the fund.

Pat Anderson, the attorney representing Terri's parents, Robert and
Mary Schindler, has filed multiple petitions seeking the removal of
Michael Schiavo as Terri's guardian and chief decision maker. Among
her arguments, she claims Michael Schiavo misspent the medical
funds.

"While exhausting Terri's money for the purpose of killing her, not
one red cent could be found by Schiavo to enhance the quality of her
life after receipt of the malpractice award. ... [A]nd the
expenditure of nothing for therapy that would reduce the pain of
contractures, enhance Terri's ability to swallow, or facilitate
recovery of basic abilities is the grossest form of asset
mismanagement," Anderson stated in a petition filed and rejected by
Greer last November.

WorldNetDaily has reported Terri sustained brain damage when she
mysteriously collapsed in 1990 at the age of 26 and oxygen was cut
to her brain for several minutes. The Schindlers have been fighting
with their son-in-law for 10 years over the fate of their daughter.
He contends his wife is in a persistent vegetative state and told
him once she would not want to be kept alive artificially. The
Schindlers argue Terri is alert, responsive and vocalizes and
maintain she wants to live. She has no written directive on the
matter.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35258

(Now, back to the article):
In all the documentation on this case, there is not a single account
of Terri Schiavo having ever expressed a desire to be cremated.
Michael's excuse is to say that she wouldn't want a standard burial
because she "doesn't like bugs." I'm not buying. The likely reason
is that Michael has something to hide – like the cause of her
numerous bone injuries, perhaps? – and he doesn't want an autopsy to
uncover any incriminating evidence.

(Note from saveterrislife - see the bone scan showing serious trauma
to Terri, done 53 weeks after her husband, Michael Schiavo, severely
beat and strangled her, as well as injected her with insulin, per
all of the evidence. He also sealed all her medical records for
well over 10 years so Terri's family did not even find out about the
bone scan and Terri's severe injuries such as broken bones all over
her body as well as a head injury until recently!):
http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

So, what really happened on February 25, 1990? We know that Terri
fell in her home and sustained serious injuries. We know that
Michael Schiavo, who was trained in CPR, oddly did not administer
CPR to his wife. We know for the past fifteen years his only mission
has been to deny any rehabilitation for Terri.

Dr. Carole Lieberman observed, "If Terri were to be allowed to die,
as Michael has been desperately struggling to achieve for years, it
could help him escape detection. This would be a grave miscarriage
of justice."

That's exactly the way Michael Schiavo and the Florida judicial
system want it.


Bonnie Rogoff is the founder of Jews For Life, a pro-life,
politically conservative organization. She is an accomplished
pianist, singer, songwriter and librarian. Ms. Rogoff's columns are
featured on a number of political websites, including GOPUSA,
Intellectual Conservative, Opinion Editorials and American Daily.
She resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband David. Bonnie
welcomes your comments and feedback.


Send Feedback To Bonnie Chernin Rogoff
http://americandaily.com/author/120#feedbackpoint



Note from Melissa/saveterrislife):
Complete article titled
"Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"
in its entirety without all of the links I added:
http://www.americandaily.com/article/6885

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/65

Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)



______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________

  PETITION FOR WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO-APRIL 26, 2004-INCLUDES STATUTES
Being Violated Against Terri
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/1

______________________________________________________________________
_________________________________

TERRI'S ON DEATH ROW + FL STATUTES-ABUSE NEGLECT EXPLOITATION OF
DISABLED ADULTS

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/11

______________________________________________________________________
_________________________________

STATUTES CITED HERE-Very Good Reasons To Remove Michael Schiavo &
Investigate

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/18


Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)


______________________________________________________________________
_________________________________



Much more will be written about this by me very soon.  I just wanted
to get this transcript out to all of you asap.

Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

Melissa

______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________

----- Original Message -----

From: melissa roxanne

To:

Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:12 PM

Subject: FOXNEWS CHANNEL RE: TERRI ON NOW - 11 EST



TERRI update to be on Fox News Channel's "On the Record" with Greta
Van Susteren NOW from 10-11 PM EST.

Show repeats from 3-4 AM EST.  Keep watching this show each night as
they may have more updates.  Terri's feeding tube could be removed
(for the THIRD TIME!) as soon as tomorrow, Friday, February 25, 2005
at 5:00 PM EST, which is when they stay expires!  TERRI UPDATE WILL
BE ON IN JUST A FEW MINS. PER GRETA JUST NOW! (AFTER TODDLER ADOPTION
DEBACLE STORY).



Melissa Roxanne Stanley

aka saveterrislife

______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________

----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:47 PM
Subject: Terri-NOTHING BUT PURE LIES on FoxNews' On the Record just
now! NOW!


This liar on Greta's show just said Terri had bulimia for years and
that when Michael found Terri on Feb. 25, 1990, she had just gotten
up to throw up in the bathroom and collapsed and Michael found her!
He also said Terri had symptoms of bulimia and a bleeding disorder!
He said she had a heart attack which resulted in brain damage!  These
are all Michael's and his attorneys' lies!  Michael's attny. was on
by the name of Gary Fox!  He said he saw no improvement from the 1st
time to the last time he saw Terri!

Medical tests proved that Terri NEVER had a heart attack!  Michael
never even claimed Terri was throwing up right before her so called
collapse on Feb, 25, 1990!  He said he thought she may have gotten up
because of the cats as they were coming out of the bathroom when he
found Terri on the floor halfway in the bathroom and the hallway.
The truth is he beat her severely all over her body on that date and
there is a bone scan which proves she had numerous broken bones, hot
spots, and trauma!  I cannot believe the BLATANT LIES tonight.  They
are worse than ever!  They are pulling out all of the stops to do
DAMAGE CONTROL for Michael!


Dr. Michael Baden, Forensic Pathologist was also on saying Terri will
not get better or improve from all of the brain damage that she has!
They both lied the entire time!

This is really scaring me as it seems like the NWO wants to really
remove Terri's feeding tube tomorrow with these blatant liars on
tonight!  Dr. Baden said in the past that Terri is in a Persistent
Vegetative State, PVS, but he said back in Oct. 2003, that Terri
suffered trauma and it should have been investigated back in Feb. 25,
1990.  Well, Terri is not, and was not then, nor has she ever been in
a Persistent Vegetative State!  He sure has changed his tune in a
year and a half about what happened to Terri in Feb. 1990!  I wonder
how much money he is being paid to say all of these lies???

Due to this, I did not have faith in Dr. Baden then, and now I know
for sure he is a total liar!  I also remember that in 2003, on the
40th Anniversary of JFK's assassination, Dr. Baden was on a special
on TV claiming that the magic bullet theory was true and that there
was only one shooter, that being Oswald, which is complete baloney!
I knew then right then not to trust him!

I TAPED THIS AND TRANSCRIPT WILL BE SENT OUT ASAP ONCE I GET IT DONE!

DCF filed to extend stay for 60 days.  Why did they not get involved
until now, since they have tried to murder Terri 2 times by removing
her feeding tube in April, 2001 and in October, 2003, not to mention
all of the times Michael has tried to kill her by numerous methods,
and not to mention all of the horrible abuse and neglect she has
suffered from him and others...  I don't know what to make of this,
but I do know that Terri's parentsm brother, and sister want Terri's
brother to be appointed Terri's guardian.  I am afraid of DCF and the
state taking custody of Terri, but I don't want Michael to have
custody, either!

This show was unbelievable!  I have also seen more blatant lies about
Terri in the last few days on tv, including a Pro Death author
spouting out propaganda about Terri.  I will write about this asap.

Pls. write to FoxNews' Greta Van Susteren "On the Record" to complain
about this horrible disinformation broadcast tonight!  I will send
you her e-mail address with my next e-mail re:  this!

Melissa

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________

(Note:  I actually received the e-mail below from someone well
informed about Terri who I have been in contact with for quite awhile
around 11:23 PM EST.  I believe the 8:23 PM listed below was
referring to Pacific Time.  Melissa)

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________

From: melissa roxanne [mailto:melissa-roxanne@...]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:23 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Fw: FOXNEWS CHANNEL RE: TERRI ON NOW - 11 EST



Greta just asked, "What happened 15 years ago to put Terri in this
position?" DCF filed for a 60 day stay on removal of Terri's feeding
tube.  Will send article out next.


______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________

----- Original Message -----
From:
To: 'melissa roxanne'
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:18 PM
Subject: RE: FOXNEWS CHANNEL RE: TERRI ON NOW - 11 EST


Melissa,

Greta is again saying Terri is vegetative.  Remember when Baden said
Terri was the victim of trauma?  Now he says it was her alleged
bulimia that caused the problem and that she cannot improve.

  Now we are told by Michael's attorney that they ate supper and she
threw up and fell.  That is totally not what the records show.

  Is Greta now walking the line?



----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:12 PM
Subject: FOXNEWS CHANNEL RE: TERRI ON NOW - 11 EST


TERRI update to be on Fox News Channel's "On the Record" with Greta
Van Susteren NOW from 10-11 PM EST.
Show repeats from 3-4 AM EST.  Keep watching this show each night as
they may have more updates.  Terri's feeding tube could be removed
(for the THIRD TIME!) as soon as tomorrow, Friday, February 25, 2005
at 5:00 PM EST, which is when they stay expires!  TERRI UPDATE WILL
BE ON IN JUST A FEW MINS. PER GRETA JUST NOW! (AFTER TODDLER ADOPTION
DEBACLE STORY).

Melissa Roxanne Stanley
aka saveterrislife

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*********



See all of my posts on my yahoo website:

Msgs. 1 - 33 msgs. here:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/messages/1



Msgs. 34 - 68 here:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/messages/34



Msgs. 69 - 74 here:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/messages/69



I will be adding much more information to my yahoo website on a
frequent basis.
Keep checking back!


Melissa Roxanne Stanley, aka saveterrislife
DeLand, (Volusia County), Florida


Much more will be written about this by me very soon.  I just wanted
to get this transcript out to all of you asap.

Here is Greta's address:  Ontherecord@...

Melissa


Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)


(Note:  Over 100,000 People Had Signed As of Last Night-Melissa
Roxanne Stanley/saveterrislife)



FORT LAUDERDALE-More than 5,000 people an hour are signing an online
"Petition to Save Terri Schiavo." Schiavo, a 41-year-old brain-
injured
woman who has the capacity to respond to her environment, recognize
voices, and who brightens at the presence of her mother, may be
starved to death by court order, starting today at 5 p.m.

"This is one of the strongest responses we have ever seen for an
online petition," said Dr. Gary Cass, Executive Director of the
Center
for Reclaiming America, which is sponsoring the petition campaign.
"The life of an otherwise healthy 41-year-old woman is in jeopardy
today, and thousands of concerned Americans are pleading for action
from Governor Bush," said Dr. Cass, who will personally deliver the
names on the petition to Gov. Bush and Florida legislative leaders in
Tallahassee on Friday, February 25.

The petition urges Governor Bush "to take immediate action to stop
the
forced starvation of Terri Schiavo," and calls for "legislative,
judicial and executive efforts that will stop the forced starvation
of
Terri Schiavo."

The petition may be accessed at http://www.reclaimamerica.org.



Cass also urged that calls and e-mails on Schiavo's behalf be sent to


Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)

Food and water may be denied to Schiavo beginning today at 5 p.m.,
when an emergency stay of an order to remove her feeding tube will
expire. Michael Schiavo, the estranged husband of Terri Schiavo, has
battled Terri's parents in court for years in an attempt to end her
life. Michael, who has lived for at least nine years with another
woman by whom he has had two children, claims Terri would not have
wished to be kept alive. There is no written request from Terri to
document his claim.

"Death by starvation is an extremely cruel and painful ordeal," said
Dr. D. James Kennedy, President and Founder of the Center for
Reclaiming America. "Unless Governor Bush, the Florida legislature,
or
a court intervenes, the court-imposed torture of Terri Schiavo will
take 7-10 days and end in what will be a tragic and, mark my words,
criminal death."

Human starvation and dehydration is attended by hunger pangs,
cracking
of the skin, lips, and tongue; nose bleeds as mucous membranes dry
out; and vomiting as the stomach lining dries out. As the process
goes
on, blood pressure drops, the heart rate increases, and blood is
withdrawn from the extremities and redirected toward vital organs.

"Thomas Jefferson," Dr. Kennedy noted, "said 'the care of human life
and not its destruction is the first and only object of good
government.' A court order that mandates the cruel and unusual
sentence of death by dehydration has violated the very first purpose
of civil government-the care and defense of life. Governor Bush and
the legislature must act now to protect the life of this defenseless
woman. Along with Dr. Cass, I urge concerned Americans to sign the
Center for Reclaiming America's online petition and to flood Governor
Bush, Senate President Lee, and House Speaker Bense with phone calls
and e-mails on her behalf."

To request an interview with Dr. Gary Cass, please contact John Aman
at

(954) 334-5330, or CRMNews@....



US Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Numbers
1-877-762-8762
1-800-839-5276
The White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111
The line only accepts calls from 9-5 EST., Monday thru Friday.
A machine will detain you for only a moment and then a pleasant live
operator says "White House Comment Line" and then you can tell
her/him
how you feel.

Take Action NOW CALL & EMAIL
Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at: Governor Jeb Bush (850) 488-4441 jeb.bush@... WE CAN
MAKE THIS HAPPEN! CALL, CALL CALL!

Take Action!

Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at:

Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@...






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receive e-mails from me, please send an e-mail to me with UNSUBSCRIBE
in the subject line, (from the e-mail address you want me to remove),
and I will remove that address from my list  as soon as possible.

I have 2 websites dedicated to Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

Extensive evidence & information can be found on my yahoo site,
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/
which you can easily find by typing saveterrislife (all one word)
into google or yahoo or go to http://www.saveterrislife.com
There is also a link there to my yahoo site.

Click on any post on my websites and find FAR MORE information,
evidence, and links than only what the TITLE of each post states.

I will be adding much more information to my yahoo website on a
frequent basis.
Keep checking back!


Melissa Roxanne Stanley
saveterrislife
DeLand, Volusia County, Florida

BE SURE & READ MY VERY NEXT POST HERE with TONS of EVIDENCE to
counteract the VISCIOUS LIES propagated by Michael Schiavo, Michael
Schiavo's Attorneys, the complicit propagandists in the mainstream
media, including TV, and many others!

I have 2 websites dedicated to Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

Extensive evidence & information can be found on my yahoo site,
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/
which you can easily find by typing saveterrislife (all one word)
into google or yahoo or go to http://www.saveterrislife.com
There is also a link there to my yahoo site.

Click on any post on my websites and find FAR MORE information,
evidence, and links than only what the TITLE of each post states.

I will be adding much more information to my yahoo website on a
frequent basis.
Keep checking back!


Melissa Roxanne Stanley
saveterrislife
DeLand, Volusia County, Florida



Due to what has been going on with Terri in the last few days, I have
been sending a tremendous amount of material out about Terri, but
have not had time to post it here yet.

Therefore, I am going to post material I have been working on today
first in my next message, and try to catch up on the rest as soon as
I have time.

I am also working on lots of other things which are very important
which could help to save Terri's life, so right now, I have to
concentrate on those things first and foremost, as Judge Greer has
ordered Terri's tube be removed on March 18th, 2005 at 1:00 PM EST!

Keep checking back for more info. frequently as I will be updating my
site as much as possible.

BE SURE AND READ MY VERY NEXT *LONG* POST HERE as it will contain
TONS of evidence to counteract the VISCIOUS LIES propagated by
Michael Schiavo, Michael Schiavo's Attorneys, the complicit
propagandists in the mainstream media, including TV, and many
others!  The PROPAGANDISTS ARE SPINNING LIES FULL TIME that Terri had
a heart attack, suffered from bulimia, had a potassium imbalance,
electrolyte imbalance, etc.  NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE!  They are
all HUGE LIES by Michael and Co. and others working with them,
including the media, to take the focus off of what happened to Terri
on February 25, 1990 and since then!

They are all just damage control rabbit trails and disinformation
benefitting Michael and extremely detrimental to Terri as this is
what the public is being fed by the disinformationalists and have for
years and years.

Please read the truth on my site and tell others the truth and refer
them to my websites!  Please send evidence you find here to others,
including the media, the officials, your friends, family, and others!

Thanks for your concern and support for Terri!

By the way, this site is a read-only site devoted to research I have
done since September, 2003 regarding Terri.

The only reason there are 2 members on this website is because yahoo
forced me to add another member or they threatened to shut my site
down!  Therefore, I asked a fellow Terri researcher and advocate to
join, but I am the only one who posts information here.

I plan to be doing more net radio interviews on
http://crusaderadio.com in the near future, but it is sometimes not
known by me until the night before when I will be asked to go on the
air.

It will most likely be on Mondays and possibly on some Tuesdays when
I will be on the air doing more net radio shows about Terri.  I will
also be talking about new information and things no one else talks
about, so keep listening!

You can click on old posts here about my old net radio shows on
crusaderadio.com for more details and links to click on so you can
listen!

You can check here many times for more information:

http://vetzine.blogspot.com as the person who owns that blog also
hosts the net radio shows I often do about Terri!

I will try to post a notice here to let you know when I will be on so
keep checking back!  I am sure I will be on again soon since Terri's
tube is supposed to be removed in about 3 weeks!

There is soooo much going on in this case it is UNREAL, so rest
assured I will be posting it here in the next few days and weeks and
thereafter!

If you'd like to be on my e-mail list, send an e-mail to me at
saveterrislife@... and let me know you want to subscribe to my
e-mail list regarding Terri.  It is different than asking to join my
yahoo site, as I do not allow anyone to join my site, because I could
not possibly keep track of what might be posted, due to the time
factor, and I have to keep my site truthful and accurate!  I work to
support myself plus work fulltime on trying to get the truth out
about Terri!  So, pls. be clear in your e-mail that you wish to
receive my e-mails about Terri!

Melissa Roxanne Stanley, saveterrislife
____________________________________________________________________


(Note:  Over 100,000 People Had Signed As of Last Night (meaning
Thursday, 2-24-05)

Melissa Roxanne Stanley / saveterrislife



FORT LAUDERDALE-More than 5,000 people an hour are signing an online
"Petition to Save Terri Schiavo." Schiavo, a 41-year-old brain-
injured
woman who has the capacity to respond to her environment, recognize
voices, and who brightens at the presence of her mother, may be
starved to death by court order, starting today at 5 p.m.

"This is one of the strongest responses we have ever seen for an
online petition," said Dr. Gary Cass, Executive Director of the
Center for Reclaiming America, which is sponsoring the petition
campaign.

"The life of an otherwise healthy 41-year-old woman is in jeopardy
today, and thousands of concerned Americans are pleading for action
from Governor Bush," said Dr. Cass, who will personally deliver the
names on the petition to Gov. Bush and Florida legislative leaders in
Tallahassee on Friday, February 25.

The petition urges Governor Bush "to take immediate action to stop
the forced starvation of Terri Schiavo," and calls for "legislative,
judicial and executive efforts that will stop the forced starvation
of Terri Schiavo."

The petition may be accessed at http://www.reclaimamerica.org.



Cass also urged that calls and e-mails on Schiavo's behalf be sent to


Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...);


Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...);

and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at 850.488.1450 or
speaker@....)

Food and water may be denied to Schiavo beginning today at 5 p.m.,
when an emergency stay of an order to remove her feeding tube will
expire. Michael Schiavo, the estranged husband of Terri Schiavo, has
battled Terri's parents in court for years in an attempt to end her
life. Michael, who has lived for at least nine years with another
woman by whom he has had two children, claims Terri would not have
wished to be kept alive. There is no written request from Terri to
document his claim.

"Death by starvation is an extremely cruel and painful ordeal," said
Dr. D. James Kennedy, President and Founder of the Center for
Reclaiming America. "Unless Governor Bush, the Florida legislature,
or
a court intervenes, the court-imposed torture of Terri Schiavo will
take 7-10 days and end in what will be a tragic and, mark my words,
criminal death."

Human starvation and dehydration is attended by hunger pangs,
cracking
of the skin, lips, and tongue; nose bleeds as mucous membranes dry
out; and vomiting as the stomach lining dries out. As the process
goes
on, blood pressure drops, the heart rate increases, and blood is
withdrawn from the extremities and redirected toward vital organs.

"Thomas Jefferson," Dr. Kennedy noted, "said 'the care of human life
and not its destruction is the first and only object of good
government.' A court order that mandates the cruel and unusual
sentence of death by dehydration has violated the very first purpose
of civil government-the care and defense of life. Governor Bush and
the legislature must act now to protect the life of this defenseless
woman. Along with Dr. Cass, I urge concerned Americans to sign the
Center for Reclaiming America's online petition and to flood Governor
Bush, Senate President Lee, and House Speaker Bense with phone calls
and e-mails on her behalf."

To request an interview with Dr. Gary Cass, please contact John Aman
at

(954) 334-5330, or CRMNews@....



US Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Numbers
1-877-762-8762
1-800-839-5276
The White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111
The line only accepts calls from 9-5 EST., Monday thru Friday.
A machine will detain you for only a moment and then a pleasant live
operator says "White House Comment Line" and then you can tell
her/him
how you feel.

Take Action NOW CALL & EMAIL
Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at: Governor Jeb Bush (850) 488-4441 jeb.bush@... WE CAN
MAKE THIS HAPPEN! CALL, CALL CALL!

Take Action!

Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at:

Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@...

____________________________________________________________________

100,000 Names on Petition to Save Terri Schiavo to be Delivered to
Representative of Gov. Bush in Tallahassee

To: National Desk

Contact: John Aman, of Coral Ridge Ministries, 954-334-5330,
CRMNews@...; Tallahassee contact is Lisa Ard, 850-284-
5165

FORT LAUDERDALE, Feb. 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Dr. Gary Cass,
Executive Director of the Center for Reclaiming America, will deliver
the names of 100,000 people who have signed an online petition on
behalf of Terri Schiavo at a press conference, Friday, February 25,
at 2 p.m. on the Plaza Level of the State Capitol Building in
Tallahassee.

Press Conference Details--

When: Friday, February 25, at 2 PM

Where: Plaza Level of Florida State Capitol Building

Who: Dr. Gary Cass, Executive Director of the Center for Reclaiming
America

Why: Dr. Cass will deliver the names on petition, generated in just
two days, to a representative of the Governor and will address
members of the media at the press conference. The petition urges
Governor Jeb Bush "to take immediate action to stop the forced
starvation of Terri Schiavo." It may be accessed at
www.reclaimamerica.org.

"The fact that this petition campaign, which began just yesterday,
has generated online signatures at the enormous rate of 5,000 per
hour, underscores how passionate people across the nation feel about
this issue," said Dr. Cass. "They want to see Terri spared from the
cruel and inhumane death by starvation and dehydration that may
commence tomorrow at 5 p.m."

"We appreciate the energy, concern, and effort which the Governor has
already expended in seeking a way to save Terri's live," Cass
said. "These petitions demonstrate the fervent concern in Florida and
across the nation that Gov. Bush act to save Terri's life."

Cass also urged that calls and e-mails on Schiavo's behalf be sent to
Florida Governor Jeb Bush (at 850.488.4441 or
jeb.bush@...); Senate President Tom Lee (at 850.487.5072 or
lee.tom.web@...); and House Speaker Allan G. Bense (at
850.488.1450 or speaker@....)


The Center for Reclaiming America is an outreach of Coral Ridge
Ministries, the television and radio ministry of Dr. D. James
Kennedy. The Center provides non-partisan, non-denominational
information, training, and support to all those interested in
positively affecting the culture and renewing the vision of our
Founding Fathers, as expressed in America's founding documents. The
Center for Reclaiming America is a national grassroots organization
with participants in all 50 states.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/crm0224.htm


____________________________________________________________________

Press Release

For Immediate Release - 02-24-2005 4:00 PM (GMT-5)


Associated Press Targets Terri Schiavo

Media repeats misrepresentations in Terri Schiavo case.


Clearwater, FL - On February 24, 2005, Associated Press released a
report penned by Vickie Chachere which cited an eating disorder as
the cause of Terri Schiavo's mysterious collapse and ensuing brain
injury on February 25, 1990.

Contrary to the account of writer Chachere, there was never a
determination by any court nor the Florida Department of Health that
Terri Schiavo ever suffered from any eating disorder, bulimia,
anorexia or compulsive behavior that would lead to a heart failure at
the age of 26.

Indeed, Florida's Department of Health had completely and absolutely
cleared Terri's general practitioner of any negligence or wrong-doing
in her case. This was after the physician had been accused by Terri's
husband of ignoring evidence of an eating disorder.

Additionally, at the time of her mysterious medical episode, Terri
Schiavo stood 5'3" and weighed somewhere between 115 and 118 pounds -
a slim, but normal stature and weight.

Associated Press writer, Vickie Chachere cites not ONE medical
document that would affirm her careless contention that Terri Schiavo
was an irresponsible dieter or a compulsive victim of an eating
disorder. The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation asks Ms. Chachere to
readily produce the facts upon which she penned such assertions.

The parents and siblings have repeatedly offered to media and press a
copy of a bone scan conducted on Terri Schiavo just one year after
her incident that reveals multiple sites of trauma and broken bones
throughout Terri's body. Neither the law enforcement agencies nor the
media or press have made any effort to investigate why Terri
Schiavo's body was seemingly broken by battery.

Instead, they perpetuate the unsubstantiated claims that Terri
Schiavo suffered from an eating disorder that rendered her healthy,
26 year-old heart incapable of carrying on.

Statement of Robert Schindler, Terri's' Father: ""This is a
slanderous accusation against my daughter with no basis in fact.
Certain members of the press seem determined to spread misinformation
to kill Terri."

The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is calling upon all of media
and press to take up the task of investigating allegations of serious
abuse against Terri Schiavo as are evidenced in the 1991 bone scan
and well as ongoing violations against Terri under Florida's
Guardianship Statutes.

http://terrisfight.org



____________________________________________________________________

Much evidence can be found here that I provided, which was NOT
included, by the writer, in an article about Michael:

Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or MONSTER?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/65

____________________________________________________________________

US Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Numbers
1-877-762-8762
1-800-839-5276
The White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111

The line only accepts calls from 9-5 EST., Monday thru Friday.
A machine will detain you for only a moment and then a pleasant live
operator says "White House Comment Line" and then you can tell
her/him how you feel.

Take Action NOW CALL & EMAIL
Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at:

Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@...
WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
CALL, CALL CALL!

Take Action!

Please contact Governor Jeb Bush and encourage him to take all
necessary steps to save the life of Terri Schiavo. You may reach him
at:

Governor Jeb Bush
(850) 488-4441
jeb.bush@...
____________________________________________________________________

----- Original Message -----
From: saveterrislife
To: jgrogan@...
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 2:50 AM
Subject: Columnist John Grogan Changes Mind About Terri Schiavo!



Philly columnist changes mind on Terri Schiavo
'Uncomfortable details' lead him to side with her parents

Posted: February 26, 2005

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist who believes in the "right to die"
has changed his mind about the Terri Schiavo case, pointing
to "uncomfortable details" about her estranged husband that now lead
him to side with the parents of the brain-damaged Florida woman, who
are fighting to keep her alive.

John Grogan said in a column published today, "I no longer so
blithely believe Schiavo's feeding tubes should be pulled and her
life allowed to end. I'm no longer so sure her parents do not deserve
a say in their daughter's future. I no longer am totally comfortable
assuming her husband, Michael, who now has two children by another
woman, is acting unselfishly."

Michael Schiavo has been living with his fiance Jodi Centonze since
1995 and has said he will marry her upon the death of his wife.

Grogan said he hasn't changed his opinion that everyone has a right
to "die with dignity," but he believes that in the Schiavo case,
the "devil is in the details, uncomfortable details that raise sticky
moral dilemmas."

Terri Schiavo suffered severe brain damage in 1990 after collapsing.
Michael Schiavo attributes it to a chemical imbalance caused by an
eating disorder, but parents Robert and Mary Schindler believe he may
have tried to strangle her.

Michael Schiavo contends his wife told him she never would want to be
kept alive artificially.

But Grogan points out Terri Schiavo's heart and lungs function on
their own, and she requires only a feeding tube that might not be
necessary if she were given physical therapy.

The columnist notes Michael Schiavo, as her legal guardian, has
forbidden any therapy.

"If [Terri] Schiavo merely required spoon feeding instead of tube
feeding, would anyone seriously be arguing to withhold food and
water?" Grogan asked. "Does not every human, no matter how
incapacitated, deserve sustenance?"

Grogan also is concerned about abuse allegations against Michael
Schiavo and believes they should be investigated.

The allegations "may be nothing but scurrilous rumor spread to damage
his credibility," he wrote. "But what if there is even a tiny chance
he is guilty of abuse? Should such a person be in a position to
decide this life-and-death issue?"

When it comes to who is best to decide, Grogan wrote, it's clear that
Terri Schiavo's parents "have proved themselves nothing if not
fiercely loyal, utterly committed parents. They might be misguided.
They might be in denial. But no one can argue their devotion. They
have not given up. They have not stopped caring. They have not
stopped loving. Who are we, as a society, to tell them they must?

Grogan concluded:

Clearly, Schiavo's husband has moved on to a new life, and who can
blame him? It's been 15 long years. But parents cannot move on.
Parents cannot give up. Their child will always be the precious gift
they brought into the world.

If the Schindlers want to dedicate the rest of their lives and
resources to caring for their brain-damaged daughter, if they want to
shower her with attention and affection she likely will never
recognize, who among us will tell them they cannot

It won't be me.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43039




Court documents and other information are posted on the
Schindler family website http://www.terrisfight.org.

Links to all "Terri briefs" regarding the governor's defense of
Terri's Law are on the Florida Supreme Court website, public
information.


Recent stories:

Terri Schiavo's life in balance again
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43026

Stay extended in Schiavo case
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43006

Clock running out for Terri Schiavo
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42998

U.S. Supreme Court refuses Schiavo case
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42527

Terri Schiavo saved again
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41151

Judge spares Terri Schiavo ­ for now
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41111

'Terri's Law' struck down
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40594

Florida high court hears 'Terri's Law'
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40242

Recent commentaries:

Supreme ignorance
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40619

A right to live ... not to be killed
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40641

Read WorldNetDaily's unparalleled, in-depth coverage of the life-and-
death fight over Terri Schiavo.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35305




Philly columnist changes mind on Terri Schiavo
'Uncomfortable details' lead him to side with her parents

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43039




Praise God John Grogan woke up about Terri!  Others are also waking
up!  We must keep getting the evidence and the truth out to the
people and telling everyone we meet the truth about Terri.  I do, and
I am sure many of you do the same.  In addition to the radio shows
about Terri I have done many times, I have told people I have just
met, people who have come to fix my computer (several different
technicians), my friends, my family, my clients, people at the salon
I go to, people where I live, and you can do the same!

If you have only told your family and friends, try talking to
others.  I tell people as much as I can as fast as I can.  You can
also call in to talk radio shows, net radio shows, television shows
and write e-mails to everyone including the media, officials, people
you know, etc.

We ARE making a difference and we CANNOT stop now.  Terri's life is
still in GRAVE DANGER and so are the lives of SO MANY OTHERS who
could be next, including ANY OF US and our friends and family
members!

Please REMEMBER people CAN and DO change their minds, just like John
Grogan did!  I pray he will change his mind about more than just
Terri, but I am very grateful he came forward and wrote the article
that he did.  I commend him for having the courage to do so!

Please pray for John Grogan, others who have not woken up, and those
who want Terri to be killed.

Most of all, please pray for Terri and her loving family, who have
been through so much more than we can ever imagine for so very
long.

Melissa Stanley



Here is the new article John Grogan wrote and I was just, (as of 2:44
AM EST), finally able to read it after much trouble getting into the
website.  The page of "special offers" which is supposed to appear,
per the site, once you join, would not work, therefore I could not
join, however, it let me see the article hours later, after I was
able to change my password.  (I had actually joined long ago, back in
2003).  Now that I have finally read John Grogan's newest article on
Terri, I see that John still does not have all of the facts and is
putting out inaccurate information about Terri.  I will attempt to
call him regarding this as well as e-mailing him.  I implore all of
you who know the truth and the know the evidence to do the same
asap.  Melissa



Posted on Fri, Feb. 25, 2005



John Grogan | Second thoughts on Terri Schiavo

By John Grogan
Inquirer Columnist

Sometimes even newspaper columnists change their minds.

In the matter of Terri Schiavo, the permanently brain-damaged former
suburban Philadelphia woman caught in a life-and-death tug-of-war,
this columnist has changed his.

I no longer so blithely believe Schiavo's feeding tubes should be
pulled and her life allowed to end. I'm no longer so sure her parents
do not deserve a say in their daughter's future. I no longer am
totally comfortable assuming her husband, Michael, who now has two
children by another woman, is acting unselfishly.

That's not to say I have changed my opinion about the right of all of
us to die with dignity when life has lost all meaning. But for Terri
Schiavo, who lingers in a Florida nursing home, the devil is in the
details, uncomfortable details that raise sticky moral dilemmas.

Detail 1: Terry Schiavo is not dying. She is not being kept alive
artificially. Her heart beats and lungs breathe without help. She
cannot swallow food or water. Once the feeding tube is removed, she
would slowly starve to death over days or weeks.

Detail 2: Schiavo is not comatose. Her eyes open, and she sometimes
responds to stimuli. Doctors say there is no brain activity and her
responses are simply reflexive. Her parents, Robert and Mary
Schindler, want to believe otherwise.

Unanswered questions

Detail 3: The Schindlers think their daughter could benefit from
physical therapy and might someday swallow on her own, but her
husband, as her legal guardian, reportedly will not allow it. Which
leads to an equally uncomfortable question: If Schiavo merely
required spoon feeding instead of tube feeding, would anyone
seriously be arguing to withhold food and water? Does not every
human, no matter how incapacitated, deserve sustenance?

Detail 4: Unproven allegations that Schiavo might have suffered
physical trauma immediately before her heart stopped for several
minutes in 1990, leading to brain damage, have not been fully
investigated. The Schindlers have long suggested their son-in-law
strangled their daughter; Michael Schiavo's lawyer says the abuse
allegations have never been substantiated. Before pulling the plug on
this woman, don't these questions need to be fully answered?

The abuse allegations against Michael Schiavo may be nothing but
scurrilous rumor spread to damage his credibility. But what if there
is even a tiny chance he is guilty of abuse? Should such a person be
in a position to decide this life-and-death issue?

Last month, I wrote that Michael Schiavo's wish should be granted and
his wife allowed to die rather than suffer for years in what the
courts have deemed a "persistent vegetative state." I still believe
Terri Schiavo, if she were aware today, would instruct us to not make
her linger on like this.

Undisputed devotion

But she is not aware and left no written directives. So we are left
to guess her wishes. Last month, I said we could look inside our own
hearts and know what she would want. Today, with the latest stay
barring the removal of the feeding tube set to expire in hours, I am
less confident making such assumptions.

Who best to decide? In the murky mess that this case has become, we
are left with one unwavering truth: Over the last seven years of
fighting, Terri Schiavo's parents have proved themselves nothing if
not fiercely loyal, utterly committed parents. They might be
misguided. They might be in denial. But no one can argue their
devotion. They have not given up. They have not stopped caring. They
have not stopped loving. Who are we, as a society, to tell them they
must?

Clearly, Schiavo's husband has moved on to a new life, and who can
blame him? It's been 15 long years. But parents cannot move on.
Parents cannot give up. Their child will always be the precious gift
they brought into the world.

If the Schindlers want to dedicate the rest of their lives and
resources to caring for their brain-damaged daughter, if they want to
shower her with attention and affection she likely will never
recognize, who among us will tell them they cannot?

It won't be me.


Contact John Grogan at 610-313-8132 or jgrogan@....
Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/grogan.



http://philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/10985482
.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp



Here's the older article John Grogan wrote about Terri:

Posted on Mon, Jan. 31, 2005


Just what life is being prolonged?

By John Grogan
Inquirer Columnist

For Terri Schiavo, there are no happy endings, only degrees of
sadness.

Her once-bright life has come down to two heartbreakingly bleak
choices: to live, if you can call it that, in what the courts have
determined is a "persistent vegetative state." Or to die.

If Schiavo could somehow make her wishes known, I have to believe she
would choose the latter - a peaceful death over a life sentence of
endless, unconscious tomorrows.

But the former suburban Philadelphia woman cannot and did not give
direction. And thus this anguished national debate.

Schiavo, who grew up in Huntingdon Valley, suffered brain damage in
1990 when her heart stopped as a result of an eating disorder. She
has been nonresponsive ever since and, unable to swallow, is kept
alive in a Florida nursing home with a feeding and hydration tube.

Her condition has left those who love her bitterly divided. Her
husband, Michael, formerly of Bucks County, has fought to let his
wife die with dignity. He says she made it clear to him she never
would want to exist like this, tethered to a machine with no hope of
recovery.

Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have fought just as fiercely to
keep her alive. They accuse the husband of being driven by greed and
a desire to remarry.

A political end-run

The case has wound through the courts and back again. After the
judiciary repeatedly sided with the husband, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,
the president's brother, and his allies pushed through the state
legislature a special bill, "Terri's Law," designed specifically to
prevent Michael Schiavo from removing the feeding tube. A life was
being used to push political agendas.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to overturn a lower court
ruling that struck down Terri's Law, but that has not deterred her
parents, who vow to keep battling on other fronts.

For Terri, now 41 and blessedly unaware of the ugly and very public
family feud her condition has spurred, there is no end in sight. My
sense is both sides are driven by pure intentions. Michael Schiavo
does not want to see his wife's suffering prolonged.

Her parents cling to hope against all odds, as parents are meant to
do. They see glimmers of life behind the blank stares. They believe
their daughter still exists in there, just waiting to be freed. Her
doctors say otherwise.

The fact that Terri Schiavo left no written instructions greatly
complicates the debate. And yet we are not without clues.

Absent a written directive, we have the husband's word. And we have
our own common sense and decency. We each can ask ourselves, If it
were me, what would I want?

Is there anyone among us who would answer truthfully: "Yes, I would
choose to linger for years, decades, in a vegetative state with no
hope of ever regaining consciousness?"

Alarmist malarkey

What would a reasonable person want from such a tragic turn of
events? The answer seems obvious: Not to be kept lingering in a
permanent comatose state, unaware of yourself or your surroundings,
with no chance for recovery.

The right-to-life camp has wrapped itself around the Schiavo case,
and its members paint alarmist "slippery slope" scenarios that are
shameful in their deceit. To hear them spin it, if Terri is allowed
to die, then next we will be rounding up and mass euthanizing all
whom society does not value - the elderly, the handicapped, the
mentally diminished, the homeless.

Pure nonsense.

This wrenching case is not, as Terri's parents claim, about "judicial
homicide." The courts are not killing anyone. They are merely
attempting to determine Terri Schiavo's chances for a meaningful
recovery (none) and what she would want.

This is about honoring a woman's wishes. She did not write down
exactly what those wishes are. But we can peer inside our own hearts
and know without qualm what Terri Schiavo would want. It would not be
the perpetual and pointless purgatory known by that sterile and
inadequate term, "persistent vegetative state."

That is no life at all.

Contact John Grogan at 610-313-8132
or jgrogan@....
Read his recent work at
http://go.philly.com/grogan.

http://kentucky.com/mld/philly/news/10777048.htm?
template=contentModules/printstory.jsp



Posted on Tue, Jan. 11, 2005



Are we 'proudly gruff' - or what?

By John Grogan
Inquirer Columnist

The female caller on my answering machine wanted me to know she
usually enjoyed my column. "I'm probably your No. 1 fan," she said.

But on this day, she was anything but thrilled. In fact, she was
downright grumpy. And it all had to do with two little
words: "proudly gruff."

As I am slowly figuring out in life, it's the little things that get
under people's skin.

"I don't understand how you can say proudly gruff," she
carped. "Gruff would have been bad enough, but proudly gruff?"

It's true. I, indeed, had used the words to describe the demeanor of
the people of this great region.

The two words were part of a column I wrote last month describing a
Good Samaritan tow-truck driver who came to the rescue of a couple
lost near Philadelphia International Airport and in desperate need of
a hospital. The tow-truck driver could have ignored them. Instead he
led them through rush-hour traffic to medical help, possibly saving
the wife, who had suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm.

The tow operator's actions, I wrote, "served as a reminder to us all
that even in a city as proudly gruff as Philadelphia... there are
still those knights among us who don't hesitate to come to the
rescue."

It didn't seem all that seditious to me, but No. 1 Fan considered the
remark an act of heresy.

No dissin' my hometown

"Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world. I've always believed
it, I always will," she said. "The people in Philadelphia are
marvelous; they are outstanding; they care about each other. They
talk to each other, waiting for a bus, standing in a supermarket
line, anywhere. Philadelphians are wonderful. We're not gruff at all,
and if we were gruff, we wouldn't be proudly."

Wow! Somebody sign this woman up with the tourism council.

I was pondering her reaction, wondering whether I had been unfair to
the good people of this region, when a second voice message came in.
It was No. 1 Fan again, and she had been doing some homework.

"I got out the dictionary," she said, "and under gruff it lists
harsh, brusque, markedly impolite in a manner of speech, lack of
civility, calculated rudeness... curt in manner, discourteous, blunt."

Hey, what about cantankerous?

After all, this is the home of the famous one-finger Philly Salute,
given each morning on the inbound Schuylkill. The place where Santa
got booed. The place tied with Detroit (my hometown!) for having the
country's rowdiest sports fans. The surly union town, home of bare-
knuckles politics, where men greet each other with the odd, guttural
grunt: Aye, Ow youse dune?

If anything, "proudly gruff" was a bit of an understatement.

But my No. 1 Fan was not buying my thinking. She ended with: "I've
traveled all around the country. I've lived in different cities. And
there's no city with people like Philadelphians."

No argument there.

Land of friendly faces

Actually, my caller makes a point. In my five years in the region,
I've met more kind and decent people than I can count. That's not to
say they weren't gruff - and proud of it.

My No. 1 Fan did not leave her name or number, but I want her to know
I'm open to the possibility that, as a relative newcomer with
sensibilities rooted in the Milquetoast Midwest, my perception might
be wrong.

My caller requested an apology, but I'm going to do even better. I'm
going to let the people of Greater Philadelphia - that means you,
too, South Jersey and the Pennsylvania suburbs - decide for
themselves.

Yes, folks, I'm suffering post-election poll withdrawal. So I'm
conducting one of my own.

So give it up, Greater Philly: What are we? Proudly gruff or
something else? Something more genteel? Look at the definition above
and tell me whether I was too harsh in describing the cheery denizens
of this gentle land.

And, if we are not proudly gruff, tell me what words would better
describe us. I'll even say please. You may vote by e-mail or phone
(contact info below), and I will report the highly unscientific
results in a future column.

Rise up and be heard, people. Not that that's ever been a problem.

Contact John Grogan at 610-313-8132 or jgrogan@.... Read
his recent work at http://go.philly.com/grogan.

(RISE UP AND BE HEARD ABOUT TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO, PEOPLE!  MELISSA)



About John Grogan

John Grogan joined the Inquirer in November 2002 as the Pennsylvania
metro columnist. He is a former metropolitan columnist and urban-
sprawl reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort
Lauderdale, where his work won several national and state awards,
including the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Award. From
1999 - 2002, he served as editor of Organic Gardening, a Rodale Inc.
magazine based in Emmaus, Pa.

JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Click here to read and post messages on John
Grogan's forum page. John monitors this forum daily and occasionally
drops in to comment.

http://forums.prospero.com/kr-inq_columns/start  (This link is not
working at this time.  Melissa)

His column runs on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. He can be reached
at jgrogan@....




  LATEST COLUMN



     John Grogan | Second thoughts on Terri Schiavo
Sometimes even newspaper columnists change their minds. In the matter
of Terri Schiavo, the permanently brain-damaged former suburban
Philadelphia woman caught in a life-and-death tug-of-war, this
columnist has changed his.
By John Grogan / Inquirer Columnist







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I have 2 websites dedicated to Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

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into google or yahoo or go to http://www.saveterrislife.com
There is also a link there to my yahoo site.

Click on any post on my websites and find FAR MORE information,
evidence, and links than only what the TITLE of each post states.

Melissa Roxanne Stanley
saveterrislife
DeLand, Volusia County, Florida



I have 2 websites dedicated to Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

Extensive evidence & information can be found on my yahoo site,
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/
which you can easily find by typing saveterrislife (all one word)
into google or yahoo or go to http://www.saveterrislife.com
There is also a link there to my yahoo site.

Click on any post on my websites and find FAR MORE information,
evidence, and links than only what the TITLE of each post states.

I will be adding much more information to my yahoo website on a
frequent basis.
Keep checking back!


Melissa Roxanne Stanley
saveterrislife
DeLand, Volusia County, Florida

----- Original Message -----
From: saveterrislife
To:
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: Praise God! Terri Schindler-Schiavo WON'T Be Murdered Today!


Praise God!

I just got home a few minutes ago from work and learned there is now
a new stay until March 18th at 1:00 PM EST, which was ruled by
Greer.  At least that buys us more time to get the truth out!

Thanks for everything all of you have done!

I have tons of e-mails that I have not yet even read, but the ones I
have read from Terri supporters and activists are wonderful.  I will
send them out asap.

I am going out right now with a friend to celebrate as I have been on
an emotional rollercoaster for awhile now, especially since last
night when I saw "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren with Michael
Schiavo's attorney Gary Fox and Forensic Pathologist Michael Baden
LYING like crazy the entire time about Terri!  I have it on tape and
will send out the transcript as soon as I type it up.  It will
OUTRAGE you when you read it!  I have also seen articles online which
state the same outrageous lies - not that the media hasn't been lying
all along about Terri, but now they are going gung ho with the lies
about Terri being bulimic, having a heart attack, potassium
imbalance, electrolyte imbalance, throwing up right before she so
called "collapsed" when Michael "found" her, etc!

Do they think we don't have the court transcripts proving Michael
never testified that Terri was throwing up right before her so
called "collapse"?  And to prove there is zero evidence Terri ever
had bulimia?  And that medical tests prove Terri never had a heart
attack?  And that potassium is not even an issue as potassium causes
damage by causing heart attacks?  We have the bone scan showing
extreme trauma to Terri's entire body as well as a closed head
injury.  We have affidavits re:  Michael's horrible abuse and neglect
towards Terri, and evidence of what he has done to Terri and denied
Terri.  We also have even more which is going to come out.  We all
know the truth, and we will not shut up about it!  I will be posting
and sending out links to every court transcript I have and can find.
You can count on that!  I am also working on many other things, as
are others, to prove what really happened to Terri on February 25,
1990, and since, and to also prove Terri can get better, and needs
medical treatment badly.

Praise the Lord Terri is not being murdered RIGHT NOW, ON THE 15th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DATE (2-25-90), MICHAEL SEVERELY BEAT HER ALL OVER
HER BODY AND HEAD, STRANGLED HER, AND PROBABLY INJECTED HER WITH
INSULIN!  That's probably the ONLY reason they didn't KILL her today,
as much as they wanted to, because it's the
15th ANNIVERSARY, and that would be TOO BLATANT, even for THEM!

God has saved Terri's life so many times, including today, and He
counts on us to also do the right thing!  We must KEEP doing the
right thing.  We must KEEP getting the truth out and telling the
world what really happened to Terri on February 25, 1990 and what
keeps happening to her and how much the media and Michael and Co.
LIE!  We HAVE to keep exposing the LIESand keep providing evidence of
the TRUTH!

Thanks again to all of you, but please don't stop now.  Please do all
you can to save Terri's life and the lives of so many more who would
be in danger if they murdered her - any one of us could be next!  God
Bless everyone trying to save Terri's life, fighting to get her the
therapy and medical treatment she has been denied for years, fighting
against those trying to MURDER her, against EVIL FORCES, (Powers and
Principalities), LIARS, and MURDERERS, and God Bless those who are
telling the world the truth about Terri and this corrupt and evil
case, while trying to make sure the guilty ones are punished.

Please keep praying for Terri and her family, and please remember to
give Thanks to God for all he has done and continues to do for Terri
and all of us!


Melissa Roxanne Stanley
http://www.saveterrislife.com



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Extensive evidence & information can be found on my yahoo site,
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/
which you can easily find by typing saveterrislife (all one word)
into google or yahoo or go to http://www.saveterrislife.com
There is also a link there to my yahoo site.


Melissa Roxanne Stanley
saveterrislife
DeLand, Volusia County, Florida

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-- Michael Schiavo
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Schiavo case: 11th hour, again
In a case that has seen years of twists and turns, observers think
today's ruling might not be the last.
By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, Times Staff Writer
Published February 22, 2005


A lawyer for Terri Schiavo's husband said Monday the feeding tube
that has kept the brain-damaged woman alive for 15 years will be
removed at 1 p.m. today - unless a court stops him.

But after a chaotic round of legal jousting Monday, the only
certainty by day's end was uncertainty, and no one knows if a court
will step in to prevent an act that could end Schiavo's life within
two weeks.

David Gibbs III, an attorney representing Schiavo's parents, said he
is still optimistic he will find a way to thwart efforts to end
Schiavo's life and saw no need for the courts to rush to do it.

Bob and Mary Schindler have "watched many miracles occur on behalf
of their daughter, Terri," Gibbs said. "They continue to pray that
there will be another miracle. ... We don't need to rush to Terri's
death."

But George Felos, an attorney representing Schiavo's husband,
Michael, said he will proceed to remove the feeding tube as soon as
legally able.

"It's been five years since the courts ordered Mrs. Schiavo's life
support discontinued," Felos said. "This woman has been force-fed
against her will for five years. This is not a rush to judgment."

It would be the third time since 2001 that Schiavo's feeding tube
has been removed. The last time, action by Gov. Jeb Bush and state
lawmakers in October 2003 forced doctors to reinsert it.

On Monday, the 2nd District Court of Appeal announced that it would
issue a mandate at 1 p.m. today, an order that essentially finalizes
a previous ruling that denied the Schindlers' attempt to win a new
trial to determine their daughter's wishes.

Once that mandate is issued, a stay granted by Pinellas-Pasco
Circuit Judge George Greer preventing the tube's removal would be
automatically lifted.

Gibbs had asked for a hearing to be scheduled Monday to ask Greer
for another stay. But he said Greer declined to consider the matter
before the appeals mandate is released, and the hearing was pushed
back until Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Gibbs said, Felos told him in a phone conversation Monday
Michael Schiavo planned to remove the feeding tube Tuesday.

So Gibbs filed an emergency petition for a stay Monday, seeking to
block the tube's removal until, at the least, after Wednesday's
hearing. Greer declined to rule immediately.

Gibbs said it is possible that the appeals court mandate will
instruct Greer on when and how to set a date and time for the tube's
removal.

Felos, however, disagrees, though he acknowledges the
unpredictability of a case that has attracted international
attention and has a history of complex legal maneuvers. "I suppose
anything is possible," he said.

By delaying a ruling on an emergency stay until at least 1 p.m.
today, Greer appears to be signaling that he expects the appeals
court may indeed instruct him on how to proceed.

To further confuse everything, a court spokesman late Monday e-
mailed reporters that Greer had issued a stay, when, in fact, he
hadn't.

Bob Schindler said Monday that it is clear to his family that his
daughter is responsive and still has brain function, even responding
to people. "It's nothing more than coldblooded murder," Schindler
said of actions to end his daughter's life.

Terri Schiavo, 41, has been in what her husband and some doctors say
is a persistent vegetative state without any consciousness or
ability to recover since 1990, when she collapsed from a suspected
chemical imbalance.

Her parents disagree and insist that she has cognition and may
improve with therapy.

A court found in 2000 that Schiavo would not want to live by
artificial means, ruling that the feeding tube should be removed.
Felos said Michael Schiavo, as his wife's guardian, is compelled by
court order to end her life.

As legal avenues close to them, Schiavo's parents have mounted a
public relations campaign to block Michael Schiavo and have said
Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry will coordinate efforts.

[Last modified February 22, 2005, 01:12:18]

http://sptimes.com/2005/02/22/Tampabay/Schiavo_case__11th_ho.shtml

Final word awaited in Schiavo case
Husband plans to remove wife's feeding tube today

Orlando Sentinel

Originally published February 22, 2005

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Unless a court grants her parents another delay,
Michael Schiavo plans to remove the feeding tube keeping his wife
alive early this afternoon, allowing the severely brain-damaged
woman to die.

An attorney for Schiavo said he is authorized to remove the life
support for his wife as soon as the 2nd District Court of Appeal
issues an order that finalizes its last ruling against his in-laws
in their seven-year legal battle to keep their daughter alive.

Yesterday, the Lakeland court said it would release the order, known
as a mandate, at 1 p.m. today.

Exactly what the order will say could prove critical. But Schiavo's
attorney was confident it would be a perfunctory ruling sending the
case back to the trial judge, who has repeatedly ruled that Terri
Schiavo would reject the artificial life support that has kept her
alive for 15 years.

If so, attorney George Felos said, Michael Schiavo will immediately
withdraw his wife's feeding tube.

"I will not comment on the mechanism, but it's fair to say the tube
will come out as soon as the mandate is issued," Felos said
yesterday.

But it will not happen without a fight from Terri Schiavo's parents,
Bob and Mary Schindler. Their attorney, David Gibbs, adamantly
disagrees that Michael Schiavo can have his wife's artificial
feedings discontinued without another court order and vowed to seek
contempt charges if he proceeds.

Gibbs made that promise yesterday. He also filed an emergency
request asking Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer to bar the tube's
removal until the Schindlers resolve several long-standing issues
they have pending in his courtroom.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-
te.quark22feb22,1,7597830.story?coll=bal-nationworld-
headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

Latest Developments Re:  Terri - Feb 21, 2005

Letter faxed to Judge Greer on Monday, February 21, 2005, (though
the fax incorrectly registered the date as February 21, 2025), by
Michael Schiavo's lead attorney, George Felos, states the following
in the last paragraph:

"As this Court knows, the stay of the February 11, 2000 final
judgement authorizing the discontinuance of the ward's artificial
life support expires at 1:00 pm tomorrow, (DCA order attached).
That final judgement, as stated by the appellate Court in Schiavo
II, is a mandatory injunction "compelling" the guardian to
discontinue artificial life support, 792 So. 2d at 559.  As such, so
there is no misunderstanding as to the guardian's position, absent
any further stays that might be put in place, the guardian will, as
he is obligated to do, comply with the final judgement, (which
became the order of the appellate court by its Schiavo I mandate, by
discontinuing the ward's artificial life support at 1:00 pm
tomorrow.

Respectfully,
George J. Felos
http://terrisfight.org/
(scroll down on main page at link above
to find the latest developments in this case):


Note from saveterrislife/Melissa:  Terri is not on any life
support!  The only thing Terri has is a simple feeding tube which
she does not even NEED, as she swallows!  Terri does not drool and
can swallow 1.5 to 2 liters of her saliva per day, according to Dr.
William Hammesfahr, expert Neurologist who examined Terri, and
testified in court for the Schindlers.  Liquid is one of the hardest
things to swallow.  See several quotes regarding this by clicking on
the link below.  Florida law designates feeding tubes as life
support, though in reality, they are not!

More of the latest developments can be found on the homepage here
(only in pdf):
http://terrisfight.org/


Latest Developments - Feb 21, 2005

Feb 21, 2005 - Felos letter to judge Greer
Feb 21, 2005 - Emergency motion for clarification and stay
Feb 21, 2005 - 2nd DCA denies motion to withhold mandate
Schiavo rejects the Schindler's settlement offer.  (PDF)



http://terrisfight.org/

However, according to the article below, Judge Greer ruled that
Terri's feeding tube cannot be removed until after a hearing on
Wednesday, February 22nd.  saveterrislife/Melissa



02.21.05

Schiavo Judge Bars Withdrawal Of Feeding Tube Until Hearing

    Michael Schiavo and his attorney, euthanasia advocate George
Felos, have been barred from withdrawing the feeding tube from
Schiavo's brain damaged wife until a hearing can be held Wednesday.

    Terri Schiavo, 41, is a patient at Woodside Hospice in Pinellas
Park, Florida, the center of a tug of war between her parents who
are trying to keep her alive  and her estranged husband who seeks
court permission to cause her death.

    Sixth Circuit Court Judge George Greer ruled late Monday
afternoon that Felos and Schiavo cannot implement their stated plan
to withdraw the gastric feeding tube of Terri Schindler-Schiavo
until a hearing is held to determine if the stay in effect from
Greer's 2000 death order should remain in place while her parents,
Mary and Robert Schindler Sr., continue with their legal options in
trying to keep her alive.

    Felos had announced his intent to withdraw the feeding tube which
provides food and water to Terri as soon as the 2nd District Court
of Appeals had issued its final order in a decision handed down Feb.
4 which denied the Schindler's motion to void the death order on
religious grounds.

    The beginning of Terri's death by starvation could have begun as
early as 1 p.m. Tuesday but Greer's intervention prohibits Felos and
Schiavo from taking any action to end his wife's death until after
the Wednesday hearing.

     Earlier Monday, Felos had denied the request of the Schindlers'
attorney to assure the parents that the tube would not be withdrawn
in the interim period between 1 p.m. Tuesday and another hearing in
the matter which is also scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, a period
of approximately 24 hours.

    The Schindlers had feared that Felos and Michael Schiavo would
remove Terri from the hospice and take her to an undisclosed
location to begin death by starvation process which is expected to
take 7 to 10 days. .

     Felos had refused and had opposed Schindlers' motion for an
emergency temporary stay, saying that Greer does not have
jurisdiction to extend the stay of his own order.

    There is still a three-year-old motion pending before Greer for
the removal of the estranged husband as Terri's guardian. David
Gibbs III, Schindlers' attorney, said the motion to remove Michael
as guardian had been pending since 2002.

    Greer has allowed the motion to linger unanswered for three
years.

    "All motions should be resolved before ending Terri's life",
Gibbs said.  "This is very much like a death penalty case.  There
are a number of important issues that need to be resolved before any
action is taken concerning Terri".

    Gibbs said that death by starvation would not be allowed in a
criminal case and is "barbaric" in this situation.

    He said there are a number of grounds to remove the husband as
guardian.  "Simply put, he is acting in an interest contrary to
Terri".

     He said there were numerous conflicts of interest, that he is
living with another woman with whom he has two children and that he
has failed to properly provide Terri with medical treatment or
rehabilitation services.

    "It is far more appropriate for a blood relative to be guardian
than someone who married into the family and has basically gone on
with his life", Gibbs said.

    Pro-life activist Randall Terry who has been engaged to
coordinate a campaign of protests and lobbying in an effort to save
Terri's life, said that "if Michael Schiavo has Terri's feeding tube
removed, we will respond with an avalanche of activism to save Terri
from death by starvation.

    "Why is Michael determined to starve this woman?"  Terry
asked.  "Why won't he just give Terri back to her parents".

  http://theempirejournal.com/02210523_schiavo_judge_bars_with.htm

02.21.05

Schiavo Judge Bars Withdrawal Of Feeding Tube Until Hearing

    Michael Schiavo and his attorney, euthanasia advocate George
Felos, have been barred from withdrawing the feeding tube from
Schiavo's brain damaged wife until a hearing can be held Wednesday.

    Terri Schiavo, 41, is a patient at Woodside Hospice in Pinellas
Park, Florida, the center of a tug of war between her parents who
are trying to keep her alive  and her estranged husband who seeks
court permission to cause her death.

    Sixth Circuit Court Judge George Greer ruled late Monday
afternoon that Felos and Schiavo cannot implement their stated plan
to withdraw the gastric feeding tube of Terri Schindler-Schiavo
until a hearing is held to determine if the stay in effect from
Greer's 2000 death order should remain in place while her parents,
Mary and Robert Schindler Sr., continue with their legal options in
trying to keep her alive.

    Felos had announced his intent to withdraw the feeding tube which
provides food and water to Terri as soon as the 2nd District Court
of Appeals had issued its final order in a decision handed down Feb.
4 which denied the Schindler's motion to void the death order on
religious grounds.

    The beginning of Terri's death by starvation could have begun as
early as 1 p.m. Tuesday but Greer's intervention prohibits Felos and
Schiavo from taking any action to end his wife's death until after
the Wednesday hearing.

     Earlier Monday, Felos had denied the request of the Schindlers'
attorney to assure the parents that the tube would not be withdrawn
in the interim period between 1 p.m. Tuesday and another hearing in
the matter which is also scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, a period
of approximately 24 hours.

    The Schindlers had feared that Felos and Michael Schiavo would
remove Terri from the hospice and take her to an undisclosed
location to begin death by starvation process which is expected to
take 7 to 10 days. .

     Felos had refused and had opposed Schindlers' motion for an
emergency temporary stay, saying that Greer does not have
jurisdiction to extend the stay of his own order.

    There is still a three-year-old motion pending before Greer for
the removal of the estranged husband as Terri's guardian. David
Gibbs III, Schindlers' attorney, said the motion to remove Michael
as guardian had been pending since 2002.

    Greer has allowed the motion to linger unanswered for three
years.

    "All motions should be resolved before ending Terri's life",
Gibbs said.  "This is very much like a death penalty case.  There
are a number of important issues that need to be resolved before any
action is taken concerning Terri".

    Gibbs said that death by starvation would not be allowed in a
criminal case and is "barbaric" in this situation.

    He said there are a number of grounds to remove the husband as
guardian.  "Simply put, he is acting in an interest contrary to
Terri".

     He said there were numerous conflicts of interest, that he is
living with another woman with whom he has two children and that he
has failed to properly provide Terri with medical treatment or
rehabilitation services.

    "It is far more appropriate for a blood relative to be guardian
than someone who married into the family and has basically gone on
with his life", Gibbs said.

    Pro-life activist Randall Terry who has been engaged to
coordinate a campaign of protests and lobbying in an effort to save
Terri's life, said that "if Michael Schiavo has Terri's feeding tube
removed, we will respond with an avalanche of activism to save Terri
from death by starvation.

    "Why is Michael determined to starve this woman?"  Terry
asked.  "Why won't he just give Terri back to her parents".

http://theempirejournal.com/02210523_schiavo_judge_bars_with.htm

Note from saveterrislife:  I just read what appears below which I
know to be written by Juan Schoch also known as pc93, who is well
versed in the intricacies of this case, and is a well known Terri
supporter.  I have not yet read all of the bills cited below and
therefore do not list my opinion(s) on them at this point.
Melissa/saveterrislife):

To: pc93
David says:

...So I suggest and maybe you will see this too, that getting the
person on the phone to one say their personal position not in quiz
show format but just from a nice calm casual conversation that
includes finding out "where the Rep or Senator is" on committing any
act that intentionally CAUSES a person to be MADE DEAD and then
thanking them and encouraging them with a kind thankful nudge, to
spread their own position around to everyone else they come in
contact with all day everyday and wherever they go -- Because
CAUSING a person, any person, to intentionally die by assistance or
act that makes them a dead person is Criminal.

Tell them that you would like to encourage the REP or Senator to
participate in any bill that preserve protections for vulnerable
people, disabled people and elderly so that NO one is intentionally
Made Dead at the hands of another person. We do not want that for
any Floridian or US citizen.

Ask them to please have the REP or Senator contact the Speaker of
the House and encourage him and back him to take up Impeachment of
Judge Greer, Judge Baird and the Chief Judge Demers for their gross
improprieties and their constant obvious criminal violations of law,
ignoring of Terri Schiavo's statutory retained rights and the fact
that if you agree that these were her wishes to be a dead person,
then because she is not able to do herself in by this Court Labeled
Wish to commit FS782 Criminal Self-Murder then this Judge and
Michael with his attorney's and medical accomplices are trying to
commit FS782 Criminal Felony Attempted Assisted Self-Murder. Impeach
now and encourage the Governor to write Executive Order taking
FS415.1051 Protective Custody of this vulnerable disabled person
under attack because the state attorney and the DCF attorney have
the DCF on a leash which is more crimes against Terri AND LIABILITY
FOR THE STATE if she is Made Dead by the inappropriate inaction's of
this state's personnel.
Sorry if this is a jumble but it has lots of contact and other
information:

If you can get this information to as many people as possible and
have them do the same and so on then we will get a good geometrical
progression going on in regards to actions being taken on Terri's
behalf. Ping your lists, post to your state locales and send it to
via e-mail and otherwise. Spread it out and do take action.

George Felos says that people are nuts who are trying to help this
Terri from being murdered. He says that if you put Michael Schiavo
in Google that by now you will see that he conspired with Bin Laden,
etc.

Let's show the power of the blogosphere, etc.!

This has the latest link from Empire Journal.. If anyone thinks
anything needs to be added please let me know:

FOR LOCAL AND NON-LOCAL (GLOBAL) DISTRIBUTION:

pc93 reporting:

Called several numbers on the contact list of people on the Judicial
Committee to call to voice displeasure with House Bill 0523 / Senate
Bill 0988. I got down to Baxley and his secretary said he didn't
know of the HB0523. His secretary told me so. Get on those phones
people. She brought it up and said "Oh my". Basically I told her
what it was about. I said that the House Bill HB701 was a good bill.
Baxley is the one who is the sponsor of it she said. Apparently it
is similar to the HB692 that never made it to the floor because of
Jim King. Baxley's secretary is going to bring HB0523 to Rep.
Baxley's attention. Senator Campbell is the sponsor of the heinous
bill in the senate (Senate Bill 0988). I couldn't find one of the
sponsors of the House Bill -> Mr. Carlos Lopez-Cantera but Baxley's
secretary got me his phone number. Tallahassee: 850-488-4202.
District Office: 305-442-6977. Basically Baxley's secretary told me
in regards to a question I had about asking a Rep. about who is
responsible for a bill being introduced, etc. that most Reps. will
tell you who it is, etc. Time to find out people. Make some calls.
REQUEST THAT IF THEY ARE WORKING ON A BILL, MAKE SURE THIS TIME THAT
IT'S IRONCLAD AND THAT IT COVERS EVERY VULNERABLE PERSON IN THE
STATE OF FLORIDA FROM BEING UNJUSTLY NEGLECTED, DEHYDRATED/STARVED,
ETC. THAT IT WILL PROTECT THEM FROM CONFLICTED GUARDIANS, EVEN WHEN
A COURT IS BACKING THE CONFLICTED GUARDIAN BECAUSE OF A UNFAIRLY
BIASED JUDGE WHO REFUSES TO REMOVE HIMSELF FROM A CASE BECAUSE OF
HIS OWN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, ETC. If they say "what bill" tell
them bill HB701. Mr. Baxley is working on it and to give him a
shout.

Flores and Cantera need some calls as well as the Judicial Committee
Members and your own particular FL House and Senate Reps.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1337497/posts?
page=36#36

PLEASE MAKE NOTE AND TAKE ACTION. FOR GLOBAL/LOCAL DISTRIBUTION:

Here is a report from earlier yesterday (02-07-05):

I just recently got off the phone with someone (Kelly) in Senator
Campbell's office approx 3:13pm. I wanted to find out who he was
sponsoring the Senate Bill 0988 (Dead man's statute). When Kelly
called me back she relayed to me that he was sponsoring it for the
States Attorney's Office. I asked which one as there are various
States Attorney's. She said the States Attorney's Office AS-A-WHOLE.

This is very telling. The States Attorney's Office has refused to
investigate crimes against Terri Schiavo and now they want to let
the courts and others get off scott free because of their new bill
they want to get passed. This is inexcusable and smacks of
corruption to me. They want to make hearsay testimony in court that
was accepted in court be valid in determining whether a conflicted
guardian through the courts can have someone put to death by
asserting false wishes, etc. As long as a corrupt judge accepts the
hearsay wishes then they want to make it OK. They also want to get
off the hook for not investigating those trying to murder Terri. We
cannot let them succeed. She is being denied having her own voice
through denial of rehab and therapy and she is still being
held hostage by the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc. who has
connections to the Office of Elder Affairs and the Department of
Health. Is this why they are letting be held hostage for close to 5
years? and why they have been allowed in the past to make 2 other
attempts on her life through dehydration/starvation which is against
the laws of this state? They try to make this a right-to-die case
but it is simply a right-to-kill case and one that involves criminal
intent to
murder giving the appearance that it is lawful... their trickery is
under color of law. Please act!!!

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:

FL House
________

Carlos Lopez-Cantera
850-488-4202

Anitere Flores
850-488-2831

FL Senate
_________

Walter G. "Skip" Campbell Jr.
850-487-5094

House Judicial Commt.
_____________________

David Simmons
SIMMONS.DAVID@...
850-488-2231

Juan-Carlos "J.C." Planas
PLANAS.JUAN-CARLOS@...
850-488-3616

Kevin Ambler
ambler.kevin@...
850-488-0275

Dennis Baxley
baxley.dennis@...
850-488-0335

Frederick Brummer
BRUMMER.FREDERICK@...
850-488-2023

Dan Gelber
GELBER.DAN@...
850-488-0690

Michael Grant
grant.michael@...
850-488-0060

Jeffrey Kottkamp
KOTTKAMP.JEFF@...
850-488-7433

Sheri McInvale
MCINVALE.SHERI@...
850-488-0660

Joe Pickens
PICKENS.JOE@...
850-488-0665

Curtis Richardson
RICHARDSON.CURTIS@...
850-488-1798

Dennis Ross
ROSS.DENNIS@...
850-488-9890

John Seiler
SEILER.JACK@...
850-488-0880

Stephen Hogge
STEPHEN.HOGGE@...
850-488-3088

David De La Paz
DAVID.DELAPAZ@...
850-488-6333

Link: Appearance Request Form (PDF)
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Files/H-16%20Appearance%20Record.pdf

FLORIDA SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

(To email these members all at once copy and paste the list below in
your email's "To" field:
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+++

Schiavo Judge Greer Turned Blind Eye To Domestic Abuse In Past

http://www.theempirejournal.com/021705sj_schiavo_judge_greer_tur.htm

Pattern Of Domestic Abuse Appears In Terri Schiavo Case; Call
Renewed For Grand Jury
http://www.theempirejournal.com/021505_pattern_of_domestic_abuse.htm

Michael Schiavo's Attorney Statement Gives Further Cause For
Criminal Investigation

http://www.theempirejournal.com/020805mss_schiavos_attorney_statement
s_give_cause_for_investigation.htm

Alleged Legal, Judicial Misconduct By Judge Greer, Attorney Felos
Taint Schiavo Case

http://www.theempirejournal.com/Alleged%
20Legal,_Judicial_Misconduct_By_Judge_Greer_Attorney_Felos_Taint_Schi
avo_Case.htm

Felos has reportedly received over $550,000, which has elicited
charges that he is perpetuating the case for financial gain.
According to the last accounting made public, for the period of
March, 1998 when he was first hired until September, 2001, Felos was
reportedly paid $307,188. Former attorney Deborah Bushnell was paid
$49,958 and there were four other attorneys, two presenting Michael
Schiavo and two court-appointed attorneys in the matter. According
to the last accounting made public, until Sept. 2001, Felos had been
paid $307,188 and he's now claiming he received less than $50,000
for the last four years???? This statement by itself should open the
door for a state investigation. Come on Bernie McCabe -- do your job
and if you can't, then the DOJ needs to get
involved -- NOW

DOH SCANDAL GROUNDS FOR NEW TRIAL IN SCHIAVO CASE,
OPENS DOOR FOR RICO INVESTIGATION BUSH BRIEFED, LEGISLATOR SEEKS
PROBE
http://www.theempirejournal.com/doh_scandal_grounds_for_new_trial_in_
schiavo_case.htm

Florida DOH Destroyed Records After Schiavo Doctor Cleared Of
Wrongdoing Following Investigation

http://www.theempirejournal.com/SCHIAVO_florida_DOH_destroyed_records
_after.htm

Judge George Greer Making Mockery Of Florida Judicial System
http://www.theempirejournal.com/judge_greer_fraud_in_the_court.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333205/posts?page=1#1

PLEASE DEMAND A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IN THE SCHIAVO CASE!!!!!!!

ALSO A REAL KEY, NEW TALKING POINT: Terri was NEVER represented by
counsel while others decided to starve her to death. That's against
Florida and U.S. law. Even criminals on death row are entitled to
legal counsel. BILL TO THE FLOOR TO PROTECT TERRI AND FUTURE
TERRI's -> HB-701!

No to House Bill 0523 Senate Bill 0988!!!

Florida Attorney General's Charlie Crist, AG Citizen's Services &
Office
1-850-414-3990 / 850-414-3300

Bernie McCabe, State Attorney Pinellas and Pasco Counties
727-464-6221
bmccabe@...

Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities 800-342-0823
850-488-9071
info@...

Pinellas County GOP 727-539-6009

Gov. Jeb Bush 850-488-4441
jeb.bush@..., fl_governor@...,
jeb@..., jeb@...

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

Robert H. Fernandez (Deputy General Counsel to
Governor) -> fernanr@...

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

Christa Calamas (Assistant General Counsel to
Governor) -> calamac@...

850 / 488-3494 (voice)
850 / 488-9810 (fax)

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

Senator Mel Martinez
Washington: Phone: 202-224-3041

Congressman Jim Davis
Washington: Phone: (202) 225-3376
FAX: (202) 225-565
DISTRICT: Phone: (813) 354-9217
Florida Toll Free: 1 (888) 266-0205
Fax: (813) 354-9514

Satellite Office: (727) 867-5301
FAX: (727) 867-5302

Florida Senate 800-342-1827
http://www.flsenate.gov/Legislators/index.cfm?Mode=Member%
20Pages&Submenu=1&Tab=legislators

Senate President Tom Lee: 1-800-560-4403

Daniel Webster
Capitol Office: Phone: (850) 487-5047
District Office: (407) 656-0066

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daniel.webster.web@...

Florida House of Representatives 850-488-6026 and 850-488-5000
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/legislators.aspx

Speaker Allan Bense
Capitol Office: Phone: (850) 488-1450
District Office: Phone: (850) 914-6300
speaker@...

Frank Peterman
Capitol Office: Phone: (850) 488-0925
District Office: Phone: (727) 552-1370

Florida Department of Law Enforcement 850-410-7000

Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities 850-488-4257

Federal Bureau of Investigation
202-324-3000
tampa@..., jacksonville@...

U.S. Department of Justice
AskDOJ@...
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202-353-1555 Office of US AG

U.S. DOJ Disability Civil Rights
Section Chief John L Wodatch
Phone: (202) 307-2227
Fax:(202) 307-1198
John.L.Wodatch@...

Section Deputy Chief Renee M Wohlenhaus
Phone: (202) 307-0663
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Philip Breen
Special Legal Counsel
U.S. Department of Justice
Phone: (202) 616-7526
Fax:(202) 307-1198
Philip.L.Breen@...

Liz Savage
U.S. Department of Justice
Phone:(202) 514-7173
Fax:(202) 514-0293
E-mail: liz.savage@...

US Senator Orrin Hatch
104 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510
(202)224-5251

US Senator Orrin Hatch e-mail
Address:http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Offices.Contact

New toll free numbers to call US Senators and Congressmembers:
(888) 355-3588 OR (877) 762-8762

President George W. Bush
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Fax: 1 202 456 2883
TTY/TDD Comments: 202-456-6213
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Although you'll get an automated response, here are
the e-mails for GW and Cheney:

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Fax: 1 202 456 2710

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NOTE: Free faxing for entire Washington D.C. area:

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Format of number to input is:
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http://www.renewamerica.us/petitions.htm

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PLEASE TAKE TIME TO MAKE SOME CALLS ON BEHALF OF TERRI!!!! THE CALL
YOU MAKE MAY BE THE ONE THAT SAVES HER LIFE!!!!

SAYING OF TERRI - WHERE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS HOPE.



1,960 posted on 02/18/2005 5:44:37 PM PST by pc93

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1333205/posts?page=1960#1960

THE SAGA OF TERRI SCHIAVO
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/terri.htm


Innocent Disabled Lady Sentenced to Nazi-Style -
'Death By Starvation' In Florida


There are NO statute of Limitations on MURDER!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/terri.htm

(October 21, 2003 was the date that Terri's feeding tube was ordered
reinserted after being removed on October 15, 2003 and Terri being
denied all food and liquids by mouth for the same length of time as
well.  Terri had to wait for many hours longer than she should have
to even be given an IV with water in it on October 21, 2003.  It was
not until the following day, October 22nd, that Terri finally
received liquid nutrition through her feeding tube once again!
See below - Also read about denial of Terri's rights):

October 21st 5:00PM
The Executive Order signed by Governor Bush to immediately begin
hydration and nutrition was received at Hospice by both fax
transmission and official delivery.  Hospice refused to reinsert the
feeding tube, claiming there was no medical personnel to do so,
despite the fact that they were the ones who removed it on October
15th.  They promised to transfer Terri to a local hospital as
quickly as possible.

In addition, two medical doctors had been summoned to Hospice and
were denied entrance to perform the procedure as indicated by
Governor Jeb Bush.  They were also denied access to observe the
patient and her condition.

6:30PM
An ambulance arrived to take Terri to Morton Plant Hospital in
Clearwater.  Upon arrival at the hospital, medical staff refused to
comply with the Governor's order to re-insert her feeding tube or an
IV, stating they had been threatened with litigation by Michael
Schiavo's attorneys if any medical care was given to Terri.  At
approximately 9:30PM an IV was inserted.

Michael Schiavo has denied visitation at the hospital to all members
of Terri's family.

A request for immediate appointment of a guardian ad litem to
protect Terri's medical interests and physical well being was denied
by Judge David A. Demers.

In light of the fact that the court order to provide therapy for
Terri Schiavo under the malpractice settlement has been denied by
the husband; that he has access to Terri and can cause her harm and
that he clearly does not represent her best interests, we request
immediate intervention to:

1) Appoint a guardian ad litem to protect Terri Schiavo's interests
and ensure she is given proper medical treatment.

2) Openan immediate criminal investigation which has never been
conducted in this case.

3) Block the cremation of Terri's body should death ensue, so that
evidence is not destroyed.

4) Restore the rights of visitation and access to the family.



On Behalf of Theresa Maria Schiavo - Violation of Civil Rights
Against the Handicapped



We the undersigned family, friends and medical caregivers of Theresa
(Terri) Maria Schiavo request an immediate investigation and
emergency intervention to stop her starvation dehydration death due
to the following violations of her civil rights under the US
Constitution:



Denial of Civil Rights by Michael Schiavo, husband:



By court order in a malpractice suit filed by Michael Schiavo in
1993, $700,000.00 of the settlement was to be used exclusively for
Theresa's rehabilitation.  To date, no rehabilitation, medical or
physical therapy has ever been provided to Terri.



Upon receipt of the award in 1993 medical records were ordered
sealed by Michael Schiavo.  Ten years later these records were
unsealed and would reveal massive injury and a history of possible
domestic violence and abuse.



While under nursing home and hospice care, Michael Schiavo ordered
no physical therapy, oral feeding or treatment for Terri. He further
directed that Terri only be sustained in a nursing home which is
contrary to the intent of the award money.  Michael Schiavo has on
two occasions unsuccessfully attempted to end Terri's life by
instructing her caretakers not to medicate Terri for potentially
fatal infections, the first of which occurred less than nine months
after receiving the malpractice award money.

As Terri's legal guardian, her husband has used her medical fund
money to offset the legal costs when his guardianship of Terri was
initially challenged and to pay the current legal costs to have
Terri's life ended.

May 1, 2000 A Court hearing was cancelled after Michael Schiavo
verbally committed to sign an agreement that Terri will get the
necessary medical treatment at Hospice.

June 18, 2000 – After reneging on his previously agreed terms of the
agreement, Michael Schiavo later signed an amended agreement stating
he will not withdraw or terminate Terri's medical care or treatment
for potential fatal infections, without prior notice to the court.



Denial of Civil Rights by Judge Greer:



February 2000 – Judge Greer condemns Terri to death by
dehydration/starvation without any clear and convincing evidence as
required by statute.  There is no written living directive.



March 2000 – Sworn affidavits provided to the court by three
physicians that Terri is able to eat.  Judge Greer denies a petition
to the court to perform swallowing tests on Terri, part of her court-
ordered therapy.



Judge Greer further authorized personal security personnel costs for
Michael Schiavo to be taken from Terri's medical fund.



May 7, 2001 – Dr. Hammesfahr (neurology), filed a six page affidavit
with the court stating Terri was not in a Persistent Vegetative
State, accompanied by a formal letter requesting Schiavo's
permission to allow Terri to begin rehabilitation treatment; request
denied.



September 26, 2001 – A three-member panel consisting of Judges Jerry
Parker, Chris Altenbernd and John Blue presided at the Appellate
Court "oral argument hearing." The core of the appeal is that Judge
Greer did not follow the Appellate Court's July 11, 2001
instructions. Judge Greer admitted he ignored the doctors' sworn
opinions and summarily rejected additional evidence that
unmistakably proved Michael Schiavo lied to the court at the
original trial.

NOTE: NO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION HAS EVER BEEN CONDUCTED IN THIS CASE
AND ATTEMPTS TO DEMAND SUCH INVESTIGATION HAVE BEEN SUMMARILY DENIED
AND BLOCKED UNDER COURT ORDER OF JUDGE GREER. IMMEDIATE CREMATION OF
THE BODY WILL OCCUR UPON HER DEATH, THUS DESTROYING ALL CRIMINAL
EVIDENCE.



Denial of Civil Rights by Michael Schiavo's appointed physicians:



There is no court order to deny Terri Schiavo oral feeding.  This
was put in place by Michael Schiavo's appointed doctors, in direct
violation of the previous court orders to provide therapy and
rehabilitation for Terri.



Denial of Civil Rights by Pinellas Park Police, Michael Schiavo and
his attorneys:

On October 15th at 2:00PM Terri's feeding tube was removed.
Although the court does not deny the right to provide oral hydration
or feeding, the doctor's orders to hospice are to prohibit any type
of oral feeding.



On October 18th, 19th and 20th Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski was
refused the right to administer Holy Communion to Terri as part of
her Catholic Last Rites.  This order was expressed directly by
Michael Schiavo, his attorneys and the local police guarding Terri's
room who told the priest they would "stop him if he attempted to
give her Holy Communion."



It is a criminal violation to abuse, neglect or exploit a disabled
person, all of which have been perpetrated on Terri Schaivo and we
petition your immediate intervention and investigation.





Presented by:   Debra L. Vinnedge

                         Mary and Bob Schindler

                         Robert Schindler, JR

                         Suzanne Carr

                         William Hammesfahr, MD

                         J.D. Young, MD

                         James Eckart, MD

                         Jay Carpenter, MD

                         Eleanor Dreschel, RN, MS

                         Jana Carpenter, RN, MS

                         Msgr. Thaddeus Malanowsk



STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF PINELLAS
Filed this 21st Day of October, 2003

Michael Schiavo: Loving Husband Or Monster?

By Bonnie Chernin Rogoff (02/21/05)

As national pro-life groups and prominent leaders converged in
vigils outside Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, Terri
Schiavo is inside the building in her bed, still hooked up to the
feeding tube that has been center-focus of this so-called "right-to-
die" case for the past several years. Ms. Schiavo is profoundly
disabled and cannot communicate with words at this time.

But she knows. She feels. There's expression in those eyes. Just one
look at her in a video with her mother and everyone except the
Scarecrow on his way to Oz knows it, too.

Recently, another presumed "brain-dead" woman made news in Kansas.
In a coma after becoming the victim of a drunk driver, Sarah
Scantlin snapped out of a twenty year silence and began to speak.
Memories are now coming back to her. By legal definition, Miss
Scantlin's life is valid. Yesterday, it was not. Was she ever in a
persistent vegetative state, or PVS? She'd respond to questions by
blinking once for no, twice for yes, but since she couldn't speak no
one was ever sure she understood the questions.

That's the problem. No one is ever sure. The only ones who claim to
know what's best for the profoundly disabled are those who seek to
benefit the most by having them legally murdered.

On Monday, February 21, new hearings will commence before Judge
Greer with regard to the Schiavo case. The Empire Journal reports
that David Gibbs III, attorney representing Terri's parents Robert
and Mary Schindler, will argue that new medical tests be ordered for
Terri based upon a new brain imaging study published in the
journal "Neurology." These tests could determine whether Terri
Schiavo is, in fact, in a PVS. Since Judge Greer believes she is,
ruled to have her killed and has thus far refused the admission of
any medical evidence that would save Terri's life, I'd be shocked to
see him budge.

Greer has been acting in the dual role of judge and guardian ad
litem. He previously denied a petition by Terri's parents that their
daughter be given a swallowing test, and has denied them the right
to visit Terri. He continues to promote the interests of Michael
Schiavo by refusing Terri the right to independent counsel, a right
which even serial killers like Ted Bundy received.

Whenever people discuss euthanasia, you'll always find those who
will defend the odious practice. However, no one defends domestic
violence. That leads to the 6 ft. 6 inch, 250 pound problem: Michael
Schiavo. The evidence compiled against him suggests a history and
pattern of domestic abuse against Terri and other women that is
strong and significant. An immediate criminal investigation is
warranted.

The main evidence comes from a bone scan (article continues below)

(Note from saveterrislife website owner:  See Bone scan done on
Terri here):
http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

(continuing with the article,
"Michael Schiavo:  Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"):

taken on March 5, 1991. As Terri's guardian, Michael Schiavo denied
her family access to Terri's records, the results of which were not
made available until November, 2002. This scan indicated numerous
broken bones in various stages of healing, including compressions
fractures, a broken back, pelvis, ankle, bone bruises and
ossifications.

Board certified radiologist Dr. Walker read the scan in 1991 and
interpreted the results as abnormal, which he attributed to either
an accident or earlier trauma. Based on the remodeling process of
her bones, Dr. Walker stated in his deposition that a) the injuries
indicated by the scan occurred on or around the time that Terri
Schiavo collapsed; b) the abnormalities on the bone scan were not
typical of someone suffering cardiac arrest and collapsing to the
floor, and c) the fractures indicated by the bone scan are not
typical of patients bedridden only thirteen months. As recorded in
Dr. Walker's November 21, 2003 deposition, Terri might have been the
victim of foul play via a blow to her body, being thrown into a
sharp furniture corner, or assaulted with a blunt object.

On October 24, 2003, renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden
was interviewed by Greta van Susteren on Fox News. He disclosed that
with low potassium and no elevated enzymes, it would be extremely
rare for a young woman to collapse as Terri did from a heart attack.
When asked what the bone injuries suggest to him, Dr. Baden
replied, "Some kind of trauma. The trauma can be from a fall, or the
trauma can be from some kind of beating that she obtained from
somebody somewhere. It's something that should have been
investigated in 1991 when these findings were found."

(Note from saveterrislife:  Here's the transcript from a TV show on
Fox News Channel's "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
interviewing Dr. Baden about Terri's injuries:

"On the Record" with Greta van Susteren

Interview with Dr. Michael Baden, a Forensic Pathologist from NY

10-24-03

Greta: Dr. Baden, a potassium imbalance, let's first talk about if
you have a potassium deficiency, can that cause the condition that
Terri Schiavo has?

Baden: Um, can, but unlikely. Potassium is very interesting. It's
probably the most lethal poison we have when it's injected rapidly,
and that's why it's the poison that kills people, capital punishment
by lethal injection. And it stops the heart from beating properly —
too much of it. But also too little of it., hypo-potassium, can also
cause the heart to stop beating properly and lead to lack of blood
flow to the brain and death of brain cells by lack of oxygen. But
that's very unusual, Greta, extremely unusual.

Greta: A normal healthy woman, I assume, would have no reason, for
instance, to take potassium supplements unless, perhaps, she's on a
diuretic or some other medication that would cause a potassium
depletion. Is that right?

Baden: That's correct. That's right.

Greta: Is there any explanation then in your mind, and I realize you
were not her team physician, but why would a woman at her age have a
potassium imbalance?

Baden: Extremely unusual unless she had certain kinds of diseases,
which she doesn't have. She was in her twenties. The reason that
she's in the state she's in is because there was a period of time,
maybe 5 minutes or 8 minutes, when not enough oxygen was going to
her brain. That can happen because the heart stops for 5 or 8
minutes, but she had a healthy heart, from what we can see. The
other thing, though. . . I'm sorry Greta?

Greta: No, go ahead.

Baden: Yeah, your staff has provided me with a bone scan that you
guys obtained ah from her initial admission in 1991 to the hospital.
And that bone scan describes her as having a head injury. That's why
she's there, that's why she's getting a bone scan. And a head injury
can cause, lead to the vegetative state that Ms. Schiavo is in now,
(continues below)

(Note from saveterrislife:  Terri is not in a vegetative state, nor
is Terri in a Persistent Vegetative State, known as PVS, as you can
see by clicking on this link:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/balloon.rm

(Now, continuing with Dr. Baden's quote from above):

and it does show evidence that there are other injuries, other bone
fractures, that on healing-stage, so that....

Greta: So, let me back up a second. Head injury. Could she have had,
could she have passed out from a potassium imbalance causing a
falling head injury? Is that what you're talking about, or are you
suggesting some pre-existing head injury to her passing out?

Baden: Something totally different. That it's extremely rare for a
20-year-old to have a cardiac arrest from low potassium who has no
other diseases. So the other issue is could it have been due to some
other cause, which is raised by the family, has to be looked at.

Greta: Alright, other injuries and bone injuries, what does that
suggest to you?

Baden: Some kind of trauma. The trauma can be from an auto accident,
the trauma can be from a fall, or the trauma can be from some kind
of beating that she obtained from somebody somewhere. It's something
that should have been investigated in 1991 when these findings were
found, and….

Greta: They were fresh.

Baden: Maybe there were, Maybe they were investigated by police at
that time.

Greta: Alright. Dr. Michael Baden, thank you.

Baden: Thank you, Greta.

(End of transcript)



(More notes from saveterrislife:  Check out these articles regarding
what Forensic Pathologist Michael Baden said about Terri in October,
2003:

Questions raised about Terri's collapse
Celebrated forensic pathologist says
1990 injuries should be investigated
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35276


Doctor Says Terri Schiavo Likely Victim of 'Some Kind of Trauma'
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/29/100629.shtml


Was Terri Schiavo Beaten in 1990?
Will There Be an Investigation in Time?
http://tilrc.org/docs/1203schiavo.htm


State-Funded Agency to Probe Claim of Spousal Abuse
in Terri Schiavo Case - Bone scan and injuries indicate severe
trauma and strangulation
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/oct/03102701.html


Plus, see this recent article:
Florida Officials Must Impanel Grand Jury
On Alleged Schiavo Abuse
http://theempirejournal.com/alleged_schiavo_abuse_florida_of.htm


Also see:
Evidence of Physical Abuse Haunts Michael Schiavo

Fractures in wife's ribs, pelvis, spine and ankle point to prolonged
violent abuse

To: National Desk

Contact: Gary McCullough for the Schindler Family, 202-546-0054

CLEARWATER, Fl., Feb.10 (2005)  /Christian Wire Service/ --
On May 6, 1990, two months after the mysterious incident that left
Terri Schindler Schiavo severely mentally disabled, Dr. Hamilton, an
Orthopedic Surgeon, examined her. A year later Terri was
demonstrating painful reactions to physical therapy treatment, so on
March 5, 1991, the Mediplex therapist director ordered a bone scan.

This bone scan revealed a healed broken right femur bone and healed
bone fractures in Terri Schindler Schiavo's ribs, pelvis, spine and
ankle.

Dr. W. Campbell Walker concluded that Terri has a history of trauma
and presumed that the other multiple areas of abnormal activity also
relate to previous trauma.

As Terri's lone guardian, Michael Schiavo has been able to conceal
the bone scan and examinations from her parents, brother, and sister
for over ten years. To date, Michael Schiavo has not allowed the
family to see the results of the May 6 examination, the emergency
room records from the day of the incident, nor any of the
accompanying x-rays.

Michael Schiavo's inability to be forthright over the bone scan
brings into question his lone description of Terri's activity at the
time of the incident. His choice to have his wife terminated rather
than rehabilitated may not be in pursuit of her interests, but to
continue to conceal the level of physical violence he displayed
toward Terri.

The bone scan evaluation is available online at
www.earnedmedia.org/bonescan.htm

The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is the official organization
responsible for speaking on behalf of the Schindler family.  For
more information and background on the case, visit the foundation's
website at http://www.terrisfight.org.


(End of Press Release)
http://www.earnedmedia.org/tf0211.htm


(Now, back to the article,
"Michael Schiavo:  Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"):


Other medical testimonies are in agreement. One medical expert
testified that a diagnosis of a heart attack was never made.

(Note from saveterrislife:  Read what Neurologist Dr. William
Hammesfahr said regarding this in his Complete Report regarding his
examination of Terri):  "In the Emergency Room, a possible diagnosis
of heart attack was briefly entertained, but then dismissed after
blood chemistries and serial EKG's did not show evidence of a heart
attack.  Similarly, a pulmonary or lung cause of the disorder was
ruled out in the Emergency Room after normal blood gases and Chest
X-Rays were obtained. The possibility of toxic shock syndrome was
also entertained.  The diagnosis of the cause of her condition was
unknown. Her admission laboratory studies showed low potassium
level, markedly elevated glucose level, and a normal toxic screen
without evidence of diet pills or amphetamines."
http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm  )

(Note from saveterrislife:  The reason why her admission lab studies
showed markedly elevated glucose level is because Michael most
likely injected Terri with insulin on February 25, 1990, though
Terri was not and is not diabetic, and the EMT's had to give Terri
DW5, a sugar solution, dextrose, to normalize her blood sugar
level!  Read what Terri's former nurse, Carla Iyer stated regarding
Michael injecting Terri with insulin on 5 other occasions LONG AFTER
Terri's so-called collapse, which was really a severe beating,
strangulation, and injection of insulin, per all of the evidence, on
February 25, 1990:

11. "When Michael visited Terri, he always came alone and always had
the door closed and locked while he was with Terri.  He would
typically be there about twenty minutes or so.  When he left Terri
would would be trembling, crying hysterically, and would be very
pale and have cold sweats.  It looked to me like Terri was having a
hypoglycemic reaction, so I'd check her blood sugar.  The glucometer
reading would be so low it was below the range where it would
register an actual number reading.  I would put dextrose in Terri's
mouth to counteract it.  This happened about five times on my shift
as I recall.  Normally Terri's blood sugar levels were very stable
due to the uniformity of her diet through tube feeding.  It is my
belief that Michael injected Terri with Regular insulin, which is
very fast acting."

http://terrisfight.org/documents/CIyerAffidavit090203.htm  )

(Note:  Carla Iyer also found an empty vial which had contained
insulin in Terri's room in the garbage can, immediately after one of
Michael's visits, and Terri was again showing all of the symptoms of
hypoglycemic shock!  Carla again gave Terri dextrose to save her
life, turned in the empty insulin vial, and reported this to the
nursing home authorities where she worked.  She was promptly fired
the next day!  Check THIS out):

Ron Panzer's Notes: Interview With Dr. Hammesfahr

Startling details about Terri Schindler Schiavo Revealed!

Excerpt from the Hospice Patients Alliance Newsletter
January 8, 2004

Notes on Wednesday nights' interview (1/7/04) with neurologist,
William Hammesfahr, MD.

WILLIAM HAMMESFAHR, MD was interviewed Wednesday night on
Highway2health.net by Ron Panzer, President of Hospice Patients
Alliance. Dr. Hammesfahr is board certified in neurology and pain
management. He has spent many hours directly with Terri Schiavo and
reviewed the medical records directly. Dr. Hammesfahr unequivocally
stated that Terri is absolutely NOT in a persistent vegetative state
and definitely responds to instructions from those around her, that
she makes choices and shows decision-making ability in how she
responds.

Dr. Hammesfahr stated that the medical record was in a state of
shambles when it was given, that it was out of order by date and
that much of the medical record was never given to the Schindlers or
Dr. Hammesfahr! NEVER! Dr. Hammesfahr stated that there are notes in
the medical record by nurses who were NOT working at the time they
stated they were caring for Terri. Also, Dr. Hammesfahr stated that
parts of the medical record were completely missing! Dr. Hammesfahr
explained that Terri's blood sugar level upon admission to the
hospital was about 400 (373). When asked why it would be that high,
since Terri was NOT and is not a diabetic, Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed
that the emergency medical technicians who arrived by ambulance
probably gave Terri D-5-W, a dextrose in water solution. Dr.
Hammesfahr confirmed that EMTs would check a patient's blood glucose
level as part of their routine, when assessing a patient like Terri
who had collapsed. The only reason they would give D-5-W would
likely be that they discovered upon testing Terri, that her blood
sugar was LOW at the time of the collapse. Since Terri was not HYPO-
glycemic and was not diabetic, a POSSIBLE explanation for Terri
having LOW blood sugar at the time of her collapse is that she may
have been injected with insulin.

Noted, of course, was the sworn AFFIDAVIT/testimony of a nurse who
cared for Terri later on in the early 1990s, that Terri was found
shaking, pale and agitated after a visit by Michael Schiavo. In that
nurse's affidavit, the nurse stated that she found a vial of insulin
in Terri's PRIVATE room. Since Terri did not have diabetes, there
would be no reason for a vial of insulin to be in the garbage can in
her room at the nursing home. Dr. Hammesfahr and I agreed that we
had never seen any nurse or physician bring a vial of insulin into a
patient's room when administering insulin. The standard of practice
is to prepare a medication beforehand at the nurse's station, note
what medication is given in the medication administration record,
and then bring the syringe with the insulin in it to the patient,
but NOT the vial.

That a vial of insulin was found in Terri's room is not normal
practice even if Terri were getting insulin, but she was NOT and
never was on insulin! Dr. Hammesfahr explained that, although
Michael Schiavo admits to "shaking Terri up" Terri's injuries and
condition are not explainable due to anyone shaking her head ...
that her clinical condition would have been different if that was
the sole cause of her brain injury. Dr. Hammesfahr stated that the
type of injury and clinical condition Terri had at the time of her
collapse could be explained by a possible strangulation attempt
and/or an insulin injection combined with some form of attack or
trauma.

Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that no police investigation was done to
look into Terri's condition, even after a bone scan (13 months after
her collapse) revealed multiple TRAUMA and broken bones. Dr.
Hammesfahr stated that the broken bones could NOT be explained by
any form of bone disease, that these were ABSOLUTELY broken bones
and that it must have been done through trauma, injury to her. Dr.
Hammesfahr said that other physicians had also come to the same
conclusion. Dr. Hammesfahr stated that Michael Schiavo kept these
bone scans and other medical records secret for over a DECADE. [They
were only released in 2002!]

Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that not only has Terri NEVER had a heart
attack as widely reported in the major media, she also NEVER even
had a cardiac arrest (her heart never stopped)! [she had arhythmias
of the heart but not a "stopped heart."] He explained that Terri's
injuries were multiple and showed injury TO her. He stated that
Terri had marked injury to her neck which still exists today, and
that he has only seen a similar injury, with spinal cord involvement
as well as brain injury, in one case where a patient had been
strangled. He stated that Terri had an L-1 injury to her spine,
which he stated is common among persons being thrown against a
table, for example. Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Terri could talk
and was improving in the very first year when she was getting some
rehabilitation (BEFORE Michael got the money), and that the medical
records confirm, that after Michael got the money, rehabilitation
was completely stopped!

Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that in the early years, Terri had had a
very small device surgically implanted into her brain to provide
therapeutic very low dosages of electrical stimulation to the brain,
which could help Terri, and which DID help Terri when it was first
started. However, after Michael got the money, Michael did not allow
further attempts to help Terri in this way. In addition, Dr.
Hammesfahr explained that the device (or any device) implanted,
would normally be carefully monitored so that no infection would
occur and no harm come to the patient. However, in Terri's case that
was not done and has not been done.

Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Terri has at least 75% functional brain
tissue and that the stories circulating in the media about a head
full of fluid "only" are totally false. He has had patients with
less brain function doing much more than Terri is doing, and Dr.
Hammesfahr believes that Terri is being kept to a lower level of
function by her being denied opportunities to do anything, have any
rehabilitation, and that she her improvement is being sabotaged by
her being kept in isolation, with very few visitors or other input.
Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Larry King had suggested to Michael
Schiavo that he let Mr. King's news crew go in to film Terri, to
settle once and for all what Terri's condition is, and that Michael
REFUSED!

Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Terri has been sedated at various
periods of time and that the sedation of Terri would make Terri less
responsive, especially during an examination by physicians who would
try to see what her condition was. He explained that physician
assessments of Terri made when she was sedated would necessarily NOT
be accurate, that they would UNDER-estimate her level of cognition
and abilities. Dr. Hammesfahr also revealed that Terri suffers from
some hydrocephalus, or fluid buildup in the brain. This is a serious
condition that must be treated to avoid further damage to the brain.
Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Michael has NOT allowed Terri to be
treated for her hydrocephalus. [This is in violation of Florida
guardian laws]

Dr. Hammesfahr, whose field is neurology, explained that an EEG
(electro-encephalograph reading) test which did not show much brain
activity was BOGUS! because it was done after Terri had been
transported to a facility for the testing and Terri had been
restless at the time, moving around quite a bit. Muscular movement
during an EEG produces readings on the EEG which must be filtered
out. Dr. Hammesfahr explained that by "filtering out" the EEG
activity Terri had due to the muscular movements, those filtering
that brain activity out had also filtered out Terri's brain
activity. In other words, the EEG done was worthless because it was
not properly done and several doctors have agreed with that.

Dr. Hammesfahr pointed out that Terri was also tested with balloons
to see if she would follow the balloon with her eyes and head when
instructed to do so. Dr. Hammesfahr pointed out that Terri did
follow the balloons when instructed, and that she did so, even
though turning her head far enough to the side caused her pain. He
pointed out that reflex actions are usually to avoid pain, but in
Terri's case she turned her head into painful positions in order to
follow the instructions of the physician testing her. Dr. Hammesfahr
confirmed that several experts in neurology agree that Terri could
improve, can improve and that everything that should be done for her
is NOT being done. In fact, Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that the
isolation and deliberate removal of all stimulation from Terri is
harming Terri, depriving her of the input and stimulation which
would help her reach a higher cognitive level and ability. He stated
that Terri should be getting much exposure to sights, sounds and
other forms of rehabilitation.

Dr. Hammesfahr explained that Dr. Ronald Cranford (who testified for
Michael Schiavo and George Felos' side - the right to die
agenda) ... that Dr. Cranford was NOT a neurologist and was not an
expert in the field. Also, that Dr. Cranford spent less than ONE
hour with Terri totally! Yet the court relied on Dr. Cranford's
testimony, rather than several other neurologists, including Dr.
Hammesfahr. [The court was not gathering information in order to
rule based on fact, it was simply following an agenda.]

Dr. Hammesfahr explained that as a physician and a person, he is
outraged at the mistreatment Terri is receiving and that the denial
of rehabilitation for Terri violates the standards of medical
practice! He can be contacted at: William M. Hammesfahr, M.D. 600
Druid Road East Clearwater, Florida 34616 Tel: 727.461.4464 [end of
notes on the interview - Ron Panzer]

(Note from saveterrislife:  Continuing with more quotes from
Neurologist Dr. William Hammesfahr regarding Terri):

"The abnormal potassium level and sugar level were found on
admission to the Emergency Room and were successfully corrected by
the hospital staff over the next several days.  The patient had a
difficult hospital course with the development of poorly controlled
seizures and prolonged coma state requiring, for a time,
ventilator support.  However, the staff noted improvement, and it was
recommended by several physicians that she be discharged to an
intensive rehabilitation center.
http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm


(Now, back to the article,
"Michael Schiavo:  Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"):

Another testified that Terri's rigid neck indicates she may have
been the victim of strangulation.

(Note from saveterrislife:  Also see Dr. William Hammesfahr's
Complete Report including these quotes about Terri):

"Spinal Exam:  The patient's exam from a spinal perspective is
abnormal.  The degree of limitation of range of motion, and of
spasms in her neck, is consistent with a neck injury.  The abnormal
sensory exam, that shows evidence of her hypoxic encephalopathic
strokes (right side sensory responses are different from left) also
suggests a spinal cord injury at around the level of C4.  Her
physical exam and videotapes also suggest a spinal cord injury is
also present, as she has much better control over he face, head, and
neck, than over her arms and legs.  This reminds one of a person
with a spinal cord injury who has good facial control, but poor use
of arms and legs."

"It is possible that a correctable spinal abnormality such as a
herniated disk may be found that could be treated and result in
better neurological functioning. This should be looked for, as may
be treatable. Thus, there may be an injured disk or spinal cord; the
disk injury is more treatable, the spinal cord injury, if present
without a disk injury, may be more difficult to treat. A person with
a spinal cord injury and hypoxic encephalopathy will need different
treatment and rehab recommendations than one who just has a hypoxic
encephalopathic."

*** "Interestingly, I have seen this pattern of mixed brain
(cerebral) and spinal cord findings in a patient once before, a
patient who was asphyxiated." ***
http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm


See link to entire Complete Report by Dr. Hammesfahr, directly
below, IT IS WELL WORTH READING THE ENTIRE REPORT!  Melissa)

http://terrisfight.org/documents/Hammesfahrexam.htm


(Now, back to the article, "Michael Schiavo:  Loving Husband Or
Monster?"):

Psychiatrist and expert witness Carole E. Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H.
offered preliminary thoughts and provided a chilling profile of
Michael Schiavo as an abusive husband.

(Note from saveterrislife - see the following regarding the above
paragraph):

Psychiatric Expert Witness profiles Michael Schiavo
2/9/2005 10:04:00 PM - http://hyscience.typepad.com

In response to several reader's emails asking if a psychiatrist had
ever profiled Michael Schiavo's demeaner or possible psychiatric
problems, I offer the following 2004 expert witness testimony.
Mindful that this is an expert witness in behalf of the Schindler's
position and therefore prejudicial to Michael's case. However,
according to Dr. Lieberman's testimony, Michael's own psychiatrist
warned the Schindlers to call the police.

--- "Michael has been under psychiatric care, including being
prescribed several psychotropic medications. One of his treating
therapists, Dr. Peter Kaplan, told Terri's father that he should
have called the police after Michael argued with Terri's sister,
Susanne, and Michael tried to attack her. This occurred right after
Terri's collapse, when they were all in a house together. Terri's
father told Susanne to lock her door and keep a hammer nearby."



--- "Michael fits the profile of an abusive husband. He should most
definitely be investigated as the perpetrator of the `incident' that
caused Terri's collapse and her current condition."


Testimony of Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Psychiatrist/Expert
Witness

Diplomat, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology

Clinical Faculty, UCLA Department of Psychiatry

247 South Beverly Drive, Suite 202

Beverly Hills, CA 90212


July 12, 2004


Preliminary Thoughts On How Terri Schiavo's Husband, Michael, Fits
The Profile Of A Wife Abuser.


Based upon my interviews of Terri's father, Robert Schindler, and my
research into media accounts of her case, I can provide the
following preliminary opinions at this time:


--As the author of the book, Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live
with Them and When to Leave Them, I have studied men who exhibit
pathology in their relationships with women. Profiles of the twelve
different types of bad boys are explained. Michael Schiavo fits the
profile, described in the book as the Prince of Darkness (see
chapter 13). O.J. Simpson was cited as a classic example of this
type, and there are indeed similarities between the two men. It is
especially significant to note that O.J. flew into a homicidal rage
when he realized that Nicole was totally abandoning him, as is
characteristic of these impulsive men who most dread being abandoned
by their woman. Similarly, Michael Schiavo was likely to have known
that Terri had begun making plans to divorce him, since she had told
a coworker and family member. Stalking is characteristic of this
type of man, as well. And a girlfriend of Michael's, Cindy, accused
him of stalking her in 2001.


--Terri's personality fits that of a woman who would have been
attracted (and attractive) to such a man. She was a loner as a
child. In high school she was overweight and not popular with boys.
She had low self-esteem. She was extremely compassionate, nurturing
and subservient. They met when Terri was 20 years old, and married
by the time she was 21. Such whirlwind courtships are typical of
these men, who are able to spot a vulnerable woman they can
dominate, and eager to seal her commitment to him.


Terri was frightened to object to Michael's pathologically
controlling behavior. For example, he would monitor her odometer to
control where she went. He tried to isolate her from her friends and
family. She had to account for every penny, though they often lived
on her income, since he would be fired, sometimes only after two
weeks. He would splurge on $400 suits for himself, while she had to
economize. He called her at work 3-4 times a day, often complaining
of hating his job because no one appreciated him. He was often
observed scolding her.


--Terri's family observed black and blue marks on her before the
incident that plunged her into her current state. Medical records
and/or experts have revealed that her neck injury was consistent
with strangulation. A bone scan revealed multiple fractures
occurring within 1-2 months before or after the incident, which has
been described as equivalent to her being "hit by a mack truck".
Michael has given three different explanations of how he found Terri
after the incident.




--Michael has had Terri's jewelry re-set into a ring for himself.
Terri had two beloved cats that she adopted from an animal shelter,
where they'd landed after being mistreated. When he moved in with
his girlfriend, Cindy, he had Terri's cats euthanized.
Psychologically, this is symbolic of what he is trying to do now to
Terri.


--Michael has been under psychiatric care, including being
prescribed several psychotropic medications. One of his treating
therapists, Dr. Peter Kaplan, told Terri's father that he should
have called the police after Michael argued with Terri's sister,
Susanne, and Michael tried to attack her. This occurred right after
Terri's collapse, when they were all in a house together. Terri's
father told Susanne to lock her door and keep a hammer nearby.


--As a psychiatric expert witness, I have had experience performing
psychiatric examinations of men like Michael Schiavo, and testifying
in court about similar cases. The above is simply meant to
illustrate some of the indications that Michael fits the profile of
an abusive husband. He should most definitely be investigated as the
perpetrator of the `incident' that caused Terri's collapse and her
current condition. If Terri were to be allowed to die, as Michael
has been desperately struggling to achieve for years, it could help
him escape detection. This would be a grave miscarriage of justice.


For more information, you may contact Dr. Carole Lieberman at (310)
456-2458 or via email at drcarole@....


http://hyscience.typepad.com/hyscience/2005/02/_2004_psychiatr.html

http://www.catholiccitizens.org/press/contentview.asp?c=22809

(Now, back to the article, "Michael Schiavo:  Loving Husband or
Monster?"):

Prior to Terri's collapse, there were serious financial problems in
her marriage and her husband Michael tried to control her behavior.
He was fired from six jobs in two years, some of which he held only
two weeks. They often lived on her income, which Michael often spent
on himself. He monitored her odometer and isolated her from her
family and friends. On the day of her collapse, Michael and Terri
had a bad fight after he accused her of spending too much money at
the hairdresser.

Dr. Lieberman concludes: "He (Michael) should most definitely be
investigated as the perpetrator of the `incident' that caused
Terri's collapse and her current condition."

Michael Schiavo insists that Terri stated early in their marriage
that she never would want to be kept on life support.

(Note from saveterrislife:  Read this about what Terri really did
say, according to her best friend):

Diane Meyer can recall only one time that her best friend, Terri
Schiavo, really got angry with her. It was in 1981, and it haunts
her still.

The recent high school graduates had just seen a television movie
about Karen Ann Quinlan, who had been in a coma since collapsing six
years earlier and was the subject of a bitter court battle over her
parents' decision to take her off a respirator. Meyer says she told
a cruel joke about Quinlan, and it set Terri off.

"She went down my throat about this joke, that it was
inappropriate," Meyer says. She remembers Terri saying she wondered
how the doctors and lawyers could possibly know what Quinlan was
really feeling or what she would want.

"Where there's life," Meyer recalls her saying, "there's hope."

Twenty-two years later and suffering from brain damage, Terri is now
the subject of a similar debate -- and so is the question of what
choice she would make about her life and death.)

(Now, back to the article):


Michael Schiavo insists that Terri stated early in their marriage
that she never would want to be kept on life support.

Even if that were true, Terri is not on life support; she breathes
on her own. Since Terri has no written will, everything Michael
Schiavo says is hearsay. He violated numerous Florida statutes and
the Americans for Disabilities Act by failing to perform his duties
as his wife's guardian, most notably by denying his disabled wife
basic medical care as part of a malpractice settlement award he
received.

(Note from saveterrislife:  See the following):
Petition to Remove Guardian
http://terrisfight.org/documents/PetitiontoRemoveGuardian111502.htm

(Also, see):
Violations of Florida Statutes against Terri Schiavo
http://www.zimp.org/

(Now, back to the article):

However, of all Michael's offensive actions against his wife, what I
deem most suspicious was his decision to have Terri cremated
immediately upon her demise.  (Note from saveterrislife:  One of
Michael Schiavo's attorneys, Deborah Bushnell, in a motion to the
court, asked for permission to use funds from the money set aside
solely for Terri's therapy and medical needs, to pre-pay for Terri's
cremation and burial expenses and corrupt Judge Greer okayed it!
See quotes below regarding this):

WorldNetDaily has reported Michael Schiavo won more than $1.2
million in 1992 that was to be earmarked for Terri's care and
therapy but was never spent for that purpose.

Felos told reporters yesterday the sum in Terri's trust fund had
been whittled down to $55,000. While he and Michael Schiavo's other
attorney, Deborah Bushnell, say they haven't been paid in over a
year, Felos was previously paid $358,434 out of the fund. Bushnell
told the St. Petersburg Times she had been paid approximately
$80,000 from the fund.

In a move that horrified Terri's family last year, Bushnell also
filed a petition with probate Judge George Greer seeking
authorization of pre-payment for Terri's cremation and burial
expenses out of the fund.

Pat Anderson, the attorney representing Terri's parents, Robert and
Mary Schindler, has filed multiple petitions seeking the removal of
Michael Schiavo as Terri's guardian and chief decision maker. Among
her arguments, she claims Michael Schiavo misspent the medical
funds.

"While exhausting Terri's money for the purpose of killing her, not
one red cent could be found by Schiavo to enhance the quality of her
life after receipt of the malpractice award. ... [A]nd the
expenditure of nothing for therapy that would reduce the pain of
contractures, enhance Terri's ability to swallow, or facilitate
recovery of basic abilities is the grossest form of asset
mismanagement," Anderson stated in a petition filed and rejected by
Greer last November.

WorldNetDaily has reported Terri sustained brain damage when she
mysteriously collapsed in 1990 at the age of 26 and oxygen was cut
to her brain for several minutes. The Schindlers have been fighting
with their son-in-law for 10 years over the fate of their daughter.
He contends his wife is in a persistent vegetative state and told
him once she would not want to be kept alive artificially. The
Schindlers argue Terri is alert, responsive and vocalizes and
maintain she wants to live. She has no written directive on the
matter.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35258

(Now, back to the article):
In all the documentation on this case, there is not a single account
of Terri Schiavo having ever expressed a desire to be cremated.
Michael's excuse is to say that she wouldn't want a standard burial
because she "doesn't like bugs." I'm not buying. The likely reason
is that Michael has something to hide – like the cause of her
numerous bone injuries, perhaps? – and he doesn't want an autopsy to
uncover any incriminating evidence.

(Note from saveterrislife - see the bone scan showing serious trauma
to Terri, done 53 weeks after her husband, Michael Schiavo, severely
beat and strangled her, as well as injected her with insulin, per
all of the evidence.  He also sealed all her medical records for
well over 10 years so Terri's family did not even find out about the
bone scan and Terri's severe injuries such as broken bones all over
her body as well as a head injury until recently!):
http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

So, what really happened on February 25, 1990? We know that Terri
fell in her home and sustained serious injuries. We know that
Michael Schiavo, who was trained in CPR, oddly did not administer
CPR to his wife. We know for the past fifteen years his only mission
has been to deny any rehabilitation for Terri.

Dr. Carole Lieberman observed, "If Terri were to be allowed to die,
as Michael has been desperately struggling to achieve for years, it
could help him escape detection. This would be a grave miscarriage
of justice."

That's exactly the way Michael Schiavo and the Florida judicial
system want it.


Bonnie Rogoff is the founder of Jews For Life, a pro-life,
politically conservative organization. She is an accomplished
pianist, singer, songwriter and librarian. Ms. Rogoff's columns are
featured on a number of political websites, including GOPUSA,
Intellectual Conservative, Opinion Editorials and American Daily.
She resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband David. Bonnie
welcomes your comments and feedback.


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Note from Melissa/saveterrislife):
Complete article titled
"Michael Schiavo:  Loving Husband Or MONSTER?"
in its entirety without all of the links I added:
http://www.americandaily.com/article/6885

Schiavo's parents lose appeal

By Maya Bell
Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted February 21 2005, 11:43 AM EST

The parents of severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo lost another
crucial court appeal today - the day before a court order that could
lead to the removal of her life-sustaining feeding tube.

The 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland denied Bob and Mary
Schindler's motion to delay issuing an order it plans to release at
1 p.m. on Tuesday. That order could allow Terri's husband, Michael,
to seek removal of the feeding tube.

The Schindlers, however, are expected to ask Pinellas Circuit Judge
George W. Greer for a stay to allow them to appeal again to higher
courts. If Greer issues that stay, the tube will stay in place.

The legal twists were the latest in the heart-wrenching case of
Schiavo, a Clearwater woman who collapsed from a chemical imbalance
and suffered severe brain damage 15 years ago.  (Note from
saveterrislife website owner:  Not true, see evidence in my last
post, http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/saveterrislife/message/63
and other posts on this website!)

Michael Schiavo contends his wife had told him she would not want to
be kept alive artificially, and the courts have consistently ruled
she cannot recover from what doctors call a "persistent vegetative
state.'' (Note from saveterrislife owner:  Also totally untrue!
Terri never said any such thing, nor does she want to die, and she
is not in a Persistent Vegetative Case, though the corrupt court
ruled by Judge george Greer used a phony definition, not the Florida
statute definition, to falsely and illegally rule that Terri is in a
PVS!)

But the Schindlers contend that their daughter, who left no written
instructions about her wishes, could improve with treatment.

In seven years of legal wrangling, the Schindlers have won few court
rulings.

But, in the past, the Schindlers have succeeded in delaying or
reversing the removal of that tube with a flurry of last-minute
appeals. In October 2003, they also scored an unprecedented victory
in the court of public opinion.

That's when, reacting to an avalanche of calls and e-mails to his
office, Gov. Jeb Bush pushed through a law that empowered him to
step in and order the tube re-inserted.

But Terri's Law was struck down as unconstitutional, however, and
the Schindlers' options appear to be running out.

But, assisted by right-to-life activists, they promise another
public-relations campaign and, given the history of this protracted
and gut-wrenching right-to-die case, nobody can say with certainty
when - or how - it will end.

Maya Bell can be reached at 305-810-5003 or
mbell@....

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/orl-bk-
schiavo022105,0,6845878.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

Both sides in Schiavo case await final word from appeals court

By Vickie Chachere
Associated Press Writer
Posted February 21 2005, 5:59 PM EST

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The dramatic legal battle over the life of a
severely disabled woman hinges Tuesday on what, if any, instructions
a Florida appeals court gives on when her feeding tube can be
removed and her death can begin.

The attorney representing Terri Schiavo's husband Michael said
Monday her husband will act as soon as legally permissible in having
physicians remove the feeding tube that has kept her alive for 15
years.

But whether that means Michael Schiavo will start the process
Tuesday depends on how the 2nd District Court of Appeals issues its
final word on a legal filing from her parents which has blocked
Michael Schiavo from acting earlier.

The court could simply allow earlier rulings allowing Michael
Schiavo to act despite his wife's family legal protests, or could
instruct a lower court judge how to proceed in the legally volatile
case.

Asked Monday if Michael Schiavo intended to order doctors to remove
the tube Tuesday, Felos said: ``I have no idea. My client is taking
this case one day at a time.''

Michael Schiavo has spent more than seven years battling his in-laws
to win court approval to remove the feeding tube which keeps Terri
Schiavo alive. Doctors have ruled Terri Schiavo is in a persistent
vegetative state with no hope for recovery; her husband said she
never wanted to be kept alive artificially.

Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have their own doctors who
believe Terri Schiavo has some level of mental functioning and is
not vegetative. The Schindlers have fought their son-in-law in a
case which has drawn international attention, saying their son-in-
law once had a financial motive to do away with his disabled wife.

Terri Schiavo left no written will when she collapsed at the age of
26 from what doctors said was a chemical imbalance that stopped her
heart. She still breathes on her own, but relies on the tube for
food and water.  (Note from saveterrislife website owner:  Terri did
not "collapse" "from a chemical imbalance that stopped her heart."
Terri was severely beaten by her husband, Michael Schiavo, the only
person with her at the time, on February 25, 1990.  Evidence shows
she sustained numerous broken bones all over her body, suffered a
head injury, was strangled, and probably injected with insulin as
well.  Terri was NOT a diabetic.  This was simply a case of extreme
domestic violence, but the media does not tell the truth about this
or most things in this entire matter or this case.  End of note from
Melissa Roxanne Stanley, saveterrislife website owner).

``We don't need to rush to Terri's death,'' said the parents'
attorney, David Gibbs. ``I don't know why Mr. Felos and the guardian
(Michael Schiavo) are so bent on just killing her. It's kind of
barbaric.''

Appearing at an afternoon news conference, Bob Schindler said his
family can do nothing more than also take the case ``day to day''
and ``pray for a miracle.''

Terri Schiavo has twice had her tube removed only to have it
reinserted in dramatic, last-minute developments.

In October 2003, she went without food or water for six days before
Gov. Jeb Bush pushed through a new law letting him order the tube be
reinserted. The Florida Supreme Court later struck down his action
as unconstitutional.

The anticipated action from both the appeals court and Michael
Schiavo prompted attorneys for the Schindlers to ask Circuit Court
Judge George Greer of Clearwater for an emergency stay to prevent
Michael Schiavo from acting before a hearing Wednesday on pending
legal issues.

Gibbs said Greer said he would wait until the 2nd District Court of
Appeal in Lakeland acts before deciding whether to issue a stay.

Late last year, Greer issued an indefinite stay blocking the tube's
removal pending the Schindlers appeals. But those appeals are over
as of 1 p.m. Tuesday, and Felos said he believes Michael Schiavo has
the authority to act as of then.

Felos would not describe what preparations may have been made in
anticipation of Tuesday's critical developments. He said that
Michael Schiavo is legally obligated under the appeals' courts
previous rulings to have the tube removed now that all legal
barriers have been removed.

But Gibbs said there are still issues to be litigated and he wants
to ask Greer to again delay the tube's removal under those matters
are resolved. Chief among them is a motion to remove Michael Schiavo
as his wife's guardian, with the Schindlers contending he has denied
his wife therapy and had both financial and personal motives to end
his wife's life.

Michael Schiavo has since started a new family with another woman.
At one point, he also stood to inherit hundreds of thousands of
dollars from Terri Schiavo's medical trust fund, but that money has
now largely been spent on attorneys fees related to the battle over
her life.

Gibbs said if Greer denies the request for an emergency stay he will
seek one from the U.S. Supreme Court.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-
0221schiavo,0,3018504.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines



VIDEO OF TERRI FROM TV NEWS! CLICK LINK BELOW TO WATCH!

http://webpages.charter.net/honeygrl/terri_schindler.asf
Watch as Terri raises herself up off her bed! Terri is NOT PVS!


More evidence enclosed to prove Terri didn't have a heart attack or
cardiac arrest! A potassium imbalance is not what caused Terri to be
found on the floor, clutching her neck, either, as potassium causes
heart attacks, which Terri NEVER had! Terri was strangled and
severely beaten which is proven by evidence in these posts
with "EVIDENCE" in the title!

Terri never had bulimia, either!

These are all Michael Schiavo's LIES TO DISTRACT AND CONFUSE THE
WORLD, which the CONTROLLED MEDIA WILLINGLY REPEAT, OVER AND OVER!

Michael almost killed her on February 25, 1990 and many times since!

This is why he DESPERATELY wants her DEAD - to SILENCE HER FOREVER,
WHILE HE WORKS HAND IN HAND WITH THE NWO to set ILLEGAL PRECEDENTS
to MURDER TERRI AND COUNTLESS OTHERS!

NOW ON TO THE EVIDENCE!


http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

Bone scan which was done on Terri 53 weeks after Michael strangled,
severely beat her about her head and entire body, and probably
injected Terri with insulin shows Terri was a victim of TRAUMA and
her some of her injuries pointed to PREVIOUS TRAUMA, per the Doctor's
notes on the bone scan.

http://terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg
Note the words "CLOSED HEAD INJURY" on the top portion of the fill-
in-form portion of the bone scan - look at bottom left for these
three words in capital letters!

Terri has a condition called Hydrocephalus due to the head trauma
Michael caused her to have! This is where excess cerebrospinal fluid
builds up in the brain. Terri DESPERATELY needs treatment for her
Hydrocephalus, and I am trying to get publicity about this to the
public, as she is entitled by law to a new trial based on this newly
found evidence!

http://hydroassoc.org/ Click here for more info. here about
Hydrocephalus and its treatment

(Note from Melissa: Hydrocephalus is a very treatable condition -
a tube (shunt) is placed in the brain to drain the excess
cerebrospinal fluid into the abdomen, which takes about 45 minutes!)


Terri Has Hydrocephalus, Probably Due to Head Trauma

The following quotes are excerpts from the article,

Interview With Dr. Hammesfahr: Startling Revelations

At first, Terri had physical therapy, rehabilitation, and speech
therapy. Electrodes were planted in her brain stem. A month or two
later, she was more responsive. She got better with rehabilitation.
She spoke appropriately at times, saying such things as, "I am
hungry."

When electrodes are implanted, there needs to be follow up because
the electrodes could be the source of possible infection and
hydrocephalus. If there is no follow up, one is risking further
injury. No follow-up was given.

[Lisa's note: Michael Schiavo is causing Terri further injury by not
permitting her to have necessary medical follow-up after undergoing
experimental surgery!]

Margaret Juneman's notes:

Terri's 1996 brain scan shows 75% normal brain tissue; not scar
tissue. It is not all fluid. That report is bogus. Her cortex is not
missing; not at all. Some areas are thinned, probably due to
hydrocephalus, with the fluid pushing against her brain. She is
functioning. That is what is important. I have seen people a lot
worse than her, and they are talking. A brain scan taken two years
ago showed improvement.

[Lisa's note: Michael Schiavo and George Felos' remarks on Larry King
Live about Terri's total lack of consciousness are obviously
fallacious. Lying is actually a propaganda technique. It is often the
case that the bigger the lie, the more easily it is believed.]

The EEG (electroencephalogram, which is a test of brain activity)
showed there was no recognizable brain activity. However, three
doctors said she was restless. Muscle activity gives a reading, just
as the brain does, producing artifact. By filtering out the artifact,
the brain activity was also filtered out. The EEG should have been
taken at her bed where she could relax. Judge Greer refused further
testing. Dr. Hammesfahr said no further scan is needed because Terri
is functioning, which obviously shows brain activity.

Ron Panzer's notes:

Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Terri has at least 75% functional brain
tissue and that the stories circulating in the media about a head
full of fluid "only" are totally false. He has had patients with less
brain function doing much more than Terri is doing, and Dr.
Hammesfahr believes that Terri is being kept to a lower level of
function by her being denied opportunities to do anything, have any
rehabilitation, and that she her improvement is being sabotaged by
her being kept in isolation, with very few visitors or other input.
Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Larry King had suggested to Michael
Schiavo that he let Mr. King's news crew go in to film Terri, to
settle once and for all what Terri's condition is, and that Michael
REFUSED!

Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Terri has been sedated at various
periods of time and that the sedation of Terri would make Terri less
responsive, especially during an examination by physicians who would
try to see what her condition was.

He explained that physician assessments of Terri made when she was
sedated would necessarily NOT be accurate, that they would
UNDER-estimate her level of cognition and abilities.

Dr. Hammesfahr also revealed that Terri suffers from some
hydrocephalus, or fluid buildup in the brain. This is a serious
condition that must be treated to avoid further damage to the brain.
Dr. Hammesfahr confirmed that Michael has NOT allowed Terri to be
treated for her hydrocephalus. [This is in violation of Florida
guardian laws]

Dr. Hammesfahr, whose field is Neurology, explained that an EEG
(electro-encephalograph reading) test which did not show much brain
activity was BOGUS! because it was done after Terri had been
transported to a facility for the testing and Terri had been restless
at the time, moving around quite a bit.

Muscular movement during an EEG produces readings on the EEG which
must be filtered out. Dr. Hammesfahr explained that by "filtering
out" the EEG activity Terri had due to the muscular movements, those
filtering that brain activity out had also filtered out Terri's brain
activity.

In other words, the EEG done was worthless because it was not
properly done and several doctors have agreed with that.

(Proof Terri is not in a Persistent Vegetative State, which the
corrupt Judge Greer illegally ruled she is, based on a phoney,
made-up definition! Greer DID NOT use the LEGAL FLORIDA STATUTE
DEFINITION OF PVS!

The video of Terri at the link right below PROVES she is not in
a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)!

The controlled media lies as their masters ORDER THEM TO about Terri
and this entire case (and all the other "news" they propagandize/spin
for the NWO AGENDA!

This whole thing is a HUGE NWO operation!
Melissa)


(The video entitled, "Tracking a balloon"
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/balloon.rm
allows you to see and hear the examination. When she followed the
balloon, the doctor said, Look over here, Terri. There you go. Can
you follow that, Terri? There you go. Can you follow that at all?
Can you see that? OK. Look over here. That's fine. That's it. Now
come over here. You see that, don't you, huh? You do follow that a
bit, don't you, huh? OK, look up here. That's good!)

Dr. Hammesfahr said the doctor who complimented Terri for following
the balloon, (Ronald Cranford, known as "Dr. Death"),
later testified in court that she was in a persistent vegetative
state (PVS). Dr. Hammesfahr stated this is medical malpractice
and attempted murder.

[Lisa's note: The doctor who told Terri she did a good job following
commands obeyed The Plan when testifying in court that she is in a
persistent vegetative state.]

(The NWO PLAN! Melissa)

02.20.05

Greer Allowed Unreliable Hearsay

"CLEAR AND CONVINCING" STANDARD
NOT MET IN SCHIAVO DEATH VERDICT
The Empire Journal
http://theempirejournal.com/02200556_greer_allowed_unreliabl.htm

       "I don't want anyone feeding that girl….the rule of law is
that this girl must die".

       Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer
has decreed that Terri Schindler-Schiavo must die.

    Greer's death sentence could be carried out as early as Tuesday,
Feb. 22 if her estranged husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo and
his attorney, George Felos have their way.

    As the clock ticks away, the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo
literally hangs in the balance, now partially dependent on the
outcome of two dramatic hearings scheduled for Monday, Feb. 21
before Greer.

    Attorneys for Mary and Robert Schindler Sr., Terri's parents,
will file a new motion Monday asking Greer to allow new medical
tests for the brain damaged woman based on the findings of a new
brain imaging study recently published in the journal Neurology.

    A hearing is also scheduled Monday at 2:30 p.m. before Greer on
the Schindler's motion to extend the stay of Greer's 2000 court
ordered judicial homicide.
http://theempirejournal.com/021705nmtsnew_medical_tests_soug.htm

    There is also a motion pending before Greer to remove Michael
Schiavo as guardian. The 2nd District Court of Appeals has  been
asked to issue a stay pending the filing of a writ of certiorari in
the U.S. Supreme Court regarding  the religious liberties issue
involving a papal decree which the DCA rejected earlier this month,
setting the stage for the withdrawing of the feeding tube.

    Terri, 41, a patient at the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park,
Florida, sustained severe brain damage 15 years ago on Feb. 25,
1990, as the result of a mysterious and suspicious incident at her
home with her husband as the only known witness.

    She has been the center of a extended court battle between her
parents and Michael who announced his engagement to his live-in
girlfriend shortly before initiating his petition asking the court
to cease Terri's assisted feeding which will cause her death by
starvation in 7-10 days after the removal of the tube. He has since
had two children by his fiancιe.

    Stricken at 26, Terri Schiavo left no living will or no known
written statement of her wishes regarding artificial life support.
However, nearly 10 years after the incident at her home and after he
had received nearly $1.7 million from medical malpractice claims,
Michael Schiavo had a sudden recollection of an alleged oral
statement Terri had made some 15 years previous in 1984.

    Despite state law prohibiting self-serving hearsay testimony,
Greer ruled that his statement constituted "clear and convincing
evidence" that she would not want to be kept alive by assisted
feeding and he issued an order in 2000 to withdraw the tube by which
she is fed three times a day.

    The "clear and convincing" evidentiary standard was established
by the U.S. Supreme Court in Crusan v. Director, MDH, 497 U.S. 261
(1990). A majority of the Court held that there is a constitutional
right to reject artificially provided nutrition and hydration but
that the state may require clear and convincing evidence in the case
of an incompetent patient that the rejection of nutrition and
hydration conforms to the patient's wishes while competent.

       Greer bases his order on In Guardianship of Browning 568 So.
2d 4(1990), a case in which Michael Schiavo's attorney, Felos,
opposed the state in withdrawing the feeding tube of Browning, an 89-
year-old stroke victim who had left a living will stating she did
not wish life support to continue if she were terminal.

    In Browning, the Florida Supreme Court held that under the
Florida Constitution, a guardian, acting as a surrogate decision
maker, must be permitted to make a decision to reject feeding
through a tube for a patient who is not presently capable of making
health care decisions and who has an incurable condition---even if
the patient is neither terminal nor in a "persistent vegetative
state"

    PVS is defined as a permanent irreversible condition of
unconsciousness in which there is absence of voluntary action or
cognitive behavior of any kind and an inability to communicate or
interact purposefully with the environment.

    The Schindlers say that their daughter is not PVS, a position
supported by medical experts.  See the videos of Terri at
http://www.terrisfight.org.

    However, the guardian must base such a life-ending decision
on "clear and convincing" evidence of what the patient wanted.  The
Court specifically recognized that ***reliance on oral statements
does not have the same presumption of clear and convincing evidence
as written declarations.  It stated that "the evidence of the
patient's oral declarations [must be] reliable".*** (emphasis added).

    A review of the facts in the Schiavo case would seem to find
Michael Schiavo's testimony to not only be unreliable but to be
inadmissible self-serving testimony which would not suffice to meet
the required "clear and convincing" evidentiary standard needed to
cause his wife's death.

    Once Greer's death edict is carried forth, it is irreversible.
Death has no parole.

    The Florida Supreme Court held in Browning that when the decision
of proxy or surrogate to refuse medical treatment on behalf of an
incompetent patient is challenged, although the surrogate may rely
on oral statements allegedly made by an incompetent patient while
competent, to exercise patient's wishes to forego life-sustaining
treatment, presumption of clear and convincing evidence that
attaches to written declaration *** does not attach to purely oral
declarations.  While oral evidence, considered alone, may constitute
clear and convincing evidence, surrogate (Michael Schiavo) would
bear the burden of proof if the decision based purely on oral
evidence is challenged.***

    Based on the trial transcripts from the 2000 hearing conducted by
Greer, Michael Schiavo seems to have failed to sustain his burden of
proof and none of the hearsay oral statements made by him and his
relatives to the court were admissible, therefore did not and could
not constitute the "clear and convincing" evidentiary standard
needed to end the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

"The court must decide whether or not there is clear and convincing
evidence that Theresa Marie Schiavo made reliable oral declarations
which would support what her surrogate (Petitioner/Guardian) now
wishes to do

"All of the other collateral issues such as the quality of the
marriage between Michael and Terri Schiavo, access or lack of access
to medical information concerning their daughter, motives regarding
the estate of Terri Schiavo if deceased, and the beliefs of family
and friends concerning end of life decisions are truly not relevant
to the issue which the court must decide."
- ***Judge Greer's February 11, 2000 Order***



January 2000

Terri Schiavo's Trial


Pretrial Investigation
A six month investigation conducted by a court appointed Guardian Ad
Litem culminated in a report filed with the court on December 30,
1998. The report stated that Michael Schiavo's sole version of
Terri's alleged oral declaration not to be kept alive if ever in her
present condition did -not- provide clear and convincing evidence of
Terri's wishes.

***Note: The Guardian Ad Litem recommended to the court that
Schiavo's Petition to remove Terri`s feeding be denied.***



Pretrial Motion
Terri's Parent's request that Judge Greer visit Terri prior to the
2000 trial in order that he will be better informed of Terri's
neurological condition. Judge Greer denied the motion. In an October
2001 Appellate Court order, he was instructed to conduct an
evidentiary hearing to determine Terri's neurological condition.

***Note: Judge Greer has never visited Terri, yet he will rule if
Terri lives or dies.***



Witness for (Michael) Schiavo
Trial Testimony:
  Witnesses, Scott and Joan Schiavo surfaced a week before the trial,
one year after the investigation report cited the lack of
credibility in Michael Schiavo's lone version of Terri's wishes.
  Greer's Decision: Accepted Testimony



Witness for (Michael) Schiavo
Trial Testimony:
  To corroborate Michael Schiavo's statement that Terri made oral
wishes not to be kept alive, Scott Schiavo offered three different
versions of a single statement that Terri allegedly made.
Greer's Decision: Testimony Credible



Witness for (Michael) Schiavo
Trial Testimony:
  Joan Schiavo testified that Terri would not want to be kept alive.
However, she never told exactly what Terri actually said.
Greer's Decision: Testimony Credible



Witness for (Michael) Schiavo
Trial Testimony:
  Michael Schiavo rendered flawed testimony by adding new versions of
Terri's wishes not originally told to the court investigator.
  Greer's Decision: Testimony Credible



Witness for (Michael) Schiavo
Trial Testimony:
  Beverly Tyler's reported results of a regional poll on the subject
of "American's values, opinions and attitudes concerning end of life
care." Although she never met Terri, she was used to validate what
Terri said and meant in Terri's casual comment not to live.
  Greer's Decision: Testimony Credible



Witness for (Michael) Schiavo
Trial Testimony:
  A Diocese Priest, Father Murphy misrepresented his position,
claiming he was the spokesman for the Catholic Church
on end of life issues. Yet he stated, the removal of Terri's feeding
"would be consistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church."
The priest admitted to the court that he had no formal training as a
medical ethicist or moral theologian.
  Greer's Decision: Testimony Viewed as Candid



Witness for Independent
Trial Testimony:
  Court appointed Guardian ad Litem investigator testified that
Michael Schiavo's lone statement of Terri's alleged oral declaration
not to be kept alive did -not- provide clear and convincing evidence
of Terri's wishes. He cited his unawareness of the Schiavo family
witnesses.
  Greer's Decision: Testimony not Reliable



Witness for Schindlers
Trial Testimony:
  Terri's mother testified that throughout Terri's lifetime she never
made any statements which would indicate her wishing not to be kept
alive. Plus, Terri never said "she would not want to live like that"
when actually viewing the residents who were near death while
regularly visiting her grandmother at the nursing home. Also, the
court was told, Terri was opposed to the removal of Karen Ann
Quinlin's life support.
  Greer's Decision: Testimony Not Credible



Witness for Schindlers
Trial Testimony:
  Terri's father testified It was out of character for Terri to
discuss such matters and Michael Schiavo's version of Terri wishes
were fabricated to end Terri`s life so he could inherit the 750K in
Terri's medical fund.
Greer's Decision: Testimony Not Credible



Witness for Schindlers
  Trial Testimony:
  Terri's brother testified that Terri told him that she was going to
divorce Michael Schiavo. Claimed he was very close to Terri and she
never expressed any wishes not to be kept alive.
Greer's Decision: Testimony Not Credible



Witness for Schindlers
   Terri's sister told the court of the bruises Terri incurred from
Michael Schiavo and how he berated Terri about her weight. She
indicated Terri had plans to divorce Schiavo.
  Greer's Decision: Testimony Not Credible



Witness for Schindlers
Trial Testimony:
  Terri's childhood girlfriend testified Terri was extremely upset
over the removal of Karen Ann Quinlan's life support depicted in a
movie they viewed just prior to Schiavo's alleged remarks about
Terri's wishes.
  Greer's Decision: Testimony Not Credible



Greer has maintained virtually autonomous control over the fate of
Terri Schiavo, basing his 2000 ruling to withdraw her feeding tube
on self-serving hearsay testimony of  the estranged husband  and his
family members.

    In the transcripts of the 2000 proceeding when Greer allowed the
inadmissible  testimony and determined that Terri had stated she
didn't wish to be kept alive by artificial means, Greer concluded,
and the 2nd District Court of Appeals concurred, that Michael and
Terri Schiavo had been "happily married" even though Terri's best
friend and co-worker, Jackie Rhodes, had testified that Terri wanted
a divorce from Michael. Rhodes had testified that earlier the day of
Terri's collapse, Michael had argued with Terri about the amount
Terri had spent at the hairdresser.  She also testified that Michael
Schiavo was controlling.  There was also evidence of that Terri
Schiavo had indicated that she wanted a divorce from Michael Schiavo.

    Chapter 90 of Florida Statutes states that no person interested
in an action or proceeding against the personal representative……of a
deceased person or agent… ***or guardian of a mentally incompetent
person shall be examined as a witness regarding any oral
communications between the interested person and the person who is
deceased or mentally ill at the time of the exam.***

    According to case law, parties and interested persons are
disqualified from giving testimony as witnesses on their own behalf
because persons having a pecuniary interest in the event of a cause
are of a class especially likely to speak falsely.

    Self-serving inadmissible hearsay testimony is not the
evidentiary standard required for "clear and convincing" evidence on
which Greer based his decision and order to remove the gastric tube
which provides Terri Schiavo with hydration and sustenance three
times a day.

    Hearsay is defined as a statement other than one made by the
declarant while testifying at trial or hearing, offered in evidence
to prove the truth of the matter asserted.

    It was only after Michael Schiavo had received an award for his
medical malpractice claims against Dr. Stephen  Igel and Dr. Joel
Prawer, his wife's former physicians, that he remembered nearly 10
years after the collapse that his wife had allegedly told him that
she would not want to be kept alive by artificial means.  His
brother and sister-in-law testified that they had heard Terri say
she wouldn't want to be kept alive by "tubes".  Except for feeding,
there are no tubes or other artificial means of life support
attached to Terri Schiavo.

      Some claim that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative
state but many doctors and medical professional disagree and believe
that Terri is very aware of her surroundings.   No doctors or
medical professionals claim that Terri is in a coma.

    She is not "dying." In fact, she is a healthy woman who happens
to have a disability.  Terri is brain-damaged but she is not dying
of any terminal illness and is not being sustained through a
respirator.  She breathes on her own and merely receives her food
and hydration through a feeding tube.   Terri's family is asking to
be given legal guardianship so that they may love and care for her.

    Florida law does not allow a dog to be subjected to a death by
starvation but yet Judge Geer has ordered that Terri Schiavo be
starved to death.

    St. Louis neurologist William Burke has stated that  "A conscious
[cognitively disabled] person would feel it just as you or I would.
They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks,
their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of
the mucus membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of
the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the pangs of hunger
and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of water! Death by
dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an extremely agonizing
death.

For more on the Terri Schiavo case,
see http://www.terrisfight.org
and
http://www.theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm

Gov. Jeb Bush
850-488-4441,
email jeb.bush@...

Florida House of Representatives
850-488-6026,

Allan Bense, House Speaker
850-488-1450,
850-914-6300;

Tom Lee, Florida Senate
850-487-5072;
850-487-5229;
813-744-8633
email lee.tom.web@...

Florida Senate 800-342-1847



http://theempirejournal.com/02200556_greer_allowed_unreliabl.htm

http://www.blogsforterri.com/


Save Terri Schiavo Blogburst
Participating Blogs - See List Below
(explained here. get the code and show this on your own blog!)

http://discardedlies.com/entries/2005/02/blogging_for_terri.php

Go here to find these links to Pro Terri Blogs:
http://www.discardedlies.com/entries/2005/02/blogging_for_terri.php
(Look for links on right side column of page at link above).  Look
For "Save Terri Schiavo Blogburst"
Here are the names of participating Blogs to Save Terri:
A Black and White World
A Mom And Her Blog
After Abortion
Allthings2all
American Daughter Med.Ctr
American Warmonger
Basils Blog
Bates Line
Ben's World
Birth Story
Blog Talker
bLogicus
BlogsforTerri
Broken Masterpieces
Brutally Honest
Caos blog
Cat House Chat
Catholic Fire
Catholics in the Public Square
ChristWeb
Church of the Acronym
Collecting My Thoughts
CommonSenseRunsWild
ConcateNation
Conservative Friends
Contemplating the Laundry
Cranky Neocon
Crystal Clear
DailyInklings
Darrenweeks.net
Dean's World
Discarded Lies
E-involved
Exultet
Eye on the world
fight4terri
GM's Corner
GOP Christian
GOP Insight
HCS's Pad
Heart of Canada
Hidden Nook
Holy Tornado
House of the Dog
hubbyanddad
Hyscience
Imago Dei
Insane Troll Logic
IntolerantElle
Jack Lewis
JivinJehoshaphat
John Bambenek
JRHOO
Jumping Without a Chute
Justice for Terri Schiavo
Kenders Musings
Kentucky Packrat
Knitting a Conundrum
La Shawn Barbers Corner
Life Matters!
LifeSteward
LilacRose
M.A.W.B Squad
Marlowes Shade
Media Soul
Modeling 101
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX
Musing
My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Myopic Zeal
Naaman
NeophytePundit
News from Great Beyond
News From The Back Porch
NIF
Obiter Dictum
Obs of the SuperCAT
Open Book
OpinionTimes
PajamaHadin
Pamela Hennessy
Parableman
Patty-Jo
PBS Watch
Pondering the Word
PowerBlog
Powers that Blog
ProLifeBlogs
Purposeful Dreamer
RealChoice
Right As Usual
Rottweiler Puppy
Scrapple Face
Seeking Sanity
Sensible Mom
She Who Will Be Obeyed
Silver bubble
Slobokan's Site
Sonshyne7
Sounding the Trumpet
Stand in the Trenches
StonesCryOut
Straight Up With Sherri
Superblessed
Teknosis
TerriSchiavo
Terri's Fight
Terri's Ring
The American Princess
The Bandwagon
The Black Kettle
The Lazy Logician
The NY Minute
The Political Teen
The Razor
The Rob Report
The Seventh Age
The Sheeps Crib
The Smarter Cop
The Squamata Report
The Sunnye Side
The Wide Awakes
TheSenescenceMan
Thrown Back
TimandKimberly.com
Times Against Humanity
Truth Be Told
Uncle Jack's
Veratatis Splendor
Vince Aut Morire
Vita Mea
Web Nuts
What Attitude Problem?
Wild Wisconsin
Wittenberg Gate
WriteWingBlog
ZabBlog
Powered by
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Blogging for Terri
Hyscience is putting together a list of bloggers writing one post a
day for Terri Schiavo. It's now atop our right sidebar indefinitely.
More great reading on Hyscience:

Hyscience: Terri Schiavo Blogburst - Update 3

Michael Schiavo insists that dehydration is "the most natural way to
die." It's more like torture.

WHAT HAPPENS to non-terminally ill people with cognitive
disabilities whose feeding tubes are removed? Do they suffer from
the process?- From the 11/12/2003 article in the Daily Standard, via
Common Sense Runs Wild

When the author of the article conducted research in preparation for
writing the book Forced Exit," he asked St. Louis neurologist
William Burke these very questions. Here is what he was told:

A conscious [cognitively disabled] person would feel it just as you
or I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their
tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of
the drying of the mucus membranes, and heaving and vomiting might
ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the
pangs of hunger and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of
water! Death by dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an
extremely agonizing death.
Ask Kate Adamson, mother of two, a motivational speaker, author and
another "miracle." In 1995, at just 33, she suffered a double brain
stem stroke and was in a coma for 70 days. She was completely
unresponsive to stimuli and was diagnosed as being in a persistent
vegetative state. Doctors finally pulled her feeding tube and, for
eight days, she lay dying.

Instead of being completely unconscious as the doctors believed,
Kate actually was very aware of everything going on around her. She
was intensely aware of being left to die and very much in pain. She
appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," in 2003 and host Bill O'Reilly
asked Adamson about the dehydration experience:

The agony of going without food was a constant pain that lasted not
several hours like my operation did, but several days. You have to
endure the physical pain and on top of that you have to endure the
emotional pain. Your whole body cries out, "Feed me. I am alive and
a person, don't let me die, for God's Sake! Somebody feed me."
Unlike Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, Kate's husband fought to
have her feeding tube put back in. He wanted to save his wife's
life, the exact opposite situation as with Michael Schiavo, who has
been trying to kill her with the help of the morally and ethically-
corrupt judge George Greer. For another two weeks he fought doctors
to convince them that Kate was really communicating with the family.
She says that she would try to blink to communicate. She would blink
once or twice and then she was too weak to do it again for an hour
or more. After three months in acute rehab she was finally able to
speak.


Sign the petition to the Florida legislature: Impeach Judge George
W. Greer of Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit Petition
Does Michael Schiavo know what Terri wanted? Does he care?
Everything about Michael Schiavo's actions and court testimony
disqualifies him for being Terri Schiavo's guardian, as is also the
case of Judge George (death-advocate) Greer.


Michael Schiavo has publicly stated that his goal in withholding
treatment from his wife and removing her feeding tube (leading to
death-by-starvation) is in accord with her wishes. He has testified
that he loves his wife and is doing what she wanted.

However, both legal records and Michael's actions seem to tell a
different story.


Why Refuse Terri Schiavo Speech Therapy--Unless Michael Doesn't Want
to Know What She Thinks?

Over and over Terri Schindler Schiavo's parents have asked that
Terri be given speech therapy. Terri's parents filed an emergency
motion for immediate therapy in October of 2003, asking for 8 weeks
of speech and swallow therapy. Michael Schiavo objected and the
court sided with him.

In the light of Sarah Scantlin's recovery of her speech after 20
years, why won't Michael Schivo reconsider?

Speech Language Pathologist, Sara Green Mele, M.S. CCC-SLP, swore
under oath, "It is my judgment based on my training and clinical
experience working with patients similar to Terri that she would,
within a reasonable degree of clinical probability, be able to
improve her ability to interact with her environment, communicate
with others, and control her environment if she were given
appropriate therapy and training as outlined above. These
recommendations, in my opinion would greatly improve Terri's quality
of life."

If you have a blog, even if you can't participate in the blogburst
by doing a post about Terri every day, I encourage you to post the
blogroll. It's a simple line of code, put it in the same area of
your sidebar where you keep your blogroll:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?
r=1d56e37cbdc6ea945e3bf5be790faac9"></script>
I previously blogged Terri's plight.

by evariste in Psst-Pass it on! at February 14, 2005 11:56 AM
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Main | Administrative post on comments »


February 20, 2005
URGENT REPOST-Action Requested: Florida HB 701 Email Support Needed
URGENT UPDATE TO PREVIOUS POST

http://blogsforterri.com/archives/2005/02/urgent_repostac.php

Call to all "BlogsforTerri" and those blogging for Terri. Urgent
that all Florida residents know about HB 701.

The document can be downloaded here. This is one of the bills that
can help Terri. Get the word passed around to everyone in Fl. If you
are a blogger in Florida, please immediately and with urgency help
get this to church and community groups to help get the word out. If
you live outside Fl., please help drum-up email support for Rep.
Baxley. Massive telephone calls to Rep, Baxley and other
Representatives are also needed.

Please get this information circulated. It is paramount that all
Floridians contact their reps either email or phone on this bill,
and let them know how you stand. Discuss with your neighbors,
encourage them to call and email their reps, and pass this info
around.

We have very little time left. As you read through this bill,
realize this will protect the incapacitated. Hearsay and casual
conversation will not be enough to starve and dehydrate a person to
death in this state if this passes. Protecting the vulnerable, the
brain injured, the elderly, those with disabilities will benefit
from this bill.

Please contact Rep Baxley and give him a big thanks for sponsoring.

Email and call Your Representative: Florida House Of Representatives
REPS FOR FL HOUSE

REPS FOR FL SENATE

The links are also a source of contact for all of the Florida
Legislators.

Posted by richard at February 20, 2005 02:44 PM

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« Tsk Tsk...Maya Bell & Orlando Sentinel | Main

February 20, 2005
Updated: BlogsforTerri Attack Plan
Our action plan has had a few updates. You will find more details on
the St. Petersburg Times ad which has been determined by our people
on the ground to be extremely important in getting the truth about
Terri out to the public.

Never before have an organized group of bloggers and their readers
used the mainstream media to get a common message to the public.

We are in effect exposing 450,000 people in Florida to the truth
about Terri while giving them a central location on the Internet to
find links to hundreds of posts and facts about Terri that have been
virtually withheld from them by the MSM and Judge George Greer.

Bloggers are encouraged to read the updated attack plan and email
BlogsforTerri about special expertise such as advertising layout,
mass emails, mass telephone organization, and other areas you
believe to be useful.

Stay in touch often for breaking stories and important updates. Much
is happening that you will learn just as fast as we are authorized
to make it public.


Posted by richard at February 20, 2005 09:56 PM

http://blogsforterri.com/archives/2005/02/blogsforterri_a.php




« Reminder: Bloggers' Best for Terri Schiavo | Main | Terri
Schiavo's documented vocabulary »

February 19, 2005
"BlogsForTerri" Attack Plan - Updated
http://blogsforterri.com/archives/2005/02/blogsforterri_a_1.php

We are in daily contact with those closest to the effort to save
Terri, and they believe what we have outlined here is the most
effective way that 150 organized and motivated bloggers, and their
readers, can help save Terri Schiavo by getting the truth about
Terri out to the public.

Although a hard legal battle is being waged, our job is to work on
the political and public opinion side of the equation which is
extremely important, and is the only thing that can save Terri
should the legal fight fail. Much of the problem is related to
political issues in Pinellas County and at the State Capital. We are
aware of what they are and are working to have the BlogsForTerri
plan help to address them while the experts do what they do best.
Now is not the time to further divide two opposing camps, we need
both sides. That is the approach that "BlogsForTerri" is committed
to take. We will take the high road and not get involved in vitriol.
That doesn't mean though that we aren't going to attack, because we
are - without quarter.

Rough outline of the "BlogsForTerri" attack plan:

1. "BlogsForTerri" (in behalf of all 150+ blogs) will place an ad in
the Sunday edition of the St Petersburg Times(largest paid
circulation in Florida - 450,000+). The ad will be an open letter to
the residents of Florida from BlogsForTerri and their readers.
BlogsforTerri's URL will be in the ad along with sponsors that wish
to be included. All of Terri's bloggers will be clearly listed with
links and posts at the site, as will an aggregator of posts for
Terri.

The ad will address the following principle issues.

1. Terri is not a unconscious, brain-dead or in a PVS (videos at
site).
2. Terri has been treated with negligence and denied her own legal
counsel.
3. A proper evaluation of awareness in the presence of profound and
complex neurological disabilities such as Terri's requires the
skills of a multidisciplinary team experienced in long term
management and tests. Terri has never had this opportunity.

The St Petersburg Times has done more damage to Terri than any other
paper by what it has said and what it has failed to say - although
mostly by someone who is no longer with the paper. We have spoken
with the Times and it appears that they would be willing to run the
ad subject to their approval.

Between all the blogs, blog readers and sponsors (one medical center
has already pledged $300 and we haven't even started asking), we
need to raise $10,000. We are in contact with a 501(c)3 that could
be willing to accept the funds in a Bank lockbox arrangement so that
the donations would be tax deductable. No overhead charges are
expected.

2. BlogsForTerri will conduct large email and telephone campaigns to
target Florida residents and at the national level - both directed
to Legislative members, the Governor, and President Bush. Our goal
is one million emails to the Florida legislature, and the
participation of resident of Florida that we can convince that Terri
deserves to be evaluated by a multi-disciplinary team of
rehabilitaion therapy experts. Terri has until now, been denied all
forms of rehabilitation, even all forms of stimulation.

3. BlogsForTerri will conduct massive 24/7 blogging of the actual
facts - Terri is not in a PVS, etc. We'd like to divide up the
workload so that some blogs are researching and writing about
Michael, some on Judge Greer and the hospice/Felos connection, and
some on Terri's actual condition and right to live.

Together, as a highly organized group of bloggers working as a team,
and along with our readers, we are indeed a powerful force.

We will be asking bloggers to commit to several posts a day on the
facts about Terri.

This plan is still developing, and has required a lot of
preparation. We ask your patience for just a few more days, and ask
that those of you with specific expertise in massive emails and
getting people to make telephone calls, please email us at
BlogsForTerri, ProLifeBlogs, or Hyscience.

In a few days all of the emails will be directed to BlogsForTerri.

Posted by richard at February 19, 2005 09:59 AM

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and is now both monetary and pride..." [Read More]

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in the main stream media, however here in the Land of Blog, a
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It has been said often that a society will be judged by how it
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is how we treat the weakest among us. This is what is at stake in
the Terri Schiavo case. Is she unconscious? Or a... [Read More]

Tracked on February 20, 2005 04:55 PM

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Terri Schiavo: February 19, 2005
"BlogsForTerri" Attack Plan
Posted by Richard on BlogsforTerri - spread the word.

We are in daily contact with those closest to the effort to save
Terri, and they believe what we have outlined here is the most
effective way that over 100 organized and motivated bloggers can
help save Terri Schiavo.

Although a hard legal battle is being waged, our job is to work on
the political and public-opinion side of the equation which is
extremely important, and is the only thing that can save Terri
should the legal fight fail. Much of the problem is related to
political issues in Pinellas County and at the State Capital. We are
aware of what they are and are working to address them. Now is not
the time to divide further two opposing camps, we need both sides.
That is what "BlogsForTerri" plans to do. We will take the high road
and not get involved in vitriol. That doesn't mean though that we
aren't going to attack, because we are - without quarter.

Rough outline of the "BlogsForTerri" attack plan:

1. "BlogsForTerri" (on behalf of all 110+ blogs) will place an ad in
the Sunday edition of the St Petersburg Times(largest paid
circulation in Florida - 450,000+). The ad will be an open letter to
the residents of Florida from BlogsForTerri, which will have it's
URL in the ad along with sponsors that wish to be included. All of
Terri's bloggers will be clearly listed with links and posts at the
site.

The St Petersburg Times has done more damage to Terri than any other
paper by what it has said and what it has failed to say - although
mostly by someone who is no longer with the paper. We have spoken
with the Times and it appears that they would be willing to run the
ad subject to their approval.

Between all the blogs, blog readers and sponsors (one medical center
has already pledged $300 and we haven't even started asking), we
need to raise $10,000. We are in contact with a 501(c)3 that could
be willing to accept the funds in a Bank lockbox arrangement so that
the donations would be tax deductable. No overhead charges are
expected.

2. BlogsForTerri will conduct two massive and simultaneous email
campaigns, one for Florida residents and one at the national level -
both directed to Legislative members, the Governor, and President
Bush. Our goal is one million emails to the Florida legislature, and
the participation of resident of Florida that we can convince that
Terri is worth saving.

3. BlogsForTerri will conduct massive 24/7 blogging of the actual
facts - Terri is not in a PVS, etc. We'd like to divide up the
workload so that some blogs are researching and writing about
Michael, some on Judge Greer and the hospice/Felos connection, and
some on Terri's actual condition and right to live.

Together, as a highly organized group of bloggers working as a team,
we are indeed a powerful force.

We will be asking bloggers to submit to several posts a day of the
facts about Terri.

This plan is still developing, and has required a lot of
preparation. We ask your patience for just a few more days, and ask
that those of you with specific expertise in massive emails and
getting people to make telephone calls, please email us at
BlogsForTerri, ProLifeBlogs, or Hyscience.

In a few days all of the emails will be directed to BlogsForTerri.


Posted by tim at February 19, 2005 10:35 AM

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Do you think it would be wise to add this idea to the attack plan? I
was thinking we could target blogs that are against Terri's right to
life and post comments there. I know we'll never convince those
bloggers (although you never know for sure) but we can at the very
least leave some facts for readers to see should they come across
those negative sites.

Posted by: WriteWingNut at February 19, 2005 12:21 PM
Hey! I posted about this on my site, but found it originally at "The
Empire Journal" (http://www.theempirejournal.com/0219056_gov.htm)
which is talking about how Judge Greer never fulfilled his oath
(some technicallity) that may make it possible for his removal as
judge (and at least buy more time for Terri). Found it via a google
search. Check it out...it may help Terri out. Selah!

Posted by: Hidden Nook at February 19, 2005 10:17 PM

http://prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2005/02/blogsforterri_a.php



http://www.blogsforterri.com/



February 14, 2005
Terri Schiavo Blogburst - Update 3
http://hyscience.typepad.com/hyscience/2005/02/terri_schiavo_b_1.html
#more

Blog Readers - check out the Terri Schiavo blogroll on our right
sidebar for more Terri Schiavo posts.

The blogburst for Terri Schiavo continues with (46) blogs on the
Terri Schiavo blogroll, and many others writing every day about
Terry. We need a minimum of 100 blogs writing at least one Terri
Schiavo post every day, preferably more - with encouragement to
readers and other blogs to participate by writing, phoning and
emailing contacts, MSM, and other blogs every single day. Especially
the St. Petersburg Times.

The blogosphere is heating up on Terri Schiavo - current traffic on
Terri's posts during peak hours here at Hyscience are running just
under 500 hits per hour! I'm sure that the readers are going from
here to other "Terri" bloggers.

A major novel blog - media event is in the planning stages and will
be announced very soon.
Meanwhile you can help by emailing Hyscience (or ProLifeBlogs) your
link and we will post it on Terri's blogroll. Please do not request
to be on the blogroll if you are not posting daily on Terri, even if
it is a re-post of an existing article on your own or another blog's
site (with appropriate credit).

The dynamics of Terri's plight to survive are changing rapidly, and
I will continue to post info every day. Some background information
is HERE, and there is more information available at Terrisfight.org,
and other sites as well.

Please continue to post contact numbers in at least one post per
day. We need for readers to know where to go for information and
opinions on Terri 's plight. Hyscience and ProLifeBlogs are in touch
with the Schindlers on a daily basis and expect to post an update on
Terri's plight for life in the very near future.

The fight in the courts and in the Florida legislature to save
Terri's life is ongoing and limits more information being released
at this time.

WHY BLOG FOR TERRY?

Recently numerous bloggers were celebrating the power of the
blogosphere by causing the resignation of a man who said some
terrible things, just think if the bloggers could come together and
sa ve a life. - TheBandWagon

Here is the script that will add a list of sites to your blog. I
have not started adding the links yet, the only one's listed are
from ProLifeBlogs that were used to set-up the blogroll. I expect to
start adding links tonight.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?
r=1d56e37cbdc6ea945e3bf5be790faac9"></script>

Place it on your site the way you would put any normal link and it
will insert the list of Terri Schiavo
blogs.

Special Hat tips to ProLifeBlogs and theBandWagon

Everyone! Motivate other blogs, readers, politicians, media, &
authorites. And Blog Like Crazy - Terri's life depends on it. (See
St. Petersburg Times info below)


For the past several years, the St Petersburg Times has consistently
printed both articles and editorials that denigrate Terri Schiavo,
misrepresent her family and misreport her true condition. They have
belittled the attorney representing Terri's family and they have
scorned volunteers who support Ms. Schiavo's right to live
as 'fanatics'.

No where in the Times have the members of Terri's Foundation been
able to find any reporting of the Florida Statutory violations
against Terri, the questionable rulings by Judge George Greer or the
adulterous lifestyle of Michael Schiavo, his neglect of his disabled
wife and his attempts at hiding evidence about her finances and
health condition.

Instead, the Times has sympathized with those who advocate Terri's
forced death by dehydration.

St Pete Times President - timespresident@...

Customer Service - Subscriptions - custserv@...

Letters to the Editor - letters@...

Mr. Bill Levesque - levesque@...

         Letters to the Editor
         P.O. Box 1121
         St. Pete, FL 33731

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Terri Schiavo's Parents: More Tests Are Needed Before Daughter
Starved

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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 18, 2005

Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of Terri Schiavo plan
to present a new legal motion before a local judge who will decide
whether Terri's estranged husband Michael is allowed to starve Terri
to death.

Bob and Mary Schindler want cognitive ability tests to be conducted
on their daughter to prove their contention that she is more aware
than courts have acknowledged.

An attorney for the Schindlers will present a motion Monday before
Circuit Court Judge Greer pointing to a new study showing that
disabled people who are treated as if they have no awareness of
their surroundings or that they cannot interact with others may be
absorbing more than previously thought.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat1182.html

David Gibbs will ask Judge Greer to allow such testing to be used to
assess Terri's brain activity before her feeding tube is removed.
Michael could be allowed to remove the gastric tube providing Terri
with food and water as soon as Tuesday.

At the hearing Monday, Gibbs will also ask Judge Greer to extend the
stay that expires on February 22.

"I think the bottom line is that Terri deserves to get these tests,"
her father Bob Schindler said Thursday. "It would be unconscionable
for Judge Greer or any other judge to order her death without these
tests."

In the study, team of neuroscientists in New York, New Jersey and
Washington used imaging technology (MRIs) to compare the brain
activity of two disabled people in conditions similar to Terri's and
the level of activity of health individuals.

As expected, the minimally conscious subjects showed brain activity
at less than half the levels of the healthy subjects.

But, the researchers also made audio recordings of loved ones
telling cherished stories or recalling shared experiences. In each
of the brain-damaged patients while the recordings played, the level
of neural activity matched that of the healthy patients.

Meanwhile, the Schindlers also point to the case of Sarah Scantlin,

http://www.lifenews.com/bio697.html

a Kansas woman who recently came out of a 20 year coma to be able to
speak for the first time. Prior to that, Scantlin, like Terri, had
limited, but obvious, interaction with her family.

Responding to the news, euthanasia advocate George Felos, Michael's
lead attorney, told the Associated Press that the study and the
Scantlin case are irrelevant to Terri because she "is in a
vegetative condition and has no consciousness."

"These are frivolous, last-ditch efforts on the part of the
parents," Felos said.


http://www.lifenews.com/bio708.html




Study Reveals Disabled Patients Like Terri Schiavo Show Awareness
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by Steven Ertelt
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February 8, 2005

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Disabled people who are treated as if
they have no awareness of their surroundings or that they cannot
interact with others may be absorbing more than previously thought,
according to a new study. The research sheds more like on the plight
of people like Terri Schiavo.

A team of neuroscientists in New York, New Jersey and Washington
used imaging technology (MRIs) to compare the brain activity of two
disabled people in conditions similar to Terri's and the level of
activity of health individuals.

As expected, the minimally conscious subjects showed brain activity
at less than half the levels of the healthy subjects.

But, the researchers also made audio recordings of loved ones
telling cherished stories or recalling shared experiences. In each
of the brain-damaged patients while the recordings played, the level
of neural activity matched that of the health patients.

"We assumed we would get some minimal response in these patients,
but nothing like this," said Dr. Nicholas Schiff, an assistant
professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical
College in Manhattan and the study's lead author.

The findings, if repeated in other experiments, could have a
significant impact on how the medical and legal community treat such
patients.

Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the medical ethics division of New York
Presbyterian Hospital, told the New York Times, "This study gave me
goose bumps, because it shows this possibility of this profound
isolation, that these people are there, that they've been there all
along, even though we've been treating them as if they're not."

Since the completion of the study, researchers focused on seven
additional disabled patients and the results were the same.

Three million to six million Americans live with the consequences of
serious brain injuries and as many as 100,000 to 300,000 are like
Terri Schiavo -- minimally conscience and in a bedridden state. They
are unable to care for themselves, but are still breathing on their
own and may interacted in a limited manner.

The results of the study appeared Monday in the medical journal
Neurology.

http://www.lifenews.com/nat1182.html




Woman Wakes After 20 Year Coma, Impacts Terri Schaivo Legal Battle
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February 14, 2005

Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Sarah Scantlin was unable to speak
after an automobile accident in which a drunk driver crashed into
her, leaving her in a coma. Though doctors believed her brain was
injured so badly in the accident that should would never be able to
talk again and spend her life in a vegetative state, Scantlin began
speaking a week ago.

Sarah's friends and family gathered Saturday at the health care
center where she lives to celebrate.

"She's 100 percent Sarah again. The family is back together, and
it's just simply a joyous situation," her father, Jim Scantlin, told
CNN.

Scantlin was 18 when she was injured and, until last month, she was
aware of her surroundings but unable to speak. Suddenly, she began
talking to workers at the health care center.

"It just happened one day and nobody really knows why," said Sharon
Kuepker, administrator for the Golden Plains Health Care Center.

Now, Scantlin is forming words, counting, and remembering people and
places.

"You condition yourself to be able to try to deal with something
like this, and then all of the sudden, the world instantly changed
from despair to joy because it's amazing how important communication
is between human beings," her father told the Associated Press.

Doctors have no explanation but pro-life advocates believe the case
proves that Terri Schiavo, who is not in a PVS state, could find her
disabled condition improved if she were given proper medical care
and rehabilitative treatment.

Robert Schindler, Terri's father, says he hopes the courts will see
this "miracle" and think of Terri.

"In light of the miraculous awakening of Miss Sarah Scantlin in
Kansas and the success of the new brainwave test reported ... this
week, my daughter deserves to have this test before she is starved
to death by judicial decree," Schindler said.

Schindler is referring to a study released last week showing the
level of neural activity of disabled patients who listened to tapes
of their loved ones sharing family experiences matched that of the
healthy patients.

The Schindlers say videotape shown on CNN of Sarah interacting with
her parents prior to speaking is remarkably similar to videos of
Terri interacting her family.

Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family says the Scantlin case shows
why Florida courts should spare Terri Schiavo's life and prevent her
estranged husband from ending her life.

"Terri Schiavo deserves the same chance at life that Sarah Scantlin
was given," Dobson said. "Both cases have involved women who
suffered debilitating injuries and continued to live in a disabled
state. Today we celebrate the news that Ms. Scantlin has regained
her memory and ability to speak, and is apparently on the road to
recovery."

"Mental disabilities do not damage a person's worth -- the
preciousness of life is not defined by one's abilities," Dobson
added. "Those who suffer a disabling injury are entitled to the same
right to life as we all are. Those seeking to take away Mrs.
Schiavo's right to life should have second thoughts after hearing
Sarah Scantlin's story."

Terri's parents are traveling to Kansas to meet with Sarah and her
family.

Related web sites:
Terri Schiavo's parents - http://www.terrisfight.org

http://www.lifenews.com/bio697.html




Terri Schiavo's Parents Launch Public Campaign to Save Their Daughter

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 15, 2005

Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- With legal options to prevent their
daughter, Terri Schiavo, from being painfully starved to death,
Robert and Mary Schindler are launching a public campaign to draw
attention to her plight.

The couple have asked pro-life activist Randall Terry to help them
again. Terry was a key player in a previous campaign to lobby
Florida lawmakers to pass Terri's Law, eventually struck down by
Florida courts.

"Our family has asked Randall Terry and his staff to once again
coordinate the efforts to rescue Terri from the clutches of death by
judicial homicide," Robert Schindler said.

"We ask you to help my daughter, Terri, by following Randall's lead,
and cooperating with and supporting the efforts we have asked him to
undertake," Schindler added.

Terry said he and the Schindlers have devised a game plan on how to
generate more public support for the woman at the center of the
euthanasia controversy.

"Our plans are comprehensive, and we will attack this injustice from
every possible side," Terry said Tuesday.

Those plans could include appealing to the Florida state legislature
to pass a more comprehensive law requiring doctors to assume that
any disabled patient without an advance directive, such as Terri,
must assume the patient wants all medical and rehabilitative care to
not be killed.

Rep. Dennis Baxley, a Republican from Ocala, filed such a bill, but
it did not receive a vote during the last session of the Florida
legislature.

"We are counting on Governor Bush and the Florida Legislature to do
the right thing, and again rescue our daughter from the clutches of
the court," Schindler said.

Other efforts in the new campaign include protests at the Pinellas
Park hospice where Terri lives.

However, George Felos, the euthanasia advocate who is the lead
attorney for Terri's estranged husband Michael, says he doubts the
new efforts will see results.

"Certainly, the Florida Legislature would have to be much more
reluctant to jump into this case now," Felos told the Associated
Press. "I think the Florida Supreme Court made it clear that
although they (lawmakers) may legislate prospectively for future
cases, there is nothing they can do to overturn the result of Mrs.
Schiavo's case."

Terri's father thanked pro-life advocates who have been helping them
to prevent their daughter's painful death.

"We thank you with all our hearts for your concern for our daughter,
and for your help in trying to save her," Schindler said.

Related web sites:
Terri Schiavo's family - http://www.terrisfight.org

http://www.lifenews.com/bio701.html




Terri Schiavo Didn't Deserve Her Own Attorney, Feeding Tube Can be
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LifeNews.com Editor
February 12, 2005

Clearwater, FL(LifeNews.com) -- A local judge has refused to
reconsider his ruling allowing the estranged husband of Terri
Schiavo to remove her feeding tube and begin a painful week-long
starvation process.

Circuit Court Judge George Greer rejected arguments made by
attorneys for her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, that she never
had her own attorney during the decade long legal battle between
them and Michael Schiavo.

The Schindlers say Terri's due process claims were violated as a
result.

Friday's decision could set up removal of the feeding tube on
February 22 unless Judge Greer puts another stay in place while the
Schindlers appeal his decision.

Judge Greer issued a nine-page written order on Friday saying the
Schindlers didn't show enough evidence to move forward on a hearing
on the due process claims.

"The respondents (the parents) have failed to show that failure to
appoint independent counsel violated statutory or constitutional due
process requirements that would void the court's (previous) order,"
Greer wrote.

He cited a ruling by the Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal, which
previously said it was appropriate for Greer to serve as an
independent advocate for Terri as he considered the arguments by
both sides.

"In reviewing the many boxes of court filings," Schindler attorney
David Gibbs said before the ruling, "we cannot find a single
instance where Terri was afforded the right of every American to
have a lawyer who would represent her own interests."

George Felos, the euthanasia advocate who is Michael's lead
attorney, told the Associated Press he wasn't surprised by the
ruling.

"I don't think it's any surprise the judge decided not to declare
his order void after it's been reviewed by 20 or 30 appellate
justices," Felos said.

He indicated he expected the Schindlers to appeal the ruling, which
could push back the date for removing the feeding tube. Felos also
said Michael intends to remove the feeding tube unless legally
prevented from doing so by another stay.

The Schindlers have other legal motions in play that could spare
Terri's life a little longer.

They are appealing a decision by the 2nd District court saying that
starving Terri to death does not violate her religious liberties.
The Schindlers hope the U.S. Supreme Court will agree that, as a
Catholic, Terri would oppose Michael's euthanasia bid.

The Schindlers also have a third motion in court that asks Judge
Greer to remove Michael as Terri's legal guardian because of
numerous conflicts of interest.

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Terri Schiavo's Feeding Tube Could be Removed in Two Weeks, Parents
Fight

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 10, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio692.html





Terri Schiavo Foundation Fined by Florida Over Missing Paperwork


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LifeNews.com Editor
February 8, 2005

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Terri Schiavo's Parents Lose Religious Liberties Argument at Appeals
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LifeNews.com Editor
February 8, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio685.html



Euthanasia Crusader Jack Kevorkian Back in Prison After Hernia
Surgery

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LifeNews.com Editor
February 7, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio684.html




Pro-Life Advocates Will Head to Florida if Terri Schiavo Threatened

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 4, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio680.html





Jack Kevorkian Released From Prison for Hernia Operation, Gov. Won't
Pardon

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 4, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio675.html




Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" Euthanasia Plot Offends
Disabled


by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 3, 2005


Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- In a year featuring an
unprecedented number of films promoting abortion and assisted
suicide, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" is the latest to
have viewers up in arms.

The boxing drama is up for an Academy Award, but disabled activists
and pro-life advocates are upset because the movie promotes a very
negative view of those with serious disabilities and promotes
euthanasia.

The movie features Eastwood, a boxing trainer who serves as a mentor
for fighter Maggie Fitzgerald (played by Hilary Swank). The two
develop a father-daughter relationship as Swank's character rises to
the top of the boxing world.

When an opponent leaves Fitzgerald paralyzed from the neck down
after a devastating blow, she decides she would rather die than
continue her life. She asks Eastwood's character, Frankie Dunn, to
help her.

After some excruciating soul searching, he does.

Marcie Roth, director of the National Spinal Cord Injury
Association, says she doesn't like the film's conclusion because so
many still wrongly believe that "having a spinal-cord injury is a
fate worse than death."

"Unfortunately, a message like the one in `Million Dollar Baby' just
perpetuates exactly what we work so hard to dispel," she told the
Associated Press.

"The movie is saying `death is better than disability," Roth adds.

Debbie Schlussel pans the film and says it will continue earning
awards becasue "it's Hollywood's best political propaganda of the
year ... it supports killing the handicapped, literally putting
their lights out.''

Eastwood, who directs and stars in the movie, says the characters'
choices aren't meant to promoted assisted suicide. Instead, the
movie is intended to stick closely to the book it by author F.X.
Toole on which it's based.

"How the character handles it is certainly different than how I
might handle it if I were in that position in real life,'' Eastwood
told the Associated Press. "Every story is a 'what if.'''

The criticism leads some to say that the movie will be a shoo-in for
Oscar voters.


"All the conservative outcry is going to steel Oscar voters in favor
of this movie," says Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger. "It already
has the most emotional power of any of the [best picture] nominees,
and this is going to intensify that sentiment."

Us Weekly film critic Thelma Adams tells USA Today that Oscar voters
probably strongly favor "Million Dollar Baby's" pro-euthansaia
stance.

"They were probably thinking, 'Hurry up with the needle,'" she
says. "They were wondering what took so long."

That hasn't stopped disabled advocates from the Chicago-based Not
Dead Yet from protesting at movie theaters.

Eastwood earned honors for best director for the film at the Golden
Globes, Swank received the best actress award and the two, along
with co-star Morgan Freeman, are up for Oscar Awards later this
month.

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Terri Schiavo's Father Calls Legal Fight With Michael a Spiritual
Battle

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 2, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio670.html





German Nurse Linked to 29 Euthanasia Deaths at Hospital

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 1, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio669.html





Terri Schiavo Gets Worse Treatment Than Convicted Felons, Attorney
Says

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 1, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio664.html




Terri Schiavo's Parents Continue Plea for Michael to Give Up Legal
Fight

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 31, 2005


http://www.lifenews.com/bio663.html





Former Terri Schiavo Legal Advocate: New Medical Exam Needed

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 26, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio659.html





Terri Schiavo's Parents Ask Her Estranged Husband to Divorce

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 26, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio658.html





Supreme Court Ruling Could Lead to Removing Terri Schiavo's Feeding
Tube

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 25, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio657.html





Supreme Court Decision on Terri Schiavo Condemned, Bush Won't Give Up

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 25, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio656.html





Terri Schiavo's Law Rejected at Supreme Court, Few Options Remain

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 24, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio654.html





Supreme Court Will Decide This Week on Accepting Terri Schiavo Case

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 17, 2005





British Policeman Will Not Serve Jail Time for Euthanasia Death of
Wife

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 14, 2005


http://www.lifenews.com/bio646.html





Terri Schiavo's Parents Ask Court to Rehear Religious Liberties Case

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 12, 2005

http://www.lifenews.com/bio644.html





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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio642.html





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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio639.html





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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio636.html





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Comatose

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio633.html




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Case

by Steven Ertelt
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio629.html





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by Steven Ertelt
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December 29, 2004

http://www.lifenews.com/bio627.html






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Arguments

by Steven Ertelt
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio626.html





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Ploy


by Steven Ertelt
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio625.html





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by Steven Ertelt
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio624.html






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http://www.lifenews.com/bio623.html






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http://www.lifenews.com/bio617.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio612.html






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Euthanasia

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http://www.lifenews.com/bio611.html





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by Paul Nowak
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http://www.lifenews.com/bio610.html





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Widespread

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http://www.lifenews.com/bio609.html




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http://www.lifenews.com/bio606.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio603.html






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http://www.lifenews.com/bio601.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio598.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio594.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio593.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio589.html






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http://www.lifenews.com/bio587.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio586.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio585.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio584.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio583.html






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http://www.lifenews.com/bio579.html





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http://www.lifenews.com/bio576.html





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02.19.05


Florida Attorney General Discriminating In Schiavo Case

Analysis By The Empire Journal

    Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist announced Friday that he
is issuing subpoenas to US Airways in the case of paraplegic who was
put off a flight in Tampa while trying to go to Cleveland for an
operation that would allow him to breathe on his own.

    He said the airline might have discriminated against the person,
a wheel-chair bound paraplegic who relies on a ventilator to breathe.

    Is this a case of double standards?

    How can Charlie Crist, said to have aspirations to become
Florida's next governor, act to protect the rights of some disabled
but not others?

    Isn't Charlie Crist practicing discrimination himself?

    Especially in the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case.

    Crist was elected Florida's first Republican AG in 2002 and
claims to aggressively address complaints of fraud and violations of
civil rights.

    The Dr. Marvin Davies Civil Rights Act of 2003 provides Crist
with authority similar to that of the U.S. Attorney General to
prosecute patterns and practices of discrimination.  He says he's
committed to improving the quality of life for all citizens of
Florida.

    Doesn't that include the life of Terri Schiavo?

    Or is Crist engaging in discrimination by not using the resources
of his office to protect her life, investigate the rampant
allegations of criminal wrongdoing in the case as well as the
violations of federal and state law as well as Florida's
Constitution.

     One news report issued in regard to Crist's actions against US
Airways, said that the high profile case is virtually guaranteed to
generate publicity for Crist in his run for Governor.  Crist denied
that political considerations were involved—only justice.

     So, is that how Charlie Crist is running the Attorney General's
office?  Only taking actions in maters in which will generate the
most positive publicity as he prepares for his gubernatorial run
and shying away from controversial matters that could affect his
political aspirations?

     Like the Terri Schiavo case----like taking the much warranted
and overdue action against Sixth Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer
for his alleged violations of election laws, action against the
multiple violations in this case of the health care laws for the
vulnerable and disabled, the alleged criminal wrongdoing by Michael
Schiavo?

    "Whenever somebody may have discriminated against a
Floridian…….we have a duty and obligation to fight for them" Crist
said.

     He has a legal, constitutionally mandate to fight for and defend
Terri Schindler-Schiavo who has been grossly discriminated against
by the system and some of Crist's fellow Republicans.

    In his letter to the CEO and president of US Airways, Crist
said "It is my understanding that Mr. Barrett, a wheelchair-bound
paraplegic who relies on a ventilator to breathe, was seated on a US
Airways flight bound from Tampa to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was
physically removed from the aircraft by US Airways personnel
allegedly because he posed a medical risk. It was reported that he
was flying with a medical assistant and had informed airline
personnel of his condition well in advance of boarding the plane.
   "Mr. Barrett suffered inconvenience and personal humiliation not
only because he was carried off the airplane by US Airways
personnel, but also because US Airways did not assist in finding
other transportation arrangements to Cleveland or in ensuring his
safe return home".

    While Michael Schiavo and his attorney, George Felos relentlessly
persist in their quest to cause of the death of Terri Schiavo by
judicial homicide in consort with Judge George Greer, Crist has
stood idly by, allowing federal and state civil rights laws to be
grossly violated and has failed to protect one of Florida's most
vulnerable persons from egregious discrimination.

    Terry Schiavo has suffered inconvenience and personal humiliation
for nearly 10 years because of Michael Schiavo's insistence on her
death and the state of Florida has failed to protect her. Michael
Schiavo and Felos claim they are protecting her right to privacy but
that too is an oxymoron.   They are the ones who have grossly
violated her right to privacy.

    Crist has a legal and constitutional obligation to protect Terri
Schiavo, an individual from disabilities from the discrimination
being perpetrated upon her.
    While he took swift, decisive action in the US Airways matter,
apparently based on the publicity value, after thousands upon
thousands of phone calls, emails, faxes and letters to take action
against the abuse, neglect and exploitation of Terri Schiavo, he
declined to get involved because the matter was "in the courts".
Seems like rather selective enforcement of our Constitution and
Florida Statutes and abandonment of the oath he took to uphold the
laws and Constitution of the state of Florida.

     In October, 2003, the last crisis when the feeding tube of Terri
Schiavo was removed on Greer's order, even after a federal judge
asked Crist to address the question of the constitutionality of
Florida law dealing with the right of severely incapacitated people
to refuse artificial life support---the issue at the center of the
Schiavo case---Crist refused.

    He ruled the law constitutional but said he wouldn't get further
involved.

    That's definitely not the type of person that Florida needs to be
their next Governor.  Maybe Charlie Crist should remember that the
thousands of Floridians who have reached out to implore him to do
his job also vote and will no doubt remember his discriminatory
action against Terri Schiavo at the polls.

     As suspected, the actions----or rather inactions----in the Terri
Schiavo case are politically motivated.

FL AG CONTACT INFO:

PHONE 850-414-3300

FAX 850-410-1630

http://theempirejournal.com/0219051fs_fl_ag_discriminating_i.htm



LATE BREAKING: 02.17.05

NEW MEDICAL TESTS SOUGHT
TO SAVE LIFE OF TERRI SCHIAVO

By The Empire Journal

  The life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo will hinge on the outcome of
two dramatic hearings scheduled to unfold Monday, Feb. 21 in the
Florida courtroom of Sixth Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer.

     David Gibbs III of Seminole, Fl., attorney for Mary and Robert
Schindler Sr., parents of the brain damaged woman, said Thursday
that he will file a new motion Monday asking Greer to allow new
medical tests for Terri based on the findings of a new brain imaging
study published in the journal Neurology.

     Gibbs said a hearing is also scheduled for Monday at 2:30 p.m.
on the Schindlers' motion to extend the stay of Greer's 2000 court
ordered judicial homicide which could remove Terri's assisted
feeding tube as early as Tuesday.

    Theresa Schindler-Schiavo, 41, a patient at the Woodside Hospice
in Pinellas Park, Fl., sustained severe brain damage 15 years ago as
the result of a mysterious and suspicious incident at her home.  She
is the center of decade-long life and death court battle between her
estranged husband, Michael Schiavo and her parents in an arena that
extends from the Probate Court in Pinellas County to the U.S.
Supreme Court.

    "Any action to end Terri's life would be totally premature",
Gibbs said at a news conference Friday in front of the Pinellas
County Courthouse.  He said new medical tests should be done on the
basis of the new study which indicates the possibility that brain
injured people such as Terri, treated as though they are unaware of
their environment and labeled in a persistent vegetative state (PVS)
may in fact hear and understand what goes on around them but be
unable to respond.

    James Bernat, professor of neurology at Dartmouth College, said
the study findings are relevant to the Schiavo case and that a brain
image test could determine if she is in a persistent vegetative
state as Greer has labeled her.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/021005bci_bush_could_intervene_i.htm

    "Terri deserves to get these tests", her father said.  "Terri is
alert, she's aware.  I think the bottom line is that Terri deserves
to get these tests.  It would be unconscionable for Judge Greer or
any other judge to order her death without these tests".

    The Schindlers have maintained, backed by medical experts, that
Terri is not PVS and could improve with rehabilitation.  Michael
Schiavo, although being awarded nearly $1.7 from medical malpractice
claims on the representation that he would provide rehabilitation
services for his wife, refused to do so shortly after receiving the
money and instead has used the money earmarked for Terri's rehab to
be used for legal fees to obtain a court order to end her life.

    In his plea for Greer to allow the new medical tests to be
conducted, Schindler also cited the case of Sara Scantlin, the
Kansas woman who recently began talking 20 years after she suffered
brain injuries as the result of injuries suffered when she was
struck by a drunk driver in 1984.  She has been bedridden in a
Hutchinson, Kansas health care center ever since, aware of her
surroundings but unable to make any sounds other than loud crying.
She was severely brain injured and her doctors feared she would
spend the rest of her life in a vegetative state.

  But a month ago, without any explanation, she suddenly began making
sounds, telling health care workers, "OK, OK".  She is now counting,
remembering people and forming other words.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/021105kcr_kc_womans_recovery_giv.htm


     Terri's parents and health care workers say that Terri is
responsive.  She follows people with her eyes, she interacts.  She
is not on a respirator.  She is simply on a feeding tube which
provides her nutrition and hydration three times a day. (See
www.terrisfight.org)

Documented Terri-vocabulary references

Words
  Witness

"mommy"
"momma"
"help me"
  Nurse - Heidi Law

"pay"     (meaning 'pain' when she was in discomfort)
'Haaaiiiii'   (meaning Hi, in response to 'Hi Terri')
'mommy'
'help me'
  Nurse - Carla Sauer Iyer
"'Help me' was, in fact, one of her most frequent
utterances. I heard her say it hundreds of times."

"stop"   (in response to one medical procedure being done on her)
  Terri's MediPlex records

"ugh-hugh" (meaning yes)
"ugh-ugh" (meaning no)
"yea"
"No"
  family members.
'yea' was a word she reportedly first re-learned to speak in 2002.


    There is currently a stay in place for the execution of Greer's
2000 order to withdraw the feeding tube and Gibbs has filed for an
emergency hearing to be conducted Monday on the Schindler's request
to extend the stay.  With the 2nd District Court of Appeals having
denied the Schindlers' last  motion before the DCA to void the order
due to the alleged violation of Terri's free exercise of religion,
Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, says he expects the DCA decision
to be finalized Monday or Tuesday which would allow his client to
withdraw Terri's feeding tube.

    If Greer allows the court-ordered homicide to go forward, death
by starvation would result in 7 to 10 days.

     The Schindlers have recruited anti-abortion activist Randall
Terry, founder of Operation Rescue and president of Truth and
Justice to organize protests and rallies at the White House and at
the Florida State Capital in Tallahassee in an effort to save
Terri's life..  Pickets are also planned at the home and workplace
of Michael Schiavo in an effort to wear him down and convince him to
simply give Terri back to her parents so they may care for her.
Terry has also mounted an intense telephone and email campaign
focused at Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature, asking for
them to invoke the powers accorded to them under the state
Constitution.  Terry and others maintain that the Governor is
constitutionally empowered to take Terri Schiavo into protective
custody because she is a vulnerable and disabled adult in danger of
losing her life.

    The Schindlers have  asked the DCA to withhold its mandate which
would finalize its Feb. 4 decision on the religious liberties issue
and issue a stay pending the filing and resolution for writ of
certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court.
http://terrisfight.org/documents/MtntoStayMandate-2ndDCA.pdf
and
http://theempirejournal.com/starving_a_person_to_death_doesn.htm

    Schindler supporters feel that Schiavo and Felos may attempt to
move the woman from the hospice to an undisclosed location to remove
the tube.

     Pamela Hennessy, spokesperson for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo
Foundation, said that the DCA has previously ruled that new
information or developments such as medical technology are matters
that can be considered as long as Terri is alive and such would
allow for an extension of the stay to be granted.

    Gibbs filed motions on behalf of the Schindlers earlier this week
advising both Greer's court and the DCA that for the second time
this year, the Schindlers will take their daughter's case before the
U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to review Greer's and the DCA
denial of the religious liberties issue.

http://terrisfight.org/documents/1.540b4motiontostay-2nd.pdf

      Michael Schiavo had been successful in October, 2003, to remove
the assisted feeding from his wife but after six days, Gov. Bush and
the Florida Legislature enacted Terri's Law which ordered that the
tube be reinserted.

    Schiavo claimed such action by the Governor was
unconstitutional.  The Florida Supreme Court agreed, holding it was
a violation the separation of powers doctrine.  The Governor asked
the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a writ of certiorari to review the
matter but the court declined in January.

    Michael Schiavo, the husband and guardian who is now living with
another woman with whom he has had two children, has attempted for
nearly 10 years to have the feeding tube removed which provides
nutrition and hydration and which will result in the starvation
death of Terri Schiavo.

    With Schiavo and his attorney, George Felos, saying that they
expect to be able to begin the imposition of the death sentence on
Feb. 22 by way of a court order issued in 2000 by Sixth Judicial
Circuit Court judge George W. Greer,

http://theempirejournal.com/021705nmtsnew_medical_tests_soug.htm






JUDICIAL TYRANNY ASSAILED

CONSTITUTIONAL SHOWDOWN LOOMING IN FLORIDA SCHIAVO CASE

© The Empire Journal

By June Maxam and Ginger Berlin

    A constitutional showdown is looming in Florida between the
Governor, the Legislature and the judiciary.

    Randall Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group Operation
Rescue, outlined a campaign of lobbying and protests Wednesday in an
attempt to save the live of Terri Schiavo, the brain damaged woman
who is at the center of a prolonged court battle between her
parents, Mary and Robert Schindler Sr., and estranged husband,
Michael Schiavo.

    "We will not rest until we have saved Terri from the threat of
starvation", Terry told the crowd gathered outside the Woodside
Hospice in Pinellas Park where Terri is a patient.

    Michael Schiavo and his attorney, George Felos, have announced
their intent to enforce a 2000 court order issued by Sixth Judicial
Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer to withdraw assisted feeding
from Terri which will result in her death by starvation and
dehydration.

     "What we're in for is a constitutional showdown", Randall told
the crowd. "We believe this Governor and this legislature has the
backbone to win this fight.  Our mission is to create an avalanche
of support for them to do the right thing".

      In the fall of 2003, when Schiavo had won court approval to
withdraw Terri's feeding tube, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida
Legislature enacted Terri's Law which directed that the gastric tube
be reinserted after she had been without nutrition and hydration for
six days.

    Michael Schiavo contested Terri's Law, saying it was
unconstitutional, a violation of the separation of powers doctrine.
The Florida Supreme Court agreed with him and last month, the U.S.
Supreme Court refused to review the matter.

    Terry announced plans to again lobby Gov. Bush and the
Legislature to intervene and to picket the home and workplace of
Michael Schiavo.

    "We will fight for Terri with every ounce of strength we have
left" Robert Schindler Sr. told the group of supporters and
media.  "And we have many ounces".

    Terry said that as he had been thinking about the case, so many
things intersected—Terri's family's struggle to save her from
starvation, an ongoing battle of judicial tyranny and the mood of
the country that is really fed up with judges taking the law into
their own hands.

      "Philosophically, the Rule of Law is not judicial decree",
Terry said.  "If it was, then what the Nazi judges said would have
been the rule of law, or what Saddam Hussein's puppet judges ruled.
It comes from above with a capital `L.'.  "We have a right as a free
people to enjoy representative government"
    "That this woman must die is not the rule of law. It is a bunch
of tin pot judges making law. That is not the rule of law. They are
creating law out of thin air. It is arbitrary, it is not law, it is
tyranny",

     Terry said "the gloves are coming off with Michael Schiavo.  He
said that protesters plan to picket the Capitol building in
Tallahassee, the Pinellas County Courthouse of Greer as well the
home and workplace of Michael Schiavo.

    Schiavo will be urged to drop the effort to stop feeding Terri
and to turn her over to her family, Terry said.  He said he hoped
that the protests will wear down his will.
    "We know that the Governor is sympathetic", Terry continued.  "He
showed it last year. We need to bolster him, to encourage him and to
inject steel into his spine. We have a large network of heavy
hitters and they have already begun, who will continue to contact
him at a personal level and an avalanche of callers. The Governor
has the constitutional authority to intervene on behalf of a
disabled person. The last time he chose to work with the legislature
and we honor that and even if the legislature decides not to act,
the Governor can act on his own and has a duty to act"

    Terry said if the feeding tube is ordered to be removed, he would
coordinate a 24-hour vigil at the Hospice and a consecutive 24-hour
vigil in the Capital non-stop with the legislature and the governor
encouraging them to act.  We are going to camp out 24 hours a day at
the Capital.  This will not go away until Terri is saved".
    "I am in contact with senators. Other people  are here that are
in contact with senators. ….This woman deserves to live and it is
important for the legislature to stand up to the court. …..the
country is ready for the legislature to stand up to the courts.

     Terry told the crowd that Michael Schiavo "is a monster. He is
not a good person…. Why doesn't he divorce her and give this woman
to her mother and dad. I am asking members of the media to visit
www.terrisfight.org  and read the deposition of his former
girlfriend. He stalked his former girlfriend and that he ran her off
the road. We are going to hold pickets at his home, at his work"

    Terry pointed out that Judge Greer purports to be a Southern
Baptist. "In case anyone was wondering, it is against the Southern
Baptist Church to starve innocent people to death".
    "When the Nazis held Europe, everybody knew they need to get a
foothold on the shores of France, the only question was where and
when. We are the allies and the people who are trying to kill Terri
are the bad guys. But, we need to have a certain element of
surprise", he added.

     "The long shot is to ask President Bush to give Terri a pardon.
There will be protests and rallies at the White House asking
President  Bush to get involved. On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade
President Bush said `The essence of civilization is that the strong
have a duty to protect the weak'. Mr. Bush, our president and Mr.
Bush, our Governor, they're the strong, Terri's the weak and we want
them to invoke their authority to protect Terri".

    "If we find out that Terri is possibly going to be moved to
another facility to remove the feeding tube, we will boycott that
hospital", Terry promised.   "An institution that heals does not
want to be known as an institution that brings death deliberately"

    Terry also requested the media to invoke an immediate editorial
policy change, no longer saying that Terri is in a persistent
vegetative state (PVS). "I am asking you to read the sworn testimony
from medical professionals who are all saying, with a unified voice,
the ones who have been with her, she is not in a coma, she is not
brain dead, she is not in a PVS, she is not on any life support
system whatsoever. She is being fed. She is not on a ventilator, no
blood.

    "So every time that members of the press report that she is PVS,
the average person at home looking goes "why is everybody wasting so
much time on her?" …This is not someone who is brain dead.  This is
somebody who tries to say "hi" or joke with her dad. This is
somebody who uses infantile speech to try to communicate".

    "Several years ago on the phone, a speech therapist was secretly
giving Terri speech therapy on the phone. He said to Terri "Terri,
there are people trying to kill you and you've got to get out of
bed." On the other end of the phone, Mr. Schindler who was with
Terri during the call, said to the therapist, "what did you say to
her because she just jumped out of the bed and I had to catch her?"

"This is someone who hears. this is someone who reasons. I am
begging you as a matter of honor to at least look at the
documentation and for an editorial change to not call her PVS".

    Felos has been quoted as saying that Michael Schiavo will not be
deterred in his quest to end Terri's life.  "All I can say is that I
know Mr. Schiavo is dedicated to carrying out his wife's wishes and
I believe he is going to do that, notwithstanding these threats".

    Schindlers' attorneys have filed new motions with both the Sixth
Circuit Court of Greer and the 2nd District Court of Appeals which
will be heard next week.  They are seeking to extend the stay of the
execution of Greer's 2000 order that would withdraw the feeding
tube.  They are also preparing to file for a writ of certiorari
before the U.S. Supreme Court on the freedom of religion issue.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/0216054_emergency_stay_of_execut.htm

    Persons interested in updates on planned protests and other
actions in the Terry Schiavo case planned for Tallahassee and
Pinellas Park
may visit http://www.TrueAndJust.com.

( Or go to http://www.societyfortruthandjustice.com/  )

    For background on the Terri Schiavo case, please visit
www.terrisfight.org and
http://theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm



From The Society For Truth and Justice:

Please scroll to bottom of page for more links after reading the
following.


Terri Schindler-Schiavo is an innocent handicapped woman who faces a
cruel death by starvation.


Following are the facts, and what you can do to save
her…
Hello friend of Life.

Thank you so much for your desire to help rescue Terri from
starvation.



In case you are wondering, let us clear up some of the lies and the
distortions that are circulating in the press about Terri.

Terri is not brain dead.  She is not in a coma.  Terri is not in a
persistent vegetative state.  She is not on any life-support
systems.

     Terri wakes and she sleeps.  She smiles, she laughs, she cries.
Sometimes she will say "mom" or "dad" or "yeah" when asked a
question. She shows a wide variety of emotions with her facial
expressions, her attempts at speech, and the various tones in her
voice.

     Then why is Terri threatened with starvation? Terri's estranged
husband, Michael Schiavo won nearly 1.7 million dollars to provide
care for her, as well as pay for rehabilitative therapy. Shortly
after he obtained the money, he petitioned the court to have her
starved. He has used nearly $400,000 of the money that was awarded
for her care to try and have her starved to death! He is the one
fighting to have her killed.

     Michael Schiavo has lived with another woman for years, and has
2 children by her. He has declared that he intends to marry her
after Terri is dead.

     So why doesn't he just get a divorce, and let the parents have
their daughter? That is a troubling question. Some assert it is
because he wants what is left of the money. Others believe that he
put her in this condition, and he wants all evidence of abuse
buried. Still others guess it is a grudge match with Terri's father.

     Whatever the reason, Terri does not deserve to be treated like a
pawn. She is a child  of God, an innocent woman, and she has the
right to be alive, and not be starved to death.

     Right now, Terri is being fed through a tube to her abdomen.
Terri has been denied therapy for over 12 years. She could be much
better if she were given the therapy she deserves. Her parents are
willing to bring her home and care for her, and get her the therapy
she has been denied.

In October of 2003, Judge George Greer ordered food and water to be
withheld from Terri.  This death sentence resulted in protests at
the facility where she was being starved. A deluge of phone calls
and e-mails pleading for mercy inundated the governor and
legislature.

The legislature and the governor responded and passed Terri's Law.
Food and water were restored to Terri.  Her life was spared.

Then Florida's Supreme Court struck down Terri's Law and the US
Supreme Court recently refused to hear any appeal.

The court can once again order Terri to be starved.

Terri needs you to do two things to help save her life:

1) Today--contact the governor and the leaders of the legislature
and politely insist that they write a new law to save Terri's life.
We need this to happen today, and we ask you to recruit your friends
to do the same. And remember, phone calls are better than emails.


Jeb Bush, Governor
Executive Office of the Governor
The Capitol
Tallahassee, FL  32399-0001
(850) 488-4441
Fax (850) 4870801
jeb@...


Tom Lee, Senate President
Capitol Office:
Room 312,
Senate Office Building
404 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1100
(850) 487-5072
lee.tom.web@...


District Office:
915 Oakfield Drive
Suite E
Brandon, FL 33511
(813) 744-8683
FAX (813) 744-8556


Allan G. Bense, Speaker
Capitol Office:
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-1450
speaker@...


District Office:
Suite A
455 Harrison Avenue
Panama City, FL 32401-2443
Phone: (850) 914-6300



2) If you hear that the court has ordered Terri to be starved--, if
at all possible, come to Pinellas Park (Near St. Petersburg) where
Terri is being held, or to Tallahassee Florida (where Governor Bush
and the Legislature are) to take part in peaceful vigils and
protests.



We will have around the clock vigils in both locations: at the one
where Terri is to show our support for her and her family; in
Tallahassee to call on the Governor and the Legislature to intervene
and save her from Judicial homicide by starvation.



3) Make a copy of this church bulletin, and give it out in your
church as soon as possible. It has the details for action that
people can take all over the country.



Latest Press Releases:

February 16, 2005--"Rescue Terri Schiavo"  Protest and Press
Conference in Front of Clearwater Courthouse

http://societyfortruthandjustice.com/press_releases.htm

February 15, 2005--"We Will Fight Tooth and Nail to Keep Terri
Schiavo from Being Starved to Death," says Randall Terry

http://earnedmedia.org/tf0215.htm

February 14, 2005--Family of Terri Schiavo Asks Randall Terry to
Lead Efforts to Rescue Her

http://earnedmedia.org/tf0214.htm



http://societyfortruthandjustice.com/




Please visit www.terrisfight.org to make a contribution,
and to see a full history of Terri's condition.
http://societyfortruthandjustice.com/



Urge President Bush to appoint ONLY Pro-life Judges to the Supreme
Court .   Be ready in a moments notice (within three to five days)
that if any of the Supreme Court Judges resign or die - that you
will be ready to rally the forces and gather at a Federal Facility
to make your voices heard that ONLY judges who will vow to uphold
the right to life to ALL should be appointed.

Please call us at 904-819-9450 if you are interested in organizing
or helping with these events.


http://societyfortruthandjustice.com/



HUSBAND WANTS TO WITHDRAW TUBE FEB. 22

SCHIAVO RIGHT-TO-LIFE CASE HEADED
TO SUPREME COURT AGAIN

http://theempirejournal.com/020905ssussc_schindlers_head_back_to_USSC
.htm

Or, see the above titled article here:
http://theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm




Bind The Judiciary To The Chains of The Constitution

http://theempirejournal.com/Berlins_Retort.htm



Protesters Gathering In Florida
To Rescue Terri Schindler-Schiavo

http://theempirejournal.com/021605_protesters_gathering_in_f.htm




02.15.05

Schiavo Protest Organizer Says Will Fight
"Tooth And Nail"

    As hundreds of supporters of Terri Schiavo descend on Pinellas
Park and Tallahasse, Fla.,fom all over America to plead her case,
Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue and the president of the
Society for Truth and Justice said  "We will fight tooth and nail to
keep Terri from being starved to death and demand justice for her".

  " We did this in October 2003, and prevailed", Terry said.  "This
time we expect the protests to be larger, and the outcry from around
the nation to be louder. Our will to fight and prevail for Terri is
set in stone."

   Terri Schiavo, 41, is the brain damaged woman who is at the center
of a tug of war between her parents, Mary and Robert Schindler, and
her estranged husband, Michael Schiavo.  The husband, who is engaged
to another woman by whom he has two children, has sought and
obtained a court order from Sixth Court Court Judge George W. Greer
to withhold the feeding tube from Terri which will cause her death
by starvation and dehydration.

    Terry and  Schindler Sr.,  will hold a press conference
Wednesday, Feb. 16 beginning at 1 p.m. in front of the Woodside
Hospice, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N (near 66th Street N. and
102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Fla.

   "We are counting on Governor Bush and the Florida Legislature to
do the right thing, and again rescue our daughter from the clutches
of the court", said Bob Schindler.

"Our plans are comprehensive, and we will attack this injustice from
every possible side. Like the persistent widow in Christ's parable,
we will give no rest to our political leaders until Terri receives
Justice", Terry added.

   "Our family has asked Randall Terry and his staff to once again
coordinate the efforts to rescue Terri from the clutches of death by
judicial homicide. We ask you to help my daughter, Terri, by
following Randall's lead, and cooperating with and supporting the
efforts we have asked him to undertake. We thank you with all our
hearts for your concern for our daughter, and for your help in
trying to save her", Schindler said. ."

    Persons interested in updates on planned protests and other
actions in the Terry Schiavo case planned for Tallahassee and
Pinellas Park may visit www.TrueAndJust.com.

    For background on the Terri Schiavo case, please visit
www.terrisfight.org
http://theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm

http://theempirejournal.com/021505sp_schiavo_protest_organiz.htm




02.15.05

Pattern Of Domestic Abuse

Appears In Terri Schiavo Case; Call Renewed For Grand Jury

http://theempirejournal.com/021505_pattern_of_domestic_abuse.htm




Much more here:

http://www.theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm




Religious Issue To Supreme Court

Emergency Stay Of Execution Requested In Schiavo Case

By The Empire Journal

    New motions seeking an emergency stay of the execution of the
2000 order of Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge George W.
Greer to end the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo have been filed by
her parents.

    Attorneys for Mary and Robert Schindler Sr. of Gulfport, Pinellas
County, have asked Greer and the 2nd District Court of Appeals for
an emergency stay of the execution of Greer's Feb. 11, 2000, order
to remove Terri's nutrition and hydration pending the outcome of
Schindlers' petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of
certiorari to hear the issue concerning Terri's free exercise of
religion.

    Terri, 41, is the brain damaged woman who sustained injuries
under mysterious circumstances 15 years ago.  She is at the center
of tug of war between her parents and her estranged husband, Michael
Schiavo who has sought and obtained a court order from Greer to
withhold the feeding tube from Terri which will cause her death by
starvation and dehydration.

    The motion before Greer explains that George Felos, attorney for
Michael Schiavo, has threatened to move forward without further
court order to discontinue the assisted feeding of Terri immediately
upon the 2nd DCA issuing its mandate confirming its decision of Feb.
4 in regard to the Schindlers' contention that withdrawing the
feeding tube would violate their daughter's free exercise of
religion.  Felos says that the withdrawal of the tube could occur as
early as Feb. 22.

    The Schindlers have also asked the DCA to withhold its mandate
and issue a stay pending the filing and resolution of their petition
for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court on the religious
issue.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/starving_a_person_to_death_doesn.htm

    On Feb. 11, Greer had denied the Schindlers' motion seeking
relief from a void judgment based on the court's failure to provide
Terri with procedural due process rights to access to the court, her
own independent counsel and own personal right to privacy as
guaranteed by Florida Statutes and the Florida Constitution.

      The Schindlers maintain that Greer impermissively retroactively
applied 2000 law to Terri Schiavo's conduct that occurred before
Feb. 1990.  Such is in regard to the alleged comment Michael Schiavo
says that she made that she would not want to be kept alive by
artificial means.

http://www.terrisfight.org/documents/1.540b4motiontostay-2nd.pdf

   The Schindlers also maintain that Greer has violated the court
doctrine of separation of powers by acting as guardian or proxy or
surrogate.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/021305sj_schiavo_judge_prohibite.htm

    David Gibbs of the Gibbs Firm of Seminole, Fla.;, representing
the Schindlers, asks Greer to rehear the motion he denied Feb. 11
and when he again denies it, Gibbs has advised that the Schindlers
will then appeal the denial to the 2nd DCA.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/021104jrojudge_rules_terri_schia.htm

      While the legal actions are pending, a stay of enforcement of
the 2000 order is necessary, the Schindlers say.

      Still pending before Greer is the Schindlers' motion filed Jan.
10 to remove Michael Schiavo as their daughter's guardian based on
allegations of the inability to act as guardian due to abandonment
of his marriage, deprivation of Terri's rights under the
guardianship laws, failure to file guardianship plans, mismanagement
of the ward's assets and legal, personal, religious and financial
conflicts of interest with the ward.

     Discovery in connection with the Schindlers' petition to remove
the guardian is ongoing, the attorneys advise, with depositions set
for April 7 and 17 for Michael Schiavo, and on May 5 for his live-in
mistress, Jodi Centonze to whom he announced his engagement in 1997
and by whom he has two children.

http://terrisfight.org/documents/NoticeofDepo-Schiavo.pdf  and
http://terrisfight.org/documents/SubpoenaCentozone.pdf

     Neither Schiavo nor Centonze have appeared for previously
scheduled depositions and sources say that Centonze avoid a court
ordered deposition in 2001.  Greer did find not impose sanctions
against her for contempt of court.

    Requests for production of documents, interrogatories and
admissions will soon be served before the first deposition date, the
attorneys told the court.

    A stay is necessary to permit the Schindlers to complete
discovery and for the court to determine the guardian's continued
eligibility.

    "Removal of Michael Schiavo as guardian and the appointment of a
successor guardian would dramatically impact all key decisions
regarding  the ward while she remains alive", the motion states, "as
well as all key decisions upon the death of the ward such as funeral
and burial arrangements and the distribution of her estate".

    On Feb. 4, the DCA denied the Schindlers' motion for
clarification and rehearing of the motion concerning religious
issues, refusing to issue a written decision which prohibited the
Schindlers from appealing the denial  to the Florida Supreme Court.
Both Greer and the DCA have sidestepped the religious issue.

   On March 20, 2004, Pope John Paul had made an official declaration
of doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in regard to the moral
obligation of Catholics to continue artificial nutrition and
hydration of a patient in a persistent vegetative state until the
patient dies a natural death.

     Schindlers' attorneys told the DCA that they were preparing to
petition the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review
the orders of Greer and the DCA summarily dismissing the religious
motion.  They said the motion was due in the U.S. Supreme Court on
or before May 5 and seek a stay  by the DCA until the issue is
resolved.
http://terrisfight.org/documents/MtntoStayMandate-2ndDCA.pdf

     The attorneys pointed out that the DCA had previously
established the procedure for the court to follow before assisted
feeding may be discontinued, instructing that if the trial court, or
Greer, elected to enforce its Feb. 11, 2000, order, it should enter
an order informing all interested parties of the day and time that
the guardian must instruct the health care provides to discontinue
life-prolonging procedures.

    The court has never authorized the guardian "to charge in with
unseemly haste to discontinue Terri Schiavo's assisted feeding so as
to permit her death without a specific date and time order from the
court", Schindlers said.

    "Given the critical importance of the religious and legal issues
presented by the case and given the fact that Terri Schiavo's life
literally hangs in the balance over the court's decision, the
mandate should be withheld and stayed pending the filing and
resolution of Schindler's petition for the writ of certiorari.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/020905ssussc_schindlers_head_back_to_
USSC.htm

http://terrisfight.org/documents/1.540b4motiontostay-2nd.pdf

http://terrisfight.org/documents/MtntoStayMandate-2ndDCA.pdf

http://theempirejournal.com/0216054_emergency_stay_of_execut.htm



Much more here:

http://theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm





All That Is Necessary For The Triumph of Evil Is That Good Men To Do
Nothing!"
                     -Edmond Burke


DEMAND GRAND JURY
IN SCHIAVO CASE

Florida Attorney General's Office
850-414-3300 Charlie Crist, AG

Mr. George Le'Mieux
Deputy Attorney General
850-245-0140

Bernie McCabe, State Attorney Pinellas and Pasco Counties
727-464-6221
bmccabe@...

Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities 800-342-0823
850-488-9071
info@...

Pinellas County GOP
727-539-6009

Gov. Jeb Bush 850-488-4441
jeb.bush@...

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

Florida Senate 800-342-1827

Florida House of Representatives 850-488-6026

Florida Department of Law Enforcement 850-410-7000

Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities 850-488-4257

Federal Bureau of Investigation
202-324-3000

U.S. Department of Justice
AskDOJ@...
202-514-2000 Main Switchboard
202-353-1555 Office of US AG





Much more here:

http://theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm

CWA Calls on Michael Schiavo: Let Terri Live

To: National Desk

Contact: Rebecca S. Jones of Concerned Women for America,
202-488-7000 ext. 126

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 /Christian Wire Service/ --  Concerned Women for
America (CWA) joins with Terri Schindler-Schiavo's family today to
urge Terri's husband Michael Schiavo to let Terri live rather than
ordering her feeding tube removed, as he has vowed to do on February
22.

Recent news that Sarah Scantlin, the Kansas woman who regained her
speech after she was left severely brain-damaged when hit by a drunk
driver 20 years ago, is evidence that Terri Schiavo's life must be
preserved.
"Scantlin's doctors have been unable to explain the woman's sudden
breakthrough after two decades of silence, proving that this kind of
recovery has not been sufficiently researched," said Wendy Wright,
CWA's senior policy director. "Who is to say that Terri, who has
been in her disabled condition for 15 years, cannot have a similar
experience? If Michael Schiavo were truly motivated by what is best
for his wife, he would be finding hope in the Scantlin story and
calling for further investigation into his wife's possible recovery.

"Instead, Michael has spent a large legal settlement, which he won
by claiming that he would care for Terri, by fighting for the right
to starve her to death," said Wright. "These funds should have been
used for rehabilitative services, like speech therapy. Now, apart
from legal intervention, Michael will likely order his wife's
feeding tube removed, causing her to die a horrifying death of
dehydration and starvation.

"Even those who are dependent on others for basic physical needs
such as food and water, like Terri, deserve to live. We appeal to
Michael to have mercy and grant his wife these basic needs."

Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy
women's organization.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cwfa0218.htm




After 20 years of Silence, Brain-damaged Woman Begins Talking

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin has been mostly
oblivious to the world around her — the victim of a drunken driver
who struck her down as she walked to her car. Today, after a
remarkable recovery, she can talk again.

   Sarah Scantlin, left with her her mother Betsy Scantlin, has
regained speech and memories after a 20-year absence.
By Larry W. Smith, AP

Scantlin's father knows she will never fully recover, but her
newfound ability to speak and her returning memories have given him
his daughter back. For years, she could only blink her eyes — one
blink for "no," two blinks for "yes" — to respond to questions that
no one knew for sure she understood.

"I am astonished how primal communication is. It is a key element of
humanity," Jim Scantlin said, blinking back tears.

Sarah Scantlin was an 18-year-old college freshman on Sept. 22,
1984, when she was hit by a drunk driver as she walked to her car
after celebrating with friends at a teen club. That week, she had
been hired at an upscale clothing store and won a spot on the drill
team at Hutchinson Community College.

After two decades of silence, she began talking last month. Doctors
are not sure why. On Saturday, Scantlin's parents hosted an open
house at her nursing home to introduce her to friends, family
members and reporters.

A week ago, her parents got a call from Jennifer Trammell, a
licensed nurse at the Golden Plains Health Care Center. She asked
Betsy Scantlin if she was sitting down, told her someone wanted to
talk to her and switched the phone to speaker mode:

"Hi, Mom."

"Sarah, is that you?" her mother asked.

"Yes," came the throaty reply.

"How are you doing?"

"Fine."

"Do you need anything," her mother asked her later.

"More makeup."

"Did she just say more makeup?" the mother asked the nurse.

Scantlin still suffers constantly from the effects of the accident.
She habitually crosses her arms across her chest, her fists clenched
under her chin. Her legs constantly spasm and thrash. Her right foot
is so twisted it is almost reversed. Her neck muscles are so
constricted she cannot swallow to eat.

The driver who struck Scantlin served six months in jail for driving
under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.

Scantlin started talking in mid-January but asked staff members not
to tell her parents until Valentine's Day to surprise them, Trammell
said. But last week she could not wait any longer to talk to them.

"I didn't think it would ever happen, it had been so long," Betsy
Scantlin said.

Scantlin's doctor, Bradley Scheel, said physicians are not sure why
she suddenly began talking but believe critical pathways in the
brain may have regenerated.

"It is extremely unusual to see something like this happen," Scheel
said.

The breakthrough came when the nursing home's activity director, Pat
Rincon, was working with Scantlin and a small group of other
patients, trying to get them to speak.

Rincon had her back to Scantlin while she worked with another
resident. She had just gotten that resident to reply "OK," when she
suddenly heard Sarah behind her also repeat the words: "OK. OK."

Staff members brought in a speech therapist and intensified their
work with Sarah. They did not want to get her parents' hopes up
until they were sure Sarah would not relapse, Trammell said.

On Saturday, Scantlin seemed at times overwhelmed by the attention.
Dressed in a blue warm-up suit, she spoke little, mostly answering
questions in a single word.

Is she happy she can talk? "Yeah," she replied.

What does she tell her parents when they leave? "I love you," she
said.

Family members say Scantlin's understanding of the outside world
comes mostly from news and soap operas that played on the television
in her room.

On Saturday, her brother asked whether she knew what a CD was. Sarah
said she did, and she knew it had music on it.

But when he asked her how old she was, Sarah guessed she was 22.
When her brother gently told her she was 38 years old now, she just
stared silently back at him. The nurses say she thinks it is still
the 1980s.

Her father, Jim Scantlin, understands that Sarah will probably never
leave the health care center, but he is grateful for her improvement.

"This place is her home ... They have given me my daughter back," he
said.



Find this article at:
http://usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-12-brain-damaged-woman_x.htm?
csp=34


Or here:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050213/D887B94G0.html



After 20 years, injured woman talks again
Father: 'She's 100 percent Sarah again'
Friday, February 11, 2005 Posted: 1:44 PM EST (1844 GMT)



Sarah Scantlin was 18 when she was struck by a car.

VIDEO
Years after drunken driver silenced her, woman speaks again.

PLAY VIDEO

HUTCHINSON, Kansas (AP) -- A woman unable to talk since she was hit
by a drunken driver 20 years ago has begun to regain her memory and
form words, sending her father "from despair to joy."

Sarah Scantlin's family and friends plan to celebrate the
development on Saturday at the health care center where she lives.

"She's 100 percent Sarah again. The family is back together, and
it's just simply a joyous situation," her father, Jim Scantlin, told
CNN.

Scantlin was 18 when she was struck while walking to her car in
1984. She had been aware of her surroundings but unable to make any
sounds other than loud crying until a month ago, when she told staff
members, "OK, OK."

"It just happened one day and nobody really knows why," said Sharon
Kuepker, administrator for the Golden Plains Health Care Center.

She is now forming other words, counting and remembering people and
places, staff members said.

"You condition yourself to be able to try to deal with something
like this, and then all of the sudden, the world instantly changed
from despair to joy because it's amazing how important communication
is between human beings," her father said.

The driver who struck Scantlin, Douglas Doman II, served six months
in jail after being convicted of driving under the influence and
leaving the scene of an injury accident.

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2005/US/02/11/recovering.woman.ap/

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Woman Speaks Again After 20 Years

"Rather than speaking about Sarah, it became very clear she was
speaking to Sarah. It was the most amazing feeling in the world."
Jim Scantlin, on being told Sarah was speaking again.


HUTCHINSON, Kan., Feb. 12, 2005

(CBS/AP) For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin has been mostly oblivious to
the world around her — the victim of a drunken driver who struck her
down as she walked to her car.

Now, after a remarkable recovery, she can talk again and has begun
to regain her memory, sending her father "from despair to joy."

Sarah Scantlin's family and friends celebrated the development on
Saturday at the health care center where she lives.

"She's 100 percent Sarah again. The family is back together, and
it's just simply a joyous situation," her father, Jim Scantlin, said
in a broadcast interview.

Scantlin's father says he knows she will never fully recover, but
her newfound ability to speak and her returning memories have given
him his daughter back.

For years, she could only blink her eyes — one blink for "no," two
blinks for "yes" — to respond to questions that no one knew for sure
she understood.

"I am astonished how primal communication is. It is a key element of
humanity," Scantlin said, blinking back tears.

She still suffers constantly from the effects of the accident. She
habitually crosses her arms across her chest, her fists clenched
under her chin.

Her legs constantly spasm and thrash. Her right foot is so twisted
it is almost reversed. Her neck muscles are so constricted she
cannot swallow to eat.

Scantlin was 18 when she was struck while walking to her car in
1984. She had been aware of her surroundings but unable to make any
sounds other than loud crying until a month ago, when she told staff
members, "OK, OK."

"It just happened one day and nobody really knows why," said Sharon
Kuepker, administrator for the Golden Plains Health Care Center.

She is now forming other words, counting and remembering people and
places, staff members said.

"You condition yourself to be able to try to deal with something
like this, and then all of the sudden, the world instantly changed
from despair to joy because it's amazing how important communication
is between human beings," her father said.

The driver who struck Scantlin, Douglas Doman II, served six months
in jail after being convicted of driving under the influence and
leaving the scene of an injury accident.

Sarah's father told The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith in a
separate interview that his daughter had been "basically
unresponsive, in the regular sense of the word 'alert.' She was able
to do eye contact and was very aware of her surroundings, but
otherwise, physically, she was completely incapable of doing
anything."

Sarah's mother, Betsy Scantlin, says Sarah actually started to make
some noises a couple of years ago. "We didn't have any idea what
that meant," she said to Smith. "We just knew it was a noise that
she hadn't made for 18 years, and the people -- it's kind of like
having a baby. You kind of learn to know the sounds, and they could
kind of tell whether she wanted her TV changed or she was hurting or
something, but otherwise, nothing."

Jim recounted the phone call he and Betsy got, informing them of the
unimaginable: "It was amazing. I'm in the living room. Betsy was in
the computer area, and the phone rings, and I'm immediately aware
that it's the nursing home…where (Sarah) resides.

"And suddenly, I'm aware that there's a profound, distinct
difference. Rather than speaking about Sarah, it became very clear
she was speaking to Sarah. It was the most amazing feeling in the
world."

Besty says she's "still stunned" to be hearing Sarah's voice
again. "There's just no words. Twenty years ago, I cried a lot. This
week, all I've done is laugh because, when I heard her say, 'Hi
Mom,' I said, 'Sarah, is that you?' And she said, 'Yeah.' And all I
can do is just say -- I've just laughed ever since, because it's
just so amazing."

What's more, Jim says Sarah is showing "uncanny recall. It's amazing
how -- considering how severe and profound her injury was, her
ability to recall -- it's astonishing."

Sarah's doctor, Bradley Scheel, adds that, "It's just been amazing.
We're all thrilled. And it seems, almost from day to day, she's able
to make more responses. We're really anxious to see how she does
from here."

Scheel said physicians are not sure why she suddenly began talking
but believe critical pathways in the brain may have regenerated.

"It is extremely unusual to see something like this happen," Scheel
said.

http://cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/11/earlyshow/main673281.shtml







Posted on Tue, Feb. 15, 2005


Drunken driver had suffered his own brain injury before accident

ROXANA HEGEMAN

Associated Press


HUTCHINSON, Kan. - Sarah Scantlin's first words, uttered 20 years
after a drunken driver struck her, have captivated a world hungry
for a miracle.

Scantlin was 18 when she was hit while walking to her car in 1984 in
Hutchinson. She had been aware of her surroundings, but unable to
make any sounds other than loud crying until a month ago, when she
suddenly told staff members, "OK, OK." Doctors don't know why she
regained her speech.

During all those years while their daughter struggled with a brain
injury, her parents' pushed to toughen the state's drunken driving
laws.

It became a lifelong mission that began with reaching out to the man
who put their daughter in the hospital. As part of his sentencing
for drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, Douglas D.
Doman II was ordered by Judge Steven Becker - at the request of the
victim's family - to visit Sarah in the hospital.

Becker told The Associated Press the Scantlin family wanted some
acknowledgment from Doman that he had done wrong.

"My recollection is he went to the hospital to see Sarah. Her family
was there and it was a very positive experience for everyone
concerned," Becker said Monday.

Doman did not return a message left at his brother's house for
comment.

But Jim Scantlin remembered well the day that Doman and his mother
came to the final staffing meeting before her daughter was released
from a Wichita hospital to live out her life in a Hutchinson nursing
home.

"He was authentically remorseful, cried," Scantlin said. "The mother
sat there and acted like this was an insult."

Doman, then 22, asked the Scantlins if he could come see them; they
would eventually meet with him at the Scantlins' home several times.

"I've forgiven the boy," Scantlin said in a recent interview at the
nursing home.

Scantlin said he tried to do with Doman what he does with his own
children - emphasize responsibility.

"Being behind the wheel of a car in his condition is not being very
responsible," he said.

But Scantlin empathized with the young man who only months before
hitting Sarah had suffered a brain injury from a fall that had left
him blind in one eye and with shaky motor control.

"He should not have been behind the wheel of a car sober," he said.

The judge said Doman's brain injury made the drunken driving case
difficult.

"He also had brain damage from a previous accident and that factored
into what he was doing that night," Becker said. "It was a tragic,
tragic thing for everyone concerned."

Along with the order to visit Sarah, Doman was sentenced to six
months in jail for driving under the influence and leaving the scene
of an injury accident. He also was ordered to attend an alcohol
safety awareness program.

Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder said that at the time
Kansas did not have stringent drunken driving laws for cases in
which the victim was injured.

The state now has a reckless aggravated battery law to prosecute
drunken drivers, under which someone convicted of the felony charge
would face between 38 and 172 months in prison depending on prior
criminal history, said Schroeder, who once was a classmate of Sarah
Scantlin.

Doman served only two or three months of the six-month sentence,
Scantlin said.

"Judge Becker called. He said, 'Mr. Scantlin, the boy is curled up
in a fetal position in the corner of his cell - he has completely
lost it. I, in good conscience, have got to let him out. He needs
mental help,'" he said.

Scantlin said he told the judge he understood keeping Doman in jail
under those circumstances would be cruel.

"I said, 'Let him out and there is not going to be a word from us' -
and there wasn't," he said.

In 1987, Doman pleaded guilty to another DUI charge, according to
district court records in Reno County. He was sentenced to one year
in jail and completed 18 months probation.

Before sentencing Doman on that charge, Scantlin said Becker called
him.

"He said, 'And no mercy is going to be shown,' and I said, 'Well, it
shouldn't be,'" Scantlin said.

Sarah's mother, Betsy Scantlin, spent the years after her daughter's
accident helping other people, said Mary Ann Kourny, executive
director of the DUI Victim Center of Kansas.

Kansas is still one of the few states that does not have a law under
which people can sue a server if a drunken person leaves their
establishment and injures someone else. A bill enacting that law is
now before the state Legislature.

In 1991, Betsy Scantlin got involved in DUI victim panels. She was
in one video in which she talked about Sarah and her injuries. The
video was seen by more than 50,000 drunken driving offenders and
other youths.

She was also active in DUI victim panel programs in Hutchinson and
Wichita, where drunken drivers are sentenced to hear victims talk
about how the crime has impacted their lives.

And now the Scantlins deal with Sarah's sudden awakening.

"I just hope people will understand this is a miracle - it is
something that had never been expected and no one thought would
happen," Kourny said.

"This family is trying to cope not only with witnessing the
miracle ... but also with trying to handle their daily lives. And,
now that they are in their late years, enjoy what has been given to
them."



http://kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10907990.htm?1c



Sarah Scantlin and Terri Schiavo

This is Sarah Scantlin.


She was oblivious to the world for 20 years after being hit by a
drunk driver. She's someone's daughter and they love her. And she
miraculously spoke again a few days ago. Terri Schindler/Schiavo has
an even better claim to be kept alive than Sarah did. And Sarah's
recovery makes its own case. We don't know everything about how the
mind works; we do know that Sarah is happy to be alive. If you could
condemn Sarah to die a gruesome, slow, painful death by starvation
and dehydration, you're one kind of monster. If you can condemn
Terri Schiavo to the same fate knowing she is how she is, you're a
whole different breed of monster.


Terri's parents love her too.


http://discardedlies.com/entries/2005/02/sarah_scantlin_and_terri_sch
iavo.php


Message from Terri Schiavo's Father
February 15, 2005

Source: GOPInsight

By now you have probably heard about a young woman who is threatened
with starvation in Florida.

That young woman is my daughter, Terri. In 1990, through
circumstances which are shrouded in mystery (and may involve a
criminal act by Terri's estranged husband), my daughter was left
severely brain-damaged.


But before I go any further, I must put an end to the lies and
misinformation that are circulating around the country through the
media concerning my daughter's condition.

Contrary to anything you may have heard, Terri is NOT brain dead;
Terri is NOT in a coma; she is NOT in a "persistent vegetative
state;" nor is she on ANY life-support system.

Terri laughs, Terri cries, she moves, and she makes child-like
attempts at speech with her mother and me. Sometimes she will
say "Mom" or "Dad" or "yeah" when we ask her a question. When I kiss
her hello or goodbye, she looks at me and "puckers up" her lips.

This may not seem like much to you, but it means everything to
Terri's mother and me. It tells us she is still here, she still
knows us, and with therapy and time she can have some level of
recovery.

I know that there are some hard hearted people who believe that due
to my daughters condition, she is better off dead. Words cannot
describe the pain and anger such sentiments cause us. This is our
daughter, our little girl, and even in her disabled condition, she
still has the right to life and the right to be loved and cared for
by her family.

Why, you may ask, is Terry in danger of death by starvation?

It is a long and outrageous story, but I'll give it to you as
briefly as I can.

After the "incident" that left Terry in this condition, her husband
Michael Schiavo sued various members of the medical community for
money, saying that they did not treat or diagnose her properly at an
early stage, and that he needed this money to provide for Terri's
therapy and rehabilitation and care.

After lengthy court battles, he finally won upwards of $1.7 million
under the guise of caring for our daughter, and then to our horror,
he immediately began spending the money on himself and his Playboy
lifestyle.

Terri's estranged husband Michael Schiavo has been living with
another woman for years, and has two children by her. He is
determined to see Terri dead. Why? We believe it's because he gets
to keep whatever money is left... and he may have even darker
motives than that.

To add insult to all of this injury toward my daughter, Michael
Schiavo is still her "legal husband" and therefore is
her "guardian." And since they are not legally divorced, he controls
whatever health care she will and will not get. We are not even
allowed to know if she is getting aspirin.

In 1993 my family initiated litigation against Michael Schiavo
solely for the purpose of acquiring medical, physical and
neurological assistance for our daughter Terri. The litigation
escalated in 1998 when Michael Schiavo petitioned the court to stop
Terri from receiving food and water, thereby starving her to death.

In filing this legal action, he retained the services of a high
profile euthanasia attorney and the financial backing of powerful
euthanasia organizations. He also used Terri's medical
rehabilitation money to underwrite much of the legal expenses
associated with his effort to starve our daughter to death.

We know that he has spent nearly $500,000 of Terri's money in
attorney's fees for just one attorney trying to obtain a court order
to have Terri starved to death. The very money that was supposed to
be used for Terri's rehabilitation is being used to have her killed.

We very quickly discovered it was impossible for us to compete with
the abundance of financial and legal resources the pro-death
organizations were providing Micheal Schiavo in their effort to kill
Terri. They are pouring time and effort into her starvation because
they want to use this case to further the agenda of legalized
euthanasia.

My wife and I are not wealthy people. Throughout those years, we did
not have any large organizations trying to help rescue our daughter.
Consequently, we had to rely on the generosity of attorneys who were
willing to offer their legal expertise at no cost or at reduced
fees.

The bottom line is that we are in the final weeks or months of our
struggle to rescue our daughter from an untimely death by
starvation. Death by starvation is very slow, and extremely painful.
As you must know, it is against the law to deliberately starve an
animal to death. There are members of the Florida court who would
not treat a dog the way they plan to treat my daughter.

At this point we must pull out all the stops in our fight to rescue
our daughter.

As parents, we are desperate to save our daughter's life. As people
who love life, we are determined to deprive the euthanasia advocates
of successfully legalizing this form of homicide. We believe that
their efforts to kill Terri are designed to set a precedent for the
future eradication of defenseless disabled human beings. I was alive
when Americans fought the Nazis; I do not want my daughter to meet
the same fate of thousands of disabled people in Nazi Germany, and I
do not want our country to go down that same dark path.

Friend, though we have never met, I'm asking you for your help. We
desperately need your financial assistance to help our family
continue the battle to keep our daughter from being starved to
death. There are so many expenses in a case like this it is mind-
boggling and overwhelming. Please click below to make a contribution
now:

https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/terri/?afid=rmemail

Our adversaries believe that by our family's financial attrition and
difficulties, they will attain their objective of killing our
daughter. Presently, Terri's starvation may only be a few weeks
away, unless we find the financial resources to prevent this
atrocity from becoming a reality.

I implore you to please help us. We are writing to you, because we
believe you have a heart for justice and mercy. I'm asking you to
put yourself in my shoes, and then do whatever you can to help our
family. Whether it is $10 or $1000, we are desperate for the
resources to fight this battle for our daughter's life at this
critical juncture.

Please do whatever you can, and forward this e-mail to any friends
or family that you have who you think might be interested in saving
Terri's life.

I thank you for your time, your concern, and I solicit your prayers
for Terri and our entire family. These have been very trying times
for us all.

Sincerely,

Bob Schindler Sr.


CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE NOW!

https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/terri/?afid=rmemail


The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation depends on the generosity of
others to offset some of the expenses associated with protecting
Terri.

Terri's foundation is in desperate need of support in order to
continue the legal fight to protect her life. Terri's fund has all
but dwindled in recent weeks due to new legal challenges. If you can
help in any way, we at the foundation appreciate it greatly.

Please click below to donate right away.

https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/terri/?afid=rmemail





Hospital plans to remove patient from life support despite
daughter's wishes
February 17, 2005

BOSTON -- Massachusetts General Hospital said it will take a 79-year-
old woman off life support next week -- against the wishes of her
daughter -- and this time a judge has declined to block the move.

ADVERTISEMENT
Barbara Howe has advanced-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also
known as Lou Gehrig's disease, an incurable and degenerative muscle
condition. She has been in a hospital bed on a ventilator since
1997. She cannot speak and can barely move, but remains mentally
alert, says her daughter, Carol Carvitt.

"Her face lights up when you talk to her," Carvitt said. "I visit
her four times a week, and my sister visits her every single day.
You can see the eye move back and forth and her mouth starts moving."

The hospital went to court last year to get permission to remove
Howe from life support, but probate court Judge John M. Smoot ruled
in Carvitt's favor, barring the hospital from disconnecting her. But
the judge also advised Carvitt to consider what was in her mother's
best interest, not what she believed her mother would want.

Dr. Britain Nicholson, Mass. General's chief medical officer, said
Wednesday that he ordered Howe taken off life support next week
following an evaluation that determined her condition had worsened
and she was suffering. He said he informed Carvitt with a phone call
and a letter earlier this month.

Carvitt's lawyer, Gary Zalkin, went back to probate court seeking a
temporary restraining order to stop the hospital from removing life
support, but was turned down last week.

According to Zalkin, Smoot left Carvitt the option of renewing her
motion after getting more information from the hospital. Zalkin said
the family was reviewing its legal options.

"I'm devastated and I'm angry," Carvitt said. "Devastated because
they're trying to terminate my mother's life. And angry because
they're violating a court order."

The hospital said it plans no further legal action.

"This situation is very sad and enormously difficult for all those
involved," the hospital said in a statement Thursday. "Everyone is
focused on trying to do the right thing for Barbara Howe, but in
this case, there are differing views about what the right thing is."

http://boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/17/hospit
al_plans_to_remove_patient_from_life_support_despite_wishes_of_family
/

Please pass these links on to others.

Melissa Roxanne Stanley, saveterrislife website owner

A call to pro Terri bloggers:

http://blogicus.com/archives/a_call_to_blogs_for_terri_schiavo.php

35 pro life, pro Terri bloggers have joined the call for 100 pro
Terri bloggers:

http://prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.php?schiavo=1

Medical examiner says he was fired for speaking out
In letters to Romney, doc said state office negligent in elderly,
disease-related deaths

By Christine Walsh
Published: 6/15/2004

BOSTON - Dr. Abraham Philip says he spent several months trying to
work for change within the state medical examiner's office.

Not noticing any improvement, he decided to go public with
allegations of the office's shortcomings: failure to conduct
toxicology studies of elderly bodies with high levels of morphine;
not screening for drugs during autopsies; and moving slowly to
examine cases of disease-related deaths.

Philip, 52, of Beverly, expressed his concerns in letters he wrote to
Gov. Mitt Romney on March 1 and 2. On March 4, he was fired from his
job as a medical examiner.

The Bangalore native has filed two lawsuits against the medical
examiner's office, claiming that speaking out against possible
violations of the law cost him his job. One suit was filed in U.S.
District Court against the man who fired Philip, the office's chief
administrator, John Cronin. The suit alleges that Cronin violated
Philip's right to free speech.

The other is in Suffolk Superior Court, under the state whistleblower
act, which protects employees against retaliation for reporting
wrongdoings to the government. It names the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Richard Evans and Executive
Office of Public Safety Director Edward Flynn. (The medical
examiner's office is part of the office of public safety.)

The office of public safety did not respond to a request for comment.

Philip's attorneys, Dan Sharp and Elaine Whitfield Sharp of
Marblehead, said the case is one of "retaliation against Dr. Philip
for his speech on an issue of public concern.

Dan Sharp said the lawsuits aim to win compensation for Philip -
including reinstatement to his job with back pay - and to force the
Romney administration to clean up what he calls a "disgraceful"
medical examiner's office.

Sharp would not specify how much money the lawsuits seek, but did say
that Philip has lost $42,000 in salary.

Philip spent two-and-a-half of the past three years working in the
medical examiner's office. He returned to Massachusetts in September
after a six-month stint in the New York medical examiner's office.

Whitfield Sharp told INDIA New England that Philip has a "tremendous
amount of support" within the Massachusetts medical examiner's office.

"He has very strong ethics," she said. "He comes from a culture where
one is not expected to sit back and stay with the status quo."

Among the incidents Philip shared with the governor was the case of a
19-year-old car accident victim whose organs were removed before he
was completely brain dead, according to Philip.

"This young man was severely injured and he may not have lived,"
Philip said. "But he was not yet brain dead, and it was too early to
say that he was in a permanent vegetative state."

Philip said that after he refused to give permission for the man's
organs to be removed, an organ-donation group went over his head and
got approval from Evans.

Philip said the medical examiner's office is putting the public at
risk in a couple of ways. By being slow to examine deaths caused by
diseases like hepatitis, severe acute respiratory syndrome and West
Nile virus, the office is not protecting the public from infection,
he said.

"If someone dies from hepatitis and we don't know about it for a
month or more, how many other people might be infected before we
alert the public to take protective measures?" Philip said.

As for nursing home and hospital patients, particularly the elderly,
the lack of toxicology studies on bodies means that people are not
being protected from possible wrongdoing or medical errors at those
facilities, he said.

Both lawsuits say Philip pointed out these failings to Cronin, along
with other ways the office may have violated state regulations or
created dangers to public health and safety. He made numerous
suggestions to Cronin between December and March for improving the
office's operations, the lawsuits say.

Other alleged violations of state regulations include a failure to
conduct adequate toxicology studies on bodies for illicit drugs like
Ecstasy, PCP, Fentanyl and Ketamine, or for the abuse of prescription
drugs, according to the lawsuits.

Philip also charges that the office did not equip its employees with
adequate protective equipment, such as blood-proof aprons that would
limit exposure to infectious diseases.

Cronin did not address any of Philip's concerns, according to the
lawsuits, and the men's relationship deteriorated over time.

On Feb. 13, Philip was performing an autopsy on the body of a female
rape and homicide victim when a funeral-home representative came to
the medical examiner's office for a signature on a death certificate.

According to the suits, Cronin sent an employee to get Philip's
signature. Philip said the death certificate would have to wait about
an hour, until the autopsy was done, the lawsuits say. A short time
later, the employee's supervisor came with Cronin's demand that the
certificate be signed immediately. Philip did so, and blood wound up
on the certificate, the lawsuits say.

Cronin gave Philip a one-day suspension for the bloodstain, the
lawsuits say. Two weeks later, Philip wrote his first letter to
Romney.

When Cronin wrote a letter to end Philip's employment, he referred to
Philip's communications with the governor as a reason for the firing,
the lawsuits say.

The lawsuits say the defendants have caused Philip to lose income and
suffer "humiliation, anxiety, sleeplessness, physical discomfort and
extreme emotional distress."

http://www.indianewengland.com/news/2004/06/15/Community/Medical.Exami
ner.Says.He.Was.Fired.For.Speaking.Out-688503.shtml

Experts: Living wills often flawed

by Kathleen Kerr, Newsday (New York), 6/21/2004

The living will, long touted as a way to prevent technology from
complicating death and artificially prolonging life, has outlived its
usefulness, a growing number of medical and legal experts say.

For more than two decades, wary Americans have been using the
documents to state their health care preferences in anticipation of a
time when they can't do so.

The usual reason for a living will has been to avoid the arsenal of
ventilators and feeding tubes that can keep seriously ill patients
alive, sometimes in a persistent vegetative state.

But experts say the concept is obsolete.

"It's [the living will] a virtual failure," said Thomas Murray,
president of The Hastings Center, a bioethics institute in Garrison,
N.Y. "The living will is particularly ill-designed to do what you
want it to do. Any tiny crack can be enough to destroy the entire
foundation of that document."

Since their inception, living wills have exhibited flaws: People with
living wills don't always tell their relatives about them, so their
wishes remain unknown. Hospitals find the wills difficult to
interpret: a stated preference not to receive artificial nutrition
when brain-dead may not apply if a person is comatose. And it's
difficult to address all possible end-of-life situations in a living
will - especially as life-sustaining technology continues to evolve.

Recently, two University of Michigan researchers, writing in the
bimonthly Hastings Center Report, a journal that examines issues in
medical ethics, concluded that living wills are useless.

"It's very hard for people to predict their preferences for an
unknown health condition," said Angela Fagerlin, a research scientist
and co-author of the article. In addition, "decision makers have a
difficult time interpreting [living wills]," Fagerlin said.

And Carl Schneider, a law professor and Fagerlin's co-author,
says: "In lots of ways, the unsolvable problem is that writing down
your intentions clearly is a lot harder than people think it is."

The case of Ellen Haymes, a Brooklyn woman who shot herself in a 1993
suicide attempt, illustrates the problems. The decision in that case
reinforced New York State's strict interpretation of right-to-die
case law.

Haymes was rushed to The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical
Center, underwent emergency surgery and was placed on a ventilator.
Her sister produced Haymes' living will and asked the hospital to
disconnect the ventilator. Brookdale refused.

Haymes lived and made a partial recovery but was left blind. Later,
Haymes and her sister sued the hospital. Steven Mandell, a Manhattan
attorney who represented the hospital, said on Thursday that
treatment was already under way when the sister arrived and that "the
so-called living will is not an instrument which is enforceable in
the state of New York. There was no obligation to follow the so-
called will."

In 2001, the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled that
Brookdale had acted appropriately and that Haymes' living will did
not clearly state her wishes, that she did not have the required two
witnesses, and that she had no valid health-care proxy.

Designating a proxy

In the current Florida case of Terry Schiavo - whose feeding tube is
keeping her alive - there is no living will or any other form of
advance directive that could provide guidance as her parents and
husband battle over whether to remove the feeding tube. Attorneys say
that advance directives - like health care proxy statements or
durable powers of attorney - now are either replacing or
supplementing living wills as legal instruments that allow people to
designate someone to make medical decisions for them.

New York State's health care proxy statute was enacted in 1991.
Robert Kurre, a Great Neck attorney who specializes in elder law,
said he urges clients to name a such a proxy - a person who will act
in their stead should they become unable to speak for themselves - in
addition to having a living will. He also tells clients to add a
statement concerning their wishes on artificial feeding to any proxy
statement.

"If you check yourself into a hospital or nursing home, it's [the
health care proxy] the document they want to see," said Kurre,
explaining it's more effective to have a health care proxy who can
make decisions for you in the event that unanticipated health care
questions arise.

By themselves, Kurre said, living wills are a "recipe for disaster."
Ira Calderon, a wholesale insurance broker who lives in Great Neck,
has followed Kurre's advice. Calderon, 43, said a family member urged
him to document his medical preferences and he now has both a living
will and a health care proxy.

"I just want to make sure if I'm ever disabled and unable to make a
decision myself, I want to make sure these wishes are taken care of,"
Calderon said.

Kurre said some lawyers with general practices still counsel clients
that living wills are enough - advice that he considers mistaken.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf, another Great Neck attorney, represents a
number of hospitals and nursing homes, which, she said, have had
repeated problems interpreting living wills.

"I always talk about not doing living wills because they are very
narrow, inflexible legal documents," Wolf said. "With health care
proxies, at least you're dealing with a person - a living, feeling
someone who cares about your preferences."

Birth of living will

The popularity of living wills grew out of the Missouri case of Nancy
Cruzan, who was 24 in 1983 when a car accident left her in a
persistent vegetative state. Cruzan's parents filed a lawsuit seeking
an end to the feeding tube that kept her alive.

After a long court battle, a Missouri judge who heard testimony from
people who knew Cruzan ruled she would not have wanted to be kept
alive in a vegetative state and ordered her feeding tube removed.
Cruzan died in December 1990, 12 days after her parents won the right
to remove the tube.

The Cruzan case led Congress to pass the Patient Self-Determination
Act, co-sponsored by then-Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.). The
law required hospitals and nursing homes to inform patients of their
right to prepare living wills and other advance directives concerning
health care.

Myra Christopher, president of the Kansas City, Mo., Midwest
Bioethics Center, agrees that living wills haven't lived up to
expectations. The Midwest Center consulted with both the Cruzan
family and Missouri state officials during the case.

"There's a mountain of data that show they do not do what we thought
they would do," Christopher said. "With the living wills, it was
thought who better than the person themselves to say what they
wanted. The reality is that hasn't been accomplished."

Charles Sabatino, an attorney and assistant director of the American
Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging, uses this comparison
in advising clients to steer clear of living wills: "You can't
provide cookbook directions. Dying is too complicated, and none of us
have a crystal ball to tell us what we will encounter far down the
road."

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health/ny-
hswill063860904jun21,0,5937302.story?col
l=ny-health-headlines

Please read my previous post for an introduction and for the e-mails
I sent out regarding Hank, which are in chronological order.

Here are the next e-mails I sent out regarding Hank:


----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:19 AM
Subject: Please e-mail, pray for, and try to save Hanford's life now
& as long as he is alive-Pls. forward to others


Dear friends and friends of friends,
I just e-mailed Hanford and Alice Pinette.  You can only send a short
e-mail to them.  I told them many people are praying for them -
praying for a miracle that Hanford's life be saved.  I also said we
love them both, to NOT GIVE UP, and that God is with them both.  I
told them to check their answering machine NOW as I left a very
important message on it.

You may see this case covered on CNN, HNN, and other cable news
channels, as it was on CNN last night.

I believe an appeal is still possible by Mrs. Hanford's attorney.

I urge all of you to fight to save this man's life any way you can.
This could be our family member or us in this same situation, and how
much would we wish others would come to our aid to try and save our
loved one's or our own life then?

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day, and we all have so much to be thankful
for.  This many is a veteran who fought for his country.  He wants to
live and his wife is trying to carry out his wishes to live.  His
wife probably feels like she is all alone, like David fighting
Goliath, but the Father and Son are with them both, and I pray that
God's will be done in this and all matters.

Please pray for these people as often as you can as you go about your
Thanksgiving preparations and celebrations and thereafter.

Please do not forget about them or many others who need our prayers
and help.

I suggest that all of you send numerous short e-mails to Hanford and
Alice whenever you can, as long as Hanford is alive, to keep their
spirits up and to let them know how much we truly care about them
both.

Please forward this information and my previous e-mails to others who
will get involved.

Thanks for your help and prayers.

Sincerely,
Melissa Roxanne Stanley
Volusia County, (DeLand), Florida

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----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:02 AM
Subject: Veteran Hanford "Hank" Pinette Died Today-God Bless His Soul


On December 8, 1998, Hanford "Hank Pinette", a veteran with 24 years
of service, signed a Living Will.  On the same date he signed a
document giving his wife, Alice, Durable Power of Attorney which
stated she could make all of his medical decisions.  Exactly 6 years
to the day later, on December 8, 2004, Hank was disconnected from
life support and killed against his most recent wishes.

Hank recently repeatedly told his wife he wanted to go home.  He made
many statements to her and to other family members recently that
showed he was absolutely conscious and cognizant.  Pictures of Hank
were shown on our local news and he was clearly conscious and even
smiling happily at his wife in the very recent pictures.  Despite all
of this evidence showing Hank was conscious, cognizant, wanted to
live, and wanted very badly to "go home", doctors testified he was
unconscious and incapacitated.  Hank Pinette's pulmonologist Juan
Herran told Orlando newspapers that he has not seen a cognitive
response from Hanford in weeks or months.

Orange County, Florida Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the
hospital had the right to follow Hank Pinette's Living Will, even
though Hank's wife, Alice, also had a Durable Power of Attorney form
from her husband stating she could make all medical decisions for
him.

The way these articles appearing appear below are slanted towards the
agendas of the bioethicists, Death Cults, ravenous killers just
sickens me, (except the ones written by those who fight to save
lives).  It is blatantly obvious that these propagandists' tools are
written by puppets on strings pulled by higher powers to enforce
their Hitlerian agenda.  Routine killings are carried out every
moment worldwide now, including of those who are mentally and / or
physically disabled, injured, or mildly ill, from unborn fetuses in
the womb, to newborns, children, young adults, adults, middle aged,
and the elderly - none of us are safe from those who purport to give
us all DEATH WITH DIGNITY.  It's not dignified for vunerable and
innocent victims to fight with all of their beings to demonstrate
their will to live and then to have heartless and hopeless strangers
such as bioethicists, Euthanasia advocates, doctors, hospital board
members, and / or uncaring relatives or spouses, (in Terri Schindler-
Schiavo's case), play God and testify in court that there is no hope
that the person will ever recover or gain consciousness when these
victims are clearly conscious already and showing they are fighting
for their lives!  Whether or not a person is conscious, it is not
right to murder them or to judge their lives are not of "sufficient
quality" for them to be allowed to receive medical treatment,
therapy, life support, including even food and water, and for them to
be allowed to LIVE!  This case and the tremendous number of killings
taking place worldwide demonstrates that we are ALL very much at risk
to become the next victims, regardless of our wishes to live.  May
God help us all, especially those in danger right this moment of
being judged not worthy of life by the foaming-at-the-mouth
executioners.



Does this very recent picture of Hanford "Hank" Pinette look like an
unconscious man who wanted to die

or a smiling, cognizant man who wanted to get better, go home, and
eat a steak?





What a tragedy!

Hank wanted so much to live and they killed him.  The Death With
Dignity (Orwellian Double Speak for Right to Kill) group members
removed his life support today and he died.

God Bless Hank, who valiantly fought for 24 years for our country and
courageously, yet happily, showed his will to live up to the end!
God Bless Hank's wife, Alice, of Clermont, Florida, who fought to
save his life and to abide by Hank's recent wishes to live, to get
better, and to go home.





Thanks so much to all of you who e-mailed or called Hank and Alice,
those of who passed on e-mails, those who prayed, those who talked
about this man and woman to get others to notice and to pray for
them, and to those of you who put this information on your websites
and talked about it on your radio shows.

Please keep Hank and Alice in your prayers.


Melissa Roxanne Stanley
Volusia County, (DeLand) Florida
I live in a county which borders Lake County, where Hanford and Alice
live(d).


Note:
I have not yet found any articles regarding Hank's death, but it was
just reported on Wednesday, December 8th on our local 10:00 PM EST
Orlando WRDQ news.

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Hanford+Pinette%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-
8859-1&tab=wn&scoring=d



Judge Orders Disabled Veteran Killed

Following the lead of Florida's pseudo* judge George Greer, who has
ordered the Torture-Killing of Terri Shindler, Orange Circuit Judge
Lawrence Kirkwood has ordered the Torture-Murder of a Disabled
American Veteran, Hanford Pinette, at Orlando's Lucerne Hospital now
aspiring to be Lucerne Abattoir.

The formula for the State Ordered Killing is the same in both cases.
The family gives evidence that the patient is cognizant. The Court
determins their victim is in a "vegitative state"
and insists on the death penalty.

"Pinette's wife of 50 years testified Tuesday that she continues to
communicate with her husband, who is alert and responsive when he
wants to be.."

The Judge said kill him.

"Alice Pinette said, as recently as Sunday, her husband was watching
football. On Monday, she said, he told family members who recently
had shot a deer to "save me a steak."

The judge said kill him.

"Pinette showed pictures of a seemingly alert and responsive Hanford
Pinette in his hospital bed"

The judge said kill him.

"Hanford Pinette IS COMMUNICATING to his wife NOW that he wishes to
LIVE!
On the news last night, Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 11 P.M.
Hanford's wife, Alice, stated that Hanford asked for a wheelchair and
to be taken home! The news also showed a picture of him wearing his
Veterans of War cap and smiling at his wife happily. His wife, Alice
stated how happy it made him to wear
the cap. He looked totally happy and definitely conscious to me! Here
is the picture I found online of this:
http://www.local6.com/news/3934635/detail.html
-- Melissa Stanley

The State Of Florida Is Opening The Killing Fields
David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer said he did not
expect the Pinette case to generate the legislative or political
action that has surrounded the battle about Terri Schiavo.
Will you speak up now or in silence await the knock of The Death Cult
on your door?

Pinette, a Korean War veteran retired with 24 years of military
service

Where is the VFW ?
http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.levelc&cid=1641&tok=1
# FLORIDA : (352) 622-5126 deptoffloridavfw@...

Where is the American Legion ?
The National Commander National Commander's Office (317) 630-1200
Click here to contact http://www.legion.org/?
content=contact_us&con=NatlCmdr

Where is the DAV ?
Email https://www.dav.org/feedback_form.asp
National Headquarters
3725 Alexandria Pike
Cold Spring, KY 41076
Phone: (859) 441-7300

Where is Florida Governor Jeb Bush ?
phone: 850-488-7146
email: jeb.bush@... or jeb@...
fax: 850-487-0801 or 850-922-4292
Press Secretary - phone: 850-488-5394
Assistant Donovan Brown - phone: 850-410-0501

For more information on the killing of this vet contact
Melissa Stanley saveterrislife@...




posted by Vetzine Publishing




http://www.vetzine.blogspot.com/



Article published Wednesday, Nov 24, 2004

Judge upholds living will

Husband wants to live, woman says

By Mike Branom

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. A judge Tuesday upheld a living will for a 73-year-old
central Florida man, hospitalized and on life support, despite pleas
from his wife that he is not as ill as his doctors say.

Hanford Pinette of Clermont cannot communicate and is unaware of his
medical condition, which includes chronic failures of his
respiratory, circulatory and renal systems, according to medical
experts at Lucerne Hospital. His health problems began in February.

In 1998, the veteran of 24 years in the military signed a living will
stating that death would be preferable if faced with a terminal
illness and incapacity. Officials said Orlando Regional Healthcare
said they had no choice but to follow his wishes, and allow him to
die with dignity.

But also in 1998, he gave his wife durable power of attorney over his
affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette insisted
her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

After 90 minutes of testimony from two doctors, a hospital official
and Alice Pinette, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that
the living will must be upheld. Otherwise, those with power of
attorney could impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

"We have to honor his feelings, his decision of what he would do,"
David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said during his
closing statement.

Alice Pinette refused comment after the hearing. Her attorney, Bill
Ruffier, said he needed to read the six-page ruling before deciding
whether to appeal.

Evans said the hospital would work with Pinette's family to ensure
his death will be as painless and peaceful as possible.

The hearing took an emotional turn when Alice Pinette, on the witness
stand, said she could not agree to disconnecting the machines keeping
her husband alive.

The decision would be easier, she said, if he was in a coma. But she
testified her husband was communicating with family members as
recently as Sunday, and was a cognizant mind trapped in a weak body.

"To me, that's killing a man and I cannot do that," Alice Pinette
said.

Her stories of Hanford watching football with relatives and learning
sign language from his daughter were nothing like the accounts given
by his doctors.

Hanford Pinette "clearly cannot understand what is happening to him,"
Dr. Sanjay Muttreja testified.

Added Dr. Juan Herran, "Mr. Pinette is in a very unfortunate
situation."

The two doctors, who have treated Hanford for months, both said he is
incapacitated, couldn't make his own decisions and that it was very
unlikely he would recover - the standards for enacting the living
will.

The hospital's bioethics committee, in place to review cases such as
this, also agreed that Pinette's condition was terminal.

"The committee recommended the patient's living will was valid, and
that we should follow its directive," said Carol Paris, Orlando
Regional Healthcare's director of risk management.

http://www.macon.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10258772.htm



Published Sunday, November 21, 2004


Despite Will, Wife Fights to Keep Life-Support

By MIKE BRANOM
The Associated Press

ORLANDO -- Alice Pinette is sure her husband of 53 years, in a
hospital hooked up to life-support machines, isn't on death's door.
He's aware of his surroundings and can communicate, she says.

That's why the Clermont woman is going to court rather than watch
Hanford Pinette be disconnected from those machines, despite a living
will stating dying would be preferable if he were ever faced with a
terminal illness and incapacity. Alice Pinette possesses a document,
signed the same day in 1998 as the living will, giving her power of
attorney over her 73-year-old husband's life.

At a court hearing Tuesday, arguments will be presented over which
legal paper trumps the other. Then Circuit Court Judge Lawrence
Kirkwood must decide not just whether Pinette should perish, but
determine a landmark right-to-die case.

"This is a brand new area of the law," said William E. Ruffier, Alice
Pinette's lawyer.

Hanford Pinette wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned his wife to
carry out his wishes, designating her as his "surrogate."

In the event of a terminal condition with no probability of recovery,
Pinette stated he wanted "to die naturally" and receive medication
only to "alleviate pain."

But the power of attorney states her husband assigned her to decide
how he should be cared for, including life-prolonging measures.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure, his
wife said. He has been hospitalized since February, according to the
petition filed by Orlando Regional Healthcare, and is currently at
Lucerne Hospital.

In court documents, the hospital argues that Pinette's "renal system,
respiratory system and cardiovascular system are all being supported
by artificial means alone."

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said the
hospital maintains Pinette will not get better and the hospital wants
only to abide by his wishes.

"All we can do is come in and describe his medical condition and his
competency," Evans told the Orlando Sentinel earlier this
month. "We're just doing what we feel we're legally obligated to do."

But Alice Pinette, who goes to the hospital daily, insists her
husband is far better off than the hospital believes, her lawyer said.

"People typically think of these living wills, when they sign them,
as `If I'm in a vegetative state, hooked up to a bunch of machines
and draining my family's bank account, my wish is to not have that
artificial life support,' " Ruffier said. "But in Mr. Pinette's case,
he is alert, aware and able to still enjoy his family."

The case is being watched closely in many legal circles.

"The living will is supposed to . . . supersede even the wife or a
designated surrogate," said Lauchlin Waldoch, a Tallahassee lawyer
who is on the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys' board of
directors. "This is a very good example why we, as elder law
attorneys, preach the gospel of coming to see us."

Another expert saw the Pinettes' case as a cautionary example of why
living wills only go so far.

"The health care surrogate is more powerful in many ways," said Scott
Solkoff, chairman of the elder-law section of the Florida Bar. "In
real life, regardless of what the statutes state, the surrogate is a
real person, not just a piece of paper."


http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20041121/NEWS/411210381/1004



Excerpts:

"Thou shall not kill, and I cannot kill him," Alice Pinette earlier
told the judge during testimony. "I cannot do this and live with me
[myself]. When someone is talking to you, how can you do that?"

Doctors said Pinette is kept alive by a ventilator, a dialysis
machine and medication and that he has no hope of recovery. Hospital
officials took the case to court when Alice refused to allow them to
kill her husband.

Alice said that if her husband were in a coma and unresponsive, she
would carry out the direction in the living will. However, her
husband watches football, and told family members who recently shot a
deer to "save me a steak."

She said Hanford picks and chooses to whom he will talk and showed
pictures at the trial of him seemingly alert.

But Pinette's pulmonologist Juan Herran told the Orlando newspaper
that he has not seen a cognitive response from Hanford in weeks or
months. Herran said Hanford would not likely recover from the
congestive heart failure that led to the shutdown of other vital
organs.

http://www.lifenews.com/bio579b.html



Excerpts:

In 1998, Pinette signed a living will stating that death would be
preferable if he was faced with a terminal illness and incapacity.
Officials with Orlando Regional Healthcare, which runs the Lucerne
Hospital, say they have no choice but to follow his wishes, and allow
him to die with dignity.

But also in 1998, Pinette gave his wife durable power of attorney
over his affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette
insists her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled the living
will must be upheld. Otherwise, he said, those with power of attorney
could impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=340940&nid=104


Excerpts:

Alice Pinette testified at the that her husband was communicating
with family members as recently as Sunday, and has an aware mind
trapped in a weak body.

His doctors disagreed. Pinette "clearly cannot understand what is
happening to him," Muttreja testified. Added Dr. Juan Herran: "Mr.
Pinette is in a very unfortunate situation."

The two doctors, who have treated Pinette for months, both said he is
incapacitated, can't make his own decisions and is very unlikely to
recover _ the standards for enacting the living will.

The hospital's bioethics committee agreed that Pinette's condition
was terminal.

"The committee recommended the patient's living will was valid, and
that we should follow its directive," said Carol Paris, Orlando
Regional's director of risk management.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=340940&nid=104


Florida Hospital Can Kill Man Via Euthanasia Over Wife's Objections

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 26, 2004

Orlando, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A Florida hospital this week won the
right to euthanize a patient despite his wife's wishes against
revoking lifesaving medical treatment. The hospital and wife disputed
whether or not 73-year-old terminally ill patient Hanford Pinette had
any hope of survival.

Orange Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the hospital had
the right to follow Pinette's living will, even though Pinette's wife
also had a durable power of attorney form from her husband.

Written in 1998, the documents authorized his wife, Alice Pinette, to
make his medical decisions. However, Hanford Pinette also said he did
not want "to prolong artificially the process of dying." It stated
that he wanted "to die naturally" and receive treatment only
to "alleviate pain."

Kirkwood ruled that Pinette's "living will must be respected as his
last wishes," despite Alice's contention that her husband was alert,
interacting with her, and wanting to go home.

The decision allows doctors at Lucerne Hospital to remove Pinette
from machines and medicines that are keeping him alive. Despite the
authorization, a hospital attorney said he would talk with his family
one more time before making any final decision, according to an
Orlando Sentinel report.

The Sentinel reported that Alice pleaded with Judge Kirkwood not to
allow the hospital to end her husband's life.

"Thou shall not kill, and I cannot kill him," Alice Pinette earlier
told the judge during testimony. "I cannot do this and live with me
[myself]. When someone is talking to you, how can you do that?"

Doctors said Pinette is kept alive by a ventilator, a dialysis
machine and medication and that he has no hope of recovery. Hospital
officials took the case to court when Alice refused to allow them to
kill her husband.

Alice said that if her husband were in a coma and unresponsive, she
would carry out the direction in the living will. However, her
husband watches football, and told family members who recently shot a
deer to "save me a steak."

She said Hanford picks and chooses to whom he will talk and showed
pictures at the trial of him seemingly alert.

But Pinette's pulmonologist Juan Herran told the Orlando newspaper
that he has not seen a cognitive response from Hanford in weeks or
months. Herran said Hanford would not likely recover from the
congestive heart failure that led to the shutdown of other vital
organs.

http://www.lifenews.com/bio579b.html



Judge Upholds Living Will Over Wife's Pleas
Updated: Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004 - 11:56 PM

By MIKE BRANOM
Associated Press Writer


Alice Pinette, second from left, and her attorney William Ruffier (in
back at left) are interviewed in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 23,
2004, after attending a hearing during which a judge upheld a living
will for Alice's husband Hanford Pinette. (AP Photo/Roberto Gonzalez,
Pool)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The living will of a 73-year-old man who is
hospitalized and on life support must be respected, a judge ruled
Tuesday, despite his wife's pleas that he be allowed to live.

Hanford Pinette can no longer communicate and is unaware of his
medical condition, which includes chronic failures of his
respiratory, circulatory and renal systems, according to medical
experts.

In 1998, Pinette signed a living will stating that death would be
preferable if he was faced with a terminal illness and incapacity.
Officials with Orlando Regional Healthcare, which runs the Lucerne
Hospital, say they have no choice but to follow his wishes, and allow
him to die with dignity.

But also in 1998, Pinette gave his wife durable power of attorney
over his affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette
insists her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled the living
will must be upheld. Otherwise, he said, those with power of attorney
could impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

Alice Pinette refused comment after the hearing. Her attorney said he
needed to read the ruling before deciding whether to appeal.

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional's lawyer, said the hospital would
work with Pinette's family to ensure his death is as painless and
peaceful as possible.

One of Pinette's doctors testified at the hearing that it is hard to
say how quickly the man would die if taken off life support. "I
cannot predict when, but that would be the end," Dr. Sanjay Muttreja
said.

Alice Pinette testified at the that her husband was communicating
with family members as recently as Sunday, and has an aware mind
trapped in a weak body.

His doctors disagreed. Pinette "clearly cannot understand what is
happening to him," Muttreja testified. Added Dr. Juan Herran: "Mr.
Pinette is in a very unfortunate situation."

The two doctors, who have treated Pinette for months, both said he is
incapacitated, can't make his own decisions and is very unlikely to
recover _ the standards for enacting the living will.

The hospital's bioethics committee agreed that Pinette's condition
was terminal.

"The committee recommended the patient's living will was valid, and
that we should follow its directive," said Carol Paris, Orlando
Regional's director of risk management.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=340940&nid=104




Central Fla. man's living will upheld despite wife's plea

By Mike Branom
The Associated Press
Posted November 24 2004



ORLANDO · A judge Tuesday upheld a living will for a 73-year-old
Central Florida man, hospitalized and on life support, despite pleas
from his wife that he is not as ill as his doctors say.

Hanford Pinette, of Clermont, cannot communicate and is unaware of
his medical condition, which includes chronic failures of his
respiratory, circulatory and renal systems, according to medical
experts at Lucerne Hospital. His health problems began in February.

In 1998, he signed a living will stating that death would be
preferable if faced with a terminal illness and incapacity. Officials
said Orlando Regional Healthcare said they had no choice but to
follow his wishes, and allow him to die with dignity.

But also in 1998, he gave his wife durable power of attorney over his
affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette insisted
her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

After 90 minutes of testimony from two doctors and Alice Pinette,
Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the living will must
be upheld. Otherwise, those with power of attorney could impose their
wishes on the incapacitated.

Alice Pinette refused comment after the hearing.

Cached



Living-will case heads to courtroom as Clermont woman tries to keep
husband alive

Anthony Colarossi
Orlando Sentinel
Posted November 18 2004



Hanford Pinette made his wishes clear in a living will -- he never
wanted to be kept alive by a machine.

Today, Pinette, 73, lies in an Orlando hospital, machines run his
lungs and kidneys to keep him alive. Doctors see an unresponsive
patient with no hope of recovery. Alice Pinette sees her husband of
53 years clinging to life.

Now, the Clermont man's fate will be fought out in a courtroom in an
unusual battle waged by Orlando Regional Healthcare System officials,
who want to let him die, against Alice Pinette, who wants to keep him
alive.

"They're just trying to pull the plugs," said Alice Pinette, 73. "...
I won't let them do it."

A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday before Orange Circuit
Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood. The outcome could have broad
implications on the enforcement of living wills, which are supposed
to remove uncertainty about a patient's wishes.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure and has
been hospitalized since February.

Pinette, who moved to Clermont from Maryland to retire with his wife,
wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned Alice Pinette to carry out
his wishes.

But he also named his wife his durable power of attorney.

Hospital lawyer David L. Evans said the hospital is trying to abide
by the patient's wishes.

Cached




Posted on Sat, Nov. 20, 2004

Hospital, wife battle over patient

By Mike Branom
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO - Alice Pinette is sure her husband of 53 years, in a
hospital hooked up to life-support machines, isn't on death's door.
He's aware of his surroundings and can communicate, she says.

That's why the Clermont woman is going to court rather than watch
Hanford Pinette be disconnected from those machines, despite a living
will stating dying would be preferable if he were ever faced with a
terminal illness and incapacity. Alice Pinette possesses a document,
signed the same day in 1998 as the living will, giving her power of
attorney over her 73-year-old husband's life.

At a court hearing Tuesday, arguments will be presented over which
legal paper trumps the other. Then Circuit Court Judge Lawrence
Kirkwood must decide not just whether Pinette should perish, but
determine a landmark right-to-die case.

"This is a brand new area of the law," said William E. Ruffier, Alice
Pinette's attorney.

Hanford Pinette wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned his wife to
carry out his wishes, designating her as his "surrogate."

In the event of a terminal condition with no probability of recovery,
Pinette stated he wanted "to die naturally" and receive medication
only to "alleviate pain."

But the power of attorney states her husband assigned her to decide
how he should be cared for, including life-prolonging measures.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure, his
wife said. He has been hospitalized since February, according to the
petition filed by Orlando Regional Healthcare, and is currently at
Lucerne Hospital.

In court documents, the hospital argues that Pinette's "renal system,
respiratory system and cardiovascular system are all being supported
by artificial means alone."

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said the
hospital maintains Pinette will not get better and the hospital wants
only to abide by his wishes.

"All we can do is come in and describe his medical condition and his
competency," Evans said last week. "We're just doing what we feel
we're legally obligated to do."

But Alice Pinette, who goes to the hospital daily, insists her
husband is far better off than the hospital believes, her attorney
said.

"People typically think of these living wills, when they sign them,
as 'If I'm in a vegetative state, hooked up to a bunch of machines
and draining my family's bank account, my wish is to not have that
artificial life support,"' Ruffier said. "But in Mr. Pinette's case,
he is alert, aware and able to still enjoy his family."

The case is being watched closely in many legal circles.

"The living will is supposed to ... supersede even the wife or a
designated surrogate," said Lauchlin Waldoch, a Tallahassee lawyer
who is on the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys' board of
directors. "This is a very good example why we, as elder-law
attorneys, preach the gospel of coming to see us."

Another expert saw the Pinettes' case as a cautionary example of why
living wills only go so far.

"The health-care surrogate is more powerful in many ways," said Scott
Solkoff, chairman of the elder-law section of the Florida Bar. "In
real life, regardless of what the statutes state, the surrogate is a
real person, not just a piece of paper."

Hanford Pinette's situation mirrors that of Terri Schiavo, the
severely brain-damaged Clearwater woman who has become a cause
celebre for pro-life activists and advocacy groups for the disabled.

In a case that brought attention to living wills, Schiavo collapsed
14 years ago and fell into what doctors say is a deep vegetative
state. While her husband wants Schiavo's feeding tube removed, her
parents say she is well enough to be kept alive.

Schiavo's fate is still working its way through the legal system; the
Pinettes are about to start on the same path.

"It's the same situation," Ruffier said. "But it's the flip side."



http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10229351.htm?
template=contentModules/printstory.jsp


___________________________________________________________________



----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
To: news@... ; lsn@... ;
Ron@...
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:12 PM
Subject: Latest Articles on Hanford "Hank" Pinette's Death


Latest articles on Hanford "Hank" Pinette's death:

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Hanford+Pinette%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-
8859-1&tab=wn&scoring=d

Note:  Many of the latest articles reporting that Hank died are now
stating that he signed his Living Will in 1988, instead of 1998, as
all previous articles have stated.  The correct date is December 8,
1998, six years to the day that he was killed.  I have proof on
videotape from CNN right before Thanksgiving which showed the Living
Will and the date it was signed, (the same date Hank signed the
Durabe Power of Attorney giving his wife, Alice the ability to make
all medical decisions for him, including life support decisions.

If the above link won't work,
go to http://www.google.com and type in the search box
"Hanford Pinette" with quotes as shown.

Then, click "search". After search results page loads, click
on "News" which appears
just above search box to right.  It is not necessary to click
on "Search" again at this point.
It will automatically search for you.  This will give you the latest
articles about Hanford Pinette.

Once THAT page of search results loads, click on "Sort by Date", at
top right of page,
  (which appears under "Results 1-? of about ? for Hanford-Pinette),
and the articles will be in the correct chronological order.
You can use this method to obtain the latest articles about any
person or subject with Google.

You may also search "Images" to find pictures on Google or
on "Groups" to find groups dedicated to that subject.
First, do a regular search on Google.  Then, after search results
page comes up, click on "Images" or "Groups".

Melissa


Central Fla. Man At Center Of Living Will Battle Dies

POSTED: 6:45 am EST December 9, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Clermont man whose living will led to a hospital
to seek permission from a judge to pull his life support has died
after doctors removed his ventilator.

Hanford L. Pinette, 73, stopped breathing less than two hours after
doctors removed the mechanical breathing apparatus at Lucerne
Hospital on Wednesday, said his wife, Alice Pinette.

"He was trying to breathe on his own," said Alice Pinette, who had
challenged the hospital's attempts to exercise her husband's living
will.


"These people, they actually killed the man," she said. "They know
what they were doing. Hank was alive, mentally. They pulled the plugs
and killed him."

Doctors and officials with Orlando Regional Healthcare System Inc.
said the military veteran was in a terminal state, could not make
decisions for himself and was unlikely to recover. He was being kept
alive by a ventilator, a dialysis machine and medication, they said.

The hospital maintained that Pinette's condition met the terms of his
living will.

In 1998, Hanford Pinette signed a living will stating that death
would be preferable if faced with a terminal illness and incapacity.
Hospital officials said they had no choice but to follow his wishes,
and allow him to die with dignity.

Pinette had also given his wife of more than 50 years durable power
of attorney over his affairs in 1998, including decisions on health
care. During the dispute, Alice Pinette insisted her husband could
communicate and wanted to live.

In November, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the
living will must be upheld or those with power of attorney could
impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

David Evans, the hospital's attorney, said the hospital told Alice
Pinette on Sunday it was planning to remove the ventilator on
Wednesday. Evans told her attorney the next day. No one gave any
indication that the family planned to appeal Kirkwood's ruling, he
said.

"They never said to me, 'Listen we're going to file an appeal.' There
was silence on their decision," said Evans.

"He passed away peacefully and with his family present. You can't ask
for more than that under the circumstances," Evans said.

Alice Pinette and her adult son Ronald both said they taped Hanford
Pinette Wednesday and said the video shows him alert and
acknowledging their presence.

"He wasn't suffering. He kept telling me, 'I want to go home with
you,'" she said. "They were determined to put this man out of this
world, and they did."

Evans said there was a clear difference of opinion between Alice
Pinette and the hospital's medical staff regarding Hanford Pinette's
responsiveness and overall condition.

http://local6.com/news/3983914/detail.html



Florida man at center of living will battle removed from ventilator

ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:15 a.m. December 9, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. – A man whose living will led a hospital to seek
permission from a judge to pull his life support died after doctors
removed his ventilator.

Hanford L. Pinette, 73, stopped breathing less than two hours after
doctors removed the mechanical breathing apparatus at Lucerne
Hospital on Wednesday, said his wife, Alice Pinette.

"He was trying to breathe on his own," said Alice Pinette, who had
challenged the hospital's attempts to exercise her husband's living
will. "These people, they actually killed the man."

Orlando Regional Healthcare System Inc. said the military veteran was
in a terminal state, could not make decisions for himself and was
unlikely to recover. He was being kept alive by a ventilator, a
dialysis machine and medication.

The hospital maintained that Pinette's condition met the terms of his
living will, which Hanford Pinette signed in 1988. It stated that
death would be preferable if faced with a terminal illness and
incapacity.

Hospital officials said they had no choice but to follow his wishes.

Pinette had also given his wife durable power of attorney over his
affairs in 1998, including decisions on health care. During the
dispute, Alice Pinette insisted her husband could communicate and
wanted to live.

In November, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the
living will must be upheld or those with power of attorney could
impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

David Evans, the hospital's attorney, said the hospital told Alice
Pinette on Sunday it was planning to remove the ventilator on
Wednesday. Evans told her attorney the next day.

No one gave any indication that the family planned to appeal
Kirkwood's ruling, he said.

http://signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20041209-0315-livingwill.html


___________________________________________________________________

Note from Melissa, saveterrrislife yahoo group owner:
Hank's wife, Alice Pinette, fought to save his life, and tried her
best to get the truth out to the world that he wanted to live, was
conscious and responsive, up to the end.  It seems as though her
attorney may not have done everything he could have done legally to
save Hank's life, according to the above news article.  At any rate,
the New World Order and their Death Cults /Doctors / Judges /
Courts / Attorneys / Hospital etc. worked together as a ferocious
killing machine to RAPIDLY KILL Hank very soon after the Judge gave
the go ahead.

I can tell you one thing, I will never have a Living Will.  The Death
Cults invented them and the Media / Propagandists highly recommend
them to us all, as mandated by the NWO Killing Machine / The Powers
That Be.

Melissa Roxanne Stanley, Volusia Co. Florida

The following information was in e-mails I sent out when I heard this
man's life was in danger of being taken.  He lived in Clermont,
Florida / Lake County, FL, which is a neighboring county to Volusia
County, Florida, where I live.  I saw him on my local news in lated
November, 2004 and followed the story until and after they killed him
on December 8, 2004.

Here is one paragraph which I wrote in an e-mail when I learned Hank
Pinette was killed:

On December 8, 1998, Hanford "Hank Pinette", a veteran with 24 years
of service, signed a Living Will.  On the same date he signed a
document giving his wife, Alice, Durable Power of Attorney which
stated she could make all of his medical decisions.  Exactly 6 years
to the day later, on December 8, 2004, Hank was disconnected from
life support and killed against his most recent wishes.

Keep in mind you will be reading many news articles which are nothing
more than propaganda from the very well paid media, (as mandated by
the New World Order / NWO Powers That Be), slanted to appear that it
is just and appropriate to end Hank's life, and what he wanted, after
all.  (This is not true as Hank indicated many times even near the
end of his life that he absolutely wanted to get well, go home, and
continue living.)  He did have a Living Will, and the Judge ruled
that it over rode the fact that he had at the exact same time, signed
a Durable Power of Attorney document giving his wife power to make
all of his medical decisions for him, including life and death
decisions.  It didn't matter that Hank was telling his wife and
others that he wanted to go home, wanted to be placed in a wheel
chair, wanted his relatives who had just killed a deer to save him
some steaks, or that he was conscious and responsive up to the day he
was killed.  His Living Will, which he signed on December 8, 1998 did
him in.  The New World Order Powers That Be will use anything they
can to kill those deemed undesireable and judged not worthy of life.
Hank is just one more "useless eater" (a term used in Nazi, Germany
for those deemed expendable), to them, but he was a courageous and
loving person to those who knew him.

Hank was a wonderful man who served his country for 24 years.  He was
a loving father and husband, and he was smiling in a picture released
soon before he died, wearing his Veterans of Foreign War cap,
pictured with his wife, Alice.  Here is the information I sent out
regarding him.  May God Bless Hank, his wife, Alice, his family and
friends.  Please keep them and all others who are in danger, who have
died, and their loved ones in your prayers.

Melissa Roxanne Stanley, DeLand, Volusia County, Florida
e-mail:  saveterrislife @ yahoo dot com
saveterrislife website owner
http://saveterrislife website owner


Information I sent out about Hanford "Hank" Pinette:


----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:51 PM
Subject: Please Help NOW to Save A Man's Life Who Is Being Murdered!


There was something on my local news which I have seen only once
regarding a man who wants to live that the hospital, doctors, Court,
etc. is trying to kill.  I tried to find information online about
this case but I did not have the man's name.  I could find nothing
until today.  I know few details, but here is what I do know:

His name is Hanford L. Pinette.  Per his wife, he wants to live and
is aware of his surroundings.  He is in the hospital now and has been
for several months at least.  His wife states she has Power of
Attorney to make all medical decisions for her husband, and the news
articles state this as well.  On the news a few days ago, Hanford's
wife stated that he has communicated and is still communicating to
her that HE WANTS TO LIVE!  On the same day he signed this Power of
Attorney, per the news article cited below, he also signed a Living
Will stating that "in the event of a terminal condition with no
probability of recovery he wanted to "die naturally" and to receive
medication only to "alleviate pain".  However, his wife states he has
no TERMINAL CONDITION and that he is now communicating to her and has
continually communicated to her that HE WANTS TO LIVE!

I have searched for her phone number online and believe I found it.
I left 2 messages on their answering machine a few minutes ago with
Ron Panzer's phone number and e-mail address and information about
Hospice Patients Alliance, urging Mrs. Pinette to call Ron.  I also
called Ron and left 2 messages on HPA's answering machine regarding
all of this.  I pray that Ron will be able to talk with Mrs. Pinette
and that he will write about this in his newsletters and get the
truth out.  I also pray that Ron and those on his e-mail list will
rally around Hanford and his wife and attempt to save his life by
getting involved, reading articles, e-mailing and calling the
hospital, court officials, Judge, etc.  I left Mrs. Pinette's phone
number and home mailing address on Ron's answering machine a few
minutes ago.  I pray all of you will get involved and post this
information on your websites, forward it to others, make phone calls
and e-mails to save this man's life.  Something was to be decided
regarding this case in court today, per the news I saw a few days
ago.

Thanks for your help in this matter!

Melissa Roxanne Stanley




NOTE:  Pls. e-mail me at saveterrislife@... if you wish to
contact me regarding this or anything else.



Hospital, Wife Battle Over Patient
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10229351.htm



More articles here:
Results 1 - 10 of about 52 for "Hanford Pinette":
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=%
22Hanford+Pinette%22

____________________________________________________________________

----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 3:07 PM
Subject: Many more articles about Harold Pinette, who is in danger of
being murdered!



Many more articles about Harold Pinette, the Clermont, Florida man
who wants to live, that is in grave danger of being murdered:


http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hanford+Pinette%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&filter=0

He lives in Lake County, the county next to where I live, (Volusia
County).

Melissa

____________________________________________________________________



----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:15 AM
Subject: MURDER IN FLORIDA: Judge Rules Against Hanford Pinette's
Wishes NOW, Stating Life Support Can Be Removed, Despite His
Communicating HE WANTS TO LIVE & Despite His Wife's Having Durable
Power of Attorney!


MURDER IN FLORIDA: Judge Rules Against Hanford Pinette's Wishes NOW,
Stating Life Support Can Be Removed, Despite His Communicating HE
WANTS TO LIVE & Despite His Wife's Having Durable Power of Attorney!


  ----- Original Message -----
From:
To: melissa-roxanne@...
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Many more articles about Hanford Pinette,who is in
danger of being murdered


My understanding is this gentlemen had his wishes in writing to not
live on life support. His body has failed and he is on a heart and
lung machine.  This is not the same as Terri.  This is a tough
case...when he has left wishes already that he does not want life
support :(

End of e-mail to me

My response to the above e-mail:
You need to go back and read my e-mail.  It stated that Hanford
Pinette IS COMMUNICATING to his wife NOW that he wishes to LIVE!  On
the news last night, Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 11 P.M. Hanford's
wife, Alice, stated that Hanford asked for a wheelchair and to be
taken home!  The news also showed a picture of him wearing his
Veterans of War cap and smiling at his wife happily.  His wife, Alice
stated how happy it made him to wear the cap.  He looked totally
happy and definitely conscious to me!

Here is the picture I found online of this:



http://www.local6.com/news/3934635/detail.html


This means he WANTS TO LIVE!  He also gave his wife durable power of
attorney to make medical decisions for him the same exact date he
signed his Living Will!

However, the corrupt bioethicists, doctors, Judge, etc. are murdering
him.


The Judge, Lawrence R. Kirkwood,



  ruled today that he will be killed.

Judge Kirkwood's LARGE picture and bio:
http://www.ninja9.org/courts/judges/kirkwood.htm

This case will set nationwide precedents in favor of the DEATH
CULTS!

CNN JUST ANNOUNCED A LITTLE WHILE AGO THAT MRS. PINETTE CANNOT
APPEAL!  I DO NOT KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE OR NOT, BUT I CANNOT BELIEVE
THAT IT IS TRUE!  The earlier local news stated an appeal is possible.

I urge all of you to do all you can to help save this man's life.
Please pray for a miracle and that God's will be done in this
matter.  Hanford WANTS to live and his wife of 53 years wants to do
what her husband wants NOW and what he is telling her he wants NOW!

Please fax, call, and e-mail the Judge, the hospital, media, and
please forward this info. to others who care regarding saving this
man's life!  I have found many phone #'s, fax #'s, and e-mail
addresses for you to contact:
(THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP AND CONCERN!  MELISSA ROXANNE STANLEY)
Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida
  Judicial Directory (Sort-able)

Judges 2004 Judicial Assistant Division Phone
(407) Chamber Location Courtroom Circuit
County
  Schedule


Kirkwood, Lawrence R.  Robinette Probate-01 407-836-2018 Orange 20-B
Circuit Online


http://www.ninja9.org/Dockets/juddir.htm
http://www.ninja9.org/courts/courthouses/dtmap.htm

Hearing Schedule
Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood


----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Day(s) Time Hearing Type
Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 9:30am Ex Parte - Please click for all
available hearing times

Notes

Judge Belvin Perry is the Alternate Judge:
All hearings are held in Hearing Room 20-B, 20th floor unless a
courtroom is needed. Trials and lengthy hearings are held in
Courtroom 19-D, 19th Floor
Judge Lawrence Kirkwood:
Phone Number: 407-836-2018
Fax Number: 407-835-5134
Judicial Assistant, (Robinette's), e-mail: ctjagr1@...



Orange County 9th Judicial Circuit Court
Location: 425 N. Orange Ave., Room 365 Orlando, Florida 32801
Hours: Monday to Friday
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Judicial Branch resource that provides enhanced court services for
the entire community, including attorneys, pro se litigants, and the
general public.  The purpose is to establish a comfortable
environment to work, to conduct legal research, and to distribute
general court information.  The Center is supported by the Ninth
Judicial Circuit and the Orange County Bar Association.  Provided
below is a list of the resources available in the Center.  Please
note that you can find many of these resources on-line.  Click on to
view video

http://www.ninja9.org/courtadmin/CourtResourceCenter/CourtResourceCent
er.htm  (Lists many resources available - See link for the list)



Court: Hospital can cut off life man's life support
By Anthony Colarossi
Sentinel Staff Writer

November 23, 2004

Orange Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ordered that an Orlando
hospital may follow through on the terms of a living will for a
terminally ill patient in the hospital's care.

Kirkwood's decision late today means the hospital can pull the life
support that has been sustaining 73-year-old Hanford Pinette.

The Orlando Regional Healthcare System went to court seeking the
judge's order in the case. The hospital argued that it wanted to
carry out Pinette's wishes as stated in his living will. That
document said Pinette did not want to "artificially prolong the
process of dying."

Hospital doctors said Pinette is in a terminal state, cannot make
decisions for himself and is unlikely to recover. He is hospitalized
at Lucerne Hospital in Orlando.

(Note from Melissa:  Please call the hospital to protest and to save
Hanford Pinette's life:
Orlando Regional Lucerne Hospital
818 Main Lane
Orlando, Florida
407 649-6111)

Doctors said today he is kept alive by a ventilator, a dialysis
machine and medication to maintain his blood pressure.

Hanford Pinette's wife, Alice Pinette, however, challenged the
hospital's position, insisting that her husband was alert and
responsive. She was designated as her husband's surrogate in the
living will.

In court today, Alice Pinette said her husband communicates with her
and "wants to go home."

"Thou shall not kill, and I cannot kill him," she said in court
today. "I cannot do this and live with me. When someone is talking to
you, how can you do that?"

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-
livingwill112304,0,1442110,print.story?coll=orl-home-headlines



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Alice Pinette, Harold's wife, who is valiantly fighting to save her
husband's life:


http://www.local6.com/news/3934635/detail.html

local6.com - News - Orlando Hospital, Wife Battle Over Patient Who
Left Living Will
http://www.local6.com/news/3934635/detail.html
Published in Local6.com - Indexed on Nov 22, 2004    Relevance:
That's why the Clermont woman is going to court rather than watch
Hanford Pinette be disconnected from those machines, despite a living
will stating dying would be preferable if he were ever faced with a
terminal illness and incapacity. Alice Pinette possesses a document,
signed the same day in 1998 as the living will, giving her power of
attorney over her 73-year-old husband's life. At a court hearing
Tuesday, arguments will be presented over which legal paper trumps
the other. Then Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood must decide not
just whether Pinette should perish, but determine a landmark right-to-
die case.


Court: Hospital can cut off life man's life support
By Anthony Colarossi
Sentinel Staff Writer

November 23, 2004

Orange Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ordered that an Orlando
hospital may follow through on the terms of a living will for a
terminally ill patient in the hospital's care.

Kirkwood's decision late today means the hospital can pull the life
support that has been sustaining 73-year-old Hanford Pinette.

The Orlando Regional Healthcare System went to court seeking the
judge's order in the case. The hospital argued that it wanted to
carry out Pinette's wishes as stated in his living will. That
document said Pinette did not want to "artificially prolong the
process of dying."

Hospital doctors said Pinette is in a terminal state, cannot make
decisions for himself and is unlikely to recover. He is hospitalized
at Lucerne Hospital in Orlando.

(Note from Melissa:  Please call the hospital to protest and to save
Hanford Pinette's life:
Orlando Regional Lucerne Hospital
818 Main Lane
Orlando, Florida
407 649-6111)

Doctors said today he is kept alive by a ventilator, a dialysis
machine and medication to maintain his blood pressure.

Hanford Pinette's wife, Alice Pinette, however, challenged the
hospital's position, insisting that her husband was alert and
responsive. She was designated as her husband's surrogate in the
living will.

In court today, Alice Pinette said her husband communicates with her
and "wants to go home."

"Thou shall not kill, and I cannot kill him," she said in court
today. "I cannot do this and live with me. When someone is talking to
you, how can you do that?"

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-
livingwill112304,0,1442110,print.story?coll=orl-home-headlines



Tuesday, November 23, 2004 · Last updated 8:56 p.m. PT

Judge upholds living will over wife's pleas

By MIKE BRANOM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER


   Alice Pinette, second from left, and her attorney William Ruffier
(in back at left) are interviewed in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 23,
2004, after attending a hearing during which a judge upheld a living
will for Alice's husband Hanford Pinette. (AP Photo/Roberto Gonzalez,
Pool)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The living will of a 73-year-old man who is
hospitalized and on life support must be respected, a judge ruled
Tuesday, despite his wife's pleas that he be allowed to live.

Hanford Pinette can no longer communicate (Note:  This is not true!
Hanford IS communicating to his wife that he WANTS TO LIVE!) and is
unaware of his medical condition, which includes chronic failures of
his respiratory, circulatory and renal systems, according to medical
experts.

In 1998, Pinette signed a living will stating that death would be
preferable if he was faced with a terminal illness and incapacity.
Officials with Orlando Regional Healthcare, which runs the Lucerne
Hospital, say they have no choice but to follow his wishes, and allow
him to die with dignity (Note:  No, they are murdering a man against
his wishes!).

But also in 1998, Pinette gave his wife durable power of attorney
over his affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette
insists her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled the living
will must be upheld. Otherwise, he said, those with power of attorney
could impose their wishes on the incapacitated.  (Note:  Hanford's
wife is trying to carry out HIS WISHES!)

Alice Pinette refused comment after the hearing. Her attorney said he
needed to read the ruling before deciding whether to appeal.

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional's lawyer, said the hospital would
work with Pinette's family to ensure his death is as painless and
peaceful as possible.  (Note:  It's still MURDER!)

One of Pinette's doctors testified at the hearing that it is hard to
say how quickly the man would die if taken off life support. "I
cannot predict when, but that would be the end," Dr. Sanjay Muttreja
said.

Alice Pinette testified at the that her husband was communicating
with family members as recently as Sunday, and has an aware mind
trapped in a weak body.

His doctors disagreed. Pinette "clearly cannot understand what is
happening to him," Muttreja testified. Added Dr. Juan Herran: "Mr.
Pinette is in a very unfortunate situation."  (Note:  Yes, he is
ABOUT TO BE MURDERED, DEFINITELY A VERY UNFORTUNATE SITUATION!)

The two doctors, who have treated Pinette for months, both said he is
incapacitated, can't make his own decisions (Note:  Mrs. Pinette
states Hanford has communicated to her that he WANTS TO LIVE and has
communicated with family members as recently as Sunday, November, 21,
2004!)  and is very unlikely to recover - the standards for enacting
the living will.

The hospital's bioethics committee agreed that Pinette's condition
was terminal.

"The committee recommended the patient's living will was valid, and
that we should follow its directive," said Carol Paris, Orlando
Regional's director of risk management.

(Note:  Living Wills were invented by the Death Cults - as I refer to
the so called Death With Dignity, Right to Die etc. groups-Melissa).

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?
category=1110&slug=Living%20Will



Hospital Wins Battle Over Patient Who Left A Living Will

POSTED: 4:59 pm EST November 23, 2004
UPDATED: 5:52 pm EST November 23, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday that the living
will of a man connected to life-support machines trumps the document
his wife has that would have given her power of attorney over her
husband's life.  (Note:  She still HAS durable power of attorney!
Hanford has recently stated to Alice Pinette that he wants to live!
He is not incapacitated, but is conscious and communicating, per his
wife, Alice Pinette!  Melissa)


Alice Pinette said her husband of 53 years should not be disconnected
from life-support machines, despite a living will stating he would
prefer to die if he was faced with a terminal illness or incapacity.

The hospital argued that Pinette's "renal system, respiratory system
and cardiovascular system are all being supported by artificial means
alone."


But Alice had a document, signed the same day in 1998 as the living
will, giving her power of attorney over her 73-year-old husband's
life.

The power of attorney states her husband assigned her to decide how
he should be cared for, including life-prolonging measures.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure. He has
been hospitalized since February, according to the petition filed by
Orlando Regional Healthcare.

http://www.wftv.com/health/3944488/detail.html




Published Sunday, November 21, 2004

Despite Will, Wife Fights to Keep Life-Support

By MIKE BRANOM
The Associated Press

ORLANDO -- Alice Pinette is sure her husband of 53 years, in a
hospital hooked up to life-support machines, isn't on death's door.
He's aware of his surroundings and can communicate, she says.

That's why the Clermont woman is going to court rather than watch
Hanford Pinette be disconnected from those machines, despite a living
will stating dying would be preferable if he were ever faced with a
terminal illness and incapacity. Alice Pinette possesses a document,
signed the same day in 1998 as the living will, giving her power of
attorney over her 73-year-old husband's life.

At a court hearing Tuesday, arguments will be presented over which
legal paper trumps the other. Then Circuit Court Judge Lawrence
Kirkwood must decide not just whether Pinette should perish, but
determine a landmark right-to-die case.

"This is a brand new area of the law," said William E. Ruffier, Alice
Pinette's lawyer.

Hanford Pinette wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned his wife to
carry out his wishes, designating her as his "surrogate."

In the event of a terminal condition with no probability of recovery,
Pinette stated he wanted "to die naturally" and receive medication
only to "alleviate pain."

But the power of attorney states her husband assigned her to decide
how he should be cared for, including life-prolonging measures.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure, his
wife said. He has been hospitalized since February, according to the
petition filed by Orlando Regional Healthcare, and is currently at
Lucerne Hospital.

In court documents, the hospital argues that Pinette's "renal system,
respiratory system and cardiovascular system are all being supported
by artificial means alone."

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said the
hospital maintains Pinette will not get better and the hospital wants
only to abide by his wishes.

"All we can do is come in and describe his medical condition and his
competency," Evans told the Orlando Sentinel earlier this
month. "We're just doing what we feel we're legally obligated to do."

But Alice Pinette, who goes to the hospital daily, insists her
husband is far better off than the hospital believes, her lawyer said.

"People typically think of these living wills, when they sign them,
as `If I'm in a vegetative state, hooked up to a bunch of machines
and draining my family's bank account, my wish is to not have that
artificial life support,' " Ruffier said. "But in Mr. Pinette's case,
he is alert, aware and able to still enjoy his family."

The case is being watched closely in many legal circles.

"The living will is supposed to . . . supersede even the wife or a
designated surrogate," said Lauchlin Waldoch, a Tallahassee lawyer
who is on the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys' board of
directors. "This is a very good example why we, as elder law
attorneys, preach the gospel of coming to see us."

Another expert saw the Pinettes' case as a cautionary example of why
living wills only go so far.

"The health care surrogate is more powerful in many ways," said Scott
Solkoff, chairman of the elder-law section of the Florida Bar. "In
real life, regardless of what the statutes state, the surrogate is a
real person, not just a piece of paper."

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20041121/NEWS/411210381/1004





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Do You Need an Advance Directive?

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If you are young and healthy, do you need an advance directive?
If you are in poor health, do you need an advance directive?

If you have discussed your wishes about health care decisions with
your family, do you need an advance directive?

The answer is to each of these questions is "yes."

You are at risk unless you have taken the simple but necessary step
of signing an advance directive that will protect you if you are ever
unable to make your own health care decisions. This is known as a
durable power of attorney for health care.

It's not the same as another type of advance directive known as
a "living will." (The living will -- sometimes called a "directive"
or a "declaration" -- is downright dangerous. It actually gives power
over your life and death to an unknown physician.)

In a durable power of attorney for health care, you designate a
trusted family member or friend to make health care decisions for you
if you are unable – either temporarily or permanently – to do so for
yourself.

Most people think such a document is only for those who are very sick
or very old. That's not true. It's absolutely essential for anyone
who is 18 years old or older.

Some (but not all) states have laws to cover a patient who hasn't
designated someone to make health care decisions. Such laws contain
a "priority listing" of those who can make decisions for an
incapacitated patient. But, in some states, those decisions may be
limited to withholding or withdrawing treatment. They may not give
the necessary authority to protect a patient. In other states, the
law gives doctors the power to decide for patients if there are
conflicts among those on the list.

Here are just three illustrations of what can happen if you haven't
specifically named someone to make your health care decisions:

Bob is a 19-year-old college student. He is seriously injured in a
sports accident. His condition is now stabilized. He is expected to
improve, but he is not able to communicate yet. Some decisions must
be made about his therapy and treatment.
Bob's parents are unable to get information from his medical records
and have no authority to make decisions for him because Bob is in a
state that does not have a priority listing of decision makers.

Joe and Sally are married with three children – 15-year-old Bob, 18-
year-old Tom and 20-year-old Mary. Driving home from a local
restaurant, Joe and Sally are hit head-on by another car. Joe is
killed. Sally is in critical condition.
Sally's twin sister, Sue, who is very close to Sally and with whom
Sally had often discussed her wishes about health care, rushes to the
hospital. She attempts to get information about Sally's condition.
She is told the law prohibits disclosing such information to her.
Instead, the information can be given to Tom and Mary who, under
state law, have the authority to make medical decisions for their
mother.

Unfortunately, Tom and Mary do not get along with each other and the
law requires agreement between them before any action can be taken.
This leads to a delay in authorizing treatment that could have vastly
improved Sally's ability to recover fully.

Alex is a 57-year old truck driver. While mowing the lawn, he has a
heart attack. Due to a lack of oxygen, he has sustained brain damage.
He hasn't named anyone to make health care decisions but he lives in
a state with a priority listing that gives his wife, Anna, first
priority in making his decisions. Anna knows that Alex would not want
a ventilator but would want to be tube fed if necessary.
Alex is breathing on his own and is being fed by tube. His brother,
Dave, objects to the tube feeding. The doctor in charge of Alex's
care thinks the tube feeding should be stopped.

In the state where Alex and Anna live, the attending physician or an
advanced practice nurse can select a decision-maker who is ranked
lower in priority if, in his or her judgment, that person is "better
qualified." Because Dave agrees with him, the doctor decides Dave is
better qualified than Anna to make decisions for Alex. The tube is
removed and, 12 days later, Alex dies of dehydration.

To be certain that a person you trust will be making decisions for
you if you can't do so yourself, you must have a durable power of
attorney for health care that specifically names that person.

As with any legal document, the wording of the durable power of
attorney for health care is critically important. And it must comply
with the laws in your state.

That's why the International Task Force formulated the Protective
Medical Decisions Document (PMDD). The PMDD is a durable power of
attorney for health care that has been drafted to protect you.

It gives the person you name to make your health care decisions the
authority to act on your behalf. That person is generally referred to
as your "agent."

The PMDD limits your agent's authority in one specific way. It
clearly states that your agent does not have the authority to approve
the direct and intentional ending of your life.

For example, your agent may not authorize that you be given a lethal
injection or an intentional drug overdose. Further, your agent may
not direct that you be denied food or fluids for the purpose of
causing your death by starvation or dehydration.

This limitation not only protects you, but it also protects your
agent from being subjected to pressure to authorize such actions.

The PMDD also has specific directions that are necessary in the
current medical climate.

For example, some health care providers have taken it upon themselves
to put Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders in place without the patient's
or agent's authorization. Similarly, some health care providers,
ethics committees and health facilities are making decision about
what is "appropriate" or "beneficial" based on institutional cost-
containment considerations, not on the basis of what is best for or
wanted by the patient.

The PMDD makes it clear that DNR orders and decisions about what
is "appropriate" or "beneficial" are to be made only by your agent
(if you're not able to do so).

There's something else.

Some states require that, when a durable power of attorney for health
care is distributed in printed form, it must have a specifically
printed "notice" or "warning." The ITF distributes state-specific
PMDDs for those states as well as a Multi-State PMDD for use in other
states.

A PMDD protects you.

When you have a PMDD, you or someone you've selected – not some
unknown physician or nameless bureaucrat – will make your health care
decisions.

Filling out a PMDD takes only a few minutes – far less time than
applying for health insurance, car insurance or even applying for a
credit card. And it can be even more important.

Having a PMDD can mean the difference between life and death.

Each PMDD packet contains: detailed questions and answers about the
PMDD, a checklist to use when signing your PMDD; three PMDD forms (so
that you can provide documents with your original signature to your
agent and to any alternate agents); and a wallet card on which you
can write the names and phone numbers of your agent and alternate
agents so they can be reached in case of an accident or emergency.

If you don't already have an advance directive, the PMDD packet is a
must. If you have another type of advance directive, review the PMDD
and decide whether you may wish to replace your existing document.

And, if you already have a PMDD, now is the time to see to it that
each and every member of your family and all of your friends have one
as well.

While you may never be in a situation where a PMDD will be needed,
isn't it a good idea to prepare for the worst while hoping for the
best?

Isn't it better to be safe than sorry?

............

      To obtain a PMDD, call the International Task Force (800-958-
5678) or see the International Task Force order information.


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Advance Directives

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ADVANCE DIRECTIVE

An advance directive is a document by which a person makes provision
for health care decisions in the event that, in the future, he/she
becomes unable to make those decisions.

There are two main types of advance directive -- the "Living Will"
and the "Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care." There are also
hybrid documents which combine elements of the Living Will with those
of the Durable Power of Attorney.


LIVING WILL

A Living Will is the oldest type of health care advance directive.

It is a signed, witnessed (or notarized) document called
a "declaration" or "directive." Most declarations instruct an
attending physician to withhold or withdraw medical interventions
from its signer if he/she is in a terminal condition and is unable to
make decisions about medical treatment.

Since an attending physician who may be unfamiliar with the signer's
wishes and values has the power and authority to carry out the
signer's directive, certain terms contained in the document may be
interpreted by the physician in a manner that was not intended by the
signer.

Family members and others who are familiar with the signer's values
and wishes have no legal standing to interpret the meaning of the
directive.


DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE

A Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care is a signed, witnessed
(or notarized) document in which the signer designates an agent to
make health care decisions if the signer is temporarily or
permanently unable to make such decisions.

Unlike most Living Wills, the Durable Power of Attorney for Health
Care does not require that the signer have a terminal condition.

An agent must be chosen with great care since the agent will have
great power and authority to make decisions about whether health care
will be provided, withheld or withdrawn from the signer.

It is extremely important that the signer carefully discuss his/her
values, wishes and instructions with the agent before and at the time
the document is signed. Such discussions may also continue after the
document is signed.

It is also important that the agent be willing to exercise his/her
power and authority to make certain that the signer's values, wishes
and instructions are respected.


COMBINATION ADVANCE DIRECTIVE

A combination advance directive is a signed, witnessed (or notarized)
document which contains specific written directions that are to be
followed by a named agent.

Since it is not possible to predict all circumstances that may be
faced in the future or to cover all possible interventions, specific
directions may severely limit the discretion and flexibility that the
agent needs and may restrict the agent's authority in a way the
signer did not intend.

In addition, the specific written directions may not be altered
through discussions between the signer and the agent. Any changes
necessitate a new document to reflect nuances or changed directions.

It is important that all adults consider who will make medical
decisions for them if they are temporarily or permanently unable to
make them for themselves.

Unless a person has an advance directive, many health care providers
and institutions will make critical decisions for him/her or a court
may appoint a guardian who is unfamiliar with the person's values and
wishes.

PROTECTIVE MEDICAL DECISIONS DOCUMENT (PMDD)

The PMDD is a protective Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
which is available from the International Task Force on Euthanasia
and Assisted Suicide.

In the PMDD the signer names a trusted person to make health care
decisions in the event that the signer is temporarily or permanently
unable to make such decisions.

The PMDD, which specifically prohibits assisted suicide and
euthanasia, is available in a Multi-State version for use in most
states. It is also available in state-specific versions for states
where particular requirements make a state-specific version
necessary.


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http://internationaltaskforce.org/advdir.htm




Latest International Task Force Update. (7/20/04)


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"Disabling Assisted Suicide" (National Review Online, 1/19/04)
Disability rights activists have derailed the assisted-suicide
movement.

Oregon v. Ashcroft Text of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision,
Overview, Text of Directive, ITF amicus brief and more.

"Assisted Suicide: The Continuing Debate"
Extensively documented article about assisted suicide in the United
States through December 2000. Includes initiative, legislative and
court developments as well as statistics, background information,
etc. (139 Kb)

"Assisted Suicide, Liberal Individualism, and Visceral
Jurisprudence..." (Alaska Law Review, Vol 20, No. 2) Eric A. Johnson,
Assistant Solicitor General, New York State Department of Law and
former Chief Assistant Attorney General in Alaska Department of Law
argues that a constitutional right to assisted suicide would have to
be grounded on the detrimental assumption that disabilities make life
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• Statistics
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FOOD AND FLUIDS
Includes Questions and Answers about "Artificial Feeding" and
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Answers to most common questions

FUNDING FOR RIGHT-TO-DIE GROUPS
Dying for the Cause: Funding for the right to die (from Philanthropy
Today)
Philanthropy's Brave New World: Will those who give decide who should
live? (from Philanthropy Today)



Justice Department asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear Oregon assisted
suicide case (Newsday, 11/9/04)
Overview of Oregon v. Ashcroft.

California lawmakers prepare to push for assisted suicide
(Washington Times, 11/9/04)

"Dying to Donate?  The transplant-medicine community should reassure
the public"
(National Review, 10/20/04)


"Death's border less defined...Legal definitions vary by state"
(Denver Post, 10/8/04)

  "Now They Want to Euthanize Children In The Netherlands (Weekly
Standard, 9/13/04).

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"People typically think of these living wills, when they sign them,
as 'If I'm in a vegetative state, hooked up to a bunch of machines
and draining my family's bank account, my wish is to not have that
artificial life support."

http://www.newscoast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20041119/APN/411190907



"The health care surrogate is more powerful in many ways," said Scott
Solkoff, chairman of the elder-law section of the Florida Bar. "In
real life, regardless of what the statutes state, the surrogate is a
real person, not just a piece of paper."

http://www.newscoast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20041119/APN/411190907&Page=2


More on Hanford in my next post.
Melissa Roxanne Stanley
saveterrislife yahoo group owner and
http://saveterrislife.com website owner

Note from saveterrislife / Melissa Roxanne Stanley:  I am a Christian
and do not agree with most of the writings about God contained in "An
Auschwitz Alphabet" and other writings contained in this section.  I
know God exists, loves each and every one of us, and wants us all to
be in Paradise with Him.  It is up to each of us to accept or reject
Him.  God does not reject us.  It is our own choice where we will
spend eternity.


saveterrislife / Melissa Roxanne Stanley



16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

John 3:16-21
King James Version

http://www.justbible.com/Chapters/B43C003.htm



Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14:6
KJV

http://www.justbible.com/Chapters/b43C014.htm#V6




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Epitaph

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...in this war morality, national solidarity, patriotism and the
ideals of freedom, justice and human dignity had all slid off man
like a rotten rag. We said that there is no crime that a man will not
commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will
commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them
first out of duty, then from habit, and finally--for pleasure.
Borowski, p. 168.

Tadeusz Borowski killed himself in 1951, at age 29, after having
become an agent of the Communist government and author of hate
literature.


It can happen, and it can happen everywhere. I do not intend to nor
can I say that it will happen...it is not very probable that all the
factors that unleashed the Nazi madness will again occur
simultaneously but precursory signs loom before us...It only awaits
its new buffoon (there is no dearth of candidates) to organize it,
legalize it, declare it necessary and mandatory, and so contaminate
the world.
Levi, Drowned, pp. 199-200.

Primo Levi died in 1987, age 68, in a fall down the stairs of his
Turin apartment house. This is thought but not known to have been
suicide.

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THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!



An Auschwitz Alphabet
Compiled, and with commentary and original content by, Jonathan
Wallace jw@...
Introduction

Arbeit Macht Frei
Block 10
Clothing and nakedness
Doctors
Escape
Filth and cleanliness
God
Hope
Injections
The Judge
Krematoria
Language
Muselmanner
Nutrition
Ordnungsdienst
Perpetrators
Question
Resistance
Selections
Tomorrow morning
United States
Victims
Why
Xrays
Yesterday and Today
Zyklon B


Epitaphs
An Excerpt From the Passover Service

What I Learned From Auschwitz


An Interview With Ken McVay
A Letter From My Uncle

Sources: Books; Links


http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html




Read and Search
The Holy Bible,
King James Version, here:  http://www.justbible.com/index.htm

An Auschwitz Alphabet

*(Note from saveterrislife / Melissa:  I am a Christian and do not
agree with the section(s) / views on God).

http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html

Compiled, and with commentary and original content by, Jonathan
Wallace jw@...
Introduction

Arbeit Macht Frei
Block 10
Clothing and nakedness
Doctors
Escape
Filth and cleanliness
God (Note from saveterrislife / Melissa:  I am a Christian and do not
agree with the section(s) / views on God).
Hope
Injections
The Judge
Krematoria
Language
Muselmanner
Nutrition
Ordnungsdienst
Perpetrators
Question
Resistance
Selections
Tomorrow morning
United States
Victims
Why
Xrays
Yesterday and Today
Zyklon B


Epitaphs
An Excerpt From the Passover Service

What I Learned From Auschwitz


An Interview With Ken McVay
A Letter From My Uncle

Sources: Books; Links



THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT



AN AUSCHWITZ ALPHABET
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EXCERPTS FROM "AN AUSCHWITZ ALPHABET"

Injections

The most medical of all Auschwitz killing methods was the phenol
injection, which was institutionalized during the relatively early
phases of Auschwitz. A patient was brought to a treatment room and
there administered a drug by a physician or (in most cases) his
assistant, who wore a white coat and used a syringe and needle for
the injection. In camp jargon, there were the active verb spritzen
(to "inject, squirt, spray"), the passive verb abgespritzt ("to be
injected off", or killed) and equivalent noun forms
meaning "syringing" and "phenoling".
Initially, phenol was injected into a victim's vein, maximizing the
medical aura of the entire procedure...Before long, the technique was
changed to injecting the phenol directly into the heart. Some
witnesses thought that the change was made because the veins were
sometimes hard to locate, but the real reason seems to have been the
greater killing efficiency of a direct cardiac injection. Patients
injected by vein might linger for minutes or even an hour or
more...The "concentrated aqueous solution of phenol" that was
developed proved "inexpensive, easy to use, and absolutely effective
when introduced into the heart ventricle", so that an injection of
ten to fifteen millileters into the heart caused death within fifteen
seconds.

Phenol injections were given in Block 20:

At that point two Jewish prisoner assistants brought a victim into
the room (sometimes victims were brought in two at a time) and
positioned him or her on a footstool, usually so that the right arm
covered the victim's eyes and the left arm was raised sideways in a
horizontal position....The idea was for the victim's chest to be
thrust out so that the cardiac area was maximally accessible for the
lethal injection, and for him or her to be unable to see what was
happening....The person giving the injection--most often the SDG
Josef Klehr--filled his syringe from the bottle and then thrust the
needle directly into the heart of the seated prisoner and emptied the
contents of the syringe.

Thus, an average of two minutes and 22 seconds sufficed to murder one
prisoner.

Lifton, 254-259.

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Krematoria

Himmler inspected Auschwitz on March 1, 1941, and ordered that a POW
camp be built...Among other projects, the plan provided for the
construction of a crematorium capable of incinerating 1,440 bodies in
24 hours. It was projected to consist of five three-retort ovens for
burning bodies, one oven for burning refuse, and one underground
mortuary. The site was to be in the main camp at Auschwitz.
In consideration of the ongoing preparations for the extermination of
Jews, it was decided to adapt the installation for mass killing by
constructing a gas chamber next to it, in an underground facility
also dedicated as a mortuary. The second room was to serve as
a "dressing room". Both were to be ventilated mechanically.

An order placed with the firm Topf and Sons of Erfurt on October 22,
1941, stressed the urgency of the entire undertaking, demanding fast
delivery: two weeks for technical drawings of the foundations and
three months for parts of the ovens...However, before the
construction work began, Heinz Kammler, chief of Group C of the SS
Economic-Administrative Main Office and one of the closest associates
of Himmler, arrived at Auschwitz on February 27, 1942 and ordered
that the five-oven crematorium projected for Auschwitz be constructed
at Birkenau.

Despite the hectic pace of work, which went on day and night, the
approved deadlines for launching the crematoria failed to be met. The
camp administration did not take delivery of the crematoria and gas
chambers until the spring and summer of 1943...

A letter from the Zentralbauleitung to Group C of June 28, 1943
indicates that the capacity for a 24-hour period was estimated at 340
bodies for crematorium I; 1,440 each for crematoria II and III; and
768 each for crematoria IV and V. Thus the five crematoria could
incinerate 4,765 bodies each day...

The furnace room occupied the largest interior space on the ground
floor of the crematorium. It housed five furnaces, each with three
retorts (about 2m long, 80 cm wide, and 1m high) that were used to
push the bodies into the furnace. There were two generators of coke
gas on the opposite side. The fumes were funneled to a single chimney
through flues under the floor. Initially, the furnaces of crematorium
II were equipped with a forced-draft installation. The draft was
produced by three intake ventilators situated between the furnaces
and the chimney. Within a short time, however, they burned out...

In addition, crematoria II and III were equipped with special
furnaces for incinerating less-valuable articles, such as personal
papers, women's purses, books, and toys that were found in the
luggage of the murdered victims...The disinfected hair of gassed
women was dried in the attic...

In the gas chamber's anteroom, the bodies were relieved of spectacles
and artificial limbs, and the women's hair was cut off. Thereupon the
corpses were loaded on the elevator platform and lifted to the ground
floor. Some of the corpses were dragged directly to the oven area.
Others were moved to the corpse storage room opposite the elevator,
which also served as a site of executions by shooting. Just before
incineration, Sonderkommando prisoners removed jewelry, which they
tossed into a special numbered crate.

Teeth with metal fillings, crowns, and bridges made of gold or other
precious metals were extracted from the mouths of the gassed victims
and deposited in a crate marked "Zahnstation" (dental station)....

It took about four hours to empty the gas chamber. Initially, the
corpses were delivered to the furnaces on small trolleys that ran on
rails, as was done in the main camp. The trolleys also served to load
the corpses into the furnace retorts. This arrangement, however, did
not last long. On the initiative of the Kapo August Bruck, special
corpse stretchers, which could be rolled into the retorts, were
introduced. To facilitate the loading, the corpse stretchers were
lubricated with soapy water. Methods of loading the corpses varied;
each team servicing the furnaces had its own technique. For example,
H. Tauber's team would put two corpses into one retort two times,
then add as many children's corpses as possible to the second load.

It took about 20 minutes to cremate three corpses in one retort.
However, in their efforts to reduce the number of loadings, prisoners
cremated four to five corpses at one time, and extended the cremation
time to about 25 to 30 minutes. When the time was up, the next load
would be put into the retort, regardless of the degree of
incineration of the preceding load. The incompletely incinerated
bones fell through the grill into the ash pit, were ground with
wooden mortars along with the ashes, then poured into pits near the
crematorium. Next they were removed from the pits and poured into the
Vistula river or nearby ponds. Sometimes they were used to prepare
compost; other times they were used directly to fertilize the fields
of the camp farms.

Anatomy, pp. 164-170.


Great columns of smoke rise from the crematoria and merge up above
into a huge black river which very slowly floats across the sky over
Birkenau and disappears beyond the forests in the direction of
Trzebinia. The "Sosnowiec-Bedzin" transport is already burning.
Borowski, p. 49.


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Nutrition
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Theoretically, each prisoner was entitled to a daily ration of 350
grams of bread, half a liter of ersatz coffee for breakfast, and one
liter of turnip and potato potato soup for lunch. Also, four times a
week each prisoner was to receive a soup ration of 20 grams of meat,
but in practice soup rarely reached the bowls from which the
prisoners ate. The official daily value of food for prisoners
employed in light work stood at 1,700 calories and for prisoners
doing strenuous work, 2,150 calories. An analysis done after the war
of the actual food content ranged from 1,300 calories for light-work
prisoners to 1,700 calories for prisoners performing hard labor. The
difference was caused by plunder of food by SS personnel and
functionary-prisoners. Inequality pervaded the food distribution
system. The kapo, or the prisoner entrusted with ladling out the
soup, made sure that the thicker, more nourishing contents from the
bottom would reach "proper" prisoners, whereas the others had to
content themselves with a watery substance from the top of the pot...
Under these conditions, supplementary food was tantamount to
survival... The bread ration thus served as a currency of sorts. The
functionaries, who made up perhaps 3 to 5 percent of the prisoner
population, exchanged their supplementary bread and soup for higher-
quality and tastier victuals.

Prisoners condemned to subsist on the official ration lost weight
rapidly, and their survival odds diminished accordingly.

Anatomy, pp. 24-25.


During an air-raid
Near the kitchen, two cauldrons of steaming hot soup had been left,
half full. Two cauldrons of soup, right in the middle of the path,
with no one guarding them!...

Suddenly, we saw the door of Block 37 open imperceptibly. A man
appeared, crawling like a worm in the direction of the cauldrons.

Hundreds of eyes followed his movements. Hundreds of men crawled with
him, scraping their knees with his on the gravel. Every heart
trembled, but with envy above all. This man had dared.

He reached the first cauldron. Hearts raced: he had succeeded.
Jealousy consumed us, burned us up like straw. We never thought for a
moment of admiring him. Poor hero, committing suicide for a ration of
soup! In our thoughts, we were murdering him.

Stretched out by the cauldron, he was now trying to raise himself up
to the edge. Either from weakness or fear, he stayed there, trying,
no doubt, to muster up the last of his strength. At last he succeeded
in hoisting himself onto the edge of the pot. For a moment, he seemed
to be looking at himself, seeking his ghostlike reflection in the
soup. Then, for no apparent reason, he let out a terrible cry, a
rattle such as I had never heard before, and, his mouth open, thrust
his head toward the still steaming liquid. We jumped at the
explosion. Falling back onto the ground, his face stained with soup,
the man writhed for a few seconds at the foot of the cauldron, then
he moved no more.

Wiesel, pp. 56-57.


We have learnt the value of food; now we also diligently scrape the
bottom of the bowl after the ration and we hold it under our chins
when we eat bread so as not to lose the crumbs. We, too, know it is
not the same thing to be given a ladlefull of soup from the top or
from the bottom of the vat, and we are already able to judge,
according to the capacity of the various vats, what is the most
suitable place to try and reach in the queue when we line up...
Here I am, then, on the bottom. One learns quickly enough to wipe out
the past and the future when one is forced to. A fortnight after my
arrival I already had the prescribed hunger, that chronic hunger
unknown to free men, which makes one dream at night, and settles in
all the limbs of one's body...

The Market is always very active...Here scores of prisoners driven
desperate by hunger prowl around, with lips half-open and eyes
gleaming, lured by a deceptive instinct to where the merchandise
shown makes the gnawing of their stomachs more acute and their
salvation more assiduous. In the best cases they possess a miserable
half-ration of bread which, with painful effort, they have saved
since the morning, in the senseless hope of a chance to make an
advantageous bargain with some ingenuous person, unaware of the
prices of the moment. Some of these, with savage patience, acquire
with their half-ration two pints of soup which, once in their
possession, they subject to a methodical examination with a view to
extracting the few pieces of potato lying at the bottom; this done,
they exchange it for bread, and the bread for another two pints to
denaturalize, and so on, until their nerves are exhausted, or until
some victim, catching them in the act, inflicts on them a severe
lesson, exposing them to public derision.

Levi, Survival, pp. 33, 36-37, 78.

The average diet in Auschwitz permitted a prisoner to remain alive no
more than three months, after which time symptoms of emaciation
and "hunger disease" set in; and the early hospital blocks served as
places "where the people suffering from the hunger disease could
spend the time from the beginning of the sickness until their death."
Lifton, p. 187.

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Perpetrators
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Adolf Eichmann was the bureaucrat in charge of Jewish emigration from
pre-war Germany and, later, of the logistics of collecting the Jews
and shipping them to concentration camps. In the former role, he had
worked closely with the leadership of Jewish communities. He was
kidnapped in Argentina by Israeli forces in 1960 and taken to Israel,
where he was put on trial, convicted and hanged. Eichmann visited
Auschwitz on a number of occasions, and told the following story to
his Israeli interrogator:

Now and then, the comedy breaks into the horror itself, and results
in stories, presumably true enough, whose macabre humor surpasses
that of any Surrealist invention. Such was the story told by Eichmann
during the police examination about the unlucky Kommerzialrat Storfer
of Vienna, one of the representatives of the Jewish community.
Eichmann had recieved a telegram from Rudolf Hoss, Commandant of
Auschwitz, telling him that Storfer had arrived and had urgently
requested to see Eichmann. "I said to myself: OK, this man has always
behaved well, that is worth my while... I'll go there myself and see
what is the matter with him. And I go to Ebner [chief of the Gestapo
in Vienna], and Ebner says--I remember it only vaguely--'If only he
had not been so clumsy; he went into hiding and tried to escape,'
something of the sort. And the police arrested him and sent him to
the concentration camp, and, according to the orders of the
Reichsfuhrer [Himmler], no one could get out once he was in. Nothing
could be done, neither Dr. Ebner nor I nor anybody else could do
anything about it. I went to Auschwitz and asked Hoss to see
Storfer. 'Yes, yes, [Hoss said], he is in one of the labor gangs.'
With Storfer afterward, it was normal and human, we had a normal,
human encounter. He told me all his grief and sorrow: I said: 'Well,
my dear old friend [Ja, mein lieber guter Storfer], we certainly got
it! What rotten luck!' And I also said, 'Look, I really cannot help
you, because according to orders from the Reichsfuhrer nobody can get
out. I can't get you out. Dr. Ebner can't get you out...And then I
asked him how he was. And he said, yes, he wondered if he couldn't be
let off work, it was heavy work. And then I said to Hoss: 'Work--
Storfer won't have to work!' But Hoss said: 'Everyone works here.' So
I said, 'OK,' I said, 'I'll make out a chit to the effect that
Storfer has to keep the gravel paths in order with a broom,' there
were little gravel paths there, 'and that he has the right to sit
down with his broom on one of the benches.' [To Storfer] I
said: 'Will that be all right, Mr. Storfer? Will that suit you?'
Whereupon he was very pleased, and we shook hands, and then he was
given the broom, and sat down on his bench. It was a great inner joy
to me that I could at least see the man with whom I had worked for so
many long years, and that we could speak with each other.' Six weeks
after this normal human encounter, Storfer was dead--not gassed,
apparently, but shot.

Arendt, pp. 50-51.


It is not clear which were the gravel paths which Storfer was
appointed to sweep; but Primo Levi says that the paths in the S.S.
village adjoining the camp were spread with human ashes and bits of
bone from the crematoria (Levi, Drowned, p. 125.)


Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski was an Einsatzgruppen general in the East
responsible for the shooting of hundreds of thousands of Jews. (About
two million of the war's six million Jewish victims were killed in
this manner.) During a visit during which Himmler witnessed the
murder of one hundred Jews, Bach-Zelewski told him:
Look at the eyes of the men in this Kommando, how deeply shaken they
are! These men are finished (fertig) for the rest of their lives.
What kind of followers are we training here? Either neurotics or
savages!

In 1942, Bach-Zelewski had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized
for "psychic exhaustion" and "hallucinations connected with the
shootings of Jews" However, he recovered and went back to killing
(Lifton, pp. 159, 437).

Bach-Zelewski's fate after the war makes an interesting footnote. He
was tried in 1961 for his part in the murders of the S.A., the rival
German military arm, in 1934, and sentenced to three and one half
years; he was then tried again in 1962 for the murder of six
Communists in 1933, and sentenced to life. Neither indictment
mentioned his Einsatzgruppen activities. Arendt says: "He was also
the only one in this category who in 1952 had denounced himself
publicly for mass murder, but he was never prosecuted for it" (p. 16).


What is Bach-Zelewski's relevance to Auschwitz? His difficulties were
the inspiration for the decision to use gas as the means of murder.
Hoss, the Auschwitz kommandant, wrote:
I had heard Eichmann's description of Jews being mown down by the
Einsatzkommandos armed with machine guns and machine pistols. Many
gruesome scenes are said to have taken place, people running away
after being shot, the finishing off of the wounded and particularly
of the women and the children. Many members of the Einsatzkommandos,
unable to endure wading through blood any longer, had committed
suicide. Some had even gone mad. Most of the members of these
Kommandos had to rely on alcohol when carrying out their horrible
work.

Lifton, p. 159.

Hoss, the architect and creator of the most prominent of death camps,
began the search that resulted in the selection of Zyklon B as the
agent of killing.

Hoss wrote his memoirs in 1947, shortly before he was hung for his
role in the murder of the victims of Auschwitz. He may be the
prototypical Nazi. He was raised religious and had participated in
pilgrimages to Lourdes and other shrines. He entered the military and
then became involved with the Nazis at the very beginning. In 1923,
he participated in beating a suspected informer to death and was sent
to prison, where he went mad:

Then I would sink exhausted onto the bed and fall asleep, only to
wake again after a short time bathed in sweat from my nightmares. In
these confused dreams, I was always being pursued and killed, or
falling over a precipice.

Freed in an amnesty in 1928, he later joined the SS under Himmler and
was assigned to construct a camp in the Polish town of Oswiecim
(Auschwitz to the Germans) in 1940. He had already served at Dachau,
where he was uncomfortably thrilled the first time he saw a prisoner
flogged: "I went hot and cold all over...I am unable to give an
explanation of this."

Contrast his view of his religious upbringing:

I was taught that my highest duty was to help those in need. It was
constantly impressed on me in forceful terms that I must obey
promptly the wishes and commands of my parents, teachers and
priests...

Or his views on work:

All my life I have thoroughly enjoyed working. I have done plenty of
hard, physical work, under the severest physical conditions, in the
coal mines, in oil refineries, and in brickyards...Work in prison
[is] a means of training for those prisoners who are fundamentally
unstable and who need to learn the meaning of endurance and
perseverance...

Hoss, of course, was responsible for placing the slogan Arbeit Macht
Frei over the camp's gate.

In his memoirs, Hoss claimed to exemplify leadership, setting the
example for his men: "When reveille sounded for the SS men in the
ranks, I too must get out of bed..."

In 1941, Himmler summoned Hoss to Berlin, and told him secretly to
transform Auschwitz into an extermination camp. According to Hoss,
Himmler said:

The Fuhrer has ordered that the Jewish question be solved once and
for all...I have now decided to entrust this task to you. It is
difficult and onerous and calls for complete devotion notwithstanding
the difficulties that may arise... You will treat this order as
absolutely secret, even from your superiors...The Jews are the sworn
enemies of the German people and must be eradicated. Every Jew that
we can lay our hands on is to be destroyed now during the war,
without exception.

Himmler's emissary to Hoss to discuss the details was Adolf Eichmann.
Eichmann revealed his plan for the shipment of Jews to Auschwitz,
first from Poland, then Czechoslovakia, then Western Europe. The men
walked the fields looking for a suitable location for a gas chamber
until they found an abandoned farmhouse which was "most suitable":

It was isolated and screened by woods and hedges, and it was also not
far from the railroad...We calculated that after gasproofing the
premises then available, it would be possible to kill about eight
hundred people simultaneously with a suitable gas.

(Friedrich, pp. 2-19.)

Hoss stole food from the prisoner's supplies for his family, and had
prisoners build his furniture; he lived a life of such comfort that
his wife was said to have remarked, "I will live here until I die."
However, he took a non-Jewish camp inmate, Eleanor Hodys, as
mistress, got her pregnant, then tried to have her murdered. She was
rescued by the SS Judge investigating corruption in the camp, and
taken to Munich, where the SS killed her at the end of the war.
(Friedrich, pp. 50-51.)

After listening to Hoss testify at Nuremberg, one of the defense
attorneys said:

It rained blood, one breathed ashes, the smell of burned corpses
poisoned the atmosphere.

Conot, p. 376.


It is easy to forget about them when focusing on figures like
Eichmann or Hoss, but the industrialists who were eager to create
factories at Auschwitz were perpetrators of the horror too:
Many prominent German corporations--among them Krupp, Siemens and
Bayer--were interested in what might be negotiated. Auschwitz began
developing a network of outlying subcamps, thirty-four in all. The
prisoners worked at a cement plant...a coal mine...a steel
factory...a shoe factory...The biggest of these Auschwitz subcamps
was the I.G. Farben plant...The plant was known as Buna because its
principal purpose was to produce synthetic rubber; its other main
installation was a hydrogenation plant designed to convert coal into
oil...The Auschwitz factories [were] the largest in the Farben empire.

Conditions at [Buna] were much like those at Auschwitz--the dawn roll
calls, the starvation rations, the labor gangs sent out for twelve
hours at a time, forced to work at the double, beaten by guards,
harried by giant dogs. The prisoners who died of overwork--dozens of
them every day--had to be hauled back to camp at nightfall so that
they could be propped up and counted at the next morning's roll call.
About 25,000 people, ultimately, were killed in the construction of
the I.G. Farben plant...One of the enduring mysteries of Auschwitz is
that this plant, built at such cost and such suffering, never
actually produced one ounce of synthetic rubber.

Friedrich, pp. 41-42.

After the initial Nuremberg trial, a trial was held of the I.G.
Farben industrialists responsible for Buna. "[T]welve were found not
guilty, five received sentences of one to four years, and six of five
to eight years." Conot, p. 517.

There was also a commerce in the clothes, glasses, and hair of the
murdered. Primo Levi wrote:

I myself found in Katowitz, after the liberation, innumerable
packages of forms by which the heads of German families were
authorized to draw clothes and shoes for adults and for children from
the Auschwitz warehouses; did no-one ask himself where so many
children's shoes were coming from?

Levi, Drowned, pp. 179-180.

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The Question
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The Frankfurt judge, who had heard endless protestations about
irresistable orders from higher authorities, was amazed by Dr.
Lingens' testimony. "Do you wish to say,"he asked, "that everyone
could decide for himself to be either good or evil in Auschwitz?"
"That is exactly what I wish to say," Dr. Lingens answered.

Friedrich, p. 23

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Resistance
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Resistance was almost impossible in Auschwitz, where disobedience
meant torture and death, for one's peers as well as oneself.
Nevertheless, it occurred. The most notable instance was that of the
Sonderkommando that seized a crematorium.
Just months before the liberation of the camp, when it was already
known that the Russian army was approaching, the SS caught wind of
the fact that the last of the Sonderkommando--the squads of Jewish
prisoners formed to shepherd their fellows to the gas chamber-- were
planning an uprising. They determined to eliminate them all.

On October 7, 1944, as the SS were forming a detail of three hundred
members of the Sonderkommando for some outside work (this was thought
to be a ruse to separate and execute them) the Sonderkommando began
pelting the SS with stones and drove them off. They packed
crematorium IV with explosives they had "organized" or stolen, and
blew it up. Eighty to one hundred trucks of SS men arrived and the
Sonderkommando fought them with stolen machine guns and grenades they
had been stockpiling; the SS responded in kind and by unleashing
fifty attack dogs.

Sonderkommando in other units rose up too; some seized crematorium II
and threw an SS man and a kapo into the furnace alive. Some men cut
holes in the barbed wire and fled, but in the wrong direction,
remaining within the larger confines of the extended camp. The SS
trapped some in a barn and set fire to it, and hunted others down in
the woods; by the end of the day, hundreds of members of the
Sonderkommando had been burned or shot to death.

After the revolt was put down, the remaining two hundred members of
the Sonderkommando were executed, some with flamethrowers.

Friedrich, pp. 80-85.

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Selections

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Selections for the gas chamber were made upon arrival at Auschwitz,
and then periodically afterwards to cull the Muselmanner as they
weakened. The doctors of Auschwitz were intimately involved in the
selection process. Many accounts tell of arriving trainloads being
met by Dr. Mengele at the ramp, impeccably dressed, whistling to
himself as he gestured to the right (for life) and to the left (for
death.) Children, their mothers, the aged, all those too weak to work
were sent to the gas at Auschwitz.

Selections in the camp occurred at rollcalls. Prisoners were forced
to stand naked in the cold, often for hours at a time, while doctors
and SS men examined them to determine who would live and who would
die. Inmates knew to jog in place, show any energy they could, to
avoid being sent to die.




Selections at the ramp
The heaps grow. Suitcases, bundles, blankets, coats, handbags that
open as they fall, spilling coins, gold, watches; mountains of bread
pile up at the exits, heaps of marmalade, jams, masses of meat,
sausages; sugar spills on the gravel. Trucks, loaded with people,
start up with a deafening roar and drive off amidst the wailing and
screaming of the women separated from their children, and the
stupefied silence of the men left behind. They are the ones who had
been ordered to step to the right--the healthy and the young who will
go to the camp. In the end, they too will not escape death, but first
they must work....

Here is a woman--she walks quickly, but tries to appear calm. A small
child with a pink cherub's face runs after her, and, unable to keep
up, stretches out his little arms and cries:'Mama! Mama!'

'Pick up your child, woman!'

'Its not mine, sir, not mine!' she shouts hysterically and runs on,
covering her faced with her hands. She wants to hide, she wants to
reach those who will not ride the trucks, those who will go on foot,
those who will stay alive. She is young, healthy, good-looking, she
wants to live...

Andrei, a sailor from Sevastopol, grabs hold of her. His eyes are
glassy from vodka and the heat. With one powerful blow he knocks her
off her feet, then, as she falls, takes her by the hair and pulls her
up again....

'Ah, you bloody Jewess! So you're running from your own child! I'll
show you, you w***e!' His huge hand chokes her, he lifts her in the
air and heaves her on to the truck like a sack of grain.

'Here! And take this with you, b***h!" and he throws the child at her
feet...

Several other men are carrying a small girl with only one leg. They
hold her by the arms and the one leg. Tears are running down her face
and she whispers faintly: 'Sir, it hurts, it hurts....' They throw
her on the truck on top of the corpses. She will burn alive along
with them.

Borowski, 38-46.



A vast platform appeared before us, lit up by reflectors. A little
beyond it, a row of lorries...We had to climb down with our luggage
and deposit it alongside the train. In a moment, the platform was
swarming with shadows...

A dozen SS men stood around, legs akimbo, with an indifferent air. At
a certain moment they moved among us, and in a subdued tone of voice,
with faces of stone, began to interrogate us rapidly.....'How old?
Healthy or ill?" And on the basis of the reply they pointed in two
different directions.

Everything was silent as an aquarium, or as in certain dream
sequences. We had expected something more apocalyptic: they seemed
simple police agents. It was disconcerting and disarming. Someone
dared to ask for his luggage: they replied 'luggage afterwards'.
Someone else did not want to leave his wife: they said,'together
again afterwards.' Many mothers did not want to be separated from
their children: they said 'good, good, stay with child.'...

In less than ten minutes all the fit men had been collected together
in a group. What happened to the others, to the women, to the
children, to the old men, we could establish neither then or later:
the night swallowed them up, purely and simply. Today, however, we
know that in that rapid and summary choice each one of us had been
judged capable or not of working usefully for the Reich; we know that
of our convoy no more than ninety-six men and twenty-nine women
entered the respective camps of Monowitz-Buna and Birkenau, and that
of all the others, more than five hundred in number, none was living
two days later.

Levi, Survival, pp. 19-20.



Mengele at the ramp
Some described a quality of playfulness in his detachment,
his "walking back and forth... [with a] cheerful expression on his
face....almost like he had fun...routine fun....He was very playful."

[P]risoners were struck by the contrast between what he looked like
and what he was. One survivor described him as "good-looking...very
cultivated", declared that "he really didn't look like a murderer,"
but immediately added, "He hit my father with his stick on his neck
and sent him in a certain direction [to the gas chambers]." Or, "he
was brutal, but in a gentlemanly, depraved way." For Mengele's
studied detachment could be interrupted by outbreaks of rage and
violence, especially when encountering resistance to his sense of the
Auschwitz rules. For instance, an arriving teenager, directed by
Mengele to the right while her mother and younger sisters were sent
to the left, "begged and wept" because she did not want to be
separated from them: "[Mengele then] grabbed me by the hair, dragged
me on the ground, and beat me. When my mother also tried to beg him,
he beat her with his cane"....

Lifton, p. 343.




Selections in the camp

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One feels the selections arriving. "Selekcja": the hybrid latin and
Polish word is heard once, twice, many times, interpolated in foreign
conversations; at first we cannot distinguish it, then it forces
itself on our attention, and in the end it persecutes us...

Yet the result is hardly a wave of despondency: our collective morale
is too inarticulate and flat to be unstable. The fight against
hunger, cold and work leaves little margin for thought, even for this
thought. Everybody reacts in his own way, but hardly anyone with
those attitudes which would seem the most plausible as the most
realistic, that is with resignation or despair.

All those able to find a way out, try to take it: but they are the
minority because it is very difficult to escape from a selection. The
Germans apply themselves to these things with great skill and
diligence.

Whoever is unable to prepare for it materially, seeks defense
elsewhere. In the latrines, in the washroom, we show each other our
chests, our buttocks, our thighs, and our comrades reassure us: "You
are all right, it will certainly not be your turn this time,...du
bist kein Muselmann..."

Our Blockaltester knows his business. He has made sure that we have
all entered, he has the door locked, he has given everyone his card
with his number, name, profession and nationality and he has ordered
everyone to undress completely, except for shoes. We wait like this,
naked, with the cards in our hands, for the commission to reach our
hut. We are hut 48, but one can never tell if they are going to begin
at hut 1 or hut 60....

The Blockaltester and his helpers, starting at the end of the
dormitory, drive the flock of frightened, naked people in front of
them and cram them in the Tagesraum...a room seven yards by four:
when the drive is over, a warm and compact human mass is jammed into
the Tagesraum, perfectly filling all the corners, exercising such a
pressure on the wooden walls as to make them creak....

Here, in front of the two doors, stands the arbiter of our fate, an
SS subaltern... Each one of us, as he comes naked out of the
Tagesraum into the cold October air, has to run the few steps between
the two doors, give the card to the SS man and enter the dormitory
door. The SS man, in the fraction of a second between two successive
crossings, with a glance at one's back and front, judges everyone's
fate, and in turn gives the card to the man on his right or on his
left, and this is the life or death of each of us...

Nobody yet knows with certainty his own fate, it has first of all to
be established whether the condemned cards were those on the right or
the left. By now there is no longer any point in sparing each other's
feelings with superstitious scruples. Everybody crowds around the
oldest, the most wasted-away and most "Muselmann"; if their cards
went to the left, the left is certainly the side of the condemned...

A double ration will be given to those selected. I have never
discovered if this was a ridiculously charitable initiative of the
Blockaltester, or an explicit disposition of the SS, but in fact, in
the interval of two or three days (sometimes even much longer)
between the selection and the departure, the victims at Monowitz-
Auschwitz enjoyed this privilege...

Silence slowly prevails and then, from my bunk on the top row, I see
and hear old Kuhn praying aloud, with his beret on his head, swaying
backwards and forwards violently. Kuhn is thanking God because he has
not been chosen.

Kuhn is out of his senses. Does he not see Beppo the Greek in the
bunk next to him, Beppo who is twenty years old and is going to the
gas chamber the day after tomorrow...Can Kuhn fail to realize that
next time it will be his turn?... If I was God, I would spit at
Kuhn's prayer.

Levi, Survival, pp. 123-130.

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Tomorrow Morning

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"Tomorrow morning" was Auschwitz slang for "never" (Levi, Survival,
p. 133).

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Victims

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The entire gypsy camp at Auschwitz, of 4000 people, was exterminated
on August 1, 1944:
Set up as a family camp, the Gypsy unit rapidly deteriorated and
became extraordinarily filthy and unhygienic even for Auschwitz, a
place of starving babies, children and adults. B. insisted that there
were "sufficient rations...delivered to the camp for all of them to
survive", but that certain adult Gypsies of high standing kept most
of the food, thus denying it to all others, including hungry
children. The Auschwitz leaders, "shocked" by the situation, came to
the conclusion that it was virtually impossible to change it and that
the only solution was to "gas the entire camp." According to B.,
Mengele strongly opposed that decision, made several trips to Berlin
to try and get it reversed, and went so far as to declare to other
Auschwitz authorities that annihilating the Gypsy camp would be "a
crime."

[Most other sources agree that Mengele was in favor of killing the
Gypsies.]

Prisoner doctors who had worked there at the time told me that
Mengele seemed to be all over the camp at once that day, actively
supervising arrangements for getting the Gypsies to the gas chamber.
He had been close to some of the Gypsy children-- bringing them food
and candy, sometimes little toys, and taking them for brief outings.
Whenever he appeared, they would greet him warmly with the
cry, "Onkel ['Uncle'] Mengele!" But that day, the children were
frightened. Dr. Alexander O. described the scene and one child's plea
to Mengele:


Mengele arrived at around eight o'clock or seven-thirty. It was day-
light. He came, and then the children....A Gypsy girl of eleven,
twelve,....the oldest [child] of a whole family--maybe thirteen, with
malnutrition sometimes they grow less. "Onkel Mengele [she calls], my
little brother cries himself to death. We do not know where our
mother is. He cries himself to death, Onkel Mengele!" Where did she
go to complain? To Mengele--to the one she loves and knows she is
loved by, because he loved them. His answer: "Willst du die Schnauze
halten!" He said it in a common, vulgar way....but...with a sort of
tenderness..."Why don't you shut your little trap!"
Others told how Mengele combed the blocks, tracking down Gypsy
children who had hidden, and how he himself transported a group of
those children in a car to the gas chamber--drawing upon their trust
for him and speaking tenderly and reassuringly to them until the end.

Lifton, pp. 323; 185-186.


I went out again and went to the block where my children were. They
were only skin and bone, unrecognizable. They lay there, one can say,
already dying. And so I said to my father, bring the children to the
sick bay, bring the children in, I said, I will see what I can do.
Had they come in there earlier, it might have made a difference. And
so my father brought in the eldest the next day, she was ten. And
when I saw her, she could not speak a word anymore. She only lay
there, her eyes open, and not a word. Could only lie there, was more
dead than...only breathed. So I spoke to her... then she died. They
simply threw her there, with the other corpses. My own child.
And so one after the other. The one, she was six, was already dead
when I came there. I did not see her anymore. Not long after, the
other one died too. They were only skin and bones. Skin and bones,
nothing else, one could count the ribs. The eyes so deep in the head.
The children were dead, all three.

Testimony of a Gypsy woman survivor of the Gypsy family camp,
Anatomy, p. 452.



This is the reason why three-year-old Emilia died: the historical
necessity of killing the children of Jews was self-demonstrative to
the Germans. Emilia, daughter of Aldo Levi of Milan, was a curious,
ambitious, cheerful, intelligent child; her parents had succeeded in
washing her during the journey in the packed car in a tub with tepid
water which the degenerate German engineer had allowed them to draw
from the engine that was dragging us all to death.
Thus, in an instant, our women, our parents, our children
disappeared. We saw them for a short while as an obscure mass at the
other end of the platform; then we saw nothing more.

Levi, Survival p. 20.



The three victims mounted together onto the chairs.
The three necks were placed at the same moment within the nooses.

"Long live liberty!" cried the two adults.

But the child was silent.

"Where is God? Where is He?" someone behind me asked.

At a sign from the head of the camp, the three chairs tipped over...

Then the march past began. The two adults were no longer alive. Their
tongues hung swollen, blue-tinged. But the third rope was still
moving; being so light, the child was still alive...

For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life
and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him
full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him.
His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed.

Behind me, I heard the same man asking:

"Where is God now?"

And I heard a voice within me answer him:

"Where is He? Here He is--He is hanging here on this gallows..."

That night the soup tasted of corpses.

Wiesel, p. 72.


The number of people murdered at Auschwitz is an open question. The
best estimate is that 1.1 million died there, 90% of them Jews.
Immediately after the war, Soviet and Polish commissions reported
four million victims of the camp; Camp Commandant Rudolf Hoss
testified that three million died there.

It is impossible to ascertain exactly how many people were at
Auschwitz for two reasons. First of all, no records were kept of
people murdered after selections at the train station; they were
never assigned numbers or entered into camp records but vanished into
what the Nazis themselves called "night and fog" ("nacht und nebel").
Secondly, the Nazis destroyed many records before abandoning
Auschwitz.

Scholars such as Franciszek Piper, writing in Anatomy, pp. 61-76,
arrive at their estimates by looking at the more accurate records of
people deported to Auschwitz from various countries, and then
subtracting the number of people known to have been transferred to
other camps or to have survived the war.

Based on these calculations (1,300,000 deportees minus 200,000
survivors), at least 1,100,000 persons were killed or died in the
camp.

Piper, p. 71.



Franciszek Gajnowiczek....is a stooped, gray-haired man who has
survived Auschwitz to testify that when he was selected at random for
execution one day in 1941, a Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe
stepped forward and volunteered to take his place, and did take his
place and did die. (The Vatican in due time proclaimed Kolbe to be
beatified and well on the way to sainthood.)
Friedrich, 102.

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Why

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Driven by thirst, I eyed a fine icicle outside the window, within
hand's reach. I opened the window and broke off the icicle but at
once a large, heavy guard prowling outside brutally snatched it away
from me. "Warum?" I asked him in my poor German. "Hier ist kein
warum," (there is no why here), he replied, pushing me inside with a
shove.
Levi, Survival, p. 29.

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Yesterday and Today

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How often when we talk about genocide, in World War II or in Bosnia
or Rwanda today, do we acknowledge that our country, the United
States of America (under the same Constitution, with its Bill of
Rights, that we honor today), was founded on genocide?
The following is an eyewitness account of the Sand Creek massacre of
1864, when 105 Cheyenne women and children were mutilated and
murdered by U.S. troops under Colonel J.M. Chivington:

There seemed to be indiscriminate slaughter of men, women, children.
There were some thirty or forty squaws collected in a hole for
protection; they sent out a little girl about six years old with a
white flag on a stick; she had not proceeded but a few steps when she
was shot and killed. All the squaws in that hole were afterward
killed, and four or five bucks outside. The squaws offered no
resistance. Everyone I saw dead was scalped. I saw one squaw cut open
with an unborn child, as I thought, lying by her side....I saw quite
a number of infants in arms killed with their mothers.

Another witness:

I also heard of numerous instances in which men had cut out the
private parts of females and stretched them over the saddle-bows and
wore them over their hats while riding in the ranks.

Colonel Chivington, at a speech not long before the massacre,
advocated the killing and scalping of all Indians, even
infants: "Nits make lice!"

Source: Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Washington Square
Press, 1981), pp. 88-89.



In 1948, the Israelis committed genocide at Deir Yassin.
The villagers resisted the 120 Jewish attackers, as they had a right
to, and a heavy machine gun and a mortar were brought up to end the
battle. Then the raiding party entered the village and started
behaving like a Nazi Einsatzkommando. Twenty-three men were led off
to a quarry and executed in cold blood, and between 90 and 230 others
were shot down in the village.

Menachem Begin's statement afterwards:

Accept my congratulations on this splendid act of conquest....

News of Deir Yassin spread quickly and was influential in causing
much of the Arab population to flee the borders of the newly declared
Israeli state. Israel, of course, has built a whole structure of
ownership based on the "abandonment" of their houses and lands, as
well as arguing ceaselessly that those who fled in 1948 did so
needlessly and do not deserve to come back.

(Source for the Deir Yassin information: Paul Johnson, A History of
the Jews (Harper Perennial, 1987).




Americans committed genocide in Vietnam and were never punished:
The mass executions had occurred in stages--principally at the main
trail leading into the village and later at the irrigation ditch. One
of those taken to the trail site was Truong Thi Le, aged 30, who lost
nine members of her immediate family, including her husband, mother,
three brothers, and a 17 year old daughter...she was rounded up with
her 6-year-old son...when the shooting began, she pushed him into the
paddy field beside the trail and lay on top of his body, pressing him
down, urging him not to cry...Two corpses were on top of her and when
she raised her head slightly as the shooting stopped she could see
soldiers still moving. They appeared to be pointing toward people on
the ground. They began shooting those who were alive all over again.

Bilton and Sim, Four Hours in My Lai, (Penguin, 1992), pp. 157-158.



Genocide is with us today and we are doing nothing about it:
Then, she says, Mr. Viskovic forced them out of the apartment.
Outside, he pointed his weapon at Mrs. Sestovic and made her lie down
on the road. Then he ordered her to crawl along the road as he kicked
her repeatedly. Finally, she and the two teenagers were pushed into a
small bus filled with Muslims and taken to the Susica camp.

Conditions at the camp, where a former Serbian guard has said up to
3,000 Muslims were killed over four months, were appalling.

Mrs. Sestovic is particularly haunted by the memory of seeing two men-
-Durmo Handzic and Izmet Dedic--beaten to death, by recurrent
nightmares about another Muslim whose ear was progressively sliced
off on four consecutive nights by Serbian guards and by the
recollection of the commander of the camp, Dragan Nikolic, holding up
a cigarette butt and saying, "This is now worth more than all of your
Muslim lives put together."

Excerpt from an article in the December 31, 1994 New York Times.


Let no-one think that the Holocaust was a unique event in human
history: it exceeded other genocides only in efficiency and numbers,
but was not different in kind.

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AN AUSCHWITZ ALPHABET
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THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT

Resources on the Nazi Doctors
The Nuremburg Trials

The Doctors Trial
The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/indiptx.htm


The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
These documents are here to study, to learn,
but especially to ensure that we never, never forget.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm


Transcript of first day of Nuremberg Trials,  Tuesday, 11/20/45:
http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/nuremberg/plead.html

Title: "First Day, Tuesday, 11/20/1945, Part 01", in Trial of the
Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal.
Volume II. Proceedings: 11/14/1945-11/30/1945. [Official text in the
English language.] Nuremberg: IMT, 1947. pp. 29-32.

Author: International Military Tribunal

Accession Number: AC_94X_00228

Publication Date: PD_19470101.

Document Type: Government Document.

Source Document Language(s): English

See Also Related Document Supersets: 2IMT; IMT; NWCT

Country of Publication: Germany

Full Text:
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The Doctors Trial
The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/index.html

On December 9, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal
proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators
for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against
humanity. In Nazi Germany, German physicians planned and enacted
the "Euthanasia" Program, the systematic killing of those they
deemed "unworthy of life." The victims included the mentally
retarded, the institutionalized mentally ill, and the physically
impaired. Further, during World War II, German physicians conducted
pseudoscientific medical experiments utilizing thousands of
concentration camp prisoners without their consent. Most died or were
permanently crippled as a result. Most of the victims were Jews,
Poles, Russians, and also Roma (Gypsies). After almost 140 days of
proceedings, including the testimony of 85 witnesses and the
submission of almost 1,500 documents, the American judges pronounced
their verdict on August 20, 1947. Sixteen of the doctors were found
guilty. Seven were sentenced to death. They were executed on June 2,
1948.

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Doctors Trial,
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents excerpts from
the official trial record, with accompanying photographs:

http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/index.html



Excerpts From Nazi Documents:
http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/nazidocs.txt

The following are excerpts from original Nazi documents, relating
directly to the extermination of Jews and others which was carried
out by the Nazis during WW2. The purpose of this collection is both
to present such documents in an easily accessible form, and to
point out more complete references.

Naturally, in preparing a collection like this, one has to decide
which documents to use; the amount of material is enormous. I have
tried to choose a small set of representative ones, which touch
as many aspects as possible. Many of these documents are very long,
so I have restricted myself to short excerpts.


My remarks are inside square [...] brackets.

-Daniel Keren (dk@...).


The organization of this collection is as follows:

1)  STATMENTS BY LEADING NAZIS
2)  GAS CHAMBERS AND GASSING VANS (See also "AUSCHWITZ")
3)  DOCUMENTS ABOUT MASS MURDER (see also the "Jager Report",
     in the "MISC" topic).
4)  THE EXTERMINATION OF THE INSANE
5)  MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS I: MASS STERILIZATION
6)  MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS II: FREEZING, LOW PRESSURE AND OTHERS
7)  THE ECONOMIC PLUNDER
8)  AUSCHWITZ
9)  KRISTALLNACHT
10) VERDICT OF SS-COURT
11) MISC - includes the following:
      a. Prosecution of a Jewish woman for selling her mother milk
         to feed German babies.
      b. Some of the court proceedings from a case in which the death
         sentence was imposed on a Jew for allegedly having sex with
         a German woman.
      c. Various excerpts from anti-semitic publications (mostly,
         "Der Stuermer").
      d. Letter about transporting to Germany "racially valuable
         children" whose parents were slain by the Nazis.
      e. Order to hang any Pole who has sex with a German woman.
      f. Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler describing Russians and Slavs as
         "human animals" to be used for work.
      g. German plans for plundering Poland.
      h. Order by Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to kill and destroy
         everything in Nazi occupied Ukraine before evacuating it.
      i. A long and very detailed report about mass executions in
         the Nazi occupied Baltics (the "Jager report").

http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/nazidocs.txt