- "If you get your news primarily from the New York
Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or FOX, you may not know who Terri Schindler-Schiavo
is. The establishment press has treated her government-mandated torture-execution
as if it had little news value."
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- By the time you read this, Terri Schindler-Schiavo could
well be dead ñ the victim of a court-ordered starvation plan.
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- If you get your news primarily from the New York Times,
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or FOX, you may not know who Terri Schindler-Schiavo
is. The establishment press has treated her government-mandated torture-execution
as if it had little news value.
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- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, while speaking out on the case
and offering a brief opposing the taking of Terri's life, now maintains
his hands are tied ñ that he cannot overrule the opinion of one
judge.
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- So, helpless in further appeals to authorities, Terri's
loving parents, who want only to help their daughter live and recover from
a mysterious, debilitating attack 13 years ago, are forced to watch their
daughter starve to death in a horrifying death sentence that would be considered
cruel and unusual punishment for even the most heinous criminal in the
United States.
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- The legalized murder of Terri takes place without due
process, without Terri being able to express her own views to the court
and in contradiction to the opinions of those who love her most.
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- Is this America?
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- Yes, this is America, circa 2003.
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- The sentence is being carried out as we speak. The only
thing that seems to matter to Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George
W. Greer, the black-robed priest who pronounced sentence on the 39-year-old
woman, is what her estranged husband desires for Terri. Michael Schiavo
seemingly only wants to get on with his new life, free of the memory of
his still living wife. He long ago moved in with another woman, had a child
and is about to have his second.
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- Schiavo hardly seems like the most objective caretaker
in the world.
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- Terri is not comatose. She responds to stimuli. She reportedly
tried to get out of her chair when told she would have her feeding tube
removed. She has been systematically denied rehabilitation efforts by the
same people who are now committing her to the grave.
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- This is not only a travesty of justice, it's a moral
outrage. It's an indictment of the American conscience.
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- Terri is clearly being denied life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. That's a violation of the U.S. Constitution. As well, what
is happening to Terri is apparently a violation of the Florida constitution.
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- Not surprisingly, the politicians have demonstrated an
alarming lack of courage in efforts to save Terri's life.
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- You want to know how the Holocaust began in Germany?
I suspect it was in increments. I suspect that politicians and the media
didn't ask questions because court orders are court orders.
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- We hear from Gov. Bush's office about separation of powers.
But separation of powers in the American system of jurisprudence has never
given license to one branch of government to kill. Separation of powers
in the American system of jurisprudence has never given the courts arbitrary
and unaccountable authority. Separation of powers in the American system
of jurisprudence has never been an excuse for executives or legislators
to ignore their constitutional and conscientious duty.
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- Stories like the Schiavo case make me wonder why more
Americans are not resorting to civil disobedience in the face of intolerable
government tyranny and inhuman oppression. Stories like the Schiavo case
make me wonder how long it will be before the death camps are opened for
America's disabled. Stories like the Schiavo case make me wonder why 250
million Americans are silent while Terri starves.
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