RE: TERRI - TAKE ACTION: Call these ten Senators NOW:

jeb@myflorida.com GOV. JEB BUSH

Subject:
Here's the Senators I understand we need to get to sign on with us.
From:
Maryfromfla@aol.com
Date:
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:33:59 EST
To:
Maryfromfla@aol.com

TAKE ACTION: Call these ten Senators NOW:

Larcenia J. Bullard
850-487-5127

Walter Campbell, Jr.
850-487-5094

J.D. Alexander
850-487-5044

Nancy Argenziano
850-487-5017

Paula Dockery
850-487-5040

Lisa Carlton
850-487-5081

Evelyn J. Lynn
850-487-5033

Burt L. Saunders
850-487-5124

Michael Bennett
850-487-5078

Dennis Jones
850-487-5065

"It's not over until we say it's over" -- Atty. L. Kennedy. What are they waiting on -- it's already covered in FL State Statutes?

Florida Statues Prohibit the Denial of Food and Water in Order to End Life
http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/florida_statutes_terri_no_euthanasia.html

Florida Statues Prohibit Deliberate Acts to End Life

765.309 Florida Statute: Mercy Killing of Euthanasia Not Authorized; Suicide Distinguished. -- (1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act of omission to end the life other than to permit the natural process of dying. (2) The withholding or withdrawal of life-prolonging procedures from a patient in accordance with any provision of this chapter does not, for any purpose, constitute a suicide.

458.326 Florida Statute: Intractable Pain; Authorized Treatment. -- (4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, and no treatment authorized by this section may be used for such purpose.

782.08 Florida Statute: Assisting Self-Murder. -- Every person deliberately assisting another in the commission of self-murder shall be guilty of manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s.775.082, s. 775.083 or s.775.084.
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Subject: URGENT -- Ask Gov. Bush to save Terri!!!
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:11:29 -0700
From: RenewAmerica
To: RenewAmerica Update

RenewAmerica alert!
Let's not forget: Terri is being executed by authority of Jeb Bush
Legislation may be passed, but not the buck
http://www.renewamerica.us/news/050322bush.htm

March 22, 2005
RenewAmerica staff

The shocking governmental homicide of Terri Schiavo has many dimensions, twists, and turns--all of which, upon analysis, converge on one inescapable reality: The life of Terri Schiavo is solely in the hands of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

While Terri lies dying by slow execution in a Pinellas Park hospice, Gov. Bush and others have looked mainly to the legislative process for relief--knowing full well that any special law intended to spare Terri's life will likely be overturned or disregarded by unsympathetic courts on the pretext of "separation of powers."

Terri's protectors have also appealed repeatedly to the courts themselves to correct their own excesses and lapses throughout this horrific ordeal--with equally predictable results.

At this point, the obvious solution is an executive one.

The case for executive relief

Any delegating of executive authority to the other branches will not only fail to save Terri, it appears--because the courts pretend to reign supreme, at the expense of true equilibrium between the branches--but it amounts to passing the authoritative buck.

The result will be not only the unconscionable death of an innocent woman whose execution cannot be justified on the basis of the facts, let alone on moral grounds, but the executive power will be shown to be what it has willfully become: impotent.

Not only that, but if Terri dies, the executive authority in Florida will be directly complicit.

No other entity in the state has authority to kill Terri. The courts can't do it. Nor can the legislature do anything directly about it. Only the executive can actually put people to death, under constitution-based law.

This fact dispels any notion that the governor is powerless to spare Terri. The truth is, only the governor--who oversees all agencies of executive power in the state--can in fact put Terri to death.

Officers already acting to kill Terri

Under authority of Jeb Bush, police are already at the scene--not to protect Terri, but to ensure that she is killed. They are, in fact, executing her.

Numerous well-meaning people who have tried to feed Terri--acting from simple respect for Judeo-Christian morality and compassion--have been arrested by uniformed officers who are acting on executive orders drawn up in conflict with the clear written meaning of constitutional law.

Rather than stand firm on the separation of powers principle upon which the Constitution, itself, is based, the executive power--at this very moment in the Terri Schiavo case--is actively participating in Terri's murder, having abdicated constitutional authority to the emerging bullies in government: the judiciary.

The result is total chaos, in the midst of an unprecedented constitutional crisis, the only remedy to which is for the executive to defend his rightful turf and preserve not only Terri's life, but the life of the republic.

The outward "orderliness" with which Terri is now being cruelly put to death--upon "orders" from an agenda-driven judiciary that has no power to act--belies the real truth of what is happening. Our nation's heart is being ripped out by the executive--not by anyone else--and with that loss goes our moral authority as a nation to lead the world.

As some suggest, we are behaving as a third-world dictatorship that cares little about innocent human life, and less about constitutional law.

Gov. Bush, put a stop to this travesty right now, for the sake of all that our nation stands for, in the interest of meriting God's merciful protection of our country in the years ahead.

If you "allow" Terri to die, you will indeed be her chief executioner.

CALL GOV. BUSH at 850-488-4441, or e-mail him by clicking here.

See also: Terri and executive power (David Quackenbush)
http://www.renewamerica.us/news/050322quackenbush.htm

See also: First person: My last visit with Terri Schiavo (Barbara Weller)
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=20415

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