Exortation to the Florida House Representatives and Senators
February 11, 2005
Dear Esteemed House Representatives and Senators, defenders of the
constitutional and human rights of all persons (including the most vulnerable
and disabled) of our state:
Theresa Schindler-Schiavo needs your help in being placed on the road to her
recovery because without that help conflicted, self-interested parties seeking
her death, who have via hearsay wishes substituted her voice with theirs, will
succeed (through the help of others) in accomplishing her murder. Theresa
doesn’t need a substituted voice, she already has one that will further be
regained and heard through proper helps afforded her (through your
intercession) by those who truly love and will be charged with her care. Since
learning of Theresa’s plight in the national media about what was happening in
my own backyard I subsequently did extensive research of police records,
doctors notes, a suppressed bone scan, notations in Michael Schiavo’s own
private journal as to Theresa’s progress, guardianship documentation, court
transcripts, depositions, etc. The data was not prejudged but examined
diligently as any academic, professional researcher or investigator would have
done. Did I walk away with the conclusion that there is a loving husband who
is trying to look out for the best interests of his wife and her wishes? No.
What I found was that this so-called loving husband had many conflicts of
interests, including conflicting statements in various of his testimonies and
depositions, etc. in regards to the night of the initial incident of February
25, 1990. Further, an apparent scheme was hatched whereby in the first
guardianship paper filings (September 1990) he labeled Theresa VEGETATIVE,
that her prognosis was poor and that there were no plans for rehabilitative
therapy while on the other hand doctors notes said she could expect a full
recovery. It is putting it lightly to say he misled a medical malpractice jury
(around November 1992) into awarding him significant amounts of money for
promised care and rehabilitation (opposite to his assertions of the initial
guardianship documentation). What better scheme could there be to effect a
later planned and untimely death? Upon receiving the jury awarded monies he
quickly puts Theresa in a nursing home and puts a DNR on her chart (early
1993). Shortly thereafter he denies her antibiotics for a urinary tract
infection (UTI) in the hopes that sepsis will occur throughout her body
causing her death. He was caught. In court he didn’t say anything about
Theresa’s wish not to live artificially or via simple gastrostomy apparatus
(G-tube), an alternate feeding mechanism which many of the disabled utilize.
When questioned as to whether he would make a similar attempt on her life in
the future he thought for a moment and said to the effect that no he wouldn’t
because there was apparently some law that prevented him. Later exhibits in
court would show that in subsequent timeframes Michael Schiavo tried other
means (including possible insulin injection) to effect Theresa’s death and
even boasted to one of her caregivers (Carla Iyer) about how he was going to
be rich and had the audacity to ask when the bitch was going to die and was
she dead yet, etc. Further, Michael retained Deborah Bushnell who it is known
through fee petitions contacted attorney George Felos (a self-professed
Right-to-Die crusader) as early as 1995 (who officially involved himself in
1997). Felos had been a Chairman of the Board of Hospice of the Florida
Suncoast, Inc. and was on the board from 1997-2001. In the fee petitions of
Deborah Bushnell and George Felos one sees various schemes to cause Theresa’s
death besides those later explored as to supposed wishes not to live
“artificially” and their effecting this through starvation and dehydration,
like putting her on an IV instead of having a G-tube. Theresa was moved to
hospice without required court permission on April 18, 2000. She was admitted
as a private pay but not certified as terminal as federal law requires. Felos
was still hospice director/board member.
In that Theresa is still a hostage of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast,
Inc. for almost 5 years and that this hospice has connections to Florida’s
Office of Elder Affairs and the Department of Health in regards to End-of-Life
propaganda material that can be found on their respective Florida government
websites and even Federal government websites of the Veteran’s Administration
it becomes hard to escape the conclusion that this and other entities (see
below) are now trying to lump into their agenda besides the elderly and dying
the most vulnerable, injured and disabled of our state. Is this one of the
reasons why in the past they have been allowed two prior attempts of murder
upon Theresa via dehydration/starvation? Will they now be allowed to attempt a
third? There are other parties interested in seeing Theresa being killed who
are connected to this hospice organization and are in the same propaganda
material (who are actually responsible for the propaganda material), namely
Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care and one of its founders Ken Goodman.
Ken Goodman (co-director of the ethics program at the University of Miami,
associate professor of medicine at UM and director of the bio-ethics program)
has been in the news media saying that Theresa has been unconscious for 13
years and that she has no brain, etc. (This lying in stark contrast to the
testimony of Theresa’s parents, siblings, examining doctors, lawyers, and
priests.) Goodman is connected to lawyers from the Shepard Broad Law Center at
Nova Southeastern University in Miami such as Associate Professor of Law Kathy
Cerminara (who was involved in the Nancy Cruzan case and who also co-authored
a book The Right to Die) and Professor of Law Michael Masinter (a
self-proclaimed disability rights advocate) who is a chair of the ACLU and who
is also against Theresa receiving any help in recovery. Is there any doubt in
anyone’s mind as to George Felos’ connection to these people? I have had
troubles in actual case numbers lodged with the Florida AHCA and the
Department of Children and Families asking them to investigate felony crimes
against Theresa and subsequently lodged an evidence CD with them and other
pertinent city, county, state, and federal officials that contains copious
researched data and complaints in regards to crimes against her. Recipients of
this evidence CD included members of the various Florida House Health
Committees, the Tampa Field Office of the FBI and the US Department of Justice
Disability Rights Section but I have received no significant responses.
Let us revisit Michael Schiavo. He resides and owns real estate with another
woman, Jodi Centonze, whom he has called his fiancée (a person whom he has
been found, through private investigation, to have known from his hometown in
Pennsylvania around the time of his marriage to Theresa in 1986 and with whom
he has had at least 2 known and admitted to children in the last 18 years). As
regards to guardianship, in later court testimony (deposition of September 27,
1999), Michael Schiavo when asked if he would relinquish guardianship to
Terri’s parents said: Basically I don’t want to do it. In answer as to why he
didn’t want to do it he added: Because they put me through pretty much hell
the last few years in the litigations to save their daughter from being
subjected to an untimely, unjustified death, and that was the only reason. He
then states: I am Terri’s husband and I will remain her guardian. Shortly
thereafter Felos asks for a minute with his client. He takes Michael aside and
when they come back Michael in answer to a question from Felos in regards to
if there was any other reason why he refused to give up the guardianship adds:
because Terri’s parents wouldn’t honor her wishes. Not only has Michael
Schiavo failed to submit proper guardianship plans, etc. but Michael is a
guardian with multiple conflicts of interest which should preclude him from
being Theresa’s guardian. There are no two ways about it. He needs to be
removed.
There is a copious amount of information in regards to all of the above
therefore I cannot provide all the details here but I can be contacted at
407-925-4141 if you are interested in this and other evidence of cover-up,
conflicted parties, government agencies and officials. I would now like to
address some further issues and make my final plea to you to avert Theresa
Schindler-Schiavo’s murder. There is evidence of tampering and cover-up of an
investigation on complaints to DCF for abuse, neglect and exploitation of Mrs.
Schiavo that the Attorney General on television, after the fact, said never
happened. I am in touch with the complainant who DCF accidentally returned the
evidence to, the evidence of which now lies in a locked vault. Many are
calling for the empanelling of a grand jury to investigate crimes in the
Schiavo matter and others are asking that Bernie McCabe and Charlie Crist
initiate some kind of state investigation of crimes. This leads to the issue
of some pre-bills, namely House Bill 0523 and Senate Bill 0988 which seek to
repeal and substitute items in the so-called “Dead Man’s Statute”, Florida
Statute 90.602 and 90.806 Evidence Code which would retroactively make hearsay
evidence by conflicted guardians accepted in court as evidence against their
incapacitated wards as being acceptable evidence of the incapacitated wards
wishes to be euthanized (their so-called Right-to-Die via substituted hearsay
wishes when their voice has been purposely and very criminally denied). When I
inquired of Senator Skip Campbell’s office as to who he was sponsoring Senate
Bill 0988 for I was told that he was sponsoring it for the overall States
Attorney’s Office (members of whom have knowingly and proactively refused to
investigate plain-as-day crimes perpetrated against Mrs. Schiavo by her
husband/guardian and his accomplices and instructed various local law
enforcement to ignore the public). I vehemently oppose the proposed repeal of
Florida Statute 90-602, Evidence Code, Testimony of Interested Persons, and
the adoption of the proposed replacement statute and additions under bills
HB-0523 and S-0988. The repeal of the existing statute would eliminate much
needed protection for the vulnerable persons of our state—the elderly and
disabled adults. The statute in current existence provides protection for the
estates of the deceased, mentally incompetent and incapacitated by making
certain interested persons such as guardians and heirs incompetent to testify
in an action against the estate regarding alleged oral communications made by
the deceased or incapacitated person. There is generally no opposing testimony
to meet and rebut the allegations of the interested claimant against the
vulnerable person or his/her estate, and fraud and hardship could result if
the surviving party was permitted to testify concerning purported oral
communications made for which there is no substantiation or in other words,
self-serving hearsay which cannot be contested. Such persons having a
pecuniary interest MUST be prohibited from giving unsubstantiated,
uncorroborated self-serving testimony or hearsay because they are of a class
especially likely to speak falsely. The proposed bill would eliminate this
protection for vulnerable persons and adversely affect their legal rights.
This proposed amendment would conceivably allow such individuals with a
financial interest in the outcome of the case to say whatever they want to say
with total disregard for the truth and with no one to contest it. In criminal
actions, such hearsay is inadmissible. So too must it be in actions including
the vulnerable who cannot speak for themselves. The proposed legislation
(HB-0523 and SB-0988) must be defeated. If it is adopted, it would be contrary
to the fair administration of justice. Florida Statute 90-602 must be left in
full force and effect and must be strenuously applied and enforced. There is
another bill that will be brought to the House floor which is supposed to help
disabled people like Theresa and I would ask that it be supported and passed
and that is HB-701.
As for the various judges who have presided over Theresa’s case in court I
have only this to say, that unless they act aright and save this innocent
woman’s life that I will have no other option but to hold each and every one
of them, who can act justly but who has failed to do so, in the highest of
contempt. So far they have failed. Since they have failed I now find myself
addressing each and every one of you as legislators. My question to each of
you is what happened to justice and equality under the law and the good which
triumphs over the bad? I address you because it is you who now hold the scales
of the balance, of justice, in your hands. You are those who help to make the
laws, therefore it is you who have this historic opportunity and duty towards
the public trust to set the scales of the balance, of justice, aright. It is
not only I but many others across this state, this nation and across this
globe with whom I am in contact (including the present day Earl of Clonard in
Spain, on up to and including the King of Spain [whom descend from the same
bloodline as one of the world’s greatest lawyers, philosophers and statesmen
Sir Francis Bacon], not to mention countless others) who exhort of you to
please ensure provisions are made for Theresa Schindler-Schiavo to be:
• protectively removed (via the most effective and permanent means at your
disposal) out of the hands of those who have been trying to kill her; and
• set back on the road to her recovery via rehabilitation and therapy, etc. (a
road that she has been heinously and purposefully denied being able to
experience the journey of for 10+ years because of a seriously conflicted
husband/guardian and his helpers). This would be best served by letting her
loving parents and siblings, etc. provide her with the rehabilitation, love
and care that she seriously needs and deserves and which they and others of
good, will most assuredly, beyond doubt, ensure that she is provided.
With your help I guarantee you that Theresa will develop her own voice and
that the day will come in which she will thank each and every one of you; you
who reached your loving hands down into that great dark cage to which she had
been held captive by those wishing her death; you whose loving grasp pulled
her to protection and safety to enjoy the fruits of this good earth among
those who love and cherish her smile, her laughter, and her life.
Sincerely and most respectfully,
Juan V Schoch
Lake Mary, FL
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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. Can we please show Mr.
Felos he is the nutcase and that he is helping to aid and abet murder?
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