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Doublespeak is "language deliberately
constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often resulting in a
communication bypass. Such language is associated with governmental, military,
and corporate institutions."(1)
The purpose of this article is to decode Judge
George W. Greer's and Attorney David C. Gibbs III's death order doublespeak and translate it into straight
language.
Many of us are becoming aware that the elderly and
incapacitated are being quietly eliminated in hospitals, nursing homes, and
hospices via the removal of their feeding tubes. Some are being denied regular
food and water even though they have the ability to ingest it. These killings
are being done "quietly" because
withholding naturally ingested food and water is against the law in all 50 states. Presently no judge in the United States of
America can cite any statute that
renders him the authority to order the death of a person who is not a death-row inmate.
Furthermore, there is no Florida law that states that an incapacitated person may be
denied regular food and water. To the contrary, the Florida statutes prohibit
such an act.
Judge George W. Greer is well aware of that and has never
issued a court order to withhold regular food and water... until now.
Let us look at Judge Greer's apparently legal
court orders to remove Terri's nutrition and hydration tube and then we will
compare them to his current illegal court
order.
In this "death order doublespeak" expose'
we are going to document Judge Greer's progression towards euthanasia by noting the changes
in the wording of his court orders. We will also identify the doublespeak
that is being used to hide this fact.
Judge Greer has issued several court orders for
the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. The few that I have been able to
locate on the internet are cited below.
Let us first look at a letter Michael Schiavo's
attorney wrote to Judge Shames regarding the removal of Terri's "medical
treatment."
May 6, 1997:Letter from Deborah Bushnell to
Judge Shames:
The guardian is aware that the issue of
withdrawal or refusal of medical treatment for the ward is a difficult issue
in this case and that the ward's parents will need to be involved.
(Quote source: Letter
from Attorney Bushnell to Judge Shames)
Deborah Bushnell's letter was written in regard
to the removal of Terri's "medical treatment." At the time this letter
was written, feeding tubes were not medical treatment in the state of Florida.
George
Felos, attorney for Michael Schaivo,
filed a petition on May 11, 1998 to discontinue Terri's artificial life
support. This petition was filed eleven
months before feeding tubes were legally defined as medical treatment.
Death Order Doublespeak:
Years of Preparation
Below is an excerpt from Judge Greer's Feb. 11,
2000 original order to remove Terri's feeding
tube:
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Petition for
Authorization to Discontinue Artificial Life Support
of Michael Schiavo, Guardian of the Person of Theresa Marie Schiavo, an
incapacitated person, be and the same is hereby GRANTED and
Petitioner/Guardian is hereby authorized to proceed with the
discontinuance of said artificial life support
for Theresa Marie Schiavo.
(Quoted from Feb. 11, 2000 Order)
The phrase used in the first court order was
"artificial life support."
Next we'll look at Judge Greer's November 22, 2002 court
order:
FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that Michael
Schiavo, as Guardian of the Person of Theresa Marie Schiavo, shall withdraw or
cause to be withdrawn the artificial life-support (hydration and nutrition
tube) from Theresa Marie Schiavo at 3:00 p.m. on January 3, 2003.
(Nov.
22, 2002 order to remove hydration and nutrition tube)
The second court order included the phrase in
parentheses, "hydration and nutrition tube," to define artificial life-support.
The general
public was slowly being indoctrinated to the idea that artificial life-support
now includes the simple feeding tube.
Next we will look at an excerpt from Judge Greer's September
17, 2003 court order:
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Guardian,
Michael Schiavo, shall cause the removal of the nutrition and hydration tube
from the Ward, Theresa Marie Schiavo, at 2:00 p.m. on the 15th day of October,
2003.
(Sept.17,2003
order to remove nutrition and hydration tube)
In
the September 17, 2003 court order, the nutrition and hydration tube was not
defined as "artificial life-support." The phrase "nutrition and
hydration tube" stood alone.
It took years of media doublespeak and
"court-ordered starvation" headlines to condition the public to
believe that a judge has the authority to order the withholding of all forms of
nourishment from a human being in the United States of America. Judge Greer
finally did what the media and Terri's
Law paved the way for him to do: He ordered the removal of Terri's
nutrition and hydration:
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that absent a stay from
the appellate courts, the guardian, Michael Schiavo, shall cause the removal
of nutrition and hydration, from the Ward, THERESA SCHIAVO, at 1:00 p.m. on
Friday, March 18, 2005.
(Feb.
25, 2005 order to remove nutrition and hydration)
Judge Greer does not have the authority to defy
the Florida statutes and
issue a legally valid order to remove Terri's regular food and water, which is
included in the phrase, "nutrition and hydration." However, if the general public—especially the
citizens of Clearwater, Florida—treats this order as though it was legal and carries it out,
then not only will Terri die as a result of an illegal court order, but case law
(law based on judicial precedent rather than statutes) would be established by this precedent.
Death Order Doublespeak
Collusion: Feb. 25th Court Order is Being Treated as a Reaffirmation of the Oct.
11th Court Order!
After Judge Greer issued his February
25th order to remove any and all forms of nutrition and hydration from Terri Schiavo, David C.
Gibbs III, attorney for
the Schindlers, filed
a petition asking Judge Greer for permission to feed Terri by natural means. The
wording of the February 25, 2005 order excludes any type of nutrition or
hydration, but a careful reading of Gibbs' petition suggests that he was either
unaware of this obvious fact or he was pretending to be unaware of it.
In his Emergency Expedited Motion For
Permission to Provide Theresa Schiavo With Food and Water by Natural Means
petition, Mr. Gibbs asked the Court "to give them permission to attempt to
provide the Ward, THERESA SCHIAVO ("Terri"), with food and water by
natural means." Attorney Gibbs' act of asking Judge Greer for permission to feed Terri naturally
is sending the message that Greer's illegal court order is valid. Asking Greer
for permission to obey the Florida statutes is sending the message that Judge
Greer's court order is more authoritative than the laws
of the state of Florida.
David Gibbs supported his request to feed Terri
naturally by first citing Greer's February 11, 2000 original court order:
On February 11 this Court's Order authorized Petitioner
to "proceed with the discontinuance of said artificial life support for
Theresa Marie Schiavo."
(Quote source: Motion to allow Natural
Feeding)
Next he cited Judge Greer's February 25, 2005
order:
On February 25, 2005, this Court ordered the
guardian, Michael Schaivo, to "cause the removal of nutrition and
hydration from the Ward, THERESA SCHIAVO at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18,
2005."
(Motion to allow Natural
Feeding)
Attorney Gibbs did not mention the fact that
the word "tube" is missing from Greer's February 25th order. The word,
"tube" is the difference between medically assisted feeding (legally
classified as artificial life support) and the natural manner of feeding, a
right that is protected by the Florida statutes.
It was good that Mr. Gibbs pointed out that there
are "members of Terri's nuclear family, as well as least one registered
nurse," who "are willing to provide Terri with food and water by
natural means." He reminded Judge Greer that Terri is perfectly
capable of swallowing her saliva as well as the water used when her teeth were
brushed.
Attorney Gibbs went on:
Permitting Terri to ingest in food and water
in the natural manner will not violate the Court's 2000 Order that
"artificial life support" be discontinued.
(Motion to allow Natural
Feeding)
David Gibbs rightly stated that feeding Terri
would not violate Greer's original court order. What Gibbs failed to say is that
feeding Terri by natural means would violate
Greer's February 25th order. It is what David Gibbs did not say that reinforced
Greer's dehydration doubletalk.
Gibbs kept citing the original court order
because that order is supposed to be carried out on March 18th—the
original court order to remove Terri Schiavo's artificial life-support. But Gibbs' reference
of the 2000 order is doubletalk because the original court order was not
restated on February 25th, nor was it paraphrased. The original order was
replaced with a new order on February 25th!
Attorney Gibbs did not see fit to mention this in his petition and has not
announced this critical change-- which is not even remotely connected to
"Terri's wishes"--to the media.
Attorney Gibbs' implication that Terri is under
Greer's original order notwithstanding, the fact remains that Terri Schiavo is
no longer under Judge Greer's original order to remove her feeding and hydration tube. She is under
Judge Greer's amended order to remove all forms of nutrition and hydration. This
order is not only not Terri's wish, it is provably illegal.
All forms of nutrition and hydration do not
qualify legally as life support. When you eat a meal with your family,
are you on life support? You are supporting your life, but you are not receiving
"medical treatment" which is what the Sixth Circuit Court of Pinellas
County determined that Terri Schiavo did not
want. When your
family gathers around the table to partake of a meal you are receiving naturally
ingested nutrition and hydration. Artificial life support,
as it conforms to the Florida statutes in Terri's case, is medically assisted nutrition
and hydration, which is delivered by the gastric feeding tube, the nasal feeding
tube, or by intravenous feeding.
David C. Gibbs did not make this needful
clarification in his petition. He did
not mention the HUGE distinction between the "artificial life-support" wording of the original January 11, 2000 court order and the
"nutrition and hydration" wording of the present order, which is
supposed to be a reaffirmation of the original order!
Gibbs also did
not inform Judge Greer in this petition that the February 25, 2005 court order
is not legal and thus not enforceable. (The only way Greer's Feb. 25th order
will be carried out is through trickery, doublespeak, or
collusion.)
Attorney Gibbs actually reinforced Greer's
"artificial
life support = nutrition and hydration" doublespeak in the following paragraph:
The court determined only that Terri would
not wish to live on artificial life support. Discontinuing her
"artificial life support" in the form of assisted feeding should not
automatically sentence her to death. Instead, Terri should be permitted to eat
and drink by natural means.
Gibbs statement, "Discontinuing her 'artificial life support' in the form of assisted feeding should not
automatically sentence her to death" is doublespeak. As an attorney he
should be perfectly aware that the wording of the Feb. 25th order most
definitely does automatically sentence Terri to death!
David Gibbs went along with the death order doublespeak agenda by refraining from mentioning the obvious when he cited the
original finding that Terri would not want to live on life support. This was a prime opportunity to state that since the court determined that
Terri would not want to live on artificial life support, Judge Greer had no
basis to issue the revised Feb. 25th order that goes far
beyond the removal of artificial life
support. Gibbs' silence on this matter affirms rather than rebuts Greer's death
order doublespeak.
Attorney Gibbs reminded Judge Greer that the
court determined only that Terri would not want to live on artificial life
support:
This Court determined only that Terri would
not wish to live on artificial life support. Discontinuing her
"artificial life support" in the form of assisted feeding should not
also automatically sentence her to death.
David Gibbs failed to mention that the
Feb. 25th court order is not confined to artificial life-support in the form of
assisted feeding!
Gibbs asked Judge Greer for permission to give
Terri food and water naturally—as though he was asking for a privilege instead
of standing on her right to receive regular food and water per the Florida
statutes.
In the closing statement of his Emergency
Expedited Motion For Permission to Provide Theresa Schiavo With Food and Water
by Natural Means, David Gibbs again reinforced the "artificial life
support is regular food and water" death order doublespeak by giving the impression
that Greer's Feb. 25th order is just like his prior ones:
WHEREFORE Respondents respectfully plead that
this Court grant them permission to attempt to give food and water to the
Ward, THERESA SCHIAVO, by natural means after her "artificial life
support" in the form of assisted feeding has been discontinued by
Petitioner upon the order of this Court.
One more look at the February 25th Order proves
that the court has abandoned the narrow scope of removing Terri's feeding tube
and gone on to order the removal of her life
by
ordering the withdrawal of all forms of food and water:
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that absent a stay from
the appellate courts, the guardian, Michael Schiavo, shall cause the removal
of nutrition and hydration, from the Ward, THERESA SCHIAVO, at 1:00 p.m. on
Friday, March 18, 2005.
(Feb.
25, 2005 order to remove nutrition and hydration)
Under Judge Greer's Feb. 25, 2005
unlawful court order to remove all forms of nutrition and hydration—which no
citizen of the state of Florida is legally compelled to obey—Terri may not
receive sustenance by way of a feeding tube or naturally-delivered food and
water.
The February 25th order is
actually the first real death order Greer has issued in Terri's case. It leaves
no room for loving family members to feed her by mouth as Attorney Gibbs'
Emergency Expedited Motion For Permission to Provide Theresa Schiavo With Food
and Water by Natural Means petition misleads the reader into believing was a
possible outcome of Greer's "removal of food and hydration" court
order.
Judge Greer's Response to
Gibbs' Petition to Feed Terri By Natural Means: Death Order Doublespeak
Let us read Judge Greer's opening statement in
his response:
The CAUSE came before the Court for hearing
on March 7, 2005 on Respondents' Expedited Emergency Motion for Permission to
Provide Theresa Schiavo with Food and Water by natural means after the
assisted nutrition and hydration are discontinued. The Court heard the
argument of Daniel C. Gibbs III, Esq, for the Respondents, and of George J.
Felos, Esq, for the Petitioner.
(Greer
Denies food and water by mouth)
Notice that Greer did not correct Gibbs'
"misunderstanding" about the nature of the Feb. 25th court order Terri
is presently under. He did not set Gibbs straight and tell him that he has
ordered the removal of all nutrition and hydration from Terri Schiavo.
Instead, Greer continued with the dehydration
doubletalk by sidestepping the real issue (the wording of his Feb. 25th
court order) and communicating the idea that asking permission to feed Terri naturally would would be
like "asking
for an experimental procedure." Since Greer has refused to permit Terri to
have a swallow test for over ten years, he is saying that feeding her by natural
means would be an experiment. Since he denied this experiment in the past, he
would do so again:
Having also reviewed portions of declarations
or affidavits of several doctors, which were submitted to the Court by
Respondents, it has become clear that the motion is part and parcel of
Respondents' Fla. R. Civ. P Rule 1.540(b)(5) motion on medical evaluations.
The same declarations are being used for both motions and the motion appears to
be an alternative pleading to the 1.540(b)(5) motion. Both are asking for an
experimental procedure. The Court reasons that if the 1.540(b)(5) motion is
granted, there is no need for this motion. If the 1.540(b)(5) motion is denied
the Court should not do indirectly what it has not done directly.
(Greer
Denies food and water by mouth)
Watch for the doublespeak. Greer denied the
request to feed Terri by mouth—not because his amended court order disallows
such a thing, but because doing so would be an experimental procedure. This is
doublespeak and Terri died because of it.
Doublespeak, doubletalk, and double cross.
Judge W. Greer and Attorney David C. Gibbs are not talking straight. Terri's wish had
nothing to do with the Feb. 25, 2005 amended court order that neither one of
them will acknowledge!
Language is powerful. "It can hide
shocking truth; it can deceive a nation." (2)
The manipulative use of language brought about Terri's death and in time,
millions more will follow her... unless we are willing to obey God and stand for the
truth—and hold others accountable to tell the truth—in this evil day.
3/16/05
notes:
(1)
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Doublespeak
(2) http://dpingles.ugr.es/lies/burnside_doublespeak.htm
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Judge Greer's Illegal Feb. 25,
2005 Court Order
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Vs Terri Schiavo
, Judge Greer's Scientologist Campaign Manager
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