Schindler's List is a list of Jews that Oscar Schindler saved from death at the hands of the Nazis.

Greer's list is a list of those persons that Florida Circuit Court Judge George Greer has sentenced to death by starvation.

Schindler's list is lengthy, but not nearly long enough.

Six million Jews were executed because they supposedly polluted the body politic and were not entitled to live.

Because Adolf Hitler did not respect God or life.

Greer's list is short.

There is only one name on it: Terry Schiavo, nee Schindler.

It is too long.

And ironic.

A Schindler family in Florida is in a three-week race to save the life of their severely brain damaged daughter, Terri.

Judge Greer has ordered that Terri be starved to death beginning at 1 PM on March 18.

At that time, on that date, Terri's husband and guardian has been ordered to withhold the feeding tube, which provides Terri with nutrition and hydration three times a day.

If Terri Schiavo had committed mass murder while under 18 years of age, she could not be executed, according to a recent 5-4 United States Supreme Court decision.

BUT, Florida Circuit Court Judge George Greer has repeatedly sentenced Terri to death by starvation, because she is brain damaged and married to a man who wants her to starve to death so he can get on with his life.

And Judge Greer seems prepared to have his order (and Terri) executed.

Thereby vindicating his temporal authority.

In violation of God's will and natural law.

And apparently he is oblivious to the blatant conflict of interest between Terri's personal interest in continuing to live and her husband's personal and financial interest in Terri dying as soon as possible.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Yes, that's part of America's Declaration of Independence.

It's the essence of America's Declaration of Independence.

It recognizes God ("Creator").

It acknowledges that the rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" are part of God's endowment to man.

And that those rights are "unalienable."

Meaning, "incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred."

It proclaims that government is supposed to secure those "unalienable" rights.

And that securing the people's "Safety and Happiness" is their government's purpose.

Michael Schiavo's idea of happiness is to have Judge Greer approve his plan to starve his wife to death and cremate her body.

That way, he can't be prosecuted for murder.

And her body won't be available to use as evidence against him.

And he can inherit from Terri!

Terri's "unalienable" right to Life should trump Michael Schiavo's "right" to pursue such Happiness.

THAT should be a no-brainer.

Remember the lament of Reverend Martin Niemoller: "In Germany, they first came for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics. I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak up."

In order to make the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness alienable, surrenderable and transferable, God had to be eliminated.

Neither Congress nor any state legislature ever tried to do that.

But, in 1947 the United States Supreme Court declared that the federal government and the state governments must be neutral as between religion and irreligion.

Giving God and Satan equal status under American law.

Without acknowledging either, of course.

The Pledge of Allegiance later placed the Nation "under God," but the United States Supreme Court had made itself the highest authority and "freed" other courts from the obligation of obeisance to God.

One result: Terri Schiavo's right to Life has been subordinated to Michael Schiavo's right to pursue Happiness by a feckless Florida judge.

That is sufficiently absurd to be the stuff of great comedy.

BUT, it is frighteningly real.

I have been advised that Florida Circuit Court Judge George Greer is legally blind.

Whether or not that's true, he is morally blind, at best.

It has been reported that Judge Greer has not taken the time to visit Terri Schiavo.

Even Pontius Pilot met with Jesus before satisfying the bloodthirst of Jesus' enemies.

If he is legally blind, Judge Greer should have recused himself, for Terri is entitled to a judge who can personally observe her condition.

As well as a judge who recognizes that her right to life is unalienable, brain damage notwithstanding.

Michael Schiavo and his attorney, George Felos, have claimed that Terri is in a persistent vegetative state and is not cognitive.

The Schindlers adamantly deny that.

Judge Greer is unable to render a fair decision on that vigorously disputed issue.

If Terri Schiavo IS starved to death with his "blessing," Judge Greer won't even convince himself that his hands are clean, like Pontius Pilate tried to do.

Like Lady Macbeth, he won't be able to wash the blood from his hands.

The hope!

That the Florida Department of Children & Families will void Judge Greer’s 2000 death order.

The Florida Department of Children and Families recently announced that it will investigate allegations that Terri Schiavo has been abused or mistreated and asked for a delay in Terri's execution by starvation to facilitate its investigation.

Better late than never.

Hopefully, Judge Greer will unseal those papers now that the company that owns the Tampa Tribune newspaper and WFLA-TV are seeking access to the papers.  

The company's legal argument is that the normal privacy concerns in a legal case don't apply because the legal battle between Michael and Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, has been so extensive and a very public fight.

Even Judge Greer should be able to "see" that a case in which one spouse seeks permission to starve the other spouse to death is not normal.

The Florida Department of Children & Families has not publicly identified a person responsible for the abuses.

Terri's husband Michael has been accused of abusing her before her collapse 15 years ago.

And his determination to starving Terri to death and spending of a fortune on legal fees for that purpose and nothing on therapy for Terri, from Terri's own funds (which he controls as Terri's guardian), lend credence to the accusation.

Matt Davis, an attorney with the Gibbs law firm, handling legal matters for Terri's blood relatives, the Schindlers, said that the document brings up many of the concerns previously brought forward by the Schindlers.

"We are confident when someone from the outside does see how Terri has been treated, they will see she has been mistreated all these years," Davis said.

What is apparent is that Terri has been mistreated by the Florida judiciary, which has approved her death by starvation more than once, and by the United States Supreme Court, which declined to take her case.

At a press conference Monday, Ted Hires of The Justice Coalition of Jacksonville [Florida], and Robert Schindler, Sr., Terri's father, requested that Florida's Attorney General, Charles Crist, immediately convene an investigation to determine if Terri's civil rights have been violated.

They emphasized that Terri has committed no crime and is not terminally ill. 

They called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate abuse allegations. 

Before a banner proclaiming Terri Schiavo as a victim, Hires said the coalition would work with the Florida Department of Children and Families to determine whether the allegations of abuse and neglect can be substantiated and should be prosecuted.

If Crist doesn't act, he's not fit to be Attorney General.

Much less Florida's next governor.

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