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Regional Center for Independent Living
1641 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610
http://www.rcil.org/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2004

For more information, contact C. Jean Penner, Communications and
Outreach Coordinator, at 585-442-6470 v/tty, or 585-797-7260

Green Ribbon Ceremony at RCIL Will Celebrate the Life — and Right to
Live — of Terri Schindler-Schiavo

The Regional Center for Independent Living (RCIL) will host an outdoor
green ribbon ceremony on Friday, June 4, 2004, in honor of the
controversial struggle to preserve Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s right to
live. The cermony will be held at RCIL, 1641 East Avenue in Rochester,
at 12 noon, to commemorate Terri’s half-birthday. It will be free and
open to the public.

Those who attend will receive green tartan ribbons; part of a national
campaign to raise awareness of this issue. The color green symbolizes
life, while the tartan pattern symbolizes the diversity in human life,
which includes — and embraces — disability. Additional ribbons will
be available at RCIL for members of the community, free of charge;
donations will be accepted by RCIL for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo
Foundation.

This national observance — the Life Ribbon Campaign — encourages
community supporters to wear the ribbons until Terri comes home to her
family.

In 1990, Terri Schindler-Schiavo collapsed in the home she shared with
her husband, Michael Schiavo. The cause of her collapse is unknown to
this day. Terri receives food and water by way of a gastric feeding
tube; and a battle rages currently in Florida courts, in which her
husband is demanding the removal of the feeding tube, while her parents
are fighting for her right to live, and challenging his right to act as
her guardian.

Terri originally fell into a coma but awakened from her comatose state
weeks later. She was left in what medical professionals call a “locked
in state” with limited abilities to communicate or move.

To this day, Terri remains disabled. Though she is responsive to
stimuli, interacts with her environment and her loved ones and is
capable of communicating in limited ways, she is a disabled and
vulnerable adult — requiring protection, therapy and the route to
recovery. RCIL’s ceremony to honor her life will acknowledge the
reality in our society that disability is too frequently equated with a
“better off dead” presumption; and that this has sobering implications
for all Americans with disabilities.

“Despite any particular physical or mental impairments, life is our
most precious gift,” states Todd Eggert, Executive Director of RCIL,
“and with this effort, RCIL is choosing to positively support Terri’s
right to life. Given that she is showing responsiveness and
recognition of loved ones, how can anyone question that right?”

During the first months that followed Terri’s mysterious collapse, she
made progress. Medical practitioners noted her efforts to speak and her
responsiveness. Terri, however, has not received meaningful therapy
since 1991 on the orders of her husband. In 1998, Terri’s husband made
his initial petition to the circuit courts of Pinellas County, Florida
to end her life by removing her feeding tube. If he had been
successful, Terri would have died of dehydration and starvation over
the course of 10 to 14 days. Terri’s parents are fighting her husband,
saying that her wish — if she were able to speak — would be for
therapy and rehabilitation, rather than death from dehydration and
starvation.

In the most recent developments, over the objections of Florida
Governor Jeb Bush, a Florida state appeals court has sent this case to
the state’s highest court. The Florida Supreme Court will hear the case
filed by Terri Schiavo’s estranged husband seeking to overturn a law
Bush signed — Terri’s Law — that saved her life.

The Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal approved a motion put forward
by George Felos, the euthanasia advocate who is Michael Schiavo’s
lawyer, asking the appeals court to let the Florida Supreme Court
decide the case. But attorneys for the governor say they want the case
halted while the issue of whether Michael should have the authority to
speak for Terri is resolved.

Governor Bush also said that Michael’s interests may conflict with
Terri’s, implying it may be appropriate to appoint a new guardian on
her behalf. But, Felos said the matter is so important that the
state’s high court should decide the case.

The appeals court agreed and, in granting Felos’ request, denied the
Bush team an opportunity to gather further information showing that
Terri would not want to be killed.

The Florida Supreme Court can either take the case or tell the appeals
court to hear it and issue a ruling before deciding to hear the
lawsuit.

Last August, the Florida Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal filed
by Terri’s family of a local judge’s order allowing Michael to remove
Terri’s feeding tube.

For more information and actions to take please refer to the following
links:

http://www.terrisfight.org

http://www.cogforlife.org/schiavo.htm

http://heavenlyhands.net/terrislinks.html

http://www.prayforterri.net

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C. Jean Penner
Communications and Outreach Coordinator
Regional Center for Independent Living
1641 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14610

585-442-6470 v/tty
www.rcil.org

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FL AHCA Cover-Up Forces Schoch to Issue Public Writ of Mandamus

A cover-up by the Florida AHCA (under Jeb Bush) in regards to the treatment and care of Theresa Schindler Schiavo, etc. forces Juan Schoch to issue a Public Writ of Mandamaus to various City, County, State and Federal officials.

Tallahassee, FL (PRWEB) September 2, 2004 — The following public writ of mandamus was sent via Express Mail and certified letters to all parties in the letter on 8-28-04. It was also passed out to the media in Tallahassee the day before and on the day of the oral arguments before the Florida Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of HB 35-E/S 12-E (Public Law 03-418). This is my Public Writ of Mandamus. Each letter came with a mini cd of the AHCA documentation and other information which proves there is a cover-up. (Note: If you would like to represent or know someone who would like to represent this case please call Juan Schoch at 407-925-4141):

August 28, 2004

James D. Boyd
Inspector General of AHCA
2727 Mahan Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32308-5403

Re: All information, CCR#s, and yet to be assigned CCR#s contained
and referred to in CIG#200406030002 and AHCA Tracking #05-003, etc.,
other cases yet to be generated and your duties to set Theresa
Schindler Schiavo on the road to her recovery (much can be found in
the enclosed mini compact disc)

Dear Mr. Boyd:

Thank you for your letter of August 13, 2004 regarding my August 9,
2004 e-mail requesting public records and copies of various agency
documents. In your response you write “�the issues raised in your
June 3 letter and July 20 e-mail did not show evidence of possible
violations of statutes, policy or procedure that could constitute
misconduct or wrongdoing on the part of agency staff�” to which I
make the following statement and request:

I demand as a United States citizen and a Florida resident
sufficient corrective actions, remedies, redress, relief, etc. to
what I perceive and know to be illegal actions of AHCA, facilities,
etc. I hereby request AHCA and any other government agency or
entity, local, county, state or federal invested with investigative,
enforcement and prosecutorial powers who may be reading this, or
others of whom it is within their purview of being able to contact
said powers, etc. to do their jobs of investigating, enforcing or
assisting in getting the laws enforced in regards to valid
allegations of acts of felony neglect and attempted murder, etc.
perpetrated against the person of Theresa Schindler Schiavo.

While it is my duty (when it has come to my knowledge) as a resident
of the State of Florida and a United States Citizen to report
abuses, neglect or exploitations against vulnerable people who can’t
speak for themselves it is NOT my job to site book and page. One
would think that the competency level of all persons in agencies
serving the public who by statute are to receive, properly review
and survey complaints for violations of statutes, criminal
violations, disregard for policies and procedures that are in fact
evidence of misconduct or wrongdoing on the part of agency staff and
facilities, persons, etc. would be much higher then heretofore
displayed.

I have provided, while perhaps to some seemingly disconnected or
incongruent, sufficient, overall and comprehensive evidence to
illuminate within the average persons mind and their reasonable
ability to piece together and comprehend pertinent data, more than
enough evidences of illegal conduct, which point to statute
violations on the part of agency staff and facilities, etc. and it
has become painfully clear that people in your and other agencies
are spending more time sending not just me, but most complainants,
relating to the matters presented, far afield from the matter at
hand, of which there is or are:

* Non-delivery of all 15 retained rights of this incapacitated
person pursuant to Florida Statute 744.3215(1)(a-o) both
individually and collectively as a whole

* State licensed facilities bowing to the abuse of power by the
guardian, his attorneys, local law enforcement, the state attorneys
office, and other public officials to facilitate and further the
denial and withholding of this citizens statutory and constitutional
retained rights

* Illegal acts and or omissions by many supervisory level personnel
in many agencies and facilities, in non-fulfillment of their duty by
those personnel pursuant to Florida Statute 415.1034 mandatory
reporting to invoke and call upon protections under the
whistleblowers act when their employment is threatened. Such and
other failures are enabling, promoting and facilitating what appears
to be an overall agenda of their various supervisors (and others)
who indirectly and/or directly are working collectively (knowingly
or unknowingly) pursuant to a directed agenda by the recently
exposed many in positions of public trust

In light of the fact that AHCA Complaint Administration Unit intake
operator Justina told me that they “didn’t want to hear about what
particular statute violations were occurring as it is the AHCA’s job
to know these things,” and as I have stated above it is not my job
to point out the specific violations of statutes, policy, or
procedure that could constitute misconduct or wrongdoing on the part
of agency staff, facilities, etc. (your words in bold), it should be
obvious to you that while I am perfectly capable of seeing and
reporting specific violations I was being told not to do this by the
Complaint Administration Unit intake personnel. Now I am being told
by you to the contrary that I must do your jobs. This in and of
itself is evidence of an agency and a system that continues to
notoriously exhibit incompetence in this matter, and only proves a
limited ability to send the very people who you serve, on endless
tail-chases and endless non-productive rabbit trails.

While all of this energy is expended, the primary matter at hand,
the FS825.102 and FS825.103 abuse, neglect and exploitation of
Theresa Marie Schiavo continues at the liable hands of all agencies,
various personnel and public officials, etc. to the detriment of not
only her but all vulnerable adults, elderly and disabled persons
throughout the State of Florida by the acts and omissions of every

one of these negligent persons who are entrusted with the Public’s
Trust.

BE IT KNOWN, that everyone is officially on notice, that to continue
to obey these illegal and subversive directives, of persons who wish
to continue to further the obvious and blatant efforts to
intentionally cause the death of this very conscious, self-aware,
cognitive, disabled and vulnerable adult (who has been actively
prevented from getting better) as defined by Florida Statute 415,
744, 825, 400, 782, the ADA Act, and CFR42 rises to the level of
felony crimes and is unlawful, collectively, pursuant to Florida
Statute 876.22 through FS876.31 known as the Subversive Activities
Act, in that the collective efforts, whether knowingly or
unknowingly, of all the involved including medical professionals,
public servants, facilities, guardians, caregivers, and others, is
ultimately resulting in the destruction of all that we as free
citizens enjoy as our constitutional protections, which are there to
guarantee our inalienable right to life, liberty to that life, and
the pursuit of happiness through our FS744.3215 retained right to be
restored to capacity at the earliest possible time, which has no
time limit.

An Inalienable Right is particularly defined as: That which cannot
be given or taken away. Thusly, a person cannot Give their Life away
nor can it be Taken away. Both are crimes, and protections of life
are networked rather thoroughly throughout our Laws and our
Constitution.

Consider this my public Writ of Mandamus to all (with various media
as my witness) who will be receiving this letter, to cease and
desist your acts or omissions which are felony crime statute
violations, which may lead ultimately to this woman’s death by your
incompetency, complacency, malfeasance, misfeasance, obedience to
personal or collective agendas, disobedience of mandatory reporting
of abuse, neglect and exploitations. This will require your
proactive efforts in conjunction with other agencies and persons, to
go against those who draw you in and only use you as pawns in a
bigger agenda, by this case, to create a constitutional Right To
Make You Dead. Investigate and prosecute the guilty parties. It is
your obligation to set Theresa on the road to her recovery.

Do your jobs or suffer the consequences in the long run for your
participation in blatant, in your face, felony crimes.

Sincerely,
Juan Schoch / Lake Mary, FL

P.S. I was never issued new CCR#’s per my written complaints (June
3, 2004) and yet you have done nothing but obfuscate that fact. I
find this more than just a little reprehensible and believe it shows
the complete and total incompetence, if not outright obstruction of
justice, by you, your staff, the AHCA Complaint Administration Unit
and others in your agency. It would be smart to stop digging
yourself a hole and get back on the right track.

cc: Jeb Bush, Governor
c/o Christa Calamas, Governor’s General Counsel,
Charlie Crist, Attorney General,
Lee Constantine, Senator, District 22,
Derry Harper, Chief Inspector General, Executive Office of Governor,
Dawn Case, Director of Investigations, Executive Office of Governor,
Guy M. Tunnell, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement,
Lance Newman, Director, Tampa District Office, Florida Department of
Law Enforcement,
Cynthia Schuler, District Administrator of District 14, Department
of Children and Families,
Bernie McCabe, Pinellas Pasco State Attorney,
Dorene Thomas, Chief of Police, Pinellas Park Police Department,
Sid Klein, Chief of Police, Clearwater Police Department,
Everett Rice, Pinellas County Sheriff,
Carl Whitehead, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Tampa Division,
John L. Wodatch, Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights
Section, U.S. Department of Justice,

Representatives of House Committees Elder Affairs and Long Term
Care, Family Health, Health Care and Health Services: Rep. Hugh
Gibson / Rep. Dorothy Mindingall / Rep. Tom Anderson / Rep. Joyce
Cusack / Rep. Carole Green / Rep. Richard Machek / Rep. Sheri
McInvale / Rep. John Quinones / Rep. Dave Russell / Rep. Heather
Florentino / Rep. Sandy Adams / Rep. Aaron Bean / Rep. Faye Culp /
Rep. Nancy Detert / Rep. Matt Meadows / Rep. Sandra Murman / Rep.
Nan Rich / Rep. Frank Farkas / Rep. Ed Homan / Rep. Holly Benson /
Rep. Gus Bilirakis / Rep. Marty Bowen / Rep. Susan Bucher / Rep.
Larry Cretul / Rep. Rene Garcia / Rep. Gayle Harrell / Rep. Arthenia
Joyner / Rep. Stan Mayfield / Rep. Dave Murzin / Rep. Joe Negron /
Rep. Ralph Poppell / Rep. Manuel Prieguez / Rep. Julio Robaina /
Rep. Yolly Roberson / Rep. Ray Sansom / Rep. Eleanor Sobel / Rep.
Shelley Vana / Rep. Roger Wishner / Rep. Juan Zapata

Kate O’Beirne, Washington Editor, National Review / David Sommer,
Reporter, Tampa Tribune / Brendan Farrington, Correspondent,
Associated Press / Jim Witters, City Editor, Bradenton Herald / Mike
Vasilinda, Bureau Chief, Capitol News Service / John Lucas, Bureau
Chief, Florida News Network / Marshall Griffin, News Director,
Florida Public Radio / John Baker, Bureau Chief, Florida’s Radio
Networks / Rick Flagg, Bureau Chief, Florida Radio News / Jim
Saunders, Bureau Chief, The Florida Times-Union / Paige St. John,
Bureau Chief, Gannett News Service / Marc Caputo, Reporter, The
Miami Herald / Lloyd Dunkelberger, Bureau Chief, New York Times
Florida Newspapers / John Kennedy, Bureau Chief, Orlando Sentinel /
Shirish Date, Bureau Chief, The Palm Beach Post / Lucy Morgan,
Bureau Chief, St. Petersburg Times / Linda Kleindienst, Bureau
Chief, Sun-Sentinel, South Florida / Nancy Cook Lauer, Bureau Chief,
Tallahassee Democrat / David Wasson, Bureau Chief, Tampa Tribune /
Georgia Davis, News Director, WFSU-TV/The Florida Channel / Jim
Lehrer, NewsHour w/, PBS / Diane Sawyer, ABC News / Dan Rather, CBS
News / Larry King, CNN/Atlanta / David Shaw, Media Critic, Los
Angeles Times / Richard S. Newcombe, Creators Syndicate / Reed
Irvine, Chairman, Emeritus, Accuracy in Media

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April 16, 2004

I must be famous

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