Originally Posted - April 30, 2006

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Today, May 1, is Law Day, the day that pompous asses in the judiciary and Bar pat themselves on the back and try to tell us what a phenomenal job they're doing protecting our constitutional rights by the rule of law.

"America's legal system is central to protecting the constitutional principles on which our Nation was founded. As we observe Law Day, we celebrate our heritage of freedom, justice, and equality under the law", is the introduction to the proclamation for Law Day issued by President George W. Bush.

"This year's Law Day theme, "Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers," honors the wisdom of the separation of powers that the Framers of our Constitution established for the Federal Government. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention recognized the risks that accompany the concentration of power and devised a system in which the Federal Government's authorities are divided among three independent branches. James Madison highlighted the importance of our Constitution's separation of powers when he wrote, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny", the President says.

Pinellas County probate court judge George W. Greer, the icon of judicial tyranny in America, is the lead speaker for "The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why Is It So Hard to Die in America".

Greer is leading the program today, Law Day, for the 10th anniversary symposium of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics in Philadelphia, the judge who set the stage for the mass killing and extermination of the disabled and elderly in the United States as part of the government's effort to save on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security costs.

Ethics? Does George Greer know the meaning of the word ethics? He's a Florida judge, why is he speaking on Law Day in Pennsylvania and on the Terri Schiavo case no less. As an active judge, George Greer shouldn't be speaking anywhere on the issue which is clearly defined as a political issue. Judges are definitely precluded from engaging in such political activities and his appearance clearly documents his prejudgment of all future such cases to come before him.

Florida ethics opinion 2005-09 of April 7, 2005 addresses where a judge can ethically engage in extra-judicial conduct, particularly as a presenter at a symposium on a specific legal issue. The ruling was no, he can't. By appearing with the principals involved in the Schiavo case that were hell bent to kill Terri Schiavo, Greer is associated with an advocacy group, advocates for euthanasia, the death cult and activity that gives the appearance of bias against a class of litigants---litigants such as Terri's parents, Mary and Bob Schindler, who fought Michael Schiavo in Greer's court for over eight years to try and save their daughter's life.

By Greer appearing with the plaintiffs in the case and their witnesses and advocates, he is clearly giving the appearance of bias in favor of killing the disabled and in our view, is lending the prestige of his judicial office to advance the private interests of Dr. Ronald Cranford, Michael Schiavo, Jay Wolfson, Hospice CEO Mary Labyak and bioethicist Arthur Caplan in addition to the others appearing at the bioethics symposium……on Law Day, no less.

Greer showcases the very essence of what is wrong with our legal system today and his appearance at an program dealing with ethics on Law Day, whether it be bioethics, legal ethics or judicial ethics, is pure hypocrisy and an affront to Americans. He is a prime example of the increasing number of renegade judges in the United States who habitually ignore the Constitution and state statutes to impose their own political ideologies upon American culture and citizens.

The arrogant, diabolical, dictatorial, biased and one sided ruling of Greer permeated the Terri Schiavo case and caused the death of an innocent handicapped woman while setting the stage for the death cult, of ridding society of what individuals like Greer and euthanasia advocate George Felos and other pro-death proponents consider burdens to Medicaid and Medicare. Their tyrannical rulings are running roughshod over people's lives in the Family Courts, the surrogates and probate courts, civil courts and criminal courts of America.

And just like in the Terri Schiavo case, the Greer despots in black dresses are doing so claiming that they have the judicial independence to legislate from the bench, to rule by their own will regardless of the Constitution because of separation of powers. But what purported jurists like Greer forget is that the separation of powers doctrine has the express purpose of balancing power----not tipping it all to one side.

"Throughout our Nation's history, we have been reminded repeatedly of the wisdom of the Framers' design. Our system of separation of powers has safeguarded our liberties and helped ensure that we remain a government of laws. Law Day is an occasion for us to celebrate our Constitution and to honor those in the judiciary and legal profession who work to uphold and serve its principles", President Bush says.

George W. Greer and scores of others across our great Republic have not been safeguarding our liberties but instead have been raping and pillaging them. While we look to the courts for protection, instead families are being divided, ruined, devastated because the judges and the attorneys are using the courts and the law for their own personal agendas rather than protecting the rights and best interests of those who come before them. It's not a level playing field as the family of Terri Schiavo found out and thousands of others like them who look to the court for protection for the vulnerable, for their rights and instead, if they don't have the resources and thousands of dollars to play the legal game, their voice is not heard and they are dismissed, lives are being cast aside as being worthless, estates are pillaged with the proceeds divided between the lawyers and the judges, innocent people are being sent to jail, families are being torn apart, innocent children are suffering because of the greed and corruption in the court system and it goes on.

Apathetic America has to start to get involved before it's too late and the crisis enters their own backyards. The situation in Texas in the Andrea Clark case is an eye opener, a scary situation when the government can dictate whether a person lives or dies regardless of what that person's express wishes are and those of their families. If the insurance company or Medicaid decides you aren't worth keeping alive, they can literally pull your plug and it doesn't matter if you are black or white, Republican or Democrat, Catholic or atheist. The ramifications of this issue has an enormous magnitude----and jurists like George W. Greer are at the center of it, somehow trying to justify the mass extermination of the disabled, the vulnerable, as part of the balance of powers, as judicial independence. What's even more alarming is that this whole concept came into law by George W. Bush, the same president who is now signing proclamations about our heritage of freedom, justice, and equality under the law.

Greer was at the center of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo right-to-life case in Florida, making a complete mockery of the judicial system with his handling of the Schiavo case, controlling the case for over seven years and using the bench and black robe to sanction judicial homicide, ordering a disabled woman to die a grueling, agonizing death by starvation and dehydration---a cruel, unusual and inhumane judgment by anyone's standards---except maybe George Felos, attorney for the husband who lobbied Greer for over seven years for the death warrant. He seems to thrive on death.

There exists clear and convincing evidence that George Greer single-handedly did more to dishonor the judiciary of the U.S. than any other judge in the history of the U.S., engaging in a horrific abuse of judicial power, arrogantly thumbing his nose at Florida's Governor, the President, Congress, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and even the Vatican while totally abandoning any trace of ethics.

No elderly person or handicapped person in America is safe today because of George Greer and the band of attorneys who have their tentacles attached to the estates and assets of these vulnerable people through guardianship. Greer has done more to advance the Culture of Death in America today than any one else this decade and for that, he should be properly recognized by removal from the bench. He was removed from his church. In our opinion, he is a danger to society.

The Traditional Values Coalition has opined that there are two basic principles of law known as "original intent" and the "rule of law". Judges are to rule on laws based on the original intent of the legislature who created the laws, not their own personal opinions or political agendas----or those of these legal cronies as those in the Schiavo case who supported the euthanasia-death culture agenda of George Felos, Project Grace, George Soros, Mary Labyak and the Hospice of Florida Suncoast, the organization of which Felos served as chairman and member of the board of directors in addition to other principals in the Schiavo case.

Judges are also to respect the "rule of law" meaning, as the Coalition states, that they are to make impartial judgments upon laws passed by local, state or federal legislatures when these cases involve constitutional issues.

George Greer didn't make one impartial statement in his seven-year dictatorship of the Schiavo case. There was absolutely no appearance of impartiality. Bias and prejudice towards the handicapped woman and her family prevailed in Greer's court as he thundered "I don't want anyone feeding that girl, the rule of law is that this girl is going to die". Despite his biased rulings, documented conflicts of interest and improper associations and prohibited discussions of the case with Pinellas County sheriff Everett Rice and John Carassas, then a deputy in the office of Attorney General Charlie Crist who is now a judge too, Greer steadfastly refused to recuse himself from the case as is ethically required. He pushed ethics to the wall with his violations of campaign law and unlawfully using the offices of the Pinellas County public defender and Bob Dillinger; the sheriff's office and Rice and Bernie McCabe, state attorney, to promote his reelection campaign---paid for by Pinellas County taxpayers while he shrouded himself in the black robe.

Time and time again Greer disregarded the U.S. Constitution, Florida Statutes and ultimately, even defied a federal Congressional subpoena and the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution, to engage in a blatant, arrogant and abusive judicial usurptation.

The rule of law in the Schiavo case and as it is applicable to George W. Greer, demands and dictates that he be disbarred and removed from the judicial office that he has never legally held. He has engaged in an abhorrent, reprehensible raw display of judicial tyranny and should not be a featured speaker on a program dealing with ethics.

George Greer routinely ignored both principles of original intent and rule of law and created laws to fit his own political and social agenda, engaging in judicial activism and legislating from the bench, making up the law as he went. He totally defied the U.S. Constitution at every turn---engaging in total judicial tyranny. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, not the judicial branch, not George Greer.

"My oath is to follow the law", George Greer stated, "and if I can't follow the law, I need to step down". If the Florida Legislature had any gumption and they themselves complied with the law and the Constitution, they should have long ago impeached Greer. Greer never properly filed his oath of office. He didn't legally qualify for office and could not legally appear on the ballot or be elected. He was not legally elected and is mandated to "step down".

Even from the getgo, Greer didn't follow the law and he never legally held judicial office. Greer totally lacked jurisdiction in the case of Terri Schiavo and in the absence of jurisdiction, he lacks judicial immunity in his intentional murder of a handicapped woman. That is pure tyranny. That is illegal. He made a death threat against Terri Schiavo and he carried it out. He should not be lauded or rewarded.

There was a total lack of professionalism and total disdain and disregard for the law by Greer in the Schiavo case. Greer's abuse of power, total denial of due process, lack of jurisdiction, judicial incompetence and dishonor of the black robe and gavel have earned him the lifetime achievement award and recognition of judicial tyranny at its worst. He practiced total disdain for society, values and human rights and human life. His total lack of ethics, integrity and compassion cast a disparaging view on the nation's judiciary and made him a poster child for judicial tyranny, personalizing the imminent need in this country today for the reining in of judicial independence and judicial activism.

The public has an obligation and duty to speak up ----to hold the judiciary accountable, just as accountable if not more so than the executive and legislative branches of our government. There is no separation of powers when it comes to governmental accountability. The judiciary must cease their intimidation of the public. For some unknown reason members of the judiciary seem to think that a black robe and gavel allows them to play God and that's just not so.

For way too long, judges have hidden behind the cloak of judicial immunity.

A year later, George Greer is still trying to justify killing an innocent disabled woman and apparently thinks if he says often enough that his actions were correct, then it will become so. What George Greer did to Terri Schindler-Schiavo will never be right. It was contrary to the rule of the law, it was contrary to the Constitution. It was contrary to the Bible and it was contrary to human rights law. Democracy requires independent courts---but not tyrannical courts---where decisions are based solely on facts and law---not personal feelings or wishes or by influence from other sources and campaign contributions.

The rule of law implies that government authority may only be exercised in accordance with written laws, which were adopted through an established procedure. The principle is intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary rulings in individual cases.

The topic on this Law Day should not be "Why Is It So Hard to Die In America Today" but rather "Why Is It So Hard To Gain Judicial Accountability In American Today". 5-1-06