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To: goldworldnet who wrote (98698)	3/19/2005 4:30:30 PM
From: redfish	Respond to of 108807

I think pretty much the whole country is assuming "liberal activist judge" in the Schiavo case. The entire circus has no grounding in reality. Some of the hundreds of e-mails and letters he gets call him a "murderer." "Are you related to (Josef) Mengele, or just a student?" one man wrote, referring to the ruthless Nazi doctor. An indignant woman who believed his decisions weren't Christian once called and asked if he thought he was going to heaven. Deputies who fear for his safety escort him to and from work. That's life these days for Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer, who has ruled that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube could be removed, allowing her to die. Greer sits at the epicenter of the international debate over Schiavo's life, a judge who answers critics with the only rebuttal allowed by rules of judicial conduct: Silence. "The really difficult part of this job," Greer said, "is that you can't defend yourself." The world knows so much about Schiavo's life, but little about the 63-year-old Greer. A balding man whose voice has no trace of his native Brooklyn, he travels to unwind and jogs to stay fit. He has run two marathons, though the last was 20 years ago. Friends say his eyesight is awful. It's so bad, in fact, that he doesn't drive. And Greer, vilified by many religious protesters, is a church regular. He also is a conservative Republican in a state whose conservative Republican governor tried to overturn one of Greer's orders. "George is the religious right," said lawyer David Kurland, a longtime friend. pqasb.pqarchiver.com