And emailed to the Mayor, Vice Mayor, and City Council of Pinellas Park (bmischler@, rbutler@, sbradbury@ and bcorna@pinellas-park.com)

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Councilmember Patricia Bailey-Snook
City of Pinellas Park, Florida March 27, 2005

Dear Councilmember Patricia Bailey-Snook:

As a person in government service, you share the duty to “Uphold the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion” by the Code of Ethics of Government Service (Public Law 96-303, passed unanimously by Congress in 1980).

All police officers are also sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. However, officers in your city are being ordered to violate the Constitution — by enforcing a contested court ruling that unlawfully denies Terri Schiavo equal rights and protections afforded to other citizens.

Unlike other cases, where legal conflicts can continue to be challenged despite a contested ruling, Terri is being denied the right to food, water, and medical care while her family petitions the Governor.

This error will cost Terri her life if she is not removed to safety until the conflict can be resolved. Thus, her disability is limiting her right to due process, and should be accommodated for during the proceedings.

As written in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
” No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

All citizens retain the inalienable right to defend personal religious convictions, and as Governor Jeb Bush has demonstrated, there are officers who believe in enforcing Constitutional laws first, before court orders that violate them, until the conflict can be resolved peacefully.

Please call a meeting with the Mayor, Chief of Police and the Governor’s Office to address and resolve contradictory orders being given to police, in violation of the Constitution, which all officers of the law, the court, and the government are sworn to defend for all citizens, regardless of disability.

As a representative of the public interest, and in your capacity as a person in government service, you can act to enforce the Constitution to prevent the loss of life while an erroneous court order continues to be addressed and may be lawfully corrected.

Yours very truly,
Emily Nghiem, Volunteer
Center for Constitutional Compliance
1111 Genesee Street
Houston, Texas 77019
281-660-0401
emailus@ev1.net
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Amendment XIV

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Any person in Government service should:

I. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department.

II. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion.

1 TIMOTHY 5:8

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Dear Governor Jeb Bush and President George Bush:

In the case of Terri Schiavo, I am sorry that law enforcement agents were ordered to violate Constitutional laws, by submitting instead to erroneous court authority denying equal protection of inalienable rights.

Thank you for proving the terrorists wrong. America is not a country of infidels. We are worse. The only thing that saves us is God’s grace.

May God forgive our trespasses, guide us to correct our faults, and heal the self-inflicted wounds of political conflict. May Terri’s suffering and sacrifice not be in vain, but inspire the nation to end the epidemic of judicial abuse of authority, especially in probate and custody cases.

Yours truly,
Emily Nghiem
Houston, Texas
emailus@ev1.net