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October 2, 2011
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By Carrie K. Hutchens on August 26th, 2011
It is mind blogging how some people are so ready to suggest the plug should be pulled on others. What if the pluggee doesnt want the plug pulled? Pull it anyway?
There you go. One more down. Who else can we get rid of?
The thought brings to mind a picture of an eager face with a vile grin and some drool running down the chin for good measure. Oh look, that little old lady in Aisle 4 doesnt have quality of life. I wouldnt want to live that way, walking with a limp. Lets get her. Boy, this legal murder is empowering. Look at me! I have power over life and death. Why didnt we start doing this before now? Oh, good another one back by the frozen foods. Such a good day for plug pulling.
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By Carrie K. Hutchens on August 24th, 2011
Sara Harvey is the Horseheads, NY woman who is desperately fighting to get her husband Gary home.
Gary fell down the basement steps at his home in January 2006 and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Since the accident, he has been in either a nursing home or the hospital. Being under the authority of Chemung County, NY, who was involved in a so-called ethics committee decision to petition to starve & dehydrate him to death, Gary has been basically isolated and allowed only restricted (and very limited) visitation from his wife and friends.
Sara wants her husband to receive a second opinion an independent second opinion and for Gary to have every chance possible to recover to whatever level he is able. She has, after all, repeatedly seen him be meaningfully responsive in his interactions with her and others. But those in control of Gary refuse to acknowledge this fact while at the same time refusing to allow him to receive an outside second opinion at a leading-edge brain injury hospital with much-higher-level experts. This is despite the fact that it appears over one million dollars has been spent in the past year on supposed healthcare for Gary that has not included any significant rehabilitative therapies. Sara Harvey believes that with physical therapy and a healthy dose of interaction with people that Gary knows that his quality of life will have a chance to improve drastically. She is prepared to give him that chance. She is prepared to bring him home where he would want to be.
The following is what I imagine Sara might be thinking.
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By Carrie K. Hutchens on August 18th, 2011
Tragically, Gary Harvey of Horsehead, NY fell down the basement stairs in January of 2006 and received a traumatic head injury. Since that time, he has either been in a nursing home or in the hospital and is under the guardianship of the county. Ironically, the county, who claims to be looking out for their wards best interest, was involved in a so-called ethics committee decision that Gary Harvey should be starved and dehydrated to death. The judge over-ruled the call for execution of an innocent man, though a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) remains in effect. Sara Harvey, Garys wife, is desperately fighting to get him home. One can only wonder how much he knows of what is going on around him. The following could be what he is thinking as he lays alone in that room, so isolated from the world he knew and the wife and friends he so loves. * * *
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Is Gary Harvey Being Held Hostage for his Bank Account?
StarGazette
9:09 AM, Jul. 26, 2011
State Supreme Court Justice Judith O'Shea has formally responded to a lawsuit that seeks to force Chemung County to prove it did not exceed its legal authority in its guardianship of a Horseheads man.
In her response dated July 18, O'Shea denied allegations made in the suit filed by Sara Harvey of Horseheads, who has been fighting for guardianship of her husband Gary. O'Shea also requested that Harvey's suit be dismissed.
In a June 30 ruling, the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division in Albany denied motions by the county to dismiss the suit and ordered O'Shea to file a response to the lawsuit by Aug. 1. State Mental Hygiene Legal Services Attorney Kevin Moshier and the county Department of Social Services guardian were also ordered to file responses.
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By Gina Miller on July 19th, 2011
Many of us who have eyes to see are quite aware of the trouble our nation is in today. We understand that our government, courts, education system, entertainment industry and all our other major institutions have been invaded, and in many cases commandeered, by communist enemies within our own countrypeople who were blessed to be born in this, the greatest nation in the history of the world, only to turn with a deadly vengeance the knife of corruption on their own country. These people are deluded at best, and black-heartedly evil at worst.
With the mind-numbing volume of outright criminal activity coming out of our own federal government, it is sometimes difficult to not become overwhelmed by feelings of helplessness in the face of seemingly unchecked, unaccountable, destructive government and societal power. But, we must not be deterred in working to educate ourselves and those we know about what takes place in our local, state and federal governments and the importance of standing strong against the anti-American, anti-freedom forces in our nation and of voting out of power those who work against the interests of the United States.
While I often deal with large, national issues, today I want to put the Big Picture aside for a moment and focus on a microcosm of the very wickedness about which I usually write. I want to tell you about a man and his wife and the terrible and needless battle they have fought for five years. Its a battle that should never take place in our great nation, because it goes against the very freedoms and liberties our founding fathers fought so valiantly to bring to pass here in America.
Because of the huge amount of media coverage, you have likely heard the gut-wrenching story of Terri Schiavo, the brain-injured woman whose family fought against the State of Florida and Terris husband to simply bring her home and care for her out of their own expense. The forces of evil ultimately prevailed, and Terri was murdered by court order through dehydration and starvationa fate never visited on even the vilest of criminals in our prisons. I have written about Terri before.
The tragic case of Gary and Sara Harvey has similarities to Terri Schiavos and her familys case. In January of 2006, Horseheads, New York resident, Gary Harvey, a Vietnam veteran, fell down a flight of basement stairs at his home and sustained a brain injury that has since left him in a vegetative state.
As Chelsea Schilling, writing for WorldNetDaily, reported last year,
Gary, an only child who is estranged from his two adult children, did not have a living will.
His wife, Sara, had him placed in a nursing home so he would receive care while she returned to her full-time job.
Following a family dispute over Garys assets, State Supreme Court Judge Robert Mulvey determined that Sara Harvey was not a suitable guardian for her husband and designated the county as legal guardian, according to Elaine Renoire, spokeswoman for the National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse, or NASGA, who is familiar with the case.
When [Chemung] county authorities took guardianship, Sara was separated from any decision making process for her husbands health and medical welfare. Garys father is deceased, and his elderly mother has not attempted to obtain guardianship. Sara has been trying to get the judges guardianship decision overturned.
Sara Harvey, almost single-handedly, has stood firmly against the machine of the system in her county. Just like Terri Schiavos family, Sara is desperately fighting to simply bring her husband home and care for him herself where he can at least enjoy the comfort of his own home and the loving care of his wife.
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By Carrie K. Hutchens on July 17th, 2011
Tracheostomy tube (Photo credit: Klaus D. Peter, Wiehl, Germany)
How long has it been since Gary Harvey fell down those basement stairs? How long has it been since he found himself vulnerable and fighting not only for life just because of his injuries, but fighting for life because the government officials and so-called ethics committees decided it was time to end his life by starving and dehydrating him to death? Just how long has it been and what has changed since the fight began all those years ago?
Some people have opened their eyes, started paying attention and have begun grasping the idea that something aint right here in the world of Gary Harvey and his so-called government protectors.
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StarGazette
3:32 PM, Jul. 6, 2011
Motions were denied by the state SupremeCourt's
Appellate Division to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to force Chemung County to prove it did not exceed its legal authority in its guardianship of a Horseheads man.
The suit was filed by Sara Harvey of Horseheads, who has been fighting for guardianship of her husband Gary.
In its June 30 ruling, the Appellate Division's Third Judicial Department in Albany denied the county's motions to dismiss the suit. The ruling also orders Supreme Court Justice Judith O'Shea, state Mental Hygiene Legal Services Attorney Kevin Moshier and the county Department of Social Services guardian to file responses by Aug. 1.
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Big3News
June 20, 2011
My response to Governor Cuomos recent campaign Help Achieve Marriage Equality in NY
It is a debate raging across the country and a hot issue on the current social and political agenda here in New York.
Gay or straight, does it matter?
The Harveys in happier times
In the Southern Tier Finger Lakes region of New York is a husband and a wife who, married now for 13 years, are not allowed to live together and not allowed to freely associate.
There is no divorce, there is no history of domestic violence, they were not poor or receiving government assistance they were a happily married loving couple minding their own business, living their own lives, going to work every day, no trouble with the law, paying their taxes.
Then, suddenly, the husband was involved in a serious accident which left him neurologically and physically incapacitated. As would most individuals in such a situation, the wife was advised to seek legal guardianship of her husband. She hired an attorney, papers were filed in court and the wife expected she would be appointed guardian, uncontested, and soon her husband would be receiving home-care back in the loving environment of their marital residence.
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Sara Harvey's Continued Fight for Custody of Her Husband
A Chemung County woman is fighting for the custody of her husband, who's in a vegetative state.
Sara Harvey says she's just trying to get her husband, Gary, home where he belongs. "I want my husband home, my husband would want to be home with me, he would not want to be isolated in St. Joseph's Hospital or anywhere."
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Government Intrusion
May 12, 2011
Sara Harvey for Salem-News.com
My husband is a medical hostage for profit.
(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Where does one turn when you become disabled, vulnerable or old and become unlawfully a victim of the system? There are no kind words for the injustice that Chemung County New York has visited upon my husband, Gary Harvey and me.
 Gary at work. |
My husband a veteran who served his country and fought for our freedom is being denied his.
Until January 2006, my husband was leading a normal life. I am telling this story on behalf of a Person.
Not a corporation, not a piece of Human Capital and definitely not a legal instrumentality for quasi-corporate monetary gain. I am talking about a man named Gary Harvey.
Although Gary Harvey is still a living person, he has not been treated as such since 2006 when he fell down a flight of stairs and sustained traumatic brain injury.
Sometime later, his prognosis worsened into a vegetative condition, but this would only be the beginning of his nightmare.
Gary was placed in Chemung County Nursing Facility - and a familiar battle began.
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Governor Cuomo: Will you help SaraHarvey?
February 6, 2011 by ppjg
Reported by Marti Oakley
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When corruption of any kind reaches so high into our government and its corporate agencies who prey on the general public under the guise of public service or other misnomer, we must speak out. We should all be speaking out in the case of Gary Harvey. What has happened to Gary and his wife, Sara,could happen to any one of us at any time; Gary has been held as a virtual prisoner by Chemung County agenciesinNew Yorkwhile a predatory guardian has burned through the couples assets.
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Judie Brown from ALL: American Life League Speaks Up
(As noted on NASGA - Wednesday, Frebruary 17, 2010)
HELP SAVE GARY HARVEYS LIFE!
Posted: Friday February 12, 2010 at 11:25 am EST by Judie Brown
by Judie Brown
The story of Gary Harvey is not unique and, sadly, could become more common. But when I heard from his loving wife Sara recently, it occurred to me that this is a case that everyone should be made aware of because it is about a couple who should never have been made to suffer simply because one of them became severely disabled.
Before I share Saras plea, I want you to know why Gary Harvey is so important to each of us who believe in human dignity, human rights and human personhood.
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