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To: T'wit
"(On LKL) M. Schiavo: WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TERRI WANTED, but this is what WE want... (emphasis added for clarity)"

Michael never said this! Where did you get this lie? Certainly not from the CNN LKL transcript or audio.

"Michael says it was he who came to the conclusion about what Terri wanted, not she."

After a number of unsuccessful years trying to rehabilitate Terri, Michael finally accepted the fact that Terri was not going to improve. Terri had previously told him and others that she wouldn't want to live like that. He concluded that she had reached that point.

That's what he told Keith Olbermann. He did not say this was what HE wanted. Michael did not say it was HIS wish (as you claimed in your post #268). He clearly said, "about what Terri wanted".

"Note that the decision was AFTER Terri's injury, so it was not possible for her to have a say in it."

Correct. You'll note that he didn't say, "This is what Terri wants". Then you'd have a legitimate point -- how could Michael know what she wants? But he didn't. He said this is what Terri wanted -- referring to what she had told him and others previously.

"Note further that WHAT Michael decided was to start HIS legal "proceedings," i.e., to kill her."

Oh, baloney! That is a lie.

The legal proceedings were to turn the evidence over to an impartial judge. The judge was to examine the medical evidence and listen to testimony to determine Terri's condition and to obtain clear and convincing evidence as to Terri wishes.

The judge could just as easily concluded that Terri wasn't PVS and/or that she didn't want to die. The evidence, however, didn't lead him in that direction.

"Incidentally, the "many, many, many years" he says he helped her were part of 1990, 1991 and part of 1992."

He said he helped her for many years before he started proceedings. He filed his court petition in 1998.

"The depositions of Trudy Capone and Cindy Shook both pointedly corrobated what Michael admitted on LKL and Olbermann, namely, that he did not know her wishes."

What happened to "A", Michel testified that he didn't know what she wanted. Where's that proof? Did you forget?

Now it's something else. Now it's not Michael who said this, it's some candy stripers who said he said it. Why didn't Trudy Capone and Cindy Shook testify at the February, 2000 hearing (to determine if Terri would live or die) about what Michael told them -- when it would have done some good? Why did they wait another year before coming forth with an affidavit?

Everything else about this case sets off alarm bells in your head. This doesn't?

388 posted on 06/10/2006 8:52:45 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen; Admin Moderator
>> Michael never said this! Where did you get this lie? Certainly not from the CNN LKL transcript or audio.

Ahem. There were (at least) two LKL interviews. You are LOOKING IN THE WRONG ONE. I told you that before and gave you a reference to the right one. Now stop calling us liars.

393 posted on 06/10/2006 5:28:54 PM PDT by T'wit (Due process: Two lawyers obfuscating the truth to the satisfaction of a bureaucrat in black robes.)
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