For one very good reason. Terri Schiavo's case was not about euthanasia. It was about carrying out her expressed will to die if she were brain damaged and being supported by artificial means.
It was the extreme pro-life crowd that totally ignored Terri's wishes and turned this whole thing into a "hate Michael, he-wants-her-dead" euthanasia circus.
Are you sure you shouldn't have read the Schiavo threads more closely before channelling CNN on this thread?
At least, your comments gave the appearance that that is what was happening...
Cheers!
How do you know what Terri wanted?
"It was the extreme pro-life crowd that totally ignored Terri's wishes..."
There is absolutely zero, none, nada, zilch evidence of Terri's expressed will to die if she were brain damaged and being supported by artificial mean.
Terri's husband alleged that this was what she wanted ~ her parents alleged it was not.
That is the total extent of anyone knowledge about what Terri wanted!
You blind idiot! Terri was not dying at all. She was healthy! She was not on life support. She was not in a coma! There was no proof she wanted This terrible death. Hearsay is not proof in any court of law. Her loving parents wanted her. She was denied therapy. Her husband wanted her dead for his own selfish reasons.
Michael conned the jury into a huge settlement with the promise that he needed the money to give Terri the care she needed for the next 41 years of her life. As soon as he got the monetary award, he stopped all treatment and eventually found the "Hospice" where she lived longer than any other "hospice" patient because she wasn't dying. Hospice is for people with less than a year and usually less than 6 months to live.
Michael is guilty of Medicaid Fraud as is Judge Greer AND Suncoast Hospice. Judge Greer, by judicial decree, allowed Michael to apply for Medicaid for Terri when she still had approximately $50,000 left in her Trust which was to provide for her therapeutic care. I work with Medicaid, there's a MAX of $2000 allowed a patient who applies for Medicaid.
Michael is also guilty of defrauding Terri's Trust fund by using it, again with the blessing of Judge Greer, to pay the legal costs of having Terri killed.
You think it's a 'right-wing conspiracy' and it's not. It IS a "CORRECT USE OF THE LAWS wing of the Pajama-Clad" bloggers.
now remember, any deviation from the screamers in any terri thread is a big no no.....
Terri Schiavo's case was not about euthanasia. It was about carrying out her expressed will to die if she were brain damaged and being supported by artificial means.
Agree 100%. The amount of vitriol that has engulfed this once enlightened forum is depressing to say the least.
I applaud you for stating an opinion concerning Schiavo that has all but been shouted down during this whole ordeal. I, for one, have avoided "TS" threads as they had taken over by fanatics, who in turn hijacked this entire forum, tossing ad hominem attacks towards anyone who didn't toe Randall Terry's radical Operation Rescue platform.
Avoiding "TS" unfortunately, threads has been an exercise in futility as she has become FR's cause celebre for the last several weeks Even non "TS" threads are quickly hijacked and sent plunging off topic. Don't believe me? Look around. Click on many non-Schiavo threads and count how many posts before someone chimes in about Judge Greer or death by starvation. It has taken on something of an amusing quest.
This whole spectacle has been embarrasing. Long time FReepers are leaving in disgust. Naysayers are pointing in our direction saying, "what a bunch of nutjobs over at Free Republic." Sadly, they have a point!
Furthermore, I have never cared how long someone has been registered to post. As long as they did not sign on specifically to troll, it is irrelevant. We all started here at day one.
Finally, Schaivo "died" 15 years ago from complications due to bulimia. Her husband did not strangle her. The fact that medical science was able to keep her body from decomposing for the last 15 years does not mean that she was "alive" and was then murdured by the state!
Flame away people, I'm getting tired anyways. I really don't care anymore. I'll just bide my time on ebay till this whole mess cools down.
I am part of the pro-life crowd but I have to admit that those who carried this case to such extremes with all the conspiracies. The "I know better than anyone what Terri wanted" and if you disagree with me I'll call you names and might evern threaten you crowd made the pro-life cause that much more weak and loonier.