"I'll kill anyone I want. Go away.
And tell the US Congress to put their heads
where the sun don't shine. Remember, I alone rule."
Posted on 03/19/2005 5:29:53 AM PST by amdgmary
An attorney for Terri Schiavo said the severely brain-injured woman cried and yelled out that she wants to live after being told today her life-sustaining feeding tube was about to be removed by court order.
Barbara Weller was in Terri Schiavo's room at the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., when the encounter took place, according to activist Randall Terry, who spoke with WorldNetDaily from outside the building as demonstrators continued a vigil.
If true, the report apparently refutes the court's finding that Terri Schiavo is in a "persistant vegetative state" and cannot currently express her wishes. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, contends she had indicated she would not want to live in such a condition, but parents Robert and Mary Schindler dispute that and suspect he is responsible for the 1990 incident in which oxygen to her brain was temporarily cut off, causing severe brain damage.
Weller essentially told Terri Schiavo, "You had better say you want to live or they will kill you. Just say you want to live."
Schiavo responded with a drawn out, "IIIIII," then screamed out "waaaaaaaa" so loudly that a police officer stationed outside the room came in.
The officer then ordered Weller removed from the room, according to Terry.
The event was witnessed by Terri Schiavo's sister Suzanne Vitadamo and Suzanne's husband Michael.
"I talked to Suzy and Michael, and they both said it was unbelievable," Terry said. "It was very articulate, for Terri, but they also say this is normal [for her to communicate]."
Terry explained the family says Schiavo often is talkative, though similar to a 10-month-old.
"The words usually are not discernable, but she's responsive to commands, uses slow diction and her voice lilts to show emotion and context," he said.
Weller teared up after hearing Schiavo respond today, Terry said, and indicated Schiavo was crying.
Terry has established a website, helpterri.com with information about how to get involved, including phone numbers of lawmakers and details of a rally and lobby-training sessions to be held next week in the Florida capital, Tallahassee, beginning Monday.
"We need people there Monday night, people who have never lobbied before, to come, and we're going to be begging the [Florida] Senate to get its act together," Terry said.
Doctors removed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube today to carry out her estranged husband's requested court order.
Barring an intervention, she is expected to live another week to 10 days.
The tube removal came after a Florida judge blocked an eleventh-hour end-run waged by members of House and Senate panels, ruling the device can be removed immediately.
Early this morning, the House Government Reform Committee decided to launch an investigation into the case and issued subpoenas that order doctors and the administrator at the hospice facility not to remove her feeding tube and keep her alive until the investigation is complete.
At the same time, the Senate Health Committee also requested Terri and Michael Schiavo appear at an official committee hearing March 28.
As a result, minutes before the 1 p.m. EST deadline for the tube removal passed Pinellas Circuit Court Judge David Demers ordered the feeding tube remain in place while presiding Judge George Greer addresses the matter of the congressional subpoenas in a court hearing.
But an hour later, Greer disregarded the subpoenas and again ordered the feeding tube pulled.
I don't believe this.
The facts are good enough reason to look at this and not let her die. This is sensationalism.
This is a lesson to all to have a living will written. Otherwise the judicial branch of government will have you killed.
How come no one is arguing the fact that in early 93, after promising to do everything in his will to treat her, took all of the money that was awarded(nearly 3 million), and is now doing everything in his will to kill her.
SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE!!!!!
Why isn't the MSM talking about this?
The doctor that examined her is now saying she CAN be treated, but Michael will not allow the treatment.
EVIL
Ping
"I'll kill anyone I want. Go away.
And tell the US Congress to put their heads
where the sun don't shine. Remember, I alone rule."
That doesn't mean it's sensationalism. It might very well be cold, hard, sensational fact.
I have read enough true accounts of severely disabled people who struggled heroically to have themselves heard when the medical professionals declared their cases hopeless, to believe that this is yet another example of the same phenomenon.
This is quite believable.
PLEASE SIGN PETITION TO IMPEACH JUDGE GREEER. THE PEITION HAS OVER 10,000 SIGNATURES ON IT
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ijg520
This murder
This is murder
She's a vegetable and brain dead.
Why else would they not allow cameras and administer morphine to her?
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Do you believe what this article is saying? That TErri was saying what is reported in spite of the people who were there saying this was not the case?
Lying for a cause does not help the cause. If you think it does, I disagree, profoundly.
Truth is the best weapon and greatest converter of people. No this tripe.
URGE SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES, PASS 'TERRI'S LAW' IMMEDIATELY
Both the House and Senate have now passed bills that would give the Schindlers the opportunity to have their claims that their daughter's starvation violates her federal constitutional and statutory rights heard in a federal court. Unfortunately, the bills have significant differences in content. Both houses must pass the same version in order for the bill to be signed by the President and put into effect to save Terri.
Now, your help is needed TODAY to contact your Senators and Representatives and urge them to do whatever is necessary to resolve the differences between the two chambers and get a bill that will save Terri to the President’s desk before it is too late.
PLEASE ACT NOW! Under court order, Terri's feeding tube is scheduled to be removed at 1:00 pm EST today, Friday, March 18.
To contact your senators and U.S. representative, go to:
http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dpq/dbq/officials/
Simply type your zip code in the "Take Action Now" box.
Time is precious! Only a massive outpouring from constituents will move legislators to act quickly enough to give Terri her chance at life.
For the text of the House-passed bill (H.R. 1332), see: http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/Terri/SensenbrennerWeldon.pdf
For the text of the Senate-passed bill (S. 653), see:
http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/Terri/SenatePassedFinal.pdf
The Florida legislature should raise the stakes for this judge and the liberals by proclaiming STARVATION as the new method of execution for criminals.
If it's OK for Terri, it must be OK for criminals.
Umm..I think more than one person said she did this. And Michaels attorney, when questioned by the media of how Terri responded when they were removing the tube, indicates that something indeed took place because he completely ignored an answer and skirted the question.
It might be tripe, but it's important tripe.
This article is presenting a lie.
She is not brain dead or comatose. But nevertheless, she is not speaking. And others have reported this is untrue.
I think contaminating what is a good cause, supported by some facts and truths, with lies of a sensational nature does not support the cause. It looks like kooks and liars are ginning up outrage in a phony way.
People are outraged by the truth. It damages that cause to lie.
When he said this, were his lips moving?
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