I am on a hunger strike. Stopped eating when they took Terri's feeding tube out. But I have been drinking water. I am starting to feel a little weak and sick AND I HAVE BEEN DRINKING WATER!!!!!!!!!!!! What hell must Terri be going through. THIS IS AWFUL!!!!!!!! Poor Terri! Poor Schindlers. I can't believe this is happening AGAIN!! God bless the congress but JEB BUSH HAS TO DO SOMETHING NOW! I can start eating any time I want to but Terri has got to be suffering and her poor parents have to stand around helpless and watch this murder take place before their very eyes. There is going to have to be a revolt of some kind. They can't wait around for another two days while Terri is dying. This is monstrous.
I couldn't believe some of the callers I just heard on C-Span. The monsters!! They are demented. Evil. God help us all.
Heavenly Father - Please help Terri to survive this insulting violation of her rights. Please cause her feeding tube to be re-instated today. Whatever it takes. In Jesus Christ's Name - Amen.
I do have the sense that Terri gets a reprieve because this is gruesome, and most people don't want to be seen as high-fiving it.
All of the players on the other side have an enormous disadvantage because they are trying to sell death as a good. We aren't that evil of a people to buy it, IMO. Additionally, the aesthetic surrounding them is extremely unatttrative, nobody in their right mind wants to be associated with it.
Wow, and you have not eaten in a whole day! Imagine that.
First of all, Saundra, I admire your commitment to fasting. God Bless you. I wish I had your strength.
You know, it's funny (well, not really), earlier I posted that I was "about to go to the store and wanted to check FR first."
My first, unedited post was that I had to go to the grocery store. Suddenly I realized that putting the word "grocery" in my post seemed incredibly, I don't know, unseemly, unfair, just not right.
I can hop in the minivan and head off to the grocery for food or even bottled water, while there is a woman being murdered in this inhuman way. So I just said, "store."
"I couldn't believe some of the callers I just heard on C-Span. The monsters!! They are demented. Evil."
I didn't hear them but I can guess what they said. I can only hope and pray that they are speaking like that out of ignorance. I think, if the facts became known to the public, that they would not be so in favor of letting Terri die.
The problem is, most people see this as a personal family decision between husband and wife and they don't understand why the Congress is getting involved. And I do think that the Congresspeople, and President Bush, who are doing this understand that there may be a political cost, because of the pure media-fed ignorance of most of the American public.
But they're working to save Terri anyway. Tom Delay said President Bush would "enthusiastically" (or something like that) sign the bill.
This, despite polls that indicate most people support Michael Schiavo.
Following Göbles lead, the popular media has diligently parroted the phrase "Persistent Vegetative State", despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary. The little monsters you hear parroting this have not looked at the facts like a FReeper would. They've allowed themselves to be spoonfed information without analyzing. Dr. Gambone himself ADMITTED that he made that diagnoses "because Michael asked me to", and obviously for the purpose of allowing Terri admittance to a Hospice. She does not belong in Hospice.
Most on FR who want Terri dead point to the court and to Judge Greer, and don't see the fishiness - how the 1991 bone scan was deemed by Greer as "interesting" but irrelevant. Excuse me? How DID Terri enter her state? The eating disorder/heart attack story doesn't hold water in light of the other circumstantial evidence (esp. pertaining to Michael's character, with a new "wife", kids, Terri's sister afraid of Michael, Michael "remembering" Terri's "wish" to refuse "life support" after getting $1.2M).
The evidence is there. Everybody sees it, except those who don't want to. They see A) Terri is no vegetable, and B) Michael's motives are rooted in Michael's interests, not Terri's.
Keep praying. I'm looking for more Capitol Hill folks to e-mail.