Posted on 03/20/2005 9:03:19 AM PST by XR7
A note to the news media: Stop lying about Terri Schiavo!
I have a message for the media: Stop, already! Just stop it!!Stop saying that Terri Schiavo is "a brain-dead woman being kept alive solely on life support." She is not. She's a disabled Florida woman, who is now being murdered by medical personnel who have removed her feeding tube.
Aaarghh!!! Tell the truth! Stop saying this is about her right to die. Watch closely at the words coming out of this keyboard: T-E-L-L T-H-E T-R-U-T-H.
Terri Schiavo is not at all comatose. She is not at all on life support. She does not have a breathing tube or a respirator. She simply has been receiving her food and water — something everyone in existence needs to survive — through a tube.
What's more, though she is disabled, she probably could eat by herself — it's just too much trouble for hospital personnel to try to feed her by hand.
That's the key element here: Terri is inconvenient. She's especially inconvenient to her husband, Michael, for several reasons — not the least of which is that he's living with another woman and has children by her. Can anyone seriously trust he is operating in her best interest?
Tell the truth. The case of Terri Schiavo doesn't represent the right to die. It represents the right to live.
When murderers are sentenced to death, it comes as a result of a jury or judge passing sentence on a defendant who is sitting before them. One who has had the right to make a defense, to call witnesses and to testify for themselves, if they so choose.
But Terri Schiavo, this woman who has been incapacitated for more than a decade, has never had the right to do any of that. What's more, Judge George W. Greer, the Florida judge who seems bent on ending her life — who has more than once ordered her food and water removed — has never even seen Terri Schiavo in person.
Never seen her in person! It is inconceivable that a judge would pass judgment on a felon without ever having seen the defendant.
But then, that's the point, isn't it? If I am to believe the mainstream media — either this is about Terri's "right to die" or she, in some sense, deserves to die. After all, she's got no "quality of life," right?
Wrong. Terri is not a criminal defendant. She committed no crime. She is innocent. Her sole "crime" — and I say that with all the irony I can muster — is that she is disabled.
If anything, this case is about the rights of the disabled.
Make no mistake, "quality of life" and comfort are not the prime considerations for living, any more than parenting is about spending "quality time" with kids. Forget quality time. If you don't spend "quantity time" with children, that's when they appear to suffer, if we are to believe the research. And if a disabled person is going to be killed because he or she is "inconvenient," let's stop talking about his or her quality of life. The quality of life while being starved and dehydrated to death is nonexistent.
Let's talk about the death process for Terri if her feeding tube is not reinserted. After three or four days, she will have lost weight and will have begun to lose normal body secretions. Her mouth will begin to look dry and her eyes will appear sunken. She will look thinner because her body tissues will have lost fluid. Her heart rate will gradually go up, and her blood pressure will gradually go down.
Five to 10 days from now, her alertness will decrease markedly. Breathing will become irregular with periods of very fast and then very slow breathing.
From day 10 until death — first coma, then kidney function will decline and toxins will begin accumulating in her body. Those toxins will cause her respiratory muscles to fail. Then multiple organ systems will begin to fail from lack of nutrition.
Then, and only then, she will die.
Sure. You're right, mainstream media. That's exactly what Terri has a "right" to. That's exactly what she would have wanted.
Excuse me while I vomit.
LINK to article: http://family.org/cforum/fnif/commentary/a0035918.cfm
Go read his testimony about how he promised the jury to USE THE 1.6 million to REHABILITATE Terri to the extent possible and to be by her side for the rest of her life, which MICHAEL stated, to the jury, was diagnosed as BEING A VERY LONG LIFE SPAN, INDEED.
For some reason, during the three year period Michael was in trial, suing doctors, the three years right after the accident, Michael would TAKE TERRI ON OUTINGS, there are BUNCHES of photographs of Terri, he took her to malls, parks, etc., etc,
then.........
FOUR MONTHS AFTER GETTING THE MONEY........
he hired Felos to help him kill her.........
Because...........
gosh darn it...........
Michael had an EPIPHENY!
He just happened to remember that Terri did not want to LIVE with any tubes! (Meanwhile...felos was working with the florida legislature to get FOOD AND WATER as artificial sustenance when delivered by tube .... and was successful)
Then michael got his brother and sister to remember the SAME THING!
Ain't that convenient....just think........if he could have knocked her off right then...instead of having to hide her away with all the therapy he stopped twelve years ago, again, after the money, instead of having to worry about someone from the press SEEING HER...., instead of having to worry about her at ALL..........HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TO KEEP MOST OF THE MONEY.......
Nice way to get rich.
I'm with you. I was raised to believe the body is a shell that houses the soul. My family doesn't do funeral viewing because we feel no need to focus on the husk once the person has gone to be with God.
What have you got against merely treating Terri Schiavo better than the neglectful state her adulterous, sleazy husband has ordered for her for the past few years? What have you got against doing an MRI and/or giving her therapy, speech therapy, and perhaps teaching her to swallow and stretching her limbs to reverse the constriction her husband has caused by commanding that she not be given ANY therapy? Do you raise your voice with that of Michael Schiavo, who stated in no uncertain terms, "When is that bitch gonna die?" ... You're so compassionate
So he gets the money and blows it legal fees, then turns down a million dollar offer to walk away. Obviously, he's motivated by something other than pure greed.
I'm capable of believing both that Michael Schiavo is a jerk and that Terry would likely want to be euthanized.
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You're not reading today's Newsma.com Article quoting TERRI's own nurses, are you?
Get Reading:
http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/20/102601.shtml
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quotes one of TERRI's nurse states in a Court Affidavid that:
"TERRI spoke on a regular basis, saying such things as 'Mommy' and 'help me/'"
When she put a washcloth in TERRI's hands to keep her fingers from curling together, [Nurse] leyer said "MICHAEL saw it and made me take it out, saying that was therapy" that he had forbidden."
It gets worse:
"Throuhout my time at Palm Gardens, MICHAEL SCHIAVO was focused on TERRI's death," the RN noted. "MICHAEL would say 'When is she going to die?" 'Has she died yet?' and 'When is that BITCH gonna die?'"
U.S. Senate Majority Leader/Heart Surgeon BILL FRIST stated yesterday that TERRI'S doctorss have never given her a CatScan. Her doctors have also stated that she can be physically re-habillitated. Re-Hab that MICHAEL has denied her.
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Well said BUMP!
ALOHA RONNIE wrote:
"The Issue here is:
TERRI can breath unassisted.
TERRI can eat food thru her mouth, food that MICHAEL has been stopping her from having for years.
TERRI can SPEAK.
TERRI is NOT the Living Dead.
TERRI is capable of being re-hab'ed. TERRI rehabilitation that MICHAEL has been preventing for years as he continues to make babies with his lover.
The U.S. Constiution guarantee's each person the Right to LIFE, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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PLUS: IMHO, there is reasonable suspicion that the husband is the perp of injuries to her causing her present condition and doing eveything in his power to shut her up... forevermore, by doing what all liberals do, use a liberal judge to get their way.
Pray for Terri. Something went wrong when they took out the feeding tube. She has a HIGH FEVER from a new infection. ARE WE WORKING OUR WAY TO FIRST DEGREE MURDER?????
AND, PLEASE FAX THESE TWO FLORIDA DEMOCRATS WHO WANT TERRI TO BE MURDERED BY JUDGE GREER who is going to prison imo.
GET THIS OUT ASAP...DIRECT CONGRESSIONAL REQUEST!!!!
Please if you have a fax machine take a moment and contact by fax the offices of
Robert Wexler - FAX 202 225-5974
Email: Click here: Congressman Robert Wexler: 19th
District of Florida and
Earl Blumenauer FAX 202 225-8941
Email:
http://www.blumenauer.house.gov/about/Contact.shtml
3,541 posted on 03/20/2005 12:30:38 PM CST by floriduh voter ( www.theempirejournal.com THE TRUTH ABOUT TERRI... IF YOU DARE)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1365111/posts?page=3541
WAY MORE THAN ONE MILLION BUCKS? (Not to mention who would want to live with knowing an entire nation discovered ya were only motivated by money...not good)
HOW ABOUT THESE MOTIVATORS:
PUBLISHING A BOOK (could be double digit millions world wide)
RACKING IN THE MOVIE RIGHTS (MORE $$$$$$$$$$$$$)
GIVING INTERVIEWS FOR A PRICE! ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$)
MAKING SPEECHES ON THE SPEECH CIRCUIT (BIG BUCKS HERE)
Felos is already on the eagle talent website and advertises his fees for speaking about terri from a price range of 10,000 to 15,000 GRAND! WOW!!! Terri is a virtual CASH COW already!
But I believe I have read about and seen pure evil in this tragedy.
I wouldn't want to live like you either but I still wouldn't want to be starved to death.
I think he`s a bad guy and I was also sure he would turn down the money.If he takes the money now, it means he would have to live the rest of his life hearing that he was only about the money.I think he`s decided he could never be happy with what would come with the money.He may also be worried about being charged criminally.The mother and father believe he may be partly responsible for her original illness.
Yes he`s a bad guy.His lawyer is a worm also and obviously is of the same political cloth as his client
Excuse me, 120 lbs is a good healthy weight for a 5'3" woman. I'm 5', and because of my metablolism I have to strictly limit what I can eat to maintain a weight of under 130. Of course, she had to diet to achieve that weight, but unless she drastially stopped eating - which I canno speak to - most doctors would have recommended that she do just that. Dieting does not equal starting oneself.
If your desires would be to starve to death, it is your right to make that determination. IIf we learn anything from this, it should be to PUT IT IN WRITING or else it holds no legal validity.
You didn't search long or deep enough. Terri has siblings that have said they will be caring for Terri if or when her parents pass on.
I agree with you 100% but boy are you and probably me going to hear from the bleeding hearts on these post. Let her go to her maker.
Re: the Democrat's Press Conference today.
What if Terri Schiavo can think but is unable to speak?
Nobody knows for sure! Not even the Democrats!
How can the Democrats play God? Terri has the right to be treated by doctors!
Maybe its ol' mikey hisself, check out the screen name! lol
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