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
If you cannnot grasp the point that I was trying to make, then you are not worth the time.
According to the democrat/libs theory on Terri, NICU's should all be shut down because of the number of premies that end up with disabilities causing quality of life issues.
Da&# meds. :)
As a newbie, I'd tread lightly.
You too can suffer from MCS!
Multiple Child Syndrome, causes you to rattle off all your children's names plus the names of your pets when one child misbehaves!
Causes you to misplace your glasses on top of your head, and sit down on the object you are searching for!
Should you or anyone you know suffer from MCS, they are DOOMED and there is no hope!
The only revenge is when you become a grandparent as you can spoil the grandmonsters rotten and pawn them back off onto your children for much earned retribution!
Daylate-dollarshort, is that you?
I will try, I just dont like to have my comments twisted, as I am sure none of us do. It has been a sad weekend and my emotions are on edge (between the Terri issue and the FL murder). I will take your advice. Thanks
On a related note, I just saw a bombshell video on Fox News. They said it was an exclusive video just given to them by Mr. Schindler (Terri's dad). It's of him talking to Terri and asking her to smile for him. In response she starts vocalizing, an extended gutteral sound, but a direct response nonetheless.
I believe that even filming this video, let alone giving it to the media, means that the Schindlers are now in contempt of Judge Greer's direct orders that no cameras or tape recorders can be allowed in Terri's room. Seeing videos such as this one makes it evident why Judge Greer is so adamant about this point. He needs the public to only perceive Terri as a vegetable.
Even the dead ones.
a grandparent as you can spoil the grandmonsters rotten and pawn them back off onto your children for much earned retribution!
I didn't have to train Briah. She was your brother the minute she was born. Revenge can be sweet indeed.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Wouldn't the very first Blessing of Liberty be life?
Knock it off.
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I'm missing something here.
yo, Darks? Is DJMacWoW your momma?
Yup.
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Okers.
King Prout, this is my mom (who got me to sign up.) DJ MacWoW.
Mom, presenting King Prout whom I infect with typos once in awhile.
pleasedtameetcha, ma'am!
(it's the meds. honest)
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