Michael Schiavo: A refusal to quit in the face of threats, anguish and vitriol.

The Inquirer ^ | Mar. 20, 2005 | Sandy Bauers

[ljswisc]

He's not an adulterer. He waited 5 f'ing years.

He started dating much sooner. He didnt wait no five years. It just took him five years to shack up.

[Salvation]

Michael Schiavo, we will win, because life is always the choice of the Church!

[VRWC For Truth]

I agree. There is some transfer of guilt going on.

[DCPatriot]

Ya know...if it were anybody in here...and if they deny it they'd be lyin...they would after years of being told that your wife was never going to recover from a vegative, non-cognitive state...how many of you would have become sexually abstinent and given up the chance to have children?

Somebody should ask Mrs. Schiavo...who is the real problem here...she just can't let go...if she would like to live and be a burden to her husband if it were her lying there in that bed.

My heart goes out to her...I have 5 great kids.

We have people in here stepping waaay over the line in statements toward good solid Freepers because of this Schiavo crap. It's not cool.

[VRWC For Truth]

So now you are saying life is crap. ... and you wonder why people step over the line.

[nina0113]

Don't start yelling "murderer"! or "adulterer"! unless you have 100% positive, verifiable proof of the crime.

Mmm, two illegitimate kids is "100% psitive, verifiable proof" of adultery.

[ClintonBeGone]

BINGO! You have hit the nail on the head. This is the critical mistake that Greer made. All else hinges on it. No one seems to be able to correct this mistake within the Florida judicial system.

Exactly. And not only have they not been able to correct this HUGE mistake, they've made it worse. They've embraced it like only a government bureaucracy could. Congress is stepping in and slapping them in the head and saying, WAIT, before you kill her let an adult (the federal courts) check your work.

I was thinking, doesn't the constitution or some other federal document require at least TWO witnesses before you could be charged with perjury or treason? And here they're allowing only ONE for a death sentence!

[tuffydoodle]

. "Don't start yelling "murderer"! or "adulterer"! unless you have 100% positive, verifiable proof of the crime"

Murderer--If Terri dies by starvation/dehydration, it's by her husband's hand, no one else's. Her parents want custody to help her and keep her alive.

Adulterer--he's still married to Terri, yet he's living with another woman and has 2 kids by her, per Michael Shiavo.

[Edward Watson]

I posted an article on Free Republic supporting Michael and I received an incredible amount of hostile responses. Ironically, all the e-mails were supportive of my position.

The Admin Moderator then pulled my post and the entire thread claiming a flame war which is another irony since how can it be a war if I didn't respond to the insults?

I e-mailed the moderator asking permission to repost and was turned down. When I asked for an explanation why I'm prohibited and why the double standard since articles from genuine leftists like Michael Moore, Maureen Dowd and Teddy Kennedy are posted here everyday without being pulled; no response was given.

So now, I'm faced with a dilemna. If I repost the article I wrote, I may get banned from Free Republic despite the four years of consistent mostly conservative posting. What is my option? The other side deserves a chance to be heard.

[stylin_geek]

Oh cut the garbage and admit you have no problem with Terri being killed. While you are at it, where do you stand on partial birth abortion? After all, little babies require the extraordinary measure of constant care and feeding..so, PBA should be fine right? Or, if the little baby is to much trouble with all that constant care, perhaps witholding food until it dies should be okay.(since a little tiny baby is incapable of feeding itself nor does it really have a personality, might as well be "it")

So, care to tell me what the difference between Terri and killing a little baby would be? Just for clarification, you know....

By the way, rather than starving Terri, why not just inject morphine or put a bullet in her head? Either way would be more humane that watching her slowly starve to death.

If that method of execution was tried with a death row inmate, the ACLU would have a field day in court.

[Howlin]

I asked what if he's not lying and you go off on me like that?

What an absolute A$$ you are; I have a right to ask a question on this forum, even if it's one that you take offense at.

You sound like you belong in a cult.

[GeekDejure]

No mention at all of the cash he got.

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And then there's stuff like: "Isn't she dead yet? When is that bitch gonna die?"

Just the kind of questions you'd expect to hear from loving HINO Mikey, eh. !!! ;-))

[rdcorso]

All I know is that Dr. Baden ain't no joke.He looked at Terri's bone scans and came to the conclusion that she was assaulted.If he is able to see trauma then someone should be finding out where it came from.

[GatorGirl]

I see you've been quite "vocal" on the threads tonight in favor of killing Terri.

I ask in all sincerity why you support this outcome instead of supporting just letting people who love her and are willing to take on the burden of caring for her for the rest of her natural life have her. Michael can just divorce her and get on with his new life.

I am pro-life for Terri for three reasons:

1) She requires no "extraordinary means" of life support, just food and water. Starving an animal to death is a felony. Therefore, as a society, we should refrain from starving a person to death.

2) She never made her end of life wishes clear in a written document. We really don't know what she wanted. Therefore, we should "err on the side of life".

3) She has family who are ready, willing and able to take on the burden of caring for her for the rest of her natural life.

I won't even get into the circumstances surrounding her "collapse"; the hearsay testimony used to support the finding that she wishes to die; the suspicious timing of remembering her "wishes" only AFTER the malpractice suit in which part of the award was based on rehabilitation and future care; the new quasi-marital relationship complete with children, etc..... Let's just stick to the principles at work here, for clearly this is an issue which goes way beyond this particular disabled person.

Thank you.

[GregB]

No therapy and he spends no time with her. If that was my wife I would have her at a rehab hospital not a hospice. I would be there every day,not sleeping with another women!!!!!!!

[bray]

Nice article about his Whore and two bastard kids! What a piece of work.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Giving Troops

[nina0113]

Let's just stick to the principles at work here, for clearly this is an issue which goes way beyond this particular disabled person.

The absolute underlying principle being that a civilized society does not kill people by STARVING THEM TO DEATH!

[TAdams8591]

Where did that question come from??? I never said Terri was on a ventilator.

Karen Quinlan was on both a Ventialtor and a feeding tube when her parents asked to have ONLY the ventilator removed. The feeding tube was never an issue. While karen was taken off the ventilator, she remained on the feeding tube until she died ten years later.

[Howlin]

I see you've been quite "vocal" on the threads tonight in favor of killing Terri.

I defy you to find ONE POST where I said anything close to that.

Has FR come to the point where people who ask questions about LEGAL PRECEDENTS are accused of wanting people to die?

Is your argument SO vacuous that that is what you have sunk to?

Go ahead, back up your words: find ANY post where I have said anything close to that.

[Iscool]

I believe I'd rather have a terrorist cut my head off than someone force me to starve to death or die of thirst...