Posted on 03/21/2005 7:50:03 AM PST by Pendragon_6
Lets see, first Michael Schiavo beats and strangles his wife Terri, leaves her lying unconscious on the floor until her family arrives to get her to the hospital.
Then Michael Schiavo sues the hospital for $20 million because he needs the money to get his poor wife therapy.
Then Michael Schiavo pockets the money, denies his wife the care he said she needed and finally, claims she really wants to die.
Michael Schiavo killed his wife Terri's cat, melted down her wedding ring and then took up with his girlfriend and lives with her today with their children. Does this sound like a loving husband who really cares about his wife's wishes?
And what do we get on the tube every hour on the hour: “persistent vegetative state” as though any of the talking heads who ghoulishly proclaim Terri's life isn't worth that of a convicted serial killer sitting on death row (for 20 years, while due process goes on).
Michael Schiavo's supporters claim he loved his wife Terri enough to take a nursing degree so that he could take care of her. I think he got that nursing degree so he could inject her with insulin and hasten her death and his complete claim to all the money he won in litigation.
Just take a gander at the sworn testimony of an attending nurse: Carla Sauer Iyer (affidavit* below) but let me save you some time and report a quote of Michael Schiavo's after visiting his still living wife: "When is that bitch gonna die?"
Hmmm. Loving husband or man so afraid of not only not getting the money (what's left of the $20 million) but the prospect of facing a jury for his attempted murder, a charge which is possible as long as Terri lives. Sounds like motive to me.
Michael Schiavo says Terri said she never wanted to be kept alive on machines. Okay. Even if that was her statement (which there is absolutely no corroborating testimony and quite the unusual statement coming from a young, newly married woman still in her twenties and full of life); Terri is not being kept alive by machines!
Terri has a feeding tube from which she gets food and water. Had she had the care and therapy she was entitled to, there is every chance today Terri would be divorced from that louse and feeding herself just fine.
About that “loving husband” crapola: what husband do you know evinces his marital fidelity and love by living with another woman, having children with that woman and dumps his wife in a hospice while waiting for her to die? What loving husband kills his sick wife's pet? What loving husband denies his wife's family visitation?
I ask these questions because the media morons are still stuck with their new term: “persistent vegetative state” and are oblivious to the actual facts of this tragic case.
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Actually I believe that he sued the doctors for missdiagnosing her condition.
I don't recall how much money he got but it was a lot. The way he recieved so much was that he took the witness stand, recited his wedding vows, proclaimed his etenal love for Terri and said that if he received enough money he would become a nurse and care for Therri the rest of her life.
He received the money and began the process of having her legally killed.
It was after winning the lawsuit, someone said 7 years later that he suddenly remembered that she once said she did not want to live like that.
If one chooses to believe Michael, they are believing a perjuer at,or at best an proven by his own actions a liar.
Of coures millions of people have no problem believing another perjurer and proven liar, one William /Jefferson Clinton.
Quite an arrogant bugger, isn't he?
Wow. That's nice...really nice.
Asshole.
"A good husband doesn't absolve himself of his responsibility to his wife to her parents."
A good husband doesn't go off with another women-"full time" have kids with her and pocket his wifes money.
If he needed to go on withhis life he could have handed custody to her parents.
My condolences to you for the death of your wife. That has to be incredibly painful to go through. I must say that the difference between Terri's situation and your late wife's situation is that your wife was dying of cancer, while Terri is "inconveniently' not dying. You were a faithful husband until you were parted by her death; Michael is not.
Being a faithful husband "for many years" doesn't cut it. Neither does having "the sense to move on, find another and raise a family" while he is still married to Terri. As evidence, I submit his own words in sworn testimony:
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 92-939-15
EXCERPT OF JURY TRIAL - TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL RICHARD SCHIAVO
(November 5, 1992)
page 26 Q. Why did you want to learn to be a nurse? page 27 A. Because I enjoy it and I want to learn more how to take care of Terry. Q. You're a young man. Your life is ahead of you. Your future is beyond you. Up the road, when you look up the road, what do you see for yourself? A. I see myself hopefully finishing school and taking care of my wife. Q. Where do you want to take care of your wife? A. I want to bring my wife home. Q. If you had the resources available to you, if you had the equipment and the people, would you do that? A. Yes, I would, in a heartbeat. Q. How do you feel about being married to Terry now? A. I feel wonderful. She's my life and I wouldn't trade her for the world. I believe in my -- I believe in my wedding vows. Q. What do you mean? You want to take a minute? A. Yeah. MR. WOODWORTH: If the Court would let us take a minute. Q. (BY MR. WOODWORTH:) You okay? A. Yeah. I'm sorry. Q. Have -- you said you believe in your wedding vows, what do you mean by that? A. I believe in the vows that I took with my wife, page 28 through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I'm going to do that. http://journals.aol.com/justice1949/JUSTICEFORTERRISCHIAVO/entries/323
His sworn testimony means about as much as his wedding vows.
Cordially,
Amen!
Terri is not dying of anything; she is being starved to death.
Hmmm..... which vow. I'm wondering if he didn't tell her something about killing her as tried to break her neck.
Garbage.
Michael Schiavo's supporters claim he loved his wife Terri enough to take a nursing degree so that he could take care of her. I think he got that nursing degree so he could inject her with insulin and hasten her death and his complete claim to all the money he won in litigation.
Garbage.
I am amazed this thread is still up. What an embarrassment.
Of course I will. Michael's wife DIED fifteen years ago. All that remains is the shell of her body. She is gone.
I find this objection absurd - what option does a young Catholic have in Michael's case? It's not as if he shacked up with another woman within days, weeks or months after his wife's collapse. IIRC, he waited for six or seven years before making that move.
Who among us can honestly critisize him for that?
I know many Catholics who didn't get a divorce and subsequently lived with another woman. Somehow, the sin of living together is not as great as the sin of divorce in their eyes. After all, according to Catholic dogma, divorce is an excommunicable offense (I know, surprised me too) whereas living together isn't.
Not all men . My wife took care of a women with a long history of ALS whose husband was at her side to the end.
Immoral laws, like immoral and unlawful orders, are meant to be broken.
The fact that you can make this comment shows that you are caring more for the law than justice. You're wrong on this one.
Each case is different, but I prefer giving everyone the option of getting themselves cryogenically frozen before the brain's connections are destroyed in the hopes that nanomedicine in the future will be able to cure them and revive them to full health and long lives.
I wish this option was available to my wife when she was dying two years ago. At least there will be a chance of reviving her whereas now that she's buried; we will just to wait for the Resurrection.
No, I agree. I said "most men", which I believe is true.
"The fact that Michael moved in with another woman while his wife has been brain dead(I'm not going to debate that part here) since 1990!!!!, means nothing to me. Some people here expect him to lead the life of a priest while his wife is a vegetable for 15 years!!!"
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I understand that, I really do. It took my mother three years to die of breast cancer, complicated by AM Leukemia, brought on by the radiation (which,ironically, she beat with her sister's bone marrow transplant, but the cancer came back); and during those three years my father nursed her, cared for her, fed, clothed, changed and loved her.
We found out after her death that he had been having an affair with his high school sweetheart whom he met at a high school reunion, towards the end of my mother's life. There was no doubt she would die; and she never knew anything but love and caring from my father. Am I happy about his affair? Of course not. Do I judge him for it? Never. That's not my place, and he was there for mom while we three kids were busy with our own lives, as they lived in Florida, we lived in New York.
But as to Scott Peterson, its more than just his happy phone calls to Amber Frey during a vigil for Lacy and Conner and his lack of emotion about her disappearance and death. One pebble of circumstantial evidence is nothing in itself--but there was a whole dumptruck of them. I need not enumerate them here, we've all been saturated with the trial details. He's guilty. He's been appropriately sentenced. And I sincerely hope, as he waits the twenty years for his sentence to be carried out, that he come to terms with what he did and become man enough to admit it. Though I don't imagine that will happen until his appeals are exhausted.
Look, if you think he's innocent, I'm not going to convince you--and vice versa.
Let's leave it at that then.
RE: Yeah, right, put it on back on me.
Well you seem to have a thing about adultery, as if it's OK or something ...
A dead person doesn't smile at her mother when she walks into the room.
Terri Schiavo does. Therefore, she isn't dead. Yet.
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