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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>"I find this objection absurd - what option does a young Catholic have in Michael's case?"<
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The Catholic church cannot stop anyone from getting a divorce in this country.
"Actually, I think before I type or speak."
If that's true, then you have great malice with your thoughts and speech, don't you?
Yeah, dude, that's whatever, OK.
Get a thought.
It still does not erase the fact that she is not on life support and that thousands of people in nursing homes all over the nation are on feeding toobs because there family could not stand to watch their loved one die of starvation. The judge ordering no ice chips changed my mind in this case. I consider it cruel to starve anyone to death and way over the top when insisting no one see to her comfort. We treat dogs better.
There is a number of raving emotional wrecks on here today.
Facts of Schiavo be damned. Michael is a greedy scumbag and let's get the GOV'T to intervene and thus, start to decide on how we ALL should live.
Methinks DU'ers are migrating...
Actually, the only people who seem to be saying such are all on Terri's parents' side. Note that not one independent medical or court-appointed observer agrees with you which is why Michael has won all 11 or so court cases.
Trying to prejudice the reader by pointing out Michael is living with another woman is disingenuous - why not also write he only began the relationship six or seven years after Terri's collapse?
Is it so wrong for a young Catholic to keep his church's teaching on the prohibition of divorce which is viewed much more seriously than living with another?
What do you expect of him after his wife's been an invalid for six or seven years? Could you have lasted that long while still in your 20s?
I know it's hard but Terri really is gone. Not once in the past 15 years has she shown any sign of cognition, snippiets of highly edited videotapes notwithstanding.
That's the great thing about FR...thousands of eyes and ears gathering information from many different resources, enabling us to get a much bigger picture than we would be able to on our own.
Actually, it is the business of those INVOLVED. Not my business until it IMPACTS me.
What does impact ME and MINE is the people grasping for Gov't intervention here that will, as the courts say, "lead us down a slippery slope."
But who cares, as long as ONE LIFE is saved. Right.
And WHAT a life. Lying in her own body wastes all day long...
Which is why I included the word "effective."
A good husband doesn't abdicate his responsibility to his wife to her parents.
Let her DIE already!
Hope you have your flak jacket on.
Nut job rants:
1. Michael is the devil.
2. He is greedy.
3. It's all about the money.
4. He beat her.
5. He cheated on her.
6. She is able to move, eat on her own, etc.
bump
For later.
Give it a rest
Semper Fi
Ballsy post.
Crazy but ballsy.
A good husband abdicates his authority over his wife to her parents if he wants her to die and they want her to live and be cared for at their home. A good husband recognizes the deep love a parent has for his/her daughter.
I see you also think that you are the ONLY voice that counts. What about loving parents that want to take care of her. What happened to you, happened to YOU. It is childish to think that your solution will work in this case.
I recommend that you think it out carefully and don't EVEn attempt to thrust your belief structure on others. Your BIAS is showing.
Semper Disgusted
I'm not out to convince anyone and really, don't give a fat baby's butt what you, or anyone else for that matter thinks about my opinion or me. I'm not abusing anyone, but I do want to thank you for the best laugh of the day after I read your post. Now, to twist your tail, whether she dies or not, will not interrupt my sleep tonight in the least.
What I was posting about was the multitude of hanky-twisters who's emotional outbursts, in disregard for the facts, were pathetic. They were disregarding law and logic and may as well be posting with the other lunatics at DU!
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