Posted on 03/24/2005 3:26:10 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past
What is being kept alive artificially is the liberal media version of events. One side of this story is being repeated endlessly, as if it were gospel, but anyone saying something different -- including doctors and nurses who have actually seen or taken care of Terri Schiavo -- is unlikely to be reported.
As usual.
Indeed.
We are assured (I can almose hear the dulcet tones), that this is simply a case of Terri being allowed to refuse medical treatment. Really, that's the legal issue, which Judge Greer decided based on testimony from Michael and his witnesses that Terri had made casual comments noting that she wouldn't want to be hooked up to a machine. No big deal, why get all excited?
Well, I'll even concede that's the legal issue, but in this case, THE LAW IS WRONG.
The state is allowing the killing of a woman who has committed no crime, who was not terminally ill, who was not in pain, who had left no clear, uncoerced written "living will", and was not on "life support".
If that ain't clearly wrong, I don't know what is.
Sad to say, it looks like Terri's troubles are just about over. But we can't forget this. Things have to change.
So who is making things up now?
Wow. I didn't know the parents had requested a separate motion to give Terri food and water by natural means and that it was denied. Can you explain why he denied this motion by the parents? And why hasn't the media reported this?
I was listening to Dr. Bill Bennett on his radio show earlier this a.m., and he stated that if he was the Governor, he would use the State Police or the National Guard to remove her from the hospice, even if it meant the risk of impeachment. I'm afraid that that is what it comes down to for our political leaders. If they really believe in their heart of hearts that this is a state sponsored killing of an innocent human being, than they must put that believe above any considerations of their future political career. I'm disappointed to have to say that the same can also be said with regard to W's lack of action. If I recall, when Janet Reno snatched Elian Gonzalez, she did not have full approval of the courts. Sometimes you have to act, and sort it out later.
You are absolutely right. Thomas Sowell is America's greatest living intellectual. And totally unrecognized because he is blak and doesn't fit the MSM's vision of what black people are supposed to be.
Wanna take the challenge? I thought not. More fun to make things up, isn't it?
From Abstract.com:
"Another motion resolved last week was the Schindlers' motion to permit Terri to be given food and water orally once the feeding tube is discontinued. You can read that motion here from the Terri's Fight site. The motion included the following lines:
"Discontinuing her "artificial life support" in the form of assisted feeding should not also automatically sentence her to death. Instead, Terri should be permitted to attempt to eat and drink by natural means. Ill people often get well, or at least get better. The opportunity to attempt to feed Terri by natural means may demonstrate Terri is able to swallow and to eat and drink naturally.
"In denying this motion, Judge Greer stated wrote that the motion appeared to ask for an experimental procedure and that the documents provided in support of this motion were the same ones provided with another motion based on new medical evidence. The court ruled that this motion was thus duplicative and that whether new tests should be conducted will stand or fall with the other pending motion. You can read the order here.
"Frankly, that ruling surprised me. I had read the motion as a request that she be given food, as any person in a medical care setting might, even if her feeding tube is removed. The language quoted above, though, does make the motion seem as if the request is actually for a form of therapy, rather than as a basic human right."
So, who's lying now?
Exactly.
Schiavo MUST put her to death,
She will receive NO drop of water, NO morsel of food,
Anyone trying to feed her WILL be arrested, lest they CHOKE her.
Here's another Italian expression, in the dialect of this proud peasant here: e roba da patze, hard to translate, but loosely speaking it means, this stuff could only be fed to lunatics and nuts.
No, it is incomprehensible to me and I won't try to rationalize a legal argument that propounds it. Sorry.
And why hasn't the media reported this?
:-}
God help this Country is no one, if President Bush or Governor Bush or the director of CFS has the grit, determination and b@lls to stand down this arrogant Judge.
Sort of an Italian version of "Honest, I'm not making this up!"
The freepers defending the judiciary give me the creeps. I think there is a wheat v chaff thing going on here right now in Freeperland.
I think you're getting the hang of it!
God bless you Tax-chick on this Holy, Last Supper, Thursday.
And the same to you! My husband and oldest son went to Mass this evening, while I'm home with the babies. I get the Good Friday service and the Easter Vigil, and he gets Sunday.
Anybody seen winston?
A feeding tube is arguably "heroic measures", just as a ventilator is, but if a person is able to eat & drink by mouth, that's a horse of a totally different color.
This article by Thomas Sowell is exceptionally good.
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