Posted on 03/24/2005 5:26:02 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
Don't apologize, I have been saying the same thing about all the GOP with far less restraint.
Denial of the fullness of Last Rites to a Catholic is egregious.
That is...I just don't have the words to say it.
Not only is her right to life being violated, but her 1st amendment right to religious practice is as well.
I fear for my autistic grandson should anything ever happen to his parents and I am no longer here to care for him.
Yeah. But this whole affair makes me feel like chuck heston at the end of 'planet of the apes.'
All I want to do is scream 'God **** them all to ****'
Words fail me as well. I have used more expletives in the past few days than I have in years. It is an attempt at catharsis on my part.
I'll make a resolution too. If Terri starves to death then I'll cease to be an active Republican and become an active member of the Constitution Party.
Are you Vietnamese? I only ask because your FR name is Zack Nguyen. If so, chào anh.
We must not give up, in believing, hoping for, praying for a miracle. One of Terri's friends said that when discussing Karen Quinlan, Terri said "Where there's life there is hope". Terri is still with us, let's not give up hope.
What we have here is a gross failure of common sense and decency in state and federal courts.
That is true, but there is more. What we also have here is the naked face of evil, which understands fully that we are in its power, even if only momentarily, and which is determined that while it has us in its grasp it is going to inflict as much misery, pain, terror and death as it can.
"And all that time, he kept from them, his knowledge that she did not want to live that way; he kept that denial of her wish, for nearly 8 years."
Did the possibility ever dawn on you that in those first years they were busy trying to save Terri, flying her out to California for rehabilitation, and the topic never came up? Why would it. At that time they thought they still had some hope for Terri's rehabilitation. As the years passed, it became much more obvious that that wasn't going to happen. When Michael got to the point where he was convinced by doctors that nothing was ever going to improve for Terri, and after he and the parents had their falling out and had competing ideas about what to do about Terri, that's when the subject had to be discussed seriously. The parents wanted one thing; Michael knew what his wife had said in casual conversation (heard also by 2 others besides himself) and he wanted to honor Terri's wishes which were different than the parents. Under FL law, the spouse makes the decision, and Michael did. You don't give up hope on a loved one right away. It's as time passes that you become more and more reconciled that there will be no improvement, ever. So, use some logic here about how things really play out in life, rather than the story you'd prefer to concoct in order to slam Michael. By the way, all this stuff is in the court transcripts. Go read up.
The system did not break down; it has been deliberately and systematically subverted.
He denied her wish, and he did so, for nearly 8 years.
During all of which time, he failed to reveal in probate, her wish, and then petition in probate, for opportunity to see if things improve.
Changes to wishes and wills of incapacitated people, are made in probate; especially life and death cases.
Quite true, you shameful COSsack, the Schindlers foolishly did encourage Michael to date, which of course would backfire when he succumbed to his gonads and begot two bastards with a wife still inconveniently living. They certainly share the blame for sowing seeds of evil. But again, Michael wasn't hostile at the time to letting Terri live.
"Just in case" would be why.
Quite clearly the fact that they resorted to experimental treatment shows that they had little hope in conventional medicine at the time; any sane person would be thinking about the "just in case" scenario.
"when he succumbed to his gonads and begot two bastards with a wife still inconveniently living"
You know you're a really viscious doozy. You didn't happen to be by the U.S. District Courthouse this evening, were you?
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GREER DONOR |
AMOUNT |
POSITION |
ACTION |
Lawyers For |
Hamden Baskin III Felos & Felos Deborah Bushnell Gyneth S. Stanley Steven Nilsson Beth Wilson
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$500 & $500 |
Michael Schiavos Lawyer[s] |
Greer |
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Daniel Grieco
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$300 |
Employer of Michael Schiavo at time of Feb. 25, 1990 then attorneyOf record for Michael up until the malpractice award, |
Incident when injuries occurred to Terri,Reappeared as attorney for selected pleadings |
State/County |
Frank Nagatani |
$50 and $50
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DCF Attorney |
Squashed |
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Bernie McCabe |
In-Kind |
State Attorney |
Allowed underling to appear in campaign ad for Greer |
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Everett Rice |
$500 & In-Kind |
Sheriff/State Rep |
Didnt conduct criminal investigation into what really happened to Terri or allegations of abuse after initial incident |
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John Carassas |
$100
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Deputy Attorney General |
Florida Deputy Attorney General, involvement with |
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James Hellickson
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$150 & In Kind |
Assistant state attorney in office of Bernie McCabe, Pinellas/Pasco State Attorney |
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Paula Shea |
In Kind |
Assistant Pinellas Public Defender |
Appeared in Greer Campaign Ad |
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Andrew
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$100 |
Officer in Guardianship monitoring program and Guardian ad litem pool |
Was supposed to: |
Misc. People w connections |
Richard La Belle
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$100 |
Member of Board of Directors of |
Supposedly ACPD |
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Battaglia, Ross, Disus and Wein
|
$250 |
Principal Kelli Crabb is past chairperson of Hospice Foundation of Florida Suncoast and member of Board of directors |
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Gus Bilirakis
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$40 cash |
Former Hospice Board member and of American Hellonic Education Progressive Assoc. (AHEPA) |
Felos past Governor |
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Divito and Higham
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$250 and $250 |
Law firm employed by St. Petersburg/Venice |
Terris Dioceses |
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