Terri Schiavo Before dehydration
Lessons i have learned from the Terri Shiavo news event reporting.
1.If your feeling a bit peeked don't travel to or through the State of Florida. If you happen to get into a problem with the law and have to show up in court and you can't speak for yourself because you have laryngitis, your court appointed guardian (ex girlfriend, former boss, mailman, sanitation engineer) could tell the judge that you plead guilty on your behalf. If the charges are serious, you are screwed. Hand gestures don't count. As long as the judge does everything according to the book, which means he lets your guardian talk, your lawyer talk, some other lawyer talk, maybe your parents lawyer talk, several professional witnesses talk, what really happened doesn't matter. You have laryngitis.
2.If you find yourself stuck in a situation like lesson number one, hope that the judge was an idiot. It's your only hope. You can bribe the lawyers. They will take your money. They will file an appeal for you. The appeals judge (who plays golf with the prior judge) will hear the appeal. The appeals judge will find no errors. The possible errors where all taken care of during over drinks in the bar after the game. You will be instructed to go to the next appeal court where this court can only review your case for errors that the previous judge made. You can bribe other lawyers. They will take your money. They will file an appeal for you. The appeals judge (who plays golf with the prior judge) will hear the appeal. The appeals judge will find no errors. You will be instructed to go to the next appeal court where this court can only review your case for errors that the previous judge made. You can bribe other lawyers. They will take your money. They will file an appeal for you. The appeals judge (who plays golf with the prior judge) will hear the appeal. The appeals judge will find no errors. You will be instructed to go to the next appeal court where this court can only review your case for errors that the previous judge made.
3.If you get stuck in lesson one or two and your laryngitis clears up, you can get a hearing to explain everything to the judge. However the judge will explain that the facts of the case have already been decided and the appeal courts can only review your case for errors that the he made. You can then experience lesson 2.
4.The old adage, “if you have to hire a lawyer, you are already screwed” should be changed to “if you have to hire a lawyer, starve yourself. It's great. It creates a feeling of euphoria. Lots of love, peace and tranquility.” Just what you need when you may be facing jail time or a big settlement.
5.Judges and lawyers (in Florida and lots of other places) are experts at what its like to die of starvation. They haven't decided to publish their findings in any scientific journal yet. I think they are waiting for the ink to dry on their mail order medical degrees.
6.Caregivers in a hospice that really care about you will make you comfortable by giving you stuffed animals to hold and let you listen to nice music while you are being starved and dehydrated to death. Food and water are only available in the cafeteria and the caregivers lounge where smoking is prohibited.
7.A hospice is not a hospital. Hospitals are where people go to either die quickly because they are really messed up or get fixed up because everyone there knows how to fix your particular problem real good. A hospice is where you go when you want a lot of people to stand around, tap their toes, check what time it is, and tell news writers that it is better that you die with dignity.
8.If you find yourself ordered to die of starvation and dehydration in a hospice in Florida, volunteer to become a piece of decorative foliage in the hallway of the hospice. A service crew will feed, water you and take care of you on a regular basis. Occasionally you will have to remove cigarette butts stuffed in your pot by the caregivers.
9.Women get upset at the wrong things. The president of a university can ask “is the shortage of women in engineering and sciences a result of discrimination” and he is berated by a lot of women for being the cause of the problem he is seeking to address. A woman can be ordered to be starved to death by a bunch of guys who wear black dresses in public and it's described as a beautiful thing.
10.Police officers who drive cars with slogans like “To serve and protect” are actually driving the cars issued to high school health teachers and prophylactic issuers. The actual police car slogans are “We keep little kids from trying to give thirsty dieing women a drink of water.” These real police cars are only rolled out during parades when the slogans can be covered up with yellow ribbons, pink ribbons, shamrocks, smiley faces or little red heart stickers.
11.Governors are elected to raise taxes, spend a lot of money and say, “i can't do anything to save a woman sentenced to death by a guy wearing a black dress.”
12.Presidents of the United States are elected to conquer evil dictators, protect us from terrorists, raise taxes, spend a lot of money and say, “i can't do anything to save a woman sentenced to death by a guy wearing a black dress .”
13.Many news reportersmakeruppers are very good at what they do. It is now an established fact that starving to death is a humane and pleasant way to die. The electrolytes meld with the cells and you know it just feels great. Interviews with several million people including jews from europe around the 1930' and 40's are being solicited. The news reportersmakeruppers are citing a right wing conspiracy as the reason why few are responding to the solicitation. Current death row inmates are slightly tuned up about these new facts. Many inmates are volunteering to become hallway foliage in the prison where they are incarcerated.
14.i'm glad i don't watch TV. Fox is preparing a euphoric reality show featuring incapacitated people being starved to death. Family members are invited to sit along side in restraints surrounded by water fountains and a McDonald's restaurant as part of the studio. Commentary is by lawyer George Felos. The spin offs are already in syndication. An OTB version with a pool on which participant lasts the longest/shortest. There is also a best dressed version, supermodel anorexia/bulemia and not anorexia/bulemia versions and most euphoric looking version. One hot idea about an American Idol version where the bedridden dying participants were teased into emitting song like sounds and judged on the star quality of the results. This one didn't get past the suits.
15.In my dehydrated, hungry, euphoric state, I can't remember this lesson.
I think it's a miracle she's still alive.
Maybe God is trying to tell us something.
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 They have no struggles;
their bodies are healthy and strong.
5 They are free from the burdens common to man;
they are not plagued by human ills.
6 Therefore pride is their necklace;
they clothe themselves with violence.
7 From their callous hearts comes iniquity ;
the evil conceits of their minds know no limits.
8 They scoff, and speak with malice;
in their arrogance they threaten oppression.
9 Their mouths lay claim to heaven,
and their tongues take possession of the earth.
10 Therefore their people turn to them
and drink up waters in abundance.
11 They say, "How can God know?
Does the Most High have knowledge?"
12 This is what the wicked are like-
always carefree, they increase in wealth.
13 Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure;
in vain have I washed my hands in innocence.
14 All day long I have been plagued;
I have been punished every morning.
15 If I had said, "I will speak thus,"
I would have betrayed your children.
16 When I tried to understand all this,
it was oppressive to me
17 till I entered the sanctuary of God;
then I understood their final destiny.
18 Surely you place them on slippery ground;
you cast them down to ruin.
19 How suddenly are they destroyed,
completely swept away by terrors!
20 As a dream when one awakes,
so when you arise, O Lord,
you will despise them as fantasies-----Psalm 73:3-20
The Lord will have the final word in this.
J.B. Williams writes...
>>Many of you folks are still whining about some bogus right to life for the unborn that a judge resolved almost 40 years ago. Get over it. Move on and catch up here. We’re talking about life outside the womb now…<<
Oh. That hurts.
Is this the price we pay for legalizing abortions?
It was supposed to be just an innocent little unborn baby,
and now it is US.
Why not really, why not...
We tear babies to shreads in the uterus, yank out their
heads and shoot poison into their brains to kill them before they are born.
We gather stem cells from aborted babies and then...
We are SHOCKED to see the courts decide to starve
a living person to death.
I guess that's our line in the sand...
A lot of dispassionate people....
"It is nauseating to contemplate how many healthy, prosperous, successful, self-satisfied, agenda-driven people have blythly participated in the murder of this cherished young woman!"
Two reasons for that.
1) The importation of non-Western European culture immigrants.
2) The indocrination of people (especially the young ones) through public schools and the media.
Theodore Bilbo (Senator from Mississipi) wrote that if a foreign nation conqured America and enslaved its people, destroyed all its buildings, its crops, its schools, its farms and its economy, we could build it all back and even better than before, but only as long as our Western-European culture remained intact. But he also warned us that if our heritage was lost, than America would be forever lost as well.
Massive immigration of foreign cultures will ultimately spell complete annihilation of our Western culture.
At some level the state must view this as a critically important milestone...enough such that it would choose, at this time, to take such a risk with its citizens and the Constitution. The state does'nt gamble so publically too often..in fact the last time was over 12 years ago at Waco where it escaped a slaughter of innocents without meaningful consequence. Every time the state has a "success" of this character, it increases the eventual effort that will be required to restrain its appetite.
The government should not kill people is the lesson that Schiavo teaches.