Posted on 03/31/2005 5:25:20 AM PST by mal
Do you remember a fellow called Robert Wendland? No reason why you should. I wrote about him in this space in 1998, and had intended to return to the subject but something else always intervened — usually Bill Clinton’s penis, which loomed large, at least metaphorically, over the entire era. Mr Wendland lived in Stockton, California. He was injured in an automobile accident in 1993 and went into a coma. Under state law, he could have been starved to death at any time had his wife requested the removal of his feeding tube. But Rose Wendland was busy with this and that, as one is, and assumed there was no particular urgency.
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He considers himself a new age mystic. It has been published that during meditation his preferred mantra is "I am that I am."
Nice huh.
It explains a lot. Thank you for the insight!
Herr doctor was a board member of the Hemlock Society, wasn't he?
He made another mistaken diagnosis of PVS:
You may want to consult Sgt. David Mack about Dr Cranford. "Mack was shot in the line of duty as a policeman, and Cranford diagnosed him as "definitely...in a persistent vegetative state...never [to] regain cognitive, sapient functioning...never [to] be aware of his condition." Twenty months after the shooting Mack woke up, and eventually regained nearly all his mental ability. When asked by a reporter how he felt, he spelled out on his letterboard, "Speechless!"
Cranford is also on record as saying (as well as on paper, having written publicly on the subject) that PVS patients and those with advanced alzheimers do not have constitutional rights.
He also states that for such, a feeding tube is never advisable, and even a spoon should be considered artificial means.
Seems to me he says that the Jews subconsciously agreed to be victims in the Holocaust, and that we should look positively at the Holocaust as uplifting to mankind.
Mark Steyn is rapidly becoming the only columnist that matters.
OK, one of the few that matter.
Felos is a "whack job." :^)
Seriously, the guy seems to be suffering from psychopathological disease.... The inmates are now in charge of the asylum!
There's more.
In his book, Felos claims to hear the voices of the comatose asking for "release"
Well, that was my first thought too (geeze talk about a sicko).
Why?
His love of death is truly bizarre. Jeepers...
That's just sick. How does he even stay in practice? Babies need spoons to eat, so I suppose they...oh, never mind he's probably abortion thru the 9th month and infanticide for the first month or for the sick babies. The constitution says we all have constitutional rights. The Nazis would be so proud. Whatever happened to 'first, do no harm'?
He seems just fascinated with it, A-G, and in all likelihood is pleased to see himself as someone who can effectively dispense it.... he is one truly sick puppy, and Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer aren't far behind him.
If an al-Qa’eda guy got shot up resisting capture in Afghanistan and required a feeding tube and the guards at Guantanamo yanked it out, you’d never hear the end of it from the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International and all the rest.
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I praise God for His tender mercies and join in lifting up John Paul for His healing and pray for everyone suffering already with Terri's homegoing. Moreover, I pray that God's will, not ours, be done.
Amen, dear Alamo-Girl.
U.S. Soldier Seeks Leniency in Sentencing
"We're trained, conditioned, to keep a distance," said Maynulet, 30, looking down. "Maybe my mistake was that I projected myself into that Iraqi. I didn't want to be in his state - if I were, I would hope that someone would put me out of my misery."
Maynulet was leading his 1st Armored Division company on a mission near Kufa, south of Baghdad, when it was alerted that a car thought to be carrying what the Army called a "high-level target" was headed toward them.
No details of the mission have been released, but it has been widely reported the company was told radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led uprisings against U.S.-led forces in Iraq last year, was believed to be in the car with a driver.
The company chased the vehicle and fired at it. A passenger who was slightly wounded fled and was later apprehended. The driver was dragged from the car with serious head injuries and pronounced untreatable by Maynulet's medic.
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In closing arguments Thursday, prosecutor Maj. John Rothwell said Maynulet "played God" when he shot the driver, whom the U.S. military has referred to only as an "unidentified paramilitary member." But relatives named him as Karim Hassan, 36, and said he worked for al-Sadr.
Rothwell argued that Maynulet, who was trained in first aid, should not have relied solely on the judgment of a medic who told Maynulet, "there's nothing I can do."
"Those five words were enough to make a life and death decision, and (Maynulet) chose to end a life," Rothwell said. "This combat-trained lifesaver prescribed two bullets."
Thanks Pokey. Steyn's the best.
You're right, I got the names mixed up. I meant to say Judge WILSON wrote a DISSENTING opinion that does not reflect the ruling of the Court and has no effect in law.
But he's not the one with an inconsistent judgement. It was Birch who stated that jurisdiction is a prerequisite to justice(the legitimate exercise of judicial power).
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