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Posted on 03/31/2005 7:21:16 PM PST by tessalu
Legal analysts said to expect legislatures across the country to examine their end-of-life laws.
"In my view, the most material question is the status of a guardian," said Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University who has followed Schiavo's case closely.
"I personally believe that the Schindlers had good ground to question whether Michael Schiavo should have continued as the guardian after he formed a new family with another woman and ultimately had two children by that individual," Turley told FOXNews.com
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I think that they should also purchase a cemetery plot and place a gravestone on it for her as a memorial.
Or maybe someone will be generous enough to place a memorial stone in a park or something like that.
Talk about patting oneself on the back. Why don't you just go ahead and give yourself a hand as well. All you've shown to me is that you are trying to justify YOUR actions of what you perpetrated on someone elso, thus taking away your guilt feeling of taking someone's life away.
By the way I'm oldenuff2no that you are full of s@#t!
And appointed himself her guardian in violation of state statutes, but don't let that fact interfer with your ass kissing of the Felos/Schiavo/Greer cabal.
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For whatever reason, Turley --whom I regard very highly-- fails to note the more than a decade of abuse to Terri by her then husbadn via forced neglect.
The legal system worked exactly as it is designed to work. The Schindlers had Sears-catalog-diploma representation; Schiavo had the state's foremost right-to-die lawyer. Terri was outlawyered.
That is just what the system is set up to do. The best lawyer won.
W. Campbell Walker, MD, should be disbarred for not following through on this obvious trama victim.
Where were her advocates in the health field? Surely MS wasn't powerful enough to silence them?
Everyone who mishandled this case should be pointed out and switfly dispatched.
Methinks there be a lot of that on FR these days - quite a few pricking consciences about having unplugged Grandma or Aunt Betty.
It does look though, like none of them have ever missed a meal.
Wouldn't want to consider what values Terri held dear, no? Maybe Terri did follow Catholic values,,seems by all indications, including those of her husband that she was a practicing Catholic. So, you say, ignore the values she would have held dear?
Don't forget your "defenseless, unable to communicate, totally dependent wife".......very brave man this Schiavo guy, very brave indeed. (sarc).
When an innocent, nonterminal person is put to death by court order, is it unreasonable or seditious to ask if MAYBE THE LAW WAS MANIPULATED or maybe certain evidence given more weight?
Is it irrational to conclude that something is amiss with either A) the law itself, or B) the magistrates interpreting it, when that very law is turned against the very intent for which it was devised, as expressed in these words by Thomas Jefferson?:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,["these ends" being, once again, the inherent and inalieable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, nonexclusive] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
If this MS guy doesn't deserve moral judgment, who does? Actually, it's God's judgment that ultimately matters. It ties my human gut in knots to pray for this man, but, I can pray for healing and still be furious at his negligent (but hey, legal) treatment of his wife. Still haven't felt the healing has occurred.
Yeah, and one of them was none other than Judge George Greer!
BUT, what if the law was amended to fit YOUR agenda, such as, Statute 765??? It was made just for Terri and others like her. Do you know the history of that "law"? It's pretty corrupt/criminal!
You CAN'T possibly be serious! It takes courage to off your wife, who he had been trying to kill for years!! Know why he waited 7 years to relay Terri's "wishes"? BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LAW SAYING A FEEDING TUBE IS ARTIFICIAL SUPPORT AND CAN BE REMOVED. It was when they (Michael, Felos, Greer and committee) were able to amend that law to include nutrition and hydration as life support that Michael petitioned to have Terri's feeding tube removed. Courageous! Bah! Criminal is more like it!
Not to mention a judge who was so inconsistent in his rulings throughout the entire case that it almost looks like he was in on the fix.
But you are right, I could have done a better job lawyering this one than the Schindler's atty did.
You d$mn betcha the law was manipulated!!! Statute was amended in 1999 to INCLUDE nutrition and hydration as life support - Terri was the test case.
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