Posted on 03/31/2005 10:43:08 PM PST by churchillbuff
Every time a rock is lifted in the Terri Schiavo tragedy, another conflict of interest comes slithering out.
The conflict-of-interest potential in the right-to-die connections among current figures involved in the case are only outdone by the Woodside Hospice board of directors conflict of interest reality.
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Theres the death-is-beautiful, right-to-die activist Michael Schiavo attorney George Felos.
Dont make eye contact with Felos, who claims he can ascertain a persons desire to die by "looking into their eyes" and letting their spirits speak directly to him.
A jumped-up volunteer at Woodside Hospice, Felos became chairman of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, which runs Woodside, and only came off the board about a year after Michael Schiavo placed his estranged wife there.
Then theres Dr. Ronald Cranford, handpicked by Michael Schiavo to examine Terri and on whose say-so Terri was categorized in "persistent vegetative state". Cranford is the MD who officially ordered Terris feeding tube removed on March 18. A neurologist, Cranford testifies in cases such as Terris around the country, always pumping the dehydration and starvation side. He was 1992s featured speaker for the pro-euthanasia Hemlock Society, which was renamed The Choice in Dying Society. (WorldNetDaily).
Cranford nicknamed himself, "Dr. Humane Death".
A bioethicist, and a pioneer in euthanasia and right-to-die issues, Dr. Humane Death is a fully-fledged member of The Choice in Dying Society.
At least Cranford is not a board member of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.
Mary Labyak, CEO of Woodside Hospice has direct ties to the Euthanasia Society of America and Hemlock for Hospice, described by Hyscience.com as "an organization that seeks to accelerate the dying process."
Everett Rice, former Pinellas County Sheriff (1988-204) endorsed Judge George Greer for reelection in campaign ads. Rice, a former board member for the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, hired Michael Schiavo while Schiavos guardianship proceedings were being heard in the courtroom of his longtime friend, Judge George Greer.
Senator Jim King, who originally upheld the passage of "Terris Law", was a board member of Woodside.
Then theres Gus Michael Bilirikis, Florida State representative 1998-2000 and between 2001-2003, who was on the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast board of directors.
As a county commissioner, Judge Greer was a working colleague of Barbara Sheen Todd (county commissioner) for eight consecutive years. Sheen Todd is also on the board of the hospice where Terri lingers.
Judge Greers fellow judge, Judge John Lenderman is the brother of Martha Lenderman, on the same board.
The mainline media has not reported on the myriad conflicts of interest connected to the Terri Schiavo tragedy, although any one interested can read about them on the Internet.
Colmes is totally insane, you would think that tonight,of all nights, he could muster some sense of decency .
26 posted on 04/01/2005 12:06:24 AM PST by northernlightsII
No Colmes is not insane.The decent people who go on his program are insane. How can he muster something he doesn't have.
So far, only Slaman Pak has a jet fuselage where terrorists were trained in taking over a modern jet with nothing more sophisticated than box cutters. Our sat intel is good enough to have found any other sitting on a false runway or even a side runway is Syria, or Iran, or N.Korea, etc. So far, only Slaman Pak has been found to have a jet sitting in a training area for terrorists. So yes, I too believe wholeheartedly that Saddam ran the terrorists through training in Iraq ... or it may have been one of his psychopath sons, but it was likely in Iraq that the murderous jihadis were trained.
Saddam had means, motive, and opportunity. It's more than enough for me to continue to harbor suspicion that he had a hand in it one way or the other.
Isn't that the truth.
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