[Jorge]

You are missing the point that in this case, Michael Schiavo had three reasons at home (a substitute "wife" and two children) and he had the remainder of $1.6 million reasons in the bank (the malpractice settlement) to want Terri dead.

Michael Schiavo spent YEARS seeking EVERY means of helping Terri he could.

It was ONLY after NOBODY could offer any hope that he gave up on her and decided to let her go.

I am sick to death people judging this man with hysterical and meanspirited accusations.

[FairOpinion]

You are mistaken.

Read #93.

[eccentric]

No, that's the whole problem. He DIDN'T let her go.

[Congressman Billybob]

I was not hysterical. Facts are facts. It is not "mean-spirited" to put relevant facts on the table. It is called honest discussion. Money and sex are two primary motivations in the whole history of the human race. Michael had both of those motives to be biased against Terri's continued living (and rehabilitation) for about ten of those fifteen years.

And, identifying the existence of potential bias in witnesses who appear in court is the function of the jury -- or where there is no jury, as here -- a function of the judge. Anyone who has ever set foot in court for any reason knows that this statement is also true.

As my column makes clear, I am very close to the middle on this subject. However, because of the preference for life, the highly possible bias by Michael, I come down on the side of life for Terri.

It sounds to me like you are hard-wired into a specific conclusion on this case, and therefore have trouble with facts that undercut that conclusion.

Billybob

[haircutter]

I notice you are from Pennsylvania!! Could you possibly be a neighbor of the Schiavo's??

I too am from Pennsylvania. Somerset. where flight #93 will be forever in our memories...

and now Michael Schiavo,,who starved his wife to death, and committed adultery while she lay disabled...will be forever in our memories.

[hocndoc]

Did you know that the judge had ruled that anyone who gave anything to Terri by mouth - an ice chip, a sip of water - would be arrested?

That all of Terri's visits by her mother and father, her priests, the doctor that Jeb Bush sent in (William Cheshire, a neurologist from the Mayo clinic), were monitored by law enforcement officers to prevent anyone from giving Terri any thing by mouth, including a spoonful of ice chips or water?

[Republican Wildcat]

I am sick to death people judging this man with hysterical and meanspirited accusations.

Michael had abandoned his wife for another woman - he had been living with her for years before filing to have the court order her death. Those are the facts - the only person being hysterical is you.