... as long as I can ...
Posted on 06/22/2005 8:06:02 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" asked Joseph Welch in his famous confrontation with the pathologically cruel Joe McCarthy. "Have you left no sense of decency?"
More than a half-century later, I would ask the same question of Florida's governor, Jeb Bush.
In an abuse of power that has been widely denounced, and has even appalled many of his own supporters in the Republican Party, Governor Bush has tried to keep the Terri Schiavo circus alive by sending state prosecutors on a witch hunt against her husband, Michael.
The state attorney who has been pushed by the governor into pursuing this case told me yesterday he has seen nothing to indicate that a crime was committed. Nevertheless, the inquiry continues.
Governor Bush asked Bernie McCabe, the state attorney for Pinellas County, to "take a fresh look" at this already exhaustively investigated case to determine, among other things, whether Michael Schiavo had perhaps waited too long to call for help after discovering that his wife had collapsed early one morning 15 years ago.
Mr. McCabe did not seem particularly enthusiastic about his mission. "I wouldn't call it an investigation," he told me in a telephone conversation. The word "investigation," he said, "is a term of art in my business."
He then explained: "When I conduct an investigation, it would mean that I have a criminal predicate. In other words, that I have some indication that a crime has occurred. That's my job...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yes, she was. That fact cannot be denied. But the autopsy proved that she was never gonna "come out of it" and live a normal life again.
I agree with you, barring a signed and notorized written statment backing Michael's claims, she should not have been killed.
Again, you DON'T KNOW what Terri wanted any more than I do.
I go back to this point:
I know what MY wife wants and if this were to happen to her, I would fight you people all the way. You can say I have no right to do it, but YOU have even LESS right to condemn her to a life she doesn't want anymore.
All the "I miss Terri" and crying would mean nothing to me ... you don't care about her ... you, in my opinion, would just want a martyr for your cause.
Again, I'm just generalizing and definately not singling you or anyone out. Basically, we agree on one level but disagree on another.
HAHAHAHA ... good one!
You can't stop making assmptions can you? No we do not know what she wanted but she certainly seemed happy when her mom and dad were around. If there is no written directive, any judge or doctor should err on the side of life.
In any case, I would like to take issue with a statement you make:
"But the autopsy proved that she was never gonna "come out of it" and live a normal life again."
"Normal" is a relative word: It can signify many things to many people. Neither you nor I have any right to decide for others what a "normal" life is.
If your wife's mother wanted to give her water from a glass would you prevent her?
The only problem with "letting it go" is that there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that Terri was strangled by her husband. If you're the governor of a state, how do you just let that go? The people who are appalled by this investigation are the same kind of people who strongly support capital punishment even though there is ample evidence that many innocent people have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes. Either you defend life in all cases or you do not defend life.
My wife's mother died 12 years ago, so if she is giving her a glass of water, they are together in heaven and that would make my wife very happy.
The autopsy did not show this. But why worry about medical science, I mean, you have a "feeling" it happened and so that is enough for you.
1) When Terri was examined by a doctor after her "accident" that left here brain-damaged, the doctor said she had an unusually stiff neck and the only time he had seen this before was with a patient who had been the victim of an attempted strangulation. Terri was also found by the paramedics face-down on the floor with her hands clenched up paround her neck, as though she was trying to fight off a strangulation.
2) When Terri was in rehab after the "accident" she was crying out as though she was in pain and her doctors then did a bone scan to determine if she had any broken bones. The results of this bone scan have been posted several times on this website and Hannity has discussed it on his show. The doctor who performed the bone scan wrote that "the patient has had trauma. There is evidence of healed fractures in several places." He went on to write about all the places where she had recently healed fractures, including in her back. So it looks like she took a real beating at some time not long before or during her "accident."
From now on, I want you to not jump to conclusions and pass judgment on people on this website when you are not well informed yourself.
"It's not the nature of the evidence; it's the seriousness of the charges."
Sound familiar?
There's a lot of evidence of criminal activity in this case. You're just not informed about this evidence. You have to read the threads on this website and listen to Hannity's show to get this evidence, because you won't get it from the MSM. See post #128 for the tip of the iceberg of evidence.
I have that interview with the Schindler's original attorney on tape. I'll see if I can find that tape and post some direct quotes from their lawyer. Their lawyer is a very sharp lady and the information she presents is powerful.
Nonsense.
You're just not informed about this evidence.
Nope, I just don't rely on the lies and innuendo promulgated by WND, NewsMax and Empire Journal.
On the contrary, she was almost negligently incompetent, and probably cost the Schindlers whatever chance they might have had to win their case.
So is the autopsy report, which in my opinion would be more non-biased, and therefore more powerful, than a compensated lawyer.
... as long as I can ...
Do you have any factual basis with which to back up this statement? My comment was based on listening to this lady for about 40 minutes on the radio. Based on that I believe she is intelligent and well-informed about this case. I can't comment on her competence as a laywer. But just because her clients were ruled against on numerous occasions by Judge Greer doesn't necessarily mean she is "incompetent." There could be other reasons why they lost so many rulings.
Why do you believe the autopsy report would be "more non-biased" than statements from a lawyer? Does the autopsy report even cover the same subjects that the lawyer covered in the interview I reference? (Generally it doesn't.)
Hey, Blake thought he was guilty too and boy was he surprised to get off!
Fair enough?
New mantra?
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