You think Felos is bad? You should check out the senior partner at his firm...
Posted on 07/03/2005 5:00:03 PM PDT by CHARLITE
In a stunning profile of George Felos -- the attorney who helped Michael Schiavo put his wife Terri to death -- an author and famed theologian shows the weird side of the crusading right-to-die lawyer.
This is certainly a story the mainstream media ignored.
Writing in Crisis magazine, Benjamin Wiker, co-author of "Architects of the Culture of Death" and a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, uses Felos' own words to expose his oddball views.
Wiker is no friend of Felos' views. He writes of Terri's Shiavo's death: "Cold blooded murder," sanctioned by the state of Florida, watched by millions. Horrible, but again quite transparent. Michael wanted the money. His wife Terri, had to die for him to get it. And so he hired a 'right-to-die' expert, lawyer George Felos.
"Felos exudes a different moral odor than his client, and I wasn't the only one who noticed. He wasn't just morally wrong; he was creepy. One has the nagging feeling that he represents a more hidden and poisonous evil."
Drawing on Felos' 2002 autobiography "Litigation as Spiritual Practice," Wiker quotes Felos extensively, showing his motivation for fighting to help the sick engage in euthanasia.
Writes Wiker: "I bought the book ... [In] reading it, I am convinced that he represents an entirely new and even more dangerous aspect of the euthanasia movement - the spiritual killer."
In the book he writes about "speaking through his stomach to Mrs. Browning, a seemingly unresponsive woman in a nursing home. This noiseless communication - quite noisy on a 'spiritual' level, as Felos reports her screaming at the top of her spiritual lungs - convinced him that Mrs. Browning wanted to escape from her body. He happily took on the case, thereby launching his right-to-die career."
Felos is a devotee of yoga. Wiker explains that Felos believes that if a person clings to the earthly realm instead of entering a higher state of blissful consciousness his soul is condemned to re-enter another body after death. Wiker writes: "In many of his visions he "saw our souls -[his and his wife's] prior to this incarnation discussing what each needed to learn in this birth and in compassion and love for each other agree to take this journey."
In this "journey" however, their marriage is a disaster. At one point he writes about being angry at his wife: "I was on fire, fueled by thoughts of bludgeoning and tearing her apart. If she were there at that moment I thought I would kill her - happily destroy her."
In that failing marriage, however, he and his wife were thinking about having a child.
Says Felos: He "heard the soul of my yet-to-be conceived child emphatically shout ‘I'm ready to be born ... will you stop fooling around?'"
During a plane ride he wondered "what it would be like to die right now." This aroused his Kharmic, cosmic powers and this actually caused the plane's automatic pilot to go haywire and turn the plane into a nosedive. He stops wondering just in time. "'Be careful what you think,'" an inner voice then warns him. 'You are more powerful than you realize.'"
Finally, Wiker reveals this amazing fact: Four hours after Terri died Michael filed a petition for administration of her estate. On Larry King's show he said the money from his lawsuit on behalf of Terri had dried up, leaving only about $25,000.
"As it turns out, that given the behind the scenes financial shenanigans with Felos, there was about $1 million in the account, perhaps $2 million depending on how well investments did since 1993. Felos received a little over $500,000 for his efforts."
The taxpayers paid for Terri's hospice bill through Medicaid, thereby saving Michael's jury-award money.
BTTT. Follow the money...
It is hard to believe there are freepers who defend the Michael Schiavo freak show. Bobby Blake, yeah, OK. But Schiavo is a ghoul, and his lawyer makes ghouls look like Muppets.
Is Felos a Scientologist?
Schizophrenia is characterized by profound disruption in cognition and emotion, affecting the most fundamental human attributes: language, thought, perception, affect, and sense of self. The array of symptoms, while wide ranging, frequently includes psychotic manifestations, such as hearing internal voices or experiencing other sensations not connected to an obvious source (hallucinations) and assigning unusual significance or meaning to normal events or holding fixed false personal beliefs (delusions). No single symptom is definitive for diagnosis; rather, the diagnosis encompasses a pattern of signs and symptoms, in conjunction with impaired occupational or social functioning.Felos, as described by his own words, meets the criteria! Except "impaired occupational or social functioning" which is of course only because because of where he works and the current evil death-industry there.(Source: schizophrenia.com)
Many FReepers who defend Schiavo have put their own family members to death. Their guilty consciences impel them to attempt to rationalize and justify.
But murder is murder, and that's all there is to it. Sometimes it IS just that simple.
I wonder what they can possibly like about Michael Schiavo unless they are associates or hold the same views.
A million dollars---or two---isn't sufficient to explain the relentless determination of Schiavo, Felos and Greer. There are other possibilities---and one can explore them at http://www.theempirejournal.com/
Thank you so much for the link, Graymatter. I've just gone to that site and the number of cogent articles is impressive. It is an excellent source for all those who would like to read more about the Schiavo case and aftermath.
Thanks again!
Char :)
I expect you are correct. When it hits close to home, priciples go out the window. Whether it is freepers defending their job feeling up grandma at the airport, or the bent cop defending property siezure, or cutting off liquids to a sick person.
You are most welcome, Charlite. :)
Felos isn't an oddball. He's a nutcase.
You know I spent so much time on this case, all the connections in the hospice, the Medicaid, the sealing of the guardian's financial records by Felos after parents brought a case against his guardianship because he got the money...he stopped all therapy, no more outside...let infections fester (ordered no antibiotics)...nada. The fact that according to two Florida statues a patient must be terminally ill(6 months or less to live), to be admitted to a hospice facility. Of course, Felos was on the board of directors...as well as Mary Lebayak (also of the Euthanasia Society of America). No record found...I was directly in the database...not even a forged or tweaked one. The facts on the 990's on campaign contributions by Felos to Judge Greer, the first one day after the ruling of Feeding Tubes as extraordinary means (which was supposed to apply to those after that date not before, as it was written). The three different accounts of how he found her and when...the money shuffed to his brother and sister in law...along with Jodi Centonze's (fiancee)insurance business. MSchiavo also was given a job at the prison by the sheriff (now retired) in the infirmary...you guessed it, friend of Greer's (also gave lots to Greer...also as an aside, whose daughter works at the police station, hence the quick warning that Jeb was on the way to the hospice to take her out). I could write all day. Empire Journal, Blogs for Terri and lots of us lost blogs, info and computers on this...and I will gladly lose the same. I posted a couple weeks ago about MSchiavo here in NY shopping his book...you shouldn't be surprised. See this is proof positive that the pro-life core doesn't kill...cause you know if there was anyone on the line-up...it was him...as soon as he prepared to take that tube out.
I still can't believe, we sat here and let this happen. Someone STARVED TO DEATH for 13 days in America...while this guy was saying she was peaceful. Whether you know it or not...you have seen evil, and evil went to 12 states as soon as Terri flatlined to get this through other states.
Time to wake up.
You think Felos is bad? You should check out the senior partner at his firm...
I can well believe that.
I defend Michael Schiavo.
I'd like to ask what you think of Felos? I'm truly interested.
I have a sneaking suspicion many, many lawyers exude this same "moral odor".
I think he did his job.
This kind of rhetoric, describing people you disagree with as CREEPY is so beneath the Conservative movement. Almost childish. This is a serious debate this nation must embark on, name calling will not help it.
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