Posted on 07/06/2005 10:50:06 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
8mm...do the children wear flip-flops there? Just wondering if they're allowed..I know they're not very sturdy but several pairs would fit into a shoe box.
Methinks you have a very large speck in you eye. And a huge hole in your heart.
Sorry to be so hit or miss around here...have been able to read most of the posts, and realize that many are just like me, still emotionally impacted by having to watch parents and siblings suffer a murder by death and dehydration of a beloved, terrific, brain damaged but a otherwise HEALTHY daughter and sister.
It is too horrific for words.
Mikey the sponge monster and his cabal of death mongers repulse me more instead of less as time passes.
Judge greer is a man devoid of compassion and the ability to search out the truth, he is a horror and I believe to the depths of my soul, that all of them, involved from the beginning, will be paying a price so horrific we cannot even imagine it...I believe their Judge is already working on it.
I love you all, I do. You walked with me through this travesty, shared hope and prayer and activism, many of you standing outside Woodside Hospice as she was SLOWLY, and PAINFULLY and VICIOUSLY being denied WATER and SUSTANANCE........worse...her parents please to offer her water were REJECTED. Something SICK and beyond BELIEF in that....
If we are a cult, lol, we are a cult of love and hope and searchers of the truth. We know when something SMELLS and worked to find the STINK.
Others, who chose to believe that Terri did not have a life worth living, or believed the snake in the gold chains who could not even bring himself to put the death of Terri Schindler's (she no longer has to wear the hated schiavo name....a name so repulsive I expected 'schiavoed' will become a name for those who strive to kill those of us incapacitated in one way or the other....seem more like a 'cult' to me...a cult of people without hearts.
Last paragraph in above diatribe should have contained the comment that the monster who hovered over Terri in her last moments...probably trying to suck in her last breath and murmer..." GOTCHA, BITCH!"....(after all, he had referred to her as a bitch publically in the past)......could not even bring himself to PUT HER ACTUAL DATE OF DEATH ON HER TOMBSTONE...he is beyond dirt, he is the essence of a psychopath.
I am sure they would, but just to make sure you may want to send an email to Cheryl.
Fight4Terri@aol.com
8mm
That was a beautiful rant. It expresses some of my own feelings very well. I expect most people share those feelings. There are the occasional throw-backs who fail to understand, but for the most part, people are appalled at the evil that was done to Terri.
Thank you for proving my point, and for bumping this thread.
Repeating this important message from Cheryl.
Dear Fight4Terri Members,
Casey is a National Guardsman from Tampa, Florida. He joined the National Guard four years ago and is presently stationed in Afghanistan. Casey states the desert sands are hot and missing his friends and family is often very difficult. However, Casey relays, "missing my home and family is not as difficult as watching the little children run barefoot with their dry and cracked little feet." Casey said, " the children literally argue over shoes if they are fortunate enough to get a pair." They ask the soldiers for shoes all the time." Casey is making special arrangements to deliver sandles to the children, but he needs our help.
*Sandles are preferable. *
Boys and Girls sandles from Youth size 1 to Youth Size 12 would be appreciated.
Send one pair of sandles to Casey and help to make a difference in a child's life.
Please Mail to:
Casey Hendrix (For safety of the soldiers, rank is not permitted to be disclosed)
B Co 53rd LPF
53rd Infantry Brigade
Camp PHOENIX
APO AE 09320
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this email.
Respectfully
Cheryl Ford RN
Fight4Terri@aol.com
Added note for those who wonder. Casey Hendrix is a caring young man and is my daughters boyfriend.
BTTT
8mm
"But their government is just big enough to fit into Terri Schiavo's bed."
And in another deja vu, someone in Jacksonville must have been bulemic.
Possibly, but weren't you surprised too at the outpouring of "moderate" Republicans who emphatically endorsed her killing!
Those who supported Terri's murder were few and far between. "Conservatives" who supported her murder were even fewer. However, I was shocked (& still am) at the number of morally void people who came forward to brag about their murderous cravings. Even though they were an extreme minority, there were still more than I ever would have believed.
Something that didn't surprise me was that the same people who fought against Terri's right to life continue to fight against the right of others to live. They told us to mind our own business and allow Mae Magouirk to be murdered. They still refer to disabled people in the most vile terms.
We force prisoners to eat and get all distressed that the gitmo gang on a hunger strike. Why? If they refuse to eat...yawn. We refuse food and water to the ones that can't make an informed decision though. We the US are so messed up.
I will happily send sandles for the children.
"Repeating this important message from Cheryl.
Dear Fight4Terri Members,
Casey is a National Guardsman from Tampa, Florida. He joined the National Guard four years ago and is presently stationed in Afghanistan. Casey states the desert sands are hot and missing his friends and family is often very difficult. However, Casey relays, "missing my home and family is not as difficult as watching the little children run barefoot with their dry and cracked little feet." Casey said, " the children literally argue over shoes if they are fortunate enough to get a pair." They ask the soldiers for shoes all the time." Casey is making special arrangements to deliver sandles to the children, but he needs our help.
*Sandles are preferable. *
Boys and Girls sandles from Youth size 1 to Youth Size 12 would be appreciated.
Send one pair of sandles to Casey and help to make a difference in a child's life.
Please Mail to:
Casey Hendrix (For safety of the soldiers, rank is not permitted to be disclosed)
B Co 53rd LPF
53rd Infantry Brigade
Camp PHOENIX
APO AE 09320
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this email.
Respectfully
Cheryl Ford RN
Fight4Terri@aol.com
Added note for those who wonder. Casey Hendrix is a caring young man and is my daughters boyfriend."
The time is about to come when his sentence would expire and the sheriff's office says the family will have to take financial responsibility for his medical bills. Imagine that! He wound up in this condition while in their custody and now they are dropping it in the family's lap. In no way would I condone Laughon's crime but there have been several inmates die in the custody of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Dept. in the past year or so. I think maybe 5. This is not a funny situation.
A friend from church got pulled over, they were yelling at her, pulled their guns, 6 cop cars, handcuffed her etc. Her license plate matched a stolen plate from Texas but they evidently couldn't see that big orange in the middle of her license plate or the myflorida.com that's also on the plate. They screwed up royally pulling this woman over, she keeps saying what if it had been her husband in the car at the time. What would they have done to him?
There's a pic and another article here about Laughon. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/assetpool/images/05228191840_lindyguy.jpg
The following article is from the paper.
Inmate in bad shape; family wants answers
Duval jail detainee has 'no brain function' following fights with officers.
By DANA TREEN , The Times-Union
The family of a Jacksonville man is questioning what happened between the time he left the Duval County jail with what police said were minor visible injuries and the time he arrived at a hospital close to death.
John Gregory Laughon, 38, has been taken off a ventilator but is unresponsive and must be fed through a tube since being taken to Shands Jacksonville hospital by police Feb. 22, family attorney Sean Cronin said Tuesday.
"He is breathing on his own, but he has no brain function," Cronin said. He said Laughon is not expected to recover.
Documents obtained by the Times-Union said a nurse who treated Laughon when he arrived at Shands in February found him "cold to the touch" and "pulseless." He was lying face down with his arms and legs tied and was wearing a blood-covered spit mask. The nurse began cardiopulmonary resuscitation, she wrote in a hospital report.
"When the nurse went into [the] patient holding [area], he was clinically dead," Cronin said.
When Laughon was taken to the hospital from the jail, police said it was for a mental evaluation after he broke from a restraint chair and fought officers. Laughon has a long history of seizures that cause aggressive behavior, Cronin said.
An inmate referral report to the hospital said Laughon was combative and uncooperative and would swing at medical staff.
Undersheriff Frank Mackesy said Tuesday that Laughon had fought with officers three times in three days but had nothing more noticeable than scrapes and bruises.
"We had no way of knowing he had any internal injuries when he left here," Mackesy said. He said police later learned he had several broken ribs but were told those injuries could be caused by aggressive CPR.
Laughon had been jailed about a month on a marijuana possession charge and fought with officers in the days leading up to Feb. 22. He was in the restraint chair for attacking an officer, according to a police incident report.
During a routine check about 2:20 a.m., a corrections officer found Laughon out of the restraints and on a bench. The report said Laughon charged the officer, slamming him with a door and knocking him down before attacking a second officer, who was cornered. Officers from other parts of the jail were called to restrain Laughon, the report said. One corrections officer suffered a broken finger in the fights and Laughon had grabbed one officer by the hair and banged her face on the floor, Mackesy said.
Laughon continued to resist, even in restraints. He was placed in a van and taken to Shands Jacksonville for treatment of minor injuries, the report said.
Cronin said the family is not disputing that Laughon fought with corrections officers. He said police characterized the physical injuries as minor and that Laughon was driven to the hospital for a mental health evaluation.
Cronin said Laughon had closed head injuries and nine broken ribs in his back, five on the right side and four on the left.
"The injuries he had are not consistent with what he has sustained with a seizure," Cronin said.
When Laughon was jailed in January, medication to control the seizures was taken to the jail but he told his mother he did not get the doses. Cronin said a second inmate told the family the same thing.
Mackesy said privacy laws do not allow the release of information about what medications Laughon may have been taking.
Cronin said Laughon was taking Lamictal, which is used to control bipolar disorders and epilepsy. Laughon has been under treatment for seizures since a head injury in an auto accident when he was 19.
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/051105/met_18707760.shtml
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Sometimes, for whatever reason, they do not jump to defend those under fire.
Sometimes they do.
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