Good to know before I call Tallahassee to ream him for praying to a mystic warrior. LOL
Posted on 09/13/2005 2:51:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Neil Cavuto just announced that the Louisiana State Attorney General will file involuntary manslaughter charges against nursing home staff that fled and left 31 people to die in the flood waters.
Gosh, do you think they actually have a conscience and are haunted by their parts in her death? Will wonders never cease?
How do you get a building full of non-ambulatory patients out? I'm withholding judgement until I find out if they even had alternatives. Just "warning" isn't enough. You have to have several abulances, and ambulance drivers, to evacuate dozens of patients. Seems to me that the authorities are looking for someone they can point to, and beat up...
There were buses available to evacuate these patients, buses that were turned down by the owners.
In fact, there were 3 or 4 other nursing homes close by, all of which evacuated.
(I heard that last night from I think the AG or maybe DA who is charging them, or it could have been a local police officer, it was on Nancy Grace's show.)
The owners took a boat out when only half of these patients had been gotten out. They left 5 aides to try to get the rest out. Nancy Grace described one of the aides as a tiny little woman.
They did the evacuation very late in the game, the owner said that they never had to evacuate before, so didn't think they would have to this time.
I think it's much worse if someone is TOLD THAT THEIR FEEDING TUBE IS GOING TO BE REMOVED and that person knows that they are going to suffer and die.
Terri Schiavo 1963 - 2005 May she rest in peace.
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Looks like Florida's governor is into eastern mysticism. That helps explain why he left Terri to die. This was in the St. Pete Times today and not out of thin air. We are researching who mystic warrior Chang is. Jeb stated that he prays to Chang to help him deal with tough issues. We are researching this on a Terri thread. There goes his career. I can't support a faux Christian.
If Jeb Bush is invoking a mystic warrior to help him, that's not something Christians would ever do. Jeb's changed.
Good to know before I call Tallahassee to ream him for praying to a mystic warrior. LOL
Really! faux Christian is right, then, if this is true.
I'm going to be a man about this. Whatever I did, whatever I could have done better, I'm going to stand up and history will judge me accordingly.
He's going to be a man about this. When?
He's going to stand up and history will judge him accordingly. Ah, yes it will.
Since parts of NO are opening up, how soon will our 'man' sell that Dallas house and move back? Today? Oh, maybe those neighborhoods are too 'rough' for him??
Jeb must have abandoned Terri upon consulting his crystal ball. Did you see that Terri's parents are supposed to be on EWTN tonight???? They aren't on yet.
PLEASE PING ALL FREEPER ANIMAL LOVERS. THEY ARE SHOOTING DOGS FOR NO GOOD REASON - KATRINA RELATED. A Sheriff in NO is shooting dogs left and right. Here's the info on that.
St. Bernard Parish Sherriffs shooting friendly dogs from the back of a pick-up truck. Video, ways to call and voice outrage Video link of St. Bernards Parish Sheriff shooing dogs (with wagging tails) from the back of a pickup truck. (Requires Quicktime and takes almost minute to start, be patient and brave, we must stand witness to this outrage.)
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/photography/2005/katrina_video/straydogs.html
Regarding THE OFFICER THAT MURDERED MORE THAN ONE DOG, BY RUNNING IT OVER AND SHOOTING THEM:
STOP HIM AND MAKE SURE HE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE! HIS NAME IS SGT. MIKE MINTON OF ST BERNARDS SHERIFF'S
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IIRC, they are more expensive than Child care and not covered by insurance. I agree, more options should be available for people to take care of their own. If insurance companies were more flexible, it could be a win/win situation for everyone involved...(except for nursing homes, that is)
According to the noaa archives, it wasn't a hurricane 5 days before and LA had about a 2-4% chance of being hit by Tropical Storm Katrina at THAT point in time.
I don't see them being able to convict both the owners AND the employees on this one. IF they were under mandatory evacuation and had adequate opportunity, time, and resources and the owners refused to do so... does not mean that the employees had to buy into that stupidity.
They don't have to convict the employees. However, all of them who are licensed should either lose their licenses or have them suspended. I take it you are neither a doctor nor a nurse. We have ethics. These people ignored their responsibility to their patients and allowed them to die.
There was a mandatory evacuation and the owners chose not to evacuate.
Not ALL doctors and not ALL nurses have ethics. The licensed staff should have stayed because the owners chose not to evacuate? They should have gone against mandatory evacuation orders?? Even if that meant NOT evacuating any minor children they may have? Should private citizens with children (or disabled/elderly) in their care be charged with neglect if they did not evacuate?
I think we have not heard enough of the facts in this case to make judgement.
Bet their attorney knows Florida's death lawyers.
left behind - feeding tube residents. They were people, not things.
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