People are saying this is Superb Owl Sunday. I don't know what that means, but I thought I'd share my own superb owl with this lovely group. Thank you.
Posted on 02/01/2006 7:29:10 AM PST by Ohioan from Florida
In the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. For those who have not heard the tragic story, Haleigh was beaten nearly to death last September, allegedly by her adoptive mother and stepfather. The beating left her unconscious and barely clinging to life.
Within a week or so of the beating, her doctors had written her off. They apparently told Haleigh's court-appointed guardian, Harry Spence, that she was "virtually brain dead." Even though he had never visited her, Spence quickly went to court seeking permission to remove her respirator and feeding tube. The court agreed, a decision affirmed recently by the supreme court of Massachusetts.
And so, no doubt with the best of intentions, a little girl who had already suffered so much was stripped by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of even the chance to fight to stay alive. If she didn't stop breathing when the respirator was removed, which doctors expected, she would slowly dehydrate to death.
Close Call
Then came the unexpected:
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Furthermore, to speak to voters, you want a nice simple message of right and wrong; of moral principle. The Democrats will have to make a very complicated, murky argument to say that the Right is guilty of summoning vast state powers to oppress one unsavory-looking guy surrounded by expensive lawyers making a "private" medical decision to snuff his wife. What's the bumper sticker you make out of that?
Terri's still unexplained injury was more severe than those commonly suffered in birth problems.
Terri is number eight in their list of top stories for 2005.
The Associated Press survey of U.S. editors
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Very good article. The author points out the indifference of these medical practioners. I would say incompetence, but I think they know exactly what they're doing.
Long ago, we would visit a hospital where one of the patients (clients, they called them) was hydrocephalic. The little boy had been given a shunt and could wheel around on his own in a wheelchair. His prognosis was not good and we are sure he didn't last long. He couldn't have. The critical ingredient of his survival was gone.
His parents had dropped him off, then slipped out the door, changed their addresses, and disappeared forever. This poor kid had nobody, save a few decent nurses to even smile back at him. Yet, plucky, he kept his grin and would follow us all around on every visit, would panic each evening when we left. His parents were able to slam the door shut, so were spared his pleading to be held or having to return his warm smiles. They had decided to MoveOn.
Withdrawing love is a spiritual form of dehydration, lethal as well.
Indications they are in the killing industry run strong and deep. I wonder how much they have to be investigated before the public wakes up to what they are doing.
Agree totally! To hear that Lakoff guy this morning explain it, they are out of power because they haven't used the proper language to make the people understand their "progressive" values. Heh heh heh.
I figure they'll put poor, persecuted Mikey on their bumperstickers, he went through so much, you know! The right-wingers made a martyr out of him when all he wanted was to off his wife in privacy, the meanies. Keith Olbermann told me so. ;-)
It would almost be amusing, except that it feeds the big lie about what was done to Terri -- it continues to muddy the waters and give the biodeathicists cover. Plus, it makes me really angry to think of the Schindlers having to listen to this twisted spew all year.
Gotta sign off for the day, back later tonight. Didn't get a chance to check the beginning of that guy's speech, but will get it tonight.
Well said, well said.
If certain tales and trails are to be believed, Deborah Bushnell of the Felos Law Firm masterminded the strategy to deprive Terri of love and sensory stimulation along with all rehabilitation. Except for a few Potemkin exhibitions, they put her in physical and emotional solitary confinement. She was displayed with stuffed animals and flowers at her death; but in life, for years, they had taken those all away. In the last five years of her life, she was never once permitted to feel the sunshine on her cheek. There was no medical reason for that; it was sheer meanness.
Legally this strategy was brilliant: without rehab Terri could never get better; without love and sunlight and music and human company, she would get worse and worse, so their arguments to euthanize her would look better and better. Even if they lost their case to pull her feeding tube, she'd waste away and die for George and Mikey.
Morally, it's straight from Hell.
I can do that in four words: MIKEY LIED, TERRI DIED.
Great find. Thanks.
Jim King said his "bluff 'em, snuff 'em, take their stuff" law was going to be his legacy. What it's really going to be, when seniors find out, is the death of the lucrative Florida retirement industry. Who wants to move to Florida to get bumped off and robbed of his estate?
I can think of no other rational explanation for the Deborah Dethnell strategy of spiritual dehydration. Unfortunately for them, too much love leaked into the death cell anyway.
At Pinellas Park the face of evil was there in force, a palpable cloud complete with circling vultures. The good people secured themselves deeper in their Faith, the contrast as stark as it gets.
"Withdrawing love is a spiritual form of dehydration"
Yes it is..how sad for that young boy.
I wonder that too. I guess some people don't care how things are screwed up as long as it doesn't affect them closely, but it is coming to them next. Way too many things have gotten passed (in the government) when people didn't step up and complain "until it hit them" and then it is too late.
A lesser person would have been driven screaming from the room two hours and fifty-nine minutes earlier.
People are saying this is Superb Owl Sunday. I don't know what that means, but I thought I'd share my own superb owl with this lovely group. Thank you.
I know how they could present such a diagnosis. Haleigh had nobody who loved her. Nobody to speak up on her behalf. Nobody to tell the world she was about to be bioethicked. And yet, somebody blabbed.
I don't think they expected anyone to listen to a man who was about to be charged with her murder. I don't think they expected him to be smart enough to speak out, let alone be believed. And I don't think they expected her biological mother to care one way or the other what happened to her.
This was supposed to be very secret. I wonder how many other unloved abused children are secreted away to the euthanasia centers.
Superb Owl parties can be fun. A bunch of people sit in front of the TV. Suddenly they yell "He scored!" And then everybody runs in from the kitchen yelling "Hoo! Hoo!"
We're having a Superb Owl party (starting at post 437). Will you be our mascott?
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