Danger Zone - (Haleigh Poutre)

National Review ^ | February 01, 2006 | Wesley J, Smith

[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:

[Ohioan from Florida]

****In the brief, DSS referred to Poutre as having "the least amount of brain function that a person can have and still be considered alive." The agency further stated that, within a week of her hospitalization on Sept. 11, the girl was diagnosed as having a stroke of "the entire right side and most of the left side of her brain. As a result of both brain injuries, the child has no hope of any meaningful recovery," according to the brief filed by DSS General Counsel Virginia A. Peel.****

From the link:
http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1139302651183400.xml&coll=1

[T'wit]

It would certainly seem that the Bent One can also use that channel to communicate with God's children. C. S. Lewis talked about it a good deal. He also managed to convey -- though only with difficulty -- the very moment when God spoke to him and brought him to his knees (if I may attempt to quote from memory), "the most dejected convert in all of England."

[Ohioan from Florida]

As to your latest tagline, I've always thought of the 72 virgins as the torture the Islamic martyrs will receive because a virgin who is truly dedicated to God won't give it up to anyone. They have God and He has them.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

nothing from Hannity or OReilly, who were all over the Schivo case.

It took a long time for those two and others to "get all over" the Terri Schiavo story. It was being discussed here for a year or more before those outlets picked it up.

Such will likely be the case here...but only if they determine that it is what people want to see when they tune in to their shows.
It is, after all, about the ratings.

[T'wit]

>> I've always thought of the 72 virgins as the torture the Islamic martyrs will receive because a virgin who is truly dedicated to God won't give it up to anyone.

:-)

Hey, if they do give up their virginity, the next thing you know, our poor martyr will be out cleaning the garage.

[floriduh voter]

CULTURE OF DEATH TAKES ANOTHER CHILD.

[pickyourpoison]

"Hi, PYP. I'm still around. Lurking some, posting some"

I lurk a lot too. Thanks for the pings, I appreciate it.

[floriduh voter]

Diane Coleman went one on one with George Felos at the Tiger Bay Club luncheon in Tampa Bay, I think in late 2003 or early 2004.

Diane Coleman KICKED FELOS' sorry behind all over the dais.

[floriduh voter]

Diane Coleman was able to attend the 2003 Vigil. She held a press conference that was suppressed by the media and she had an assemblage of Terri supporters standing behind her.

[Ohioan from Florida]

LOL!

Hey, after I posted before I thought that maybe the virgins would all be those former nuns who taught us in Catholic grade school. Wouldn't that be a trip? I can just see Sister Mary Vincent up there right now, giving the ole martyr a piece of her mind!!

(For those who don't know, I'm just having a little bit of good Catholic humor. I never personally experienced mean nuns. Mine were all wonderful, even if they were stern sometimes. My older brothers and sister might beg to differ with me, though. They were educated pre-Vatican II, and I was more mid- to post-Vatican II.)

[Ohioan from Florida]

I remember that! She showed what an idiot Felos really is!!

[T'wit]

On a slightly more serious note, Jesus was a Rabbi -- a holy man. Mohammed was a conqueror -- a military man. Where Jesus was the Good Shepherd, Mohammed mixed religion with militarism to hurl thunderbolts at his foes and to keep his own people in line. Those 72 houris, none too well translated as "virgins," were a recruiting advertisement. "Join my army, lads, and if you happen to get slain on the battlefield, lo!, Allah will fix you up with enough chicks to satisfy even a randy dog like you!"

By his own boast in the Koran, Mohammed would have needed 2,880 of those virgins to keep himself satisfied. The man had onions, no doubt about it.

[floriduh voter]

Those vigil photos - I think the SIGN that says: Kill Terrorists and Save Terri addresses the barbarism tkg place in Florida.

Hospice rolls out new slogan. (I guess the last one wasn't working.)

Emboldened, daring: wfla 970 radio Jack Harris: "Hospice isn't just a place. It's a movement... "any diagnosis... most people have hospice come to their homes."

They omitted the word "euthanasia" before "movement". EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT.

Some hospices are DEATH WORSHIPPERS. Hospice of the Suncoast (Woodside Hospice).

They want your business.

[floriduh voter]

your 500. LOL Guess what? The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has a new NO ADULTERY POLICY. Is that maybe why WINO married Jodi so fast so he could keep his fake job in the women's section of the jail???? Did you know that Carlie Brucia's mom hit hard times. She was or is in the women's jail where WINO works.

Can you imagine that her child was murdered and his wife was murdered and they both made national news? Carlie's mom meets Terri's adulterous, baggy eyed WINO.

[Ohioan from Florida]

They want your business.

Money is the bottom line for hospices. They'll take it from the patient, the government, and then the patient's family and friends after they die (you know, the donations in lieu of flowers), anyone at all. Hospice, in Florida especially, is big business.

[floriduh voter]

Fla AG Crist will try to lower your phone bill but don't talk to him about DCF scandals or medicaid fraud. We're talking millions of dollars. And he wants to be governor? No wonder the democrat is doing well.

The media is wrongly portraying Tom Gallagher as far right to help Crist but instead, it's helping Dem Tom Davis.

God will sort it all out.

Haleigh's tale:

Gallagher for Fla Gov. www.tg2006.com

[Ohioan from Florida]

I am sorry to hear about Carlie's mom. No one should have to go through what she did with Carlie. Praying for her right now.

[floriduh voter]

Jeb Bush had knowledge that George Felos has ideations and beliefs that are beyond out of this world. All one has to do is go to amazon.com and plug in George Felos and ck out his spiritual litigation book.

Hard to believe that Felos can be that out there and retain a bar license. He needs a competency exam IMO.

That a bunch of strange people can hook up with judges to kill disabled people is not an old episode of the Twilight Zone. It's the new Florida, not just for tourists any more.

[floriduh voter]

Hannity showed up at the last minute. He got a lot of mileage out of Terri but as it turned out, his friend Mark Fuhrman got the most mileage, a book out of it.

I don't watch the news as much unless it's the weather.

[floriduh voter]

Carlie's at the jail by Judge Baird's chambers where he refused Jeb Bush a trial and where he refused to allow Terri's parents to enter the Schiavo v. Bush lawsuit.

Judge W. Douglas Baird is wicked but he did not sign the death order. He just blocked Jeb Bush who would only listen to the courts instead of sending the State Troopers in there to save Terri.

I still blame a whole host of people for Terri's murder. Jeb Bush does not get a pass. I hope that his current investigation is GENUINE. If it isn't genuine, then Jebbie has lost all credibility he had left with regard to taking care of the most vulnerable.