Posted on 03/14/2006 11:28:51 AM PST by KevinNuPac
If I read this aright, they held his mouth shut and made him breathe ammonia fumes. That wasn't a beating that got out of control. That was murder.
"That was murder."
Yes, it was murder. It was first reported that he died from sickle cell problems. A cover-up all the way. Will anyone be held accountable for this? In Florida, anybodys guess.
Let's just leave it at that. Don't make a federal case out of it. /sarcasm
WTF does he mean by "unnecessary?" Sometimes it's necessary to murder people, but not this time? Unlike the murder of Terri Schiavo, this murder didn't serve a higher purpose? WTF?
Did you ever hear such weasel talk? The kid was beaten to a pulp ON CAMERA. Was that, perhaps, "evidence" "indicating" that something was wrong? And "not by natural causes" is a wildly evasive phrase for murder.
Crist is a worm-tongue. You can NEVER trust a man who talks this way.
Yes, it was. Apart from that being such a bizarre medical finding, do we not hear a racist taunt as well?
>> A cover-up all the way.
Agree.
The kid was under government authority when he was killed. Keep government out of this! Sounds like another Terri to me....., everybody skates....
I don't know. I think Crist just likes to drop in unnecessary words to make it sound good. He oils his tongue before he speaks.
He misused the word "tragic," too. The whole Death Cult loves to do that. But this wasn't a tragedy, it was an evil, vicious, outrageous murder. It was a capital crime -- a crime, moreover, committed by the very people who are entrusted with protecting the public from crime.
I think he just misspoke. He meant to say "natural disaster."
The first thing that struck me about the conference was how Arthur Caplan looks on video like one of these big fat pains in the butt. He opened with a snipe at legislators and said that he couldn't find a living breathing legislator who wanted to be there. His comment drew laughter from most of the 20 or 30 that comprised the audience, which consisted of about 20-30 pro-death enthusiasts.
Anyway, since Greer appeared on the last day, I believe it is safe to say that he was one of the headlining acts. I wonder if they sacrificed a Down's Syndrome person for the Finale?
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Autopsy: Boot camp guards killed teen
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Opinion Editorials, by Janice Sanford
If "lawmakers" aren't equipped to make right-to-die decisions for Americans who can't speak for themselves, what makes a judge eligable, except the laws that have been made by lawmakers?
After the Greer Court had Terri Schiavo starved and dehydrated to death, Greer supporters applauded him for following the law. In doing so they all, in my opinion, made a mockery of everything good and right that the United States has ever stood for.
Activist Judges Do More Harm than Good
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It seems that every time a rock was lifted during the Terri Schiavo tragedy, another conflict of interest came slithering out.
Some of the main players pressing for Schiavos death were on the board of directors of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, which ran Woodside Hospice, where Terri died. Others were prominent members of the right-to-die crusade.
Among these conflicts of interest was the Everett Rice-George Greer connection.
Judge Greer moonlighting on pro-death speakers circuit?
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ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--The odds are against her. Shes in critical condition and any new complications could be life threatening" -- that's how Dr. Matthew Lenz described Andrea Clarks medical status to the Houston Chronicle. But, he added, Were going to give her a fighting chance.
A fighting chance may not seem like much, but a couple of weeks ago it did not appear that Andrea Clark, 54, would even be given that.
FIRST-PERSON: Andrea Clark given a chance
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National Review Online.
After complications during surgery at a hospital in Austin, Tex., Andrea Clark ended up on a respirator and needed kidney dialysis. She was not brain dead, but she had lost consciousness, partly owing to the pain medication she had been given. Her doctor decided it would be futile to continue caring for her. Her family disagreed. There is a law in Texas that, in such a situation, an ethics or medical committee will decide whether to continue life-sustaining treatment. On April 19, a committee decided to cease such treatment. Clarkes family had ten days to find another physician. Fortunately, they found one last Monday; it was far from certain that they would. The decision whether to use extraordinary care to keep an unconscious patient alive should be up to his family, not an ethics committee. Yet this is not only a matter of extraordinary care. According to the Texas law, life-sustaining treatment includes artificial hydration and nutrition. Providing nourishment is not a form of extraordinary medical treatment, and death from starvation is not death from a sickness. An ethics committee should never be allowed to make such a decision against the wishes of an unconscious patients family. This law denigrates the value of both freedom and life.
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From the Mainstream Media, here is a summary of all the coverage given:
Zip, blank, empty. Nothing at all.
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No updates yet found, but sounds like she is on a path to safety. North Country Gazette carried her story earlier by Jerri Ward, J.D. who helped Andrea.
I filed papers with the court in one case (Yoland Vo) and got close to doing that in the other case (Andrea Clark). In one, a new attending physician has assumed care. In the other, the hospital is, so far, cooperating with grace and compassion to find alternatives.
I cannot express the gratitude that I feel for the bloggers, journalists, radio talk hosts who have informed the public about these cases, and the readers and listeners who have clearly expressed to the hospitals, physicians and bioethicists who support denying people autonomy in medical decisions by replacing the desires of patients and families with subjective judgments about "quality of life", that such a position is not acceptable.
OpEd - Texas Futile Care Law Doesn't Work
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Corpse showman's pick-up service for new exhibits
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That's like an alligator appealing to an alligator committee whether it's all right to eat the dog.
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