The Schiavo case was sad, incredibly so. But it is over. Blaming Charlie Crist is insane. Blaming Jeb, or King, or anyone else is insane. One man had the legal authroity to make the decisions related to Teri's life and that man was her husband. No one else even deserves mention - not the judge, not the politicians. Michael made the dreadful choice, so if you want to blame someone, blame him.
A piece of advice to my friends in FL: If you insist on making your campaigns this year 2 issue battles - Schiavo and Abortion - you are going to lose election after election after election.
If Mr. Schindler insists on being politically active he risks becoming the Cindy Sheehan of the right.
I will not comment on that. However, I do wonder why you did not comment about Micheal being 'politically active'? http://www.terripac.com/
"The Schiavo case was sad, incredibly so. But it is over. Blaming Charlie Crist is insane. Blaming Jeb, or King, or anyone else is insane. One man had the legal authroity to make the decisions related to Teri's life and that man was her husband. No one else even deserves mention - not the judge, not the politicians. Michael made the dreadful choice, so if you want to blame someone, blame him.
A piece of advice to my friends in FL: If you insist on making your campaigns this year 2 issue battles - Schiavo and Abortion - you are going to lose election after election after election.
If Mr. Schindler insists on being politically active he risks becoming the Cindy Sheehan of the right."
BlueNgold,
With all due respect, it isn't over because people remain horrified and they're horrified because what happened to Terri can happen to any of us. Michael Schiavo is primarily responsible for her murder, but so many other people were complicit. Apparently AG Crist was one of them. Crist is supposed to be a public servant but he failed to protect an innocent woman. Judge Greer also broke the law by appointing himself her guardian - yet he never attempted to meet the woman, then sentenced her to death. There were plenty of legal opportunities for all the public officials involved to save her life. Because Terri's death was a horrible injustice, the Schindler family has said they want to help save lives and spare other families the same heartbreak. So that is nothing like Cindy Sheehan, who calls all attention to herself and her political motives. In other words, the Schindlers are good Americans and good Floridians warning their fellow citizens.
QM
Since Terri had no counsel, she was denied a fundamental right of every American. Charlie Crist had a duty as Fl AG to investigate all the intricacies of Terri Schiavo's circumstance. He couldn't do that because of his ties to the Pinellas judicial tyrannists, to the Sheriff and to the State Attorney anad also his relationships with DCF and ACHA.
There was an investigation and the investigator was told to drop it even though he was making progress as far as all the violations and wrongdoing against Terri Schiavo. Who told the investigator to call it off? CHARLIE CRIST'S CURRENT ADVISOR, CLAY ROBERTS.
Crist's current advisor was responsible for stopping the ongoing investigation that was "founded".
Crist was directly involved. Directly. He cannot say he's pro-life. He can't do that because Clay Roberts, his current advisor stopped the investigation and who told Clay Roberts to stop it? CRIST for GREER?
What happened to Terri is sad but it won't be over until there is justice for her, toward those who ended her life.
My father died this past March, and he was disabled for 47 years. I went to a friend who was a nurse for help, information, in my decision making to protect my dad from those who would want to end his life. I said I didn't want anything to happen to my dad as happened to Terri. She shouted and screamed at me that we should end the lives of those who were disabled. No one would ever want to live disabled. I know my dad wanted to live and wanted help.
My former friend used Terri's circumstances to prove her point. People will use Terri to try to end the lives of other disabled people unless we fight them. We have to fight Crist and Greer and Michael Schiavo or there will be many more Terri Shiavo cases.
Thank you. Every politician who has made this private and personal issue, a front page political issue has seen his poll numbers suffer as a result.
The arrogance and self righteousness of some posts on this thread illustrate exactly why.
I would NEVER want some of these self professing pro-lifers to be in a position of making end of life decisions for me.