Husband Takes Schiavo Fight Back to Politicians

NYT ^ | 8-16-06 | ABBY GOODNOUGH

[fschmieg]

So much for this maggot's pleas about "He only wants his privacy!! And how terrible it is to politicize his poor wife!"

I predict this will hurt the Democrats he is supporting. The country, in fact, did not like it when the Republicans entered the picture and they won't like this either.

I supported the parents' efforts and the Republicans in the Terri Schiavo case because I am very pro-life. But from a political analysis, the country prefers "hands off" this sort of thing and they will not want this guy out there.

[madprof98]

He works three 12-hour shifts a week as a nursing supervisor at the Pinellas County Jail . . .

I thought the Left opposed capital punishment for criminals.

[Gerish]

“He is the human face of government intrusion,” said Ms. Paccione....

He is the human face of a cold blooded murderer.

[RichInOC]

Michael, the only reason Lifetime hasn't approached you and George Felos to play the creepy husband and his even creepier lawyer in the movie of the week about your wife is because you two actually are those guys. Go away.

[Verginius Rufus]

Scott Peterson is the one who should be complaining. When Mr. Schiavo's wife became inconvenient and he wanted to be rid of her, he was able to enlist the legal system to kill her on his behalf. When Mr. Peterson's wife became inconvenient and he wanted to be rid of her, not only did he have to do all the work himself, but the legal system even decided to punish him for his self-help approach.

Of course there are differences between the cases. The most important one is that Peterson's wife was pregnant.

[Auntie Mame]

I saw this guy's book at the library and picked it up, thinking I'd check it out and see what he had to say. You never know, perhaps he could convince me to his side. Anyway, I flipped through it, reading bits and pieces. It was pretty much filled with vitriol against those who made his job of killing Terri more difficult. The hate just oozed out of it.

I'd always thought that perhaps the Schindlers, especially Mr. Schindler (who always seemed a little grating to me), had perhaps brought some of the problems they had with Michael on themselves, but after perusing Michael's book, I've changed my mind.

That guy is one scary dude.

Needless to say, once I realized what the book contained, I dropped it like it was poison.

[My2Cents]

if the GOP were smart

Big "if."

One of the reasons I vote Republican is that the GOP tends to have the same position on moral and cultural issues that I have, but it makes me wonder at times whether the GOP has strong convictions about these issues. In my view (not a unique view by any means), the Democrats are the "Party of Evil," and you don't fight evil by hemming and hawing about the moral issues that separate the two parties. The Republicans should be out front, making it uncomfortable for any Democrat to take the positions they tend to take on these issues.

[Antoninus]

What a surprise that this dirt bag is charter member of:

[Antoninus]

Mr. Schiavo also hand-delivered a caustic letter to Representative Marilyn Musgrave, Republican of Colorado, who outspokenly opposed Ms. Schiavo’s death, and endorsed her Democratic opponent, Angie Paccione. He attended a bloggers’ convention in Las Vegas in June to raise his profile in the online pundit world, being host of a “privacy roundtable” at the Riviera Hotel.

Ahhhhhh! So he's a Kos-loser as well! What say you now, you FR people who supported him?

[Antoninus]

How soon before he starts blogging at Daily Kos and Huff Post?

Read the article. He went to their convention in June! Unless there was another bloggers convention in Las Vegas that month!

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri AUGUST Dailies

8mm

[My2Cents]

Schiavo's active involvement in politics is, primarily, an act of self-justification. In our predominantly secular society, politics is the religion of the secularists, and the state is their god, so MS is paying homage to the gods of this world through the supreme religious act of this age -- participation in politics. And by seeing candidates elected who agree with his perverted sense of morality, he's justified or at least vindicated in his beliefs (in his mind), and the god of this age shines up at him, and blesses him.

[longtermmemmory]

lifetime will not do a story unless they can change the sexes of the parties for a wife and her female attorney killing off the husband. (if set in san franceeesco then running off to be married by grusom nusome)

[BaBaStooey]

I wonder which level of Hell would Dante have placed Mr. Schiavo.

[PPHSFL]

The chance exists, but in the end I think that he will lose to the GOP nominee by about 5-10 points. This only happens if people like me and other FL freepers get to work after the primaries on September 5th!

[My2Cents]

What say you now, you FR people who supported him?

I think we need to remind ourselves that FreeRepublic is a conservative website, and yet it attracts many libertarians, but that libertarianism isn't conservativism. While there may be some agreement between the two on issues such as the limits of government, taxes, and spending, on conservative moral issues, there isn't much agreement with libertarians. The libertarians are, in fact, more aligned with the radical left on issues of morality, and they need to be opposed here as vigorously on these issues as if we were stormed by radical leftwingers.

I've also often wondered why strident evolutionists push their agenda on a conservative website.

[thoughtomator]

Yeah and make the life insurance payable to someone else.

[thoughtomator]

Well there's libertarian in the sense of "classic liberal", i.e. constitutionalist/originalist/minimalist government philosophy, and libertarian in the sense of crypto-anarchist. I consider myself among the former, and adhering to that it was clear to me that Terri Schiavo was murdered by a cabal of her husband and the state.

[Antoninus]

I think we need to remind ourselves that FreeRepublic is a conservative website, and yet it attracts many libertarians, but that libertarianism isn't conservativism.

Well, if you listen to them, you'll hear that THEY are the true "conservatives" while we're a bunch of nazis who want video cameras installed in everyone's bedrooms.

I agree that the libertine-arian element must be resisted most vigorously, I still find it amazing that there are some people on FR who eagerly supported a guy who was a celebrity at the DailyKos Wacko Confab.

[floriduh voter]

CHARLIE CRIST GOES TO BAT FOR THE SECULARISTS OVER 100 PACKAGES OF GOLF BALLS. (no wonder he let Terri die. If Crist is willing to waste his time over 100 pkgs of golf balls for anti church and staters, he'll do anything for the secularists (some call them atheists).

Serious pandering to the secularists in 2003 by CHARLIE CRIST:

In 2003, Charlie Crist investigated a Catholic High School for receiving golf balls from the Fla Lottery. You know, separation of church and state. He's such an ACLU liberal, I cannot stand it.

2003 A Catholic News Site:

"2003 November 17 Tallahassee, FL—Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist announced that a Florida State Lottery practice of donating items to a fund-raiser for a Catholic high school would be reviewed to see whether it violates the separation of church and state. Americans United for Separation of Church and State brought the charge. For two years the Florida Lottery supplied 100 packages of golf balls with the lottery logo on them to a charity golf tournament held to raise money for John Paul II Catholic High School."

FV says:

Crist could have turned down the AUSCS but he reviewed 100 PACKAGES OF GOLF BALLS!

So many big cases in Florida. 100 packages of golf balls. LOL Watch out crosses, you're next.

If Charlie Crist will defer to the secularists who push the phony separation of church and state and Crist thinks there is one, Crist is in way over his head to be Governor.

He's in way over his head because there is NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. (he didn't know?)