Nonsense, Dan Rather had the scoop.
Posted on 12/03/2006 3:03:26 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Theresa Marie Schindler was born to Robert and Mary Schindler on December 3, 1963. She was the first of three children the Schindlers would have.
Terri was a shy, but comical, child who had an affinity for music, animals and the arts. She kept a small circle of friends and was dear to schoolmates, neighboring families and her own extended family.
Following high school, Terri came into her own. She developed a knack for sketching and doodling. She enjoyed outings with her friends. She was an adoptive mother to the family’s dog, Bucky.
Terri attended Catholic School while growing up and remained close to her faith throughout her life.
In 1983, Terri met Michael Schiavo at Bucks County Community College and the two began dating. He was the first romantic interest Terri had.
The couple was engaged within a few months and married a year later at Terri’s church in Southampton, Pa. She was 21.
In 1986, Terri and Michael relocated to Pinellas County, Florida and her parents followed three months later.
In 1990, at the age of 26, Terri suffered a mysterious cardio-respiratory arrest for which no cause has ever been determined. She was diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy – neurological injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. Terri was placed on a ventilator, but was soon able to breathe on her own and maintain vital function. She remained in a severely compromised neurological state and was provided a PEG tube to ensure the safe delivery of nourishment and hydration.
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of marked dehydration following more than 13 days without nutrition or hydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of the Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
Yeah, I'm sure that Elian's father wasn't pressured in any way about what to say.
Except the body, of course.
Your statement that the police didn't find anything has no force because they didn't search thoroughly and effectively in the first place. You can't find anything if you don't look, y'know.
What the police said, roughly, was that they didn't find any furniture knocked over. Big deal. Michael was more than twice Terri's size. He could have handled her like a rag doll. He didn't have to knock over any furniture -- if indeed there was any furniture in the hallway and bathroom door, where she was found.
Suppose there had been some evidence of a struggle. The police didn't do forensic tests that could have determined whether Michael cleaned up any mess before they got there. That's why the lack of forensic testing gutted their findings.
The police, in short, did more or less nothing. And that is what you rely on in your judgments -- the same nothing.
Police generally aren't going to do a thorough forensic search unless there is a death. At the time, there was every hope that Terri would recover and anything could have been cleared up then.
Lucky Terri! All the law did for her was confine her to a windowless cell for years, embezzle her entire trust fund, and put her to a horrendous death by torture. It wouldn't even let her have Holy Communion.
It's almost more due process than a person can stand.
Nonsense, Dan Rather had the scoop.
If the most despicable child rapist-murderer on the planet was confined to a cell for two weeks and deprived food, water and religious sacraments, every human rights organization in the world would be up in arms and rightly so.
From the Florida State Constitution:
"SECTION 2. Basic rights.--All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property; except that the ownership, inheritance, disposition and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship may be regulated or prohibited by law. No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability."
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?Mode=Constitution&Submenu=3&Tab=statutes#A01S02
Why bother saying so? I don't believe anyone in the history of the world has argued the contrary.
>> Thanks for posting this ludicrous writing.
You're welcome. I do hope you will read it. Amos doesn't make his points, as you do, by calling people "nuts" and "crackpots" or "ludicrous." He makes it from the founding documents and from constitutional history.
If the court would've ruled to dehydrate him, you would still be talking to the same cast of characters here.
I wonder why none of them are reminding us how "euphoric" being dehydrated to death is.
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
. . .
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
And yet nobody seemed to think that Congress had the authority to subpoena Terri to appear before a committee.
I told you to read. You sound like you don't know much and you don't know you don't know much. I am trying to help you so you sound like you know a little more. Make it easier on us without the sarcasm. You might learn something.
Are you trying to sound cute, calling me Mr. Knowledge? I am in no mood for game playing, so if you have a real point, make it.
You tell him MR. MAUSER!
That's a stumper. Do you suppose they tried being dehydrated to death and didn't like it?
But it makes a person look more "beautiful" than ever?!
They probably don't even know what you mean. That was a fact in the case.
Because Micheal was a deadbeat. Does that answer your question?
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