Nurses in Katrina Euthanasia Case Offered Immunity for Grand Jury Testimony

LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/21/07 | Hilary White

[wagglebee]

I wish someone would investigate how often this occurs during normal circumstances.

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[P-40]

assert that witnesses have testified

The witnesses could tell the contents of a syringe at a glance but could not tell what the effects of a major hurricane bearing down on their coastal and below sea level city would be and react accordingly? I don't think I would pay much attention to any witness testimony in this case.

[BykrBayb]

The witnesses were not in charge of evacuations. They were in charge of the patients, who were euthanized. The prosecution is not depending solely on their testimony. There are dead bodies.

[P-40]

The point is they should not have been there so that the accusation of a choice between a slow and painful death or comfort that may cause death is even an issue.

[BykrBayb]

No, the point is, they were not in the hospital to be killed. If they shouldn’t have been in a hospital, where should they have been? The slaughter house? Or maybe you think they should have evacuated themselves? There was no justification for euthanizing them. None.

[NonValueAdded]

Troubling for sure but I’d like to know all of the circumstances, like how long after the hurricane hit did the alleged murders take place, what was the situation around the hospital at the time, what did the media make the staff think was the situation ... I can think of a few narrow cases where what happened could have been the best care possible.

[P-40]

where should they have been?

They should have been far, far inland. But they weren't. So some poor soles were left with the choice (perhaps) of letting them die slowly and painfully or letting them go in their sleep. The only people who should be on trial were the ones who left them all there.

[BykrBayb]

Which is it? We shouldn’t believe they were euthanized because the witnesses failed to evacuate them, or it was right to euthanize them because somebody else should have evacuated them?

There was no need or justification for euthanizing them. None.

[DuncanWaring]

These nurses should have no trouble finding employment as executioners ... they certainly can’t make any claims that their medical ethics would be compromised.

[darkangel82]

They shouldn’t get “immunity.” They should get life without parole.

[P-40]

Irrelevant. The fact of the matter is they were left there to die. If the doctors made their death more comfortable, let it go at that. Don’t hold them responsible for having to deal with the neglect of others.

[BykrBayb]

They did not “make their death more comfortable.” They caused their deaths. They killed them. How can you defend that?

[P-40]

How can you defend that?

Ever watch someone with severe heat stroke. It isn't a party.

[BykrBayb]

So just kill all the patients who aren’t having a party? What do we need doctors for?

[P-40]

You want to judge the actions of these doctors while you sit in your air conditioned house with food in the refrigerator, clean water from the faucets, and emergency services a phone call away? Sometimes life is not all neat and tidy.

[BykrBayb]

What do you know about my life? Nothing.

Murder is wrong. Always has been. Always will be. And no amount of bullshit can make it right.

If I lived in a mansion, it wouldn’t make it right for them to murder the patients. If I lived under a sewer grate, it wouldn’t make it right for them to murder the patients. It doesn’t matter how many storms I’ve lived through, or how many storms I’ve avoided by evacuating, murder is always wrong.

[P-40]

What do you know about my life? Nothing.

I know that you have never been faced with a set of choices where all of the available outcomes are bad, really bad...but you still have to choose.