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Nurses in Katrina Euthanasia Case Offered Immunity for Grand Jury Testimony
LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/21/07 | Hilary White

Posted on 06/21/2007 4:08:20 PM PDT by wagglebee

NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who have admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the hurricane Katrina disaster, are being offered immunity from prosecution by the Louisiana Attorney General.

CNN reports that in two weeks the two will testify before a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Louisiana's Attorney General, Charles Foti Jr., called a "lethal cocktail" of drugs.

In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, rumours began to fly around the internet world that patients were being killed by health care workers who wanted to flee the appalling conditions in the inner city New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center. Later, two doctors admitted that patients were euthanized, one doctor saying that he had fled the hospital rather than directly participate in killing patients.

The following July, one doctor and the two nurses were arrested and charged with four counts of second-degree murder for lethally injecting patients. Dr. Anna Pou, a head and neck surgeon who specializes in working with cancer patients, denied the charges insisting that she did not support euthanasia and claimed to have given only comfort care for the patients.

Court documents, however, assert that witnesses have testified that Dr. Pou and the two nurses took syringes full of drugs to a ward for the chronically-ill and injected four patients. 34 dead patients were found in Memorial following the Katrina disaster.

Foti told media, "We …spent almost 10 ½ months investigating and, after all of this, can only come to the conclusion that this crime had been committed."

Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

New Orleans Doctors Kill Patients Rather Than Leave Them to Looters, Then Flee
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05091205.html

Doctor Charged in Katrina Deaths Denies Committing Murder, Euthanasia
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06092502.html



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; hurricanekatrina; prolife
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To: P-40
I am on active duty but that’s irrelevant to my question.

Would you have the guts to take the life of a loved one who is suffering?

If you intend to keep avoiding questions please stop accusing others of doing so. It makes you appear incredibly foolish and not very trustworthy.

121 posted on 06/21/2007 7:53:26 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...

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122 posted on 06/21/2007 7:54:22 PM PDT by Coleus (God gave us the right to life & self preservation & a right to defend ourselves, family & property)
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To: Politicalmom
Only if they're Christian.

Notice the mainstream media coverage of Africa's troubles with the Islamic gangs.

123 posted on 06/21/2007 7:54:28 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: BykrBayb

Did you get my FReep mail?


124 posted on 06/21/2007 7:57:21 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear
Much of what you want to know is answered in precise detail in the 9/11 Commission Report....which I am betting that you did not read. Notice I talk about the second craft, not the first because with the first craft the seriousness of the situation was just becoming known....and humorously a long since closed alert site was trying to be reached to get help. By the time the Pentagon was hit there was no longer much mystery any more now was there?

So to make it really simple there Air Force man, would you have taken down the flight over PA?
125 posted on 06/21/2007 7:57:27 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Politicalmom

How did you come up with that?


126 posted on 06/21/2007 7:57:58 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40
Worse fools are those in authority who pretend nothing is going wrong after hitting an iceberg.

Better spent is the time and energy in making sure such scenarios do not happen.Having more supplies,more lifeboats,not steering full speed into dangerous waters,etc.I say that all the time spent in college debating lifeboat ethics would better have been used imparting real-world knowledge of economics and the effects of taxation on production and freedom.

127 posted on 06/21/2007 8:01:24 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: nicmarlo

o-m-g!


128 posted on 06/21/2007 8:02:59 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Borax Queen

sick, ain’t it?

You remember this, don’t you?


129 posted on 06/21/2007 8:04:06 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: P-40; BykrBayb

Or I guess Hawkeye in “The Last of the Mohicans” was a murderer when he shot the British major to keep him from being burned to death at the stake? (for those unfamiliar with the story - flames were actually licking at his body - not talking about theory of what should be done here but what had to be done)


130 posted on 06/21/2007 8:05:01 PM PDT by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: hoosierham
Better spent is the time and energy in making sure such scenarios do not happen.

I certainly agree with you there...but unfortunately after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and then the collapse of the Soviet Union, we got busy spending that 'peace dividend' and ignored all the Islamist writing on the walls.
131 posted on 06/21/2007 8:06:07 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40; BykrBayb; hoosierham; wagglebee
So to make it really simple there Air Force man, would you have taken down the flight over PA?

Very well P-40

I’ll offer you a bargain. Answer my questions in post #118 And my question in post #112. After you do I will answer your question in post #125.

I’m glad you value the 9/11 Commission Report so highly. It’s truly an amazing document and completely truthful and politically neutral! Let’s face it, Jaime Gorelick worked hard doing what she always did so well!

I know for a fact Sandy Berger worked his pants off to get the necessary information out of the archives!

Aren’t they both your kind of people?

132 posted on 06/21/2007 8:07:04 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: nicmarlo

No, not really :( I do remember horrible things, and guns being seized from little grannies (I think that is not an urban myth and actually happened), but not really this.


133 posted on 06/21/2007 8:09:51 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Grizzled Bear

I did answer the questions. You even went to the trouble to assume additional answers. You avoid answering the question about shooting down the flight over PA because it is not an easy answer. Things like that never are.


134 posted on 06/21/2007 8:11:06 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Borax Queen

I remember this very well. At first, it was being denied...and then not hardly covered, of course, by MSM....that’s likely why you don’t remember....


135 posted on 06/21/2007 8:11:58 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo

That must be. They failed to cover some uh, fairly important and critical matters! ARGH


136 posted on 06/21/2007 8:12:46 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Grizzled Bear

Yep. I finally finished my answer.


137 posted on 06/21/2007 8:13:00 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: Borax Queen

of course. Can’t have the real truth on the news.

They can only be the news on the news.

And tell propaganda on the news.


138 posted on 06/21/2007 8:15:03 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: P-40
Sorry P-40. I’m just an ignorant Air Force Sergeant.

I never saw a straight answer to the questions but lets make it simple. Stick to the questions without misdirection or avoidance. I’ll make it easy on you and completely leave out post 125 (although I am beginning to see similarities between you and Sandy Berger).

Would you or would you not kill your mother if she was suffering?

You never gave a direct answer. If you give me a straight answer I’ll answer your question about flight 93. I never avoided answering your question. I’m withholding answering your question until you answer mine.

Fair enough?

139 posted on 06/21/2007 8:19:52 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: BykrBayb

Jesus said the ‘adults’ will go to hell.


140 posted on 06/21/2007 8:21:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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