Posted on 03/21/2005 7:50:03 AM PST by Pendragon_6
Lets see, first Michael Schiavo beats and strangles his wife Terri, leaves her lying unconscious on the floor until her family arrives to get her to the hospital.
Then Michael Schiavo sues the hospital for $20 million because he needs the money to get his poor wife therapy.
Then Michael Schiavo pockets the money, denies his wife the care he said she needed and finally, claims she really wants to die.
Michael Schiavo killed his wife Terri's cat, melted down her wedding ring and then took up with his girlfriend and lives with her today with their children. Does this sound like a loving husband who really cares about his wife's wishes?
And what do we get on the tube every hour on the hour: “persistent vegetative state” as though any of the talking heads who ghoulishly proclaim Terri's life isn't worth that of a convicted serial killer sitting on death row (for 20 years, while due process goes on).
Michael Schiavo's supporters claim he loved his wife Terri enough to take a nursing degree so that he could take care of her. I think he got that nursing degree so he could inject her with insulin and hasten her death and his complete claim to all the money he won in litigation.
Just take a gander at the sworn testimony of an attending nurse: Carla Sauer Iyer (affidavit* below) but let me save you some time and report a quote of Michael Schiavo's after visiting his still living wife: "When is that bitch gonna die?"
Hmmm. Loving husband or man so afraid of not only not getting the money (what's left of the $20 million) but the prospect of facing a jury for his attempted murder, a charge which is possible as long as Terri lives. Sounds like motive to me.
Michael Schiavo says Terri said she never wanted to be kept alive on machines. Okay. Even if that was her statement (which there is absolutely no corroborating testimony and quite the unusual statement coming from a young, newly married woman still in her twenties and full of life); Terri is not being kept alive by machines!
Terri has a feeding tube from which she gets food and water. Had she had the care and therapy she was entitled to, there is every chance today Terri would be divorced from that louse and feeding herself just fine.
About that “loving husband” crapola: what husband do you know evinces his marital fidelity and love by living with another woman, having children with that woman and dumps his wife in a hospice while waiting for her to die? What loving husband kills his sick wife's pet? What loving husband denies his wife's family visitation?
I ask these questions because the media morons are still stuck with their new term: “persistent vegetative state” and are oblivious to the actual facts of this tragic case.
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When I called the gov ofc this morn the guy says "The Governor is doing all he can do legally." I started screaming because that is a damn lie!
The gov can take Terri into protective custody because there are outstanding allegations of abuse, neglect and exploitation that were reported to HIS Dept of Children and Families.
So I say it again:
Call Gov Jeb Bush and demand that he take Terri into protective custody RIGHT NOW in order to investigate outstanding charges of abuse, neglect and exploitation by his very own Dept. of Children and Families.
Jeb Bush's # 1-850-488-4441 - Terri can't wait 'til 3 p.m. today.
Did I know your niece?
If not, see a shrink, you're a nut job.
When she slipped into a coma, we knew the end was near. When she stopped breathing, I was holding her hand, whispering "Go towards the light." And "I will love you forever."
I believe that you did the right thing.
Yet, I believe that Terri has been denied the kind of love, such as you had and probably still have for your lovely wife.
Daily, since Terri was found prostrate on the floor by police and paramedics in February of 1990, her husband has denied her wish, if it was, "to not live like that." Day in, day out, for more than the years that you envisioned your wife in such suffering; indeed, for twice what you imagined, in your words.
Michael Schiavo and his fellow conspirators who remained silent, had repeatedly denied Terri, your standard of love, from February 1990 up until George Felos arrived on the scene as Michael's attorney in 1998.
Almost eight years of what you envision as suspended misery to be avoided, Michael Schiavo imposed upon Terri against her will.
I do not believe that you would have imposed that. I do not believe that you would have continued your wife's suffering at all, even to win some monetary reward in court.
Indeed, I can easily imagine, had you won such a monetary reward, as Michael Schiavo did, that if there were some chance of halting the cancer in your wife, and I mean a real good chance, that appeared to you as "worth a shot," I believe that you would have chosen well.
Because I have no doubt of your love for your wife.
God Bless you, sir.
There is a good arguement that he is not acting in her best interests. He HAS denied rehabilitative therapy, additional medical examinations and visits from her own family. Seems to me he just wants her dead. This is not acting in her best interest. He should be removed as her guardian and someone competent placed in charge of her, perhaps a family member who does not act as if they wants her dead. Maybe a parent? I'm not sure what's to fear with this approach. Unless he beat her into that condition (hmmmmm.... there was that report of multiple broken bones and injury's to her neck. But that's pretty common.
Or maybe he loves her enough to keep his word to her.
Judging by some of the posts I've read around here there are many Freepers who would claim he did it because the cats had seen too much.
Enter Big Brother and the Nanny State.
You mean other than enforcing the government-mandated legality of husband as defined by government-recognized marriage certificate and ceremony being the legally defined (by government) next of kin and therefore having the government-defined legal right to determine whether his wife lives or dies in the current government-defined finding of fact as to her being in a persistent vegative state?
Nothing he could truly do. No real jurisdiction that case, other than the fact that it took place in FL. This is about Terri and today, not about 2000, and not about Jeb Bush. I don't find this to be political at any level. Keep on subject, please.
Your point?
Life is so short. Eternity so long.
Mere mortals contemplate the hereafter only occasionally. We can estimate our time on earth in minutes, but an eternity in hell is forever and hard for people like Michael to understand.
He will.
By living with another woman with whom he has children?
She recieved $750,000, and he $300,000. The $750,000 is in a trust in her name. I have heard that Judge Greer authorized spending the 750k on her hospital expenses, but that is hearsay. I do not know if that is true or not. The 300k was Michael's free and clear. All of this is spelled out here, Abstract Appeal, which has no dog in this fight, it's impartial.
Your post is right on the money but will not prevent hostile attacks on you and your view. My experience with my wife's death was similiar to your's and in NO case would I try and put her through this horror one second longer than she had to tolerate. And I loved her more than life itself.
This is a disaster for the GOP and its falling all over itself in denying the obvious will hurt it.
It's one thing to stop machines, but this woman is not on machines. She breathes on her own, as she is brain damaged, not brain dead.
As to abuse charges, take a close review of this medical document. Clip and copy it to your browser, it will open. Open it up full size, and read it. Then ask yourself how this woman got this much physical trauma, from "falling down".
http://www.terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg
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To pull our heart-strings. Facts of the case aside.
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