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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That's the great thing about FR...thousands of eyes and ears gathering information from many different resources, enabling us to get a much bigger picture than we would be able to on our own.
Unfortunately for your post, her parents have NO LEGAL claim to her custodial rights. And, uh, when is marriage a democracy? If you spank you kids but your parents out vote you, you stop? Yeah, right.
Terri's parents have tried from the beginning to gain legal custody of Terry since the beginning on professional opinion that Terris could be receiving better care. Michael has refused continually to release custody of her using these 'husband rigts' claims.
He wants to marry his lover and mother of his children in the Catholic church as he considers himself a devout practicing catholic (whatever that is worth at this point). He knows that the church will not recognize his marriage if he divorces or relinquishes custody.
Personally, I think his mother should be spanked for raising such a #######
Do widows and widowers who remarry love their original spouses any less?
Sick.
Thank you for this. I would think that the settlement would include paying for her medical care, but I might be wrong.
I understand that the state's attorney found evidence of wrong doing on the husband's part?
There is, of course, NO PROOF whatsoever of these lunatic claims outside the fevered imaginations of the True Believers. She had screwed up her fluid balance through excessive dieting and that caused her heart to stop. Very tragic.
Some of the stuff mentioned in this piece is pure speculation.
Where is the evidence for this in particular:
"Michael Schiavo killed his wife Terri's cat, melted down her wedding ring..."
I don't believe Michael, but you have to show the evidence of this one.
"...the evidence he killed a family pet."
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:unMA9xwEnu4J:www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200405261342.asp+michael+schiavo+cats&hl=en
"After wining control of Terri's treatment, plus medical malpractice and other legal awards totaling some $1.6 million, Michael had Terri's cats, Shanna and Tolly, put to sleep."
(He says it was Terri's mother who told him to do so, but the vet denies that.)
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:scmsRP1KnvIJ:www.crisismagazine.com/january2004/johansen.htm+michael+schiavo+cats+terri+mother&hl=en
The veterinarian who euthanized Terri’s pets came forward to say there was never any suggestion from Terri’s mother that this be done, and that it was done only at Michael Schiavo’s insistence.
So that's not an equal role - the parents would have priority in determination over the husband. I'm not sure I believe this is a good idea. It certainly would overturn all previous precedent...
I agree. According to Dr. Hammesfahr, when Michael called Terri's father he said that she was dead, not that she had collapsed. Bob Schindler said, "call 9-1-1!" and hung up the phone and called Bobby, who lived near Terri and Michael.
Bobby and the paramedics arrived almost simultaneously, and found Terri lying face-down in the hallway, gasping for breath. Terri's neck did look abnormal to the doctors, but apparently nobody said it looked like strangulation marks. So perhaps Michael smothered her into unconsciousness, perhaps while holding her by the neck, until he thought she was dead. That would explain how she could have anoxia-induced brain damage without evidence of strangulation, and without evidence of MI on her EKG and cardiac enzymes.
-Dave
Not true if there is enough evidence for a grand jury to indict the husband.
Also not true if there is enough medical evidence that she is able to respond to questions about her own well being.
I'm not a fan of the state being usurped by the feds, but it GWB and most everyone else is right that the state should err on the side of sparing Schiavo's life. People on death row certainly get their share of appeals, and an innocent woman deserves more than a convicted serial rapist/murder/child molester like that vermin who killed that kid in Florida last week.
Too much irony in that. I'm actually impressed by Congress and the President in this matter. They've actually, for once, restored some common sense into the situation, and demanded that the person about to die get all the benefits of the doubt.
Terri received a malpractice settlement...how would this have happened if she was in her condition due to attempted murder by her husband?
Dude. Stop yelling. You're giving me a headache. For someone so concerned about staying objective, you sure raise your voice an awful lot. Your capital letters do not lend your argument more credence.
As I've stated before, he MAY BE a scumbag, I DO NOT know him. He probably IS. But the FACT of the matter is that HE is the LEGAL GUARDIAN, period. He DOES NOT HAVE to relinquish his LEGAL RIGHTS in this case no matter WHAT numerous Freepers think.
Many here will fret and moan...and scream, to no avail. It is the law, no matter HOW OUTDATED.
That was a jest post. Some of the frantic screamers here were being mocked for their emotional outlook vice a factual one. Read the thread and you'll see it.
Take Aleve.
Your "facts" about what a swell Boy Scout your pal Michael is are no more credible than the article poster's "facts" about what a horrible person your Pal Micheal is.
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