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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But on what basis did he sue the hospital? The more I hear about this guy, he makes Scott Peterson look like a saint.
I understand that he has disallowed any new video photography of Terri, he and his Lawyer have a book written and pending along with rights to a movie on her etc etc.
In other words, once she dies, he stands to reap millions on this. Which explains why he refused to be "bought out" by private invsestors working with (that male basher) Gloria All-wrong.
Why didn't Matt Lauer ask, "Does it upset you that your in this situation because Terri chose to drink 15 glasses of ice tea a day?"
Terri wasn't given her constitutional due process.
You crack me up. LOL! You post wedding vows, till death do us part and then this is your response.
That is between Him, Terry, and God.
By your reasoning, if you have a one-night stand, two years into your now twenty-year marriage, you've broken your vows and that's that. You really AREN'T married.
When did it become outdated? What doctrine supercedes it, and who decided that it was superceded?
My understanding of "forsaking all others" and "keep thee only unto him (or her)" was that the "all others" meant ALL others, including parents, etc., and that this arose from an understanding of the passage in Genesis which talks about a man leaving his parents and joining his wife and their becoming "one flesh".
Understand me, I'm not saying that it isn't outdated, I'm just wondering when it happened and who made it happen.
AND The DAMN GUBMINT has ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS in this matter.
So if a hypothetical wife abuser beat his wife into a coma for insurance money, he should be able to put her in a death house and starve her to death? Would that be because she's his property? Do you also think fathers should be able to kill daughters who shame the family by kissing a boy they're not married to? It's the law in some countries. Is that all it takes for you? No worry about justice, just what's written down -- never look case by case? Strange.
I don't know all the facts here, but I know enough to know that this needs a closer look. And, I believe in hospice, I have a living will, and I don't feel prolonging suffering needlessly is virtuous. The situation with Terri is not an old person with incurable cancer being kept alive by a machine. Something is different here. One reason for our legal system to protect the innocent and powerless from the corrupt and powerful... Your position is the opposite.
Do you feel death row rapist/killers should get nine to twenty years to defend themselves? -- I suspect you would never allow a child rapist murder like the man who killed Jessica to be killed by starvation. "Death by starvation" would be too cruel and unusual" for liberals -- and for you, how would you feel about that? If it's cruel and unusual for a killer, is it also cruel and unusual for an innocent injured disabled woman?
LEGAL! LEGAL! LEGAL!
Her PARENTS weren't LEGALLY ABLE to get her a divorce because she was not MARRIED to them!
When one gets married, the parents LOSE their custodial rights, as it SHOULD be.
BTW, both the wife and I have living wills. We prefer dignity and a quality of life vice lying in our own pee and crap until the nurse can get there.
Actually, he killed both of her cats, but it because he was moving in with a girlfriend who owned a dog, not the current girlfriend that he now lives with and has two children with.
-Dave
If a hypothetical wife beater beat his wife into a coma, he'd be arrested. Have an arrest record for Michael?
If not, stop beating that drum, that dog don't hunt.
"Because it wasn't investigated at the time of the occurence. Sorry, you're positing still more conspiracy by a whole group of people who have no vested interest in covering up a possible murder attempt. It doesn't pass the smell test."
So, you think the statute of limitations has run out, and this murder-by-starvation no longer qualifies for investigation of the original causes. You think that the coincidental ties between the hospice, the judge, and several of the other interested parties, plus the money interest of the original settlement, the new 'wife' and the two illegitimate children (bastards as the English are wont to call them), and the obsessive nature of MS with regards to not allowing cameras or recording equipment in Terri's room, are all just happenstance.
Certainly nothing circumstantial here, like with Scott Peterson, eh?
Is it dark when you put your head in the sand like that?
Really? I know its a bit OT; but it seems there was PLENTY of circumstantial proof that Scott killed Lacy. No one else had a motive. And while there was no forensic proof or eye witnesses, his own lack of feeling about her death spoke volumes.
I am glad he got the death penalty, he will rot in hell for what he did to her and Connor.
Just my opinion. And that of 12 tried and true good men and women of the jury. And the judge. And just about everbody but his creepy witch of a mother.
Glenn Beck played a call last week from the woman who was his "first fling" post-Terri. She said Michael was a major-league control freak.
Here's what I have to say about Terri's condition and the whole situation.
1) Micheal Schiavo's actions are at least suspicious. If all he wanted to do is get on with his life, he could sign over legal guardianship to her parents and get a divorce and get on with his life. Why must she die? (Hint: Follow the money...)
2) Unless eating is an "artificial treatment" Terri is not kept alive by extraordinary means. Christopher Reeves was kept alive by extraordinary means. Terri is simply being fed. In fact, former nurses have stated that she could eat real food (probably baby food-like), it's her husband that has chosen to use the "feeding Tube". Probably more for convenience than anything.
3) If a veterinary doctor let terminally ill dogs die by starvation, he would have his license revoked, be jailed and probably tarred & feathered by the PETA crowd. Why would anyone be for STARVING HER TO DEATH?
WHICHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH is NOT recognized by the State of Florida. Thus, Michael and Terry are STILL MARRIED.
Facts are the ONLY things that matter here. Your emotions don't count.
Of course it's an "artificial treatment." Never in human history have we been able to keep bodies in her condition alive by having a shunt directly implanted into a stomach.
Even IV's are an "artificial treatment."
Sometimes, we just need to accept the fact Terri's gone and all that remains is her physical body.
I really am saddened by the entire situation and wish cryonics was widely accepted. This way, she could've been preserved and have the hope of revival and cure sometime in the future without the past 15 years of slow disintegration of her brain's connections from lack of use.
What this doesn't explain is why he has passed upto $10 million dollar offers to transfer custody to her parents. Just last week there was another $1 million offer. Yet he keeps saying no and tries to kill her. So, it's obviously not just the money and thus more then likely a desire, for what ever reason, not to see her have any chance to recover. Hmmm.
I make the same remark whenever I see Helen Thomas.
Looks like you're thoroughly into your fantasy. Nothing I say makes any sense to you so I think I'll just call it a day.
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