Posted on 03/22/2005 6:13:43 AM PST by sonsofliberty2000
There were four people who were arrested a couple of days ago for doing just that. What kind of a monstrous system is it that arrests people for trying to save the life of an innocent woman? Can anyone here really tell me with a straight face that this is not evidence of a world gone mad?
"Sorry, but I am legally ignorant. I thought everyone had the right to pursue happiness and life, guess that changed somewhere along the line."
Apparently ONLY those who can directly speak up for themselves.
The unborn and now the handicapped can not have that right.
(Note: In January of 1993, a jury awarded Michael $350,000 for loss of consortium, and $750,000 went into a medical trust for all of Terri's future rehabilitative care, which was based on the testimony of Michael stating that he wanted to care for Terri for the rest of his life. If Terri should die, Michael would inherit the balance of the trust fund. Not only did Mr. Schiavo not provide Terri with rehabilitation, he has denied his wife any and all therapy, against Doctors' recommendations, since the 1993 malpractice award.)
Taken from Terri's Website "Timeline" (on left) at
http://www.terrisfight.org
This is only one of three medical malpractice suits where Michael received mega$ on behalf of Terri
Thank you! What we desperately need is that they at least allow Terri to get some food and water while this thing is decided... at least buy some time until the case can get to an actual human being.
And the people who want Terri dead ALSO support the Americans with Disabilities Act!
I think Judge Greer will become the social pariah, just like Judge Blackmun did. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes. The scent of death will follow him for all the remainder of his days and he will answer to his Maker on his Day of Judgment. Michael's girlfriend is crazy if she marries him after Terri's death, having first hand knowledge of the value he places on the life of a spouse. She and her children ought to immigrate NOW to a safe haven. And Michael would be doing everyone and himself a favor by taking a long walk off a short pier.
By the way guess where OJ wound up.
BTTT!
>>The law passed by Congress states that the finding of facts by the state court must NOT be determinative.<<
Exactly.
What is interesting is the new knowledge that certain parts of the brain can take over some functions that were controlled from a different part.
Of course, that requires ongoing threapy..
Pinellas County,FL, current center of American injuustice
I suppose you could say that I have an old, worn-out, defective wife. The not yet healed scars from her cancer surgery last month have destroyed the engaging symmetry of her breasts, and the future costs of imaging, chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and more surgery make her hardly worth keeping - except that she is my wife, and will remain that "as long as we both shall live". Even with the living wills and other such preparations, the time might come when I face a decision like Michael's - the possibility is real, and perhaps not that remote. But if, and when, I do, it will be a decision of love and respect, earned through decades of devotion, not neglect and abandonment of an inconvenient impediment.
Michael Schiavo has transferred such feelings as he might ever have had for Terri to his paramour, and by that has surrendered his right to speak for her. I have heard some of his apologists speak of the bond between husband and wife in cosmic terms - holy matrimony, to be put asunder by no man. But in fact, it is a tender bond, easily surrendered by either party not devoted to maintaining it.
No evidence has been presented that Terri ever failed to honor her marriage, fully and completely. But the story for Michael is far more sinister. His relationship with another woman is open and notorious; his conflict of interest versus Terri is obvious. She deserves a representative of her own interests, and a competent, honest judge who will follow the actual law and evaluate the actual facts.
Judge Greer is legally blind, and thus was never competent to judge the only evidence of Terri's humanity. She cannot speak, or manipulate her environment to communicate with others, but she can see, recognize, and appreciate her surroundings to an extent that can be appreciated only visually, a mode unavailable to this judge. He should have recused himself on that basis alone, but chose instead to become the sole arbiter of fact in this case. Many other courts and judges have reviewed this case in legal terms, but all have been prevented from carrying out a de novo review of the facts.
According to the US Supreme Court, no serial murderer, no matter how heinous and depraved the crime, can receive a death sentence without the unanimous consent of a jury. But this single judge has seized this power for himself in the case of this innocent woman, and holds to it like the grim death he chooses to visit on her. It is not hard to understand where the depravity lies in this case.
Ordinarily, individuals who do this are characterized by feelings of being invincible, clever and disdainful of those who are incapable. There is also a "survivor" motivation that is found in Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power. Here, the human tendency to both lament a death is overpowered by a feeling of elation on not being dead. This is a powerful motif in groups, masses and crowds as Canetti documented so carefully. He was rewarded with the Nobel Prize in 1980 but since has slipped into obscurity.
Quite interestingly, of the two most medically proven cases of mercy killing neither of the perpetrators went to jail In 1975 two nurses at a Veterans Hospital killed scores using a muscle relaxant. They were tried with overwhelming physical evidence but after appeal were released. Similarly, a case in Toronto where digitalis was used resulted in the perpetrator being released.
The point of all this, is that in some biological and psychological way a considerable portion of the population ascribes to "mercy killing" regardless of the flawed logic and cruelty of their belief. Someone should write a book about the motives and findings of medical and non-medical mercy killings. There are dark secrets here that no one dares tell the truth about.
Has the make-up of the appeals court, in Atlanta, changed since the Elian Gonzales case? If not, she is doomed. Utterly shameless, and the Dims have had their final glory.
This issue isn't splitting the American people along the lines of Republican and Democrat so much as among the decent vs. the uncaring.
No need to reply if you feel insulted. Rather, ponder your values. If you still feel the same way, ponder longer.
Michael's girlfriend, like her late mother, is an active participant in Terri's murder. Mrs. Clara Schiavo, mother of the Schiavo trio, opposed Terri's murder, and she was dehydrated and starved thereafter.
MRS will in the future become as popular and "respected" for euthanasia as Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sanger became for abortion. He will never regret what he did: his heart lacks the capacity for regret for wrongdoing.
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