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Regarding Gibbs....

Some are wondering if he was over his head, etc.

I heard Jay Sekulow earlier on Sean Hannity talking about how the lawyers fouled up this case early on and you know what I thought?

You scum. Where were you in those early days? Was there not enough payment for you?

And here you have the unmitigated gall to tell the entire nation that a lawyer who gave his all in sacrifice to this family - undoubtedly at lowered cost - did not do his job well?

This was a unique case with highly unusual characteristics. I can guarantee that any lawyer handling this would have shown his humanity at some point. All of us make mistakes. But a mistake made with a good heart is forgiven in my mind.

I know a bit about Sekulow and he's a snake in disguise. Think about what I'm saying. Why did he jump onto the news at the last minute with this and say all these negative things about a fellow Christian lawyer?

Competition for his law firm?

I don't know his reasons, but I do not respect Sekulow's character.

And it grieves me seeing a lawyer who sacrificed as much as Gibbs did - being maligned now.

You know he probably hurts very deeply over Terri's condition right now - or he would not have taken this volatile case to begin with.

How I wish more people would spread what I'm sharing here....

From what my observations about Jay Sekulow, I haven't been made aware or seen anything that would give me that opinion of him. I think he was involved way before this in Terri's cause. I heard the comment he made about Gibbs, but I felt he wasn't being anything but factual, as I've heard other attorneys say, about the form and language that was used in the motions before the first Whittemore hearing. I didn't find his comments excessive or volatile at all. Just my 2-1/2 cents.

I don't know much about Sekulow, so I don't want to criticize him. But I too have been deeply troubled by all the Monday morning quarterbacking by other "love to get my face on TV" lawyers picking apart the Schindlers' case.

I do have firsthand knowledge of the organization Gibbs volunteers through, and they are consistently on the frontlines defending pro-lifers in all those small cases that don't seem to attract enough publicity to arouse the interest of some of the big-timers. The only fault I've seen is that sometimes the attorneys who volunteer are experts in different areas of law than the one they are helping in. That could be the case with Gibbs, I don't know. But when you are someone desperate out there who needs legal help, you are grateful to have good attorneys on your side. To me, the onus was on all these brilliant conservative litigators to jump in and volunteer. If the attention of Congress and the President are grabbed to the point that they go to extraordinary lengths to pass special laws, where were these brilliant attorneys?

If later on, we find out that Gibbs turned down help, then I may have to change my mind. But as it is, I'm angry that those with experience going to the Supreme Court didn't jump in and offer help rather than criticism.

I agree with you about Gibbs. The cards were already stacked against him, no matter how he would have presented the case. My understanding is that he did this all pro bono.

I have similar thoughts about Pres and Gov Bush. I know a lot of people are disappointed in them, but you know what? It is certainly evident that they were AGAINST this happening to Terri and WANTED to save her. Both of them did what they could within the Law, or at least within what their advisers told them was within the Law.

How can we condemn them for not going against the Law to rescue Terri if we have not ourselves stormed the Hospice to rescue her?

I'm certainly not going to judge anyone who has tried to save Terri. If I do, I have to point my finger at myself also. Have I done everything I could, even after days of fervent prayer and emailing, etc? The souls I'm concerned about are those who saw no reason to save her or to lift a finger to help.