Terri Schiavo's brother Bob Schindler Jr., gets an Easter flower from a friend outsdie the Woodside Hospice Sunday morning March 27, 2005 (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Posted on 03/25/2005 12:17:45 AM PST by STARWISE
Judge George Greer ruled that the State of Florida has no right to take custody of Terri Schiavo, which ruling came hours after an appeal by Terri's parents to re-insert the feeding tube was refused by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, another hearing was scheduled tonight before US District Judge James D. Whittemore .. the same judge who previously heard and denied the request subsequent to the 'de novo' intention of the law past last weekend by the Congress and signed by President Bush, in an effort to confirm that no stone was left unturned before Terri would endure legally sanctioned dehydration until death.
Death doesn't become her
by Judi McLeod
Sunday, March 27, 2005
It was supposed to be his finest hour. Just hours before Judge George Greer had turned down the 11th hour pleas of the Schindler family and now Schindler lawyers were admitting that they had run out of court appeals.
The sweet smell of victory overpowered the odour of Easter lilies. It was George Felos The Conqueror’s made-for-television shining moment. In terms of media attention, surpassing even O.J.’s Dream Team.
With cameras recording, George Felos took careful steady aim-- and shot himself in both left feet.
Academe teaches graduates to be gracious in victory, that it is not nice to gloat and to never kick the underdog when it’s down.
Lessons all lost on Mrs. Felos’ little boy George, who took the low road.
Within the first minutes of his self-aggrandizing media conference, he came on like the power drunk tinpot dictator, proclaiming that Terri, a Catholic, wouldn’t be having her Easter Eve Holy Communion.
Why this televised deathbed denial?
As far as Felos was concerned, she already had it on March 18. Terri was given Communion through her feeding tube before it was detached.
The dying woman, however will be "allowed" to receive the Sacrament one more time. At the time of death, Catholics are administered Extreme Unction. But in Terri’s case not by the Catholic priest who ministered to her for more than four years, but by the chaplain at the hospice that will be her death house.
That’s the decree of Dying with Dignity-crusader George Felos.
By the way, we’re perhaps overreacting, because Felos said death for Terri is not imminent. According to the voluble Felos, Terri could be around longer than we think.
How any self-respecting attorney could stand on national television and expect folk to believe someone starved of food and water could last much longer is breathtaking in its sheer audacity.
Interesting how Felos could possibly know how long Terri would endure.
Surely, it has nothing to do with his having served on the board of directors of the hospice where Terri is wasting away?
Sounding like the title of the movie, Death Becomes Her, Michael Schiavo’s favourite lawyer also pooh-poohed all this talk about Terri looking gruesome.
There is no bleeding nose, sunken eyes or flaking skin. People under the control of the Dying with Dignity gang always look good.
In fact, Felos told reporters he’d "never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her".
Coolly, he spoke of cremation. His client Michael Schiavo is insisting that immediately upon her death, Terri will be cremated.
Felos had the colossal nerve to advise the great unwashed to reflect upon how life on earth does not last.
This peon of the politically correct, whose conversation is laced with words like "inappropriate" and who would lecture all about "dying with dignity", has already snatched the laurel wreath.
It wasn’t the actual act of denying Terri Schiavo Holy Communion, but his apparent gesture of dismissing the Sacrament as something not sacrosanct that insulted Catholics at their holiest time of the year.
Like so many crusaders of the politically correct, the boorish George Felos is a hypocrite.
Having seized the moral high ground to lecture the rest of us, and seeming to have won the day for the Death Culture, Felos won’t be stepping down from the podium Michael Schiavo raised for him anytime soon.
http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/edesk032705.htm
http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/edesk032705.htm
It was supposed to be his finest hour. Just hours before Judge George Greer had turned down the 11th hour pleas of the Schindler family and now Schindler lawyers were admitting that they had run out of court appeals.
The sweet smell of victory overpowered the odour of Easter lilies. It was George Felos The Conqueror’s made-for-television shining moment. In terms of media attention, surpassing even O.J.’s Dream Team.
With cameras recording, George Felos took careful steady aim-- and shot himself in both left feet.
Academe teaches graduates to be gracious in victory, that it is not nice to gloat and to never kick the underdog when it’s down.
Lessons all lost on Mrs. Felos’ little boy George, who took the low road.
Within the first minutes of his self-aggrandizing media conference, he came on like the power drunk tinpot dictator, proclaiming that Terri, a Catholic, wouldn’t be having her Easter Eve Holy Communion.
Why this televised deathbed denial?
As far as Felos was concerned, she already had it on March 18. Terri was given Communion through her feeding tube before it was detached.
The dying woman, however will be "allowed" to receive the Sacrament one more time. At the time of death, Catholics are administered Extreme Unction. But in Terri’s case not by the Catholic priest who ministered to her for more than four years, but by the chaplain at the hospice that will be her death house.
That’s the decree of Dying with Dignity-crusader George Felos.
By the way, we’re perhaps overreacting, because Felos said death for Terri is not imminent. According to the voluble Felos, Terri could be around longer than we think.
How any self-respecting attorney could stand on national television and expect folk to believe someone starved of food and water could last much longer is breathtaking in its sheer audacity.
Interesting how Felos could possibly know how long Terri would endure.
Surely, it has nothing to do with his having served on the board of directors of the hospice where Terri is wasting away?
Sounding like the title of the movie, Death Becomes Her, Michael Schiavo’s favourite lawyer also pooh-poohed all this talk about Terri looking gruesome.
There is no bleeding nose, sunken eyes or flaking skin. People under the control of the Dying with Dignity gang always look good.
In fact, Felos told reporters he’d "never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her".
Coolly, he spoke of cremation. His client Michael Schiavo is insisting that immediately upon her death, Terri will be cremated.
Felos had the colossal nerve to advise the great unwashed to reflect upon how life on earth does not last.
This peon of the politically correct, whose conversation is laced with words like "inappropriate" and who would lecture all about "dying with dignity", has already snatched the laurel wreath.
It wasn’t the actual act of denying Terri Schiavo Holy Communion, but his apparent gesture of dismissing the Sacrament as something not sacrosanct that insulted Catholics at their holiest time of the year.
Like so many crusaders of the politically correct, the boorish George Felos is a hypocrite.
Having seized the moral high ground to lecture the rest of us, and seeming to have won the day for the Death Culture, Felos won’t be stepping down from the podium Michael Schiavo raised for him anytime soon.
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 25 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard and the former Brampton Daily Times.
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I woke up today with exactly that thought.
I'm sure that neither GWB nor Jeb realizes what an impact this event will have on the rest of their lives. And they will never be able to shake it off - like Kerry will never shake off the Swift Boat Vets.
I awoke today with a sense of absolute certainty that the Bush Boys, and all the rest of the cast of characters, are going down. When the corruption hits the fan. And the ironic thing is that I think the MSM will be happy to help.
Earlier I said I could not accompany my family to church this morning and sing Christian rock while the minister fails to mention Terri's situation.
My family returned and sure enough, the congregation sang Christian rock clapping while the minister said zero about this horrendous atrocity in Florida. No analogies to Christ's sufferings or anything.
So here is a passage of scripture I hope many of you will read - for you have cried many tears for this poor family and for the sad spiritual state of our country. My heart has been moved by your compassion and anger. I want us all to have hope that God is going to be with us all - and Terri's family - as the days grow darker.
Eze 9:1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.
Eze 9:2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
Eze 9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had] the writer's inkhorn by his side;
Eze 9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Eze 9:5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Eze 9:6 Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.
Eze 9:7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
Eze 9:8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
Eze 9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Eze 9:10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, [but] I will recompense their way upon their head.
Eze 9:11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which [had] the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
"I think we should have a way to edit our posts after posting them. Ugh, I hate typing errors."
I'm on another board that let's us edit.. man it's great, especially when you wanna add something you forgot..
"The family has suggested that an autopsy might confirm their claims that Michael Schiavo abused his wife before her collapse, an accusation he has repeatedly denied. It was not clear whether any autopsy would be performed, and the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office did not return calls seeking clarification. "
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1010280&tw=wn_wire_story
Terri Schiavo's brother Bob Schindler Jr., gets an Easter flower from a friend outsdie the Woodside Hospice Sunday morning March 27, 2005 (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
I briefly visited one of the other threads on Freepers with people slamming people like us who care about Terri. The callous disregard is mindboggling.
All I can think is that great evil is clouding the minds of some people. Not to mention that most Americans have never even missed a miss in their entire life....and totally lack "normal" empathy.
I'll NEVER let go of that fact.
BTW, Judge Greer KNOWS Terri isn't brain dead!
Every time I hear Felos talk about how beautiful she looks, it makes me think of necrophilia. I want to puke too.
Yes, the sheeple want Terri dead, but they support the Americans with Disabilities Act! What a sick Easter day.
I intend to write many letters indicating that if the Republicans will fight against the corrupt Pinellas "GOP" establishment, they will win support for their willingness to put integrity over party. If they won't, they'll lose support for their willingness to put party over integrity.
Well, I'm back after last night's bout of sadness and disgust with that last FSC denial. Tried this morning to spread some truth about Terri's plight to the death squad here on FR but to no avail. It's mindboggling that so many whom I've considered friends here have such dark souls.
My mother just told her little grandchild they should have killed Terri 15 years ago. And to think this woman's career was working with the disabled. Actually, this came as no shock to any of us because she's always had a mean and selfish streak. Mr. M commented that he'll remind her of that when it's his turn to feed her. So many people talk big when they're physically and mentally healthy, but it's a different story when they become ill. As Terri said, "Where there's life, there's hope."
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