Opposing lawyers share thoughts on Schiavo case

Palm Beach Daily News ^ | October 1, 2005 | Michele Dargan

[topher]

The only issue that David Gibbs can ever remember Jesse Jackson and Rush Limbaugh agreeing on was the fact that Terri Schiavo should remain alive.

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Gibbs called removing Schiavo's feeding tube "barbaric and uncivilized." Florida law does not allow the starvation of animals and the constitution does not allow the starvation of convicted murderers, he said.

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Felos said faith-based organizations, religious leaders, priests and rabbis distorted the facts in the Schiavo case.

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[floriduh voter]

I pledged a donation to Free Republic yesterday. I am carrying on despite of my scary mva by hospice that did almost kill me as you may recall. Without my freeper friends, Terri supporters, my family and my faith, well, everyone was there for me.

Freepers are always there for me and Free Republic deserves our gratitude because freeping re: euthanasia, against judicial murder and state sponsored homicide needs to be in the spotlight until the public fully understands the difference between forced exits and terminal illness. The difference is huge.

We must hold judicial despots to account, enforce existing laws and make a federal ban on starving and dehydrating any American based upon hearsay evidence.

TERRI WAS MURDERED. Truth, not hysterics. Scandal of the century, freepers and lurkers.

[floriduh voter]

Was Terri Schiavo Assisted Suicide? (their title because according to my first hand knowledge, Terri didn't want to die. She was forced out).

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46685

[floriduh voter]

Hear Terri Laughing at top of this web page:

http://www.renewamerica.us/

[floriduh voter]

Italian man wakes up from two year coma. Today's google alert. Lots of links good for today.

http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05427922.htm

[Miss Behave]

The morning crew on WFLA 970 am radio was having a discussion about the assisted suicide issue before the US Supremes. Ted Webb made my day. One of them mentioned Terri Schiavo and he said "Well, that was assisted murder."

Jack Harris who does Hospice's radio ads said "Well, uh, blah, blah, blah, "the withholding of something, blah, blah, blah." Jack Harris shilling for Hospice makes me sick.

Ted Webb told it like it is. Terri was starved and dehydrated to death, yes, withhholding is a stealth way to say it.

TED WEBB, is fabulous and that took guts to say point blank, knowing that JACK HARRIS is regularly shilling away for the merchants of death.

TED WEBB: "Well, that was assisted murder." October 6, 2005

BUMP BUMP BUMP.

[Sun]

"I have a distant relative who has been physically handicapped from birth. Birth was 45 years ago. Owns his own business now that benefits other people. People who might have not been benefitted at all in a world run by Mr. Lister's sort. Gotta stop it. It's a worldwide fight."

Thank you so much for sharing that, and yes, it IS a worldwide fight.

[8mmMauser]

Bump for the radio commentary, thanks.

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[Miss Behave]

All my very best to you and your sweet child, 8mm.

[presently no screen name]

Thanks for the ping. I'm amazed too!

[Republic]

I am amazed, too! Jim Robinson is so special to everyone here.

He has a depth of love for this nation that just moves your heart. And he has a dry wit and zero tolerance for nonsense...hehe.

This man knows how to provide all of us a place where we can share ideas, argue, laugh, form activism plans, get the latest news and surround ourselves with folks who share a conservative view and belief structure.

He rules, rocks and rolls! LOL

[floriduh voter]

The RNC is looking for money by phone today to fight the dems. I told the telemarketer that they could expect my cooperation AFTER AND ONLY AFTER THEY INDICT REPUBLICAN JUDGE GEORGE GREER.

The RNC is getting a lot of feedback on the corrupt Judge Greer and about Terri's barbaric murder by judicial fiat.

If the RNC happens to call, it can work either way, i.e. promise to donate if they will give Greer the boot from the RNC and consider indicting him.

I promised to let them wither on the vine until they prosecute GOP Judge Greer.

[floriduh voter]

Excerpted from World Net Daily: Assisted suicide is illegal in Florida – as it is in every state but Oregon – yet the name "Terri Schiavo" frequently crops up in press reports about the Supreme Court reviewing Oregon's assisted-suicide law, suggesting many viewed the case as either an assisted suicide or "mercy killing."

FV SAYS: Isn't it odd that assisted suicide is illegal and so is euthanasia but even so, Terri Schindler schiavo(slave) was MURDERED by the State and the Courts? What's up with that? Amerika, wake up. What happened to Terri was ILLEGAL in every way.

[floriduh voter]

I'll be looking for Felos' book again. We need to post some of his wacko parts of his book on this thread. He can make a plane crash with his mind. Pretty amazing isn't it? Even though he can do really difficult things with his mind, he couldn't will Terri to die. He needed to go to the Courts.

INDICT GREER because he took an oath(possibly) and is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.

He's the most corrupt judge in Amerika. and he's a republican.

[Saundra Duffy]

Thanks for posting this. Gibbs did a good job of defending life.

[Wampus SC]

Who knew? Sorry I used a Greerism. But don't worry, I can see. I'm not bald, and don't have a black robe to my name. On a more positive note, I wonder how many here have ever asked their doctor about Terri? I finally got up the nerve to.

He was livid - not at me, but somewhat at the legal system, and even more so at some members of his own profession He decried the fact that more medical people are getting on the forced exit bandwagon. He told me about one ethicist - I think he said Singer, but don't quote me - seriously suggested denying medical treatment to anyone who has a condition that won't get better on it's own in 2 years. I looked at him, and he said, "yes, that's everyone eventually". Quote that stuck with me - "The field of Medical Ethics today is making a mockery of both Medicine and Ethics".

I'm sticking with this Dr.

[Wampus SC]

And thank you. The death culture is trying to create the idea in the public mind that disabled=worthless, and that being disabled is somehow unfair to everyone else. Just as as was done 60-odd years ago. Lister is an example of this thinking without the "nice guy mask" on.

One can never no what a disabled person can accomplish or contribute to the whole world. Lister's own country produced one of the greatest scientific minds ever - Hawking. Guess Lister would have beheaded him too.

[Wampus SC]

Good idea. I remember the part where he claimed the plane was starting to crash when he thought about it. I wonder what Homeland Security would say about people who claimed that? IIRC, he also hears the voices of comatose people in his head. What a guy.

Hope everyone on that crusie ship is wearing a lifejacket.

[8mmMauser]

For any who can make it.....Schindlers to speak tonight.

ORMOND BEACH

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[8mmMauser]

Mark Daniels, Talk Show Host examines the Italian coma case and Terri.

As advocates for either side of each debate square off, it becomes clear that proponents of euthanasia, abortion, eugenics, and a half-dozen other such ghoulish notions see these "choices" as some sort of "civil right."

Who Moved the Finish Line?

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[8mmMauser]

This article from TheRealityCheck.org brought back poignant remembrance of our Easter Sunday this year in the surreal. Now heading seven months down the road I can reflect on it more clearly.

Here is an excerpt from the first part of the article.

The Legacy of Terri Schiavo

by Doug Patton

On Easter Sunday morning, a fellow church member said to me, “I just wish that Terri Schiavo could be completely healed today? Wouldn’t that be a miracle?”

Of course, such a divine intervention and miraculous restoration would have been wonderful. But it did not happen, and God may very well have had a good reason. Perhaps He had a greater miracle in mind.

What miracle could possibly be greater than Terri Schiavo being healed? After all, no one could have denied the value of Terri Schiavo’s life if she had suddenly sat up in her hospital bed on Easter Sunday morning and announced, “I’m back!” Based on the predominant medical view that said she would never recover from her “persistent vegetative state,” how could anyone have questioned such a miracle? Her very “quality of life” would have told us that she deserved to live.

The Legacy of Terri Schiavo

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