Posted on 03/14/2006 11:28:51 AM PST by KevinNuPac
The two are amazingly similar.
Somehow I don't perceive them the same way, though. I think that Nancy Cruzan's parents wanted to do what they thought was best for their daughter. Michael Schiavo wanted to do what was best for Michael Schiavo. Nancy Cruzan's marker recognizes her family; Theresa Marie's marker recognizes her HINO alone.
But, th'th'th'that's all, folks. Have fun, y'all.
I think you're right about Wolfson. He was on TV, radio and everything else promoting Terri's death prior to and during the time of her tube removal. Like you said, the offer of another swallow test was bogus, imo too.
IIRC, he recommended another swallow test only if the Schindlers would consent to some sort of agreement. Not sure but I think the agreement was something like this - if Terri doesn't pass the swallow test, you the Schindlers will back off. Does this sound familiar?
Has anybody seen the Schindlers on ANY of the tv MSM shows, or are they just interviewing Michael and/or Jodi?
Prior to the trial, another guardian ad litem was appointed to investigate the merits of Michael's guardianship, a man named Richard Pearse. He recommended that Terri's feeding tube be kept in. He felt that Michael had huge conflicts of interest--the disposition of Terri's estate, for example--and wondered why Michael had waited seven years to assert her wish to die. In a long document rebutting Pearse's opinion, Felos filed an objection to the report before the trial started. The report was thrown out. In the ensuing five-year period, Judge Greer acted as Terri's guardian ad litem.
This would have been right before the January 2000 trial.
The Schindlers did a LOT of shows on Monday and Tuesday-- Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, Hannity's radio show, Fox Dayside, Catherine Crier on Court TV, Paula Zahn, Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News (for the whole hour, it was very good), Hannity & Colmes, Scarborough Country, and The 700 Club.
And those are just the ones I know of! Someone had kindly posted a schedule a few pages back, or I would never have caught all these. But I haven't seen anything since, and don't know if they have anything else scheduled.
Links to some of the transcripts are scattered throughout the last few pages of posts.
Was she not found wearing some sort of sweat suit? Funny thing to have on at 4AM. Just how well dressed was he, is what I want to know. Shirt tucked in? belt? socks?
Yes, I think that's exactly what it was. The swallowing test was bait for a death trap. Dr. Code Blue discussed the implications in detail. It boiled down to the same trap -- if you can't swallow, that's the Brave New World's medical excuse to kill you.
Regardless of what governments or polls decide, today is the day to remember Terri.
Today's Highlight in History:
One year ago, on March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute that engulfed the courts, Congress and the White House and divided the country.
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I would love to know that too. Well enough dressed to go to the ER, I gather. There was a witness. Anybody in touch with Bobby Schindler, ask him what Mikey was wearing when he got there.
I shall try to have her remembered at the meeting I am attending tonight. I hope it doesn't start a war :-) Solid folks and lots of old friends, but... there was a lot of misinformation dished out by the presstitutes.
They always have to figure out a way to lie, even if the item is only one line.
A year ago today, the morning was disturbingly quiet at Pinellas Park. Exhausted families lay asleep in the damp grass in sleeping bags. TV crews tiptoed quietly from place to place capturing the innocent looks of the sleeping. They, themselves appeared touched by the scene. I went to post next to where Nikki always stayed in her wheelchair. We were next to the entrance, next to the checkpoint. A lone vulture came down from the north, circled once over the hospice, then left.
No sign of the gaggle of ghouls as they took the entrance further back anyway, safely away from us.
Something broke the silence. Fr. Pavone came out at a quick pace, escorted right past us. I wished I could have talked to him, but it was not the time for anything like that. He was concerned. More silence. I took a break and walked. At a little after nine, I heard the news.
Terri was now safe from the torment of her earthly creatures.
Good luck. It is hard to reason with those who drank the pink Kool Aid.
TAMPA - Tulie Taylor, her husband and other members of her family argued last year over whether Terri Schiavo should have been allowed to live or die. But they all came to agree on one thing - none of them wanted it to happen to them.
Schiavo's legacy: More living wills
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How far we've come. Nearly thirty years later, a woman, whose severity of brain injury reminded us eerily of Karen Ann Quinlan, was declared to be in a "persistent vegetative state." But unlike Ms. Quinlan, Terri Schiavo was not on a respirator. There was nothing "artificial" keeping her alive.
On the anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death, questions still linger
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Terri got all her broken bones and subsequent torture because of "bulemia", they would imagine us to swallow.
So appalling in this foolish statement is their glossing of the most glaring of facts long since emerged. They still push it as the "right to die" as if thirteen days of dehydration is a right. They still bring up the wiped out mantra of a weak heart when Terri survived thirteen days without a drop. How could it be with a weak heart? It is easy to get angry at such drivel, but better to consider it as the failed argument of the death lovers, the horse felos of the world.
What has been forgotten is the original cause of Schiavo's condition affecting women across the United States today: bulimia.
Schiavo desperately struggled with weight issues for years. Her 1990 collapse was caused by a potassium imbalance due to her eating disorder.
According to the National Eating Disorders Association, the binge-and-purge cycles of bulimia can lead to chemical imbalances that harm major organs and can cause heart failure, the situation in Schiavo's case.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. We will give you no peace."
Terri Schiavo's True Tragedy: Bulimia, says Casa Palmera
Terri after the attack and before bioethicking.
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She's the mother of Terri Schiavo, who died one year ago today after a 15-year battle over whether to keep her alive despite a damaged brain.
In Washington yesterday, Schindler pledged to continue fighting what she calls, "the growing culture of euthanasia." She says a foundation established several years ago to keep Schiavo alive will now focus on educating the public about end-of-life decisions.
In contrast to the broad political support Schindler got last year, Republican Kansas Senator Sam Brownback was the only lawmaker with her at her news conference yesterday.
Schiavo's parents vow to keep up fight as anniversary arrives
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As Michael Schiavo parades himself on the talk show circuit to peddle his book which he claims is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, once again, as in the 15 years between the time of Terris collapse in 1990 and her death orchestrated at the hands of her estranged husband, his pro-euthanasia attorney George Felos and Judge George W. Greer, Michael Schiavos story continues to change and misrepresentations and inconsistencies abound.
A year later, the need for an impartial investigation hasnt abated, its intensified as Michael Schiavo reveals more and more inconsistencies with virtually every word he utters.
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