[pbmaltzman]

IIRC, There were also friends, family, and medical personnel who witnessed Michael's nasty temper, etc.

I find your scenario entirely plausible. Unfortunately, I also don't see much hope of the crime ever being thoroughly investigated and justice being done.

[8mmMauser]

More on Romney and Terri AND Haleigh Poutre: Methinks Mitt should hire more savvy staffers when he seeks someone to tell him what his opinions are...

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Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been trying to connect with pro-life advocates after changing his position on abortion just a couple years ago. However, his comments on the battle over Terri Schiavo will complicate his efforts to get support from the pro-life community.

This month is the two year anniversary of Terri's death.

It was the result of a long and drawn out legal battle between her parents and family and her former husband, Michael Schiavo. He eventually won permission from the courts to subject Terri to a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration euthanasia death.

During the battle, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the state legislature intervened on behalf of the Schindler family and passed a bill allowing Bush to prevent Michael from killing Terri.

In comments yesterday to the Bay News 9 television station in a taped interview, Romney said he disagreed with that action.

"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said.

"I generally think that it's not a good idea for courts to legislate. Nor is it great idea for legislatures to adjudicate in a specific circumstance," the former Massachusetts governor added.

The comments seem to contrast with Romney's concern for the treatment of Haleigh Poutre, a Massachusetts girl who was the victim of severe child abuse that temporarily put her in an incapacitated state.

After doctors gave up on her, Massachusetts officials tried to win court permission to euthanize her, though now she is responding and eating food on her own.

Last April, the Schindler family wrote a letter to Romney to push for a revision in state law after authorities nearly euthanized Poutre.

''Haleigh's shocking story demonstrates that much more needs to be done to protect the sick and disabled from harm, including harm imposed by courts," they said in the letter.

After the Poutre case received national attention and the young girl began to respond, Romney put together an independent panel to look into the matter. It suggested changes for how the state handles such cases including more closely investigating requests to remove life support.

Terri's brother Bobby Schindler told the Globe that this is the first case the foundation has gotten involved with to this extent.

''Basically we saw how the case was being handled, and we're very concerned with some of the things that were happening in her case," he said.

''This kind of goes at what we've been saying: Doctors are oftentimes wrong with these diagnoses that they are making, and it becomes a death sentence for these people," he added.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org

Mitt Romney Says Govt Shouldn't Have Stopped Terri Schiavo's Euthanasia

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[T'wit]

>> IIRC, There were also friends, family, and medical personnel who witnessed Michael's nasty temper, etc.

Within direct Schindler family experience, he violently attacked, or threatened to attack, his brother (I forget whether it was Scott or Brian); Bobby Schindler; Bob Schindler; and Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo. Big brave man, attacking Suzanne, who is about the size of a sparrow!

No human witnesses to what must have been an attack on his bride. But, to coin a phrase, bone scans don't lie.

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>> I find your scenario entirely plausible. Unfortunately, I also don't see much hope of the crime ever being thoroughly investigated and justice being done.

We are investigating it right here. It is ongoing and is already a thousand times more thorough than the two policemen in 1990 who poked around for a couple of hours and wandered off. What a farce that was! No forensics at all. They didn't even preserve an original copy of their "report," so the chain of evidence -- if they found any -- is broken.

Moreover, Judge Greer no longer presides over what evidence shall or shall not come to light. We are in the court of history now, and are quite free to look at the sworn testimony and data that Greer excluded. (Most of it!) We have already produced a sound theory of the crime and have a voice to make it heard.

Drop by when you can and catch the latest.

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>> There were also friends, family, and medical personnel who witnessed Michael's nasty temper, etc.

Yes, let's keep some of the other cases at hand. Michael has the classic, controlling, violence-prone personality. Both of his early girlfriends (after Terri's collapse) found him to controlling and they both said specifically that he could be incredibly mean. (We saw that later in his long hatred for the Schindlers.) Cindy Shook also reported that he stalked her and that once he ran her car off the road.

The nurses who filed affidavits all reported him to be domineering, noisy, mean and controlling at their medical facilities. They said he regularly tampered with the charts and medical records. Carla Sauer Iyers was a particularly good witness to his tyrannies. She has an icy clear memory and was contemporaneously willing to put her job on the line to tell the truth. She also risked perjury / obstruction of justice charges, had she lied in reporting Michael to the police in the matter of the suspected insulin injections.