A lack of justice is nothing new - say no to the culture of death

Is it by accident that Judge George Greer of Pinellas county chose March 18 as the day on which Michael Schiavo is allowed to begin the slow tortured death of his wife? That day is exactly one week prior to Good Friday 2005, the day on which we remember the Passion of Christ, especially the torture that He accepted for our sake. If ever there was an attempt to thumb the nose at Christian values, the choice of date by George Greer tells us exactly what he thinks of an innocent Catholic woman who is fighting to stay alive through the efforts of her family, whilst her husband wills her to die.

There are parallels between the lack of justice in the trial of Jesus, and the lack of justice in the Schindler vs. Schiavo case. I see parallels such as the false witnesses who have testified to something that is not true, because the Sanhedrin found men who were willing to come forward and give false testimony against Jesus. Michael Schiavo has used his own brother and sister-in-law to give what can only be considered as false testimony that has had the effect of condemning a severely disabled woman to death.

To give an idea of the kind of inconsistent evidence that Michael Schiavo has given, here is a portion from the transcript of his latest interview:



BURY: Michael, did Terri, your wife, leave any kind of written instructions about her wishes?

SCHIAVO: She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

BURY: She had verbally expressed them in what context exactly?


SCHIAVO: Through watching some TV program, a conversation that happened regarding her uncle that was very ill.

BURY: And how long ago was that?

SCHIAVO: Oh, we're talking — it's now been 15 years. We're talking a couple of year, three years before this happened to Terri.

BURY: So there's no kind of written record at all. It's basically your recollection and those of other family members.

SCHIAVO: Yes, it is.

How interesting!! Here is a prime example of the inconsistencies of Michael Schiavo. He has been giving this same piece of evidence, not only in a court of law, but in public interview, and he has changed the context in which the statement was made. If the judge in this case had been a truly just judge, when would he allow this hearsay oral evidence? The length of time between when the accident happened, when Michael first applied to end her life in this way, and the alleged statement is a huge gap. The alleged conversation was supposed to have happened when Terri was just 22 years of age. The evidence from Schiavo's brother and sister in law is equally suspicious, since they cannot be accepted as a disinterested party to the proceedings.

This is why the evidence given in this case is on a par with the evidence given by the false witnesses when Jesus was placed on trial. The false witnesses who came before the Sanhedrin and spoke against Jesus gave hearsay evidence. Their charges were groundless and if it was not for the fact that the real plotters were those who judged Jesus then it should have been obvious that the witnesses were unreliable. Yet, what was ordained by God had to come about as it was written. The false witnesses had their place in God's plan of salvation.

When the Israelites turned against the Lord and followed false gods, they were warned and then they were punished by God allowing Israel, and then Judea being invaded by their enemy, and the people dispersed and taken into exile. In the area that was known as Samaria, the people turned to Baal as their god, and they offered up their children as a sacrifice to Astarte. Despite our Christian upbringing our world has a tendency to forget everything that has happened in past centuries, and turns again to embrace the evil powers of Satan. How quickly have we forgotten the horrors of Nazi Germany. It is an amnesia that is encouraged by those who want to rewrite that history and pretend that the Holocaust did not happen. Yet the truth is, that in Nazi Germany, the elderly and disabled were put to death in gas ovens in hospitals ahead of the Final Solution.

George Felos, George Greer, Michael Schiavo and their cronies have been using Terri as a test case that will bring about state approved euthanasia of someone who is not near death. Michael Schiavo wants his wife dead and this is obvious when we realise that he has been too keen to remove the artificial means of hydration and feeding. George Felos is working with Schiavo because he sees himself as some kind of saviour for those who want to embrace death through euthanasia. He wants to open the way to allowing decisions to be made to end the lives of those who are considered to be useless. In this case he sees this disabled woman as being a useless being who has "already departed this world". George Greer seems to want to be the judge who brings about yet another court sponsored change in the law. Greer's application and knowledge of the laws of Florida seems to be very scant, and his application of the Divine Law is non-existent. Terri is not the first woman to be endangered by the rulings of George Greer.

Jesus, an innocent man was condemned to death, and Terri Schindler Schiavo, an innocent woman has also been condemned to death. Jesus is our Messiah. Terri is an ordinary severely disabled woman, who ended up that way in suspicious circumstances.

JUSTICE MUST PREVAIL