http://www.davidlimbaugh.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/587
This is a good article from David Limbaugh. Even though I am an Australian citizen, my reading of the situation is quite close to his timely comments.
My own interest in Terri Schiavo's case stems from the realization that her case would open the door to widespread slaughter of the disabled, elderly, and mentally incapacitated. This case was not about "euthanasia", especially for someone who was dying. Terri was not dying at all. She was not in a comatose condition either. It was about granting the husband and guardian the legal right to murder his wife by judicial decree.
When the USA had the Roe vs. Wade decision, the Australian judicial activists followed down the same path. That means with the Schiavo decision, unless it is undermined by legislation to prevent that kind of decision from happening again, there might be an opportunity for someone in Australia to attempt to pull the same kind of stunt. The fact is Greer's Law, which was the only rule of the law followed in Pinellas County, has set an extremely dangerous precedent.
However, this time I think that the players in the game have gone too far. The more people find out about the Schiavo case the more the discover that they have been duped about the circumstances. As they make that discovery, the backlash will become like a tidal wave against the Judiciary, Legislature and Executive. One of the dangers of using judges who are elected to office is that it is easy to end up with a corrupt judge who is willing to turn his back on the law, for the sake of power and in pursuit of fame.
What was to be gained for George Greer in making a decision to murder Terri Schindler? Good question. If it was fame that he wanted, well he is now famous. One could say that he is now infamous because of what he has done.
Around 2000 years ago, some Jews put to death an innocent man. That innocent man was tortured prior to his horrible death. However, his death was a triumph over sin and Satan. Now with the death of an innocent woman, Theresa Schindler, will there be yet another triumph over the culture of death?
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Friday, April 01, 2005
How to get judicial approval to murder your spouse
The following is an excerpt from an interview between Larry King, Michael Schiavo and George Felos:
SCHIAVO: Terri is in a chronic, persistent vegetative state.
KING: Meaning she has...
SCHIAVO: She has no awareness, no consciousness. She's in a contracted state. Her hands, her arms, her legs are contracted.
KING: We see now there, we see the eyes open. A smile. It looks like a smile.
SCHIAVO: Now, you've got to remember here, too, when the Schindlers show their little snippets of Terri, there's four and a half hours of tape. OK?
KING: This is edited?
SCHIAVO: This is edited. This is a tape where they snuck in against a court order after the judge said, do not photograph her.
KING: But she looks like -- right, she's not in a coma
Sadly, there was nothing that we could do to save this woman from her faithless husband's attempt to arrange a state approved murder. Today, 31st March, Terri Schindler gave up her fight to remain alive. She was brave and plucky. She proved to the world that her brain was not mush and that she should be forced to die. Yet in the end, the out of control Florida judiciary has won its victory of death to the disabled over life for all who need loving care.
This story is very complex. On the surface the issue seemed to be one of a choice between living and dying. According to the spouse of this disabled woman, she was supposed to have told him that she would not want to live as one who is dependent upon others for the rest of her life. It is worth noting that in reality this is hearsay evidence, and this evidence should have been excluded as something that was coming from a very self interested party. Unfortunately for Terri, the judge hearing the case happened to think that what her husband stated was clear and convincing. Yet nothing could be further than the truth.
As hard as the Schindlers fought through the courts to save their daughter from being murdered with the blessing of the judiciary of Florida, a death that was horrible because of the torture that it inflicted upon Terri, no judge was totally prepared to take on the responsibility of overturning such an unjust decision. They refused because they saw the appeal only in terms of following procedure. They did not care enough that a woman's life was in the balance.
The Schindlers had very little chance of winning their case because Michael Schiavo had the power to control every aspect of the remainder of his wife's life because he had been appointed by the court as her guardian at law. Michael Schiavo abused his wife before her collapse and he continued to abuse his wife after the collapse, even as she lay in a hospital bed, he continued the cruel torture at every opportunity. The issue of being appointed guardian is just one of many complex controversies to be found in this case.
I have begun studying the transcripts of interviews that Schiavo has had with the press. When I first started to read the transcripts of these interviews I was stunned by the fact that I had noticed that there were inconsistencies between what was stated in evidence and what was stated in these interviews. Michael had clearly contradicted himself, and at the same time he has implicated himself for his role in developing a plan to murder his wife with judicial approval.
Today, I studied the 2003 transcript of the Larry King show. There it was in black and white, further incriminating evidence with regard to Michael's intentions towards his disabled wife. The clue is there for all to see:
"She is in a contracted state. Her hands, her arms and her legs are contracted."
Well one does not have to be a doctor to recognize that the denial of therapy and rehabiliation would lead to precisely that condition in life. It was his denial of rehabilitation that led to that state, rather than the result of brain injury. This is evidence that he intended to kill Terri as soon as he received the settlement money.
However, what is disturbing about the comment is the fact that Michael Schiavo appears to have deliberately set out to create the impression that his wife was in fact in a contracted state. This plan started not long after Michael had received the compensation money from a medical malpractice suit. So what was the plan that Michael put into place? Here is a quick list of some of the things that Michael Schiavo did in an attempt to make his wife die:
1. He stopped all rehabilitation and therapy for Theresa and placed a DNR on her chart.
2. He refused to allow her to be treated for a UTI in the hope that she would develop a blood sepsis and die ( I will have something interesting to say about this in another post).
3. He removed all forms of stimulation from her environment.
When these first moves failed to get the result that he desired - "is the bitch dead yet" - he decided to employ an attorney who is a euthanasia advocate and who had been responsible for the death of Estelle Browning - a death that he described in some detail in his own book.
The employment of George Felos started off a new chain of events in the short life struggle of Theresa Schindler. If there was not already enough murky circumstances surrounding this case, Felos added to the stench with his actions:
1. He arranged for legislation to be changed so that a feeding tube would be considered as life support.
2. He advised and coached Michael Schiavo on what he had to say in the Probate Court in order to achieve his objective. It is odd how Michael Schiavo did not remember that Theresa had expressed a death wish until after George Felos had been hired in an effort to bring about her death.
3. He manipulated and used the mainstream media, playing up to the elements on both right and left who believe that disabled people should not be allowed to continue their existence.
4. He twisted medical evidence, and he arranged for a neurologist, Dr. Cranford, well known for his pro-euthanasia activism to examine Theresa and to give only one outcome, that she was beyond recovery.
The mantra of Felos happened to be: "she has no conciousness, no thought" and the mantra of Schiavo is: "she died 15 years ago". Both of these mantras were used to convince a gullible population that Theresa was in a comatose condition, who was being kept on life support. The gullible of society could be heard with their own mantra: "she died 15 years ago". or "she is nothing but a shell" and that led to the statement "let her die in peace". These gullible people refused to accept that Theresa was not attached to a machine that was keeping her artificially alive. She had a feeding tube to ensure that she received nourishment because of the effects of her spinal cord injury.
The play continued through the court system. The major player here was George Greer, the legally blind judge. He made several errors of judgment in this case and they were errors that cost an innocent woman her life. He refused to hear the evidence that pointed to the fact that Theresa had injuries that were consistent with spouse abuse - a spinal cord injury that could have been the result of an attempted strangulation, plus bone fractures. He dismissed as lacking credibility all affidavits that cast doubt upon the suitability of Michael Schiavo to remain the guardian of his estranged wife. He took no notice of legislation and he rode roughshod over the duties of the DCF as well as other investigators. On top of that he snubbed the Congress with his death order on Terri Schindler, plus he slapped an injunction on the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, preventing him from taking any action that would have removed Theresa from Woodside Hospice.
To ensure that Theresa Schindler would die, this judge ordered that she was not allowed to receive either hydration or nutrition by mouth. Attempts to spoon feed were forbidden on the grounds of being experimental. The judge also allowed Pinellas County law officers to be used as guards who were to make sure that Theresa was given neither food or drink. Children were arrested because they attempted to take water to Theresa.
So if you want to legally murder your spouse why not head to Pinellas County Florida, attempt to strangle her, bring a fraudulent malpractice suit, and then suddenly remember that she did not want to live as a person dependent upon others, so go find yourself a lawyer who takes euthanasia cases and then say everything as directed, even if it is not true. George Greer will rubber stamp your actions and not one other judge will get in your way to stop your wife from dying by starvation and dehydration.
SCHIAVO: Terri is in a chronic, persistent vegetative state.
KING: Meaning she has...
SCHIAVO: She has no awareness, no consciousness. She's in a contracted state. Her hands, her arms, her legs are contracted.
KING: We see now there, we see the eyes open. A smile. It looks like a smile.
SCHIAVO: Now, you've got to remember here, too, when the Schindlers show their little snippets of Terri, there's four and a half hours of tape. OK?
KING: This is edited?
SCHIAVO: This is edited. This is a tape where they snuck in against a court order after the judge said, do not photograph her.
KING: But she looks like -- right, she's not in a coma
Sadly, there was nothing that we could do to save this woman from her faithless husband's attempt to arrange a state approved murder. Today, 31st March, Terri Schindler gave up her fight to remain alive. She was brave and plucky. She proved to the world that her brain was not mush and that she should be forced to die. Yet in the end, the out of control Florida judiciary has won its victory of death to the disabled over life for all who need loving care.
This story is very complex. On the surface the issue seemed to be one of a choice between living and dying. According to the spouse of this disabled woman, she was supposed to have told him that she would not want to live as one who is dependent upon others for the rest of her life. It is worth noting that in reality this is hearsay evidence, and this evidence should have been excluded as something that was coming from a very self interested party. Unfortunately for Terri, the judge hearing the case happened to think that what her husband stated was clear and convincing. Yet nothing could be further than the truth.
As hard as the Schindlers fought through the courts to save their daughter from being murdered with the blessing of the judiciary of Florida, a death that was horrible because of the torture that it inflicted upon Terri, no judge was totally prepared to take on the responsibility of overturning such an unjust decision. They refused because they saw the appeal only in terms of following procedure. They did not care enough that a woman's life was in the balance.
The Schindlers had very little chance of winning their case because Michael Schiavo had the power to control every aspect of the remainder of his wife's life because he had been appointed by the court as her guardian at law. Michael Schiavo abused his wife before her collapse and he continued to abuse his wife after the collapse, even as she lay in a hospital bed, he continued the cruel torture at every opportunity. The issue of being appointed guardian is just one of many complex controversies to be found in this case.
I have begun studying the transcripts of interviews that Schiavo has had with the press. When I first started to read the transcripts of these interviews I was stunned by the fact that I had noticed that there were inconsistencies between what was stated in evidence and what was stated in these interviews. Michael had clearly contradicted himself, and at the same time he has implicated himself for his role in developing a plan to murder his wife with judicial approval.
Today, I studied the 2003 transcript of the Larry King show. There it was in black and white, further incriminating evidence with regard to Michael's intentions towards his disabled wife. The clue is there for all to see:
"She is in a contracted state. Her hands, her arms and her legs are contracted."
Well one does not have to be a doctor to recognize that the denial of therapy and rehabiliation would lead to precisely that condition in life. It was his denial of rehabilitation that led to that state, rather than the result of brain injury. This is evidence that he intended to kill Terri as soon as he received the settlement money.
However, what is disturbing about the comment is the fact that Michael Schiavo appears to have deliberately set out to create the impression that his wife was in fact in a contracted state. This plan started not long after Michael had received the compensation money from a medical malpractice suit. So what was the plan that Michael put into place? Here is a quick list of some of the things that Michael Schiavo did in an attempt to make his wife die:
1. He stopped all rehabilitation and therapy for Theresa and placed a DNR on her chart.
2. He refused to allow her to be treated for a UTI in the hope that she would develop a blood sepsis and die ( I will have something interesting to say about this in another post).
3. He removed all forms of stimulation from her environment.
When these first moves failed to get the result that he desired - "is the bitch dead yet" - he decided to employ an attorney who is a euthanasia advocate and who had been responsible for the death of Estelle Browning - a death that he described in some detail in his own book.
The employment of George Felos started off a new chain of events in the short life struggle of Theresa Schindler. If there was not already enough murky circumstances surrounding this case, Felos added to the stench with his actions:
1. He arranged for legislation to be changed so that a feeding tube would be considered as life support.
2. He advised and coached Michael Schiavo on what he had to say in the Probate Court in order to achieve his objective. It is odd how Michael Schiavo did not remember that Theresa had expressed a death wish until after George Felos had been hired in an effort to bring about her death.
3. He manipulated and used the mainstream media, playing up to the elements on both right and left who believe that disabled people should not be allowed to continue their existence.
4. He twisted medical evidence, and he arranged for a neurologist, Dr. Cranford, well known for his pro-euthanasia activism to examine Theresa and to give only one outcome, that she was beyond recovery.
The mantra of Felos happened to be: "she has no conciousness, no thought" and the mantra of Schiavo is: "she died 15 years ago". Both of these mantras were used to convince a gullible population that Theresa was in a comatose condition, who was being kept on life support. The gullible of society could be heard with their own mantra: "she died 15 years ago". or "she is nothing but a shell" and that led to the statement "let her die in peace". These gullible people refused to accept that Theresa was not attached to a machine that was keeping her artificially alive. She had a feeding tube to ensure that she received nourishment because of the effects of her spinal cord injury.
The play continued through the court system. The major player here was George Greer, the legally blind judge. He made several errors of judgment in this case and they were errors that cost an innocent woman her life. He refused to hear the evidence that pointed to the fact that Theresa had injuries that were consistent with spouse abuse - a spinal cord injury that could have been the result of an attempted strangulation, plus bone fractures. He dismissed as lacking credibility all affidavits that cast doubt upon the suitability of Michael Schiavo to remain the guardian of his estranged wife. He took no notice of legislation and he rode roughshod over the duties of the DCF as well as other investigators. On top of that he snubbed the Congress with his death order on Terri Schindler, plus he slapped an injunction on the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, preventing him from taking any action that would have removed Theresa from Woodside Hospice.
To ensure that Theresa Schindler would die, this judge ordered that she was not allowed to receive either hydration or nutrition by mouth. Attempts to spoon feed were forbidden on the grounds of being experimental. The judge also allowed Pinellas County law officers to be used as guards who were to make sure that Theresa was given neither food or drink. Children were arrested because they attempted to take water to Theresa.
So if you want to legally murder your spouse why not head to Pinellas County Florida, attempt to strangle her, bring a fraudulent malpractice suit, and then suddenly remember that she did not want to live as a person dependent upon others, so go find yourself a lawyer who takes euthanasia cases and then say everything as directed, even if it is not true. George Greer will rubber stamp your actions and not one other judge will get in your way to stop your wife from dying by starvation and dehydration.
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