Posted on 03/26/2005 5:31:22 AM PST by amdgmary
I was shocked to see this being talked about on GMA (ABC). Perhaps now someone will demand an investigation into this execution.
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Judgenfuhrer Greer: "Burn her.
The rest of you - shut up."
I am SO pissed off that this wasn't presented sooner...we knew about this here on FR the day it happened so why the delay by the Schindler's attorneys?
Judge Greer has made his decision and would not reverse if she got up and walked. He is all powerful, doncha know. Congess and the President are nothing to him.
The person claiming Terri tried to speak is *suprise* a lawyer working for the parents.
Seriously, have you seen the CT scan of Terri's skull? She has physically lost 80% of her brain tissue as it has been replaced by CSF. It is highly improbable that someone with that much damage could possibly talk.
If she can't swallow -- an action that requires 24 highly coordinated muscles movements in her throat and mouth -- how could she possiblity form words?
"We are continuing to do whatever we can, and we are pursuing all the options available to us in this case," Bush spokesman Jacob DiPietre said.
What I fault Jeb Bush for is allowing to go apparently unchallenged a blatently illegal and in your face order by Judge Greer that Terri cannot be given water or food by mouth as Terri's parents requested. That is euthanasia and is not permitted under Florida law. On this order at least the Shindler's have the law on their side -- giving water by mouth is not in any shape, fashion or form artificial life support as mentioned in the Florida statute. Any outcome of a trial of drinking, even death by choking, is preferable to what is going on now.
Why are the Shindlers and more importantly Governor Jeb Bush allowing this illegal order, which constitutes arbitrary rule by judicial fiat, to go unchallenged? All our elected officials are obligated by their oaths of office to do everything within their power to protect our constitutional rights and to prevent the usurpation of illegal and arbitrary authority by the judiciary. Without the willingness to do that we effectively live in a judicial thugocracy
The delay is because the attorneys (probably all attorneys in high profile appeals) withhold bits and pieces to use in case the current appeal fails, thus buying time.
In this case, however it is failing and time is not being purchased.
Additionally, since the sentence was not completed how do we know she wasn't saying she wants to end this and die?
I think that the parents and siblings and their attorney have used a strategy that the courts don't buy.
Actually, this is old news: we knew about it on the day when her feeding tube was removed. More than just the lawyer heard it--a roomfull of people heard it, including her aunt and uncle who were on GMA this morning.
When emotion runs high and we do exactly what we didn't like about the liberals, form opinions on emotion, the sky is the limit.
If she got up and walked and even talked that would be seen as automatic reflexes!
I wish the world could see her suffering!
Also, as has been noted before--she can swallow just fine. Doctors examining her have seen no drooling, so she is certainly swallowing her saliva. If she had been allowed to have therapy, she'd probably be speaking much better too.
I'll tell you what, if you enjoy death so much, why don't you just go join Al Qaeda or something, and maybe they'll let you watch the next beheading.
Hmmmmmmmm.......
Sounds like real,...alive,...human 'baby-talk' to me.....
...'AHHHHHH'=yes!
...'WAAAAAA'=water!....Wa-Wa!
...............................this is NOT Abortion,....it's murder!
IMHO
We did not present Terri's scream in court probably because we assumed that it would and will have no effect on murderous George W. Greer. There were just so many things to present that this got omitted, I would imagine. The popular Greer will certainly say that she did not "speak a complete sentence: so we don't know what she was trying to say."
If she had a living will would he still be Judgenfuhrer Greer?
It really doesn't matter what she was trying to say. The point is if she can speak AT ALL, then she is not PVS, and cannot legally have her feeding tube removed.
It can be quite surprising what the human brain is capable of. Who would think that children with half of their brains removed could actually do better than with their brains intact.
"Hemispherectomy shown on ABC show; Dr. Ben Carson says most young people who have half their brains surgically removed do great." http://www.neurosurgeon.org/publications/detail.asp?PressID=12
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