Has the guy lost his credibility yet??? I agree with Terri's brother. These people who support euthenasia by starvation/dehydration SHOULD allow cameras in so that people can really see just how beautiful and peaceful the process is. If severely disabled people are going to be regularly and legally "let go" this way, I think all citizens should know what starvation and dehydration is all about.
Anyhow Felos' statement highlights just one of the many problems I have with this case: the role of personal bias and interpretation. I'm reminded of how people responded after the 9-11 attack. Most were horrified and saw it for the pointless evil that it was. But the socialists who were already biased against America interpreted the attack through their own biased lense: America deserved it, America brought it on through other actions, etc. I think we have a similar bias here, and it's something that we should all be concerned about. We have terms like "PVS," a need to find proof that someone who is severely disabled "can or has shown improvement," a question about how "reflexive" or "intentional" an action is from someone who is deemed a "vegitable," "dying with dignity," and an act of "letting go" of someone who is completely helpless.
I am actually open to the posibility that there are some people who are so brain dead that they wouldn't be aware of what hit them if they were neglected to death. But this case has brought up some very important questions about how each person defines something like "PVS" or "reflexive." And for me, at least, it has brought up some very serious questions about just how biased people judging this case can be, and how the definition of the terms used to judge Terri can shift and change over time. How do we know how much brain activity is needed to make a person conscious and aware of what's going with others around them and their own bodies? Is there a standard line that people use to judge what is intentional and reflexive? Terri's family, friends and some care givers have seen signs of consciousness and purposeful actions in Terri. Perhaps they have a bias and see what they want to see.... or perhaps those who want to starve her to death are just seeing what they want to see. And with a helpless person's life on the line, the biases and beliefs and ways they measure life should be examined thoroughly.
The sadistic glee that this attorney exhibits is a discredit to his entire profession.
I forced myself to watch his news conference. Oh, how the journalists fawned all over him. And oh, how he enjoyed every minute of it. He is disguised as an angel of light. Sure has a lot of people deceived.
Felos and Dr. Kevokian are afflicted with the same mental illness. They are turned on by death as child molesters are turned on by their perversion. It makes them feel powerful to have the ablility to kill/rape another person.
"Be not deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that will he reap."
I will reserve my comments on this shyster until the day after Easter
There is a difference between being an advocate for your client and being an outright liar. Which one is Mr. Felos? And he called a news conference to deliver himself of this opinion? Why does the legal profession wonder that the public doesn't respect it?
This thread certainly didn't need a 'barf alert'. The headline spoke for itself. Thank you and freegards...
"Felos: Starving Terri looks "beautiful""
Yeah, and BJ Clinton wanted to make out with a 2,000 year old mummy of a young girl. Who, if I recall right, was also murdered by the ruling POS.
May God smite this man with 10,000 afflictions in this life and 10,000 times that in the next life for all eternity.
May he spend forever in the flames of torment without a drop of water to cool his parched lips and may he always remember how peaceful he claimed such a situation to be.
Felos is a moron.
Attorney George Felony has spoken.
If she feels pain, she is not in a "persistent vegetative state" and the sentence of "death by starvation" is cruel and unusual punishment, a punishment for which she has not had due process.
When did Felos become Michael Schaivo's attorney, did he go to Michael or did Michael go looking for him? I think Felos is the guy pulling the strings and Michael is his puppet.
Liberals are SICK!
Here's an article
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050324.shtml