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Nurses in Katrina Euthanasia Case Offered Immunity for Grand Jury Testimony
LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/21/07 | Hilary White

Posted on 06/21/2007 4:08:20 PM PDT by wagglebee

NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who have admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the hurricane Katrina disaster, are being offered immunity from prosecution by the Louisiana Attorney General.

CNN reports that in two weeks the two will testify before a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Louisiana's Attorney General, Charles Foti Jr., called a "lethal cocktail" of drugs.

In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, rumours began to fly around the internet world that patients were being killed by health care workers who wanted to flee the appalling conditions in the inner city New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center. Later, two doctors admitted that patients were euthanized, one doctor saying that he had fled the hospital rather than directly participate in killing patients.

The following July, one doctor and the two nurses were arrested and charged with four counts of second-degree murder for lethally injecting patients. Dr. Anna Pou, a head and neck surgeon who specializes in working with cancer patients, denied the charges insisting that she did not support euthanasia and claimed to have given only comfort care for the patients.

Court documents, however, assert that witnesses have testified that Dr. Pou and the two nurses took syringes full of drugs to a ward for the chronically-ill and injected four patients. 34 dead patients were found in Memorial following the Katrina disaster.

Foti told media, "We …spent almost 10 ½ months investigating and, after all of this, can only come to the conclusion that this crime had been committed."

Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

New Orleans Doctors Kill Patients Rather Than Leave Them to Looters, Then Flee
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05091205.html

Doctor Charged in Katrina Deaths Denies Committing Murder, Euthanasia
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06092502.html



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: euthanasia; hurricanekatrina; prolife
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To: Grizzled Bear
Are you saying that the patients were better off murdered rather than evacuated.

They would have been better off evacuated but that did not happen, obviously.
61 posted on 06/21/2007 6:09:36 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: BykrBayb
This thread is not about the campaign, 9/11 or underwear.

But the question remains the same.
62 posted on 06/21/2007 6:10:57 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

You only get to decide if your decision is to kill them. Any other choice would be judgemental. /s


63 posted on 06/21/2007 6:11:27 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: P-40

Well, ask it on a thread about whatever it was you were talking about.


64 posted on 06/21/2007 6:12:18 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb
Well, ask it on a thread about whatever it was you were talking about.

The question pertains to this thread. You sit there and judge the actions of these doctors and call them murderers. That simple moral absolute I find entertaining.
65 posted on 06/21/2007 6:14:42 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40
If a terminally ill patient was flying low at a high velocity on an intended collision course with a building I guess the right thing to do would be to shoot them down.

So you would murder them?


The only time killing is justified is to prevent the “target” from taking innocent life or as a penalty for a capital offense. A murderer (or one attempting to murder) is no longer innocent.

There is a huge difference between defending ones self (or others) and cold blooded murder.

If you don’t understand that then I have no wish to communicate with you.

Go with God, FRiend.

66 posted on 06/21/2007 6:14:56 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: P-40

I find your lack of humanity entertaining. I don’t see much of that since the bug zapper thread.


67 posted on 06/21/2007 6:15:40 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: nicmarlo
Later, two doctors admitted that patients were euthanized, one doctor saying that he had fled the hospital rather than directly participate in killing patients.

Good doc! BQ, remember all this insanity down there?


It would be easy to brand that man a coward but I won’t. I pray to God I would have the guts to at least try to protect the helpless...

68 posted on 06/21/2007 6:16:51 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear
If you don’t understand that then I have no wish to communicate with you.

Oh, I understand, and I also understand compassion. But I am glad to know that given the choice you would have approved of the decision to destroy the aircraft before it could hit the tower. Richard Clarke's little group never came to a decision.
69 posted on 06/21/2007 6:17:23 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: BykrBayb
I find your lack of humanity entertaining.

I find your lack of understanding for such basic concepts entertaining also.
70 posted on 06/21/2007 6:19:51 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40
Are you saying that the patients were better off murdered rather than evacuated.

They would have been better off evacuated but that did not happen, obviously.

So let’s top one bad choice with an even worse one. Let’s kill the useless eaters!

Do you think if they chose to cut their patients throats they could have sold the morphine to the looters who were “Jonesin'?”

71 posted on 06/21/2007 6:21:15 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: P-40

Humanity’s problems cannot be solved mathematically.


72 posted on 06/21/2007 6:23:15 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: Grizzled Bear
So let’s top one bad choice with an even worse one.

IF the immediate death of the chronically ill patients WAS A CERTAINTY the compassionate thing to do would be to make them as comfortable as possible EVEN IF the administered dose was likely to kill them.
73 posted on 06/21/2007 6:25:17 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: BykrBayb
Humanity’s problems cannot be solved mathematically.

No one (except some mathematicians possibly) would make that sort of claim...but there are times when killing some to save many is just a choice that must be made. When President Bush gave the shoot down order on the morning of September the 11th, that was the choice he made. As far as we know, the permission was never used, but how would you have felt about him had an airliner been shot down?
74 posted on 06/21/2007 6:29:53 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

He may have done that by leaving. It was crazy times down there then. His own life may have been in danger, too. Who knows? By leaving, he’d have access to alert others.


75 posted on 06/21/2007 6:31:57 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: P-40

Oh, I understand, and I also understand compassion. But I am glad to know that given the choice you would have approved of the decision to destroy the aircraft before it could hit the tower.


If I had the links I would provide them, but...

Recently there was a teen age girl who murdered her parents. IIRC her brother survived. She and her 20 something year old boyfriend found the parents “inconvenient.”

Years ago a woman in Texas drowned her children in the bath tub.

Within the last year another woman threw her children off of a bridge.

About 12 (?) years ago Susan Smith sent her children to the bottom of a lake in the car. She claimed a black man had car-jacked her.

Even in the case of the “Yeates woman” in Texas, where the claim was insanity, I believe that the victims were simply “inconvenient.”

So; would you kill a child who cramps your style? If you are employed by a hospital would you kill your charges or would you try to save them? When you see suffering in an orphanage what do you see as the correct solution?

A few weeks ago I had to have a cat put down. He had been sick, on and off, for a year. I don’t think I ever had a more difficult task to do. If I had to go through it again I guess I would have to do the same thing. But I would never do it with a human being. A human is made in the image of God. I had that cat for over 16 years and I loved him, but he was not made in God’s image.


76 posted on 06/21/2007 6:33:21 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: P-40
And I suppose the decision NOT to immediately evacuate the buildings made sense?Many of those who died did so because of the delay in getting out.Immediately after the first plane hit and large fire started,the building evacuation should have begun.

AS for murdering patients in their beds,the staff would have showed courage if they fought hard to save the patients at the risk of losing their jobs by calling for evacuation earlier and not accepting no for an answer.How much braver to have demanded the patients be moved and threatened to,and if needed,resigned the jobs and gone to the news media and to the city officials.. Any amoral animal can bite and kill if it finds itself backed into a corner.People,especially highly trained,educated doctors and nurses ,who use their brains try to avoid being forced into corners.

The doctors and nurses involved should lose their licenses and their freedom.

77 posted on 06/21/2007 6:35:17 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: Grizzled Bear
I had that cat for over 16 years and I loved him, but he was not made in God’s image.

I hope you never told that to the cat. They have fragile egos, you know. ; )

78 posted on 06/21/2007 6:37:04 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: Grizzled Bear

None of your examples are relevant. Simple greed or inconvenience is not part of the discussion here. Your profile says you were in the USAF. If you were in a fighter, back in the pre-Clinton era when they still carried weapons, and saw an aircraft on its way to hit the WTC and you had a clear shot...would you have fired? One shot, possibly, and all that death and suffering could have been avoided...except for an unfortunate few. Horrible situation to be in and you should not have to be in it...but there you are. In many ways, those doctors may have been in the same situation.


79 posted on 06/21/2007 6:41:03 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40; Grizzled Bear

Your example is irrelevent. These patients weren’t killed to save the lives of a greater number of people. If you want a relevent hypothetical example from 9/11, here’s one a little closer to this situation. Should the firemen going into the burning buildings have brought with them lethal injections, for any victims they couldn’t save?


80 posted on 06/21/2007 6:44:27 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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