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Student battles back from debilitating crash
San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 1/1/10 | Steve Liewer

Posted on 01/02/2010 1:38:55 PM PST by wagglebee

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To: freedumb2003; BykrBayb; wagglebee
bb:Michael testified in court, and told the press that was covering one of his fund raisers, that Terri was responding to therapy, and that he promised her that he would take care of her for the rest of their lives.

From the injury HE gave her. How convenient....

fd: And he did.

Until he got tired of it and murdered her.

There is no legitimate reason in the world that he could not simply have divorced her and let her parents take over the care.

All your championing of freedom from government intrusion have the same hollow ring to it that all the pro-choicers have when they claim that a woman has a *right* to murder her own baby because it's her body and the government doesn't have the right to interfere and tell her she can't murder it.

21 posted on 01/02/2010 2:57:57 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: freedumb2003; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; Sun; Coleus; narses; PhilDragoo; ...
No, I want it to mean the ability to think.

Ability to "think" is totally subjective and has NOTHING to do with brain death.

The final provisions of a person has always been held with the closest family. There is no legal relationship closer than spouse.

So, in the absence of a legal document you believe that a spouse should be allowed to kill someone?

You can presume all you want. Many of us want to be let go when we are are vegetables.

So, YOU want to impose YOUR desires on EVERYONE else?

She wasn’t married. Schaivo was.

What does that have to do with her response to therapy.

22 posted on 01/02/2010 2:59:27 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: BykrBayb

>> It’s already been proven. Michael’s court testimony was documented.

Your troll-tactic of changing the subject mid-sentence is an old one. Okay, so now you want to make it about the laws that were violated. Or is it about Terri’s knowledge of law? Could you try to say something that actually makes sense? <<
OK. Ms. Schaivo told her husband to not let her stay if she was a vegetable. You weren’t there, so you don’t know.

>>He did what? Take care of her for the rest of their lives? The context in which he gave that testimony suggested that he promised to take care of her in the true sense of caring, not in the sense of “I’ll take care of that bitch.” Killing her was the direct opposite of what he testified he promised to do for her.<<

He did the best he could with meddling parents and other nosey types getting in their personal business.

>>What does that have to do with anything we were discussing? Nothing. But trolls must change the subject frequently. So okay, you want to talk about Terri’s estranged husband violating more than just his vow not to kill her. You want to introduce his sexual infidelity. But how do his sexual escapades support small government? I don’t get the connection you’re trying to make there.<<

It was you all that introduced the husband’s peccadilloes. My point is they are irrelevant, no matter how much you Nanny-Staters want to bring them up.

>>So now you’re saying that when she grew up her family should have severed all involvement in her life? That’s what you claimed they did in your previous post. Make up your mind. Pick a belief, and defend that belief. Only trolls change their belief midstream to enable them to continue arguing.<<

You are very slow. I will go slowly. When you marry, you give up almost all legal ties to your previous family. And if an adult leaves his/her home the legal ties to the original family become tenuous. Marriage severs them altogether.

Of coure, you Nanny Staters will say anything an build any straw man to make sure you defend Big Government to support your political agenda.

>>Mixed what up? Are you now trying to suggest that it’s their fault Michael embezzled Terri’s rehab money?<<

You can’t embezzle what is yours. The parents only started “caring” substantially when there was money involved. They had no legal standing and I continue to be amazed the court let them in.


23 posted on 01/02/2010 3:00:35 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: BykrBayb; wagglebee
Therein lies the irony of the deathbots' manifesto.

FOTFLOL!!!!

You nailed it.

24 posted on 01/02/2010 3:00:49 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: freedumb2003; wagglebee
wb: >>So, now you want to change the definition of brain death to be whatever you think it is?<<

fd: No, I want it to mean the ability to think.

And your excuse is????

25 posted on 01/02/2010 3:02:29 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: wagglebee

This is getting old, so I’ll answet the obly question that is of import:

>>So, in the absence of a legal document you believe that a spouse should be allowed to kill someone?<<

No, I the spouse is the only person who is legally allowed to express the stated desires of someone who is unable to think for themselves. You may want the government to think for you and break the law for you, but I think the law is more important than a narrow and political pro-Government agenda.

Unless and until you can produce a witness to gainsay the husband, your entire argument is sophistry and just more pro-Big-Government propaganda.


26 posted on 01/02/2010 3:04:02 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003; jackibutterfly
Video of Terri's dead body enjoying her father reminiscencing about her childhood.
27 posted on 01/02/2010 3:05:03 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: wagglebee; freedumb2003; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; Sun; Coleus; narses; PhilDragoo
So, YOU want to impose YOUR desires on EVERYONE else?

No, he simply cannot conceive of someone thinking differently than he does, so he projects onto others.

And yes, he does. That is readily apparent on other threads on which I've seen him post. His posting history, there for all to see, bears it out.

28 posted on 01/02/2010 3:05:12 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

>>And your excuse is????<<

I don’t have hate and evil in my heart like you do.

That is sufficient.


29 posted on 01/02/2010 3:05:24 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: metmom

>>No, he simply cannot conceive of someone thinking differently than he does, so he projects onto others.<<

OMG the irony.

>>And yes, he does. That is readily apparent on other threads on which I’ve seen him post. His posting history, there for all to see, bears it out.<<

OMG the irony.


30 posted on 01/02/2010 3:06:42 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: metmom

But it always makes me happy to see my paparazzi stalkers doing what they do so well.


31 posted on 01/02/2010 3:07:33 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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OK. Ms. Schaivo told her husband to not let her stay if she was a vegetable. You weren’t there, so you don’t know.

Were YOU there?

How do you know she told him? Did you hear it yourself?

32 posted on 01/02/2010 3:07:47 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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According to the AMA, brain death means “irreversible cessation of the functions of the ENTIRE brain, including brain stem.”
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/369/ceja_4i94.pdf


33 posted on 01/02/2010 3:09:06 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: metmom

>>How do you know she told him? Did you hear it yourself?<<

That isn’t the way evidence nor logic works.

But that concept is wasted on you.


34 posted on 01/02/2010 3:09:11 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003
I don’t have hate and evil in my heart like you do.

That's ironic coming from someone who believes that a husband should be able to decide to kill his own wife.

So, answer the other question....Why didn't he just divorce her and let her family take over the care?

If marriage severs the ties to the immediate family like you claim, then divorce should restore them.

What skin was it off his back if they got divorced and he let her family take over her care?

35 posted on 01/02/2010 3:12:05 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: freedumb2003

Why are you such an advocate for allowing spouses to kill their mates if they want to?


36 posted on 01/02/2010 3:13:34 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: wagglebee

My DIL is going to school to become an Occupational Therapist, one of the guys with her in the program had a Truamatic Brain Injury. He had a PhD. in biology before the accident and he credits the OT’s for getting him back as far as they did and wants to be able to return the favor.


37 posted on 01/02/2010 3:14:07 PM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: freedumb2003
I don’t have hate and evil in my heart like you do.

I feel anyone who wants to kill a living person has hate and evil in their heart.
38 posted on 01/02/2010 3:14:10 PM PST by John D
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To: freedumb2003

You’re ignoring most of the evidence.


39 posted on 01/02/2010 3:14:29 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: freedumb2003; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; Sun; Coleus; narses; PhilDragoo; ...
the spouse is the only person who is legally allowed to express the stated desires of someone who is unable to think for themselves. You may want the government to think for you and break the law for you, but I think the law is more important than a narrow and political pro-Government agenda.

Florida law at the time of Terri's injury DID NOT allow for dehydration/starvation, so that point is moot.

I realize you are anti-government and pro-anarchy, but government DOES EXIST to protect people.

Unless and until you can produce a witness to gainsay the husband, your entire argument is sophistry and just more pro-Big-Government propaganda.

Here is an affidavit showing the Mikey Schiavo had no idea what Terri wanted:

Affidavit of Trudy Capone

40 posted on 01/02/2010 3:19:17 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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