Columnist Attacks Terri Schiavo Supporters

The St. Petersburg Times ^ | September 28, 2003 | Mary Jo Melone

[iowamomforfreedom]

Here's the e-mail address for Letters to the Editor at SP Times: letters@sptimes.com.

Also just noticed they put up a poll "Should Terri's feeding tube be disconnected" on their front page. If you care to voice your opinion (FREEP THIS POLL) go to http://www.sptimes.com.

[iowamomforfreedom]

Freep this poll at the SP Times http://www.sptimes.com
Results of Poll:
Should Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be removed?

860 votes

Yes 646 75%
No 214 25%

Lets you vote more than once. Have at it.

[phenn]

Yes, you should. Here are the last four of her columns on Terri.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/28/Columns/Governor_as_guardian_.shtml

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/21/Columns/Crusade_is_blind_to_h.shtml

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/25/Columns/Let_Schiavo_fade_away.shtml

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/28/Columns

[sfRummygirl]

I think the poll is riged......the numbers on the top change, but the ones on the bottom don't. As far as I can tell.

[phenn]

You just took the words out of my mouth. I noticed the same thing and since about 9.00 am this morning.

[sfRummygirl]

Holy s**t, is that sick. They forced the poll to show she should be killed.
Ok, now what?

[iowamomforfreedom]

It wouldn't surprise me.

I just voted 4 times and none of the numbers changed. Maybe they don't warn you that you can only vote once, but just don't record any additional votes from your ip number.

[Doc Savage]

Nice photo! Is there any morsel of food in Florida that Melone hasn't eaten? By the looks of this over-stuffed shirt, she'd like to see Terry die so she steal her hospital tray! Never trust a fatso communist columnist
as far as you can throw a crouton!!

[mountaineer]

"My father had Alzheimer's and in 1991, unable to speak, one day simply refused food," wrote Jackie Owen of New Port Richey. She followed what she guessed were his wishes. "He died peacefully," she said.

My father had Alzheimers, too. He lost his ability to speak and to swallow. He even lost his gag reflex. That did not mean he did not want to eat or to live, not was it a conscious expression of such desire. Unlike Ms. Owen, I don't claim the omniscience to "guess" the desires of someone who can't express himself.

It meant he wouldn't live unless we had him fed through a tube, so we did. The notion of starving your own father, or daughter, or wife to death is abhorrent, inhumane and unconscionable.

BTW, my father's death from pneumonia was - to the best of our knowledge - painless, which could not have been said of death by starvation.

[sfRummygirl]

Hee-HEE!
I was thinking the same thing. She looks like she has the compassion of Martha Stewart, too.

[mommadooo3]

With another order to remove Schiavo's feeding tube pending, I described how death would occur. Medical experts told me that denying food and water is a common and painless way to die.

This author is a FLAT OUT LIAR, along WITH, her medical experts. Starvation/dehydration is NOT a painless/easy death.

[phenn]

She's a liar, alright. Dehydration death is not a piece of cake:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34416

[phenn]

>>Is there any morsel of food in Florida that Melone hasn't eaten?

Dude, THAT'S comedy.

[libravoter]

I just voted 4 times and none of the numbers changed. Maybe they don't warn you that you can only vote once, but just don't record any additional votes from your ip number.

Hmmm, that could be. We should have someone who hasn't voted yet let us know right before they do, so we can check if it changes.

Any volunteers?

[phenn]

Try clearing out your cookies and cache and see if that makes a difference.

[mtbrandon49]

"The nearness of her own death has led Lessac to pay close attention to the Terri Schiavo case."
Typical liberal B.S.. My dad's only 54 and he's had his burial and stuff paid for for 10 years. It's not because he's ready to die. It's so we aren't left with all the headache when he does go.
"Gov. Jeb Bush already has asked that a guardian other than her husband be named for Terri Schiavo. The judge, Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer - who has had this case since its beginning - wisely said no."
No bias here, no sir!(sarcasm)
I just wonder if the people who want Terri dead would refuse to feed a healthy 6 month old child. Seems like the same thing to me.

[syriacus]

Done.

[syriacus]

No 1448 (56%)

Yes 1153 (44%)

[phenn]

2892 Votes
1440 Yes
1452 No

as of 4.18 GMT-5

[freeparoundtheclock]

Felos or hubby might be voting in the polls themselves. Hubby's friends or girlfriend might be stuffing the ballot box too.