[the invisib1e hand]

This gets my vote for Title of The Year.

[ColoCdn]

Absolutely wonderful.

I suppose the money pipeline wouldn't materialize if Michael were to somehow have a 'choking' accident and went brain dead would it?

How long would it take a 6'6" piece of crap to dehydrate, anyway?

[demlosers]

The bidding for this book will have a floor of two million dollars. The top offer will be in the range of three to three and a half-million for hardcover and paperback rights...Film rights will be held back.

A book that I will not read and a film I will not watch.

[JeeperFreeper]

We have a winner on Schiavo's motive. Good post.

[syriacus]

[sarcasm] This can't be...the Libs tell us that only the "right-wing, religious zealots"* and conservative politicians are making hay off of Terri's suffering. [/sarcasm]

*Ralph Nader has joined the ranks of the overly-emotional zealots who want to save Terri....
Ralph Nader, Author Wesley Smith...Take any Legal Action Available to let Schiavo Live

[Boardwalk]

Follow the money!

[FBD]

Kate Adamson: who was in a PVS condition contradicts the lie, that it’s “painless to be starved to death"

Recovered “Vegetative State” Patient Kate Adamson Speaks Before Schiavo Rally

“One of the most painful experiences you can imagine." Unable to respond or to indicate awareness, Kate Adamson asserts, “I was just like Terri…but I was alive! I could hear every word. They were saying ‘shall we just not treat her?’...I suffered excruciating misery in silence.”

Struck down in 1995 at the age of thirty-three by a rare double brainstem stroke, Kate, then a mother of two young girls, was completely paralyzed; she was unable even to blink her eyes. Like Terri Schiavo, the medical staff treating her questioned the merit of continuing granting Kate the most basic human right of food and water. "I suffered excruciating misery in silence.”

Kate Adamson’s feeding tube was at one point removed for a full eight days before being reinserted due to the intervention of her husband (also a competent lawyer).

Picture of Kate Adamson: totally paralyzed by a severe double brainstem stroke on June 29, 1995.


This is Kate today (thanks to a loving husband who did not give up on her)

Kate Adamson tells her story HERE: 10 years later with a loving husband's support and years of rehabilitation.

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[lonevoice]

Great work! This provides a realistic picture of the monetary benefit that will accrue to Michael Schaivo when Terri dies.

[kjenerette]

The court, in 1997 when Michael announced he was 'engaged' should have immediately conducted a guardianship hearing and transfered Terri to State guardianship. Because of this failure, we are in the present situation.

Questions that need to be immediately considered:

(1) Why did Michael choose to 'ignore' her wishes for nearly 7 years until 1997 when he announced he was'engaged' to Jodi Centonze and 'suddenly' remembered the conversation about life support with Terri from years before?

Respondent answer would most likely rationalize that it took that long before Michael Schiavo realized there was 'no hope for recovery...'

(2) However, the 1992 malpractice suit for $20 million was based on the premise/conclusion that Terri would NOT recover and she would require constant medical care for the remainder of her life estimated by Michael Shiavo and his laywers to be 51 years(which is the normal life expectancey)...Where were her WISHES at that time?

(3) The court, in 1997 when Michael announced he was 'engaged' should have immediately conducted a guardianship hearing and transfered Terri to State guardianship, at a minimum because of the obvious conflict of interest on the part of Michael Shiavo.

The court system failed to act at that point, and that is a major factor on why we are at the point we are today.

(4) Guardianship, by law and practice, is determined to be given to that person who is most heavily 'biased' in favor of the disabled person. Under most conditions this would be the spouse. However, most prudent courts, if during the guardianship period, the appointed guardian by circumstances or accident tilts the 'bias' away from the interest of the person so guarded, would conduct an immediate review, and at a minimum, transfer guardianship to the appropriate State agency.

An additional thought, as I presented it to my class at the university yesterday and I posed the question to the students:

If Terri Schiavo's medical condition, feeding tube et al, was exactly the same as it is, age 25, etc. with the single exception that she was not 'mentally' disabled but had all other functions; and she expressed a desire to have the feeding tube removed and wanted to die, what would we do?

Of course the answer is clear, she would not be allowed to make that 'choice' and would be sent for counselling, etc.

Van & Katherine Jenerette

[Aria]

What happened to the money that was supposed to be for her care for the rest of her life that supposedly is now gone at age 41? Was the hospice complicit in using up the money?

[grassboots.org]

Here is a new number to call at the Governor Bush Office to encourage him to "err on the side of life":

1-850-487-1111

Be nice and thank him for what he has done so far. I believe that some of what was said about the Florida Republican senators before they had even voted (by RT) may have forced them into the wrong vote.

[shield]

Wonder how much the judge will receive from MONSTER MICHAEL?

[Fantelina]

I suspect money or the lack is the purpose after all this time. Lawyers ain't cheap.

[bethtopaz]

I think we all are assured of the evil Michael Schiavo's probably motives - money and freedom from worried he will ever have Terri's finger pointed at him for attempted murder. But what's with these evil judges? I just don't understand it. I know this sounds extreme, but when I woke up this morning and heard the new news, I said, "May these evil judges choke on their own saliva." They have shown no mercy to Terri and her family - may no mercy be shown to them. I am angry - beyond words.

[bethtopaz]

I think we all are assured of the evil Michael Schiavo's probably motives - money and freedom from worried he will ever have Terri's finger pointed at him for attempted murder. But what's with these evil judges? I just don't understand it. I know this sounds extreme, but when I woke up this morning and heard the new news, I said, "May these evil judges choke on their own saliva." They have shown no mercy to Terri and her family - may no mercy be shown to them. I am angry - beyond words.

[bethtopaz]

One more thought - let's put out an Amber Alert for Terri. She has been abducted by her evil husband -- his accomplices - evil, evil judges.

[shield]

Life Insurance on Terri....this is one I can not for the life of me understand. I'd be extremely surprised if a life insurance policy would have EVER been issued on Terri in her condition. Hopefully the insurance company will take a very very close look at the original life application.

[MayflowerMadam]

Within a hour of Terri's death, Michael should be arrested for murder. Unfortunately, he's a Pinellas Park resident, and it's doubtful that the PP Police will do that. It's a small, tight community, and I expect Michael has friends in high places there who have been, and are still, protecting him. Last night, O'Reilly said he's been trying to get information from the PP Police regarding the events of that night 15 years ago, and they won't cooperate. IF PP Police are protecting him, which O'Reilly alluded to, then perhaps a State agency can arrest the SOB. Maybe the police need to be investigated right along with Schiavo. Judge Greer and his wife, I believe, sit on the Board of Directors for the hospice where she lies dying. It's just all too weird and suspicious.

[Cicero]

I have no access to the financial details either, but I doubt whether any of the money has paid for the hospice. The odds are that the taxpayers have picked up the full tab.

Legal costs, I don't know. George Felos has a very strong ideological interest in killing people, and it could be that he gave Michael special rates. And of course his hospice got an extra patient out of the deal, with 15 years of government payments.

My guess is that a substantial amount of the award money still remains.

He couldn't afford to take the offer of a million because a) his name would have been instantly Mud; and b) he might have risked exposing himself to an attempted murder charge.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Bookmarked. FReegards....