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Find out the TRUTH about Terris Fight for life
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| April 22, 2006
| Debra M. Ferguson
Posted on 05/03/2007 3:17:03 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
I purchased this book last year, and found it to be one of the best references for facts in Terri Schiavo's case. Reading this book is like sitting down with Cheryl and Jan, and listening/watching them present the actual evidence and truth about so many things that the mainstream "pro euthanasia" media has refused to tell. You will see the actual hospital documents, police reports, and so much more.
I will warn you though, that once you learn about the judicial misconduct, FL laws broken, the details of Michaels malpractice case,(money was paid under the claim that Terri had a heart attack brought on by potassium imbalance that was undetected. The autopsy confirmed this assumption was bogus, and that Terri never had a heart attack brought on by anything. The news however, is consistently reporting to this day that the autopsy confirmed the heart attack! There is a lot more about the autopsy that has never been reported. The geniuses reported that the autopsy proves Terri was not strangled, however, it only proves that 15 years later, there is no sign of soft tissue damage - nor would there be if someone was strangled that long ago!) Reporters should be charged with a misleading the public charge for purposely reporting assumptions as truth. And why is it that all the TV stations do not disclose that Terris records were SEALED by Judge Greer?
No one reports on the bone scan that indicated a tremendous force hit her, as well as the multiple fractures and other damage. ****HBO Autopsy Dr. Himself, Mr Baden, had commented on the bone scan before Terris death, and suggested there may have been foul play.*** There is so much corruption involved in Terris case, Pro death judges making their political position the law, instead of obeying the law and keeping their opinions out of it! Greer sealed her case, so why isnt any anchors asking about that? Why were Michaels prescribed anti depressant bottles witnessed by the police the night of the "Incident" taken as evidence? Why were Terris friends and family not questioned regarding Michaels attitude, or any marital problems? The first report on what happened at the Schiavo residence, was titled a homicide. Why was it changed? What happened to the woodwards and Bernsteins in our country? Now each network or cable news feeds off the other, like vultures. They report the same story over and over, from reuters or the like, and rarely ever investigate it themselves. Newspapers follow suit. If someone investigated the five different interviews that Schiavo has given to the media and police reports, Michael Schiavo might very well be behind bars, in the cell next to Scott Peterson.
There is actually v ery little difference between the two, the more you learn about what may very well have happened that night to Terry. Yet strangely, Matt Lauer and Larry King, and all the other news media does not bring up these questions, or question Michael why in the 7 years after Terris "incident" did he never ever tell a soul about Terris wishes that for seven years he supposedly denied? No media outlet reported on the testimony that Schiavo told other people that he had no idea what Terri would have wanted, as they had never spoken of something like that happening in any context. The only time Michael did come out with this revelation was after he asked his girlfriend to marry him, and all of a sudden there was a rush to get rid of Terri and whooops, there it is, a million dollar inheritance!
If someone is in a position to gain something from another persons death, they should not be the guardian of that person. PERIOD. For all the sappy journalists that report that Michael became a nurse to take care of Terry, the truth is that he did not really "care" for Terry. He bossed around nurses, on a Schiavo power trip but he didnt take care of Terri. Did anyone report on the testimony of nurses that said that Terri would be visibly shaken after his visits, and afraid, crying, etc? Did they report that there were nurses that made entries in Terris medical file about things Michael said or did, or how Terri responded, and Michael would see to it that they were removed?
I could go on and on! If you care about the truth, learn more about this case, not just what you hear your TV anchor saying. We all owe that to Terri, because at the very least, what happened to her will affect all of the laws regarding other disabled people like her.
Of course the "Pro Death" movement hates this book, which is why I see some entries in the reviews desperately trying to persuade others to pass it up. They dont want you to see it, which is why you need to see it. Cheryl, who is by the way, a registered nurse gave up her life on the West coast as a consultant to the Schindlers during the fight for Terris life. She was on the inside, aware of all of the facts regarding Terris injuries, her marriage, the inconsistent interviews, Testimonies regarding the night of Terris "incident", and so much more. Ford and Craddock do the legwork in reading all of the court documents, and bring out the parts that others left buried. Cheryl also led thousands of Terris supporters, that grew once the videos were released. Here michael and Judge Greer were talking of Terri as if she were in a coma, as if she were sleeping and not responsive at all. Greer and Schiavo were furious that the videos were released to the public. That now there was proof that Terri was aware, and did respond to family, dr's questions, and requests, could track things with her eyes. Another fallacy of the autopsy was that Terri could not see. False. It was stated that to be sure that Terri could or could not see, a doctor would have to do just what the videos did. They would have to examine her and see how much she was able to see - and any moron could tell that Terri could see to some extent after recognizing family, and following baloons and lights she was requested to follow. The fight4terri group worked 24/7 through internet emails, faxes, phone calls, letters, protests, to reach those with the power to save Terris life.
Anyone upset about the facts in this book, is really angry that the truth is coming out in it. when the truth comes out, the advocates for people like Terri have their agendas pushed back once again. If people like Terri and others with Alzheimers and brain damage, chronic disease, etc are looked at as liabilities within the health system rather than human beings who still have worth, who still have hope, and who still have a right to live with simple food and water. Terri, was not on any machines as was reported on many programs, she was not weak, my Lord, she lasted 14 days without one drop of water. Many of us who are healthy would not last one quarter of that time.
Without this book, you will be missing a great deal of the story on Terris life, the autopsy, as well as what really happened before, during, and after Terri was injured. The book is well written and what really went on in Terri's life will keep you glued to the pages. I am purchasing additional books for lawmakers in hopes of changing our country's guardianship laws. I would encourage everyone who reads it to do the same, if you want to stop seeing other innocent people like Terri sentenced to death. There are many more than Terri, every day, who die silently, with no one to speak for them. The hospice agenda of starving patients has gone out of control. Terri and others like her, are dying painful, horrible deaths, in rooms far away from Katie Courick, Matt Lauer or Larry King. They are dying with nurses and doctors standing by, ignoring the oath they took not to harm their patients. These are people who never agreed to such torture, and pain. People being starved, guilty of being disabled, and needing someone to bring the food and water to their mouth, to a straw or to a longer straw going into the stomach if their swallowing is affected. there is no difference. The Judge in Terris case (Greer) didnt mandate that she only have the tube taken out, he mandated that even if Terri could eat or drink sustenance by mouth, it would not be offered to her, by his decree. He made sure that police would be there to see that no one allowed Terri to even attempt to eat or drink on her own, regardless of testimony from numerous nurses that she could and did indeed eat on their shifts, jello, pudding and other soft or liquid foods. Instead, given that testimony from multiple sources, Greer made sure that no tests would be done on Terri to confirm whether or not she could eat by mouth! He mandated that Terri do nothing less than DIE. We dont starve murderers, it would be too cruel a death. However, for those with disabilities who can not speak, they are the ones who are forced to suffer that fate, by a Judge who never ever went to see Terri once in all the years that her case was in the courts. Bottom line, we need laws that insure food and water be given to any person without a clear written and signed directive. We need to make sure that men who move on and take another family do not get to decide whether hat happens to the woman they left behind. Every womens group that turned a deaf ear to Terri, should be totally ashamed. ACLU as well. The same Judge that was appointed to watch over Terris medical funds to make sure they were there for her, should not have been able to allow her husband to take them, and buy an expensive lawyer that he could not afford on his own with her medical care money! You will see the judicial misconduct in this case and it will make you scream! If the world knew what was in this book before Terri died, she would be alive right now! My gratitude to Ford and Craddock for such an excellent and much needed book.
Mrs. Debra Ferguson Disability Rights Advocate, SC
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: legacy; prolife; schiavo; schindler; terri; terridailies
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To: 8mmMauser
Altenburn of the 2nd dca’s boy scout troop has an annual Stamp Out Hunger driver. That’s his name. By the way, Terri was in today’s St. Pete Times re: Giuliani’s flip flop. He was for Terri when he visited here but was for the courts by the time he ended up in the Reagan Library. I guess the Pinellas gobsters had a little talk w/Rudi and set him straight that Terri was to be denied all her rights. He obeyed them. Pinellas County is gop central but not conservative central.
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posted on
05/05/2007 4:27:27 PM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
To: bjs1779
Friar J.’s a really nice guy.
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posted on
05/05/2007 4:36:05 PM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
To: bjs1779
Did you hear about the 29 year old guy who was in a survival course and they wouldn't give him any water? The owner of the survival biz has a show on the discovery channel. (temporarily, that is imo). The guides had water on them and they refused when the dead guy asked for water. However, as you know, by that time, it would have probably been too late anyway. The guy should have been coptered out of there - he was way past one cup of water reviving him. They need to start with iv drip first. A nice cop in 2003 explained that to me. There were no nice cops in 2005 at hostage woodside.
This guy's mom was in hospice dying and they wouldn't even let him pass the police line because THEY WERE ARRESTING THE CHILDREN AT THE TIME. The guy wasn't mad at us, he was mad at the cops. So were the tv people who were not allowed to pass the police line.
Terri was nightmare 1. Katrina was nightmare 2 - same stuff, different day.
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posted on
05/05/2007 4:43:13 PM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
To: T'wit
Yeah David Gibbs. Easy to forget.
Anyway, there's some news here:
http://terrisfight.org/
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posted on
05/05/2007 4:50:09 PM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
To: floriduh voter
I could tell just by reading his article that he is.
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posted on
05/05/2007 5:54:45 PM PDT
by
bjs1779
To: floriduh voter
Yeah David Gibbs. Easy to forget. : )
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posted on
05/05/2007 5:56:37 PM PDT
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bjs1779
To: floriduh voter
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posted on
05/05/2007 6:51:43 PM PDT
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bjs1779
To: Ohioan from Florida; Goodgirlinred; Miss Behave; cyn; AlwaysFree; amdgmary; angelwings49; ...
Emilio Gonzales, and Andrea Clark, and the Texas Futile Care law, and the bishops.... by Wesley J. Smith.
What if hospitals could put a sign over their doors stating, We reserve the right to refuse life-sustaining care? People would be outraged. Yet that is precisely what Texas law explicitly grants to hospitals namely, to say no to wanted life-sustaining treatment, on the basis of subjective judgments about the quality of the patients life.
It is an example of a bioethical concept known as Futile Care Theory, a.k.a. medical futility.
Why Does the Texas Catholic Conference Support the Futile Care Law?
8mm
How did Texas, of all places, become ground zero for futile-care impositions?
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posted on
05/06/2007 3:29:28 AM PDT
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8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: All
Emilio and opinion from Salt Lake...
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Emilio Gonzales is a 17-month-old boy in Austin, Texas, suffering from Leigh's disease, a rare, incurable, degenerate disorder. The genetic disease has left the child, who is kept alive by a ventilator, unable to see, speak or eat.
Doctors at Austin Children's Hospital believe that the toddler is experiencing immense pain, and they contend that keeping him alive is cruel because there is no cure for his condition.
A Texas law gives hospitals the right to end life support if doctors feel further treatment is futile. The doctors are attempting to exercise their right and stop treatment.
The child's mother, Catarina Gonzales, is fighting the hospital's decision.
Gonzales wants her son kept alive on the ventilator. She wants him to die "naturally, the way God intended."
This case and many others like it leave people of faith sharply divided.
There are those who are outraged by the law that gives the hospital the right to make life-and-death decisions even in the face of family disagreement. But some medical ethicists defend the law, suggesting that family members do not have the medical expertise and are often too emotional to make a decision in the best interest of the patient.
Emilio's mother is facing harsh criticism for fighting to keep her child alive despite his suffering. Critics point out that if her intent is to allow her child to die naturally, then she should not be opposed to the hospital's decision to end life support and let her son die.
The Bible's stance is, "Thou shall not kill," which is better understood to mean, "Thou shall not murder."
Hodges: Is ending life support for ailing boy akin to murder?
8mm
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posted on
05/06/2007 3:39:17 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: All; floriduh voter
A deeper look again into the Rudy short stack flipped by our waffle king...
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In the GOP debate Thursday night, candidate Ruddy Giuliani suggested the Schiavo controversy should have been left to the courts. But when Giuliani visited home county of Terri Schiavo last month, he said he supported the controversial effort by Congress to intervene to keep the severely brain-damaged woman on life support, according to a report in the St. Petersburg Times.
~Snip~
In April, however, he noted that the controversy had been through the court system for years, adding that the 2005 congressional intervention, "was appropriate to make every effort to give her a chance to stay alive. ... My general view is, you should do everything you can to keep somebody alive unless they have expressed a strong interest in not having very, very special things done, extraordinary things done."
Story Continues Below
A day after the debate, Giuliani's campaign spokesman, Elliott Bundy attempted to clarify his bosses position on Schiavo:
~Snip~
"Anybody hurts themselves by being inconsistent on this particular subject," remarked state Rep. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala Republican who led the state legislative efforts to keep Schiavo alive in 2005. "In retrospect, it's not popular to be associated with it, but when you're in the middle of it, you don't deal with whether it's popular, you have to deal with whether it's right."
"Mr. Giuliani needs to figure out what he really believes about these important issues of privacy and the rule of law, " said Derek Newton, a spokesman for Terripac, the political committee started by Terri Schiavo's husband. "But if he believes what he said last - that this issue is a legal one and not a political one - he is squarely in tune with most Americans, and we applaud him."
Giuliani Flips on Schiavo Case
8mm
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posted on
05/06/2007 3:51:27 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: All; Sun
More on Hunter and Terri...
If any of the Republican presidential candidates, who participated in the debate sponsored by MSNBC and Politico.com, at the Reagan Library, illustrated that he, indeed, has inherited the mantle of Ronald Reagan, it was Congressman Duncan Hunter.
~Snip~
Unlike McCain, Hunter did not pander about his faith and try to walk a fine line between secular and religious. He was definitive about his belief as to what was the correct course in the Schiavo case.
~Snip~
Fox News said, An honorable mention goes to Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) who outdistanced his western state rival for the anti-immigration vote, Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.). Hunter was more attractive and handled the immigration issue better than Tancredo. He helped himself move to the front rank of the second tier of candidates.
The media is starting notice Hunter. The rest of the electorate will as well.
If Duncan Hunter can get the financial resources needed to continue his campaign he will definitely be the Reaganesque candidate the Republican Party and the country needs.
The GOP Debate
8mm
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posted on
05/06/2007 3:57:57 AM PDT
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8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: All; T'wit
The "big" three hew a different direction from the Gipper and like minded Republicans...
Romney, McCain and Giuliani all strayed from GOP support for interceding in the widely publicized case of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman. And Giuliani went so far as to endorse a woman's right to make a decision on whether to have an abortion.
These three GOP candidates are certainly blazing new trails, but it's unlikely that they're ones that would please the Gipper.
They are pioneering a different brand of Republicanism
8mm
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:04:23 AM PDT
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8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: All
And Bloomberg crafts a definition of Republican, outside of my imagination...
Yesterday, on his radio show, Bloomberg continued to burnish his image as a no-nonsense, nonpartisan leader who knows how to solve problems that affect real people.
"What you see here is that Washington is so paralyzed because of partisanship they don't focus on the real-world problems that mayors have to face," he said. "They spend their time discussing flag burning and, you know, Terri Schiavo, a terrible case, and they wring their hands and rush to do press conferences after Virginia Tech."
"But there are 30-odd people murdered every day in this country by guns, and nobody wants to focus on that," he said. "But mayors do."
3rd party? No way! - Mike
8mm
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:09:53 AM PDT
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8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: All; wagglebee
Wagglebee thread on a proposal: It's all about Mee han...
Yet, according to statements National Right to Life and the Family Research Council sent LifeNews.com, the reality is that the Meehan Amendment would force countless individual Americans and groups to register and report as lobbying firms."
That's a requirement if they influence fellow citizens to contact Congress or officials of the executive branch on policy matters.
Pro-Life Groups: Meehan Amendment Unfairly Targets Free Speech Rights
8mm
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:14:59 AM PDT
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8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: 8mmMauser
“I’m hearing more and more from people where doctors are consulting with families and, in many cases, are deciding it would be best to take steps to end a life,” he said.
This is exactly what my nephews doctors tried to do. They even showed Terris video to them to persuade them to pull all his life support. After a massive brain injury due to car accident, induced coma and drugs that kept him in a pvs state for 2 yrs, his family stopped all medication, He is now able to stand leg press 140 lbs, dress himself and do many daily tasks. The doctors are not always right and many have an eerie need to press the right to die agenda forward. I Thank God everyday as I hear my nephew’s voice over the phone, knowing he is able to watch his children grow and his improvements come with time and patience, understanding and prayer.
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05/06/2007 4:18:06 AM PDT
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glymers
To: All; wagglebee
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:21:30 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: glymers
I am thankful your nephew got through that harrowing and dangerous time with the doctors and am glad you are mentioning it. These incidents happen too often and are not exposed frequently enough to the light of day. Sometimes it is more blatant like in my post #24 on Scott Thomas, and sometimes it is more subtle as in a case of a friend we lost months ago. For twenty six years, doctors continuously tried to persuade us to let our son die, and we resisted. Not many those days even believed us.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:34:33 AM PDT
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8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: 8mmMauser
Hunter is getting the right press in the right places. If we want “a choice, not an echo,” to remember Phyllis Schlafly’s phrase, Hunter has to be a prime contender, even if he is not very well known yet.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:43:51 AM PDT
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T'wit
(Confidence in science rests on belief in God's order and will not long survive loss of this belief.)
To: glymers
What a frightening story! But yet it offers a hopeful view that patience and fortitude can triumph. God bless your nephew and all who had the courage to help him along.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:49:10 AM PDT
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T'wit
(Confidence in science rests on belief in God's order and will not long survive loss of this belief.)
To: 8mmMauser
>>
GOP's Big Three - They are pioneering a different brand of Republicanism Which, dear fools, is just what Republicans object to.
Don't you just love it when liberals tell us what Republicanism should be? It turns out to be just like Democrats. And it always starts with Republicans changing their view -- as if we had no principles. It is Democrats who have no core values. They aren't even conscious that they are projecting their silly-putty view on Republicans.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:55:23 AM PDT
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T'wit
(Confidence in science rests on belief in God's order and will not long survive loss of this belief.)
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