Find out the TRUTH about Terris Fight for life

Amazon.com:Review ^ | April 22, 2006 | Debra M. Ferguson

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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

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Thanks, BB, for ping to this amazing story in a thread by Tweets.

Miracles do happen. That's what doctors said about 30-year-old Shannon Malloy. A car crash in Nebraska on Jan. 25 threw Malloy up against the vehicle's dashboard. In the process, her skull became separated from her spine. The clinical term for her condition is called internal decapitation. "I remember the impact and then I had no control over my head," said Malloy. "I wasn't focused so much on the pain. I just kept thinking, 'I have to stay alive.'"

Woman Survives Internal Decapitation

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[T'wit]

A good morning to you and all who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Trolls can get their own coffee. Can’t join you for a short while, back anon.

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I don’t know Tweets. I hope it isn’t my wife. Imagine the pandemonium if we were T’wit and Tweets. Tweets and T’wit. Mrs. Tweets T’wit. T’wit T’wit & Tweets T’wit, at home with their terrier Twitty and their tomcat Tweety. What WOULD we call the children.

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A good summary. I have sympathy for Ron Paul voting against federal involvement in some of these issues. That’s just saying “butt out” to the biggest buttinsky around. I don’t think Paul should be marked down (or up) for that.

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Scratch Rudy. I will worry again if he is invited to be the Veep candidate with Hillary.

[Sun]

Re: post 314, while some voters might vote against a candidate because they support/oppose the Iraq war, I can’t see too many voters voting against candidates who supported Terri, when there are so many other issues.

Even ignorant people who did not support Terri. because they didn’t know the facts, wouldn’t let that be a deciding factor, imo.

I used to like Politico.com, but after they ignored their readers votes on submitted questions, and asked so many of the PC, lib, or downright DUMB questions instead of chosing the questions their readers voted for, I am very skeptical of their pundits.

[Sun]

Yes, it was a good summary.

I disagree with you on Paul, though. I understand his libertarian logic, but I guess that’s why I’m a conservative, and not a libertarian.

Here’s a post (#6) from:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832356/posts

“To: gcruse

He has voted against many pro-life bills.

Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Voted NO on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)

6 posted on 05/11/2007 9:05:15 PM PDT by elizabetty”

[T'wit]

>> He has voted against many pro-life bills.

They are pro-life in name and purpose. I'm sure Ron Paul agrees. The question is whether the means are suitable to the chore. It's not a gimme.

I believe as he does that there is a serious question whether the federal government is the right agent to do these tasks, and for that matter, whether it is capable of doing them. Once the government takes over, so to speak, others wash their hands of it, so there is a serious downside risk to federal involvement. Everybody thinks, well, that takes care of that. And then nothing is done.

The immemorial conservative rule is "subsidiarity," which means do it privately, or at the lowest possible level of government (in that order). If you turn it over to the feds, you start at the top and give up on everything else. So this is a fine place for conservatives and libertarians to find some room for agreement.

Which is all that one need to say -- or at least all I'm going to say :-) Naturally I share the pro-life concerns in these questions.

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This report is separate sections, presumably complete changes of topic, yet I cannot but wonder if it is somehow interconnected in the logic of the left. Bear in mind this hails from Ithica, no longer a reminder of fine pump shotguns...

Having large families, it seems, is not only bad for privacy and savings, but also for Mother Earth. A study conducted by the Orwellian-sounding Optimum Population Trust (OPT) states that couples with two children instead of three cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 20 London-New York return flights a year. So switching lights off at home and conserving water aren't good enough any more. Having extra children is an ecological crime.

... The problem with an environmental think-tank telling individuals to stop having more than two children to save the planet is twofold. At one basic level, people rightly or wrongly put individual happiness before global unhappiness. Which is why smokers are not sent to Siberia and washing machine owners are yet to be shot by a firing squad for eco-crimes. On another level, having a fixed limit on the number of children a couple can have can only be suggested, not imposed upon unless, of course, you live in China.

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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.

Nation & World views: Family size and the environment... From Delhi:

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Ken Connor is a powerful advocate for pro-life as seen here. He was also adviser to Jeb Bush, who must not have followed all his advice. Wonder what happened in those dark days between them...

The morality of any "choice" under consideration, however, cannot be divorced from the thing that is being chosen. Choices are not mere abstractions. They are concrete, and they have consequences. Let's not kid ourselves about what is at stake in the "choice" debate. When abortion advocates talk about the "right to choose", they are not talking about the right to choose between chocolate and vanilla. They are talking about the right to choose to kill an innocent unborn child. The fact that a mother would contemplate killing her child, and that there are those who zealously advocate such a "choice", is evidence that something has gone very, very wrong in our society. As the Feminists for Life slogan puts it, "women deserve better than abortion." Indeed they do, and so do their children.

~Snip~

Ken Connor is Chairman of the Center for a Just Society in Washington, DC and a nationally recognized trial lawyer who represented Governor Jeb Bush in the Terri Schiavo case. Connor was formally President of the Family Research Council, Chairman of the Board of CareNet, and Vice Chairman of Americans United for Life. For more articles and resources from Mr. Connor and the Center for a Just Society, go to www.ajustsociety.org. Your feedback is welcome; please email info@ajustsociety.org

A Selfless Choice: In Celebration of Adoption

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Wagglebee thread on this topic I find difficult to read calmly...

Neil describes himself and his wife as “pro-choice,” but writes that they “never expected to actually confront the Choice. . . .And yet there I was, holding [my wife’s] hand, watching the ultrasound as a needle with potassium chloride found its mark, stopping the heart of one male fetus, then the other, hidden in my wife’s suffering belly.”

Suffer the Little Children -- Using Abortion to Target Disabled Kids

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[T'wit]

Good morning! Wherever did you find these little fascists? Oh, my, owning a washing machine is a death-penalty eco-crime against Mother Earth! I trust the authors of these superior thoughts have, in proper military fashion, dug a trench in the back yard for their necessary functions and use no more than the eco-correct single Sherylcrow of tissue per visit. Mother Earth will get her revenge teach them to respect soap and water :-)

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Aren't they cute? Sometimes these critters actually speak the truth of their beliefs and motives, not having been properly clued in on spin and softening the message with tender lies.

I am sure they see the ultimate aim of Global Warming Cult to rid the earth of pesky human presence. I also bet they are so fanatic they do not avail of even a square of Sherylcrow and their crow's feet are more than one would think.

[T'wit]

>> I also bet they are so fanatic they do not avail of even a square of Sherylcrow and their crow's feet are more than one would think.

In those circles, correct is rigorous rotation of one's forefinger and middle finger in the appropriate orifice.

Do not eat their cooking.

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Doing their daily kos without sherylcrowing...

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>> Doing their daily kos without sherylcrowing...

Exactly :-)

The sherylcrows are social clymers.

[Sun]

The next GOP debate will be tomorrow night at 9 p.m., Eastern time, on FoxNews.

FoxNews will stream it, as well as have it on tv.

See y’all at the debate.

[floriduh voter]

Jeb Bush chickened out, that’s what, and Ken Connor is the one who said he went as far as he could go for Jeb (not for Terri). Somehow, I doubt it.

[Sun]

Charlie Crist (just like Hillary Clinton) wants felons to vote. How’s that going?

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Emilio Gonzales news...

Texas Futile Care Law has been changed by the Senate. Well, yes, it is still in place as a tool for killing the futile people, but it does give them a few more days, twenty. Emilio still isn't safe, will have his fate decided by a Probate judge on May 30.

A Texas law that allows hospitals to end life support after a ten-day notice for patients deemed medically futile -- is on track to be changed.

The state Senate Monday unanimously approved a bill that would change the law to give the families more time.

The vote came after private talks in Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst's office resulted in a compromise among Texas Right to Life, the Texas Hospital Association, disability activists and others.

The Associated Press reports some language in the bill, including that dealing with the definition of "terminal" and "pre-terminal" patients, was a focus of contention.

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Deuell's proposal would give the family seven days notice before a hospital ethics committee meets to discuss the case, then a 21-day notice if life support is to be discontinued.

There's also another 20 days during which the issue could be brought up in court.

Senate approves bill extending time for ending life support

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