Free Republic

Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Michael Schiavo plans to keep the location of where he will bury Terri Schiavo's ashes a secret and will prevent Terri's family from knowing. His brother told the media on Thursday that Terri's family would show up and cause a spectacle if they found out. "If Mike knew they would come in peace, he would have no problem with it," Scott Schiavo, Michael Schiavo's brother, told AP. A complete autopsy will be performed on Terri's body by the local county medical examiner's office. Once that is completed, Michael plans to have Terri's body cremated and...

Two weeks ago, Judge George Greer's pastor asked him to 'reconsider' his membership at Calvary Baptist Church, one of Clearwater's largest and best known Southern Baptist southern congregations.Greer severed ties with the theologically conservative congregation within days of the request. Calvary said it did not technically ask Judge Greer to leave. The truth, Calvary says is that Greer was the first one to walk away and had not attended the church in years.The membership question was merely an attempt to make it official. Long before the current pastor, Greer had problems with members of the Southern Baptist denomination.The Florida Baptist...

Hours before Terri Schiavo died yesterday, MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews said that he thought her father, Robert Schindler, was "having a good time" as his daughter starved. "There's nobody here who looks particularly compelling or attractive," Matthews told radio host Don Imus. "The father seems to be having, I hate to say this, a good time. I don't know why, maybe it's the focus, maybe he's giddy with sadness of the tragedy that has been going on for so long." Matthews also said that a nurse who cared for Schiavo and who claimed that she could eat normally was...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/31/225349.shtml

Terri Schiavo's parents turned her death into a three-ring circus. We don't question their love for their daughter and their grief at her passing, but one has to wonder why they allowed everyone from Randall Terry to Tom DeLay to Jesse Jackson to intrude into their family's tragedy. Robert and Mary Schindler did not protest as fringe right-to-life groups exploited their daughter's image. They generated a sad, made-for-cable-TV spectacle and fed it with edited video footage from their daughter's hospice bed and sinister accusations about Michael Schiavo. In the last few days, the Schindlers also agreed to allow some of...

Just wanted to send out my best wishes to all of my friends who are champions of social justice - DU, ACLU, George Felos, Michael Schiavo, and their LEGION of helpers in MSM and other high places.

The collapse: Feb. 25, 1990 The whole family crowded into the emergency room at Humana Northside Hospital. Friends from work were pouring in, too. What had happened to Terri? Michael Schiavo said he had come home that night after working at Agostino's, a restaurant in Feather Sound that he managed. Terri woke up, he said, and gave him a kiss good night. About 5:30 a.m., Michael heard a thud. He said he got out of bed. On the floor, he saw his wife, 26, face down. "Terri. Terri. You okay?" he said. He heard a gurgling sound. He called 911...

James P. Pinkerton Schiavo case: Should government pay? March 31, 2005 The Terri Schiavo case reminds us that Americans are a people of plenty, and also a people of plenteous faith. Both forms of abundance will be tested in the years to come, as the religious right fuses with the secular left around the common project of big government. One impact of Schiavo has been the knitting together of conservative Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, into a common cause: weaving a seamless "culture of life." And while polls show that these conservatives are a minority, it's apparent that they have...

      VATICAN REPORT: Cardinal calls those who helped Schiavo die 'accomplices to murder' Italian Cardinal Renato Martino is interviewed in his appartament in Rome, saying the woman's death was ``arbitrarily hastened'' by removing her feeding tube. 4/1/2005 ATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Whoever stands idly by without trying to prevent the death of Terri Schindler Schiavo becomes an accomplice to murder, said Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The death of the severely brain-damaged woman "would represent a homicide in which it is impossible to idly stand by without becoming accomplices," he said...

RUSH: Folks, I gotta tell you something. I feel like taking a shower after I listen to this guy. This guy is like a cult leader. This guy is no different than these people, than these cult leaders that get people to go die because they're going to go meet some mother ship 24 million miles away up in outer space. What was the name of that wacko group out in California? I can't remember the name of that group, but we have cult leaders. Jim Jones. They're all over the place, and this -- Heaven's Gate! This guy just...

Just announced on FoxNews that the Schindler family will hold a press conference at 4:30 PM EST.

Terri Schiavo's battle for life is over, and as a result, our nation will forever be changed. Her murder, or as Michael Schiavo would say, "Her slow, painless and peaceful death" clears the way for others, who do not believe in a person's "right to life" or the notion that life is divinely inspired by God, to start killing at will. While Terri's pain has ended, our children's suffering and pain has just begun. Our nation's youth got an earful within the last month and the messages being delivered by parents, teachers, television and Terri's husband were clear: A handicapped...

We're not the first to this party, but, hey, it's never too late to pile on Paul Krugman. Rightwing Nuthouse says that Krugman's latest column in the New York Times is evidence that he has "gone stark, raving mad." I won't go that far; let's just say that Krugman has abandoned any claim to be taken seriously. Krugman's latest column is a hysterical tirade against conservative Republicans. But you knew that; I'll have to be more specific. Krugman is worried that conservative Christians are about to start assassinating liberals. No, really, I'm not kidding: [N]obody wants to talk about the...

March 25, 2005 HER BODY, MY SELF : What's In It for Michael Schiavo? -added font A SHORT NOTE CONCERNING the financial benefits to Michael Schiavo that will accrue from the death of his wife. AmericanDigest.org -added website source Posted by Vanderleun -added author (EXCERPT) What I do have some sense of is how much money Michael Schiavo stands to make if, and only if, his wife dies. It is, for a man, with a fresh new wife and two children, substantial. Having worked as an editor for Houghton Mifflin and as a literary agent, I have some the price...

Terri Schiavo's estranged husband Michael has denied her a final communion before she is expected to succumb to a painful starvation death. The decision has left Terri's parents and family in a state of shock.Responding for the Schindler family, Brother Paul O' Donnell said it was an affront to Terri and her Catholic beliefs. 'Terri Schiavo, a practicing Catholic all of her life, has been denied the precious body and blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ. This is in violation of her religious rights and freedoms and (should) allow the governor to intervene.'The decision is important to Terri's family as...

Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A leading Catholic priest who visited Terri Schiavo on two separate occasions in the hours before her death says Terri was in a weakened medical condition from 13 days of starvation but was responsive until her death. The disabled woman even prayed with her family. "Last night, I spent about two hours with her until past midnight, together with Bobby Schindler and Suzanne, and then again this morning for about an hour and a half, and then right up until about ten minutes before she died," Father Frank Pavone said. Pavone, the director of Priests...

In his strongest comments yet on the Terri Schiavo case, actor Mel Gibson calls her killing "nothing more than state sanctioned murder.” The actor and director spoke out Wednesday night in a telephone interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. "I heard their cry for help,” Gibson explained his public comments. Gibson insisted that Terri Schiavo is not in a vegetative state. Gibson said he decided to take a public stand because "it is completely wrong to deprive this poor woman from food and water.”He added that the court ordered method of killing – depriving her of basic sustenance --...

Congressional and state lawmakers offered their condolences Thursday to the family of Terri Schiavo (search) and said the severely brain-damaged woman's death left many emotional issues to be dealt with. "Today, millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo," President Bush said just before commenting on a weapons of mass destruction report issued by a blue-ribbon commission on Thursday. Saying Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (search), displayed "grace and dignity" throughout the long, emotional ordeal, Bush urged those grieving to "continue to work to build a culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued...