Terry Schiavo Continuation Thread

[Warham]

I watch CBS news, so I must be getting the real story.

[Warham]

From the Canada Free Press...

A hollow kind of victory
by Judi McLeod
Thursday, March 31, 2005

What kind of victory is it to keep the loving parents of a dying woman from her deathbed?

What brand of warped joy could possibly come from that?

What comfort, no matter how bitter the feud, could ever come from seeing the tears of parents?

What confidence can be taken in knowing in the heart that the death culture, as promoted by a lawyer who hears voices in his head, now takes a giant step forward?

What ease can we find in judges with more power than Congress?

What good can possibly come from a society that withholds from a brain-damaged woman food and water?

It was 9:03 a.m., Thursday, March 31, 2005 when Terry Schindler Schiavo slipped away–just two days after attorney George Felos told the world her death did not appear imminent to him.

In the end, it took 13 days for Terri to die.

According to Fr. Frank Pavone, approximately 10 minutes before Terri’s death, husband Michael Schiavo ordered her brother and sister out of her room.

Blood relatives were permitted back into the room just minutes after Terri’s death.

"Where is Michael?" was Fr. Pavone’s first question. Michael, who used a side door into the hospice the last two weeks, was nowhere in sight.

In the human emotion surrounding the March 2005 deathwatch, many forgot that this was the second time Terri Schiavo was taken off her feeding tube.

The entire argument of the right-to-die, ACLU contingent was that Terri was unaware of her surroundings, bereft of feelings of any kind.

For a group who claimed that a persistent vegetative state kept Terri from knowing anything, they purged her room of any visible sign of her religion the first time they removed her feeding tube.

Terri’s Catholic mother was forbidden to leave even the tiniest medal underneath her daughter’s pillow.

Holy pictures, rosary beads and medals somehow verbatim to the dignity in dying side, were purged from Terri’s room.

For all of their hype, the victory of Michael Schiavo and his death-is-beautiful attorney George Felos, is an empty victory of ashes.

In the end, their well-publicized by media mantra of dignity in dying came down to so many empty words.

There is no dignity in a brand of dying that leaves a disabled woman with no water and food.

And as certain as the sun will rise again in Florida, Schiavo, Felos and Company can’t take anything away from Terri Schindler Schiavo now.

As Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said: "When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again."

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 25 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard and the former Brampton Daily Times.

torontofreepress.com

[FORD]

Originally posted by Warham
I watch CBS news, so I must be getting the real story.

Great. Bob ScheiffWHORE on CBS as well as Brian WHOREiams on NBC have already switched from Terrideathwatch to Popedeathwatch without missing a beat, so go feed your addiction.

[Warham]

I get my news from Canada too, FORD. Read above.

I seem to remember you championing their press up there.

[academic punk]

Well, at least jesterstar is nowhere to be found.

[FORD]

Originally posted by Warham
I get my news from Canada too, FORD. Read above.

I seem to remember you championing their press up there.

I just checked out that so called newspaper, and it's obvious that it's a lame attempt by the neocon shitbags to subvert the Canadian media like they have done down here. I also noticed that these people resemble "journalists" about as much as the FAUX bimbettes do.

[academic punk]

wasn't cbs news a bunch of liberal shitbags a couple months back when the 60 minutes story happened? you know the one, where the documents were all fucked-up?

just wondering...

[Warham]

If it doesn't agree with FORD's view, it's the BCE that's involved.

It's the Toronto Free Press's website. I don't know how much more liberal you can be than if you live up there, and even they don't agree with the way we've handled this.

The world is definately going to end soon if Canada is the conservative side on this issue.

There's an article on that web site that's bashing Canada's conservative party, so it's not the BCE that's controlling anything up there.

[vanzilla]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Uhh....how much stem cell research is benefitting these people that is being conducted without restraint in other countries? Let's ask Christopher Reeve.

State your question in English and I'll get back to you.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by academic punk
wasn't cbs news a bunch of liberal shitbags a couple months back when the 60 minutes story happened? you know the one, where the documents were all fucked-up?

just wondering...

Uh....duck!

[academic punk]

Though warham does deserve credit for finally articulating where the difference is in our perceptions - people like me, vanzilla, and FORD apparently believe life ends when the brain isn't functioning. Warham (as well as Ally and BBB) believe it's a question of whther the heart is beating.

I'm not judging on either. Both are legitimate. The brain one seems to be more a question of "quality of life", as opposed to "Life".

Vanzilla basically articulated my beliefs on ALL of this. No need to restate them, just look above. Michael Schiavo will never live in peace - not because of a guilty conscious - he showed tremendous fortitude through all of this -but b/c of crazy extermeists who believe in the right to life, and will therefore hunt and kill him one day.

I hope she rests in peace. And I hope we all get living wills to avoid this garbage ever happening to any of us.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by vanzilla
State your question in English and I'll get back to you.

Once you conduct your reasoning logically.

[Warham]

I don't think believing in a right to life is considered extreme, do you?

[academic punk]

Originally posted by Warham
I don't think believing in a right to life is considered extreme, do you?

Of course I don't. None of us do.

I do belive in granting someone's expressed wishes if something like this were to befall them.

I would want it done for me.

I'm not saying it's a simple matter at all. It's complex. And emotional. Deeply. But it's a question of fulfilling someones desires than anything else.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by tomballin

Michael Schiavo is a worthless maggot that will go to hell, but Terri's father bears the loss of his daughter, on his shoulders, pure and simple!

Why?