Well Hell's Bells, Mel!

Re: Mel Gibson blasts Florida Bishop Lynch for not defending Terri
Article Here.

Well hell's bells, Mel. American Catholics have long learned to be cynical and expect very little from American bishops and cardinals in the fight for life and human dignity in this country, over abortion, and now over euthanasia. It has been ever thus, that the laity lead the charge, and only when the train pulls out of the station do the clergy pick up their skirts and run after us, if then. This is nothing new. Perhaps you are only surprised because you grew up in Australia. We love you, Mel, but the American Church has been rotting from the inside for decades now.

Perhaps that's why the Vatican itself spoke out. It knew the leadership of the American Church was too lukewarm (see Rev. 3:15-17) to take any stand at all. Ya know what I heard from the altar this past Easter, while all of us were being slapped up and down by the courts? A schlock homily of "Rest Easy, Be Happy, God is in Control". Sure He is, but Terri was still suffering brutally 10 days into it, and we were all suffering with her. Would he have told the Mother of God to essentially get over it and abandon following her Son on His Way of the Cross?

No, only JUSTICE for TERRI will comfort me.

Mel, we love you, but I'm sorry you are surprised by all this.

Suggestion to the Schindlers --- Use a Sketch Artist

I am so sorry about the loss of your daughter and sister. My prayers have been and will be with you all.

I really want justice for Terri, and I had an idea you may or may not like. Since Felos is such an evil creep trying to spin how 'beautiful' Terri was to him as she lay dying, have any of you (including Father Pavone) considered working with a sketch artist, to make the truth known? Michael and Felos have been relying on lack of visuals to spin their web of deceipt, but they can't erase the truth of what all of you saw.

God bless you all, and I know Terri is with the Pope himself this evening.

Suzanne (last name)
Tucson, AZ

Run, Jodi, Run!

Sherri said:
> I bet he doesn't marry Jodi.

Whattaya wanna bet she doesn't marry him. Would YOU want to hand Michael Schiavo that kind of power over you? We all know what he did with the power over his first wife.

Jodi, honey, if you're reading this, please save yourself. Take your children and RUN. Disappear. Change your name. Do it while he has no legal claims on you. Long term, the lives you save may be your own. Some of us have been there with control-freaks. We know he must make your life a living hell. None of us would blame you in the least -- in fact, we'd cheer you!! Go girl!

Terri the TV Movie

CBS is rushing a Terri Schiavo TV Movie into production just in time for May Sweeps. See article here. God, it's already April.

Are we disgusted enough yet?

CBS -- not exactly dedicated to the truth.

Terri, your loss is our loss

We all SOOO wanted to see you learn to talk and maybe even walk again, to see someone as beautiful as you overcome the mountainous hurdles you had, with the help you so completely deserved. God willing, I will get to meet you some day. Incredibly, Michael is the one who has the bigger loss today. You were murdered. But he is a murderer. He's lost it all.

Kiss Jesus for me, please.

Terri still refusing to die

God bless her, the only way she can assert herself against that troika of monsters, Schiavo, Felos, & Greer, is to simply REFUSE TO DIE.

The absolute horror of this situation will stick with me the rest of my life. The American soul has been raped by the three of them, in forcing us to not only watch, but to participate through our government in legally sanctioning it.

But the crtical mistake they are making is in exposing just how evil this starving to death of the incompetent really is, and how often it happens. The goal is, of course, to "normalize it", take it out of the shadows, and make it widely "accepted". Like abortion. But of course, most people aren't that stupid. Whereas some people could be fooled into butchering their own unborn children "because they couldn't see them", it's a lot harder to get someone to go along with the program when they can see that you want to starve their own mother to death right in front of their eyes. On a wide scale, that is indeed the plan. The very elequent Becki Snow who has been doing a sympathetic hunger/water strike with Terri Schiavo (but finally had to break the water strike to save herself) puts it this way:

Now I know this: dehydration is brutal, it's barbaric, and no one should be forced to die this way, in pain. Oooh, Terri doesn't feel pain, you say. Well, even on the off chance that you are wrong about the pain, let us not forget the thousands of people who have died this way in nursing homes and hospices who have happened to be able to feel pain just fine,thank you. Their only crime was, they were old and in the way of a fat inheritance. My new handler, Marcy, watch her own mother died this way after a relative seized her power of attorney, and her story is gruesome beyond words. Her mom died in her arms after 14 days of Hell on Earth, moaning for water. Even though Marcy wanted to care for her mother, and her mother wanted to live, it made no difference. Once the authorities have determined that you need to die, you will die. Terri's is the test case for going legal with this process, since she left no living will, and no one really knows what she wants. It's not just about her - it's about all of us. But no one will stop the process once it starts, ya know; it's painless, ya know, right? The Doctors say so. I guess Doctors are gods now, they are able to read minds and be all right all the time. Sure.

It makes me sick now, all the endless drumbeat by the main stream media that all that went wrong here was that at the age of 26, Terri had left no living will. Can't they see the obvious by now that even if she had, Michael would have burned it and said she hadn't??

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My mother went in for a very common surgery about 8 years ago. In the myriad of paperwork they had her signing the day before was a small sheet of paper that said should anything go wrong, the hospital would have the right to starve her to death. No consulting the family, much less sending her home for the family to feed her. My mother was quite roused to anger and blurted out, "I'm not signing that!" The nurse at the desk was totally surprised and befuddled, "But EVERYBODY signs that." My mother replied, "So what! There's no way in HELL I'm signing that!" At which point the nurse went away to, ahem, consult with her supervisors as to what to do. She came back and said, "OK, then, write across it, 'REFUSED TO SIGN', and initial your refusal." My mom: "You're DAMN right."

Terri can't "REFUSE TO SIGN", so she is simply REFUSING TO DIE.

God help her.

"Living Will" vs "Will to Live"

A "Living Will" is horrific thing. All it does is have you freeze the state of medicine in your mind, and carve in stone that you don't want any new and marvelous treatments should something untoward befall your "capacity to make decisions" in the next 10, 20, or 30 years. And it gives arrogant medical personal any excuse to just label your prognosis "futile" and sentence you to an Auschwitz-like starvation bunker experience. My God, how absurd is that? Suppose in 6 years they find a way to snap their fingers, resynch your brainwaves, and snap you out of a coma or vegetative state? Suppose your medical crisis occurs 5 years from now instead of 6. Since you didn't specifically spell out in your "Living Will" that you would want to be fed until the treatment became available, or God forbid that you even might WANT the treatment, they're going to dispose of yout like a piece of garbage?

All a "Living Will" does is let you choose to die. It lets you list, ad-nauseum, all the treatments you "don't want". Well, suppose you DO want whatever's available, INCLUDING food and water delivered by whatever means possible, without some self-ordained ivory tower bio-ethicist, who doesn't even know you, trying to pressure your family into withholding it from you. Well, there is an alternative to the "Living Will", and that is the "Will to Live", for which templates are available here.

And be sure to cross out any of the lines you've intentionally left blank, lest some ivory tower self-appointed god try to, ahem, "insert" something after you've already signed it.

letter to Sen. Michael Enzi

(I apologize to readers for the graphic visual imagery in this post. I wanted the addressees to feel Americans' horror at these events and act.)

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Senator Enzi,

Regarding Terri Schiavo, the HORROR of the very real possibility that a conscious but disabled American is being starved and dehydrated to death by court order within the borders of our own country, calls for all of the unanswered questions to be answered! How can this happen in America? Who is in charge?

She is being dried up like a petunia in the desert, turned into a piece of living shoe leather right in front of her mother's eyes, while all of America watches in horror. Nurses have testified that she can eat by mouth, yet the court ordered starvation forbids even the attempt.

What is this, Auschwitz?

Have our troops, who have been spilling their blood in the name of American freedom, been doing so in vain? We can save millions of middle eastern people from tyranny, but we can't even save one disabled American citizen from a tyrant judge who chooses to flout Congressional subpoena and disregard Terri's own testimony, witnessed and sworn to by Attorney Barbara Weller, that proves that Ms. Schiavo is neither PVS nor wants to die.

Senator Enzi, if most Americans were only vaguely aware of this case two weeks ago, they are massively aware of it now, and want their questions answered. How did we get dragged into having our government participate in and sanction such a cruel and gruesome killing of one of our own citizens? PLEASE reinstate the Congressional subpoenas and schedule hearings into this whole matter.

The highest testimony that Terri Schiavo is givng to us right now is that she is simply refusing to die, 11 days into this nightmare starvation. Congress can act again still, to save her life, and Americans now won't rest until we have the answers to how we got into this.

Sincerely,

Suzanne (last name)

Tucson, AZ

to Sen. Arlen Spector and Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick

(I apologize to readers for the graphic visual imagery in this post. I wanted the addressees to feel Americans' horror at these events and act.)

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Senator Spector and Representative Fitzpatrick:

Please support reinstating the subpoenas for Terri Schiavo, et all, to appear before the committe on Health, Education, Labor and Pension . Since the subpoenas were first issued, Judge Greer has not only flouted his complete contempt for Congress, but sworn testimony has now been entered into the record, by Attorney Barbara Weller, that she witnessed Terri Schiavo try to speak to save herself the day her feeding tube was removed. This exposes to all of America that Ms. Schiavo is neither PVS, nor wants to die, despite her handicapped state.

Now that we know this, Americans have many many unanswered questions as to how we got dragged into this, having our government participate in and sanction, the Auschwitz-like starvation and dehydration killing of this helpless woman, who has committed no crime.

She is being dried up like a petunia in the desert, turned into a piece of living shoe leather in front of her mother's eyes, while all America watches in horror. But her testimony that she wants to live is overwhelming in that even now, 11 days into her cruel waterless starvation, she simply is refusing to die.

Congressman Fitzpatrick, please support reissuing the congressional subpoenas, immediately taking Terri Schiavo into witness protection, and saving her life. Even if two weeks ago most Americans were only vaguely aware of the issues here, they are certainly aware of them now, and we need to have our questions answered as to how we got to this point. What are our troops spilling blood for overseas, if this can go on at home?

Sincerely,

Suzanne (last name)

Tucson, AZ

Cat survives 44 days w/o food or water

Cat survives 44 days locked in a dresser drawer without food or water: article here.

This kind of thing gives me hope for Terri's survival, that she will hang on long enough to spit in Michael's face, and long enough for all the courts and all the executives and all the legislators to get so tired of watching her suffer, that they will suffer so much in watching her, that one of them will finally stand up and say ENOUGH.

The fact that the cat was closed in a closed dark place with no airflow to accellerate dehydration probably extended the amount of time it was able to survive. The fact that Terri's room has been closed and the shades drawn, with no warm Florida breezes blowing through, could possibly be aiding in her ability to hang on so long.

God help her.

Mr, Delay, enforce the House subpoena

Mr. Delay,

Count me as one who is absolutely HORRIFIED by the events of the past week. I am outraged at Judge Greer's nullifying of the Congressional Subpoena for Terri Schiavo, and I'm absolutely disgusted at his utter arrogance in rejecting her recent self-stated wish to live (as stated in Attorney Barbara Weller's sworn affidavit). He used pure spite in ordering her starved to death anyway. Mr. Delay, nurses have testified that Terri can eat by mouth, yet Judge Greer has forbidden anyone to even attempt that either.

What is this, Auschwitz?

My God, what are our troops spilling blood for in the middle east, saving millions from horrific tyrannies, if we cannot (or will not) stop such tyrannies within our own borders?

Mr. Delay, Terri Schiavo is not going willingly. She is in her 10th day of court ordered starvation, FIGHTING to thwart her estranged husband's and megalomaniac judge's wish to see her dead. All she needs is a hand up from the U.S. Congress, to step in and stop this horror show, by enforcing its own subpoenas!

If congress does NOT enforce its own subpoenas, then anyone who wishes to avoid a subpoena will learn that they can just have a county magistrate somewhere nullify it. If those hesitant baseball players had only known...

Sincrely,

Suzanne (last name)

Tucson, AZ

Mr. Kolbe, please enforce House subpoenas

Mr. Kolbe,

As you are probably aware from current news events, Terri Schiavo and Michael Schiavo were both subpoenaed to appear before a House congressional committee, but that those subpoenas were nullified by Florida Pinellas county magistrate Judge Greer. You are also probably aware that in the intervening days, Attorney Barbara Weller, at risk to her entire career, has submitted a sworn affidavit to the court that Terri Schiavo tried to speak to save herself on the day her feeding tube was removed, attempting to pronounce the words "I want to live." That affidavit can be viewed here - http://www.theempirejournal.com/Weller_I_Want_To_Live.pdf

Mr. Kolbe, no matter what her wishes were ruled to have been over 15 years ago, Terri Schiavo's current wishes must take precidence. She is NOT a convicted criminal. She has a right to live! She is simply a profoundly disabled woman who chooses to interact with her blood relatives, and not interact with her husband, the very man who very possibly is the original cause of her disability. (See the investigations at The Empire Journal http://www.theempirejournal.com ).

Mr. Kolbe, all the news media would have us believe that Americans only care about running out and getting their own living wills. But what any Americans who are aware of the vagueness of Terri's "PVS" diagnosis (reached with no MRI or PET scan whatsoever), and who are aware of her most recent declaration that she wants to live, see a HUGE injustice being carried out against a disabled American citizen, by an outrageous megolomaniac county magistrate, who is acting in complete Contempt of Congress.

Now 10 days into her court ordered starvation, Terri Schiavo is hanging on to dear life to spite Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer, who had expected and hoped for her to die days ago. This is a woman who is NOT going willingly. Her only crime is how she has been made to eat all these years, although several nurses have testified that she is able to be spoon fed. Yet, Judge Greer has ordered that no one may even attempt to feed Terri Schiavo by mouth. What is this, Auschwitz? What are our troops spilling blood for overseas in defense of "freedom", if this kind of horror can go on within our own borders?

Please Mr. Kolbe, please support and encourage Speaker Hastert in enforcing the Congressional subpoenas! If Congress does not act, in the future anyone who does not want to answer a House subpoena can simply have a county magistrate nullify it. If those hesitant baseball players had only known!

All of America has fallen in love with the sweet smile of Terri Schiavo, and if Congress fails to act again, and act very decisively to enforce its subpoenas and stop this horror show, there will be a huge wailing of grief and outrage, the likes of which we have not seen since 9/11/2001 --- precisely because through our government, we have all been made to participate in Terri Schiavo's extremly cruel killing.

Please support enforcing the subpoenas.

Sincrely,

Suzanne (last name)

Tucson, AZ

Gov. Bush, Save her, then resign.

Governor Bush,

I know you feel strongly that you do not want to violate a court
order, and I know you feel strongly that you have to answer to God
Himself and save an innocent person who's been cruelly
condemned. You certainly want to face yourself in the morning.

So I have a solution for you that won't be easy, but it can be
done:

Save her, then resign.

My prayers are with you.

Suzanne (last name)
Tucson, AZ

to the Speaker of the House

Mr. Hastert,

Concerning Terri Schiavo, if you read the investigative reports available at The Empire Journal http://www.theempirejournal.com , you will see that besides the Contempt of Congress that Judge Greer committed by nullifying Congress' subpoena to Terri Schiavo, there have been many other highly irregular and outrageous rulings by him, including throwing out Terri's own testimony that she WANTS TO LIVE!!

Mr. Hastert, he had no right to do that! Terri Schiavo is not a convicted criminal. She is simply profoundly disabled. She had a right to have her wishes respected.

Mr. Hastert, if you have been following this case closely, you will also know that her sister Suzanne Vitadamo describes how pleased Terri became when she was told she would be going to Washington, DC to answer her subpoena to the House committee.

Mr. Hastert, Terri is STILL fighting for her life! She is 10 days into her court ordered starvation, but she is hanging on to spite Michael Shiavo and Judge Greer, who both expected her to die days ago. You should know that not only did they order her feeding tube be removed, but that no attempts be made to feed her by mouth, despite nurses' testimony that she CAN eat by mouth. What is this, Auschwitz? Terri is hanging on to dear life in the hope that she WILL be allowed to actually come to Washington to see the House Committee.

Mr. Hastert, here we are, the great United States of America, and we can free 25 million Afghani's from the Taliban tyrrany, and we can free 25 million Iraqis from Saddam Hussain's tyrrany, and we can't free one American citizen from the tyrrany of one megalomaniac county magistrate?

Have all the big international words about Freedom, and all the blood spilled by our troops overseas, meant NOTHING?

Just what does a subpoena by the House mean?

Mr. Hastert, please PLEASE enforce the House subpoena to both Terri Schiavo and Michael Schiavo, or anyone who wants to ever avoid a Congressional subpoena in the future will just go get a county magistrate to nullify it. (...if those hotseat baseball players had only known...)

Sincerely,

Suzanne (last name)

Tucson, AZ