The Judicial Murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo - 1 of 7

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This is the final version of the movie to be released at the United States social justice forum.

2 years ago, I flew to Tampa to join 7 other Not Dead Yet members from around the country to do an emergency protest outisde of Woodside Hospice where Terri was being forcefully starved and dehydrated. The media had potrayed her case as a separation of powers of powers issue, a right to die to prevent government intermingling in private family affairs when this case had been in truth a human, civil rights case asserting that people should have the right to basic sustenance such as food and water. The mainstream media kept focus on Terri's right to refuse medical treatment based on the hearsay testimony of Michael, his brother, and sister in law. The real emphasis should have been on why Michael Schiavo should be stripped of guardianship and why her parents should have been granted the right to care for her.

It was Easter Sunday, 8 of us had transfered from our wheelchairs to the ground and blocked off one of the entrance/exits to Woodside Hospice where Terri was being forcefully murdered. It was already a media circus when the cameras and lights swarmed around us jockeying for position to lock in best angle to deliver our story. For a time, we would be the focus of the latest breaking news for audiences around the world, for moments they would be forced to listen to us sharing our testimonials as people with disabilities devalued by culture and society. I told the crowd that "If any man or woman anywhere in the United States had starved or dehydrated any animal in this way, that there would be huge public outcry and the perpetrators would be locked up for cruel and unusual punishment. We protect even the most hardened criminals from this kind of treatment." I chastised the corporate media for defining Terri as being comatose or in a perisitent vegatative state, and for repeatedly stating that this was Terri's desire to be killed this way. Why don't you question the fact that Michael changed his story under oath about the way he found Terri, that he waited an hour before even calling 9-11. When paramedics arrived in response to the 9-11 call, they wreported to the police that it looked like a case of suspected domestic violence. If they looked at all into it, they would find many reasons for Michael to not be Terri's guardian and many reasons for Terri to be cared for by the family that loves her."

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[mnfitch08]

I went to the Terri Schiavo website and found nothing about her being responsive or interacting with parents or smiling. I think you are lying about this. I do agree her husband was a bastard tho. But, even if her parents took over, she had no quality of life and it was a selfish act by her parents. I do not think she should of been dehydrated/ straved to death but took off all medical devices and feed/ given water. She would of eventually of died but in a decent way.

[perfectbark]

uh huh ..... apparently you didn't read the press releases I've pasted below. there was absolutely NO CERBRAL FUNCTION for YEARS as was confirmed by the autopsy. There was absolutely NOTHING suspicious in the husband's behavior with the exception of was is contrived by nutty conspiracy theorists and the wacko religious community including frank pavone, george bush and the reactionary wing of the GOP. She was irreversibly brain dead and living an a protracted vegetative state.

[MsJayAlexis]

@jszekerj First off, we don't come from apes. Check your facts before posting next time

[MsJayAlexis]

@kalaboukas We don't come from apes

[trayceerae13]

Whoa...yall saying that she culd only feel pain & that was all she culd feel are clearly ignorant..to be able to feel pain requires a part of your brain to function that alone is proof that someone is ALIVE. She could open her eyes..make sounds..turn her head and recolect certain sounds & smells wich proves she wasnt just a waste of space or only as good as a vegetable. WTF GIVES A JUDGE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THE FATE OF THIS WOMAN OVER THE CHOICE OF HER MOTHER WHO BROUGHT HER INTO THIS WORLD??

[Blahb27]

@liberalsuck931 No. Then again, Schiavo wasn't euthanasia, but what they call paliative sedation, or in other words, keeping someone asleep as they slowly starve. Still it's better than living like a plant, only able to sense pain, if anything, and nothing else.

With euthanasia, there is so such suffering involved. And she was not alive. Being braindead or heavily braindamaged just sweeps away any form of conciousness. She was alive in the same way the grass on the lawn is alive.

[liberalsuck931]

@Blahb27 Do you think starvation and dehydration is a decent way to kill somebody who is disabled? She did not suffer any pain. She was as alive as you and I are. She just couldn't communicate normally like a normal person or take care of herself. Terri lit up every time she saw her parents, especially her mother. She was not in a coma and she was aware of her surroundings. Terri's parents should have been her guardians, not her husband.

[Blahb27]

@BLUEGRASSJAMMIN Talking about serving demons, you're doing nothing but scream out what you were told in church. You don't think for yourself. If you did, you'd have read a long time ago the only pro-murder viewpoint is in the bible.

Jeremiah 48:10 clearly states that if you do not murder other people for your religion, you will be damned.

Even genocide is obligatory, says your fictional god. Deuteronomy 13:13-19.

[Blahb27]

@liberalsuck931 How and why? We're talking about someone who has no conciousness left. The only thing such a person can be aware of, because those systems keep working, is pain.

You're talking about forcing a person to suffer years of constant pain, round-the-clock torture.

And the only thing you base yourself on to condemn other humans to that, is that they told you in church to think like that.

Tell me, do you even believe that point of view, or do you just recite what you've been told?

[liberalsuck931]

Some of the comments on here are sickening! What was done to Terri Schiavo was wrong and it was murder. She was not in a coma, she was never dying, and she interacted with her family when she saw them. If you think that removing her feeding tube was right, you are sick in the head. It should not have been up to her jackass husband whether she should have lived or died, her parents should have been her legal guardian, not her husband.

[jlhelms4500]

Let's view the medical results. Clearly you saw the MRI of Terri's brain. Most of her cortical cells were dead, her neurons were dead, and we should all know that you can not regain brain cells. It is known in the medical world that a body can have reflexes while in a Persistent Vegetative State without responding directly to stimuli. I do not know the medical rulings as soon as Terri collapsed in 1990, but I believe that she had no hope for recovery no matter how much hope the family exerted

[1StandingRock]

@mnfitch08 if im an idiot your brain dead