Saying No to the Culture of Death

I was a latecomer in following the Terri Schiavo story, and I admit that when I finally began to take the story seriously, I was shocked over what I had discovered. Therese Marie Schindler-Schiavo was brain damaged as a result of a yet unexplained event when she suffered a deprivation of oxygen to her brain. My original focus concerning this story happened to be the issue of the claim that she collapsed because she was bulimic. However, there is sufficient evidence, even without the autopsy findings to put paid to the myth that Terri collapsed because of bulimia.

I find that most ignorant people who have an agenda that includes the promotion of euthanasia on demand continue to believe the lie that Terri had suffered a heart attack due to a low potassium blood count. The people who continue to believe this myth have not taken the time to do the research. They really have no idea about the true circumstances surrounding this case. These are the people who are so ignorant that they also believe the lie that Terri was "brain dead". Terri was classified as neurologically awake. She was not brain dead. She was aware of her environment. She recognized her parents and she responded to them. Some of her nursing staff reported on the way that she laughed at their jokes. Terri's brain damage was severe, and over time, if therapy had not been withdrawn, there was the chance that Terri could have continued to improve, just like men and women all over the world who have suffered brain damage due to having a stroke. The autopsy report stated that Terri's heart muscle showed no signs of damage to to a heart attack, thus one of Michal Schiavo's many lies was exposed by the Medical Examiner.

Prior to the DNR signs first going on to Terri's charts Michael Schiavo sued two of Terri's doctors caliming that they failed to diagnose bulimia. One of the doctors settled out of court and Michael Schiavo received $250,000 under false pretenses. The records that this doctor held were examined and he was exonerated of any wrong doing. In other words, Michael Schiavo should have returned the money that he had received as compensation from this doctor because the charge of neglect was not proved.

When Dr. Thogmartin recorded an open finding regarding how Terri Schindler-Schiavo ended up with severe brain damage, he left the way open for further investigation if anything new became available. Now, it seems that one of the missing documents has been found. This document relates to the investigation of Dr Prawer who was exhonerated as far as the medical review board is concerned. Michael Schiavo has not paid back the $250,000 that he was awarded by way of settlement with Dr. Prawer. The issue that needs to be investigated is whether or not Schiavo and his lawyers knew that Terri did not have bulimia and that he and his lawyers deliberately misled the court into believing the  story that keeps doing the MSM rounds. 

There has not been adeqate investigation in this case. There has been too much in the way of a cover up when it comes to how Terri collapsed in the first place. It is time for Michael Schiavo to be charged with the murder of his late wife, Terri. He lied to the courts with regard to her wishes, and Terri became the victim for those who want to introduce euthanasia on demand.  

As an addenda to the Schiavo case, news continues to filter through that brain injured people who have similar injuries to Terri have come out of their condition. One of the latest cases is that of a man who had been in a vegetative state for 19 years prior to his miraculous recovery. It appears that over time, this man's brain had rewired.

Once again we see proof that the efforts to murder Terri Schindler-Schiavo by what can only be described as a viciously cruel death process, should now be reviewed in a criminal court and that all of the participants including George Greer who demanded that she be killed in such a vicious fashion should have their own day in court to answer for what was a deliberate murder of a woman who was not dying, and she was not brain dead.

 All of Terri's supporters need to continue their fight for justice in this case. Yes, Terri is dead, because she was dehydrated and starved to death. For that reason alone justice needs to be seen to be done, and yes Michael Schiavo must be charged with the murder of his late wife. What he did, in demanding the removal of Terri's feeding tube was a cruel and vicious murder, which he first initiated when he first attempted to cause her death. The mere fact that he managed to cover up his earlier actions does not make him any less guilty of the murder of Theresa Schindler-Schiavo. This is a case of murder. If Americans do not begin to realise that this case was not related to cases where people are dying as a result of something like cancer, or ALS or some other form of motor neurone disease.

The following article has come from a publication called "The Slate". It has come to me via through Pamela in another group. I am publishing the whole of the article in the hope that it will make people stop and think before they continue to accept the push within the mainstream media to allow the killing of the disabled in the same manner as Terri Schiavo. The issues outlined here are the reason that I supported the family of Terri Schiavo, believing that Michael Schiavo should have been removed as her legal guardian because of the obvious conflict of interest.

By allowing Terri Schiavo to die, the justice system has achieved the total marginalizion of a group within society who have no one to speak up on their behalf. They cannot be heard because of their disabilities. Instead they are at the mercy of a guardianship scheme that works to devalue their rights and take their life away from them. The method of Terri's death is not isolated. There have been other cases where the families went to court in a dispute about pulling the feeding tube. There are two other cases that provided some precedent over the Schiavo case, that or Nancy Curzan, and that of Robert Wedland. In both of these cases the neurologist who pronounced that they were no longer fit to remain in society was none other than the quack Robert Cranford. In Nancy's case, the girl was the same age as Terri when she became incapacitated. She was at a higher level of consciousness and could be spoon fed. However, Cranford stated that spoon feeding was giving medical treatment and therefore it was ok to stop this form of treatment so that she would be forced to die. In the second case, Robert Wedland was even further advanced, and he could move independently in his wheel chair. Fortunately the mother won the case against the wife and Robert was allowed to survive.

Some people continue to mistakenly believe that because Michael Schiavo cheated his way into being Terri's guardian, and that he was the guardian, he had the right to decide to kill her. My answer to those those who think that way is that they need to think very carefully about what they are believing and saying. They need to learn to distinguish between a situation where a person is truly dying and one where there is contrivance to make it look as though the person is dying. Like thousands of others who are stuck in the same kind of predicament, Terri was profoundly disabled, and she was not dying. She was not comatose either. She was neurologically described as "awake". Her cortex was not damaged and she could feel pain. Her death by dehydration and starvation was an extremely cruel death, and it must not be allowed to happen again, anywhere in the world.

The people who kept on saying: "Let the woman die", had no real idea about her physical condition. If the woman was really dying, then her body would have begun the break down process a lot faster than the 13 days that it took Terri to die. Also, considering the fact that Terri was alive 15 years after her original collapse, it is difficult for anyone to maintain or accept that she did not want to live. The self-interested motivations of the husband to kill his wife and not been deeply examined in the mainstream media. Those motivations need to be exposed and the husband needs to be brough before the courts for the abuse and murder of his wife.

Not Dead at All | Why Congress was right to stick up for Terri Schiavo.
By Harriet McBryde Johnson
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at 7:50 AM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2115208

The Terri Schiavo case is hard to write about, hard to think about. Those films are hard to look at. I see that face, maybe smiling, maybe not, and I am reminded of a young woman I knew as a child, lying on a couch, brain-damaged, apparently unresponsive, and deeply beloved—freakishly perhaps but genuinely so—living proof of one family's no-matter-what commitment. I watch nourishment flowing into a slim tube that runs through a neat, round, surgically created orifice in Ms. Schiavo's abdomen, and I'm almost envious. What effortless intake! Due to a congenital neuromuscular disease, I am having trouble swallowing, and it's a constant struggle to get by mouth the calories my skinny body needs. For whatever reason, I'm still trying, but I know a tube is in my future. So, possibly, is speechlessness. That's a scary thought. If I couldn't speak for myself, would I want to die? If I become uncommunicative, a passive object of other people's care, should I hope my brain goes soft and leaves me in peace?

My emotional response is powerful, but at bottom it's not important. It's no more important than anyone else's, not what matters. The things that ought to matter have become obscured in our communal clash of gut reactions. Here are 10 of them:

1. Ms. Schiavo is not terminally ill. She has lived in her current condition for 15 years. This is not about end-of-life decision-making. The question is whether she should be killed by starvation and dehydration.

2. Ms. Schiavo is not dependent on life support. Her lungs, kidneys, heart, and digestive systems work fine. Just as she uses a wheelchair for mobility, she uses a tube for eating and drinking. Feeding Ms. Schiavo is not difficult, painful, or in any way heroic. Feeding tubes are a very simple piece of adaptive equipment, and the fact that Ms. Schiavo eats through a tube should have nothing to do with whether she should live or die.

3. This is not a case about a patient's right to refuse treatment. I don't see eating and drinking as "treatment," but even if they are, everyone agrees that Ms. Schiavo is presently incapable of articulating a decision to refuse treatment. The question is who should make the decision for her, and whether that substitute decision-maker should be authorized to kill her by starvation and dehydration.

4. There is a genuine dispute as to Ms. Schiavo's awareness and consciousness. But if we assume that those who would authorize her death are correct, Ms. Schiavo is completely unaware of her situation and therefore incapable of suffering physically or emotionally. Her death thus can't be justified for relieving her suffering.

5. There is a genuine dispute as to what Ms. Schiavo believed and expressed about life with severe disability before she herself became incapacitated; certainly, she never stated her preferences in an advance directive like a living will. If we assume that Ms. Schiavo is aware and conscious, it is possible that, like most people who live with severe disability for as long as she has, she has abandoned her preconceived fears of the life she is now living. We have no idea whether she wishes to be bound by things she might have said when she was living a very different life. If we assume she is unaware and unconscious, we can't justify her death as her preference. She has no preference.

6. Ms. Schiavo, like all people, incapacitated or not, has a federal constitutional right not to be deprived of her life without due process of law.

7. In addition to the rights all people enjoy, Ms. Schiavo has a statutory right under the Americans With Disabilities Act not to be treated differently because of her disability. Obviously, Florida law would not allow a husband to kill a nondisabled wife by starvation and dehydration; killing is not ordinarily considered a private family concern or a matter of choice. It is Ms. Schiavo's disability that makes her killing different in the eyes of the Florida courts. Because the state is overtly drawing lines based on disability, it has the burden under the ADA of justifying those lines.

8. In other contexts, federal courts are available to make sure state courts respect federally protected rights. This review is critical not only to the parties directly involved, but to the integrity of our legal system. Although review will very often be a futile last-ditch effort—as with most death-penalty habeas petitions—federalism requires that the federal government, not the states, have the last word. When the issue is the scope of a guardian's authority, it is necessary to allow other people, in this case other family members, standing to file a legal challenge.

9. The whole society has a stake in making sure state courts are not tainted by prejudices, myths, and unfounded fears—like the unthinking horror in mainstream society that transforms feeding tubes into fetish objects, emblematic of broader, deeper fears of disability that sometimes slide from fear to disgust and from disgust to hatred. While we should not assume that disability prejudice tainted the Florida courts, we cannot reasonably assume that it did not.

10. Despite the unseemly Palm Sunday pontificating in Congress, the legislation enabling Ms. Schiavo's parents to sue did not take sides in the so-called culture wars. It did not dictate that Ms. Schiavo be fed. It simply created a procedure whereby the federal courts could decide whether Ms. Schiavo's federally protected rights have been violated.

In the Senate, a key supporter of a federal remedy was Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a progressive Democrat and longtime friend of labor and civil rights, including disability rights. Harkin told reporters, "There are a lot of people in the shadows, all over this country, who are incapacitated because of a disability, and many times there is no one to speak for them, and it is hard to determine what their wishes really are or were. So I think there ought to be a broader type of a proceeding that would apply to people in similar circumstances who are incapacitated."

I hope against hope that I will never be one of those people in the shadows, that I will always, one way or another, be able to make my wishes known. I hope that I will not outlive my usefulness or my capacity (at least occasionally) to amuse the people around me. But if it happens otherwise, I hope whoever is appointed to speak for me will be subject to legal constraints. Even if my guardian thinks I'd be better off dead—even if I think so myself—I hope to live and die in a world that recognizes that killing, even of people with the most severe disabilities, is a matter of more than private concern.

Clearly, Congress's Palm Sunday legislation was not the "broader type of proceeding" Harkin and I want. It does not define when and how federal court review will be available to all of those in the shadows, but rather provides a procedure for one case only. To create a general system of review, applicable whenever life-and-death decisions intersect with disability rights, will require a reasoned, informed debate unlike what we've had until now. It will take time. But in the Schiavo case, time is running out.

The 31st March is day on which we remember that Therese Marie Schindler-Schiavo was called from this life and entered Eternal Life. We mourn her death because she is the woman who represents all of the elderly and disabled who are forced to depart from this world against their wishes. However, we celebrate Theresa's life because of the warmth that she gave to her family and friends. Theresa might be dead, but her legacy lives on and we celebrate that legacy. This is the same date on which I personally celebrate the birth of my youngest son.

In the months after Theresa's murder other cases were brought to our attention, and the members of blogs for Terri were successful in ensuring that others did not face a death via starvation and dehydration. The first case brought to our attention was that of Mae MacGourick, and it was brought to our attention by her nephew Ken. In this case, the grand-daughter wanted to transfer Mae to hospice because she said "It was time for grandma to go to Jesus". Now it seems that Beth was of the opinion that she had the right to play God and decide when her grandmother was to die. However, Ken fought against Beth's plans and Mae was transferred to another hospital where she received treatment for her condition. Sadly, not long after this Mae passed away as a result of another illness, but at least Mae died with a full belly. There was a case in Chicago, brought to our attention by a wonderful pastor who cares deeply for his flock. The woman concerned was "rescued" and the husband was forced to continue her feeding. There was nothing that could be done for the young boy in New York, but at least the justice who conducted an emergency sitting refused to allow the hospital to use this boy's organs as planned. Little Charlotte Wyatt continues to thrive despite the death sentence that has been imposed upon her.

The court sanctioned murder of Therese Schindler has served as a catalyst against the ever insidious growth of the culture of death. The struggle to keep Therese alive gave a new focus to something that had been happening in the darkness, not just in the USA but elsewhere. Therese, in all of her helplessness became the face of the brain injured who have been cast aside by their families. One of the doctors who condemned Therese to death with his lying diagnosis was Dr. Death Richard Crandon, and he had already been responsible for the murder of Nancy Curzon. In this case, Nancy was being spoon fed, but Crandon claimed that spoon feeding was medical treatment and that it was ethical to stop this "medical treatment". It was Crandon's testimony that had condemned Nancy to death. So in reality Terri has been the tip of the iceberg as far as these deaths are concerned. All it has taken is a sudden memory that the brain injured disabled person had declared that he or she did not want to be attached to machines and did not want to be left relying upon others.

If the judge is one who is more interested in getting a name for himself as an activist judge, then he is not likely to be just in his decisions. However, a truly just judge, such as the man who handled the case of Mae MaGourick, will always try to do what is best for the patient. George Greer falls into the category of the unjust judge. In the whole time that he handled the Schindler vs. Schiavo case he constantly failed to consider the civil rights of Terri, and he broke law after law with regards to her rights. What is worse, he accepted the evidence of Michael Schiavo (a man who is liar) that Terri had expressed the desire not to be left dependant upon others. He rejected all of the evidence of the Schindler family and friends in order to pronounce a death sentence upon Terri, and yet he was not a criminal court judge and she was not guilty of committing a civil crime for which the death penalty was expected. The manner in which this case was handled by the probate judge needs to be reconsidered and if there are lessons to be learned, legislation to be drawn up to protect the lives of the vulnerable then something needs to be done to protect the rights of the most vulnerable members of our community.

Although it is not directly related to the state sanctioned murder of Terri Schiavo, there is a case in the UK that has established some very important aspects on case law. This is the case of baby MB who is slowly dying as a result of a disease known as spinal muscle atrophy or SMA type 1. The baby has reached the point where he can only move his eyebrows. The doctors at the hospital where he is a patient wanted to remove him from ventilation and thus cause his death as he would not be able to breathe without the ventilator. The reasons given by the doctors included the value judgement for quality of life. However, the judge in this case did not accept the arguments of the doctors that baby MB should die because of his so called lack of a quality of life. He determined that the child had a quality of life and that since he was cognizant they could not turn off the ventilator. In this very just decision the parents have bought precious time for their son, since his life is going to be very short anyway. The judge also decided that in the future, should baby MB have heart failure due to his condition, the doctors do not have to perform unnecessary procedures that in all likelihood would result in the death of the baby. This is a very fair decision and it is one that should be emulated around the world. What I like about the decision is that Justice Holman followed case law, and that was something that was missing in Schindler vs. Schiavo.

It seems to me that the general public are so apathetic that few have ever taken the time to question the "facts" that were placed before them by the memberso of the Culture of Death. George Felos, plus a variety of docors appeared on a variety of TV shows in the USA and they had a copy of a CT scan that they claimed showed that Terri was nothing more than an unfeeling zombie. The chant that was to be heard and repeated so much is that she allegedly had almost no cortex and therefore she had no feeling and there was just nothing.

However, at least one person questioned whether or not the scan that was paraded on the TV did in fact belong to Terri. I will assume that it was Terri's scan but I will point to the other anomaly that no one seemed to question. The doctors who appeared on the TV compared Terri's brain to that of a normal 25 year old. That particular form of comparison was in fact worthless because the comparison should have been made with someone older who had brain damage. In this way the audience could have had a fair comparison between Terri's scan and that of someone with equivalent injury.

In other words George, (the slime) Felos, deliberately misrepresented the true state of Terri's brain function. This is also true of Dr. Death Crandon. The members of the Culture of Death club who were involved in the murder of Terri Schiavo deliberately set out to misrepresent Terri Schiavo's condition because they knew that if you repeat something often enough people will fall for the story that is being weaved. In this particular case, Dr. Death Crandon had used a CT scan that was virtually useless in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the public. The comparison that he made to that of a healthy 25 year old was not proof that Terri had no function. The story should have been challenged from the point of view that Terri had lasted for so long.  If she was "dead" as claimed by Michael Schiavo and his partners in the crime against Terri Schindler-Schiavo, then there is no way she would have been able to laugh at the jokes being told by the nursing staff who cared for her.

Terri was able to communicate at a certain level and she did this communication with her parents. The nursing staff who had been prepared to make affidavits mentioned that Terri would turn away from Michael when he came to visit. Carrots cannot behave in that way. Yet Michael Schiavo and the criminals who worked with him used this CT scan comparison as though it was a valid comparison. The Felos team bombared the airwaves with these false comparisons and the sympathetic talk show hosts did not think to question the validity of such.

Even if the scan was of Terri's brain, it was not so bad that it could not have rehabilitated such that another portion of the brain could have taken over. Terri was able to feel pain and this fact was recorded in the notes of the hospital, the nursing homes plus the hospice where she was forced to stay for 5 long years. The fact remains that the atrophy of Terri's brain was due to lack of stimulation, not because Terri was incapable of being stimulated and her body progressing because of therapy that she might have received, but Michael Schiavo abused all who tried to give Terri any form of "therapy". He refused all therapy because he wanted Terro to look as though she was something that had deteriorated rapidly. He did not want her to recover. He has not been honest about the reason for the argument with the Schindlers. He wanted to use Terri's estate upon himself.

It is easy to see how the culture of death crowd manipulated the information regarding the condition of Terri, for they have a willing audience in the press, and especially on the talk shows. They repeated the mantra over and over again about her condition but they were not being truthful. When a professional such as Dr. Tom at Code Blue Blog the death crowd ridiculed him and they attempted to destroy his reputation.  Code Blue Blog was willing to challenge the CT scan on the grounds that he thought that it was not as bad as claimed by the clowns who prefer death over life.

The first time I heard about Terri's plight was via the news report of a very hysterical woman. I am not kidding because the commentary that was being passed to a variety of lists at the time was over the top. The woman concerned probably did more to harm support for Terri's plight than the good that could have been achieved by getting supporters. The hysterical approach was a total turn off. I looked up the case, read the reports, and like so many others, I thought that Terri was lying comatose in a hospital bed whilst attached to machines. I even believed the reports that her predicament had come about because she had been starving herself. Well. I was wrong and I admit that I was wrong in those first inclinations. It was not until February 2005 that ny attention was once again directed towards Terri Schindler-Schiavo, and this time I did further research, and it was that research that changed my mind about Terri's plight.

Some of my sources of early information were quite weird and one site even tried to claim that Terri was marked by Scientology to die because she the number 8 could be seen in her eyes. I could not see the alleged variations in the photographs, but that does not mean that the authors of that site were not partially right - that someone was hacking a variety of sites in order to remove the growing support for Terri's parents and family as they fought to keep her alive against her adulterous husband's wishes.

We have all moved forward in the past year since Terri was condemned to a death that was worse than anything acceptable for the basest of criminals. Yet, I remain a supporter of the Schindlers and I believe that at the very least Michael Schiavo should be sued in the civil courts over the wrongful death of his incapacitated and in my view unloved wife. I continue to hope that in the near future Michael Schiavo and all of the people who collaborated to bring about this lack of injustice in this case are themselves brought before the courts, inicted for their conspiracy to murder, found guilty and end up behind bars. I extend that hope to Charlie Crist and Bernie McCabe in particular because it is their particular form of inaction that did the most harm as far a bringing about the death of an innocent disabled woman is concerned.

This case was alarming because of the savagery of the psychological punishments that were inflicted upon Terri and her family at the hands of Michael Schiavo and the concubine who lived in adultery with him, but who is now his second wife (talk about bimbo!). As I went through the snippets of published testimony in this case, I discovered that there is much that continues to remain hidden beneath the surface. However, like the decaying material that is used to propagate mushrooms, the issues that are continue to simmer beneath the surface will one day burst forth like the mushrooms that sprout after a good burst of rain. These things cannot remain hidden forever and all who worked in a criminal way to end the life of Therese Marie Schindler will one day have to face some form of justice for their role in her torture and murder.

There are many who have continued to dispute that Terri was abused, but they are the ones who have a limited understanding of what is meant by abuse. Some have even attacked any who would dare suggest that this case is one that shows all of the classic features of an abusive relationship. One person attacked my line of reasoning on the grounds that using abuse as the reason for Terri's condition is nothing short of sticking to the line produced by a number of feminists who push for women's rights. This person wrote a diatribe about how women can be abusive too. However, the diatribe and the charge have nothing to do with what was taking place at that point in time with Terri. From the moment of Terri's collapse in unexplained circumstances the investigating police should have kept Michael Schiavo in their sights as having a hand in her rather mysterious collapse. Instead of doing a proper investigation, the case was shelved because on the surface, and according to an amended filed police report, there was no evidence of a struggle in the apartment, and there was no evidence of violence on Terri's limp body.  In other words the investigating officer had never attended a course that would have equipped him to follow up on a collapse that occurred in rather suspicious circumstances. People who think only in terms of physical abuse, that is beatings of the partner, need to be reminded that there are other more sinister forms of abuse that have a far more devastating effect upon the victims. There is sufficient evidence that points to Michael Schiavo as being a man who abused Terri, probably in the physical sense, but definitely in the psychological sense.

It was my own realisation that this case involved elements of abuse that started to really get my attention, and thus led me to examine as much detail as possible in the uncertain media of the Internet. What really stands out to me is that Michael Schiavo is full of bluster. His outbursts in front of the media against the Bush brothers are further indicators of the state of mind of Michael Schiavo. His tendency to come on strong with the right to his privacy, but not of Terri's same right indicated a man who is entirely self-centred; and a man whose only goal was to bury forever the cause of his own sense of guilt over something that he had caused.  Every time I look more closely at various aspects of the Schiavo scandal, I see something new that convicts Michael Schiavo:

1. Fraud: there are elements of the malpractice lawsuit that are fraudulent. The Humana hospital medical records did not in fact pinpoint that Terri's collapse was due to bulimia. In fact they ruled out a problem with her heart. This was later verified in the autopsy report. In other words, Michael Schiavo obtained money allegedly for the rehabilitation of Terri through fraudulent means. The State of Florida refused to investigate the fact that an act of fraud had been committed.

2. Causing actual bodily harm to the person of Marie Therese Schiavo. The possibility that there was an attempt to asphyxiate Terri was never fully investigated. The State of Florida also failed to investigated the further attempts of Theresa's life outside of attempts to remove the feeding tube. One of these attempts occurred at Sable Palms Nursing Home, and at least one other occurred whilst Terri was a resident at the Woodside Hospice. An attempt to kill Terri via the deliberate withholding of antibiotics was reported to DCF by staff at the Morton Plant Hosptial. The investigation was stifled by someone in authority. There were other reported attempts on Terri's life but some of the reports that were made in medical records mysteriously disappeared. Someone on the nursing staff was collusion with Michael Schiavo.

3. The refusal to allow Terri to receive rehabilitation. This was extremely abusive since it left her in extreme pain as her contractures worsened (I will have more to say on this subject in light of my own experience).

4. The psychological abuse of Terri's family that included denying them the benefit of being present when their daughter and sister passed away. This in itself was a very low act. Schiavo also denied the family the right to access to Terri on a variety of occasions. By doing this he was also causing Terri further psychological injury.

These are only some of the issues that have never been satisfactorily resolved in this case. This is a case where there was a lack of justice for the victim who was being used by the pro-death crowd as a martyr for the cause. It is for this reason that I began my own very extensive research into this case.

(To be continued)

Now that the transcript of the interview with Matt Lauer has been released, I thought that it might be time to have a little bit of fun at the expense of the adulteress in the tragic story of the life and death of Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo. Crystal Clear has written up her thoughts on the subject of the interview, point out again how Mikey has been telling more porkies as well as once again proving that he has a personality disorder that is narcissism.

Rather than steal Crystal's thunder, I thought that I might have a little fun with what Jodie the adulteress was thinking during the Mike Lauer interview:

On his book, “Terri: The Truth”

Matt Lauer, NBC News: I guess you could’ve written a book to honor Terri. After reading it, it’s not really the book you wrote. This is a book that in some ways settles some scores, doesn’t it?

Michael Schiavo: Oh yes it does.

(Jodie thinks: Oh Oh this could be a trap question. Careful, Mike, this guy might catch on that you committed murder.)

Lauer: You did think about writing that a book that honored Terri?

(Jodie thinks: careful how you answer this one Mike. It could be setting you up for a trap. Do they really think that you wanted to honour that piece of nothing that was in the bed all those years? Oh if only they knew what you were really doing)

Schiavo: Oh yes. Many times. I mean this book does honor Terri in a way. It sets her free. It tells the truth.

(Jodie thinks: yes that is a good response. Those fools who believed us in the first place are going to go along with that story. Oh good we can keep up this wonderful charade and no one will know that this was a contemplated murder after all.)

(Shiavo thinks: yea, those dumb idiots who went along with my plan, they really fell for it. They really think that I loved that bitch.)

On allegations that he waited to call 911 after Terri collapsed on Feb. 25, 1990

Schiavo: They’re wrong. I heard the thud. Ran to Terri. Called after that little gasp, I mean, it was within a minute I was on the phone with 911. They can think whatever.

(Jodie thinks: Oh Mike, make sure that you get the times right this time. They nearly caught you out with this lie the last time you answered these questions. Oh they might just continue to believe you... I hope they don't ask about all of those times because you will have a lot of explaining if they probe too much.)

(Schiavo thinks: I hope I got the expression right so that he will not suspect that I am lying again. I wonder whether he will ask me how long I waited until I heard that gurgle, hoping that the bitch was already dead. The bitch told me she was going to leave, and I told her that the only way that I would allow her to leave was in a body bag. Serves her right. Will he ask me about the times? Will I get it right or will I have to fudge it again?)

On his marriage to Jodi
Lauer: People have often asked. Michael why didn’t you divorce Terri, you were living with Jodi.

Michael Schiavo: Why do I have to divorce Terri? Terri wasn’t like a football— an inanimate object you pass back and forth. She was my wife. You mean because your wife gets sick, do you give her back?

Jodi Schiavo: I would think so much less of Michael had he walked away from her. That is one of the qualities in him that I so admire. That up against everything...he stuck by her...

(Jodie thinks: I hope I sounded convincing. I really have to work hard to convince myself that it is an admirable quality. After all, he helped me make the decision to get rid of my mother when she was diagnosed with cancer. But I wonder what will happen to me if I end up in the same predicament. Will he stand by me, or will he go shack up with another woman? Now why didn't I think about that before I married this boob? He's been a good lay, but how long before he decides that he wants to have it off with a younger woman? He did have a reputation as a womaniser at the time I met him. Can I really trust him not to off me, like he did with Terri. I mean the police were such boobs not working out how he managed that strangulation manouver. He did tell me all about it. Oops. Better keep quiet. I do not want anyone guessing that I know what happened. )


The comments that were made by Michael Schiavo are narcissistic. Even the book that he has written is about Michael Schiavo. It is not about Terri.

It would seem that Mikey has a rather guilty conscience about what in fact happened on the morning that Terri collapsed. He seems to want to keep up the pretense that Terri had bulimia, but he should be aware that the autopsy stated that the results of the tests at the time of her collapse were not in fact indicative of bulimia. In fact it is not possible to tell whether a person is bulimic from this kind of test. As Karen Ward has explained in great detail, Terri's tests proved without a doubt that she was not bulimic. They proved that at some point she was deprived of oxygen. The damage to Terri's neck cannot be explained by the brain damage. Something else caused her to not be able to move her neck. The only possible explanation happens to be that Terri was being held in what is called the policeman's hold at the time of her collapse.

Sure, Mikey heard a thud as she hit the floor, because he was there right beside her when she slipped into unconsciousness after he had applied his arm around her neck. That one minute before calling 911 was a mighty long minute because in another interview with Larry King Mikey stated that the fall had happened about 4:30. He did not call 911 until at least 5:30 a.m. That gave him an hour whilst he watched Terri as she was gasping for breath. It gave him an hour to make sure the apartment did not look like there was a struggle. Michael Schiavo has on numerous occasions failed to account for the discrepancy in timing.

It is not possible that he can have a sudden memory that Terri did not want to be attached to machines, but he cannot remember other very specific details, including when he married Terri and when they moved to Florida. His failure to remember these details is an indicator that he lied about what happened to Terri and he is lying about Terri ever telling him or his brother and sister in law that she would rather die than be hooked up to machines. This testimony flies in the face of the testimony given by one of Terri's best friends. It als contradicts when the alleged conversations took place. Did Terri bilocate so that she was in two places at the one time to watch the same movie with two different people? Yes. That is a legitimate question, because if you work your way through the Schiavo statements, which have constantly lacked consistency, Terri allegedly watched the movie about Karen Ann Quinlan with him, and not with her friend. It is amazing how Schiavo constantly took the testimony of others and turned it around to suit his agenda.

Both Jodie Centonze and Michael Schiavo have a guilty conscience over what they did to Terri. This is a woman who is an adulteress. She was having sexual relations with the husband of another woman, whilst that woman was lying helpless in a hospice bed. If she had any sense of sin, then she must have recognized that her actions were against the spirit of the Ten Commandments. Could that be a motive for Jodie to have continually urged Schiavo to continue with his determination to finish the job of killing his wife? The same goes for Schiavo. His own guilty conscience over his philandering even before Terri collapsed would have been enough for him to fly in a rage at Terri as he projected his own guilt upon his helpless wife. This would be consistent with the profile of one who is a wife abuser. He abused her because he was guilty of sin. Then, when Jodie came onto the scene he felt the urge to make sure that Terri would not survive or revive so that she could point the finger at him.

Schiavo commented within this interview that he believed that Terri was smiling down upon him because she was released from this world. This statement is an indication of the delusional state of Schiavo's mind. He has no true concept of heaven. For some inexplicable reason he seems to think that Terri would be smiling upon him as she remembers the awful pain of going through dehydration and starvation over a period of 13 days. The man has absolutely no concept about the difference between those whose nutrition and hydration is removed because they are in the process of having their organs breaking down and that of a healthy woman who is not dying.

Sure, removals of PEG tubes happen every day, but the people are dying. They are not disabled people who are attached only to a feeding tube, unless of course Dr. Death has come along to give one of his famous diagnoses that here is another person who would be better off dead according to his criteria of who has the right to live.

Within this extract of the interview Schiavo has proved once again that he is a very sick and delusional man who is in need of psychotherapy. The mere fact that Jodie Centonze has not recognized these characteristics makes me think that she fits the profile of blonde bimbo species.

I am an Australian, so why should I feel that I needed to be involved with what was happening to a disabled woman who was condemned to death in Florida USA? This is a hard question to answer because when I first heard about what was happening to Terri I believed what I was hearing in the mainstream media (MSM), that she was on life support and that she had ended up that way because she was a bulimic. However, this case refused to go away and in the end I had to investigate it for myself. What I discovered along the way was really quite shocking.

What is even more shocking, though, is the way in which even to this day, almost 12 months after the feeding tube was forcibly removed on the orders of her guardian, Terri Schindler remains a person who cries out for justice. Even from the grave, Terri's voice continues to cry out for justice against all who were complicit in the decision-making that brought about her death.

What makes Terri's case stand out is that she was severely disabled after an incident in her unit caused her to end up being brain damaged. She was not attached to a ventilator, and she was not in the process of dying. These are just two of the myths that were perpetuated by the supporters of George Felos, Michael Schiavo and the Culture of Death. What also stands out is that in this case a written living will did not exist. Instead the judge, a man who should not be on the bench because of his own crooked dealings with guardians in the Pinellas County area of Florida, George Greer, accepted what should have been excluded as acceptable evidence, from Terri's adulterous and estranged husband, as well as his brother and sister-in-law that she had expressed that she would not want to live attached to any form of life support. On the surface, one could be forgiven for thinking that this was indeed an open and shut case, and that such wishes had been expressed.

Amazingly, when one began diving and digging and looking beneath the surface of this case, it became increasingly clear that Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo was being railroaded into death, in the name of the Culture of Death. The anniversary itself marks a culmination of a battle that spans 15 years, from the time of the incident that caused Terri's collapse. It is worth recapping some of the earlier events of this story because there are still many people who have not as yet understood the true nature of this court case, and the dangerous precedent that it has set for all of the disabled people who live, not just in the USA but in other parts of the world. The death order that was placed upon Terri was very inhumane. To claim that she would not feel a thing during this procedure, a claim that was made by George Felos was something that smacked or outright arrogance.

Even more arrogant than the arrant lie that Terri would feel nothing was the fact that when the deed was done, it was the paramour, or concubine of the estranged husband who stood before the media and announced that the peg tube had been removed from Terri so that she could not receive nutrition and hydration. The order went well beyond tube feeding because the judge ordered "I want no one to feed or give that girl a drink of water." Terri was not even allowed to be given ice chips to help her parched mouth and lips. The death sentence pronounced upon this disabled woman was totally barbaric. Yet, not one of the organizations, such as Amnesty International or the ACLU, or even the mainstream branches of Feminism were prepared to speak out on her behalf.

Terri was abused when she was alive. She was more than likely physically abused prior to that fateful morning. She was mentally abused by the way in which Michael Schiavo exerted control over her every move. Then, when she was powerless to protect herself, he continued to abuse her as she lay in her hospital, and then hospice bed. He denied her the pleasure of seeing her family and friends through his control of the visitors' list. He screamed at hospital staff who failed to obey his orders. He would not allow Terri to receive even the slightest amount of therapy. That is how much of a controlling and abusive man Michael Schiavo was, when it came to his treatment towards Terri. Probably the worst form of abuse out of all the controlling things that he did, was to parade his lovers in front of Terri, acting as though she did not know what was happening. He had no regard to any form of familial or marital fidelity.

It is distressing to know that there are people, even those who profess to being Christian, who believe that Michael Schiavo had the right to take a lover whilst his wife was kept imprisoned within the confines of the hospice. Well those people who think that way are morally and legally wrong. So long as Michael Schiavo was still married to Terri he had no right to take up with a lover. He must have been feeling guilty but that was no reason to punish Terri, for he was the one who was committing adultery.