Если это
казнь, то за
что? Если
убийство,
почему никто
не может
защитить?
Врач
обязан
лечить и
спасать, не
взирая на постановления
или указы –
такое
возможно
лишь в полицейском
государстве.
Америки, как
демократической
страны, более
не
существует
на карте
мира? Случай
Терри Шиаво –
это безБожие,
полный
аморализм,
небывалый
национальный
позор!
НЕ ОТ НАШЕГО
ИМЕНИ!
Америка,
опомнись, что
ты творишь?!
Не
просто
позволяешь
убивать
невинных, самых
беззащитных
на глазах у
всего
мирового
сообщества –
увы, отнюдь
не только!
Ты
облекаешь
подлое
убийство беззащитной
женщины-инвалида
в ризы Закона
и
правопорядка!
Ты позволяешь
открыто торжествовать
подлецам и
убийцам! Более
того: делаешь
из них «звёзд»
телеэкранов,
«героев» национальных
шоу и
бестселлеров!
Ты являешь
свои грязные
тайны о том,
что твои
фешенебельные
больницы
давно
превратились
в фашистские
«фабрики
смерти»!
Браво,
Америка! Ты
низвела со
всех своих
пьедесталов
милосердие,
сострадание,
любовь к
человеку. Ты
видишь и
понимаешь
только нули,
после точки и
запятой, в
твоих чеках.
Да ты
по-просту – сбесилась,
превратилась
в миф, в мираж,
в фантом!
Тебя больше – нет.
Есть майки
шиаво, о-джеи
симпсоны,
моники
левински и
прочие чудовища
в образах
людей,
которые
хорошо усвоили
единственный
закон,
которому
сегодня ты
столь
усердно
поклоняешься:
деньги не
пахнут.
Что
плохого
сделала тебе
Терри? В чём
виновата молодая
женщина, если
заболела и
стала
беспомощнее
ребёнка? А
если это Майк
Шиаво толкнул
или ударил
её, в
припадке
бешеной ревности?
Ведь такое
может
случиться с
каждым –
разве это
повод для
убийства, для
общенационального
кощунства,
неслыханной
жестокости?!
Терри не
может сама
дать отпор
наглецу, яро
пытающемуся
доказать
всему свету,
что убивая
Терри, он
лишь
«исполняет её
волю» – так защити
же Терри!
Государство
ОБЯЗАНО быть
социально
ориентированным,
иначе зачем
оно вообще
нужно? Государство
ОБЯЗАНО
защищать – не
убивать
своих
граждан. Государство
ОБЯЗАНО
ставить на
место зарвавшихся
негодяев.
Государство
ОБЯЗАНО наказывать
преступников
в белых
халатах, забывших
о
профессиональном
и
человеческом
долге ЛЕЧИТЬ
больных и
ПОМОГАТЬ
людям.
Америка,
ты защищаешь
животных,
природу,
женщин – что
плохого
сделала тебе
Терри? Даже
если койка в больнице
стоит тысячи
долларов в
день – всё равно
Терри только
одна, и
второй Терри
уже не будет
никогда!
Остановись
и не поднимай
руки на чудо,
на жизнь, на
улыбку ЖИВОЙ
Терри!
Разве
же это не
стоит всех
миллиардов
на свете – и
гораздо
больше их.
Жизнь не
знает цены.
Человека
нельзя
купить или
продать. Даже
убийцу и
преступника
убивать
грешно – Терри
никогда и
никого не
обидела, а ты
не позволяешь
дать ей воды.
Это чудовищно.
Это страшно,
когда в такой
стране, как
Америка,
человек
умирает от
голода и жажды.
Великая
Америка, ты
творишь
великий ужас,
и терпение
Высших на
исходе. Бог
долго хранил
тебя от всех
бед, потому
что ты любила
Его творение
– человека, и
ты всегда
защищала его.
Что ждёт тебя
теперь?
Держись,Терри, мы с
тобой, мы
молимся о
тебе! Бог не
оставит тебя
– но пощадит
ли Он твоих
убийц?
Да
будет воля
Его! Забывшая
Бога, открыто
и нагло
попирающая
Его Закон –
Америка,
считай себя
предупреждённой.
25
марта
2005 года,
Good Friday
Schindler family resolute in fight for
Terri's life
PINELLAS PARK, Florida (CNN) -- Although Terri
Schiavo's feeding tube was removed contrary to their wishes seven days ago, members
of her family said late Thursday they will continue fighting for her life
despite continuing setbacks and mounting odds against them.
"We don't want to give up on Terri,"
her brother, Bobby Schindler, told CNN. "She hasn't given up on us all
these years, and we're certainly not going to give up on her.
"Things don't look too good right now, but
there's always a voice inside saying something could happen any second now to
get my sister out of this mess."
Schiavo, 41, remained in a Florida hospice Friday
as her family continued to plead with courts to reinsert her feeding tube. She
collapsed in 1990 after suffering heart failure and has been in what courts
have called a persistent vegetative state ever since.
Schindler's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler,
have been involved in a legal tug-of-war with Schiavo's husband, Michael, over
her fate for years. Courts have repeatedly sided with Michael Schiavo, who
maintains his wife would not want to be kept alive artificially. The Schindlers
maintain she could get better with intense therapy.
This week was not the first time Schiavo's
feeding tube has been disconnected, but previously the family has been
successful in their efforts to get it reinserted.
"It happened a year and a half ago,"
said Schiavo's sister, Suzanne Vitadamo. "We thought it was the end then,
and look what happened. We just hope that Terri can hang on, and we'll keep
praying."
Schindler said the most difficult part of his
family's ordeal is "having to watch my parents go through simply wanting to
care for their child and not being able to."
"I mean, 15 years now, particularly these
last 13 years, they just simply want to bring their child home and take care of
her, make her part of the family again, and they're being told that they can't.
It's something that I think a lot of people just can't understand."
"That's been the difficult part, not only
seeing Terri abandoned and warehoused this period of time, but also having to
see my parents go through the struggle just to take care of their child."
Asked about the years she has spent without her
sister, Vitadamo said, "We really haven't been without Terri. Terri is a
part of me and my life, and she always will be. I don't feel like I've ever
been without her."
The two visited with their sister earlier
Thursday.
"She looks -- honestly, she looks like she
is in a concentration camp," Vitadamo said. "She's beginning to
hollow out. It's awful. It's awful to have to sit back and watch this process
happen to anybody. We live in America. I can't even believe I'm sitting here
discussing this. It's sick."
Schindler said part of him wants to be with
Schiavo, but "the other part of me just wants to get out of the room as
fast as I can. It's absolutely horrific to know someone's being starved to
death, especially a family member."
But despite the emotional toll the fight has
taken on her family, Vitadamo said she does not regret it.
"I've watched my parents age incredibly, in
a sad way, over the past several years. But you know what, I'd do it all over
again. I would do whatever I could do to fight for her. She can't do it
herself, and we're all that she has, and we love her. I wouldn't think
twice."
CNN.com
Bob
and Mary Schindler, from left, and their daughter Suzanne Vitadamo go to visit
Schiavo on Friday.
Family spokesman begs Gov. Bush for help
The Florida Supreme Court has dismissed -- for
the second time in a week -- a bid by Terri Schiavo's parents to have their
daughter's feeding tube reconnected.
Florida's Supreme
Court on Saturday night rejected a new attempt by Terri Schiavo's parents to
have her feeding tube reconnected. Their emergency petition had described the
court order to remove the tube as akin to a "mercy killing."
The state's highest court dismissed the
emergency petition Saturday night, saying it didn't have jurisdiction. On Thursday,
the same court refused to hear the case. The lawyer for Schiavo's parents said
the legal fight to prolong the brain-damaged woman's life is drawing to an end.
This is the third legal blow Schiavo's parents
have received within the course of 24 hours. Their motions were also denied
earlier in the day by Circuit Court Judge George Greer in Clearwater, Florida,
and Friday by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia. Bob
and Mary Schindler have now lost more than two dozen legal opinions in both
state and federal courts, which have consistently sided with their daughter's
husband -- and legal guardian -- Michael Schiavo. He has said that he is simply
following his wife's wish not to be kept in a persistent vegetative state.
Speaking earlier with reporters in Dunedin,
Florida, on Saturday, Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, said, "I would
hope that the parents' side realize that any further legal action will be
futile. We can understand their desperate efforts in this case. But I would
hope that at some point, they leave that behind and begin to cope with this on
a more personal level."
Felos said that he had visited Terri Schiavo for
20 minutes at her hospice in Pinellas Park on Saturday.
"Frankly, when I saw her...she looked
beautiful. In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo, I've never seen such a look
of peace and beauty upon her."He refuted charges made by Schiavo's parents
that her lips were bleeding, her skin was peeling and that she appeared in
discomfort.
Felos said that "it felt right and
appropriate that Mrs. Schiavo not be fed and sustained through an artificial
device" and that "she has a right to die with dignity" and
"in peace" without the release of video and photographs of her at
this time. Additionally, Felos said that Schiavo received last rites, which
includes Communion, the day the tube was removed, and that a court has ordered
that she be able to receive the sacrament one more time before she dies.
Felos said no exact time for that has been set,
but that the rites would be administered by the hospice priest. He said
Schiavo's breathing has been regular and that her death doesn't appear
"imminent." He said that Schiavo's remains would be cremated and
interred in a family plot in Pennsylvania, where she and her husband grew up.
Felos said that Michael Schiavo has been at his wife's bedside around the
clock, except when her other family members want to visit.
Differing impressions Impressions
of Terri Schiavo's condition differ from her parents' side.
"She is fighting like hell to stay alive.
And I want the powers to be to know that," Bob Schindler told reporters
after visiting his daughter at the hospice Saturday. "Anyone that has the
authority to come in and to save Terri, they can do it. It's not too late.
She's fighting and we're asking you to fight with her."
Schindler said his daughter has been showing
signs of "starvation and lack of hydration." The 41-year-old's
feeding tube was disconnected under state court order more than eight days ago.
Doctors have said she likely will die within two weeks from the time the tube
was removed. In his five-page decision Saturday, Florida Circuit Court Judge
George Greer said that Schiavo's parents had failed to meet the burden of proof
necessary to prove their latest assertion: that Terri Schiavo had attempted to
verbalize "I want to live."
The motion filed by Schiavo's parents motion
said, "She managed to articulate the first two vowel sounds, first
articulating AHHHHHHH and then virtually screaming WAAAAAAAA." Schiavo did not say anything further on that
occasion. Greer said Schiavo's utterances came only after being touched --
consistent with evidence presented in a 2002 trial.
"All of the credible medical evidence this
court has received over the last five years is that this is not a cognitive
response, but rather something akin to a person jerking his/her hand off a hot
stove long before he/she has thought about it," Greer wrote. He is the
same judge who ordered the removal of the feeding tube last week.
Meanwhile, the Schindlers have been imploring
Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the nation's leaders to step in. Outside the hospice Saturday, Bobby
Schindler, Terri Schiavo's brother, challenged lawmakers to go inside and see
her. "And when they come out, you need to ask them if Congress and the
governor were wrong to get involved in my sister's case."
More than 100 protesters have gathered outside
Hospice House Woodside, holding vigil and praying on this Easter weekend. Some
are carrying wooden crosses. Others are carrying signs. "Don't murder
Terri," one sign read. "Michael is a murderer," read another.
Years-long legal
battle
Terri Schiavo has been hospitalized, bedridden
and unable to speak or feed herself since 1990, when she suffered heart failure
and resulting brain damage. Her parents argue that their daughter never made a
right-to-die declaration and would not want to be, in their words,
"starved to death." Her husband argues that his wife had said, before
her illness, that she would not want to continue living if she were in such a
condition. The legal fight between the two sides has lasted a decade.
Tight security
At least 10 protesters, including three
children, were arrested at Schiavo's hospice Friday. They are expected to face
trespassing charges. Meanwhile, FBI agents have arrested a North Carolina man
on suspicion of soliciting offers over the Internet to kill Michael Schiavo and
Greer. Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview is accused of offering $250,000 for the
killing of Schiavo and another $50,000 for the "the elimination of the
judge who ruled against Terry."
Meywes was arrested without incident at his home
around 5 p.m. Friday on charges of solicitation of murder and transmission of a
threatening communication via interstate commerce, authorities said. If
convicted, Meywes could face up to 15 years in prison and up to $500,000 in
fines. He is expected to make an initial court appearance Monday in U.S.
District Court in Asheville, North Carolina. (Full story)
Judge Greer has been under 24-hour protection by
two U.S. marshals because of increased threats against his life by those
unhappy with his handling of the Schiavo case. CNN's Ted
Barrett, Bob Franken, Joe Johns, Bill Mears and John Zarrella contributed to
this report.