Florida Governor Jeb Bush has requested an investigation into what he said was an unexplained delay between the time recently the late Terri Schiavo collapsed and the time her husband, Michael Schiavo, called emergency services.
The long-running court battle waged by Mr. Schivao to have his brain-dead wife’s feeding tube removed was at the center of recent attempts by conservatives to transform the independent judiciary into a subservient branch of legislatures.
Governor Bush, having resolved to his satisfaction all other pressing matters relating to the welfare of his state, told a Florida prosecutor that the governor’s own investigation revealed a gap of 40-70 minutes between Schiavo’s collapse and her husband’s call to 911, and said the “new information” warranted a “fresh look at this case without any preconceptions as to the outcome.”
Apparently blessed with the same keen investigative instincts as his elder brother, US president George Bush, the Florida governor based his assessment of the evidence on various statements by Michael Schiavo regarding the approximate time of Terri Schiavo’s collapse as compared to the actual time Mr. Schiavo placed the emergency call.
Although Schiavo claims that the disparity in his statements about the time arise from his failure to wear a watch or consult a clock while he tried to save his wife’s life in the early morning hours of February 25, 1990, Mr. Bush is concerned, without any preconceptions, that Michael Schivao may have sat about his living room doing malpractice sums as his wife’s heart stopped and her brain embarked upon its inexorable journey to destruction.
That destruction is detailed in the autopsy conducted after Terri Schiavo’s death in March of this year. The medical examiner found that Ms. Schiavo’s brain at the time of her death was half the size a healthy brain would have been, leaving her without hope of recovery.
The autopsy results were released on Wednesday, two days before Governor Bush contacted the state attorney to request an investigation into the timing of the 911 call.
Micheal Schiavo has received a number of death threats in connection with his legal efforts to have his wife’s feeding tube removed. Opponents of his efforts will be widely quoted supporting Governor Bush’s request.
With this kind of material, I wish I were a stand-up comic instead of another boring anonymous poster. When I first read about the criminal investigation, I laughed so hard I almost cried. I am still laughing. I guess Jeb really has lost his mind after all. Even Florida’s Attorney General, a conservative republican running hard to succeed Jeb as Governor, refuses to comment on this inanity. I appreciate the political need to pander to core constituencies on occasion, but really . . . Perhaps his brother George should direct the new U.S. Attorney General to open an anti-terrorism investigation into this tragedy. The FBI could certainly use the diversion. Let’s be sure that no stone is left unturned and no dollar left unspent to prove our politicians truly care for their newly found “culture of life,” not to mention our cherished American sense of humor.
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Remote Viewing of Autopsy; Frist, W., Bush, J.
The autopsy results confirm Terry Schiavo was no longer a sentient being. Dr. Bill Frist’s Senate floor diagnosis on March 17 belonged on a “remote viewing” segment of Art Bell’s show. But, while the WaPo’s E.J. Dionne pens, “Dr. Frist, we’re st…
PToo, yeah, it’s astonishing. I especially like the “without any preconceptions” part, since to the untrained eye, there appear to be a few built in.
A certain irony exists where life begins at conception and the government’s responsibility ends at birth…where citizens without health insurance languish…where folks in persistent vegetative states have rights… and ‘detainees’ are held for eternity without charges and treated like pinatas.
I can’t help but feel that Jeb got a call from big brother in the oval office. It went something like this, “now that the diversion of the MIchael Jackson case is over I need your help in creating another diversion to take the focus off the war in Iraq for WMD, the social security reform issues, the huge deficit spending that have all been causing my standings in polls to decrease steadily in the past few months. How about you drag out and dust off the Shivo case again Bro?”