Willow Tree

Very distorted reasoning, sick world.

Hi - I wanted to stop by since I didn't think you checked my blog since you last posted and I wanted you to understand something about what I said.

What you don't understand about people involving the media is that it REALLY pisses judges off. The court system considers itself dignified (even if we don't always) and they don't like when people use the media to supposedly gain things through publicity. When people do this kind of thing, they usually don't get their way.

This is not like OJ or Robert Blake; the court system is not Hollywood. The woman's life is at stake, and the parents and the husband screwed her themselves. The parents did it by contacting the media in the first place, and the husband did it by asking the court to make the decision instead of doing it himself or allowing her parents to do it, and also by responding to the media.

I am sure an attorney or two or three probably all told the Schindlers this at some point; they would be remiss not to. And if they did, the Schindlers obviously chose to ignore it. You don't hear about the thousands of these cases that happen every year, because the parties don't choose to get involved with something (in this case, the media and the government) that would work adversely to their purposes. Adding the government to this mess has only made it worse.

Terri is probably dying because the parents did this to her, and the judges are so pissed they won't change their minds. Now the husband is powerless to even give the parents the right of taking care of her, so they have really screwed everyone by getting the media involved.

Moi, I sincerely hope you're wrong. To think that Judge Greer is ruling against the Schindlers because he's annoyed at them for talking to the media is a pretty cynical view. I refuse to believe that a woman is dying because Greer is abominably petty.

It's very likely that they all (not just one judge) don't like the media spectacle. Seen it done before. It's not just "talking to the media." This is way beyond that. And judges in higher courts tend to support the lower judges. Because calling one of them wrong would be calling All of them wrong.

Because Mr. Schiavo did not do it himself, but let the court decide, he and the court set legal precedent that they can't undo. And that the court really doesn't want to see undone, at this point.

I think that's more accurate. Judges are reluctant to overrule other judges. But, your earlier charge that a media spectacle would influence a judge's temperment made me recoil. I hope it's never true, though I'm sure that it's happened. I hope it hasn't happened in this case.