Lone protester still takes a stand for Terri Schiavo

May 17, 2005

PINELLAS PARK - The sky was still dark Monday as Lisa Wilson walked quickly up 66th Street N toward her destination.

She carried a sign with the words "Terri Schindler was murdered" and a single-minded purpose that even she struggles to explain.

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Wilson is the last of the hundreds of protesters who trampled the grass outside Terri Schiavo's hospice in the days before her death March 31.

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Five days a week she arrives at the intersection near Hospice House Woodside at the crack of dawn and holds up her sign hoping to reach the "movers and shakers" whom she thinks travel the roads at this time of day.

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Her third husband was a child molester who, when she met him, had spent five years in prison for molesting a 9-year-old girl. He killed himself with sleeping pills last July rather than be sent back to prison for trying to lure a 4-year-old out of her yard.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/17/Tampabay/Lone_protester_still_.shtml


Someone definitely needs to get a life.

From the article:

Wilson said she'd learned as a dietitian that removing a feeding tube is unethical.

So her first stop was in Tallahassee to urge Gov. Jeb Bush to step in. Her first sign read: "Jeb Bush, are you a man or a mouse?"

Later, her sign read, "Mommy," "Help me," "Pain."

Then, "Terri likes Jello."

And, "American Justice in Crisis."

She'd be better off taking what's left of her $100,000 from her husband's death settlement and investing in psychotherapy. Of course these people are simply not aware they are spinning out of control.

She'll be there until she runs out of money.

the ability to swallow to eat jello? Of course now that she is dead it is a moot point but even when she was still alive, wasn't her brain damage so severe that she had no swallowing reflex?

Second question - were all the Schiavo protesters this stupid? :)

or the so called reporter who decided to drudge up every detail of her life (which is pretty sad) and thought that it was relevant to the story.

Such delusional and deluded people don't just appear spontaneously. Examining such a misdirected life can point out where the society is failing in promoting the common welfare. This woman is hurting herself, the family of Terri Shiavo, the greater society. She isn't doing anyone a damn bit of good, other than pointing out a serious problem.

no one is feeling for her and talking about how society failed her. They are using the information to mock her or to call her a nut and that is exactly why the author of this story did it. He disagrees with her so he had the staff researcher probably dig up all the dirt she could on her. (Too lazy to do it himself) So he could get the exact result he did. He has made her out to be a total loon and therefore her message is valueless and easily to dismiss. The sad thing is that if she was fighting for a cause the DUers agreed with we would be probably praising her for sticking to her guns even though she has lost.

child rapists, or assholes in general, than hang around like a pathetic loser.
dunno if i should feel sorry for her or be pissed-off with her.

She needs to work to remove him with a real Christian next election.

All the fuss was over a warmed-over corpse whose organs could have been donated to save others. As for Lisa Wilson, she'd do best to devote herself and her resources to solving her own problems and getting on with her life.

:headbang:
rocknation

I just want the nutballs in Florida band together to push Jeb out.

They need to be convinced that he's just not dedicated to their cause. Which he's not.

I guess I need to stop making that joke about Jeb letting Terri die. People keep taking me seriously.

was his presidential aspirations.

;)
rocknation

from asshole molesters like her late husband? You know, any woman who KNOWINGLY marries a child molester has to be insane. She knew, so she is just as responsible as he was when he tried to molest again. But NoooOOoooooo, she has to make a 'cause' out of something that is now history, where her actions will absolutely not do anything to change the situation now or in the future.

r. Loser.

"I've never gotten up this early for a job in my life, but you do strange things when you love your job," said the 48-year-old woman as she took up her post at the intersection of 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N at 6 a.m."

Just like her leader, Cuckoobananas.

Is there some unknown brain infection going around this country? It appears to me that mental illness is peaking. Not the Kool-Aid, not Rush, not MSM...because I bet people like her have never even listened to Rush and don't watch CNN or Faux.

Is it the churches?

"She hadn't been to a church in 25 years until recently. She says she has had an abortion. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Washburn University in Topeka and a master's in food and nutrition from Kansas State University. And she maintains that she has never been to a protest in her life - until she showed up 56 days ago.
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Weird, huh!

Bad me, for not reading the article. :spank:

Then what made her just recently fall into the Randall Terry trance and become a Zombie for Terri? Something must have triggered it.

While I don't admire or support (or understand) Lisa Wilson's cause, I admire her dedication whether that dedication is born out of true caring for the cause or mental stress. I've never understood protesters that give up before they accomplish their goal. We might think her means are eccentric or crazy but she's quietly and peacefully exercising her First Amendment rights and for that, I support her.

with a sign that says something like "Bush Lied, Thousands Died" and see how long she is allowed to stand there.

Funny how First Amendment rights aren't applied equally anymore.

I would equally admire the person who did the same thing everyday that Lisa Wilson does if that person's sign read "Bush Lied, Thousands Died." But, unfortunately I haven't read about that person in the newspapers. Are they out there and the MSM is ignoring them?

being arrested for holding up signs?

Here's a link: http://www.campusantiwar.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=2

On February 23 (2005), an anti-war protestor at UW-Madison was arrested for protesting military recruiters. UW-Madison Stop The War is asking that all those opposed to this gross violation of our freedom of speech and assembly for support.

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After being told they could not chant, they were allowed to remain holding signs in front to the recruiters table and passing out literature. After roughly 20 minutes they were informed that 7-8 police officers were outside "trying to figure out what to do with ."

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She was handcuffed and taken away by police officers, none of whom could tell her why she was being arrested. Only at the station was she informed she was receiving a $275 fine for disorderly conduct.

Gee, that was hard to find. :eyes:

who goes to the city park everyday, all day long, to take his position so that he can hold the sky up and allow everyone to live a normal life? I mean, if he didn't go there every morning the sky would fall. Now THAT'S dedication!

We can't second guess Lisa Wilson's motivations. All we can assume is that she is a woman who is dedicated to her beliefs. Sure, she might be seriously mentally unstable but I'm not a doctor and sometimes it's tough to tell mentally unstable from crazy devoted.

"Never compare yourself with others for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

it's the way our brains work (when they're working, at all). You don't have to be a "doctor" to evaluate the behavior of this woman - or of anyone. If this aberrant behavior is her "job", how much is she getting paid and who writes the checks? And if it isn't really "a job", just part of her delusion, then how is she supporting herself? What about all of the many, many cases in this country of individuals who have been removed from life support and feeding tubes not because it is what that individual or his/her family decided, but because the family was too poor to pay for the care? Why doesn't she think those cases are "murder". And why does her sign read "Schindler" and not "Schiavo"? Is this, too, a symptom of her illness? I didn't ask that this woman's illness be paraded to the public - she and the reporter and the editor decided that - and all for each of their own reasons. No, there is nothing to "admire" here, unless you admire a mentally unstable person being used for political purposes, discarded when no longer needed, and then laughed at and pitied by some of the very people who used her. Yeah, on second thought, admiration all around...

A tad phony when someone new jumps onto DU just to praise this woman's "dedication" and "carrying out her first amendment rights."

Notice how they didn't jump in to proclaim Newsweek's first amendment rights. And I'd bet money that he would also defend Bob Novak's free speech about Valerie Plame.

Also there is no provision in the First Amendment that says we cannot evaluate what a person says or does while availing themselves of that right. And the mentally ill also are covered by the First Amendment - it doesn't make them sane...

I have no doubt. Terri Schiavo is d-e-a-d. What in the world does this mentally unstable protester think she is accomplishing?

Please tell me you're kidding.

Of all the people on earth to admire because of their dedication, you pick this person to single out.

Remarkable.

...for spare change...

Boy, talk about your "Unlucky in Love"...

People just need to get over this tragic case. Also, I feel the government had no right in getting involved in this Case. Leave it to the family. Pretty soon Bush will be Regulating Family Decisions!

:hi:

And for all the people on these forums who keep spewing vile about how they'd like to see regulation, while using words like "litters" to describe the children of people they've never met, that could get interesting. We'll see how much those posters like that idea then.

Huh? Huh?

that means something else is NOT being covered that could be.

You idiot!

As if we don't have enough bad publicity with the evolution debate going on...

or maybe all that open space wears on the mind?

though it is a weird trend, isn't it? feel sorry for sane native kansans, they have a hard enough time as it is. maybe you should build a big pyramid, something to catch the eye; maybe something to look at might give a focus point for sanity? :shrug:

kansas has good steaks, by the way. best steaks i've ever had.

learning japanese, it is quite common to leave out the assumed subject of the sentence. but english is so very not like japanese. it should read as "i feel sorry for..."

yes, i assumed you were a native kansan

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She came down on an impulse. She was at home in Topeka listening to a former nurse of Schiavo's say on television that she'd heard the brain-damaged woman use words such as "mommy" and "help me."
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This is Hannity's fault.

There are plenty of innocent people STILL getting killed.


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/588704

still registering voters in my city three days before the cut-off deadline to do so last October.

Just think of all the good this woman could do with her new found riches if she wasn't so misguided?

Not the same thing at all. You were still making a difference.
Terri Schiavo is dead. It is still legal for spouses to make these decisions for their spouse (decided some, what, 20 times in this case?).

So what the hell is she doing?