Originally Posted - July 13, 2006

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According to Michael Schiavo, everyone else is lying.

If he's so adamant he's the only one telling the truth, why hasn't he taken a lie detector test to prove his innocence and professed honesty?

In an article which appeared Thursday in the St. Petersburg Times concerning Carla Sauer-Iyer, a former caregiver of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo, Michael says that Iyer is lying about allegations that he abused his late wife while she was a patient at the Sabal Palms Nursing Home in Largo, Fla., during 1995 and 1996, that he kept asking when she was going to die and bragged that he would become rich when she did die.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/062506SchiavoNurse.html

Iyer's first voiced her allegations in 1996 which resulted in her being fired from Sabal Palms. She reiterated them in 2003 in a police report and again discussed them, a matter of public information, in a TV interview in March 2005 which has resulted in Florida's Department of Health trying to revoke Iyer's nursing license for discussing Terri's medical condition, the same thing that everyone else, including Michael Schiavo, was discussing in 2005. Schiavo is quoted by the Times as saying "Where's the proof? Why would she be the only one that ever heard that?"

In March during an interview with Matt Lauer on Dateline, when confronted about a statement made by his wife's brother, Bobby Schindler that "we have collected or gathered a tremendous amount of evidence that possibly suggests something violent happened to my sister the night she collapsed, Michael said that "Bobby has no proof, he has offered no proof to this. Where is this evidence? Cause they had none".
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12025860/

Michael seems just a little too defensive about the issue every time it's raised so if he's so innocent, why wouldn't he be willing to take a lie detector test to prove that what he's saying is true?

He has made a lot of allegations about Bob and Mary Schindler and Terri's sister, Suzanne Vitadamo and when they point the finger at him, he laughs and says they have no proof, almost tauntingly.

Michael Schiavo makes a lot of unsubstantiated, uncorroborated statements in his book which are shown to be lies and contradictions by the facts, by witnesses and by his own previous testimony. The "proof" shows that Michael Schiavo has made numerous misrepresentations and outright false statements concerning what has become known as the Schiavo case.

He called his book "Terri: The Truth" and said that "the point of writing this book was to tell you the truth as I saw it…..this may cause you to wonder who was telling the truth and who wasn't……both sides can't be right".

The truth as Michael Schiavo sees it or the real truth?

It's way past time that the real truth be told and had it been told before, Terri Schiavo might be alive today.

The North Country Gazette has thrown down the gauntlet and challenges Michael Schiavo to undergo a lie detector/polygraph test to respond to questions about what happened on Feb. 25, 1990, during the night and early morning hours when Terri Schindler Schiavo mysteriously collapsed after a day eclipsed by yet another argument with Schiavo about money and other issues.

If Michael Schiavo is telling the truth, he should have no problem with taking a polygraph graph test to answer questions about what really happened in Terri's nursing home room on Feb. 14, 1993, answer questions under oath and polygraph about his claim of Terri's wish to die, the money from the malpractice lawsuits, the role of former Pinellas County sheriff Everett Rice, Attorney General Charlie Crist, DCF attorney Frank Nagatani and in particularly Judge George Greer in the Schiavo case, Iyer's allegations about the insulin syringe found in Terri's room and the hematomas on her body after Michael's visits, about his alleged comments including "when is that bitch gonna die" and the life insurance policies on Terri.

In that Michael Schiavo is so defensive and maintains that everyone is lying but him, it's highly questionable why he has not undertaken a lie detector to put to rest once and for all the allegations against him, allegations that he may have been the one responsible for her incapacitation. During the Larry King show on CNN on March 27, 2003, a caller asked Schiavo about taking a lie detector test. But instead of readily agreeing to take a polygraph test to clear his name and prove that he's been telling the truth since 1990, Schiavo stammered and refused.
AUDIOTAPE OF KING SHOW(requires Real Player)
TRANSCRIPT OF THE LARRY KING SHOW

KING: Aurora, Illinois, hello.

CALLER: Hi Larry. I have a question for Michael. Since he's so passionate about it being Terri's wish, when she was 25 years old, that watching a TV program, to give peace to Terri's parents and brother, why doesn't he just take a lie detector test?

And one more quick question. If they could bathe her, they could probably give her a pap smear. So he should just take a lie detector test and it would bring peace and resolution to the situation for the parents and brother.

FELOS: The ultimate lie detector has gone before 20 judges who found Mr. Schiavo to be a loving, caring husband.

KING: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) you could voluntarily take one, right?

FELOS: Sure.

KING: Would you take one?

SCHIAVO: ahhhhh, I'll refrain from that right now.

KING: OK. This ain't a court.

SCHIAVO: It's not a court.

KING: Are you unequivocally saying, Michael, that if Terri had said to you when you were discussing this, watching that TV show, I want to stay alive, you would not be here tonight, and there never would have been a court case?

SCHIAVO: That was her wish.

KING: You're totally doing this as being her wish?

SCHIAVO: Her wish.

Only a lie detector test will put this important question to rest and perhaps the most important one of all, what really happened to Terri Schindler Schiavo on Feb. 25, 1990.

If Schiavo is indeed telling the truth and is confident in his claims and denials of wrongdoing, he should have been eager long ago to take test. The longer that Michael Schiavo refuses to take the test, the stronger the incrimination factor and the real question, what's Michael Schiavo hiding?

Take the lie detector test Schiavo. No more excuses. 7-13-06

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