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Neither Jeb nor George W. Bush likely ever entertained a thought of "interfering" with the carefully choreographed judicial execution of a violated Florida woman. On the contrary, legal precedent set by the Terri Schiavo case is quite in line with fascist creep in America. The Bush Family plays a prominent role in its ongoing nazification. Let me hasten to add though that the drive has many agents on both ends of the political spectrum and stretches back well beyond the current administration. We're just coming into the home stretch, that's all.

The elite put on a great show of good-cop-bad-cop -- vacuously interpreted by the beholden media -- but behind the scenes they are remarkably homogenous in orientation. In light of upcoming social security, medical and insurance crises and other socioeconomic challenges legal dispatching of the elderly and the infirm offers one viable option -- perpetual warfare and engineered epidemics others.

If you are interested, read Dr. Cranford's decade-old recommendations in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study paper he coauthored makes no bones about aiming at cost efficiency. I am sure you are aware that Cranford is the itinerant medical court whore who routinely recommends withdrawing feeding tubes (and even withholding spoon-feeding), regardless of the victim's subjective degree of competence.

Whoever thinks that the ultra pro-elite Bush clan is anything but enthusiastic about implementing euthanasia cannot be helped. Such ostriches have little choice but to continue being thrilled with haps from the propaganda machine until their own experience accrues to some understanding. It should not be hard to remain complacent, considering the excellent fake polarization that is being foisted on public political sentiment in a rampant bread and circuses climate.

What surprises is how readily so many sail past the nominal conservatives' transparent opportunism in this legislating via legal precedent that marks the Schiavo case. Look at recent Republican saber rattling in DC. It was loud enough but what was the result? A utilitarian deferment to the federal Judiciary. Hardly different from what Jeb Bush and the Florida Republicans were doing on the state level. The hoped-for bonus of being able to throw an inexpensive bone to the nervous religious right is peripheral. In the end everyone bows to "the rule of law" and all is well. What better way to be violated than by the rule of law?

That the rule of law should entail harmonious well-communicated interaction between three coequal branches of government got conveniently lost in the furor over this bogus "right-to-die" production. Better, the populace was made to assert its displeasure at the "government's" interference with legal decisions. (As if the courts were not part of the government!) Given the public's reluctance to accept extraconstitutional pronouncements from the executive and legislative branches, dismantling constitutional guarantees must be finagled via the Judiciary's interpretative functions. There are as many Justice Greers to get the job done as political coin can buy.

That is how it was done in post-1932 Germany, and why fix it if it ain't broke? Like then, a complicit press is doing its generous share in the great snow job, as is the nicely orchestrated nationalistic mass fervor in the background that will lead this country to the same ruin achieved by the Third Reich. Let's not think that the handicapped and elderly are the only targets of novel policy, nor even the country's young that will find resting places on ever-expanding foreign soil. The currency is marked for "being let go" also, in case you haven't noticed. It seems that even the treasury has its guaranteed right to die.

Legal euthanasia discovered America, that is quite evident now. Widening its scope to include the only mildly handicapped, more or less defined enemies of the state and whatever scapegoat group may serve the agenda will follow in due course. We should keep this in mind when crediting Jeb Bush with noble intentions regarding his protracted albeit astonishingly counterproductive litigation show in the Schiavo case. While we're at it, let's take a last loving look at the Bill of Rights before kissing it goodbye forever. Terri will be fine. Her painful sojourn on this predatory planet is about over. Our sincere tears for the tortured Schindler family will dry up too in time, but what we should really sorrow for is our own fate and that of our children.

Those for whom this is too complex to grasp may fan their mild unease with a few deft waves of the flag. Few ills resist that remedy. If that won't do it, they can always engage in seemingly significant banter with the blessed liberals that are chasing the poisoned carrot in the other lane. Excuse me now while I attend to an overwhelming sadness in my heart.