Posted on 03/30/2005 9:02:19 PM PST by ElkGroveDan
The dark, repellent, sepulchral face of American liberalism has rarely shown itself as clearly as it has during the past two weeks during the Terri Schiavo tragedy. At every turn, at every juncture, at every public utterance, the liberal infrastructure has been 100 percent consistent in its preference for death over life.
Why? Depending on which liberal you catch on which day it’s because her philandering husband wants her to die (ah, the advances 30 years of feminism has brought); because she expressed a wish not to be kept alive in her current circumstances (a wish no one but her adulterous husband ever heard); or because the sacred principle of states’ rights must be upheld (when can we expect to hear these liberals invoke this principle regarding abortion and gun control?).
Liberalism is so inextricably intertwined with the abortion (death) lobby that it apparently reacts reflexively against any hint of affinity with the “pro-life” position under any circumstances. What else explains the ghoulish, joyful fervor with which feminists and liberals have filled the airwaves the past fortnight with one demand: Terri Schiavo must die.
This case has nothing to do with abortion, gay marriage, taxes, judicial appointments or anything else, even though the New York Times, in an early effort to nail down the “most bizarre logic of 2005” award, saw those trying to keep Schiavo alive as part of the “larger campaign to deny gay marriage and pack the courts with conservative activists.” One wonders what’s finding its way into the Times’ water cooler.
Neither is this case about the “right to die.” No one outside Florida would ever have heard of Terri Schiavo were it clear she had chosen not to be kept alive in these circumstances. This case is about just one issue: the right of an innocent, defenseless woman not to be tortured and killed by the government.
If Terri Schiavo were a mass murderer on death row, had she butchered 10 or 100 or 1,000 people in a killing spree, the ACLU, liberals, and major media would be performing somersaults to demand that every last judicial remedy be exhausted on her behalf before she was put to death. But women who cannot defend themselves against those who would kill them for convenience can expect no such support from liberals. Instead, they are outraged at anyone meddling in her husband’s and the state’s efforts to starve her to death.
Then there is the walking piece of excrement, Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael, who contends she told him she would not want to be kept alive under these conditions. Here’s some food for thought. Nobody else — not Terri’s sister, mother, father, or friends — ever heard her say such a thing. And Michael himself never mentioned it — until nearly eight years after Terri’s accident. During those eight years Terri won a $750,000 malpractice judgment that goes to her welfare as long as she’s alive, while Michael began an adulterous relationship with another woman, a woman he has said he wants to marry and by whom he has fathered two children.
So here is the face of 21st century feminism and liberalism: placing all faith in a man who, cheating on his hospitalized wife, has fathered two bastard children while acquiring a huge financial motive to want his wife dead. And liberals wonder why they have problems with “value voters.”
Conservatives have had their missteps also in this drama, but I think President Bush said it best: “When in doubt between life and death, why not err on the side of life”? Michael Schiavo’s carnal and financial lust should not be enough reason for anyone to consent to the killing of Terri Schiavo.
Our liberals and feminists cannot make the same calculation. Their devotion to the culture of death trumps all other matters. Venal politics, unworthy of this discussion, are sufficient for liberals and feminists to turn their heads from the unhappy scene and allow this defenseless woman to be starved to death.
Anyone looking for the putrescent, cankered core of American liberalism need look no further than the sad case of Terri Schiavo.
If that was true, then as was mentioned in #40, he'd be just as fearful of an autopsy.
2) He is surely looking at selling book and movie rights. Packing up and walking away with just $1 million, certainly isn't as lucrative as the advance on his book "Death is a Wonderful Thing" -- not to mention the made-for-TV-movie "You're In My Way Terri"
There was nothing stopping him from writing a book while Terri was alive, and I'm certain that, given all the notoriety that has already surrounded this case, there has to be a TV mogul out there somewhere willing to offer him a movie deal whether she's alive or dead. He could just as easily have had all that and the $1 million.
Personally, I don't believe he knew - because I had written to the ME's office requesting a copy of the autopsy and I was told none was required. But .. I did not specify that Terri would be cremated - and that action triggers a law which requires an autopsy.
If Michael did know - then he and his lawyers were hiding that info in the hopes that they could keep it secret.
Even if Michael didn't know, his lawyers would have known, and they would have advised him on the best course of action. And having cremation to be done, knowing that an autopsy would be performed beforehand, would not be in his best interest if he had something to hide.
Well .. you go ahead and defend the husband if you want.
But .. this cremation information had been hidden from the public - and when it was exposed that Michael planned to have her cremated - YEARS AGO - SUDDENLY the husband changed his mind and would agree to the autopsy.
I'm not that stupid to believe the lawyers and Michael didn't know - but they just assumed we were too stupid to know. So their deception was on purpose!
Terri Schiavo is worth six to eight million dollars to Michael Schiavo if, and only if, she's dead. If she continues living nothing happens on the book or movie front because there's no ending. When she dies, it is jackpot time for Michael.
Bull. Her death is not required for him to hit the "jackpot". As has been seen many times before, a book or TV movie could just as easily end with, "Terri Schiavo continues to live in a Florida hospice. Her parents visit her often. Her condition remains the same. Michael continues to live with his girlfriend and two children. Etc, etc, etc."
Keeping the public in the dark about the law would not help him. The results of the autopsy would get out anyway, whether the public to be aware of the law or not.
Well .. you keep missing the point so I won't bother to confuse your mind with facts.
The marketing person who buys and sells books for a living, thinks otherwise.
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