Five Days Til Terri Schiavos Execution: New Developments
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Posted Sun Mar 13,2005 2:52 AM Last Edited: Sun Mar 13,2005 9:57 AM
Mark this date in history, folks. Its the first time in memory that I find myself agreeing with that otherwise disagreeable, angry, mostly leftist feminist witch, Gloria Allred. But this time shes right because she agrees with me and Im always right. (No conceit there. When youre always right, youre always right. No sense in mincing words or making apologies about it.)
Allred is representing San Diego businessman Robert Herring who offered to give Terris opportunistic husband Michael a cool $1 million to walk away and grant guardianship to the folks who dont want to kill her: Terris parents, the Schindlers. The offer was promptly rejected, of course, by the guy who hopes to be the first person in the history of the country to legally kill his wife. While Mr. Herrings offer is admirable, he has to understand that, in addition to being opportunistic, Schiavo isnt stupid either. He realizes that, while hes trying to exercise his opportunism through the assistance of this idiot judge, George Greer, through the back door so to speak, he wont be up front about his opportunism and take $1 mil to walk away and leave Terri and her parents alone because then his opportunism would be on display for all the world to see. The way hes doing it now, he can play the poor, sainted husband who is merely trying to carry out his wifes wish to be killed and leave him with a tidy sum of cash. Also lets not forget that with allegations of abuse swirling around him, if he were to take Mr. Herrings cash and run, it would tend to raise some eyebrows at the Florida Department of Children and Families. So of course, Schiavo gets more mileage out of playing the devoted husband doggedly pursuing his wifes wish to be killed. And for those of you who support his twisted legally sanctioned murder, the sainted husband routine doesnt wash for all the reasons I've listed in my previous columns on the Terri Schiavo case.
Since this valiant but naïve effort on the part of Mr. Herring didnt persuade Schiavo to walk away, it looks as though the execution will go off as planned, because in another development, the judge who has turned his courtroom into his own little disabled-person-killing fiefdom has ruled that the Florida Dept. of Children and Families will not be allowed to intervene in this case long enough to investigate allegations that Michael Schiavo beat the living hell out of his wife and that he may be partially responsible for her currently disabled state. And, although Im not certain, in so doing,Greer may be the first judge in the history of the country stupid, ignorant or derelict enough to aid and abet(however unwittingly) an alleged wife beater in the cover up of such abuse. While Schiavo deserves the benefit of the doubt in these allegations, they need to be investigated and his behavior and the judges behavior in light of this are certainly questionable. If Schiavo has nothing to hide, why oppose the investigation. If hes not guilty, he may be able to kill his wife after the investigation is complete. Whether Terri dies of starvation two weeks from this coming Friday or two weeks from the next date Greer sets for the execution, shell be just as dead. Why two weeks after the tube is pulled you ask? Dying of dehydration and starvation is a slow painful process. Those of you who dont believe this and think killing Terri this way is humane ought to try it sometime. We afford serial killers a far more humane death than a death by starvation. In fact, Id be willing to bet most of the libs out there who are in favor of killing off Terri but opposed to killing violent killer on the basis that its cruel and unusual would throw a fit if we suddenly decided that the preferred method of execution for serial killers will be starvation in their cells. Starving Terri in the prison her husband has kept her in for the last 12 years is cool though.
And in a final development in Terris case, Mel Gibson has lent his support to the fight to save Terri from her killer husband and the killer judge. This is, of course, just Gibson being Gibson: True to his conservatism, and consistent in his beliefs. Thats more than can be said for those who oppose killing babies in the womb but support killing a disabled woman because, as her guardian her husband with all his interests that are diametrically opposed to Terris has the right to set the value of her life at zero and dispose of her. Or those who oppose killing Terri but think that ripping a baby out of a mothers womb with a suction device or killing is with saline, a pill, or a sharp object to the base of the skull is perfectly okay. Can anyone say hypocrisy?
Well, it appears to me that weve pretty much lost the fight to keep Terris killers from killing her and this step wont do Terri any good. But it may keep a killer from killing again. Im talking about impeaching this idiot judge who, from what I heard, hasnt taken the time to even go see Terri interact with family members. Sean Hannity pointed out that in this day and age, its not usual at all for us to send an entire jury out to a scene so they can get a feel for the case they are deciding. And yet in all the years this man has issued rulings in this case, he hasnt once been out to see the woman hes about to kill. Sign the petition. Stop this killer before he kills again.
Steve Bowers has been a staunch conservative since his first vote for Ronald Reagan at the age of 19. He's the founder and president of the one man think-tank Conservatism is Reality Inc. and a regular contributor to Pardon My English, a Conservative Topics Blog. He lives with his loving, blended family smack dab in the heart of flyover country.
Terrific rant by Bowers.