Remember to ask your congressman or senator why they didn't mandate relief. That's one I've been wondering about myself.
The naïvete here is amazing. Do you really think that this is a case of the Judiciary's going against the will of the Legislation or the Executive? The agents in each of these branches are following their marching orders and cover for each other. What is the result of the criminal caper in Florida? That is really the only question worth answering because it alone points to the agenda. Here is a skeletal chronology:
1. The elderly and infirm represent a financial liability and cut into the bottomline of the Social Security trust fund and of the mega insurance corporations.
2. Psychopaths like Dr. Cranford are given the opportunity of establishing the academic rationale for euthanasia via publications like the New England Journal of Medicine.
3. Florida, as the state with the greatest per capita aged population is picked as the arena for a grand litigation show aimed at putting life-end issues under judicial control.
4. Schwein Schiavo gets recruited by Schwein Felos because he offers the possibility of a test case likely to be pursued through all stages of the Florida Judiciary.
5. A judge on the take is found who commits to hold the fort throughout the entire litigation show.
6. Elite donors endow various organizations dedicated to selling euthanasia as a socially benevolent policy.
7. Schwein Felos and the Euthanasia lobby help King and the Florida Legislation to amend Florida statutes to include feeding tubes under the heading of life-support apparatus.
8. Schwein Greer retroactively applies the new statute to Terri's case.
9. The corporate media, beholden to the elite group pushing euthanasia, creates public misperception by presenting the struggle as fueled by an unreasonable "religious right."
10. The Florida Legislature passes "Terri's Law," making sure to let it be known that they did so under pressure from the religious right.
11. The ACLU happily enters the fray to fight Terri's Law on constitutional grounds.
12. Jeb Bush makes a great show of defending Terri's Law, knowing that it is the perfect vehicle for getting all levels of the Florida Judiciary united in opposition.
13. Federal Legislation and George Bush play their respective roles in the bogus effort to save Terri.
14. The corporate press again riles up the public to resist the unreasonable "religious right."
15. Both the federal and the Florida Legislations manage to prove themselves powerless against the courts and public opinion.
16. Both the federal and the Florida chief executives declare themselves bound by "the law."
17. Thus shielded, Schwein Greer issues a final order of feeding tube removal and appends the illegal injunction against oral feeding and hydration.
18. The corporate press continues distorting the issue as one of politics.
19. Terri is brought to a premature death -- not through the withdrawal of the feeding tube, but by suppressing her constitutional right to receive oral hydration.
20. The felony act of withholding oral hydration is now elevated to the status of law, even though both federal and Florida statutes prohibit it.
21. A class A felony is thus turned into a legally permissible procedure and acknowledged as such by the acquiescence of the federal and state chief executives.
22. The corporate press hails the outcome as a victory of privacy against governmental intrusion, when in fact it is the very opposite.
23. The "religious right" gets appeased by vigorous finger-pointing at the "out-of-control courts," and quickly reunites behind the fascist leaders whom they view as victims and as the only hope for "reforming the courts."
24. After a few years of court-ordered murders it will be safe for state legislators everywhere to write the criminal procedure of oral dehydration into permanent statutes.
25. In future feeding tubes will be inserted into the targets, regardless of whether they are needed. The idea is to have "life-sustaining apparatus" that can be ordered withdrawn as a cover for also preventing oral hydration and nutrition. Job done.
26. The Bush boys shed crocodile tears over Terri's fate on their way to celebrating with their corporate fat-cat buddies, knowing that their "good intentions" will be defended to the death by the ultra-gullible.