March 29, 2005

IF ONLY SHE WERE A SERIAL KILLER, THE LEFT WOULD HELP (via Mike Daley):

Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder: Her crime was being disabled, voiceless, and at the disposal of our media (Nat Hentoff, March 29th, 2005, Village Voice)

For all the world to see, a 41-year-old woman, who has committed no crime, will die of dehydration and starvation in the longest public execution in American history.

She is not brain-dead or comatose, and breathes naturally on her own. Although brain-damaged, she is not in a persistent vegetative state, according to an increasing number of radiologists and neurologists.

Among many other violations of her due process rights, Terri Schiavo has never been allowed by the primary judge in her case—Florida Circuit Judge George Greer, whose conclusions have been robotically upheld by all the courts above him—to have her own lawyer represent her. [...]

While lawyers and judges have engaged in a minuet of death, the American Civil Liberties Union, which would be passionately criticizing state court decisions and demanding due process if Terri were a convict on death row, has shamefully served as co-counsel for her husband, Michael Schiavo, in his insistent desire to have her die.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 29, 2005 10:19 PM
Comments

Can't we start a rumor that she was injured after being arrested for killing a cop?

Posted by: David Cohen at March 29, 2005 11:12 PM

Mumia Schaivo! Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?

Posted by: John at March 29, 2005 11:55 PM

Hentoff is a candidate for the Decent Left, don't you think?

Posted by: Matt Murphy at March 30, 2005 12:45 AM

Whoa, Matt--candidate????? Where have you been? Hentoff is a bona fide charter member of the Decent Left, not a latecomer like Hitchens. Any idea how long he's been writing pro-life pieces?

Posted by: Kirk Parker at March 30, 2005 1:51 AM

Hentoff is the decent Left. He got run out of the NYT for being pro-life.

Posted by: Mike Morley at March 30, 2005 7:05 AM

Certainly. Even when he overreaches on civil liberties he does so for the right reasons.

Posted by: oj at March 30, 2005 8:37 AM

One more case of Quos Deus vastat. The Left , being completely in thrall to the homosexuals, is solidly committed to death. We still hope and pray for the victim, but politically this is the best thing since that Nazi-looking cop pointed his Nazi-looking machine pistol at Elian Gonzales.

Posted by: Lou Gots at March 30, 2005 10:34 AM

Picture this: Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, and Tina Brown cowering in a tony town house waiting for the knock on the door from - - - Hentoff!

Posted by: Luciferous at March 30, 2005 11:54 AM
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