Frist Threatens Jail for Terri Judge

From NewsMax.com, with source material apparently from New York Newsday. Senator William Frist (R-TN) is, of course, the Senate Republican floor leader--but he is also the top ranking physician in the Senate. He and Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX), the House Republican floor leader, are clearly furious. Frist issued this statement on the matter on Friday evening. The bottom line: committees of each House have issued subpoenae to Terri Schiavo and Michael Schiavo. It is not for a State judge to decide whether Congress is overstepping its subpoena power, as George Greer presumed to do. And for that, the judge could go to jail or at least pay a heavy fine. We now hear that Congressman DeLay is preparing to hale Judge Greer before Congress on a contempt charge.

Clearly Senator Frist and Representative DeLay, not to mention the two committee chairmen involved, were unprepared for such a brazen act of defiance. I would have anticipated such an act, and have instructed the United States Marshal's Office for the specific district where Pinellas County is located to go out to that hospice and either

form a protective cordon around Terri and allow no one to perform any surgery on her to remove that tube, or
1. take her into protective custody and remove her from the hospice entirely,

at their discretion. (Tommy Lee Jones, call your agent. This is the movie you should have made as a more fitting sequel to The Fugitive. For that matter, maybe Harrison Ford should call his agent, too.)