Cognizant Jacksonville Man in Life and Death Tug-of-War

Read it in The Empire Journal, the same Web paper that, along with WorldNetDaily, chronicled the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo for so long. (And I tip my hat to WND for putting me on to this.)

What is going on in Florida? Whatever it is, it's nasty. Clearly, Florida legislators, many with financial ties to hospices, have made Florida a place where you can bump off a spouse you don't want around anymore and get away with it. The trick is to injure the other person not severely enough to cause immediate death, but definitely enough so that he or she will require gastric feeding. And in Florida, gastric feeding is now considered "medical treatment." So now, with yet another judge, in yet another county, and with a reversal of the gender roles involved, yet another spouse is systematically bumping off the other spouse while helpless parents look on and cry for justice.

A suspicious injury (he tripped and fell over his dog--and if you believe that, I have a partnership stake in a bridge spanning the East River that I would like to offer for sale), an unhappy home, disparate financial contributions (the guy's wife is an illegal alien, for cryin' out loud!), a history of suspicious illnesses even before the "accident"--all this case needs is a co-respondent in adultery to complete the similarity to Terri Schindler Schiavo's case. This is worse in a way. It's bad enough that someone comes into this country illegally and desperately seeks to "marry into" lawful residency or even citizenship. But when this same illegal alien, once normalized by matrimony, seeks to kill the citizen spouse--sportsfans, that's nothing less than a private little act of war.

And what makes it worse is that a Florida Senator--a Republican, at that!--was instrumental in making this ugly modus operandi of spousal murder feasible. Representative James King (R-Jacksonville) was the guy who changed the law to make a feeding tube a withholdable medical treatment while Michael Schiavo was seeking to bump off his wife. (The Journal also has the goods on King's connections, direct and indirect, not just to the hospice industry but also to that particular Svengali and his Sweet Patootie.) Today James King is a Senator in Florida. That man is a disgrace to the Republican Party--but that's the sort of disgrace a Party brings on itself when it refuses to define for itself any founding principles.

But the real disgrace is what the hospice movement has now become: a place that willingly disposes of the no-longer-wanted. Before, it was just old-fogey parents. Now it's inconvenient spouses. And if we don't stop them, they'll come for you, and by then you won't have anyone left to speak up.

Where is the Martin Niemoller of today? If he doesn't show up, then what is happening in Florida will spread. It's not a question of just one judge--they're all in on it, as this disgusting story shows. Do you want to wait until this is the kind of society you live in?

It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food...