INSTAPUNDIT CALLS PRO-LIFE FOLKS A "MOB"

Glenn wrote this:

If I were in charge of making the decision, I might well put the tube back and turn Terri Schiavo over to her family. But I'm not, and the Florida courts are, and they seem to have done a conscientious job. Maybe they came to the right decision, and maybe they didn't. But respecting their role in the system, and not rushing to overturn all the rules because we don't like the outcome, seems to me to be part of being a member of civilized society rather than a mob. As I say, I thought conservatives knew this.

"if... then... might"... WEASEL WORDS!

Glenn Reynolds has repeatedly avowed his opposition to the death penealty because he believes that the judicial process is too frought with real and potential "caprice and mistake" to allow it to use irreversible penalties, BUT he believes that the same inevitably flawed judicial review process is fine - HONKY-DORY - for determining if Terri should live or die -- AND SHE'S NOT EVEN BEEN CONVICTED OF ANYTHING!

In effect, Glenn Reynolds says that Terri -- a perfectly stable, brain-damaged women with no other health problems, and NO TERMINAL ILLNESS -- is entitled to fewer legal rights than someone who has been convicted of MURDER.

HOW "LIBERAL" OF HIM! AND HOW HYPOCRITCAL!

The real mob here is the group of liberals who think that Terri's court-ordered death is good, when there is clear and ample evidence that the judicial decision to believe Michael Schiavo (and his brother and his brother's wife - the SOLE people testiyfying that Terri would've wanted to die, rather be a terminal patient) was FLAWED. They testified that Terri would not have wanted to live on life support if she had a terminal illness.

But Terri was NOT a terminal pateint; she had NO TERMINAL ILLNESS. There is even contemporaneous evidence that she could take sustenance ORALLY - UNTIL AFTER SCHIAVO AND FELOS decided that she had to die, and Felos (in his role as an advocate for "right to Die" law in general) had specifically seen to it that the Florida legislature had included feeding tubes as "life support" - something that is NOT TRUE IN ALL STATES! (And which should be challenged in federal court!)

Glenn is trying to have his cake and eat it too: he wants those of us on his right to get the feeling he'd be on our side, and he also wants to say that the Florida courts have done their job well. AGAIN: you can't have it both ways Glenn! There is something TERRIBLY wrong in Florida and in the federal appeals courts if Terri is put to death.

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