Commentary: Schiavo Case Illustrates Who Is and Who Is Not A Civil Rights Activist
The latest proof that the group calling itself American Civil Liberties Union isn't what it claims to be is its call to starve Terri Schiavo to death. Apparently it thinks the inconvenient and the disabled don't deserve civil liberties, civil rights or anything else.
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The media establishment barely mentioned Monday that a coalition of disability rights groups urged that Mrs. Schiavo's life be spared.
"The belief that people with disabilities like [Mrs. Schiavo's] are 'better off dead' is long-standing but wrong. It imperils us all," said the statement signed by 14 organizations, including ADA Watch, Center on Human Policy and World Association of Persons with Disabilities.
However, Jesse "Shakedown" Jackson, routinely described by Big Media as a "civil rights activist" despite his support for racial discrimination against people with white or yellow skin, hasn't been picketing about this case. Apparently he couldn't find an angle that would let him line his pockets.
The groups that blubber when murderers are executed aren't getting out their handkerchiefs for Terri. And her only crime is existing.
So-called feminist groups such as the Democrat organization that calls itself National Organization for Women have also been uncharacteristically quiet. Do they think that all men should get to kill wives who become handicapped and expensive to care for?
Get the rest of this commentary from NewsMax.
Matt's Chat
Some very interesting points. May have to put this on the list of M Files-to-be...Mark's Remarks
The American Criminal Liars Union is a disgrace....What about Terri's rights? What about her right to exist? They cannot use the fetus argument, she is an adult....they can defend killers who admitted to their crimes, they can do everything in their power to remove God from our public places, but they choose to fight to kill an innocent woman, a woman whose husband might have ulterior motives for seeing her done in? Further proof this organization has become a sham.....
