Look Who Is, and Isn't, a Civil Rights Activist in Schiavo Case

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - 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.

President Bush, on the other hand, today praised Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for preventing the killing.

"I believe my brother made the right decision," the president said in response to a reporter's question at a news conference.

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?

Editor's note:
FREE e-mail alerts from NewsMax.com - Click here now!