Terri's Dead, & The Left Is In Hiding

Following a brave two-week struggle against the court-ordered torture and death sentence forced upon her, Terri Schiavo finally succumbed this morning. She was 41 years old.

Evidently determined to be a scumbag to her very end, HINO (husband-in-name-only) Michael Schiavo had her family thrown out of her room as the end neared:

Terri Schiavo's family was prevented from being at her bedside when she died this morning shortly after 9 a.m. EST at a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice, a family spokesman said.

"Unfortunately, just 10 or so minutes before she died we were told we had to leave the room because there would be an assessment of her condition and because her husband, Michael, wanted to be in the room," said Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, in quotes first reported by Fox News.

Michael Schiavo flatly rejected the Schindlers' request to be with their daughter in her final moments, Pavone said, adding, "His heartless cruelty continued until the end."

Now will come the so-called "autopsy," where any possibility of unearthing evidence of Michael Schiavo's possible physical abuse of his wife will be expunged from the "official" record in much the same way as the claim of Terri being in a "persistent vegetative state" was inserted, and with as much veracity. From there her remains will be carbonized, buried like nuclear waste, and the ground above them paved and salted over, as though she had never existed at all.

Big Media is already busily constructing that false reality:

On Wednesday night two of the three major TV networks did not even bother to lead their evening news programs with the most controversial story of our day.

Both the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams led their shows with news stories other than the Schiavo case. Only ABC’s World News Tonight began its program with a full report on the latest developments in the Schiavo case.

CBS featured the Schiavo story as its second feature.

But NBC’s news broadcast wins the award for its effort to downplay the controversy.

Williams first led his program with a report on the Supreme Court’s decision to allow workers expanded rights in claiming age discrimination. He followed that with a report on the pope and his feeding tube.

Williams then simply offered a brief "update" on the Schiavo case narrated by Williams himself. No field report on the most-talked-about story in America, including the major story of the federal appeals court rejecting the Schindler family for the second time.

Why are the media elites in New York so cool to the Terri Schiavo story? Perhaps it’s not pleasant to cover the first court-sanctioned effort to starve to death a U.S. citizen.

The thing is, I don't think that the necromaniacs will be able to help themselves. They'll celebrate this "triumph," this "victory over the religious right," and all but parade around the country with Terri Schiavo's severed head on a stake. Much like every other variety of pagan revelry, their excesses will accept no bounds or tolerate even the slightest modesty or decorum. And they will make of themselves in the process the most effective pro-life advertisement their enemies could ever hope to promulgate.

When you alienate Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Clinton over to the side of the "snake-handlers" even before Terri's "blessed passing," that ought to be a clue that maybe a lower profile, and even a little feigned shame, or at the very least sober circumspection, might be in order for the sake of your cause.

Nah, probably not.