Guess Who Gets A Feeding Tube?

In a synergistic bit of irony, the answer is a Cuban spy:

A judge cleared the way for federal officials to have a feeding tube inserted in a Cuban exile who is on a weekslong hunger strike to protest his detention as a suspected spy.

Juan Emilio Aboy was at Jackson Memorial Hospital's inmate ward, hospital spokeswoman Lorraine Nelson said Friday.

A day earlier, U.S. District Judge Paul Huck agreed with another judge's order to "involuntarily administer nutrients" to Aboy through a stomach or intravenous tube, and to restrain him if he attempts to remove it.

"The decision to not eat was his choice. A court order was issued allowing the U.S. Public Health Service to take any necessary precautions in the interest of his health," said Nina Pruneda, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami.

An interesting contrast, no? Aboy, "allegedly" an enemy agent, wants to starve himself, and the courts order him fed against his will, while those same courts ordered blissfully innocent Terri
Schiavo starved to death without out any definitive knowledge of what her wishes were or would have been, aside from the "alleged" claim of her scumbag husband who very well may have tried to kill her on more than one occasion.

The only thing that could make this duality any more bitter is of the Cuban in question were...Elian Gonzales.

But then if it was the now-high school-age Elian, the courts would probably just let him starve.