ACLU: ADVOCATES OF DEATH (AND TYRANNY)

Longtime abortion advocates the ACLU continues to show its true colors as they seek to help Michael Schiavo condemn Terri Schiavo to die:

The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that it will aid Michael Schiavo in his fight against Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature, which earlier this week took the remarkable step of passing a law to prevent the Pinellas County man from disconnecting his brain-injured wife from a feeding tube.

For months, the ACLU resisted meddling in the dispute that has pitted a husband against his in-laws, believing that the courts were following the long-held legal right of an individual to refuse extraordinary medical measures, even if it hastens their death.

Shockingly, it's further evidence of the ACLU picking and choosing which civil liberties it likes, just ask Terri Schiavo's parents:

Pamela Hennessy, a spokeswoman for the parents of the impaired woman, Terri Schiavo, said she was "outraged" at the intervention of the ACLU, the nation's largest defender of individual rights. Schiavo's parents, Mary and Bob Schindler, are trying to keep their daughter alive.

"I've been contacting the ACLU since the beginning of my involvement in this case to have them speak out against what's going on with Terri," Hennessy said. "It's going on against her will. She's had her religious freedoms stripped from her. She's had her civil liberties stripped from her. And they're defending the husband?"

But the real reason for the ACLU hopping into this runs much deeper. The entire process by which Mrs. Schiavo was spared stands as a threat to the way the ACLU has managed to push its agenda for decades:

The entry of the ACLU and possibly other influential players into the life-and-death drama playing out in Tallahassee and the Tampa area underscores the growing dimensions of the coming court battle over whether the state's top leaders acted unconstitutionally in sidestepping the courts in the high-profile right-to-die case.

By substituting his judgment for the judgment of the courts, the governor "set aside the role of the whole judicial system," Simon said, warning that a precedent has been set for Bush and legislators to write laws gutting any court decision they don't like.

Yes, anytime the people express its will through its elected representatives (isn't that how its supposed to work?) in a way counter to a court decision, it must be meddling and certainly "unconstitutional". We all know the Constitution established judicial tyranny when the country was founded, don't we? It sounds like the ACLU is seeking to unconstitutionally disenfranchise the people of Florida by taking away the power of their elected reprsentatives.