Keep in mind, that when Jeb Bush sent agents to seize Terry Schiavo to enforce his will upon her, the local police were prepared to stand between them and her. It's the little things like that that can keep you going.
The Schiavo case is nothing but a tragedy, and all the villains are distant from the terrible, aching pain of the people involved. Jeb Bush has an agenda, but no connection to the woman he was going to kidnap; his brother is even further removed. Yet aside from them and their minions, there are no clear villains here. What there are terribly frail and heartbroken people.
Michael Schiavo wanted his wife to recover and even went to nursing school to better care for her while that hope remained alive. Her parents even urged him to get on with his life, and he did. Now all that is bitterness. It's so much better to have something concret that the false hopes that motivate the Shindlers, the hopes that keep them from looking back at all those wasted years, all those cancelled hopes and interupted dreams. They want a villain and it can't be themselves. It can't even be their human frailty, the fact that they were just ordinary people who perhaps just didn't notice their daughter was bulimic. There must be a villain, somewhere. Someone must be responsible.
That's the awful thing in life: sometimes even good people do bad things. Some times it's not even bad; sometimes they're just...human. The only perfect thing that a lot of people have is hindsight.
There's no excusing the Republicans, though, reading to violate one of the most sarcred tenets of our nation to futher their agenda. What more search and seizure could be more illegal and more intimate than the seizure of this body?
Back in the Sixties, the Feds---once they bestirred themselves---were the agents of justice.
Now we've entered into an era when the Federal government is the agent of repression.