Yet another Holy Week atrocity

For the second time in five years, government entities in this country are with brute force victimizing an innocent person during Holy Week, the week of Christ’s Passion. The last time it was the Clinton administration’s seizure of Elian Gonzales, of which I wrote at NewsMax:

This country, which makes such a show of supporting the oppressed against the oppressors, treats [Elian’s] Miami relatives in their modest bungalow home—these people who have nothing to stand on but their humanity and their sense of what is right—with contempt.

This country, which gobbles up one Hollywood thriller after another in which people who fight against authority for a cause they believe in are regarded as heroes, regards the good Marisleysis as a joke and the heroic Lazaro as a lowlife.

How dead are the souls of the millions of Americans who, far from sympathizing with these good people, agree with those who callously mock and dismiss them.

How dead are their souls that they can’t understand that a person who has saved a child’s life [Donato Dalrymple] feels forever a special bond and obligation to the one he saved. How contemptuous are they to a man who did nothing but good, a “fisher of men” who rescued a lost soul from the wide ocean.

Most of all, how lost are they that they cannot see the symbolic evil of what the Clinton government is doing with their support—grabbing at gun point from the man who saved him the boy he miraculously saved, seizing him from his surrogate mother, whom he called “Mari,” seizing him through the despicable ruse of negotiations, seizing him in the early morning hours of Holy Saturday for fear of acting in broad daylight before the eyes of the people. If the feds had done their deed just 24 hours earlier, in the early morning hours of Good Friday, the parallel with the arrest of Jesus would have been complete.

And now it is Holy Thursday five years later, Holy Thursday, when Jesus bade his disciples to eat of his body and drink of his blood, in which is remission of sins and eternal life, and this country, with the apparent acquiescence and even the active, emotional support of a majority of the people (just as with Elian), is withholding food and water from an innocent woman in order to kill her, a woman who is loved by her family, a woman who has the light of love in her eyes when her relatives speak to her and caress her, and it is killing her only because her estranged husband wants her to die, while her own blood, who actually care about her and want to save her, are being turned down by every court in the land. Do we think that God’s protection will remain over us, if we keep behaving like this? How many unmistakable signs must we receive that we are in rebellion against God, before we wake up?

With every legal avenue closed, there is only way to prevent this monstrous judicial crime from being consummated: Gov. Bush must activate the National Guard, take over the hospital, and save Terri Schiavo’s life.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 24, 2005 01:48 PM | Send