March 19, 2005

The State of Florida

LET ME SEE IF I UNDERSTAND THE STATE OF THE LAW IN FLORIDA TODAY.

In Pinellas Park, Florida , there's a man that has gotten the entire legal establishment of the state to help him starve his wife to death, and has arranged for the police to arrest anyone that's trying to bring her food or water. This man is running around free and getting a lot of attention. He has a judge working hard day and night to make sure that his wife will die.

In Homosassa, Florida a man named John Evander Couey, has confessed to abducting and killing a nine year old girl. He is in jail and under suicide watch to make sure he does not die.

In Collier, Florida, Michael Lee Swails, has been put in jail charged with starving his cattle herd.

In Florida today, I score it:
Wives get to die because their husband says so.
Child killers get extra attention so they can't just kill themselves.
Men who starve cattle go to jail.

I'm just not getting this. I'm not getting it at all.

Posted by Vanderleun at March 19, 2005 7:51 PM
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Posted by: ellen at March 19, 2005 9:11 PM

Yeah. This world is ironic, ain't it? The most infuriating part is that wives get to die because their husbands want them to...

The irony of gender equivalence.

Posted by: Stasya at March 19, 2005 11:14 PM

Why, I asked this morning to my wife, are the feminists not in an uproar over a husband's right to determine whether his wife will live or die? Talk about remnants of ownership... which, as you correctly point out, the state has stripped from the owner of some cows.

Odd set of priorities.

Posted by: EagleSpeak at March 20, 2005 7:04 AM

I don't understand. Why would you expect any of this to make sense?

Posted by: greg at March 20, 2005 7:49 AM

Absolutely brilliant little post, BTW.

Posted by: greg at March 20, 2005 7:51 AM

"The law is a ass."

--W.S.

Posted by: Old Dad at March 20, 2005 10:26 AM

Since Terri Schiavo's cortex has been replaced by spinal fluid, leaving no consciousness, she is probably less of a thinking being than any of the cows.

Posted by: Dave at March 21, 2005 6:30 AM