What's ironic about the Schiavo case is that this was another custody battle, it climaxed during Easter Weekend, and it involved the same courts. In the Gonzalez case, Janet Reno acted on a completely criminal search warrant to raid the Gonzalez home and send Elian Gonzalez back to Fidel Castro.
If you don't remember it, here's how the case went down:
The stalemate continued for another three months. On Thursday, April 20, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals--the same court that rejected the pleas of Terri Schiavo's parents last week--turned down the Justice Department's request to order Elian removed from the home of his Miami relatives. Moreover, the court expressed serious doubts about the Justice Department's reading of both the law and its own regulations, adding that Elian had made a "substantial case on the merits" of his claim. It further established a record that Elain, "although a young child, has expressed a wish that he not be returned to Cuba."
The Reno Justice Department acted the next day to short-circuit a legal process that was clearly going against it. On Good Friday evening, after all courts had closed for the day, the department obtained a "search" warrant from a night-duty magistrate who was not familiar with the case, submitting a supporting affidavit that seriously distorted the facts. Armed with that dubious warrant, the INS's helmeted officers, assault rifles at the ready, burst into the home of Elian's relatives and snatched the screaming boy from a bedroom closet. Many local bystanders were tear-gassed even though they did nothing to block the raid. Elian was quickly returned to Cuba; because he was never able to meet with his lawyers a scheduled May 11 asylum hearing on his case in Atlanta became moot.
Why Janet Reno wasn't placed in jail for this I have no idea. There's no question that it was illegal; she knew it and Clinton knew it. But the mainstream media gave them a pass, as they always did with the corrupt Clinton Administration.
As I stated here, I was awake when I heard the news of the Saturday morning raid. In fact, I had been discussing the case with a immigrant from the Dominican Republic, who had been to Cuba and knew about the decrepit conditions and the corrupt Castro regime. And as we know, from that moment on that child was never going to be Miguel Gonzalez's child. He was Fidel Castro's, and Castro was going to use him how he wished.
Same scenario, different tyrants. Now we have a "husband", a high profile attorney, and a trial judge making a mockery of true justice. But the same federal courts that didn't have the stones to stand up for Elian while Reno and Clinton overrode their orders, violating Elian's due process rights, and they don't have the stones this time to stand up to Michael Schaivo, George Felos, and George Greer for Terri Schindler is involved with this one also.
The ones whining about federal intervention in the Schiavo case had no problems with it when it came to Elian Gonzalez. They weren't yelling about how the decisions of the courts needed to be respected. But that isn't surprising, considering the "ends justify the means" thought processes in both scenarios.
And "moderates" threaten to abandon the Republican Party due to the conservatives? Oh well. As Alexander Hamilton said, "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." If you don't stand up for injustice in this case - and especially if didn't stand up for Elian - when will you?