And the winner of the uninformed comment about the Schiavo case ... [View All]

[meegbear]

thus far is ... NewsMax's Rev. Michael Reilly, in a March 26 column. Reilly implies that Michael Schiavo is the same as "Robert Blake and O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson" and other "wealthy celebrities" who "can afford attorneys who know what kind of tie the judge likes, etc.," ignoring the army of activists keeping the Schindlers' side alive in the courts. Reilly then makes the following claim: "What's really sad is that average Americans like Bob and Mary Schindler -- and you and I -- have no access to justice in the American judiciary."

The only way to rebut that is with a column by the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger, who counts in a March 25 column the number of times in the past five years the Schiavo case has gone before judges:

Florida's appeals court: eight times
the Florida Supreme Court: five times
U.S. federal courts: five times
the U.S. Supreme Court: three times

Sounds like the Schindlers got much more "access to justice" than most folks.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/schiavo4.html