By David Walsh
29 March 2005
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/mar2005/schi-m29.shtmlAn increasingly prominent element of the frenzy whipped up by the Christian right in connection with the case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman on life support for the past decade and a half, is direct or indirect incitement to violence. These fanatical elements have fanned a “flood of fury,” in the words of one press account, against Schiavo’s husband Michael, Circuit Court Judge George Greer and others who have prevented them from having their way.
This is nothing new. Various groups and individuals in the anti-abortion movement and fundamentalist right-wing have for years either advocated or been associated with attacks on women’s clinics or doctors who perform abortions.
A number of recent developments demonstrate that the hysteria and charges of ‘murder’ and ‘execution’ of Terry Schiavo coming from these quarters, endlessly covered by the cable television networks, are finding a definite response.
On March 25 the FBI and local police arrested Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview, North Carolina, for allegedly offering $250,000 for the murder of Michael Schiavo and $50,000 for the death of Circuit Court Judge George Greer, who ordered Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube removed. Meywes sent an email containing the reward offer to friends and three media sources, including an unnamed prominent right-wing talk show host. In the message, he claimed to be passing along word that a multimillionaire was willing to finance the murder for hire.
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