Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:37 AM PDT by KevinNuPac
Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture
Kevin Fobbs May 29, 2006
America's Culture of Life is truly the legacy of one woman whose death forever changed our nation because of actions that were not in her hands but in those of her husband and his lawyers. Yet for millions of Americans we will forever link our own celebration of our nation's independence to the courage of the Schindler family to go forward past the tragedy, past the personal sorrow, past the searing anguish to help America draw a distinct line in the sand, to issue a clarion call to America.
Our 4th of July is coming... Our Culture of Life Independence Day is on its way. Our month of Independence is a message that March 31st (Terri's Day) will signal, that July 4th will signal... and that the month of July will signal to defend the Culture of Life before we lose it forever.
When we talked with our family members or even our neighbors or our friends we may have spent but a moment reflecting upon why we are even gathered on a Memorial Day afternoon. Do we think about the sacrifice of our soldiers and of their families? Do we think about the long goodbyes which are never long enough... as the military families send their loved ones to war, to battle, to stand firm for our freedoms... for our life... for our nation and its values of faith?
How does Terri Schiavo and her legacy tie into this? Terri's legacy and Terri's Day is a representation of a right to live, and freedom to have the liberty to not have it compromised away, devalued by inconvenience, or litigated away by judges who celebrate a culture of death that would rob life from the womb, steal life from a hospital or hospice bed, and destroy and shatter a family's love for a daughter, a sister and aunt who was given a gift from God, but had it separated from her as easily as an ant would have its life take by an uncaring shoe... extinguished forever.
The families who send their loved ones off to war have to wonder as well, does America value their sacrifice? The families of the military have to wonder just where does its society draw the line on its values? A soldier who is in battle in Iraq or Afghanistan has to wonder if a Florida judge can take away the life of an innocent, what is the measure of his life? Would a judge in America suddenly decide that if he were injured, if he had to sacrifice a limb that the protesters outside his hospital bed would have more rights than he would or his family? Would this soldier have to wonder that if he or his fellow soldier were killed in battle, that upon their return that the protesters who would stand outside of his funeral... have more rights to be protected than the rights his family would have to a military burial with honor?
You see, the Culture of Life is about Terri Schiavo, because Americans now have to examine the life of our culture itself. We have to wonder if we as a nation of Christians and of a nation of faith and of a nation of compassion would allow for a state to murder an innocent woman and strip her family of their loved one then as a nation would we allow America to have other symbols of life, of our nation to be peeled away as well, all in open sight and in plain view of a dispassionate nation?
What does our American Culture mean if we allow millions of illegal aliens to literally browbeat us into submission by demanding that because they have stolen across our borders, demanded and received protection from local law enforcement in numerous cities throughout the U. S., obtained free or reduced educational opportunities by state public colleges that our own children could not qualify to receive the same financial aid assistance for. Are we that defenseless to let illegals strip our state coffers of housing assistance for loans and mortgages when tens of thousands in almost every state in America have legal citizens who are homeless, impoverished, or working poor or middle class Americans who need similar assistance but cannot receive it. And they are legal! They are citizens! They are Americans.
What is so wrong about our nation when we are so ready to compromise our freedoms, our culture's life, the life of an innocent and the taking of any life is the taking of our own children's life and their child's. And with each successive generation the nation and its life, its values, its traditions, and its language will disappear because we as Americans were too preoccupied — too narrow — to see that an illegal alien was taking your child's education, that a crusading death culture judge was preparing a bed, a room, a legal precedent to take your child, grandchild or sister or parent.
That is why I have stayed my course to defend the Culture of Life and to ask my fellow Americans to begin to understand that as Terri Schiavo's life was slowly ebbing from her body and as her mother Mary, father Bob, sister Suzanne, and brother Bobby waited in the Florida early morning air on March 31st, 2005, America was having part of its soul ebb away as well.
What will it take to spark an interest, a concern, and a passion for protecting one's own life? Some may say that it would take a clear and present danger — like tanks rolling down your neighborhood street or another 9/11 that strikes at the heart of America. Do we have the convenience to wait? Do we wait until a state legislature in Maine or California or Delaware or Ohio or Illinois decides that your mother's decision to live is determined by a hospital "bean counter" who decides that your mother's life is not based upon a "Will To Live" but an ability to pay her bill? What about a baby, not born, but already set for murder in the womb — not because the mother is pro-life or pro-death but because "the law" says the unborn baby's life is expendable because the baby's genes are determined to be part of a class or a group or a race or of an ethnicity which pre-programs the child, un-born, to death?
America is being murdered in small pieces. It is seeing its values, its life, its culture disemboweled with the finesse of a skilled surgeon. And it is America's poll takers and its legislators and its uncaring, disinterested, and uninvolved who are handling the scalpel. Take the scalpel away. Contact www.Terrisfight.org to join the Foundation's battle to educate America about the right to live. Go to Terri's Day on www.kevinfobbs.com to learn about new updates on Terri's Day and the event to celebrate the Culture of life.
So on Independence Day and Independence month of July will we have any Americans who will sign up and join the Culture of Life movement in their community? Even if it is to sign a pledge, hand out a flyer, become aware of legislators and judicial candidates who have agreed to stand firm for the Culture of Life — a crusade that is based not only upon the life of Terri Schiavo's legacy but equally crucial based also upon the legacy of the right to live, to defend our culture and the life of its values.
Terri's Day is not the end of a national movement but the beginning of a national contract with itself to stand for a future that our nation can guarantee for its children and for a culture that will insure life. The right to live will be Terri's legacy — our legacy... one nation under God. Join us in your homes, on your family picnics, out camping and celebrating July 14th and 15th ... Our American Culture of Life belongs to each and every one of us... We must protect it. Let's celebrate together.
Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the host of The Kevin Fobbs Show: go to: ,www.kevinfobbs.com. To contact him go to: kevin@kevinfobbs.com.
© Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060529
JUDGE GREER is nothing short of a modern day mengele on a death committee and he revels in his infamy. JUDGE GEORGE GREER: MURDER FOR HIRE.
If he does like "little girls", no wonder he didn't help Terri. She was a woman. It makes sense, doesn't it?
"The rule of the case is that she will die." J. Greer
"I don't want anyone feedin' that girl." J. Greer
What kind of hellion tortures someone to death and if you don't succeed, starve, starve, again.
The hellions in Florida's Death Care System don't use common sense or compassion. They worship money and that is what decides the laws of their case.
He's so incompetent and evil. How did Felos find someone both incompetent and evil? Lucky dog.
Wish you well in weathering the storm, well supplied and safe. Clearwater area may be a magnet for these tempests.
If I think they're lurking, I'll do a cristi-critter lurk alert.
Crist stole one of my words for his campaign. It was MY WORD and he took it.
Crist might be in big trouble.
Terri's Hospice Woodside are big fans of morphine, even when it isn't required. This is according to witness after witness.
re: Crist, I don't think his campaign is going as well as he'd like it to be going.
He promised teachers $100K salaries. It sounds great but he can't take that back and I don't know how the thousands of Floridians on fixed incomes who don't have children are going to bankroll teachers like that.
Wait until I put together a cristi-critter alert graphic. Every time he does something newly stupid, I'll post it without giving his camp constructive criticism. That will keep his newly stupid ideas coming. He's good enough for Donald Trump for will never be good enough for regular Floridians.
Note below from Terri supporter, XXXXX
Hi, I am writing you all again to tell you what happened. My Mom was getting out the airport and saw a limo driver holding up a sign that read "Michael Schiavo, Welcome to Las Vegas". My mom turned around and saw Michael Schiavo in a peach color shirt and went up to him and said "You BLANKING Murderer". He gave my mom the strangest look and he left. She also said Michael is very tall.
I will try to explain more clearly what happened this time when I am not so shocked. My mom saw the limo driver holding a sign welcoming Michael Schiavo. She instantly turned around and saw MS in a peach dress shirt talking on the cell phone. Next to him was a guy in a dark suit. She said he did look like a body guard, but wasn't for sure. My mom went right up to him, looked him the eyes and said " You F'n Murderer". Then he gave her a dirty look and walked away.
That's the whole story.
After I got done writing the second email I sent out, I decided to visit Michael's site, www.terripac.org to see if it mentions why he is Vegas and sure enough it does! He is there for a YearlyKOS convention. I never heard of it until now. Then I googled YearlyKOS and found their site. Michael is at the Riveria Hotel or the convention center in Vegas.
XXXX (name withheld to protect person from death ghoul harassment)
(The Daily Kos people are freaks. That's right up his alley.)
CRIST BEING DOGGED BY GALLAGHER ARTICLE.
http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/MGBW7HNE9OE.html
I left it virginal so that FRiends could tiptoe over there and have a chortle. Ping away, if you wish :-)
No.
I am profoundly convinced that Terri's story is THE legal and moral landmark of our times. What it marks is unutterably sad: the demise of America the moral... America the shining city on a hill... America the trusted... America the hope of mankind.
So long as men have a vision on this earth, we will remember Terri and we will never "get over it."
I see a middle road. I propose that we pay each of the 535 members of Congress a cool ONE BILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000,000) -- tax free -- to sunset the tax and legal codes, then go away and stay away. They can all live like Oriental Pashas if they stay away. If they come back, we hit their safehouse immediately with two 500-pound bombs.
Fifth request. Either provide me with a link to where Michael actually testified in court that it was his wish, or shup yer lyin' yap. You bore me with your ignorance.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
You haven't even "learned" the basics on this case. As evidenced by the number of times you "misspoke" on the other thread and were caught.
And when pressed to support your ludicrous claims with proof, you run away to another thread to hide.
Correct. It was a case of keeping a dead person alive, against their expressed wishes, through the use of a surgically implanted feeding tube.
Terri's body was being artificially fed through a surgically implanted feeding tube because she was unable to voluntarily swallow enough nourishment to keep her body alive.
This artificial life support was withdrawn, and her body was allowed to die a natural death, because it was her expressed wish that she not be kept alive this way.
Terri wasn't denied food and water because she wasn't dying -- she died in 1990.
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