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
Post #68 How can you murder someone who was already dead? Terri died in 1990. Get over it.
If you want to be a disruptor robertpaulsen, you just have to do better with the mantras. This one was already tried by one of your allies. Now that you have found nobody listening to your nastiness on the other thread you come here hoping to disrupt, but you only sound very foolish when you start your posts with the same one another of your ilk already used.
You know, I would be embarrassed if I made the posts you made on the other thread, and I would hope nobody would see them. Now you bring that same tone here. Aren't you embarrassed at how that looks?
So tell me why you dragged your wrath from that thread to this one. I want to delve deeper into the motive of why you showed up here.
I think you'd better report your finding to the local police, RP. That makes it probable murder or manslaughter. Michael Schiavo is the only suspect. If you withhold your information from a criminal investigation, you may become an accessory.
That's quite an acronym. What does it mean? Is it your public interest group?
Oh, dear. You'll need both hands if you count any higher.
So, why did you follow me here from another thread? To be bored or dumbed down, or both?
The number of times I "misspoke" was zero.
Swallowing tests indicated that the oral feeding/hydration would have a significant likelihood of causing aspiration. That is very different from saying that there would have been 0.0000% chance of success. What wrongful harm could have come to anyone had the Schindlers been allowed to have a doctor attempt oral feeding/hydration? If it caused Terri to fatally choke, Terri would at least avoid the pain of dehydration and Michael would be rid of her that much sooner. So what possible downside would there have been (assuming, of course, that Terri wasn't capable of receiving food/fluids orally)?
So she was able to swallow. Have you told the M.E. about this? Quite likely he was wrong about her vision too, when she was alive that is.
"What wrongful harm could have come to anyone had the Schindlers been allowed to have a doctor attempt oral feeding/hydration"
Exactly.
Some of Terri's nurses signed sworn affidavits stating they gave Terri cloths soaked in juice which she sucked on.
They also said they occasionally snuck her some jello and pudding - which she swallowed.
Tubes often are inserted for the convenience of the staff.
It would have taken a considerable amount of time, energy, and therapy for anyone to work with Terri on spoon feeding - and all forms of therapy were denied at Michael's request.
Heidi Law, stated in her affidavit that she spoon fed Terri small amounts of Jell-O which Terri seemed to enjoy immensely. Law also states that she would put cloths soaked in juice to Terri’s mouth as to give her “something nice to taste,” which according to Law, “made her (Terri) happy.” “It was particularly distressing that we always had to be afraid that if Michael got upset he would take it out on Terri.”
Claus von Bulow eventually was acquitted, but obvious questions about his innocence will always remain. Amazingly enough, Sunny is alive and lovingly tended, more than a quarter century later. (You have to wonder if she could be awakened by zolpidem [brand name Ambien], the drug being found to be able to temporarily awaken patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), coma, or other brain-injured state.)
A bit of trivia: Many of us have actually seen Clarenden Court, Sunny von Bulow's family mansion in Newport, RI. It was the setting for the film HIGH SOCIETY (1956) - Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, Satchmo.
Good thinking Twit. Lawyers would know this case obviously, and maybe pass it on to Michael. You know me though, I don't want to make too much out of this : )
Funny you should mention that.
2. Program Title: High Society
CAST: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra.
In this musical version of The Philadelphia Story, tabloid reporters invade a society wedding.107 mins.
Musical. D: Charles Walters.
PLAYING ON TCM: 06/13/2006 06:00:00 PM
Not just lawyers. The von Bulow case shocked the whole country, much as the death of Princess Di still fascinates today. There were several dramatic criminal trials, the last ending in acquittal in 1985 -- not all that long before the incidents alleged by Carla Iyer. Here, as in 1990, there was only one suspect -- one who had the training and tools to inject insulin.
Isn't it amazing that the vigilance of the caregivers for Terri could thwart Micheal's efforts to do away with her, and then he had to turn to the law to help him out?
I was pinged here by T'wit in post 213 when my name was mentioned. Wait a minute! I wasn't given the courtesy of a ping!
How about that. If you don't want me here screwing up your Terri-bot circle jerk, then blame T'wit.
Only to the Terri-bot conspiracy fanatics. You need to get a life -- your own.
Sorry I didn't ping you, RP. That was because you practically ordered me, and I quote, to "shup yer lyin' yap." So, I shup it.
And who do the non-Terri-bot conspiracy fanatics suspect?
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