Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Renew America ^ | May 29, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

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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

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I just had a horrible thought of good ole Ayatollah Khomeini, when they transported his body and it fell from the cart. There goes death with dignity. Don't know why the effort to drag out little Dr. Kervorkian reminded me...

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Maybe she was named K after Kellogg Special K. Some health advocates say Kellogg who foisted on us a breakfast of sugar and starch to replace bacon and eggs was the first cereal killer. Gotta admit I was a willing victim growing up.

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The whole liberal ideology "crosses the line" into moral perversion. The ladies who wrote this letter see only a glimmer of truth but not the seas of slime. They'll go right on voting for the slimebags.

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>> Maybe she was named K after Kellogg Special K.

She is certainly ......................... special. Whatever species she's from, they're not coming to dinner at MY house.

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Y'know, we shouldn't be heartless to Kevorkian just because he's a old lunatic liberal murderer who deserves no mercy for heinous crimes and for infecting ditzy writers with his mental disease. No, we have to be willing to compromise.

I'd say he could be let out on condition that he be locked in a cage and put on display in Wal-Mart stores.

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"and put on display in Wal-Mart stores"

The Wal-Mart stores in the greater Tampa area.
Somewhere close to Schiavo's house.

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In the food section with the displays of pineapples, peaches, grapes, would be appropriate. "By their fruits you shall know them..."

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Snorf!

I'd worry about that. He might blend in with the coconuts and escape unnoticed.

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If there is any justice, Michael Schiavo should end up in his own locked cage and be put on display... no, not at Wal-Mart. How about showing him in the basement of evangelical churches during their pot-luck suppers and bake sales?

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If there is any justice, Michael Schiavo should end up in his own locked cage and be put on display... no, not at Wal-Mart. How about showing him in the basement of evangelical churches during their pot-luck suppers and bake sales?

Anything short of 13 days of dehydration is unacceptable imo. I can't think of anything more fair and "beautiful" than that.

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Sometimes the behavior of law enforcement in Pinellas/Clearwater Florida exceeds comprehension, even beyond what they did in supervising the execution of innocent Terri. This is an amazing story! Martin Anderson, yes, but also Shawn McMillan, Thomas Tipton lost their lives as did Terri at the hands of the same cabal.

And time after time, the office of Pinellas County state attorney Bernie McCabe rules the case closed by a finding a justifiable homicide, finding that the police were justified in the killing of man, often with a bullet in the back or sometimes ruling the death a suicide, even when the bullet that kills the man is from a police officer's gun.

In other cases involving suspicious and untimely deaths, McCabe simply refuses to investigate, claiming that the statute of limitations has expired. There is no statute of limitations for homicide.

EXCLUSIVE - Special Circumstances

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

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And more...

An affirmative defense is evidence, which, if found to be credible, will negate criminal or civil liability even if it is proven that the defendant committed the alleged acts.

In the case of Michael Schiavo, the state attorney's office of Bernie McCabe acts as the prosecutor. defense attorney, judge and jury by blocking all complaints against him.

COMMENTARY - The Immunity Factor

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The foster child who made national news last year when the state of Florida went to court to prevent her from having an abortion is pregnant again.

Snip...

"She's smart. She's a survivor. And she's had to fight her whole life, just like me."

Foster teen who fought for abortion pregnant again

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A compendium of End of Life Medical Decisions...

One of several excerpts:

**1. WILLIAM COLBY, senior fellow at the NATIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ORGANIZATION and author of "Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America": "This week, the AMA agreed that in the wake of the Terri Schiavo case, people need more education about the hard questions that case raised. With baby boomers aging, and remarkable advances in medical technology, we are facing these difficult issues all the time. Fill out a health care power of attorney document. Talk to your health care agent and family about Terri Schiavo. And give copies of the power of attorney document to your family members and doctor." Colby is the lawyer who represented the Cruzan family in the first right-to-die case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. News Contact: Kama Timbrell, ktimbrell@amanet.org Phone: +1-212-903-8315 (6/15/06)

ProfNet Wire: Health & Medicine: End-of-life Medical Decisions

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Chuck Colson says he was wrong in assessing Terri.

In the earlier commentary I said that "the autopsy showed that [Terri] had been brain-dead." This "finding" did not affect my belief that it was wrong to take her life. My concern from the beginning was with the process we followed and its implications for the sanctity of human life.

My calling Terri "brain-dead" was based on what the media said about the autopsy. For instance, MSNBC began its report this way: "an autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state . . ."

Being Had

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June 15, 2006 - The American Medical Association voted during its Annual Meeting this week to increase efforts to educate patients about the importance of end-of-life planning. The action received applause from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, which has more than 15,000 hospice and professional members.

Elder Care News... Hospice Community Applauds AMA Support of Advance Directives

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The drunken police office pulled out his service revolver and performed "involuntary euthanasia." The young man would have died in another fifty or sixty years anyway, so why is everyone upset? Honestly. If the cops can't gun down innocent young men without a big uproar, they will quit their jobs and go into private industry and get paid what they are worth. Then where will we be, without any rotten corrupt police, eh?

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Tales from the dark, fat and bulbous side, Mikey's soul mate. His portliness is featured in the current Bay Windows...

Let’s be clear about what this debate is really about. It’s a blatant effort to deny some members of our society the right to receive the same benefits and protections that married couples now have. Like this Senate’s intrusion into the Terry Schiavo case, it is a cynical attempt to score political points by overriding state courts and intruding into individuals’ private lives and most personal decisions. It’s the politics of prejudice and division at its worst.

Why I oppose the Marriage Protection Amendment Sen. Ted Kennedy

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I think, but am not sure, that I met one of the nice ones at the Hospice. Except, that someone asked him why he was there guarding a murder. Not much response. They were volunteers.

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Haleigh Poutre...

The state Department of Social Services should establish an audit bureau to prevent the sort of mismanagement that led the agency to miss signs of abuse, then nearly withdraw life support prematurely from Haleigh Poutre , a Westfield girl who was beaten into a coma, a House committee said yesterday.

The committee also recommended that the state require more training outside the classroom for social workers, increase the involvement of police in cases of child neglect, and establish a process that is clear and open to public scrutiny about when the state should end life support for a child under its care.

House panel urges DSS changes after Haleigh dispute

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