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
Dr. Thogmartin is on the waiting list for new testicles, but they can't find a pair his body won't reject.
Husband of Terri Schiavo to host fundraiser for Peggy Lamm
It wasn't an "end of life" case. Terri wasn't dying. So right away we know we're hearing spin from the Left. And we can already be pretty sure that Peggy Lamm is going to be a star of the Death Cult. Who else would welcome endorsement by Michael Schiavo?
From Wikipedia, where one will find glowing press releases for any left-wing "activist" or cause: "Lamm has also served on ... the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center for Ethics, Humanities and the Law..." Her own web site boasts "leadership in support of women's rights, the environment and labor." "Ethics" and "women's rights" translate to death for seniors and the unborn.
It runs in the family. Peggy Lamm used to be the sister-in-law of Richard Lamm, former governor of Colorado who has long been involved with the euthanasia movement and famously told senior citizens, in a 1984 speech, that they had a duty to die.
A liberal Democrat scribbler gets to meet his hero -- Michael Schiavo
Skip this unless you have a strong stomach. It's a typical liberal Democrat POV, i.e., dishonest and manipulative. It's about Michael the murderer turning into Michael the political activist -- not an unusual job switch for Demos.
It occurs to me that political activism is Michael's new alibi. The autopsy report took away his only alibi -- that Terri collapsed from bulimia. That theory was so medically absurd that only a Death Culter would believe it. Now he doesn't have even that.
Michael's new activist alibi works this way. He changes the subject. He talks about some piddly civil right. He blames the dreaded right-wing politician. Then he is home free! These steps guarantee that no born-again liberal -- least of all a reporter -- will think through the issues. They will just join the chorus, as they have been trained from birth to do. It won't even occur to them ever again to question how Terri ended up on the floor nearly dead, with only one suspect -- the one who has never told the same story twice of what happened.
You trolls who are so proud of your intelligence -- use it. Tell us how a healthy young woman, asleep, ended up on the floor in cardiac arrest soon after he husband came home late one Saturday night.
Reporters never get it, do they? >> Schiavo died [was executed by judicial order] in Florida in March of 2005 after being taken off life support [after being denied water and food] following a 15 year battle over whether to keep her alive [she wasn't dying] despite brain damage [despite a disability due to injury].
Life-size crucifix dedicated to Terri Schindler Schiavo
"A third Republican, Rep. Everett Rice of Indian Shores, dropped out of the attorney general's race Monday." local news
Jeb Bush was on tv today talking about something (so captivating I can't remember what). For some reason, Crist was there sort of over Jeb's left shoulder. Using my supernatural powers I requested my tv to remove Crist from the shot. It worked. (Crist was making a real stupid face at the time).
I'd have to say, he's not really commenting on the media, he's using that context to introduce his comments about that experimental gizmo implanted to stimulate Terri's brain. That is a legit medical question. As long as that piece of metal was in her head, they couldn't do an MRI -- at least not without too much risk of frying more of her brain. Iow, they would have had to remove the implant surgically before doing an MRI.
I'm pretty sure PET scans were an option, along with CTs. I do not know if a "fMRI" [= functional MRI] was possible, but it is said to be one of the best tools nowadays for assessing brain activity/function. Here's a link: brief intro to fMRI
In a sense, all of this was moot. Judge Georgie denied all requests for further testing. I presume he was worried that they would show the death team out to be liars.
I've seen photos. Has he any other face?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DISNEY_INJURY?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-07-11-08-26-19
I'd guess it's just coincidence, nothing more.
Did he mention that it should of been removed so an MRI could be performed? That makes it illegitimate.
I don't think so. What material are you referring to, his press conference? I presume he just said that you couldn't do an MRI because of the piece of metal.
I don't find any Terri news today. Will be offline most of the day anyway, so will have no chance for further searching. Best regards to the family :-)
Last year despite overwhelming public opinion against their actions, politicians in Washington, D.C. turned Michael and Terri Schiavo's private family tragedy into a national spectacle for their own political gain.
Paula Herzmark & Dick VandenBergh
with
Dick & Dottie Lamm
Invite you to a reception with special guest
Michael Schiavo
In support of
Peggy Lamm
Candidate for Colorado's 7th Congressional District
Thursday, July 13, 2006
5:30-7pm
8 Polo Club Drive
Denver, CO 80209
From WND's letters to the editor 7-12-06
'Duty to die' Lamm
Ex-Gov. Dick (Duty to die) Lamm crafted the nation's first abortion law and went on to call for seniors to step aside and allow the medical resources to go to the young.
His abortion policies created the current shortage of workers, which has led to our immigration debacle.
He has, single handedly, done more to destroy our nation than anyone realizes.
Hence the title of his speech ("I have a plan to destroy America") is, ironically, apropos!
Leslie Hanks
I recalled a series of popular questions about the case that Dr. Thogmartin answered either from medical records or from the actual autopsy. (P. 28 in the PDF autopsy report; quite a useful way of addressing the issues.) I thought that the question you raised, about the MRI, would be in that section, but I don't find it. So, I guess it was from a press conference (only), not from the autopsy report. If you can find it and get both a quote and the context, we might be able to shed more light on this. I'm at a borrowed computer and unable to get at my files, so I can't help for the moment.
... now it's our turn!
That's what liberals call it when their fellow liberal Democrat murders his Christian wife.
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