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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
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Neatly put.
Michael Schiavo used to complain, "When is that b*tch gonna die?" It took him many more years and all of HER rehab money to put her to death, but y'know, she was, like, in the way.
A fine, well written letter.
Obviously, the only things I know about the case at this point are from reading the court documents. Since you consider Michael insane, I am curious at what point do you personally think he became this way? Before they were married, after her collapse, etc...? Do you feel he was always this way?
Further, based on reading the court papers, it is clear to me that Micheal and the parents both argued their cases repeatedly in front of various judges. If Michael was insane, why did they rule in his favor?
The most plausible scenario is that Michael is a lying psychopath. He could conceivably be honest but delusional, but that would be a pretty big stretch.
As to why judges would go along with him, a simple explanation would be that the parents didn't initially give a good reason not to trust Michael, and so the early decisions favored him. Judges don't like to reverse earlier decisions; some would rather let an innocent person die than admit they were mistaken.
Other explanations would also fit. Judge Greer was supposed to supervise Michael's handling of Terri's estate. If guardianship were ever handed over to anyone else, that person would be required to audit everything. Any problems would fall on Greer's head as well as Michael's.
If Michael was playing some games with Terri's books, I don't know that Greer would have been paying close enough attention to notice immediately. If Greer became aware of some malfeasance long after the fact, he would find himself in an uncomfortable situation: call official attention to the problem (and thus to his own failure to flag it earlier), or help Michael cover it up. I could easily imagine the latter option as seeming more attractive; if Greer went very far down that road, he'd have no choice but to keep on it (since exposure of Michael's actions would expose his own complicity in the cover-up). Not necessarily the only explanation, but IMHO it's the one that makes the most sense.
You hit the nail on the head with the hijacking problem.
But I don't know if it was your intent. New threads are frequently invaded by trolls and allies of the death lovers who try to steer the tone from discussion of issues of Terri's Legacy into threads on who is right, a faithful family fighting for their daughter or a sociopath bent on killing her. I told you before but you glossed over it. I used the example that in Church, we do not give equal time to the devil. Likewise on these threads, we are not debating by giving fair and balanced time to the side representing evil. We are pro-life. Freerepublic is pro-life.
As you know, would-be hijackers do their dirty work by shifting discussion away from the issue and into bickering and are implying that we and by extension Freerepublic are a bunch of paranoid freaks.
But now you are singing the same note over again. We have offered you on a platter a cornucopia of information sources and now you said we didn't. Instead you resort to a claim of reading some of the court cases related to it when we have asserted in very clear language the court cases related to the murder of Terri are corrupted in essence.
It sounds like you consider your thoughts likely to draw flames, and that your mind is made up, IOW you have no real interest in getting at the truth, only in supporting the side which is against us who are pro life and pro Freerepublic. Perhaps this is the wrong forum and topic for you. You will find a great many of the same stripe in Daily Kos or DU and with the MSM. Your thought patterns are echoed as well on anti-freerepublic sites. No point you have stated to date is otherwise original. We have heard it countless times from disruptors and trolls long gone or zotted.
You say you are sickened. We are too. But from your words it is not clear which end of that spectrum sickens you.
That leads me to ask. Are you sickened by the hijackers, allies of Mikey and trolls trying to hijack our threads or are you sickened by people of good will fighting for the Terri's of the world?
Your tone sounds like the latter. I do get suspicious of posters who ignore all presented to them and brush it aside with mantras, and continue their same tack.
The practice of euthanasia was easily established and advanced in the United States under the pretense of end of life wishes, choices, compassion, dignity, assisted suicide, and self rights to the public through introductions of various means.
Among those heavily involved in pushing euthanasia via legislative and public policy change in the U.S. is Myra Christopher and the billionaire donors who fund the cause. Myra has incrementally dosed our society towards legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia, largely through educational programs directed toward the medical field and medical industry, the legal field, government, the media, and the clergy, which leads to public policy changes.
Myra Christopher, Euthanasia and The Healthcare Connection - PART 10
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
TAMPA---Prominent Hillsborough County attorney Dennis Hernandez has been charged with false imprisonment, a felony and misdemeanor domestic battery as the result of a New Year's Day altercation with his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his three year son with whom he is involved in a child support and custody dispute.
Hernandez, 38, had been charged with domestic battery and kidnapping charges for allegedly beating his former girlfriend, Rebecca Crigler, at his south Tampa home on New Year's Day about 6:30 p.m.
Tampa Attorney Charged With False Imprisonment
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Waking those in a Permanent Vegetative State Louis Viljoen awoke from a three year coma after he was administered a sleeping pill. The question is whether or not the drug will work on others: Its effect on Louis has been remarkable, says his mother. Photos of the now 36-year-old man adorn the wall above his bed, marking each of the 10 birthdays he has spent here at the Ikhaya Tini Vorster rehabilitation centre in Dunnottar, near Springs. Previously: End the Madness: PVS is reversible or misdiagnosedIn the coming months, British company ReGen will begin clinical trials with Zolpidem on 30 coma patients in South Africa, in the hope that the drug will also bring them back to life.
Note that just like Terri Schiavo and Haleigh Poutre, doctors had diagnosed Louis as being in a permanent vegetative state (PVS). They told his mother he would never recover.
Waking those in a Permanent Vegetative State
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PINELLAS COUNTY---Last month, The Florida Supreme Court voted to remove Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Court Judge John Renke III of New Port Richey from the bench, the first time since 1970 that a judge has been removed solely for campaign violations.
But Renke wants the state's highest court to reconsider while he continues to draw his annual salary of $139,497.
Florida Judge Wants Rehearing On Removal Decision
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Daniel Cullen II will probably never know the impact he might have on the Texas law governing when doctors can remove life support and end a patient's life.
But the 10-month-old – whose mother is fighting to prevent a Dallas hospital from disconnecting his ventilator – could become a test case as doctors, right-to-life activists and legislators hash out a proposal to revise the futile-care law for the 2007 legislative session.
The Dallas Morning News reported late last month that the ethics board at Children's Medical Center Dallas decided, against the wishes of Daniel's mother, that it would be futile and inappropriate to continue to treat him.
Right-to-life case may affect law
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Our visitor announced his point of view in his first post. I have not believed a word he's said since.
The Florida legal tradition rolls on.
I thought that may happen, am away from my computer and DSL and am doing the pony express routine with my dial up. Will put it up on my website when I get back and link to it.
Ah, how rhapsodical! Yes, yes, let us "frame the incomprehensible space"!
Translation: You've got 10 days, then we snuff the patient.
I had missed his/her statement "Get over it." Terri's case was not like dropping a chipped teacup that you "get over it." Considering what was done to Terri and the implications of these acts for the rest of us, "getting over it" is a heartless and stupid statement to make.
Maybe one day soon....
You mmmean our visitor is not sincerely of good will? Who would'uv thunk?
You can hear more truth and snappier dialogue on those sponsored TV shows that sell rhinestone jewelry.
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