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
This case wouldn't bother her so much UNLESS SHE WAS PERSONALLY INVESTED in it. Her obsession with Terri's death/murder has to do with her ailing husband. All the players are so transparent.
How ironic that she should earn her retirement by shortening her customers' retirement years. No doubt the hospice business has all sorts of ways to "retire" their former patients' savings, too.
How ironic that Labyak should get to retire at all.
With Terri and the Pope lingering and stealing all the news headlines, it must have been part of the strategy to send in the clowns/jugglers.
One of my creepiest moments was when Debra Bushnell (death lawyer) pulled into the parking lot and positioned herself at the front door of the Hospice and surveyed the crowd.
Meaner than Felos but not as diabolical imo. But, Bushnell did introduce Mikey to Felos which is why Terri's no longer with us.
Stealing seniors' savings is by far the more important purpose of the right-to-die movement. They don't really care much if the old folks are alive or dead. It's all a matter of getting at their lifetime savings and property. The easiest way is to bump them off. Then they officiously turn the deceased clients' money over to lawyers, judges and trust departments who, of course, keep it (or a lot of it). And that takes care of that.
It's graverobbing, but they don't have to go to the bother of digging up the grave.
We can't really know whether he will or won't. I'd like to believe he might yet repent, might tell the story. He's the only one who knows the whole truth of what happened to Terri. He will never be forgotten in this world or forgiven in the next unless he confesses the truth.
The graphic in this USA Today story is bylined Suzy Parker. I knew Suzy -- but as a writer, not an artist. She worked on the Clinton / tainted blood story out of Arkansas, for SALON and maybe other magazines. She did very well with it.
Out of all the so-called near-death experiences, I have heard of only one who came back from Hell. It was a man, not a woman, so a different case from the one you mention. The details were never clear, but the gist of it was haunting. People kept asking him what it was like. They'd ask him, "Well, was it like this, or this?" But no matter what they asked, he replied, "No, worse than that. Much worse than that..."
Could you post the dates for those seminars? Or did you make them up? It's getting more and more difficult to tell.
As I recall, he prayed, and recited the 23rd Psalm. I always thought, once you're dead, it's too late for that. Maybe not.
I know there is still time for Terri's murderers to repent. I doubt it will happen.
The ones in #513 were sheer spoof. Otherwise, the Death Cult gatherings have all been covered here. The one mentioned today (#508) featured Mary Labyak. I think she, Michael Schiavo, George Greer, Ronald Cranford, Arthur Caplan and Jay Wolfson all addressed the Death Festival at U. of Penn a few weeks ago. Iow, the gang was all there, rubbing shoulders and dispelling any notion that they were unbiased. Felos and Bushnell were the only ones absent. Dr. Cranford proved his bonafides by going room temperature shortly afterward, and is not missed. In addition, our heroes, especially Greer and Homicidal Mikey, have appeared at various banquets to be given awards for their courage in torturing a helpless disabled woman to death.
I doubt it too, but I hope I'm wrong. There is no time left for Dr. Cranford. He died unrepentant. He obviously knew he was dying, so he had a chance to ask forgiveness. But he did not seize it. That's sad.
"A new CNN poll has bad news for Hillary Clinton--along with Al Gore, John Kerry and Jeb Bush. The survey gauges opinion of six potential 2008 presidential candidates, and here is the percentage that say they will "definitely not vote for" each:
"Rudy Giuliani 30%
"John McCain 34%
"Hillary Clinton 47%
"John Kerry 47%
"Al Gore 48%
"Jeb Bush 63%"
That's an extraordinary negative for Jeb, isn't it? Pretty obviously his weakness and flip-flopping got everybody mad, the death-bots and Terri supporters alike.
Politics does make strange bedfellows. The Democratic activists overlook their criticism of the church’s social conservatism. But if liberals embraced the entirety of the church’s influence, the American political landscape would be much different. Feminists would not take to the streets to tell the clergy to get their “rosary beads off my uterus.” Liberal lawmakers would have praised Catholics who spoke out against the death-by-starvation of Terri Schiavo. Senate Democrats would not question how the Catholic faith of Supreme Court nominees John Roberts and Sam Alito might affect their judicial decisions. The left-leaning media wouldn’t defend pro-abortion Catholics when they were denied communion by Catholic bishops for breaking with Catholic doctrine on abortion. But we know better. Liberals will support the church when it’s only politically convenient.
This is a marriage of political convenience for the church as well. Liberal leaders and Catholic bishops are seeing their flocks dwindle and immigration presents an unprecedented recruiting opportunity. The church is looking for new members. The Democratic Party needs new voters, proven by its lack of electoral success since 1994.
Illegal Immigration Unites Democrats, Catholic Church
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The opening keynote was given by Judge Stanley Birch, of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, who is most well known for his decision in the Schiavo case. Judge Birch stressed the need for judicial independence. Other notable speakers included general counsels Teri McClure of UPS, Joaquin Carbonell of Cingular, and Javade Chaudhri of Sempra Energy, who spoke to a packed audience on the diversity practices of their companies, especially in the area of legal services.
Like Prof. Katyal and Ms. Khatri, other South Asian attorneys are clearly “influencing the network.” Hoping to extend that influence into the public arena is Shyam Reddy, a corporate lawyer at Atlanta-based Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, who is a candidate for Georgia Secretary of State; Neera Walsh, an attorney in the Cook County, Illinois, State Attorneys office; Rohit Kirpalani, general counsel at Atlanta-based CompuCredit Corporation; and Monica Desai, a bureau chief at the Federal Communications Commission.
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Gov. John Lynch signed legislation yesterday that makes end-of-life care decisions easier in New Hampshire.
"The bill is going to make it easier for people to plan for and make known their end-of-life decisions,"said his press secretary, Pam Walsh.
The new law updates state laws on advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. The law takes effect Jan. 1.
Lynch okays new end-of-life care rules
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Protection from making unpopular decisions is one thing, but being aware and heeding "the will of the people" in following our constitutional provisions first and foremost is why they are there, and those rulings are not so difficult since our constitution is very clear, short and to the point in most of the recent unpopular decisions which have been vehemently protested (both the Teri Schiavo matter and Kelo, both major abridges of the constitutional in the value and sanctity of "life" be it a "newborn disabled child" or a "breathing yet severely impaired" adult, no one has a right to take a life that is not being kept "alive" by machines. That judge committed "murder," in the name of the law, and soon it will be the insurance companies that determine who lives and dies in this country, or spouses such as Mr. Schiavo, whose main concern was getting on with his new life, and the insurance proceeds he would be gaining in the process.
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Advocates for assisted suicide know that when their agenda is described accurately and descriptively--they lose. So, they are ever about the task of trying to come up with new gooey euphemisms to describe assisted suicide--to be, if you will, the sugar that helps the hemlock go down. - more from Wesley J. Smith
Assisted Suicide and Language Perversion
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Which border did Jesus sneak across, senator? I must have missed that.
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