Posted on 02/02/2007 3:49:53 AM PST by 8mmMauser
FYI: My jpegs were backed up. So, when I have time, I will post them again. They were not lost.
Leadership for the dems - that's a tough call. Probably southerners.
I like Gephardt, Daschle, Lieberman and for certain Zell Miller better than Rudy the RINO.
Someone pointed out to me the other day that, with the exception of 1964, EVERY GOP national ticket has had someone named either Bush, Dole or Nixon on it. It's REALLY time for something new!
I wish I could be there for it, but I'm sure it will be very emotional.
I can't imagine how tough this week must be for the Schindlers, but I know that Terri is smiling down from Heaven.
In that light, this is a mere excerpt of a much longer piece, something to read in its entirety.
The parallels with the Passion of Our Beloved Lord are striking to consider. It is as if Jesus, present in this poor sister of ours, bore again the opprobrium of the world. It is as if in the mystery of Divine Providence our nation has acted out during this Holy Week its own “passion play.” It is as if our nation, through its destruction of this innocent life, were crying out for her blood to be upon us and upon our children.
It is impossible in these events not to detect the spirit that drove Judas to betray Christ: Judas the thief into whose heart the Scriptures tell us Satan entered; Judas the traitor in the person of Terri’s husband who handed her over to evil men to be killed. In a sense the greatest calamity in all this is the one which has befallen him, for sin resides in and possesses the sinner in a most horrible way. Jesus said: “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin” (John 8:34). So it is a strange irony that schiavo is the Italian word for “slave.” And as much as it may go against our emotions at this time we must pray for him as well, for our true enemies are not flesh and blood but principalities and powers.
The Passion Of Theresa Marie Schiavo
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I think I will float my own little trial balloon for Tom Selleck :-) If he couldn't carry the male vote and the female vote, I don't know who could!
For Veep you need somebody masculine, politically incorrect, grown up and no-nonsense, like Cheney. His job is to be a life insurance policy for the boss, after all. If they assassinate the Prez, they get something meaner. ... Rummy comes to mind :-) I think I will float another trial balloon -- Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin.
On the Democrat side, with Zell Miller retired, Joe Lieberman is the only senior Demo for whom I have any respect, and even that is limited. Back in impeachment days, he gave a stinging speech denouncing Bill Clinton's immorality. Then he turned around and voted not to convict. I stopped trusting him right there.
I have no trial balloons on this side, though of course I'm ready to toil for Al Gore on the Green ticket. Why, he could save the earth!
Right on about Tancredo and Brownback, Rudi and Romney! We absolutely do need to find some Thompson remarks on Terri.
I remember that!
"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."
Insane newsspeak!!
Yes we are in a bad Twilight Zone segment.
Thompson's weak position on abortion may give us a glimpse into
what he believes at the other end of the life cycle:
7/06/00 6:20 p.m.
Thompson's Turn
Senator Thompson's office disputes NR.
By Ramesh Ponnuru, NR senior editor
he latest issue of NR includes a rundown of possible Bush running mates. In passing, it mentions that Senator Fred Thompson, the Tennessee Republican, has the drawback of being pro-choice. His office called today to say that Thompson is actually pro-life.
Thompson has certainly voted with pro-lifers almost all the time. The National Right to Life Committee counts votes for John McCain-style campaign-finance reform, which Thompson supports, as anti-pro-life votes, but otherwise he's been solid. The senator voted against the Harkin amendment, which put the Senate on record favoring Roe v. Wade. But when Thompson ran for Senate in 1994, he did so as a supporter of legal abortion, as several press clips from the time pointed out. NR has also obtained a copy of a letter Thompson sent to a constituent in 1997, which notes that Thompson supports various restrictions on abortion but also includes the line, "I believe that government should not interfere with individual convictions and actions in this area."
The upshot: Thompson is an ally of pro-lifers in all the actual fights that come up, but he's not one of them on the core issue. Unless, that is, he has changed his mind, as suggested by his current self-description as a pro-lifer. In that case, NR would be more than happy to print a correction — and welcome him aboard.
"I propose an oil company assessment of two and a half percent per barrel to support our transportation needs. It will be illegal for them to pass the fee on to consumers … with criminal penalties if they break the law. Let's turn the tables on big oil, and give Wisconsin families a break."
>> Yet Terri Schiavo is not simply being killed, she is being mocked. Just as Jesus was challenged to come down from the Cross if He were truly the Messiah, so too was Terri challenged – by talk show hosts, newscasters, neurologists, politicians, attorneys and judges - to prove herself to be a human if indeed she were human and not a vegetable.
How often the Visitors mocked her here in Free Republic! They exuded an evil that I never saw so close up and never want to see again.
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By Bobby Schindler
Saturday, March 31, will mark the two-year anniversary of my sister Terri Schiavo's death by dehydration. Not a day passes that my family does not think of my sister and relive the horrific images of her needless and brutal death at the hands of those who deliberately set out to kill her.
As hideous as it was, the truth is, long before Terri's case made headlines, the removal of basic care – food and water – was becoming commonplace. It continues to happen every day across our country oftentimes in cases, like Terri's, where the patient does not suffer from any life-threatening condition.
Much of the problem that exists stems from a blind acceptance of misinformation that has moved us from a firm belief in the sanctity of life to a "quality of life" mindset, which says that some lives are not worth living.
This shift, what I call lethal bigotry, began with the medical community, has infiltrated our judiciary and is taking over our nation. People are making decisions in place of God, while even many Catholic leaders remain silent despite the Church's teaching and the pope's constant reminders that God alone is the arbiter of life and death.
The sad fact is we have become a nation that spends billions trying to find the perfect body, while ignoring the condition of our collective soul; where altruism seems to be a thing of the past, and moral relativism has become a bona fide religion.
Combined with a popular media selling the notion that killing people in certain conditions is an act of compassion, one can understand why people with disabilities are in danger.
My sister's case is a perfect example. Look how the popular media presented Terri's story, abandoning any attempt at objective or ethical reporting in their rush to justify her death. In an effort to dehumanize Terri, they repeatedly reported she was in a coma, brain dead, a "vegetable" and that the autopsy proved she was in a persistent vegetative state, all of which are patently false.
All one has to do is watch the videos of Terri to see how alive she was. If that's not enough, more than 40 medical affidavits stated Terri wasn't in PVS and/or could have been helped with new medical technology.
The media chose to ignore all of this, instead reporting what Terri wasn't able to do and referencing a doctor who took pride in the moniker, "Dr. Humane Death."
They painted a story of a husband's unconditional love as he carried out his wife's "wish" to die, completely ignoring the fact that there was no evidence of this and that Michael essentially abandoned Terri as soon as he began living with his new wife-to-be.
They framed this as a strictly pro-life issue, ignoring the 30 disability groups publicly supporting Terri's life.
They quoted Catholic priests who agreed with her "husband's" position, despite the fact this was completely contrary to Catholic teaching.
Completely unaware of their own hypocrisy, they commended Christopher Reeve's wife, Dana, and rightly so, for her dedication in caring for her husband, while vilifying my parents for wanting to do the same thing for their daughter.
In the same vein, they repeatedly questioned the intent of our legal team while glossing over the fact that Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, admitted in his book to having violent images of bludgeoning his wife to death.
They chastised former Gov. Jeb Bush for doing his job by trying to stop the two-week dehydration death of an innocent disabled woman, but praised him when he placed a moratorium on death row executions after a lethal injection went 15 minutes too long.
They justify the destruction of embryos to produce stem cells (ignoring both the success of adult stem cells and that embryonic cells have produced no cures), reporting that their use will improve the lives of the disabled, and at the same time they work to convince the public that it is OK to kill the very same people they say this research could cure.
And, finally, they paid more respect to and had more compassion for a racehorse than they did my sister.
To this day, every story in which a person emerges from a condition similar to Terri's, or an advance is found to help the severely brain-injured, is an opportunity for the media to remind us that, of course, "this is nothing like the case of Terri Schiavo."
Should we be surprised with what is happening when we have so easily bought into what our popular media is promoting? Or that even people like Bill O'Reilly, who claim to be both conservative and Catholic, can be so ignorant on this issue as to raise the idea that if someone "costs" taxpayers too much money, it should be OK to kill them?
This is the same propaganda used by the medical community in Nazi Germany immediately prior to the Holocaust when hospitals were used to kill at least 200,000 handicapped, mentally ill and others who were deemed physically or mentally inferior.
Unfortunately, I don't know if people realize how the mainstream media influences their everyday lives, or the scope of what is happening in our hospitals. Perhaps, more accurately, they just don't care.
With tens of thousand in conditions similar to and even worse than Terri's, we should be alarmed. While many would prefer not to educate themselves on this issue, the cold reality is that one day this "quality of life" approach could very well impact their families, as it did ours.
We will never forget Terri.
This is why, in the years since Terri's death, we have worked, through the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to protect the lives of the vulnerable. We are developing a nationwide network of attorneys and physicians to help families in desperate situations, whose loved ones are in danger of being killed … for the simple reason that they don't meet some arbitrary and subjective "quality of life" standard. We will continue fighting against those that threaten the lives of the disabled, until all are protected.
Terri and others like her should be a constant reminder to all of us that caring for the disabled is never a burden, but is instead an act God's unconditional love.
The dehydration death of a nation
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The brother of the late Terri Schiavo, Bobby Schindler, recently wrote a letter to Lynch taking him to task "for not doing enough to stop [Schiavo's] death."
The following is an excerpt from chapter 14 of Randy Engel's book The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church.
On June 2, 1998, Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg took the podium at a press conference staged at the Cathedral of St. Ignatius Loyola in Palm Beach to announce the resignation of his colleague, Bishop Joseph Symons. The resignation followed the revelation that Symons had molested at least five teenage boys during the early years of his priesthood. Pope John Paul II accepted Symons' resignation and assigned Lynch the role of Apostolic Administrator of Palm Beach until a successor to Symons was selected.
In his introductory remarks at the press conference, Lynch announced that Symons had entered into a program of "evaluation and treatment" at an undisclosed location. Church officials could not squirrel Symons away at St. Luke's Institute because the bishop's old friend Fr. Rocco D'Angeleo had taken up residency there. So they sent Symons back to his native Michigan where he took up temporary residence at a convent somewhere in the DeWitt area near Lansing.
Within a year, the disgraced Symons was back in circulation in the DeWitt area. At the request of Bishop Carl F. Mengeling of Lansing, Symons presented a daylong program of prayer and meditation on the Virgin Mary at the St. Francis Retreat Center in DeWitt. Apparently, Mengeling failed to see the grotesque irony of his actions............................................
The story of Bishop Robert Lynch
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Think of the person you love the most. Perhaps it is a parent, a sibling, a grandparent, or a close friend. Now think what you would do if this person, whom you love dearly, were to have a stroke or a heart attack that left them physically handicapped. You would probably do everything in your power to help them get better…right? You would never dream of having them murdered…right? “The measure of a civilization is how we treat the weak, the dependant, the helpless and the ill,” said Dr. Laura Schlessinger This Saturday, March 31, 2007, is the two year anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s death. According to Dr. David Gibbs Jr., the founder and president of he Christian Law Association (CLA), this case affected the way we look at the right to life for years to come. This case has often been referred to as the “Roe vs. Wade” of our generation, but what do they have in common?
Roe vs. Wade, Schiavo case eerily similar
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I hope the Foundation is progressing in its efforts to set up shelters for the "futile care" patients who have no place else to turn.
Perhaps there is more. I was fascinated how Brother Paul when he spoke on behalf of Terri was as if transformed by inspiration and it sounded like the Word of the Holy Ghost flowing from his mouth.
Likewise, I get the impression that by his deeds and role, Bobby Schindler is indeed writing and speaking with Divine inspiration.
Perhaps by one's station in life, one may be offered the Grace and Inspiration and has the option to listen and carry through or to set it aside. We may all be grateful that Bobby has picked up this burden and is carrying it.
As the second anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death from dehydration on March 31, 2005, approaches, her brother, Bobby Schindler has released a letter written to Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida. "In light of the fact that Bishop Lynch refused my family's pleas for his help in our attempt to save my sister's life, I am posting this "open letter to Bishop Robert Lynch" which I sent to him on March 9, 2007, and to which I have, to date, received no response", Schindler said. "On March 13, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI reasserted that Catholic politicians have a 'grave responsibility' to defend all innocent human life, and a 'non negotiable' duty to oppose the practices of abortion and euthanasia.
Schiavo Brother Denounces St. Petersburg Bishop Lynch
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