Bobby Schindler defines direction...
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Was the government right to get involved in Terri Schiavo’s death? Did the court overstep its bounds when it ordered the disabled 41-year-old woman’s feeding tube removed? Will the debate over euthanasia be a factor in the upcoming election?
These are some of the questions Chris Mitchell, president of the Florida Chautauqua Center, hopes Bobby Schindler, Schiavo’s brother, will answer at the 13th Annual Florida Chautauqua Assembly. Schindler opens the assembly with a keynote speech at 10 a.m. on Jan. 31 at First United Methodist Church in DeFuniak Springs. Mitchell said he wants the assembly to educate voters.
Schiavo died March 31, 2005, 13 days after a judge ordered her feeding tube removed. Schiavo collapsed in 1990 for unknown reasons at her home and had no living will. Schiavo’s husband, Michael Schiavo, said it was his wife’s wish that she wanted to die if she became disabled and was unable to care for herself.
Schindler said he now wants to raise awareness for the families and people dealing with similar situations.
Schiavo brother speech
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Hearing it from the left with their warble which will never "change"...
Whether from the Obama Nation or from cuddly Killary, the tune does not change. But yes, the choir chimes change. Is it chump change or the kind of pennies and nickels rattling in pockets? In situations where anyone would want to save an innocent life like that of Terri, they demand change.
It runs deep. Their pals in socialist and communist thrusts sometimes succeeded in invoking change, with examples like Cuba and Zimbabwe coming to mind. The thrust never changes. And the left cries this time it will work.
Are we happy with a great country full of prosperity and success the world has never seen, a country with near full employment, freedoms like few countries left? That is what they mean to change. Why be happy when we can be like Zimbabwe?
The social agenda issues -- which Republicans sometimes like to label "values" -- came to flower in American politics with the Reagan Revolution. The Gipper used the social issues to cement the loyalty of the once-Democratic South to the GOP. It's one of the nice ironies of American politics that the South, the Bible Belt, the most overtly religion-touting region of the country, was also a hotbed of death -- by electrocution in most cases or occasionally (especially for blacks) by hanging from a neighborhood tree.
It took some time, but eventually the social issue warriors discovered that Reagan gave them little but lip service and, to add insult to injury, also gave them Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a bulwark against repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion.
Unlike Reagan, George W. Bush really bought into the social wedge issues, even injecting himself and the federal government -- with disastrous judicial results -- into the Terri Schiavo case................
Change in key issues is bad news for the GOP
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