Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify

Renew America ^ | March 13, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

[floriduh voter]

No Place to Hide when you're being persecuted.

[bjs1779]

No Place to Hide when you're being persecuted.

Except in more recent times, the powers to be tried to hide it. Terri was in your face....

[floriduh voter]

About Randall Terry who is running against Senator Jim King, a pro-choice moderate GOP. As you know King led the pubbies in tallahassee who voted against Terri's life.

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A36080

[bjs1779]

I just noticed that after the 3rd blowup, Terri is terribly concerned about Anne.

[Wampus SC]

Have to "argue" with you :-) Not "whenever" -- "when."

Yeah, OK. Whenever is when.

When is now.

"Rulers insist on helping things along by posing as God (Whose authority they do indeed try to usurp). In recent memory, Bubba Billy never missed a chance to play Jesus. He was particularly good at hugging the afflicted and forgiving sin (provided he didn't have to mention his own). His act was great fun to watch, and no few people actually believed that he was the messiah (especially reporters)."

Slick Willy's supporters didn't much like to inject the name of God or messiah imagery into this - though they certainly had that attitude. Nowadays current supporters of "leader-as-God-figure" do invoke His name in connection with their chosen mortal object of worship. Terms like "God ordained" and "embodiment of God's will" are said seriously. No wonder the decay from within and threat of invasion from without are increasing so quickly.

[Wampus SC]

"Remember we got word that Jeb wouldn't go past the stations in Tallahassee? I'm not a Catholic but do you recall the details of Jeb avoiding the five stations while Terri was being murdered in his state? Florida is the Starvation State. (I'm a reformed Bushbot and it didn't take a 12 step program. It took just one step and it was a cowardly one.)"

I never was a 'bot, but I am a former supporter. That step was enough for me, but since then there have been plenty more steps, each of which may be sufficient cause..... No matter who you are, there's a step to fit you. It could be Terri. But could it also be immigration? Could it be TIA? Real-ID? Warrantless searches? Blanket surveillance? Selling the national parks? Medicare D? Being told that voluntarily abandoning the ability to manufacture goods and grow our own food is good? NAFTA/CAFTA/FTAA and LOTS? Those "the law doesn't apply to me unless I feel like it" signing statements? (Which really translate as "dictatorial powers".) Katrina and FEMA as an example of efficiency and organization? Or maybe it's torture?

Yes, there truly is something there for everyone. What a world.

[Wampus SC]

"eventually, all the truth will be out there and people will wake up"

"FV, I wish you were correct, but so many people are self deceived. They view these things through a self serving viewpoint and will deny the very truth to make sure that their own "truth" is proclaimed. I wish it were not so, but it is. Still we must constantly and diligently proclaim the truth so that those who are willing to hear will indeed hear the truth."

I have to agree with you. Many won't wake up. If the whole truth contradicts what they desire the truth to be, they'll just hit the snooze alarm and go back to sleep. 45% are lemmings trying to get over the cliff as fast as they can. 45% are people sweeping the lemmings along with big push brooms -- and the lemmings think they're doing them a favor. The rest have to stand on the cliffs yelling at the lemmings until they turn around.

[Wampus SC]

"Can felos be used as a verb, as in "The serial killer felosed another victim"?"

It's almost always used as a noun, as in "a load of horse felos". But English being the flexible language that it is, "felos" can be a verb. A better example than the one you provided would be, "Hey! The dog just felosed on the floor!"

[Wampus SC]

"Free speech rights were not taken away last March 31st but they tried."

I've been told, in all seriousness, "you do have free speech as long as you don't say certain things".

We've got barbed wire fence enclosures called "free speech zones". That must be proof free speech exists, and is truly free! (/sarcasm) I remember when the whole country was a free speech zone.

[Wampus SC]

"Amerika, wake up. You missed the U.S. condoning torture and then trying to silence citizens. "

Yeah, torture. But first, the mandatory tie-in quote: "Terri was tortured" - everyone

Torture has gone, in less than a year, from a judicially approved way to dispose of an unwanted spouse to a cornerstone of worldwide policy - complete with lame excuses like, "sure it's illegal, therefore the laws against it don't apply".

Sure has been a lot of silence about torture here lately, hasn't there? There were no takers on my two posts about torture,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596123/posts?page=821#821
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596123/posts?page=828#828
No one to take on any of the questions, no one to step forward to at least condemn it, and no one to try to justify it. Why the silence?

Once reason could be tacit approval. In freepdom - unlike anywhere else - there's immense support for it, and an eager glee at the chance to expand it; so obviously some do condone it. Others who condone it could be silent because they know that any apologetics for it would be basically horse felos.

Another reason might be fear. Perhaps they do oppose it, but in the back of their mind there's a fear that being too vocal might somehow, someday, lead to investigation, zotting, being on some list -- or being tortured themselves. All alone, and with no one knowing. What form of government inspires that fear - even if it's just a little nagging one? I predict no one will dare say what kind - but hope to be proved wrong.

I asked a question of those who think all US policy is somehow God-ordained. "Who would Jesus torture?" I'm seriously wrestling with this. I'm trying to reconcile the use of torture - and the tortured excuses to allow it -- with the teachings of Jesus. And I can't. Maybe somebody else can.

But if they can't, I'm left with a choice. If the desire of some officials conflicts with the teachings of Christ, which should have precedence? The desire of a few mortals to inflict torture, or the words of Jesus? I'm waiting for someone to say it's the former - because I know someone will. And when they do, I wonder what reply I should make.

And that's either my rant, my screed, my plea, or my opus for this evening.

[BykrBayb]

Michael Schitvo Radio Interview

[8mmMauser]

This thread is now the Terri April Dailies thread.

The buildup to Terri's Day does not stop with the anniversary of Terri's death, but continues per her Legacy.

Thanks, Diana Lynne, and WND

In special tribute to Diana Lynne, I extend my gratitude for all she has done for Terri and her Legacy.

Here is a way to let her know we appreciate her works. Respond to this post and I will send it on to her to show our thanks.

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[8mmMauser]

Thanks to Kevin Fobbs. It goes without saying we appreciate his work by continuing this thread on his topic of Terri's Day.

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[8mmMauser]

Today in History, April 2 (From AP)

So much for the vaunted autopsy...

One year ago: Terri Schiavo's body was cremated as disagreements continued between her husband and her parents, who were unable to have their own independent expert observe her autopsy.

Today in history - April 2

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[8mmMauser]

How many of us know about David McRae? A new book is out, "Fighting for David"

The book's March publication date coincided with the one-year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death in Florida. Nunley wanted to honor the memory of the young woman who died March 31, 2005, after doctors removed her feeding tube.

Nunley felt an affinity for the Florida woman, partly because she saw similarities in Schiavo's and her son's brain injuries and partly to show that there can be hope in the wake of trauma.

Sustained by hope

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[8mmMauser]

From North Country Gazette...

Timed to coincide with the first year anniversary of the death of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the Maryland Attorney General’s office is offering what they say is a first-of-its kind guidebook to assist people in making health and end-of-life decisions for themselves and others who may be in their care.

Maryland Offers Handbook On End-0f-Life Issues

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[8mmMauser]

A positive review of the Schindler book comes from the Baltimore Sun, although, portraying it as a battle between feuding rather than the battle of good versus evil that it is.

Books propel feud over Schiavo's life

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[8mmMauser]

Maybe Michael Schitvo will be part of a new organization, www.SpouseKillersUnited.org

[8mmMauser]

Today in history, Pope John Paul II passed away.

[8mmMauser]

Rev. Pat Mahoney behind sign.

It's been one year since Terri Schiavo's death, but the debate rages on | Lynn Vincent

A year ago on March 31, Terri Schiavo, passed away. But not before her case polarized the nation in a debate over the right to die versus medical killing. At the center of the battle: Mrs. Schiavo's husband, Michael, who fought to end her life and her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, who fought to save her.

Remembering Terri Schiavo

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