Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Renew America ^ | May 29, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

[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

[bjs1779]

I wonder what they offered her to shut her up.

Me too. I think Ron Panzer will let us know pretty quick.

[floriduh voter]

Of course the media at large is covering up that Carla refused a settlement from the State.

I wouldn't take their blood money either.

Florida can't buy everyone off, just Senators like Jim King and Judges like Greer, Whittemore and the 2nd DCA's Altenbern. Well, and the former US Supreme Court who chose protecting murderers but murdering Terri.

[bjs1779]

Meanwhile, Michael Schiavo is in Colorado and today,

He certainly is a busy person going all around the country spouting his stuff. Makes one wonder how much time he spends on his job down there in Pinellas. The cops must be still donating their vacation and sick days to him. Oh well, some people just have the charisma to get things done like that...

[floriduh voter]

Yes, I'm glad I'm not a prisoner at the Pinellas County Jail because he's supposedly in charge. LOL

I'm sure he'll go to Vegas when he leaves Colorado. He has a thing for Vegas.

I hope there are investigative reporters out there getting his vacation/sick leave records under the FOI Act. He's missing from work more than he's at work. How can a man obsessed with death supervise 150 people who are responsible for the health care needs of a big prison?

First do no harm means nothing to the world's worst husband and evil guardian from hell.

If I were Sheriff Jim Coates, I'd fire Michael Schiavo. The catch is that Coates was Sheriff Rice's protege so he may have to keep Michael Schiavo as a favor to Rice a/k/a Greer's best friend.

[bjs1779]

Yes, I'm glad I'm not a prisoner at the Pinellas County Jail because he's supposedly in charge. LOL

They COULD run you in for 72 hours for questioning just for the hell of it FV!

[floriduh voter]

They haven't shadowed me since Christmastime and that was scary enough. (Pinellas Park PD). Greer's opponent in 2005 called to say happy holidays and the following day, the PPPD was surveilling my home with their laptop and it was no mistake. They were surveilling my home and typing on their laptop. My little flash camera captured their car number but the license tag was blurred.

I think they still have Greer's opponents phone tapped. I was too creeped out to go out there and ask number 17 what he was doing staring at my home.

They hadn't shadowed me since the 2005 Vigil when I was followed home from the Vigil when Terri was being murdered. It is still the Twilight Zone to me.

Florida should not be anybody's destination unless they want to be sickened by something bad sooner or later. I'm already here, no point in lvg. I don't recommend Florida though. This is gestapo-land, not disney world.

[bjs1779]

It is still the Twilight Zone to me.

Well, I hope nobody ends up like Nan Adams did : )

[floriduh voter]

Carla Iyer is part of the Congressional Record. That right there may give her some immunity.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:roRMyFOOP38J:www6.miami.edu/ethics/schiavo/pdf_files/032005-Congress.pdf+carla+iyer+doh+agreement+settlement&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=20

(or, Florida's Dept. of Health will continue to battle her and wear her down without actually killing her like they killed Terri.)

[floriduh voter]

Jeb Bush signed into law just recently that DOGS CAN EAT OUTSIDE AT RESTAURANTS. Isn't that special? It's the Doggie Dining Law but Terri was starved and dehydrated to death.

The majority in Tallahassee had to vote for the doggie bill but remember, they voted to kill Terri.

[floriduh voter]

Dept. of Health takes aim at Carla Iyer whose first concern was the health of her patient, Terri Schiavo. This is article from a few weeks ago. She should have immunity before she's in The Congressional Record and submitted an Affidavit at Jeb Bush's request. Now the DOH is trying to destroy her career? Why is Florida so corrupt?

http://www.lifenews.com/bio1573.html

[bjs1779]

(or, Florida's Dept. of Health will continue to battle her and wear her down without actually killing her like they killed Terri.)

I am concerned.

[floriduh voter]

I am concerned too. Who ultimately is going to bust the State of Florida? That's what the problem is. It's not Carla. It's mass corruption and Jeb cannot hide. This happened on his watch. He's obviously left Carla out to dry too.

[floriduh voter]

It's evident that The Sheriff's Dept. threw away the initial complaint Carla made to them. The Sheriff's Dept. thew away Carla's initial testimony to make it look like she made it up. She didn't make it up. Carla reported to the Sheriff's Dept. back when she believed that Michael Schiavo was doing and saying some weird stuff in Terri's room.

The St. Pete Times is propagandizing in this article to back up The Sheriff's Dept. and everybody from the Palm Gardens facility who are on board to lie about Carla are included in the article too. Carla isn't lying. They have destroyed documents at the Sheriff's Dept. and Palm Gardens is LYING. The Dept. of Health is sticking with the liars to protect their jobs. What hold does Michael Schiavo have on the entire state of Florida? It's not possible that he's blackmailing everyone. Who is he blackmailing? (rhetorical question)

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/13/Tampabay/Schiavo_nurse_may_los.shtml

[floriduh voter]

Full of lies, just like when this paper was brainwashing the public about Terri's condition. Now they are brainwashing the public about Carla Iyer.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/13/Tampabay/Schiavo_nurse_may_los.shtml

[T'wit]

I have observed over and over that Jay Wolfson's report as guardian ad litem was a whitewash of Judge Greer's rulings from beginning to end. It was straight party line stuff. It said nothing new. Only trolls quote it. We were not surprised, later, to see Wolfson show up with Michael Schiavo, Judge Greer and Ronald "Humane Death" Cranford at the recent UPenn Bioethics Blowout and Snuffathon.

And guess who put Jay Wolfson's report into the congressional record in the debate you cite here? Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts.

[bjs1779]

"The Sheriff's Office has no record of the complaint, but does have a July 23, 1996, report in which Sauer-Iyer said Adams may have put threatening notes on her car. Adams said she knew nothing of that."

Adams is lying.

[Dante3]

Now they are going after Carla.

Hannety commented that Mike Schiavo is soliciting donations.

[T'wit]

I think the donations are for two Democrat congressional candidates in Colorado. Not sure how Michael could raise funds to attack Carla legally. But he did blast Carla verbally, for allegedly violating patient confidentiality. Translation: she caught him (also a nurse) attempting to kill his wife with insulin injections. And she ratted on him. The nerve of her!

People who scream loudest about "privacy" are the ones with the most to hide.

[T'wit]

Everything we used to see from the SPTimes was ugly, dishonest and mean. I'm not surprised to see them try a hatchet job on Carla, and in a "news" story. The SPTimes reporters are little sucklings to City Hall.

Why anyone would buy the paper, or advertise in it, is beyond me. I'll bet they lose business every year, and they deserve to.

[T'wit]

News of a gallant wife-killer reaches liberal Seattle:

Michael Schiavo takes on privacy campaign

We've seen this AP (who else!) story before, but it is worth reviewing. The level of deception and delusion is amazing. For instance, right in the lead, Michael "...is campaigning against government intrusion around the country."

No, he's not. He's campaigning for big government liberals. He himself initiated government intrusion to murder his wife. (It would have been a murder rap if he'd done it privately but it's legal when the government does it for him.)

And here is Michael on a soapbox, bloviating: "I want to ask [Republican congresswoman] Marilyn Musgrave who gave her the right to speak about Terri," Schiavo said.

It was God, Michael. That's in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution guarantees it, too, right in the First Amendment.

>> Schiavo has remarried, co-authored a book titled "Terri: The Truth" and has said he is determined to develop a political career.

He ought to start by reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

And then he should tell us who he is and what he stands for: "I am Michael Schiavo. I tortured my wife to death! I'm a Democrat!"