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

[BykrBayb]

Check your blood pressure. Nobody was screaming. I was just pointing out the facts. Get help.

[verity]

"The kicker is that when the victim has died at the hands of the state and beneficiaries ask about The Last Will and Testament, they learn that they were robbed too."

If these folks apply for Medicaid, they are subject to Medicaid liens unless they have executed something like an irrevocable Life Estate Deed at least 5 years prior to the Medicaid application.

[verity]

You are in denial, blood lust baby.

[BykrBayb]

Clearly you do not understand. I'm not trying to deny you the pleasure of your hobby. No one is asking you to completely stop spreading liberal propaganda and lies. Just please keep it off this thread. This thread is for saving lives, not ending them.

[verity]

Unless you can address the issue I am discussing with Floriduh voter, I am going to ignore your irrelevant commentary.

[BykrBayb]

I'm not surprised. You've been trolling these threads too long to stop now.

[8mmMauser]

Michael Schiavo -- and most in the popular media, for that matter -- have conveniently forgotten that there were more than 20 local and national disability organizations that were supporting my family's efforts to keep Terri alive.

These are hardly the type of organizations that anyone would label "radical right." In fact, the disability organizations involved in my sister's case outnumbered the so-called radical right groups that were also supporting my family.

Terri Schiavo's Brother: Liberals, Democrats, Disabled Supported Terri

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[8mmMauser]

It's gotten progressively worse with more legislative and executive powers seized by judges and unchallenged by legislators and executives throughout the federal system of governments. The impeachment of President Clinton was a clear indication that the majority of the United States Senate thought so little of the Rule of Law that they failed to do their duty and hold a trial. The failure of the legislature and governor of Florida to stop a local judge from ordering the killing of Terry Schiavo illustrated the impotence of weak men who won't use their power to put the Rule of Law over the Rule of Judges. SCOTUS's Kelo case's eminent domain decisions was a direct rejection of the 5th Amendment - saying the words of the Amendment don't mean what they say - indicating the Rule of Law is failing fast.

The Rule Of Law Is Based On Numbers

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[8mmMauser]

Haters call people they hate haters...

Your supporters have called me a "liar," a "fascist," a "Stalinist," and a "weirdo." One of your top team members has called me both a "bad Jew" and an "anti-Semite" - a little irony there! - because I'm one of many Democrats who support your opponent (and happen to be Jewish).

I am therefore publicly requesting that you ask all your supporters to stop using ugly, hateful language in support of your candidacy.

Snip...

Your opponents also remember your support for the radical religious right during the Terri Schiavo case. That was a hideous attempt to use a family's suffering to gain Republican advantage, and your remarks from the Democratic side of the aisle gave them political cover to do so.

An Open Letter to Joe Lieberman On "Hate Speech"

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[8mmMauser]

Barbara Collier of Fort Lauderdale remembers when Tom Gallagher cinched her support in his campaign for Florida governor. It was last summer after Collier met Gallagher's wife, Laura, and they talked about Tom's views on abortion and marriage.

"I just thought he had the family values I believe in," said Collier, chairwoman of the Christian Coalition of Broward County. "He's pro-life and willing to speak out. His wife is a fine Christian lady and they have a little boy. I'm not against anybody else. I'm just for Tom."

Crist, Gallagher court right-wing vote in their race for governor

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[T'wit]

Good morning! Thank you for the posts, do not over-exert, enjoy the day!

[8mmMauser]

Remembering Andrea Clark, Mrs. Vo, and the others confronting the Texas Futile Care Law...

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Pro-life blogger and Texas attorney Jerri Ward will be guest-hosting Mychal Massie's show Straight Talk on Right Talk Radio tomorrow, Tuesday, July 18. It will air at 1 pm ET (12 pm CT). Her guests will be Burke Balch--who will be on the air the first segment and Ramesh Ponneru will appear the during the 2nd segment and 3rd segment.

Jerri writes:

In part, we will be discussing futile care theory and what is going on in Texas.

Right Talk Radio streams across the internet. You may listen by clicking here. Then, precisely at 1 pm ET, click on the button that says Straight Talk and you will be able to listen.

Feel free to call in with questions or comments at this number: 1-866-884-8255 (TALK)

If you miss it, the show will replay every hour on the hour for the rest of the day.

More information here (Related: The Party Of Death: A Review)

Check this out: Straight Talk on Right Talk Radio

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[8mmMauser]

Thanks, T'wit, so far so good. Smiling at the troll traffic passing through.

[8mmMauser]

Remembering Andrea Clark, again...

More on the Texas Futile Caregivers...

"This case raises questions of whether the law might be used to bury mistakes," said Jerri Ward, an Austin attorney who this week asked a judge to stop Memorial Hermann from withdrawing life support from Roberson-Reese. "At the very least, there is an appearance of a conflict of interest that should preclude a futility review committee from making a life-or-death decision before an independent investigation is made."

Houston hospital invokes Texas futile-care law (cont'd)

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[T'wit]

Yeah, I hear one of them got caught wearing Keds in the ballroom and got gonged.

[8mmMauser]

Used parts, Made in China...

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Wesley Smith made a brief reference to this report on his Albany Bioethics Conference post. I googled and found a link to the report from Die Welt

Since it is a PDF I'll summarize rather than post. An independent study by a human rights lawyer and former prosecuter have turned up some serious indictors that China is harvesting organs from the incarcerated adherents of the Falun Gong cult. The number, availability, and short wait period for "donated" organs at Chinese hospitals are all consistent with this kind of program. Also in a "sting" operation, callers posing as middlemen have recorded calls with employees of Chinese hospitals who admit they are supplying or did supply the organs. Here is an eerie example of the kind of conversation that was captured:

Read the rest at Marlowe's Shade

Canadian Report Claims China Harvesting Organs from Falun Gong Members

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[8mmMauser]

Speaking of getting Gonged....see above

[T'wit]

Hey, in case you didn't see it, I transcribed a section of the autopsy report in which Dr. Thogmartin politely trashes the myth that Terri was bulimic. Now we have text we can cut and paste whenever trolls try to say that the autopsy report supports Terri "collapsing" of natural causes. She didn't. The report is damning. What remains is this question: how did a healthy young woman, probably asleep, end up on the floor nearly dead shortly after her husband came home late one Saturday night? Michael has no alibi other than the blind faith of his ideological friends.

If this doesn't link, it's post #308 :-)

[T'wit]

Any day now, the University of Pennsylvania bioethics department will send a delegation to China to buy some Falun Gong prisoners.

[8mmMauser]

Mrs. Vo's Fight update...

As a reminder, the story briefly, and crisis past:

Against her family's wishes, doctors at North Austin Medical Center have decided to stop treating an Austin woman after determining that she is in a persistent vegetative state, a case that echoes some of the wrenching issues raised in the Terri Schiavo case.

However, hospital officials agreed Thursday to give the distraught family, which disputes that the 63-year-old woman is in a vegetative state, more time to find another facility to take her. The hospital supported the decision to either transfer the patient or stop life-sustaining care by Saturday. The new deadline is June 5.

Austin doctors want to withdraw care from vegetative patient

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Dr. LoAnn Trinh, left; her father, Binh; and their lawyer, Jerri Ward, dispute the findings of doctors at North Austin Medical Center that her mother is in a persistent vegetative state.

Here is the update:

hi leslie,

my mom is quite improving. we are waiting for the hospital to insert her belly shunt for peritoneal dialysis. from there, we will take her home for dialysis. i am still praying that all go as plan. my mom is very responsive, she open her eyes when we called her. also, she look up at us after we kissed her on her cheek.

i visit her weekly. i want to visit more. with work, taking care of baby, my father and my aunt, my hands are tied in all different directions.

all thanks to all for praying for us

i will keep you posted.

sincerely,

loann