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

[8mmMauser]

Interesting discussion on NewsBusters about the Bush stem cell discussion.

A good analysis of liberals is done by Ann Coulter on this issue that the real potential already proven is in stem cell research outside embryonic research. Plenty is found with uses for most all of the other stem cells yet embryonic stem cells have shown no potential to speak of. Still the death culture still tries to blur and mix these two very different directions to confuse the average readers. They do not seriously seek cures or research, but another excuse to snuff human life, and wholesale at that. As long as they can stick the tar baby to the real potential of other stem cell success, they have made their point.

David Ignatius, Washington Post: "Well, it seems to. McCaskill seems to be making a lot, a lot of progress. My sense is that this is like the Terri Schiavo issue that we, that we saw earlier, where the, the average voter looks at this question of stem cell research and thinks, ‘This is about my health, this is about my parents, this is about, you know, diseases I might get and ways that they might be cured.' And I, and I think that that's the danger for the president. In animating his base, he animates everybody else on an issue that, that really hurts him."

Sight Of Bush With Snowflake Babies Makes Time Columnist "Want To Throw Up"

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[8mmMauser]

A Huff Puff Piece!

Huffington Posts on Slick Willie...

Seems he now sort of supports hapless Lieberman, forgiving him for supporting Terri and other missteps in choosing the side of Truth...

"Joe Lieberman was wrong on the bankruptcy bill, wrong on not filibustering Alito, and wrong on Terri Schiavo. But his position on the war is pretty similar to Hillary's and that's good enough for me."

"Some people say Joe Lieberman is out of touch, that he no longer knows what's good for Joe Lieberman, that he's no longer responsive to the needs of Joe Lieberman. But I disagree: I say Joe Lieberman still knows -- and does -- exactly what's good for Joe Lieberman."

Bill Clinton Endorses Joe Lieberman -- a HuffPost Preview!

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[8mmMauser]

Terri may not be in the dictionary yet but she is covered extensively in Wikipedia. It contains good info and plenty of bias and perhaps some of the baloney can be balanced by those more clever than I.

Andrea Clark and the Texas Law are mentioned.

No mention of our efforts that I could find.

Terri Schiavo

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[8mmMauser]

Haleigh Poutre Update...

But they aren't saying much!

WESTFIELD - The condition of 12-year-old abuse victim Haleigh Poutre remains unchanged, a Department of Social Services spokeswoman Denise Monteiro said yesterday.

Monteiro and others are under court order, however, not to disclose any further information about the girl who has been hospitalized since Sept. 11, 2005.

Snip...

Before Collins' imposition of the gag order, officials said the girl was eating and breathing on her own and able to respond to yes and no questions.

Abused girl's condition still same

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[floriduh voter]

Scott's mom would be well advised to vote for Tom Gallagher. Charlie Crist might let Eliza have her way.

http://www.scottsfight.com/

[cyn]

great -- thanks so much for that update.

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WASHINGTON, July 25 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Executive Director of The National Pro-Life Action Center, the nation's only pro-life initiative located on Capitol Hill, has responded to the expected endorsement of Jim King for Florida State Senate by Gov. Jeb Bush. Dr. Paul Chaim Schenck, the Executive Director of the Center, which is a joint project of Catholics United for Life, Priests for Life and Faith and Action (with a combined membership of over 250,000), issued the following statement -

"Shame, shame on Jeb Bush for betraying the memory of Terri Schindler Schiavo by endorsing Jim King. As Senate president, King had the power to protect Terri, but for cynical political purposes he did not. Now Jeb Bush wants us to forget that King was largely responsible for Terri's death. Bush should know that King does not support the sanctity of life - he endorses Roe V. Wade."

National Pro-Life Leader Criticizes Bush-King Endorsement

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to July 23.)



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

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From the Bradenton Herald...

Illustrating that the latest struggles of Katherine Harris' U.S. Senate campaign have planted themselves in the minds of voters, a new poll showed decreasing numbers for the Republican congresswoman and a surge in support for one of her lesser-known, politically inexperienced competitors.

Snip...

Harris has pitched her campaign to the Right, trying, for example, to secure the votes of her party's socially conservative wing by attacking Nelson for not supporting a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

McBride, a "strictly, unequivocally pro-life" Baptist, will go in the same direction. He is being endorsed by state Sen. Daniel Webster, a champion of socially conservative causes in the Legislature, and one of the main forces who tried to keep Terri Schiavo alive with legislation during the 2005 session.

Poll shows drop in Harris lead

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Mammoth undertaking...Revealing in the motives behind embryonic stem cell efforts, a thread by wagglebee on the "embryonic" side of the stem cell work...

Disgraced Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher Used Money to Clone Mammoths

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[8mmMauser]

What we have contended...

Ping to another "embryonic" thread this time starring Hillary:

Dr. Andrew Fergusson of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity says the junior senator from the Empire State is guilty of hyperbole. "All the clinical benefits from stem-cell treatments are coming from the other category of stem cells, those which are not ethically controversial, so-called 'adult stem cells,'" he notes. "There are currently 72 different applications of adult stem-cell therapy to treat human diseases."

Bioethics Leader: Sen. Clinton Overstating Potential of ESCR (Embryonic Stem Cell Research)

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[TheSpottedOwl]

I like that letter you sent to Dave Simmons.

Tom Delay said today "Put terrorists in a cell or the cemetery."

Hehehe! The leftist loons sure hate him, don't they?

[floriduh voter]

Dave Simmons didn't send me a reply but maybe he'll keep corresponding with Paul Timmerman. At least he was thinkin' about impeaching Greer. Nobody likes to be strung along though.

Tom Delay is the smartest bug man ever.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I didn't watch yesterday, because I spent more time wondering what kind of eye products Shepardess was wearing. FNC isn't much better. I watched TV Food Network.

[floriduh voter]

Jeb Bush calculated helping Carla Iyer BEFORE he announced for Jim King. Carla was Jeb's way of throwing a bone to the base before endorsing Hospice Hall of Famer, Doughboy Standin Jim King. Well, I'm over Jeb now. Jeb, we're totally, completely forever through.

And there's this.... Big Brother infiltrates FEMA...Free Speech is okay BUT only if you are shadowed by a govt agent:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51240

[floriduh voter]

I can hardly wait for EWTN News to cover Jeb Bush's horrid endorsement of such a wicked, wealthy fat cat RINO.

[floriduh voter]

Father Pavone can zing Jeb any time he wants to. I recall at Terri's funeral, Father Pavone said that "Judge Greer isn't the REAL JUDGE." The pews roared. There was laughter and tears at Terri's Gulfport funeral. There were many more tears though.

TERRI WAS MURDERED bumper stickers were provided by someone at the exit. I keep mine as a reminder and have it in jpeg format already. It's not going on the car because Terri supporters tend to get the air let out of their tires.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Unlike Terri, Saddam is making his own personal choice, for his own personal reasons. I would say let him starve, but then I think of the end results of that decision. Number one, he has committed heinous atrocities against innocent people, and needs to answer for them in a public court proceeding. Number two, he has supporters who would see this as a "holy" act of martyrdom, should he be allowed to follow through. That cannot happen.

So, I guess he'll be kept alive until the death sentence is handed down. Does he get a beheading, hanging, firing squad, or maybe pull his feeding tube, so he can continue starving himself to death?

PS: He's eating food. Bet on it. Anyone who would hide in a rathole while his equally insane sons at least went out with guns blazing, will not starve himself to death, imo...

[TheSpottedOwl]

Too bad the smoking gun can't get some info from someone on Haleigh's condition.

Interesting note at the end of the article about who shot whom in the murder/suicide. Must have been pretty bad for a grandmother to kill her grandchild, then herself. I always figured it was the other way around.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Tom Delay rocks. How many votes will be cast for him? I understand that he is off the ballot? Haven't been keeping up on that :(

[floriduh voter]

sherpherdess is getting highlights from being out in the hot sun.

Jeb Bush is still being hounded via email about WHAT HAPPENED TO TERRI. This retired nurse is a tremendous person and she's been dogging Jeb Bush forever and a day.

Dear Governor Bush,

I CANNOT FIND THE WORDS TO ADEQUATELY EXPRESS MY DISMAY AT THE CULTURE OF DEATH FORCES THAT PUT TERRI SCHINDLER SCHIAVO TO HER HORRIFIC AND UNJUST DEATH!

You, your brother, our President, and the Congress of our country took extraordinary measures and stood valiantly for her BUT STILL FAILED........

THIS IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND REFLECTS THAT THINGS ARE MOST TERRIBLY AND FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG.........AND MUST BE CHANGED!........LAWS, SYSTEMS, POLICIES AND ENFORCEMENT...........JUDICIAL EXTREMISM.........AND CORRUPTION!!!!!!

I am still and EVEN MORE URGENTLY COMMITTED TO TERRI'S JUSTICE AND THE PROTECTION OF INNOCENT AND VULNERABLE OTHERS.......

TUBE FEEDINGS ARE NOT "ARTIFICIAL LIFE SUPPORT" AS THE PRO DEATH EUTHANASIA INTERESTS IN GEORGE FELOS ET ALL PULLED OFF ON AN INNOCENT, IGNORANT AND UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC IN BUT NOT LIMITED TO MY NATIVE STATE, FLORIDA IN WHICH I AM MOST ASHAMED AND GRIEVED!

CARLA IYER, RN whom I know personally as a fellow RN (retired), graduate 2nd in class in 1953 from St. Vincent's Hospital in Jacksonville.

CARLA IN ALL PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY AND DUTY FILED POLICE REPORTS OF SUSPECTED AND OBVIOUS ABUSE OF HER PATIENT, TERRI WHICH WERE IGNORED AND NEVER INVESTIGATED........

CARLA FULFILLED HER PROFESSIONAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO HER PATIENT, TERRI..........THESE EVENTS WERE LONG PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND DISCUSSION AND OF GRAVE CONCERN.

NOW MRS. IYER IS THREATENED WITH HEAVY FINES AND TO REVOKE HER NURSING LICENSE....... WHILE MR. MICHAEL SCHIAVO WHO IS ALSO AN "RN" AND HAS PERJURED REPEATEDLY HAS BEEN DISMISSED OF WRONG DOING........WHO VIOLATED EVERY RESPONSIBILITY OF HIS GUARDIANSHIP OF TERRI, AND INDEED IS STRONGLY SUSPECTED OF CAUSING TERRI'S COLLAPSE..........

STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS REMAINS OPEN WITH THE AUTOPSY CLEARLY REVEALING HIS LIES AND WORK WITH THE ATTORNEY MR. FELOS IN MISINFORMING AND MISLEADING THE PUBLIC OVER THE YEARS THRU THE MEDIA AND ALL THOSE IN ONGOING CRUSADING FOR THE CULTURE OF DEATH, ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA IN ORGANIZATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ACROSS THE NATION..........

THIS EVIL MUST AND WILL BE STOPPED!

UPSTANDING AND COURAGEOUS CITIZENS LIKE ...MRS.CARLA IYER RN WHO STAND FOR HONESTY, INTEGRITY, MORALITY AND ETHICAL AND DUTIFUL PERFORMANCE LEAD THE WAY AND DESERVE SUPPORT, PROTECTION AND HONOR!!!! THEY ARE A CREDIT TO SOCIETY AND CIVILIZATION.!

Most sincerely and urgently!

Mrs. Mary LaFranacis RN retired