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

[floriduh voter]

"If she doesn't get out of the chair, they will kill her."

8mmmauser, Terri DID get out of her chair the moment she heard the quote you provided. You probably know that but I want lurkers, media and freepers to see that Terri knew they were trying to kill her and she fought so hard and she was terrified in March 2005. It was nothing short of a modern day crucifixion.

[floriduh voter]

If Liza is thirsty for the kill like Mikey, she'll keep trying to have the state of Florida murder Scott Thomas. Don't rule out that a death lawyer could glom onto Liza, take Scott from his mom, take down the web site, isolate Scott and no more photos.

Pray the death lawyers don't hook up with Liza or other groups that I won't name lest they get any ideas...

[floriduh voter]

Amerika's death cultists are against free speech. Have you noticed?

[floriduh voter]

We've been here for three years. You are late. If you wanted to scold us, where were you three years ago? Maybe Terri would have died a lot sooner if you had been here in 2003 and saved us a lot of time and trouble.

You are trying to kill her again as many liberals and death cultists do. You may not be one of them but you are acting like they do.

[floriduh voter]

If Scott needs us to rally behind him, we're battle hardened and we can pound www.myflorida.com with emails including Jeb Bush. And, pound Charlie Crist's AG email address. He's a lousy one but he's still FLAG.

[floriduh voter]

Greek training? Are you a Cristi-Critter? Are you in the AHEPA Organization whose former governor was George Felos, Florida's death worshipper in chief? Crist is also a member. The Bilirakis political family takes donations from AHEPA members. They are euthanazi's too.

[floriduh voter]

There are good hospices and bad hospices. I realize that. The one that illegally caged Terri Schiavo longer than the six month period (five year) is a bad one. It is Hospice Woodside (Hospice of the Fla Suncoast). Medicaid fraud was perpetrated by holding Terri in a terminal care facility when she belonged in a chronic care facility.

If you don't like that we are helping other people with disability needs, then maybe you should move on.

We get requests in twos and threes and then there's a lull. They are contacting us on behalf of their friends and loved ones who without www.Terrisfight.org, BlogsforTerri, FreeRepublic, and even dare I say, the democratic underground tried to help someone recently and the referral ended up right here.

We are helping people. If you'd rather let the death cultists cull the herd of disabled and senior citizens, then go find people you are more comfortable with who are not on this thread.

Natural death not forced exits, that is what we're saying. TERRI WAS MURDERED.

[floriduh voter]

Ignorant Musgrave and her new friend: They can't keep straight whether her brain was liquified, half the normal size, whatever.

The fact is that Terri breathed on her own which means her brain stem was in tact. She laughed, she cried, she could tell one person from another. She could follow instructions and no, it doesn't matter how long it took for her to complete the task. She completed them.

The death cultists keep moving the goalpost. If a patient does well, then a higher standard is set so that it becomes increasingly more difficult to meet the standard. Then you go to judicial homicidists who are in bed with the likes of Senator Jim King who lives on Medieval Fair turkey drumsticks - throw in the ACLU, the trial lawyers who do this for a living, atheists and pornographers, yes, pornographers and somebody ends up being brutally killed, sponsored by the state of course.

Florida was the proving ground. Florida sponsors homicide of disabled and senior citizens. I hope they keep their mitts off of Scott Thomas.

http://www.scottthomas.org/

[pageonetoo]

Please inform these posters that the designation of troll is to be used accordingly. They are trolling again this morning for this thread and their list list! Nobody new is joining the discussion, except to illustrate my point.

This list should be properly discussed in the pertinent threads they acknowledged.

Folks, this is a news thread. Your trolling to me is not news, and I gave up trying to tell you about the saving power in Jesus . If you have anything new to post, by way of current articles, plese do so accordingly. You will probably do much better for your cause, getting more new viewers. Use your heads for something besides butting others!

Please do not ping me to this thread again. I have already shaken the dust!

[floriduh voter]

Is there a mean wing of the Christian faith? Just thought I'd ask.

[pageonetoo]

Is there a mean wing of the Christian faith? Just thought I'd ask.

Yours, evidently. Please read my posts, troll!

[floriduh voter]

BIG NEWS: Clay Roberts, is a current advisor to Charlie Crist. Clay Roberts was also Florida Elections Director. Clay Roberts was ALSO the Executive Deputy who spiked the investigation re: Terri Schiavo.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/29/se.01.html

There are layers of conflicts of interest. It never ceases to amaze me.

At least Tom Gallagher isn't a trial lawyer whose cronies have dual-triple job titles.

Timeline for Clay Roberts multiple job titles sometime.

I'm for Tom Gallagher the non-trial lawyer. Crist is too connected and so are his advisors.

[floriduh voter]

Timeline for CLAY ROBERTS. 1. He was Florida Elections Director for the 2000 races (remember them?) 2. Clay Roberts leaves that post, gets a job as an Executive Deputy of Charlie Crist's AG Office, he spikes the investigation into Terri Schiavo's case, 3. now Clay Roberts is advisor to Charlie Crist.

Crist's current advisor had a direct hand in Terri Schiavo being forced out. (starved/dehydrated to death).

[floriduh voter]

http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006607310320

A call for better politicians.

[amdgmary]

Terri's father, Robert Schindler, wrote the below article regarding Charlie Crist's actions (or inactions) regarding his daughter.

Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die

"As most Americans know, on March 31, 2005, my daughter, Terri Schindler-Schiavo died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order. The sad chain of events that concluded with Terri’s death ignited a media firestorm nationally and internationally. What few saw or heard was the callous inaction of aspiring governor Charlie Crist".

Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die

[floriduh voter]

CRIST DIDN'T MAKE FLORIDA SAFER FOR TERRI. Died March 31, 2005

[floriduh voter]

This article indicates Crist ruled it was constitutional to starve and dehydrate Terri. Crist had no authority to rule and here's the article. The next sentence he spewed was that he "wasn't going to get involved."

FLA CRIST DID NOT HAVE THE OPTION. IT WAS HIS JOB TO GET INVOLVED and he didn't.

IMPEACH CHARLIE CRIST...

Crist stays away from Schiavo case

By Associated Press Published October 4, 2003

TAMPA - Attorney General Charlie Crist on Friday said he won't get involved in the case of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman scheduled to have her feeding tube removed this month.

A federal judge had asked Crist to address the question of the constitutionality of Florida law dealing with the right of severely incapacitated people to refuse artificial life support, which is the issue at the center of the Schiavo case.

Crist ruled the law constitutional, but said he wouldn't get further involved.

A federal judge has set an Oct. 10 hearing in a lawsuit filed by Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, against their son-in-law, Michael Schiavo. The Schindlers want to block the Oct. 15 removal of the feeding tube that has been keeping their daughter alive.

Terri Schiavo, 39, suffered severe brain damage more than a decade ago and remains in what doctors call a "persistent vegetative state." A Circuit Court judge last month ordered the removal of her feeding tube.

FV says:The Federal Judge KNEW that Crist would rule in his favor so they could kill Terri eventually for their fat cat friends and for Florida's death cultists.

Crist sold his soul very early on.

[floriduh voter]

Charlie Crist, what about all the guardianship laws that were violated so that your friends in Pinellas County could get away with murder?

I have them all listed here. You jumped quickly to tell the Federal Judge it was constitution to kill Terri back in October of 2003. What about all the laws that were being violated by Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer, Judge Shames, eventually Judge W. Douglas Baird?

Why did you, Charlie Crist, overlook all the violations against Terri Schiavo but a federal judge needs you to put your rubber stamp on judicial homicide and "oops, there you are."

Charlie Crist, a tried and true member of Florida's culture of death.

[floriduh voter]

Tom Gallagher for Governor visit news feed:

http://www.conservative-spirit.org/index.html

[bjs1779]

Please do not ping me to this thread again.

I didn't see anyone "ping" you to this list. I have seen people "reply" to you. I think it just shows your dishonestly, once again. Repeat, this is not a "ping", just a normal "reply". Copy?