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

[T'wit]

Thus begins and ends my adventure in allemoticons.com. What is it with these people, their smileys expire in two hours? Hmm. Come to think of it, that's a pretty good idea for smileys :-)

[8mmMauser]

ST. PETERSBURG -- Three of the four candidates for Florida attorney general said Friday the government should not have intervened in the Terri Schiavo case, but one -- state Rep. Joe Negron -- said it was right for the state and Congress to try to usurp the courts.

Negron, a Republican from Stuart, joined fellow Republicans Bill McCollum and Everett Rice, and the lone Democrat, Walter "Skip" Campbell, in a candidates' forum during the annual Florida Society of Newspaper Editors convention. They are running to replace Charlie Crist, who is a candidate for governor.

Snip...

Negron stood out from the others when asked about Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who died last year following an epic legal battle over whether she should be kept alive artificially.

He disagreed with the other candidates, who said the ruling of the many courts that heard the case was the ultimate authority. Negron said if he had been attorney general, he would have intervened.

It was wrong, he said, "for a judge to say you can't put water on the lips of a citizen of Florida."

Attorney General Race Revisits Schiavo Case

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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]

I noticed the faded emoticons. Got my curiosity. They echo emotions...

[T'wit]

I think belonging to the Hemlock Society is weird. Your weird friend was just a chip off the old block.

[8mmMauser]

Haleigh Poutre update...

Perhaps no one has had a more in-depth look at the events surrounding Poutre's recent life than Emily Smith Lee, a Sharon resident and lawyer with the McDermott, Will, and Lee Law Firm in Boston.

Lee was an integral part of a support team for a panel appointed by Gov. Mitt Romney to investigate the events surrounding the decision to remove Poutre from life support after being allegedly beaten by her stepfather, Jason Strickland.

Local lawyer does her part for Haleigh Poutre

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[8mmMauser]

St. Pete Times does a blurb on the Gov candidates...

When Davis criticized state government for last year's Terri Schiavo end-of-life debate, Smith shot back that he put together a coalition to "stand up to the governor," who supported efforts to keep her alive.

Of the four candidates, Gallagher struck the most rigid partisan posture. When asked about the national debate over immigration, he forcefully declared illegally entering of the country must be stopped "at whatever cost." The others were more measured in their response. Gallagher also displayed skepticism about global warming, but agreed alternative energy sources should be pursued.

If Crist was not invoking Jeb Bush - "the best governor in America," and "my friend" - he was mentioning his role as state attorney general. Crist said he has fought to make Floridians safer and would continue to do so. He too noted the race's philosophical undercurrent.

"Florida," he said, "is at a crossroads."

Gubernatorial candidates wear their positions on their sleeves

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[T'wit]

Look at the biased language from this AP creep:

>>...right for the state and Congress to try to usurp the courts.

Usurp?? The Florida constitution requires state government to protect citizens. If anybody usurped authority, it was the Greer court preventing Terri's family from making PRIVATE medical decisions.

>> [Terri]...who died last year...

Wrong verb. She wasn't dying and didn't die on her own. She was put to death by judicial order, surrounded by police to make sure nobody saved her from execution.

>> ...following an epic legal battle over whether she should be kept alive artificially.

Food and drink are not artificial sustenance. Neither was Greer's decision based on withdrawing "artificial" life support. It was based on Terri's own (non-existent) "wish" to refuse MEDICAL treatment.

>> ...the ruling of the many courts that heard the case was...

One court heard the case, not "many." Cases are seldom tried in more than one court.

[8mmMauser]

>> [Terri]...who died last year...

A good friend told me tongue in cheek that you never tell your wife, "I dropped your expensive crystal vase on the floor." You always say "It fell". Always make it impersonal to get off the hook.

[T'wit]

From the article:

>> The state cited medical tests showing that Poutre would never recover and the decision was made to end her life, as there was no relative left to claim her

Only Haleigh's mother!

[T'wit]

Little kiddies (of all ages) use the passive voice as an alibi, but mom always knows. Moms know everything.

[8mmMauser]

It was not the process that was under attack according to her, but whether the process had the right information to be able to adequately represent Poutre. Precedent may well have been set by the Haleigh Poutre case.

"We got involved after there was a human outcry," she said. "With our recommendations now in place, hopefully next time there is a similar case, the child will have protection that is well-informed."

[8mmMauser]

Works with adults, too, sometimes.

[T'wit]

>> They echo emotions...

The one I borrowed represented the motion of certain mammalian attributes, evidently without the benefit of a dirndl. In real life that may be an emotional experience.

[T'wit]

That makes the day for us cry-out-ers!

[Dante3]

Good points.

[T'wit]

Important scientific findings on aluminum foil hats

[T'wit]

Little by little we make progress. A few years ago the presstitutes got away with saying Terri was "brain dead," "in a coma" and "on life support." And, until the autopsy, Michael got away with saying she collapsed due to bulimia. Now the bulimia theory is out and I'd like to get rid of that word "collapsed" -- it sounds innocent. But she didn't simply fall lifeless to the floor. She was put there by a man twice her size who caused serious traumas to her spine and right thigh as he kneeled on her back, pinning her flat. I don't believe she could breathe. Blood tests showed she had lactic acidosis -- a condition caused by extreme exertion in the absence of oxygen. She fought for her life. But it was hopeless with a 250 man on her back. The lack of oxygen severely damaged her brain.

[Dante3]

Old cold cases have been eventually investigated and solved - one even from the 1950s. Maybe someday . . .

[floriduh voter]

IMPORTANT FLORIDA GOVERNOR'S RACE: TOM GALLAGHER is the only candidate for governor who is AGAINST AMNESTY and is for SECURING THE BORDERS.

Please pass this around Free Republic.

Crist is "for amnesty", Davis is "for amnesty", Smith is "for amnesty". Gallagher is "against amnesty". Today's Tampa Tribune Saturday METRO SECTION.

(by the way, I met Crist in 2002 and he said that terrorism was the most important issue at that time. Well, then why has he forsaken the overwhelming number of Americans who are against amnesty?)

OTHER NEWS: Frank Nagano for Fla AG is the only candidate who supported Terri Schiavo's right to live). I saw the other candidates at a forum and none of the others are capable enough to be Florida's AG. We need someone capable since Crist just fouled up that dept. Please support the smart choice, FRANK NAGANO.

[floriduh voter]

Your 601. What good is intelligence if you have no common sense? Saving Terri's life would have been moral and the only common sense way to handle her life and death matter.

Then his brother got blamed for Katrina shortly after Terri died. There are many to blame for the dehydration and starvation deaths after Katrina but it looked like indifference to me in either case.

With Katrina, Americans saw in public on sidewalks and interstate highways and overpasses what happened to Terri while under armed guard. Dehydration and starvation are BARBARIC. Looking at Katrina gives us an idea of what they did to Terri.

It was despicable and I'm still getting emails constantly from all over the United States from people who still want justice for Terri.

There is no statute of limitations on murder and I was thinking that maybe Mikey is trying to get death cultists elected so that he doesn't have to worry about ever being prosecuted. If some true pro-life, legalistic people with honor do get elected, maybe they'll prosecute him. Mikey imo, is doing his pac to help him avoid prosecution at a later date. Mikey is just one player. If one falls, they all fall down.

But, when he's not in Vegas, he works at THE JAIL. So, he's at jail, just not behind the bars.