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]

A Massachusetts busybody is trying to destroy Carla's life for what? Keep in mind that Massachusetts is Haleigh's state. Maybe this busybody was on Haleigh's death squad and she didn't like that Haleigh is still living.

[floriduh voter]

KNOW THIS. Charlie Crist's fingerprints are on a DCF file that Crist said he NEVER SAW and DIDN'T EXIST.

I'm glad I don't know where Terri's DCF file is but it's at least 800 pages that Crist said he never saw. FINGERPRINTS DON'T LIE.

Don't count on Crist doing anything to protect Carla Iyer's civil rights. He didn't protect Terri's.

Carla may have EEOC rights with the Dept. of Labor because the complainant has not been damaged by Carla being on CNN. Lots of people were opining on tv. Why is Carla being singled out? This is another sham imo.

[floriduh voter]

Think Terri Schiavo and that's why I'm lvg the gop. They helped bump her off. Anyone who really believes the GOP helped her hasn't seen her HEADSTONE AT THE CEMETERY.

[floriduh voter]

The laws you mention were already in place but Judge Greer chose to ignore them so that he could state "the law of the case is that she will die."

1. Terri was never represented by counsel (ILLEGAL) 2. Michael Schiavo should have been removed as her guardian but wasn't (ILLEGAL) 3. it's a very long list of violations in Cheryl Ford's book "Our Fight For Terri There were so many violations that there's no way I can remember or type them to list them here.

Judge Greer violated the law and the judicial canons. Whose protecting this scumbag? He belongs in jail. He aided and abetted a murder from the bench and sorry, in my opinion, if a judge breaks the law on the bench, they have NO JUDICIAL IMMUNITY.

[floriduh voter]

CNN shows Michael Schiavo's Path to Perjury:

http://www.judgegeorgegreer.com/

Michael Schiavo LIED on Larry King so they cannot prosecute Carla for anything unless they prosecute Michael Schiavo for perjury too. Why didn't Massachusetts busybody dislike Mikey's lies? She must be part of Massachusetts death worshippers. I bet she knows Michael. What do you bet she's given to his PAC or to a candidate he recommended?

If so, case dismissed.

[floriduh voter]

To "permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life" is forbidden by Florida Statute (withholding NATURAL nutrition and liquids) §765.309(1). Greer not only permitted it, he ORDERED IT.

[bjs1779]

Lots of people were opining on tv. Why is Carla being singled out?

I hope Carla has an excellent attorney. This could wind up as the de novo that Congress and Bush asked for in the most round about way.

[T'wit]

>> A Massachusetts busybody is trying to destroy Carla's life for what?

Sheer hatred. Carla said horrid things about Beloved Saint Michael the Innocent! This blasphemer must be destroyed!

Makes no difference to liberals on the warpath that Carla was reporting the truth.

[T'wit]

>> This could wind up as the de novo that Congress and Bush asked for in the most round about way.

Now there's an interesting take! I don't suppose the odds of a proxy retrial are very good, but... intriguing idea.

[bjs1779]

I just feel that there is criminal motives for this to begin with. That's all it would take to get it into the courts again.

[Dante3]

Judge Greer is an example of judicial tyranny. What good are laws if judges can ignore them at their will? We have seen more and more of judges ruling like dictators. Outrageous that Greer has been allowed to get away with all these violations, and Jeb Bush does nothing.

[JulieRNR21]

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060625/NEWS01/606250320/1010


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Tash later asked about the Schiavo case. Bush backed legislative and legal action aimed at continuing the brain-damaged woman's feeding.

Davis, in Congress, and Smith, in the Legislature, opposed bills to reconnect her feeding tube - points both men mentioned proudly in their debate. Gallagher sided with Bush on the issue, but Crist refused to intervene as attorney general.

"To me, as a public official, you always have to err on the side of life because you can't go in and fix it later," Gallagher said. "I will always err on the side of life, if given that choice."

Crist said he respected Bush's decision but "I happen to have a different opinion" in the controversy.

"I just fundamentally felt that those kinds of decisions should be left to the families and God," Crist said, "not government."

[8mmMauser]

From LifeNews, a little remorse, sort of...

Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- The Michigan Parole Board has again rejected a request from assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian to be paroled. The activist hoped the parole board would commute his second-degree murder conviction in the euthanasia death of a patient who has Lou Gehrig's disease.

The decision marks the fourth consecutive year the parole board has denied Kevorkian's request, even though his attorney claims he has less than a year to live.

Snip

Reporters Rita Cosby asked him if he regretted the assisted suicide deaths of more than 130 people, Kevorkian replied, "Well, I do a little."

Kevorkian also told Cosby that, had Terri Schiavo been presented to him 10 years ago, he would have taken her on as another assisted suicide case.

Assisted Suicide Crusader Jack Kevorkian Denied Parole for Fourth Time

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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]

...In Bluefield, West Virginia...

End-of-life care has become a hot-button issue in the United States due to harrowing events like the death of Terri Schiavo. Americans, regardless of age, have become highly aware of the need to plan their affairs for the end-of-life and document their wishes through a living will and medical power of attorney.

Though people need to continue to be cognizant of the need to discuss end-of-life care, it is refreshing to know that West Virginians actually lead the country in preparation for care and treatment at the end of their lives.

Every few years, the West Virginia Center for End-of Life Care conducts a survey to evaluate how citizens perceive their options for end-of-life care. The 2006 survey results were compiled recently and they are definitely worth getting excited about.

WV a leader in end-of-life planning

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[8mmMauser]

Your online newspaper of record for the Hammonton, NJ area

To be fair and balanced, or endangering our right to kill those who have a right to be killed...

As we approach the July 4th weekend with its embrace of patriotic flag-waving, perhaps it is a propitious moment to look at some of the defining aspects that our Founding Fathers sought to establish in our democracy. This, given the present harsh red/blue divisions and the choice by the present administration, through propaganda and the marketing of "fear" to justify the erosions of many of those principles that have defined us as a special democracy for more than 200 years.

Trespasses on our very essence threaten health of our democracy

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[8mmMauser]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?...

Amazing how the left constantly refers to Terri Schiavo, no matter what the subject, as liberal fantasies run amuck.

This from another Singer:

Singer also has quite an infatuation with Christ imagery, putting Routh in several “Passion of the Kal-El” type poses and throwing the word “savior” around. If fundamentalists vilified Martin Scorsese for depicting Jesus’ dream about raising a family with Mary Magdalene, the idea that their Messiah might be a jealous extraterrestrial sporting fruity tights and a cape ought to stoke them to levels of outrage not seen since Terri Schiavo.

Superman Returns

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[8mmMauser]

Big event not to miss for the End of Life crowd...

The Delaware End-of-Life Coalition is sponsoring an evening with Bill Colby, lawyer for the family that presented the first right-to-die case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It will begin with 5 p.m. cocktail hour on September 13 at the Deerfield Gold & Tennis Club on Thompson Station Road in Newark.

Lawyer-author to headline Delaware End-of-Life Coalition Dinner

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[8mmMauser]

Lest we forget...

Scott's Fight

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[T'wit]

>> Michigan authors and Kevorkian friends Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie say they have been helping Kevorkian to prepare a 300-page manuscript, tentatively titled "The Life of Dr. Death." [And on and on and on.]

Soon to be a movie starring Mahatma Gandhi. In her new #1 best-seller Godless, Ann Coulter devotes a whole juicy chapter to liberals' mad love affair with death-row killers. She didn't include Kevorkian but it's not too late for the paperback version :-) Whatever their psychosis, liberals just drool to get murderers out of jail and inflict them society so they can kill again. Read Ann for the gruesome results.

Just stay in jail, Dr. Death. Your comment about killing Terri makes it clear you do not repent your crimes and are not ready to die in peace at home.

[T'wit]

>> ...housed in the West Virginia University Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.

You get to die in clean white sheets.