Still Waiting

Dakota Voice ^ | 1/29/2007 | Carrie K. Hutchens

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I don't know about anyone else, but I am still waiting for Michael Schiavo to make a correction on his blog about what "actually" took place in Colorado when he went there (to the debate) to supposedly ask Congresswoman Musgrave one question and she and her staff supposedly tried to have him removed. He called it, "My unreal night in Colorado - with radio link" (Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 08:05:14 PM PST). I'll say (from what I read) that it was his "unreal night".

As I said before in "Standing up and Admitting a Mistake: Not Schiavo's Style?",  if four uniformed officers were around my seat, I would have some idea of what was going on. I certainly wouldn't be sitting in "duh mode" to only be told later of what took place right there around me, as Michael suggests he was. If Michael's account is realistic -- his response and reaction is not. Nor is his response appropriate now that he has "learned" what he was "allegedly told" is not what took place. One would think if he can't get the words out that he was mistaken, he could at least have removed the inaccurate entry from his blog.

He has done neither.

I'm also still waiting to read about, "Also, maybe tomorrow I'll post about my election-eve rally with Bill Clinton in Florida." (A real election impact by Michael Schiavo, Thu Nov 09, 2006 at 10:40:34 AM PST).  Indeed, I would love to read that story by Michael, since I read it was not possible. Not if he was implying it was the Bill Clinton that is the former President of the United States. Will be interesting to see what he says about that if he ever does.

If Michael couldn't get it straight what happened at the Musgrave debate or even if he spent election-eve with former President Bill Clinton -- do you suppose he might have gotten Terri Schiavo's wishes mixed-up as well? (He does claim to have a bad memory from what I read.) Makes one wonder. At least makes me wonder. Whatever...

I'm still waiting for the corrections if not the explanations!

 

Carrie Hutchens is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is active in fighting against the death culture movement and the injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.

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[floriduh voter]

You know, sometimes, human drama is real and the public has a right to know that they should pay attention if they have a loved one in a rehab place or in a care facility.

Terri's not the only person who was ever at risk...

There are cultural ideas accepted as gospel many times that feed the culture of death and in addition, understaffing even with the best cna's and nurses can hamper a patient's well being.

If you have a loved one in a facility, don't assume anything. Help them. FV

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From Dakota Voice...

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TAMPA, Mar. 27 /Christian Newswire/ -- As the second anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death from dehydration on March 31, 2005, approaches, her brother, Bobby Schindler is releasing a letter written to Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida.

The text of the letter is available online. Bobby Schindler also makes the following comments:

In light of the fact that Bishop Lynch refused my family's pleas for his help in our attempt to save my sister's life, I am posting an "open letter to Bishop Robert Lynch" which I sent to him on March 9, 2007, and to which I have, to date, received no response.

On March 13, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI reasserted that Catholic politicians have a "grave responsibility" to defend all innocent human life, and a "non negotiable" duty to oppose the practices of abortion and euthanasia.

If the Church teaches that such a grave responsibility rests on elected officials who are here today and gone tomorrow, and who hold mere temporal power, what of the successors of the apostles – our bishops – who hold the greatest spiritual authority on earth?

Pope Benedict XVI clearly stated, "all Catholics have a duty to uphold the Church's pro-life teachings, but the responsibility is especially incumbent on those in positions of power." (emphasis mine)

Pope Benedict further stated, "Bishops are bound to reaffirm constantly these values (the pro-life teaching of the Church) as part of their responsibility to the flock entrusted to them." As Catholic dissenters continue to flaunt their pro-death agenda, and as laws are promoted, especially in the economically progressive world, for the legalization of euthanasia, the bishops have been charged by the Holy See "with the task of monitoring whether elected officials in their local churches shouldn't be receiving communion because of a violation of the church's pro-life teachings."

Perhaps certain bishops should not consider themselves above such scrutiny as well. As my letter states, "I beg the Lord to spare us another successor of the apostles who would exhibit the same scandalous inaction and silence by which you remain complicit in my sister's murder via euthanasia."

Bobby Schindler now works for The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Petersburg, Florida, an organization dedicated to promoting the Culture of Life, embracing the true meaning of compassion by opposing the practice of euthanasia.

 

Terri Schiavo's Brother Rebukes Bishop Lynch for Not Defending Human Life

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From Earned Media...

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Mar. 27 /Christian Newswire/ -- No one should have the right to choose when to end a person's life, but on March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo died after 13 days of agonizing thirst and dehydration, forced upon her when the court ruled in favor of her husband's demand to remove her feeding tube.

 

Now, on the second anniversary of Terri's tragic death, TOS Magazine will publish Christine Field's exclusive interview with the Christian Law Association's David Gibbs, an attorney who fought to save Terri's life. As part of a promise that Gibbs made to Terri's parents when he took the case, he has published Fighting for Dear Life, a book arguing against euthanasia. Gibbs strongly believes, "Christians must make sure that America does not become a country that can so easily end the life of a human being."

 Thanks to Gibbs, a homeschooling parent himself, many will hear his first hand account of the brutal cruelty of a euthanasia death. He believes it is time for parents to fight against this crime before their children grow up in a country that murders the handicapped and the unborn under the title of "freedom". Hidden in the euthanasia doctrine is the very old but ever-convincing Darwinian philosophy, "Survival of the fittest."

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine Brings a Fight for Dear Life to Homeschool Families Worldwide

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Chipping away...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriChip Corporation today announced it entered into a Community Partnership Agreement with U.S. Living Will Registry(R) that enables healthcare professionals to view the Advance Directives of patients enrolled in the VeriMed Patient Identification System via a secure link within the VeriMed Patient Registry. This will be the first completely digital link to a national Advance Directive document archive. Utilizing the U.S. Living Will Registry's proprietary software platform and the VeriMed Patient Registry, VeriMed subscribers will be able to register their advance directives and organ donation information.

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Advance directives, commonly known as living wills and health care proxies, are legal documents that allow a person to make their health care wishes known if they are incapacitated and unable to make decisions for themselves. In a health care proxy (health care power of attorney), a person names someone to make decisions for them. Interest in advance directives increased dramatically with nationwide attention to the case of Floridian Terri Schiavo. Ms. Schiavo was in a chronic vegetative state, and did not have an advance directive. The national attention to Ms. Schiavo's case prompted many to prepare their own advance directive in order to spare their families a similar fate.

VeriChip Corporation Partners With U.S. Living Will Registry as Advance Directive Resource

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Thread from wagglebee. Vatican tells the UN:

GENEVA, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "The first right of children is that of being born and educated in a welcoming and secure family environment where their physical, psychological and spiritual growth is guaranteed, their potential is developed and where the awareness of personal dignity becomes the base for relating to others and for confronting the future." The statement was made during a March 23 address by Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi C.S., Holy See (Vatican) permanent observer to the United Nations at Geneva, who spoke during the 4th session of the Human Rights Council.

Vatican to UN: "First Right of Children is that of Being Born"

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Equal Rights Amendment returns and is exposed. Thread by wagglebee.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Equal rights for women is a concept Americans would easily support. But, a constitutional amendment Congressional Democrats have reintroduced to enshrine it is nothing more than a phony attempt to promote abortion, pro-life groups say.

Leading abortion advocates, including Sens. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Barbara Boxer of California as well as Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jarrold Nadler of New York, are joining with the Feminist Majority Foundation to reintroduce the Equal Rights Amendment today.

The ERA passed Congress in 1972 but lapsed in 1982 when it fell three states short of ratification.

Congressional Equal Rights Amendment Would Promote Abortion, Funding

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Counting the abortions, a thread by demographic_crisis. Thanks, narses.

The number of conscious abortions exceeds 55 million annually throughout the world, with 300-500 abortions per a thousand of births, the Rossijskaya Gazeta has reported...

In the USA, where abortion was legalized 34 years ago by the Supreme Court’s ruling, there are over 3400 groups and organizations standing for total ban on abortion. At the same time, there are 2500 clinics there, where these operations are performed...

Annual number of abortions in the world exceeds 55 million

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Two years. Prayers continue for Terri and her family.

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Lynch is a coward, like all of his breed. They lose their faith, but instead of having the courage to announce their apostasy and to resign, they cling to power and thus poison the church from within.

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>> U.S. Living Will Registry(R)

The first national Kill Me book! I'll bet these poor deluded souls think they are dictating instructions for their medical care. But the only message the medics hear is, "Terminate care for me at your discretion."

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I met one of the shocked Lynch guys. He showed up at Pinellas Park, sure Lynch would be supporting Terri any moment now. He assured me the whole gang would be there soon to show their support. Hours later and very dismayed, he skulked off, his gaze at the ground. I never saw any more of the Lynch Mob.

That Lynch guy is part of what I see as a whole cabal of bishops, priest, and lay determined to bury the Church. Other than that, maybe he is a nice guy. I guess I should have more respect.

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The first national Kill Me book! I'll bet these poor deluded souls think they are dictating instructions for their medical care. But the only message the medics hear is, "Terminate care for me at your discretion."

Remember the joke signs we as dumb kids would put with a bit of tape on the backs of the unsuspecting, Kick Me an act of which I would be deeply ashamed now. This is maybe their sick sense of humor to use technology to slap a sign on the backs of the victims.

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Does this suggest that men may get to be equal someday?

This could be revolutionary. Just off the top, imagine if a man could sue to block an abortion and protect the life of his unborn child.

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I met one of the shocked Lynch guys. He showed up at Pinellas Park, sure Lynch would be supporting Terri any moment now. He assured me the whole gang would be there soon to show their support. Hours later and very dismayed, he skulked off, his gaze at the ground. I never saw any more of the Lynch Mob.

Lynch and Jeb Bush both showed how utterly unprincipled they were. They will never be able to wash Terri's blood from their hands.

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>> That Lynch guy is part of what I see as a whole cabal of bishops, priest, and lay determined to bury the Church.

And I'm sure you are right. They're cowards! Bums! It is much easier to hate and to destroy than to face your own sinful nature, to humble yourself, to repent, to be faithful. Keeping the faith is work. They hate work.

I just had a flash. They are like the homeless -- madmen, accursed and wandering the streets and ranting in tongues. They are the spiritually homeless. They get their food from dumpsters, their rags from the gutter, and they sleep on the steam grates of Hell.

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I just had a flash. They are like the homeless -- madmen, accursed and wandering the streets and ranting in tongues. They are the spiritually homeless. They get their food from dumpsters, their rags from the gutter, and they sleep on the steam grates of Hell.

Fascinating allegory...

It brings to mind a discussion we were having with people of our church on The Last Supper. We were discussing how people of modernist bent had diluted the meaning of The Last Supper to something more bland, like a church potluck or, as I suggested, dinner for the homeless. I had not considered the term beyond that and the appropriate allegory you describe.

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>> Lynch and Jeb Bush both showed how utterly unprincipled they were.

Yes. When it mattered, Jeb wimped out completely. His governorship had been pretty successful as these things are measured, but for my two cents' worth, he threw it all away.

>> They will never be able to wash Terri's blood from their hands.

They have the way home that is given to every son of Adam. Their hands have been cleansed for them if they but see it, and repent truly, and ask forgiveness. In this holy season, let us pray for all of Terri's tormentors, that they may find peace of mind and heart at last.

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They have the way home that is given to every son of Adam. Their hands have been cleansed for them if they but see it, and repent truly, and ask forgiveness. In this holy season, let us pray for all of Terri's tormentors, that they may find peace of mind and heart at last.

You're right. And hopefully they have asked the Lord's forgiveness. However, I would hope that this would be followed by a public expression of regret for their inaction.

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It brings to mind a discussion we were having with people of our church on The Last Supper. We were discussing how people of modernist bent had diluted the meaning of The Last Supper to something more bland, like a church potluck or, as I suggested, dinner for the homeless.

For me, the true meaning of the Last Supper became crystal clear by the time I had finished the first chapter of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship (yeah, I know he was a Lutheran, but his writings were as "Catholic" as anything written in the Twentieth Century and he FULLY understood what Christ said in John 15:13).