Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:37 AM PDT by 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
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Carla, it's Alan Colmes. Do you have a duty of confidentiality, as we talked about in the opening of this segment? Wouldn't that duty of confidentiality preclude you from talking about the patient and what you experienced with the patient?
SAUER-IYER: As a nurse you have to intervene when you suspect abuse. Abuse is not a private family matter. You have an obligation morally and ethically to stand up and advocate for your patients.
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HANNITY: So the bottom line is as a result of a public appearance, just corroborating and confirming what was a legal case here, you now risk losing your career, your livelihood. What is your recourse? What are your lawyers telling you?
SAUER-IYER: That it's improbable for the Department of Health to pursue these legal actions against me when there was an affidavit out for Governor Jeb Bush. It was talked around the whole world, at most water coolers around the world.
A poster on a different thread consulted his or her crystal ball and insisted again and again and again that the FDOH would pull Carla's license. It evidently did not dawn that Carla has rights and legal recourses against such an action.
Oops, Wallis, not Wallace.
hey guys, long time. I had surgery 3 weeks ago and been super busy for a time. I just read that this guy's brain rewired itself and healed to give him function. HOLY CRAP! If this doesn't prove the doctors were wrong about Terri I don't know what will prove it. They said she would never recover. Well, that is just not true seeing there is evidance to support she could have recovered because brains can heal. If she was given the treatment she deserved this might have happend. This is why you never listen 100% to doctors who think they know it all and just are death hungry. Wonder what George Greer thinks of this news?
Wallis's awakening was three years ago. Greer had more than two years to contemplate this news. In that period he twice ordered that Terri be put to death. Guess he didn't "think" much about it. He was out to kill her all along.
And, welcome back! Hope your Independence Day holiday is the best.
thanks!
Colmes doesn't get it and what else is new.
COLMES: Some of the things you said have been contradicted. You said that you believe that Michael, for example, injected Terri with insulin to intentionally make her sick. An investigation found nothing of that actually took place.
You talked on our show about her speaking. The autopsy showed she was not aware of her surroundings. Her reactions were automatic. There was no evidence of thought or consciousness. So there's quite a dispute about whether what you said was accurate.
It is Colmes who is inaccurate and there can be no disputing the fact. There was no investigation. The autopsy report itself explained that PVS is a clinical diagnosis and CANNOT be determined post mortem. Of course "reactions" can't be tested after death either.
Carla Sauer-Iyer had over a year of first-hand experience caring for Terri. The Death Culters are playing make-believe.
By legal reasoning, Carla has the best credibility of any witness in the case. She swore to her report despite having a lot to lose by telling the truth. That is a classic test of credibility. She put her job on the line to report patient abuse (and was fired for it), and she risked heavy penalties (filing a false report, perjury or both) by filing a sworn police report on the possible insulin poisonings.
Wife-killer Michael is a bright shining political light, that's why. Yea, verily, Michael is a beacon of hope for all who wish to dispose of an inconvenient spouse, for children who want grab their parents' assets early, and for trial lawyers everywhere.
2. Terri Wallace is the EVIDENCE that brain injured human beings can be rehabilitated.
Maybe the next Terri will be a whistleblower who will blow the lid off of Terri's murder.
I look forward to Monsignor Malanowski's book. He was a General before he was a Priest. He's like the John Wayne of the Catholic Church.
The Twilight Zone was running for the holiday. I didn't catch many but there was one where to bump people off the state did this: 1. Isolate the person 2. Liquidate them.
Rod Serling was a genius. He died too young.
It would be open season if Crist wins. These Pinellas people are in some kind of "sick club" and the joke is on Floridians who think that all GOP is conservative. Pinellas GOP is aligned with the ACLU and the moonbats.
A guardianship judge, Judge Greer Greer chose EXTERMINATION instead of REHABILITATION.
That spells MURDER and there's no immunity from prosecution on the bench if the Judge commits crimes on the bench.
They murdered an innocent woman with the help of Florida's legislator and the mainstream media.
Alan Colmes - like to take a fly swatter to him. He's not human.
There are folks over there saying that Terri was murdered. Terri ping listees aren't the only ones who know the sordid details.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1660612/posts?page=34
Remember that the doctors who said Terri needed rehabilitation were sent packing. It was not uninamous that Terri needed to be killed. Those doctors were part of Fla's death care system/legal system to help spouses dispose of their partners without having to hire a hit man.
Terri Dailies ping.
Her own husband, breaking every vow he made to God, is the one who tried hardest to dehumanize Terri. He denied her rehabilitation and therapy. He refused her every kindness. He denied her holy communion and the solaces of her faith. He reviled her, stole her wedding rings, killed her cats, called her a vegetable, took away her flowers and cards and religious medallions. He cheated on her again and again. He warred on her family. He took her property, her liberty and in the end, her life. As she lay dying of thirst, he refused her ice chips to ease her agony.
Michael does not realize it yet but he never dehumanized Terri. He dehumanized himself. He stripped away every ounce of his own humanity.
It wasn't just Christians who supported and prayed for Terri. I met people of all faiths!
It's a whole bunch of Christians from numerous denominations, not just evangelicals!
Can't the MSM say Roman Catholic, for example? Would that freak out their deity/idol if they actually told it like it is?
Visitation was strictly controlled. Nobody was allowed to photograph the patient. According to several people's sworn testimony, Michael tampered with Terri's medical records. What they couldn't afford to let the public know was that Terri wasn't as hopeless as they painted her.
I'd love to see the work notes of the lawyer or lawyers who dreamed up the "no therapy, no stimulus" strategy so that Terri's condition would deteriorate over time. That made it easier and easier to give her bad medical marks and to claim in court that she would never be able to recover.
How shall they do that? The truth is not in them. I can't say how they got that way but John 8:44 may suggest an answer. As always, I prefer KJV.
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