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

[BykrBayb]

http://www.tbnweekly.com/content_articles/070706_par-02.txt

Volunteer has close encounter with death
By THOMAS MICHALSKI

-snip-

“They thought I would die,” the 75-year-old O’Quinn said, “but I fooled them.”

So sure were doctors that O’Quinn would pass on that they told his family to make funeral arrangements, he said.

But when they shut down his life support system he opened his eyes and asked for a glass of water.

“Hospice was taking care of me and left when I didn’t die on them,” O’Quinn said.

-snip-

[bjs1779]

Does anyone have a HTML version of Terri's autopsy report that could be posted here? I remember the M.E. practically invited a review of his findings, and I think there are good reasons to do so.

[bjs1779]

Wouldn't you know it, "PINELLAS PARK ".

[T'wit]

I know of none except the PDF. But an HTML version may be out there. Worth a search.

[T'wit]

>> The Wallis family says Terry has continued to get better. And while no one knows how much more improvement he will show, he has already beaten incredible odds.

What's really against the odds is getting better when the Death Culture is determined to say you never will.

Brain-Damaged Victim Regains Speech After Almost 20 Years (Voice of America)

[T'wit]

>> Doctors at Wallis’ rehabilitation center believe the recovery is due in part to visits by his family, which could have acted as a kind of mental therapy for his recovery.

This is from India. The Terri Wallis story made it around the world in a hurry! Thoughtful people everywhere realize that Wallis's case calls Terri Schiavo's court-ordered death into question. As the quote above should make clear, it also calls into question the way Michael Schiavo treated Terri on a personal level after he got the award money in 1993. Love and attention seem to be part of the recovery process. Terri got neither.

Man who awoke from coma raises new questions about death of Terri Schiavo

[floriduh voter]

Jeb Bush is still covering for Charlie Crist. A State Attorney's daughter got roughed up in a Florida jail and Jeb STEPPED IN to start an investigation. State Atty Tanner is really mad that his daughter was roughed up by four cops and she was cooperating at the time. It was all caught on tape, just like when Martin Anderson was beaten & died while in state custody.

Charlie Crist is supposed to be Florida's Attorney General but Jeb Bush steps in when law enforcement oversteps. Is Jeb trying to rehab his image before he terms out or is he covering for Crist since Crist is a really awful attorney general?

Jeb's direct line to Fox News is still humming. The Tanner story was reported only on Fox News today.

Crist can't cut it is the bottom line.

[floriduh voter]

The Medical Examiner's press conference he clearly stated that Terri died of dehydration. So, his actual autopsy report conflicts with his verbal statement. Not surprising to me. He was working for and reporting to Jeb when he did the autopsy.

The goal is to keep things confused.

The new ACHA Director appointed by Jeb is an attorney, not a medical person. Do attorneys have better shredders than medical admininstrators or something?

I am thinking that Jeb has plenty of shredding to do before he terms out. He can't shred the memory of Terri's death though.

[floriduh voter]

What they do in North Korea is exactly what they did to Terri in Amerika.

[floriduh voter]

This is really bizarre. State Attorney Tanner googled with Jeb Bush shows that Tanner was removed from an investigation in Flagler Cty. That's a separate matter from his daughter being roughed up in jail.

Perhaps the jailers knew who she was and that's why they roughed her up.

There are references to Crist taking over an investigation from Tanner too.

Maybe Jeb stepped in because Crist has a conflict of interest with the jailers? This is really strange stuff. This doesn't even include anything about Tanner's daughter but maybe the jailers were sending a message to her dad at the jail.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2005-38,GGLR:en&q=jeb+bush+state+attorney+tanner

It's possible that Jeb told Fox News about the Tanner incident to get Carla's problem with DOH off the news... Maybe DOH is going to drop the complaint against Carla because it leads back to the initial coverups by DOH and by ACHA re: Terri.

It would have been much simpler for Jeb to have stayed the course and gone in there and rescued Terri.

[floriduh voter]

Re: State Attorney Daughter's video alleging excessive force used against her:

http://www.news4jax.com/news/9430571/detail.html

[floriduh voter]

So, Jeb Bush turns the investigation over to Charlie Crist who is not independent but in bed w/law enforcement.

The Sheriffs and cops complained to Jeb and he took the case away from the states attorneys and gave it to Crist. It will drag on and on now. This is rare that Jeb didn't give a case to Pinellas County's Bernie McCabe and gave it to Crist to investigate. Jeb's changing his methods but this will disappear, just like Martin Anderson's death investigation has disappeared. Jeb is more magician than governor.

NEWS FROM A LEGAL WEB SITE: UNION, FLAGLER SHERIFF DENOUNCE STATE ATTORNEY-- Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com, June 20, 2006. Bunnell law enforcement officials came out swinging Monday [June 19], accusing State Attorney John Tanner of leading a "crusade" against Bunnell police and deputies and calling his investigation of the Flagler County Jail a "witch hunt." Flanked by dozens of employees of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office and supporters, local and state representatives of the Coastal Florida Police Benevolent Association gathered outside Tanner's Daytona Beach office to protest Tanner's investigation of the Flagler jail. The controversy has included two jail guards being charged with twice strapping Tanner's daughter into a restraint chair in March 2005. Jim Spearing, the union's statewide political coordinator, called for Gov. Jeb Bush to remove Tanner from the jail investigation and replace him with officials from state Attorney General Charlie Crist's office. [Updated: 07-01-2005 ]

FV Says: The union is real tight with Crist. Tanner's daughter's claims against her jail guards will disappear. That's how justice works in Florida. It doesn't.

[floriduh voter]

So, Jeb Bush turns the investigation over to Charlie Crist who is not independent but in bed w/law enforcement.

The Sheriffs and cops complained to Jeb and he took the case away from the states attorneys and gave it to Crist. It will drag on and on now. This is rare that Jeb didn't give a case to Pinellas County's Bernie McCabe and gave it to Crist to investigate. Jeb's changing his methods but this will disappear, just like Martin Anderson's death investigation has disappeared. Jeb is more magician than governor.

NEWS FROM A LEGAL WEB SITE: UNION, FLAGLER SHERIFF DENOUNCE STATE ATTORNEY-- Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com, June 20, 2006. Bunnell law enforcement officials came out swinging Monday [June 19], accusing State Attorney John Tanner of leading a "crusade" against Bunnell police and deputies and calling his investigation of the Flagler County Jail a "witch hunt." Flanked by dozens of employees of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office and supporters, local and state representatives of the Coastal Florida Police Benevolent Association gathered outside Tanner's Daytona Beach office to protest Tanner's investigation of the Flagler jail. The controversy has included two jail guards being charged with twice strapping Tanner's daughter into a restraint chair in March 2005. Jim Spearing, the union's statewide political coordinator, called for Gov. Jeb Bush to remove Tanner from the jail investigation and replace him with officials from state Attorney General Charlie Crist's office. [Updated: 07-01-2005 ]

FV Says: The union is real tight with Crist. Tanner's daughter's claims against her jail guards will disappear. That's how justice works in Florida. It doesn't.

[floriduh voter]

See last posts. More monkey business in Florida. See how it's done.

[floriduh voter]

Florida cop union takes on state attorney. The sadists who worked overtime to make sure Terri died and that her parents couldn't get closer than one foot to her or give Terri some ice for her parched lips are in this union.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13421938/

[floriduh voter]

Here's the BOTTOM LINE. SA Tanner is a born again Christian. No wonder the cops and Sheriffs are after him. Florida's state sponsored religious persecution strikes again.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-mvtanner2606jun26,0,7362135.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state

(so IMO his daughter's claims of excessive force by the jailers might really get deep sixed by Crist since he's a secular humanist/phony conservative.) The state bowed to the union guys who oppose the born again state attorney by giving the case to Crist.

Phew! Crist is a big time Pontius Pilate.

[floriduh voter]

State Attorney Tanner prosecuted porn. In Florida, porn involves a lot of judges and lawyers. State Atty Harry Coe of Tampa was into porn and he allegedly killed himself under an overpass years ago.

From Orlando Sentinel: After praying with serial killer Ted Bundy, Tanner launched a crusade against pornography in Volusia, Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns counties. It cost him his job.

Now Tanner, who won his job back four years after the porn campaign, again has been accused of abusing his authority to pursue a personal cause.

(where's there an honest sheriff in Florida?)

[floriduh voter]

Sheriffs sticking with the jail guards who were caught on tape. (little problem now that it's been on Fox News)

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/062906/met_22222111.shtml

[T'wit]

>> If it was o.k. to kill Terri, why are they still here?

The question answers itself. It wasn't OK and somewhere in their hearts, they know it. They consciences are guilty (and should be!). They were part of a lynch mob that tortured a helpless woman to death. They have innocent blood on their hands.

[T'wit]

The writer, Kristen Reed, makes no effort to hide her prejudice. This isn't reporting, it's a hatchet job.