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]

If the Republican National Convention chooses Tampa, we'll have a giant Justice for Terri Rally in 2008.

[Lesforlife]

Lord let it be so!

[floriduh voter]

As soon as it is a done deal, plans can be made. Freepers should stay in Pinellas and make reservations asap. We should have a freeper pow-wow, maybe at the park where we held Terri's LAST BIRTHDAY before they killed her.

[floriduh voter]

Daily dose:

http://www.renewamerica.us/

[floriduh voter]

Katherine Harris won't cow tow to GOP party (she's kewl).

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-bk-harris06052006,0,2042110.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

[floriduh voter]

Katherine Harris (she knows something about the party elites. They are also responsible for what happened to Terri.)

"I will be beholden to no one but the people, not the party elite, not the press and certainly not even doing what's popular," said Harris, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run against Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. "I'm going to be doing what's right.

Katherine Harris

FV asks: What does today's GOP have against women?

[floriduh voter]

RINO on the bench protected by fat cat republicans.

Please ask Tallahassee's Dave Simmons to impeach Judge Greer. It's long overdue. I asked him in person while Terri was still hanging in there. He told me "Terri would be a martyr." Well, okay. But, Greer is still a judge. We asked for Terri to be rescued and for Judge Greer to be impeached. DAVE SIMMONS didn't do either. He's the head of the House Judiciary Committee. Seems like he's not a man of his word by not impeaching Greer. He said he would.

Unfortunately, he was truthful about Terri's demise. The feds rescue was cancelled the Monday after Easter concurrent with out mtg with Simmons. Simmons KNEW the feds cancelled Terri's rescue when we met w/him in his Orlando office. There are FIVE WITNESSES that he promised to impeach Greer. Is he derelict in his duty for being less than truthful to constituents being that he's the head of the judiciary committee? Does anyone do what they say in Florida politics? Only if it's something bad do they follow through.

[killjoy]

would allow for a state to murder an innocent woman

How can you murder someone who was already dead? Terri died in 1990. Get over it.

[Lesforlife]

TROLL ALERT!!

What an appropriate moniker!!

[TheSpottedOwl]

In South Africa, a 28-year-old man who had been comatose for three years after an accident has awakened. He even talks and recognizes friends. He had been in a persistent vegetative state since 2003 with massive head injuries after being struck by a truck. After Zolpidem was prescribed for him, he awoke and his brain function began improving. He's given half a dose of Zolpidem in the morning and again at noon which keeps him awake eight hours a day.

That sounds promising. Terri could have perhaps benefitted from this drug. I say perhaps, because I don't believe she was truly PVS, just neglected. It wouldn't have hurt to try, in a more just world. This could mean a world of difference to so many people.

As for Greer, he doesn't appear to have a conscience. Imo, and I'm pretty rusty on Shakespeare, Lady MacBeth's conscience was haunting her for her evil deeds. It is unheard of, at least to me, for a judge to comment on a case he presided over. To make jokes about it, is cause to kick his ass off the bench.

[TheSpottedOwl]

That was a pretty powerful article. She's right. Sometimes I feel like a frog in a nice warm kettle.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Trusts set up in Florida to protect wards are anything but trusts. They are money laundering networks. If the operators of the trust is challenged, what is their rebuttal? "I had a Court Order." That's how it's done.

This what I have tried to convey to my regular tax guy in an email this morning. I wasn't allowed to choose my own accountant to go over the books and work with me in an official capacity. End result, I find out that I owe the IRS, and that the idiot accountant(crony) submitted the wrong paperwork to the IRS, which means my tax guy is going to have to fight to fix. They made me sound like I was in business for myself, and not just a family member who was executing a will.

The financial institution which was chosen, the attorney, and the accountant, besides the temporary conservator, milked my parents estate for every nickle they could get.

I've certainly gotten an education from this nightmare. I hope others can prevent this from happening to them and their loved ones.

[TheSpottedOwl]

To answer both posts together, Coates might not be as stupid as Rice, but he follows the "protocol" in this particular Law Enforcement Agency. As far as Rice and Crist go, they can want all they wish to, but it's ultimately up to the voters. There are a lot of people who will remember what happened to Terri, Martin, and a host of other people. It's not over yet.

President Bush is driving me nuts with his stance. Actually, we have coyotes up here, real ones. I think the human ones would be better described as scum. Oh yes, let's make everything warm and fuzzy. Don't worry about the blatant inhumanity being practiced in your own country, the land of the free and the home of the brave.

BAH!

[T'wit]

>> Get over it.

Here's some bad news for you (and for Michael Schiavo). People NEVER "get over it." We never forget great injustices. We never lose our interest in unsolved mysteries. There will be no peace for Terri's killers, not now, not ever. Live with it.

[killjoy]

Here's some bad news for you (and for Michael Schiavo).

Not bad news for me, I don't care. :)

[8mmMauser]

I remember the Wilbur Mills/Fanny Foxe swim very well, was in DC at the time. A bit earlier I was in France, hitched back to DC on a congressional airplane and it happened to be the Wilbur Mills junket plane. Wow, what a deal! It was filled with personal stuff and we didn't even have to worry about a customs check at Andrews, were just rushed through to awaiting cars. I could have brought in an elephant. (or donkey)

He was Mr. Junket.

[8mmMauser]

I remember in Bankok we didn't have all that much access to news, but that was many years ago. There have been countless updates since 1990 on Terri's condition in the ensuing years. Much of it can be found on our Terri Daily threads which you have just found.

You will find the threads are long and filled with cross references, facts, and evidence and in keeping with the spirit of Freerepublic which is decidedly Pro Life. They are interrupted occasionally by interlopers who are here by mistake, or who intentionally try to disrupt.

As you can see in the post I am about to make, it has a picture of Terri at two years after the attempt to kill her. She was doing fine. We also have a lengthy audio of medical experts discussing her condition throughout. It is very difficult to conclude that she was not the victim of a nefarious effort to have her put to death from the time Mikey won his malpractice lottery.

We wish you well in reading and learning.

Eschew denial.

[8mmMauser]

From National Review Online, by Ramesh Ponnuru...

Excerpt:

...................

John Derbyshire has written a long attack on pro-lifers, my book, and me. Opening lines: “Can Right to Life (hereinafter RTL) fairly be called a cult? This is a point on which I cannot make up my mind.” It is, I suppose, to Derbyshire’s credit that he does not pretend to be “personally opposed” to abortion or euthanasia, but rather straightforwardly argues for them.

He does, however, get some of his facts wrong. He writes: “Some people would say that a writer who refers to embryos as ‘the young,’ to Mrs. Schiavo as ‘disabled,’ or to the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment as having carefully pondered its implications for abortion, is just plain dishonest.” Derbyshire is making three accusations here, and none of them is true. Although it might be reasonable to refer to embryos as “the young,” depending on the context, I don’t do it in The Party of Death

Unreason

8mm

(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[T'wit]

>> How can you murder someone who was already dead? Terri died in 1990.

History will certainly find that she was murdered by her husband. If you (and Michael) want to date it to 1990, keep in mind that he's the only suspect.

[killjoy]

I remember in Bankok we didn't have all that much access to news, but that was many years ago.

Believe it or not, Thailand even has Internet access now.