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
Doesn't anyone be-bop anymore? I don't even see folks wearing the blue suede shoes with the white rimmed soles.
When Terri started progressing, Mikey stopped it all. Too bad the judges didn't give Mikey the boot but I think they were complicit going way back. And, Greer was on the Guardianship Monitoring Committee and other state committees including the Pinellas Delegation to Tallahassee to ask for money for Pinellas. Greer essentially went to Tallahassee and begged Senator Jim King for funds for Pinellas County. Jim King very much wanted Terri dead so it was kind of a quid pro quo between Greer and King. The State will pay Pinellas Cty if you keep killing that girl. This information is verifiable. There is no judicial independence when a judge is in a delegation charged with requesting funds for their county.
Best of luck to you.
I never be-bopped. Was that after the jitterbug?
Yes, jitterbug was old fashioned LOL. We started bopping with Bill Haley and the Comets, Pat Boone, and Elvis just starting out. I still bop now that I lost weight.
Jus primae noctis
In your old zoot suit with the reet pleat?
It's astounding to me that people's positions on this thread are so weak and unable to stand up to a challenge that they would prefer to run to the moderator to have anybody who disagrees with them banned from the thread.
This only reinforces my conviction that I am right on this issue.
Somebody asked Dolly Parton where she got her hair done.
"I don't know," said Dolly. "I'm not there when my hair is done."
I find it rather sad that you take your wrath out on us here. Pinellas Park was filled with people with horrible problems, some with faith, some atheists, many terminal very soon. Yet, they held their chins up, to a person. Many of us on these threads have gone through terrible personal problems, yet don't whine or heckle others.
Especially, none of us use the tired old mantras of the left as you have and as trolls past have. You may not be a troll, but if you look at your attacks on decent people here, you will see a mirror of trolls long past. Measure your posts here today against those of trolls in past threads and you will see the resemblance.
It isn't your opinion, it is a leftist mantra you repeat. I am sorry about your situation and sympathize with it, but I for one do not excuse it.
http://libertytothecaptives.net/affidavit_of_carla_iyer.html
cute.
I think maybe this one will hit the fan. Carla was required by law to report mistreatment of a patient. If she does in fact lose her license for doing what the law requires, let the war begin.
Michael Schiavo is either a liar or delusional. I know of no other explanation for his numerous contradictiory statements and actions over the years. I guess it's vaguely conceivable that Terri did actually make the claimed statements to Michael and his kin, and that she meant them as Michael et al. have implied (note that a request not to have "life support", in the 1980's, would generally not have meant a request to deny feeding and hydration). Of course, it's also vaguely conceivable that felines are descended from a race of extra-terrestrials that came from the Andromeda galaxy.
It Michael were telling the truth about Terri's wishes, why did he wait until he met George Felos before making them known to anyone? And why didn't his relatives tell him about her wishes until after his credibility on the subject was questioned? I could understand holding off on revealing her wishes until after he'd gotten the malpractice money. That would be despicable but at least logical. But why didn't he recount her wishes while he was trying to kill his wife through neglect? It makes no sense.
Can you offer me any logical explanation for Michael's actions that does not require him to either be a liar or delusional?
No, it's because you keep acting like a troll.
>> the moderator once again wants to ban me from these threads because he/she/it doesn't agree with my opinion.
Garbage. The Admin Moderator did not express an opinion. You were trolling and were told to knock it off. Listen to yourself. Your comments are rude, personal and childish.
>> Do you know what an embarrassment infantile arguments like yours are to the pro-life movement?
>> You need to wake up to reality.
>> You need to grow up
>> Polly wanna cracker?
>> ...parroting the same infantile accusations.
>> Polly wanna cracker?
>> I've been a member of Free Republic far longer than you have.
>> Ugh! You beat me by 8 months! I hate you.
>> You need to grow up
>> Who do you think you are?
>> How dare you pretend to be so morally superior on these issues
>> What a simpleton.
"The Law Office of Eileen Sullivan-Boss provides legal services in cases involving elder and disability law and guardianship and probate matters. Families and individuals with disabilities are offered assistance in establishing eligibility for public benefits and services from appropriate state agencies."
I am asking for research purposes and am not asserting that this is the Eileen Sullivan who is interfering in Carla Iyer's livelihood but it's a possibility. This law office is in Massachusetts. FV
Address and other particulars available. I suppose in a pinch we could ask her :-)
http://www.wnec.edu/communicator/news/2003/0217lawoptions.html
I wonder if DOH documents are FOI or classified.
The complaint sounds like lawyer talk to me. This wasn't an outraged Democrat housewife.
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