What proof that the meeting took place? They served us orange juice in his downtown Orlando office. His conference room has a large picture window overlooking Orlando's skyline.
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
What proof that the meeting took place? They served us orange juice in his downtown Orlando office. His conference room has a large picture window overlooking Orlando's skyline.
Terri's rescue was cancelled the day after Easter (the day they voted to save her in D.C.). The public thought what congress did was what was really going on. But, what was really going on was that her rescue was cancelled and the courts already knew to stick with Judge Greer and to keep slamming doors for the Schindlers.
I spoke to dog. Dog denied it. Bad Eliza. Eliza tried to brain nice Scott from behind. Bad Bad Eliza. Eliza wants to finish Scott off now, keep his money. Dog bite Eliza.
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Every year since 1993, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried has introduced a bill that would give the families of incapacitated patients the legal right to make their medical decisions for them, and every year the measure has been neglected in Albany's end-of-session rush. This year was no exception.
The Family Health Care Decision Act is not as controversial as the bill that would that would have forced employers to give workers health insurance (which didn't make it to a vote after months of high-profile campaigning). It doesn't pack the financial punch of cuts to nursing homes or hospitals ($490 million of which were restored on the last day of the legislative session). But its fourteenth consecutive failure will have tragic implications for a number of New Yorkers, say health care advocates, the state bar association, and others who have been pushing for its passage for the last decade and a half.
Who Decides When The Patient Can't?
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
In a new television ad, Crist, who has fought the dreaded accusation that he's not a true conservative, sets out to bolster his conservative credentials.
At the same time, an independent, pro-Crist political committee, which Crist says has no connection to his campaign, is doing the same thing.
Crist Tries To Reach Religious Right
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The group wrote, “A mob of schoolchildren seized and beat the 7-year old son of pro-family activist David Parker behind his school, Estabrook Elementary, in Lexington , Massachusetts , on the second anniversary of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts .”
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“We'll handle it like a trespass,'' Gumm said.
Nine initiative petitions are circulating this summer in Nebraska, including one that would establish a limit on the growth of state spending and a “Terri Schiavo amendment” that would make it illegal to withhold food or water from an individual, unless that person has made the their will known in an advance directive. A statutory proposal would re-establish the elementary-only Class I schools dissolved this summer by lawmakers.
Complaints mounting over petition circulators
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Planned Parenthood Celebration Jolted by Abortion Survivor [Colorado]
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Pro-Euthanasia Documentary Wins EBU Festival Award
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Straight Death Cult blah-blah. These people aren't going to be satisfied until every patient, every human being, is in the hands of the Margaret Sanger-Theodore Bundy Memorial Bioethics Committee.
Any moment now! I just know it. I will not even take a break for meals so I will not miss this news when it breaks. (Well, maybe a snack...)
Our characters for the next scene will be fundamentalist Christian ultra-rightwing space aliens who have the nerve to oppose desperately needed tax increases and who want to keep brain-dead cabbages alive on respirators until their organs rot. You write the script. How shall these throwback thugs be portrayed?
1) Rude, noisy, pushy, obnoxious, mentally defective yahoos? [Hint: you got it!]
Or, 2) --- ? [Sorry, we can't think of anything else that fits these stupid wingnuts.]
This test counts for 90% of your semester grade. Just answer "1" and you'll get an A.
I answered "All of the above". Do I still pass?
>> This is hardly the violent liberal conspiracy darkly and breathlessly portrayed by the extreme right. Still, the facts did not get in the way of the right wing launching a vicious smear campaign full of inconsistencies and innuendo.
I believe!!
You haven't learned a thing this semester, have you, Mauser smarty-pants? Stay after school. You'll have to be disciplined.
Well, I will have you know I got a very nice write up from my other teacher. "This student isn't half as bad as they say..."
One of the candidates is honest. The other is a disgraced, dishonest, inept, pathetic windbag named Charlie who hangs around with corrupt lawyers and politicians.
Hard to tell the difference, eh, Craig?
{suspicious} Which other teacher? Ms. Flinckx, the self-esteem coach?
I won't tell. I almost got an A in self esteem. All the others got A's in self esteem as Ms. X said everybody is a winner and there are no losers but I think I understand what she meant, or not.
You should have gotten an "A" in self-esteem. Ms. Flinckx needs discipline. Have her report to me after school.
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