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Terri Schiavo's fight to live is the new civil right's cause for our century that we must embrace. Her stand for life must be preserved. Justice demands that we initiate a nationwide petition drive in every home, every community and in every meeting hall. Every office and every religious institution and place of worship should circulate petitions that acknowledge, "Freedom For Life...I Am A Human...Let Me Live" as the new rallying cry for our nation.

Why now? We need it now, because too often the fight for preservation of life is typically played out in the nation's headlines only in order to preserve the life of murderers, and perpetrators of the most heinous crimes against humanity. These are the ones whom receive the hundreds of thousands of dollars and even millions of signatures gathered by Hollywood celebs.

Americans get involved in those causes because these entertainers, these Hollywood and liberal icons hold concerts, host mammoth fundraisers all to preserve a death row inmate's 14th Amendment Due Process protection. Even recently convicted murderer Scott Peterson will be afforded those same protections that Michael Schiavo, Terri Schiavo's husband feels is nothing more than an irritating interference by "outsiders". We have we heard that phrase before...Hmmm... perhaps by former opponents of landmark civil rights legislation to "interfere on behalf of blacks in the south who were being discriminated against 'states' and state law who knew what was best for the black residents of those Jim Crow states."

Now is the time for those same liberals who marched and faith leaders who spoke then and now so eloquently about the affirmative action to protect the civil rights of Blacks to understand that there is also an intrinsic connection between her civil rights' freedom to live and the same civil rights freedoms argued for and won in the 1950s and 60s.

Yet, there these icons of the civil rights movement of the 60s sit, waiting and watching for the next exercise by the state to deprive a poor tortured human murder machine, a death row inmate of his just due. And yes, they would have missed the moral point altogether.

It has become too easy to be an advocate for the guilty. It is far more difficult to mentally deal with the haunting images of the innocent victims. The cry for justice that Terri Schiavo's family has asked for all these years has been ignored because it has not fit into a neat dramatic Hollywood-like ideological package.

You see, in order for a Hollywood type like Susan Sarandon or Sean Penn to get involved in a cause, there has to be some real drama. You remember their film they did several years ago. "Dead Man Walking". Hollywood called it a good film that was full of passion and drama. There sat this human killing machine on death row, and yet somehow it evoked the passion filled emotions of the left to call upon the sainted liberal angels of America to save others like him from the hangman's noose, from "ole Sparky's electric chair accommodation or even death by firing squad.

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