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

[mtbopfuyn]

Yes, Terry will need more to run on than the Terri issue. He seems to be carrying a lot of excess baggage as well that will have to be overcome. It's good King will be having to answer to his behavior, I don't know that the voters will be swayed. There's too many out there who think Terri was a worthless piece of nothing that was taking up other's air space.

What is the ratio of retirees in that district? Can they be woken up?

[8mmMauser]

They wind up on ours, too, at the beginnings of new threads, but as the threads evolve, they go away or are chased away. They are attracted to death issues like flies to road kill.

They have limited mantras to use and just keep repeating them. Unfortunately for them, they are outgunned by facts and logic their dwarfed mantras cannot support.

That is why from time to time I post the Troll Crossing sign. Sometimes it is better for them to argue with themselves and wind up self-unmasked in their frustration.

[8mmMauser]

You would think with all the seniors approaching their own dates with destiny, they would swarm to the side of Terri, but I guess most stay stubborn to the end.

I keep hearing about how there are no atheists in a foxhole, yet have known too many who carry their stubborn resistance right out the gate, although who knows what happens at the last moments. So many times, I thought people would reconsider in the last hours, but nope, they grit their teeth (if they got 'em) and continue their track.

Tough to understand.

[supercat]

You would think with all the seniors approaching their own dates with destiny, they would swarm to the side of Terri, but I guess most stay stubborn to the end.

To side with Terri would require the seniors to acknowledge that there are people out there who want to kill them. Much more pleasant to pretend no such people exist.

[T'wit]

No particular reason to suspect Eileen Sullivan is a pseudonym. But what standing does a Massachusetts citizen have to bring an action against a Floridian via the Florida Department of Health? I think Sullivan may be vulnerable to a lawsuit for malicious mischief.

[Dante3]

Good point.

[T'wit]

>> Just maybe this action will backfire.

It could, it could. Something's going to blow. Before Terri, Jeb Bush actually was regarded as the best governor in America. Now his ratings are in the sewer. Florida's reputation is sinking just as fast. Jim King's "legacy" E-Z-Death Law to bump off seniors and raid their estates is going to sink the whole huge Florida retirement industry in time. Nobody in his right mind will retire in Florida.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I'd have to say that I have a couple of views on subjects that could be construed as libertarian. Moral absolutes are just that however...absolute.

[Jorge]

Ok, enough. You win.

My intention was not to upset people, and if I did so I apologize.

[T'wit]

Thank you. That took courage and I appreciate it.

We're not here to fight. We're here to learn and to exchange views and to find truth. When we keep the forum on that level, we all win.

Best regards.

[Jorge]

Well said. Thanks :)

[8mmMauser]

Baby Daniel's Fight Update...

Thanks, BB, for the good news.

DALLAS - After a hospital's ethics board ruled that it would be futile to keep an 11-month-old on life support, another facility is now expected to take the boy.

Daniel Cullen II will be transferred to Truman W. Smith Children's Care Center, a long-term pediatric nursing facility in Gladewater, the Dallas Morning News reported in Saturday editions.

11-month-old on life support will be transferred

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



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

[8mmMauser]

Tom Flannery reports on World Net Daily...

The first of the moral restraints to be disposed of is always the sanctity of human life. In a Darwinian world, natural selection is the ruling ethos and will always prevail, so the powerful must overwhelm and annihilate the powerless. We saw that clearly enough in the case of Terri Schiavo.

For as much fanfare as Darwin's book "The Origin of Species" has received over the past century and a half, precious little notice has been paid to its subtitle: "The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life."

The idea of a superior race eliminating all "inferiors" on the basis of evolutionary dogma originated not with Hitler, but with Darwin. Not surprisingly, this was an idea also enthusiastically embraced by the racist and eugenicist Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.

Darwinism's bitter fruits

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[8mmMauser]

When Conrad was 17 months old, his paternal grandfather was babysitting him at his home in Temple. The two were in the back yard, playing. Dave Tullis went inside to get a drink of water. He bent over to load dishes in the dishwasher. When he looked out the window, he saw what he thought was a bundle of clothes floating in the swimming pool. It was his grandson.

Under water for unknown minutes, Conrad suffered major brain damage. Today he can't walk or talk. His dark eyes seem perpetually caught in a 100-mile stare, with fleeting moments of recognition. He frequently lapses into a placid smile. Ribbons of drool sometime hang from his lips, which his parents gently wipe away.

Family focuses on healing son who nearly drowned two years ago

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[8mmMauser]

Negron has used his position in the Legislature as head of appropriations to build a network of political support. The most outspoken conservative on the platform, he said he would have opposed the courts on the Terry Schiavo decision. He made a strong statement in favor of privacy and spoke in opposition to privatizing government functions, pointing out that it had not worked in juvenile justice.

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My guess is that Negron is the Republican candidate to beat. Under our election law, he does not need a majority but just has to be the leader in the primary to face Campbell in the general election. From there the governorship is on the horizon.

Powerful but little known

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[8mmMauser]

Catholic Online...

We who bear the name of Christ in this Third Christian Millennium are called to speak truth to error and resist unbridled power. We must build a new a culture of life and a civilization of love. We must bring an end to “legal” abortion –it is the taking of human life, no matter how small that human life is, and you simply cannot have a “right” to do what is wrong. We must protect the elderly, the infirm and the disabled against those who, while espousing a feigned concern for a “quality of life”, actually want to kill those who are “inconvenient” rather than care for them. Our dear martyr for life Terri Schiavo, has shown us the truth. We must never back down in opposing all euthanasia, active or passive.

EXCLUSIVE: Thank You Cardinal Lopez Trujillo

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[8mmMauser]

A new GOP candidate with clear opinions on Terri Schiavo, (not the same Jeb)...

Michael Callis of Conway quietly threw his hat into the ring earlier this month, challenging Rep. Jeb Bradley to a GOP primary race. He hails from Eaton Center, near Conway, and is a stone mason and musician by profession. He attended high school at Manchester Central and is well versed in New Hampshire history.

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A self-proclaimed liberal Republican, he said his party is spending too much time on far-right and frivolous legislation, such as a flag-burning ban amendment and getting involved with the Terri Schiavo case.

"I'm really an oddball because there are no liberal Republicans," he said.

Jeb's GOP rival

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[8mmMauser]

The big weekend is here. May we reflect on the words of Kevin Fobbs at the start of this thread...

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.

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[T'wit]

Glad to see that this child is still alive! It sure looked as if they'd cannibalize him.

[8mmMauser]

I suppose that spotlight caused them to sweat.