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
Terri failed three prior swallow tests. What makes you say a fourth would work? If four failed, then try five? Five fail, then six?
Judge Greer drew the line at three. You say he should have drawn the line at four. You're entitlted to your opinion.
You can leave. I'd be glad to take the blame.
Then what do you call it?
Because you pinged me when you mentioned my name in your post #213. You did do me the courtesy of a ping when you mentioned my name, didn't you?
You wouldn't be so cheap and underhanded not to ping me, right?
You are the one who used that word and put quotes around it. Perhaps you are the one to explain what you meant?
No, make it #214. #213 just goes to the page.
Supercat said nothing about a fourth test.
Good film. It holds up pretty well, even after 50 years. As I recall it, the one jarring weakness was, of all things, shabby songs by Cole Porter. A few are great, but Cole was not Cole for this one.
Let's see. I get confused with all these names.
Was Heidi law the neurologist, the doctor who administered the three swallow tests, her treating physician, the speech pathologist who examined her, or was she the candy striper whose notes the nurses threw away?
Why didn't Ms. Law testify at the hearing when Judge Greer was deciding Terri's fate? Why did she wait until three years after the hearing to make an affidavit?
What a whack job.
Perhaps you'd like to listen to it and get your facts straight? She did report it to the police.
If the timing matters so much, why did Michael Schiavo wait EIGHT years, and Scott and Joan Schiavo wait TEN years, before they "remembered" some vague alleged comments by Terri about not wanting to live that way.
No, you opened it instead on this thread. Unfortunately, not with the answer to the question I've repeatedly asked you.
Since you cannot back up your claim that Michael testified it was his wish, then I'm calling you a liar for saying it.
I gave you ample opportunity to back it up. You refused. I can only assume it's because you lied and you can't back it up.
Just start pouring food down her throat, huh? You're asking me why that wasn't done? You have to ask? Idiot.
Before they "remembered"? Ah. So you're saying they forgot? They forgot, then they remembered -- that's what your claiming?
So where's your proof that the three of them forgot? How do you know they forgot? Or are you simply making this up like everything else you post?
Let's not change the subject, again. Why did Heidi Law wait three years to say something? If she witnessed Terri swallowing food and water, shouldn't Judge Greer have been given that information at the 2000 hearing? Don't you agree that information is critical?
Why didn't Heidi Law testify?
She did or she said she did on TV? In her sworn affidavit, she says, "It is medically possible that Michael injected Terri with Regular insulin, which is very fast acting, but I don't have any way of knowing for sure".
In her sworn affidavit, she does admit to calling the police, but it was about another matter.
"She (Carolyn Adams -rp) made many comments about Terri being a waste of money, that she should die. She said it was costing Michael a lot of money to keep her alive, and that he complained about it constantly (I heard him complain about it all the time, too.) Both Michael and Adams said that she would be worth more to him if she were dead. I ultimately called the police relative to this situation, and was terminated the next day."
And why didn't she testify in the 2000 hearing when it could have made a difference?
That's irrational, and your calling me a liar does not make me one. I told you, I'm not doing freebies for you. If you want it, you go find it. I even gave you a hint how -- go read all of my posts about Terri. It's in there, and that way you'll get an education into the bargain.
>>I gave you ample opportunity to back it up. You refused. I can only assume it's because you lied and you can't back it up
Try assuming that you cannot give me orders, that I don't give a flying fig about your demands, and that you didn't say "please."
Nope. Wouldn't ask advice from you about anything like that. I just commented that you didn't read Supercat's post correctly, so your reply was useless.
No. Are you?
No.
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