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
If he does, I bet it would be a curious read...
I recently cleaned out my purse. In it, I found the information on the lady that joined us in protesting in front of St. Luke's Hospital in Houston, when they were trying to kill my sister:
Sylvia Garza's sister was in the hospital (St. Luke's Episcopal) with pneumonia for 3.5 weeks and developed sepsis (an infection in the blood, just like Andrea) and the doctors recommended to the family that she be taken off of life support. Sylvia's sister, who had never drank or smoked in her life, was 62 years old. Her brain was functioning normally, but doctors didn't think that she could survive the sepsis. They "counseled" the family to take her off of the respirator and the family reluctantly agreed.
IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANDREA CLARK
8mm
And a lot of other names. He forgets that he is representing his point of view -- that he is a spokesman and salesman for his beliefs. The ruder he is to others and the more obstreperous* his manner, the more he gives both his friends his beliefs a big black eye.
* That means loud and unruly, RP.
"When the argument is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser" -- attributed to Socrates / Sophocles
8mm
No, but coping with the struggling person you're trying to choke does. Unless you're Mr. Spock.
So, this is your fallback position? Now that you can no longer deny that Terri had irreversible brain damage, now it's time to roll out the "Michael caused the irreversible brain damage by choking her" argument? Even though you have no proof whatsoever?
The truth is, nobody knows why Marsellus tossed Tony Rocky Horror out of that window except Marsellus and Tony Rocky Horror. And nobody knows what caused the episode fifteen years ago that resulted in Terri's injury. Not even you.
Are you implying Greer is alive?
Haters call people they hate haters.
In a column taking on several media entities and individuals who bug him, Ad Age's "media guy" asks: "Would it kill you, 'Godless' author Ann Coulter, to do us all a favor and kill yourself? (Oh, well, yeah, I guess it would kill you."
"After her recent rabidly hateful, foaming-at-the-mouth, sub-human 'Today' show appearance – in which she reiterated her assertion that 9-11 widows are 'enjoying their husband's (sic) deaths' – even her former supporters began to fantasize about how much nicer the world would be if it were Coulterless," wrote Dumenco.
Ad Age columnist suggests Coulter kill herself
8mm
No contest. He's twice her size and strength. All he has to do is choke for a few seconds and -- suddenly he is awakened by a thud...
Are you feeling ok?
Those words and thoughts you quote are not mine at all. Your posts are starting to sound like you are losing it.
When I get that way, I take extra doses of magnesium. Phillips Milk of Magnesia works that way too.
You bet! It scares the bejeesus out of me.
The thought that people like you could prevent me from exercising my right to die with dignity, forcing my family to suffer the emotional and financial burden of caring for my lifeless body as long as science is able to support it is a frightening one. When your santimonious pro-life fanaticism starts to infringe on my freedom or the freedom of others, I'm going to say something about it. Every time.
Oh. Anyone who thinks that calling Judge Greer a murderer is intelligent discourse should not lecture anyone on the definition of intelligence.
People like you>>> You mean Freerepublic?
And I refer to Mikey and the Murderers, not just judgiepoo
And I bet you think society has no obligation to honor it.
Gosh, 8mm, I didn't hear you say any of these things. Let me just check that... Nope, nothing there but a link with a lead quotation.
RP makes things up. Then he carries on thundering arguments with his own fantasies. By the time he says "so," I start chuckling. He imagines that he's reading others' minds, but you immediately learn he's just projecting what's in his head for all to see.
That's not nice. Nobody here would dream of interfering with your right to die with dignity.
You posted them. Take responsibility.
Pretty cowardly, though typical, for you to post something totally outrageous and unsupported, then back away by saying, "Hey, these aren't my words!".
That's exactly what I was talking about in my earlier post -- the innuendo, the gossip, the character assassination. You've provided an excellent example of that.
** Ping **
It would be reasonable to hypothesize that Michael knows.
Assuming he doesn't have a change of heart and tell us about it, it's perfectly all right for the rest of us to examine the evidence available, develop other information if possible, and try to find the answer. Denial does not get one anywhere.
I mean, I know there was no evidence that she was stabbed but, then again, there was no evidence she was choked, either. So why aren't you suggesting that maybe he stabbed her?
Poisoned, that's it! Michael poisoned her. Then he shot her! Since the coroner couldn't determine whether it was the poison or the bullet that killed her, he labeled the death "undetermined". There's the proof you were looking for!
You guys and your conspiracy theories.
Suggest you find another thread to post on.
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