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

[Lesforlife]

Did you read where a woman greeted him as he got off the plane with
"murderer!!!"?

[Scotswife]

If I remember correctly Mark examined Michael's various statements concerning the timeline of that morning and came to the conclusion, according to Michael's own words, that there was a gap of at least 45 minutes from the time of Terri's collapse to the time he got around to calling the emergency squad.

I remember the part where he noted in all of Michael's versions of the story the one consistent part was that Michael "heard a thud".
I don't remember him saying Michael saw her fall.
I'll have to go back and reread that....it's been awhile.

[Scotswife]

"Infants and small children have better chances to overcome brain injuries than mature people."

My son is a good example of that. A survivor of traumatic brain injury - complete recovery.

[T'wit]

>> I'll have to go back and reread that....it's been awhile.

Please do. I'm pretty sure of my recollection, but it is only a recollection. Don't want to pass out any bad information.

[T'wit]

God bless for a happy ending! Thanks for the insight.

[T'wit]

>> I recognize Chelsea is not a Foster child, but of a wicked Web.

Bill's little girl, fer shure. I'll explain sometime, but for now, I have to hit the road for a couple of days. Will check in if I can.

[8mmMauser]

Have a safe trip!

[tuckrdout]

bump

[T'wit]

Hawaya, hawaya! Gnaw ommin N'Yawk awretty. Ollswell.

Ciao!

[bjs1779]

Wow! It's been WEEKS since I heard anyone stick up for Fatty :-) :-)

The History channel did a complete smear on him about a year ago, or at least that is when I first saw it. It really shook my confidence in anything the History Channel has to say, about anything.

[T'wit]

>> The History channel did a complete smear on him about a year ago,

He got a bum rappe.

[8mmMauser]

Liberals as fools...

As more details emerge, the media have begun to ask whether Zarqawi’s life could have been saved given that he was alive for almost an hour after the bombing. They have even floated the possibility that medical aid was purposefully denied to him. The media’s concern for Zarqawi contrasts glaringly with their attitude toward Terri Schiavo when they cheered those who denied her life-sustaining nourishment.

This behavior is yet another striking illustration of the moral madness that is liberalism. Only liberals could show concern for a murderous monster while gleefully watching a disabled woman starve to death. The odious ideology to which they adhere so corrodes their moral sensibilities that they almost completely lose their sense of compassion, proportion, justice and decency. Only thus can they campaign for the killing of babies and the disabled while fretting about the possible lack of medical attention to a head-chopping beast. Terrible is indeed the moral affliction from which these people suffer.

Zarqawi, Schiavo and liberal madness

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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]

Liberals as fools part 2...

Substitute the word "fool" for "liberal" in this article from a Liberal.

Fools never "get it."

The dual meaning of this question is intentional. On the one hand, why have liberals proved themselves unable to effectively counter conservatives as the right-wing of our country has monopolized many of our public discourses? On the other, why has "liberal" become a dirty word in some circles; what is really right or wrong about liberal values, approaches, and public policy?

Liberals have been playing defense for decades, outspent, out-bullied, out-organized, and out-strategized by conservatives in the struggle for the hearts and minds of the American electorate. Why haven't liberals been able to stand up for what they believe in and articulate their beliefs to the public? Where, for example, is the liberal outrage as the gulf between rich and poor widens? Who's yelling as our "law and order" president declares himself above the law? Where is it written that conservatives own the flag, family values, and matters of faith? What's going on when small-government conservatives want to pass laws reaching into the womb to protect life before birth and reaching into the tomb (as in Terry Schiavo's case) to protect life after death? Where is the anger as environmental safeguards are eroded?

Kaufman: 'What's wrong with liberals' is topic

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[8mmMauser]

Liberals as fools part 3...

One year ago: The autopsy released on Terri Schiavo backed the contention of her husband, Michael, that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding she was severely and irreversibly brain-damaged and blind as well.

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

Today in History

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[8mmMauser]

Liberals as fools part 4...

On Liberal Kaufman's assessment of liberals by a liberal of a different stripe...

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Rep. Jay Kaufman has articulated and stood for many good liberal values but he has crossed the line in using Terry Schiavo's death to highlight "liberal values" ("Kaufman open house shines light on liberalism," June 8 Advocate).

    It is sad that from the top of the Democratic Party (Howard Dean) to the local level (Representative Kaufman) the Democratic position seems to be "better dead than disabled." It is especially sad for me since I am a lifelong Democrat.
    Without regard for or even awareness of the many disability groups who opposed the death of Terry Schiavo, Democrats seem to persist in seeing her death as a victory over the religious right rather than a denial of assistance and supports to those in the disability community.
    Can't we just leave Terry Schiavo alone and allow her family, i.e. her mother and father, brother and sister, to grieve their loss without demeaning their and their daughter's struggle for her life? And can't the Democratic party - my party - find some other issue to highlight like ending the various forms of discrimination (housing, jobs, education, acceptance) against people with disabilities?
    Barbara Cutler
    Teresa Circle

Letter: Kaufman crossed the line

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[8mmMauser]

More weeping for the murderers, no tears left over for victims...

Death is still an unpopular subject, despite public support for Terri Schiavo's right to die. But at least now doctors and hospitals urge us all to provide legal end-of-life do-not-resuscitate and no-heroic-measures directives. If you've ever been grateful that a loved one got you off the hook by "having it in writing," it's partly stubborn, crusading old Dr. Kevorkian you can thank.

Kevorkian antagonized a lot of people with his in-your-face flaunting of the "Do not kill no matter what" mandate. He thinks it was his crusading political and legal attacks that made Michigan throw away the key. "The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal." Yet he's sure: "I'll die in prison. There is nothing anyone can do. The public has no power."

Judi K-Turkel: Plea for a forgotten fighter - Let Kevorkian die at home with dignity

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[8mmMauser]

As Kervorkian fades, soon to meet his specialty,Coleus pings us to a thread on the British guy who seeks non-voluntary snuffing...

We Need Non-Voluntary Euthanasia, Says British Expert

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[T'wit]

Liberals as spawn of the devil! AMERICAN THINKER gives us a moral masterpiece in two paragraphs.

[T'wit]

The Capitol TIMES, apart from being leftist, has a long tradition of communing with moonbeams. Its reporters wake in the evening and fly out of a cave. Its editors sacrifice a chicken every morning and haruspicate its entrails for the editorial pages.

[T'wit]

We have all heard of hyphenated names, but -- K-Turkel? Was K her maiden name? "Do you, Judi K, take Tom Turkel to be your lawful domestic partner arrangement with guaranteed municipal benefits?"