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

[T'wit]

It is amazing to me how many decent, good-hearted people bought into the media line on Terri without looking further or questioning the contradictions. (Several of my church-going Christian relatives, e.g.) They rattle through the official liberal litany about Terri already being "dead." Usually they add that this was a "tragedy" for all concerned (also part of the litany), to prove they have compassion. Then evidently their consciences are cleansed. They needn't lose any self-esteem over approving the cruel execution of a helpless disabled woman.

It took guts for Chuck Colson to keep digging, to realize he'd been had, and to say so.

[T'wit]

>> New Jersey Looking to Harvest More Organs by Easing "Brain Death" Criteria

I suppose we should thank New Jersey for making its intentions so plain. Good people don't want to believe that medicine is being assaulted and infected by Death Culture ethics -- but it is. They want to believe that doctor knows best -- but they forget that nowadays doctor has built-in money issues such as Medicare, HMO rules and malpractice insurance. They want to believe that doc is a healer who took an oath never to harm patients -- but the Hippocratic Oath has been watered down and discarded for decades. (The oath did after all prohibit abortion. Today reciting that part of the oath would be "hate speech.") They want to believe that doctor is a Christian gentleman, and he may well be -- but his decisions may be overruled by hospital "ethics" committees which have turned the word "ethics" into a synonym for killing patients.

New Jersey's plan shows what is really going on -- killing patients for spare parts. Very profitable business, this. Designed in Hell.

[8mmMauser]

A different situation indeed in New Jersey, a kid not much different from our own now deceased son, of the condition many consider as useless eaters...

Michael's condition worsened. Doctors discovered that a hemorrhage in his brain destroyed almost the entire right side. Within two weeks, his head swelled from the size of a plum to the size of a cantaloupe, Porter said.

Before doctors could operate at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Michael's lung collapsed, making it nearly impossible for him to survive if he underwent surgery. Doctors suggested that Michael be taken off life support.

Brick boy picked to represent NJ's disabled

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[Mr. Silverback]

Thanks for the cross reference, friend.

[T'wit]

>> Liberals are omniscient in their own minds.

Liberals do not have minds. They are cells in one great liberal mind known as THE INSUFFERABLE POOHBAH. You see where Toto is barking? Poohbah is behind that curtain.

[T'wit]

We hope it wasn't too cross, friend :-)

[T'wit]

>> not that titillatingly either.

Decidedly not titillating! I have a sizeable file of photos that show groups of people in their birthday suits doing funny things. No, not that stuff, just funny, like riding bicycles in San Francisco buck naked.

My filename for it is "Liberals." (Because conservatives don't DO this stuff, that's why.)

[bjs1779]

"The New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners wants to change the rules to allow just one physician to declare brain death."

Murderers.

[8mmMauser]

I watched a show on National Geographic or some such. (OK, I do watch some tv sometimes...) It was about killer ants. Wow, the liberals have a perfect model. The more I watched the more parallels I saw. Ah, to be an ant and love communism, the dream of fools.

[8mmMauser]

Always glad to help.

Warm regards,

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[8mmMauser]

From Middletown Journal, Ohio...

Being a life-long pro-life supporter, I am 100 percent behind the ban on abortion in the state of Ohio, proposed by Rep. Tom Brinkman in HB 228 and hope to see our state take the lead in turning around the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973.

As I see it, such a negative approach to life can only bring on further negative issues, as has been demonstrated in our country since this death sentence legalized the killing of the most innocent and vulnerable lives of our “civilized” nation.

Long before Roe v. Wade, I grew up in the wonderful 1950s — a time when abortion was virtually unheard of in our country. (Totally unknown to me, growing up in rural Wayne Twp., Butler County). No, it was not a utopia in those times; however, family values were important to young and old alike. Yes, sadly, some illegal abortions took place. I’ve learned of approximately 1 million documented cases nationwide between 1950 and 1960. But no one can document that 4,000 to 4,500 babies were killed daily then as they are today.

Snip...

The long-range affects of Roe v. Wade have changed the whole culture of our society. As well as other social and cultural changes at the time of the early 1970s, the ACLU, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, NOW and other feminist movements turned our nation around to become what it is today, I believe.

With respect and sanctity for life taken from our nation, we have moved into the culture of death. We now allow euthanasia, as recently witnessed in the death of Terri Schiavo a year ago. Our humanity now decides who has the right to live and to die, a right that up until recent times was reserved for our creator.

My View: Banning abortion protects nation's integrity, too

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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]

How liberals and fools think,tales bubbling from underneath the caldera...

Note how he treats the issue of Terri.

The documentary centers on Gore's highly effective PowerPoint presentation, which lays out in stark and undeniable terms the ways the buildup of carbon-dioxide emissions - caused by human activity, from factories to automobiles - is harming the planet. He lays out evidence linking global warming to a rise in average temperature, an increase in severity of major storms (such as Hurricane Katrina), and the shrinking of the polar icecaps.

Movies: The right's heated rhetoric clouds Gore's message

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[T'wit]

>> Ah, to be an ant and love communism, the dream of fools.

The dream of fools and losers. Who wants to be average except people who are below average? Who wants equality but losers?

Winners want to be superior. Winners want excellence. Winners want to make the most of themselves. Winners want to achieve, to stand out, to do better than the Joneses. Winners attain greatness and create wealth.

Losers never get anywhere unless they learn to pick themselves up and stop trying to tear everyone else down to their size.

[8mmMauser]

A perspective from Senator Danforth to the Episcopal Church on religious people and Terri and related...

Religion is either the direct cause of some of these conflicts or it contributes to the very polarization that makes addressing the conflicts so difficult. Terrorism obviously is religiously inspired; so is fighting in Iraq; so was the north/south civil war in Sudan; so was Kashmir; so was Bosnia, and on and on. People kill each other because they believe that God commands them to do so. And in our country, thank God we are not killing each other in the name of religion, but religious people acting in the name of Christ have championed the wedge issues that divide us, that cut the common ground out from under us, and make even discussing important questions so difficult. The marriage amendment, the issues of religion in public schools, the display of the Ten Commandments in court houses, the sad case of Terry Schiavo, and the list goes on.

From Columbus: Danforth's challenge to the Episcopal Church

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[T'wit]

>> I’ve learned of approximately 1 million documented cases nationwide between 1950 and 1960.

100,000 a year sounds 'way too high to me, though it's just a guess. Have you seen figures for this? Abortion was illegal in every state. Even if the laws weren't enforced rigorously, that's a startlingly high number of crimes. Remember Sherry Finkbine? She went abroad to kill her baby rather than risk an illegal abortion here.

[8mmMauser]

When the hospital bills you, Bill Colby...

In the largest study of seriously ill and dying people ever undertaken in the U.S., nearly a third of families reported the loss of most or all of the family savings in the last several months of their loved one’s life.

Put health care wishes on paper Guest Column

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[8mmMauser]

But being an ant, you can be a part of the greater good, at one with the rest of the ants, a part of a bigger thing. No need to think, just to do what you are assigned to do. An easy way out if one considers the greater good just nothingness.

[T'wit]

Did you know that "EPISCOPAL" anagrams to "PEPSI COLA"?

Isn't that more fun and more enlightening than listening to former Sen. Danforth bloviating?

[8mmMauser]

I gasp when I think how our simple family values of those heady days were universal and how quickly new generations emerged of people who can scarcely imagine them. I don't remember Sherry Finkbine, but the atmosphere was thus, such morality unthinkable.

[8mmMauser]

That is fascinating. Don Kendall, Chairman of Pepsico many years ago, pioneered detente efforts by bringing Pepsi to the Soviets and Stoly back here. He was one of the very first to spearhead commies as chums in the name of detente.