Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

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.

Aha! Not all ants are equal! There's always some imperialist ant, called the Queen, who enslaves the worker ants and lives in profusion off their toil.

Ants are war-mongers and flesh-eaters, too. Just try to enjoy your white wine and brie on a picnic. The ants will be there in five minutes, eating the cheese and running up and down your legs.

>> 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.

Let me translate that for you. "STOP SPENDING YOUR OWN MONEY! WE WANT TO STEAL IT! GO DIE!"

Let me also mention the law of unintended consequences while we're at it. If Big Brother discourages people from saving up for their old age health care, it will add a horrendous burden on workers via taxes -- or else the elderly will be denied care.

Stand by for death camps.

I remember when the fire ants arrived at our place in Florida. Now those are downright Daily Kos MoveOn type ants. Won many a skirmish with those critters, never won the battle. They killed the pollinators, swarmed all over our feet if we stood still a moment on our once functioning lawn, and sterilized the area of all life forms. Aggravate one, and the rest come swarming like trolls.

Consider the queen ants in their imperial gluttony, some joy they have, just as in liberal life, enslaved by their own system. A queen can't just get out of the nest once in a while to sample the brie or even to flirt with the metrosexual drones.

>> ...pioneered detente efforts...

I'd forgotten that. Billy Clinton must have favored detente, too. How else did Bubba the Peacenik manage to slither into Moscow in 1969 at the height of leftist agitation against the Vietnam War? Nobody visits Moscow in the winter, and in those days, there were no tourists anyway. The incident has never been explained.

Joseph Fels, Henry Ford, Cyrus Eaton, Armand Hammer, Frederick Vanderbilt Field... The commies always found a capitalist or two to help finance the revolution.

>> All their logic and efforts converge on that core goal.

Can the history of German death camps repeat? Of course it can. The Great War killed 40 million people and shocked the best minds of its generation into pessimism and despair -- even into abandoning hope for the human race.

A mere two decades later we did it all over again -- with twice as much carnage plus the Holocaust.

>> Stand by for death camps.

> All their logic and efforts converge on that core goal.

The logic is central to collectivist governments of all stripes, and we have that going in spades today.

Authoritarian government (ours, for the prominent example of the day) is ever on guard against its primary rival -- God. We see all around us the government war on Christian belief and government support for a godless, amoral Darwinian view. Hitler Germany followed both of these same scripts to the letter.

Darwinism is the Law of the Jungle writ large. Survival of the fittest, survival of the strongest, might makes right. In Germany, it was the Master Race versus the subhumans (Untermenschen).

Here it will be billed as the taxpayer versus old folks who are a cost burden to others (whether they pay their own way or not). Senior citizens, the disabled, babies born with handicaps, unwanted babies -- they are weak, they are expensive, they are useless eaters. They should all go die.

There is no mercy in Darwinism. There is no moral rule to stop the killings. It has begun.

>> Aggravate one, and the rest come swarming like trolls.

Speaking of whom, I found an excellent biblical description of trolls (Proverbs 6:16-19):

16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

>> I don't remember Sherry Finkbine, but the atmosphere was thus, such morality unthinkable.

She's google-able. She had taken Thalidomide (she said), so her baby was likely to be deformed. (One account said it would have had shortened legs, but could have led a fairly normal life.) Finkbine fought it in the courts here a bit, then flew to Sweden for her abortion.

>> Not much we can do about it T'wit, is there?

Keep doing what you do so well! Keep the faith, keep fighting; what's to fear? As Canon Bell said long ago, we may get swept away by the flood, but that doesn't mean we have to sing hosanna to the river gods.

Here's my favorite antidote to the blues: Isaiah's Job by Albert Jay Nock. If you think we are outgunned, look at what Isaiah was up against! But the Lord was with him.

P.S. Sixty years after Nock's death, his admirers and friends still call themselves "The Remnant."

From ProLifeBlogs, Nebraskans persevere...

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Nebraskans are circulating a petition right now to amend their state constitution to elevate food and water care to a basic, constitutionally protected right. The Nebraskans for Humane Care Committee is sponsoring this effort, which has been unanimously endorsed by the board of Nebraskans United for Life.

Noted bioethicist Wesley J. Smith helped draft the language of the amendment, which is also supported by the Schindler family.

Nebraska has a very high signature requirement to place an initiative like this on the ballot--10% of all registered voters in the state must sign the petition! However, petition circulators themselves can live in any state.

Helping with the petition drive is a great way to support this important cause. Please spread the word now, since the deadline for filing the petition is coming right up on July 7.

Nebraska pro-life community stands up for ordinary care

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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.

From North Country Gazette (subscription now needed to see whole article)...

What's up with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy?

The rights of a black convicted cop killer have more meaning than the rights of an innocent disabled woman?

The value of a convicted cop killer is more than a handicapped person? His life is worth more than hers?

COMMENTARY - Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied In Schiavo Case

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