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

Renew America ^ | May 29, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

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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

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mark of the beast post yours re: Crist.

I noticed and winced as I posted it...

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The stain of Earl Warren persists.

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>> "judges should defer to the views of the political branches and the states about constitutional issues in the face of intense opposition or uncertainty"

The writer cannot read his own writing. Deference is due to the "views of the political branches and the states," but he cites liberals' private "outrage" as a reason NOT to defer to Congress. If the courts should take private outrage into account, Judge Greer needed only to glance outside Terri's hospice to see it. Greer actually mocked private outrage with his rulings, and he is still mocking decent pro-life beliefs out on the lecture circuit.

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This just out five minutes ago...

U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, Smith's opponent in the Democratic primary, turned to the husband of the late Terri Schiavo for help. Michael Schiavo penned a letter reminding potential contributors that Davis "stood up for my family and yours" by opposing congressional efforts to keep Schiavo's brain-dead wife alive and asking them "to join me in standing tall for him."

"Your donation of $50, $100, $250 or up to the $500 limit before the June 30 deadline is absolutely critical so we can finally have a government that understands the difference between privacy and politics. There are only a few days left to the end of the quarter, so Jim needs your help now," Schiavo wrote.

Republican Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, meanwhile, has fundraisers planned every day between now and June 30.

Governor's race sets torrid pace down the money trail

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Earl Warren was Ike's worst mistake. Probably recommended by his brother Milton Eisenhower, Ike's closest and most communistic advisor. The Warren court just ran amok with no effective public opposition; certainly not a peep of complaint out of the liberal media! When liberals are out "reforming" by fiat, you hear nothing of judicial restraint or "checks and balances" or stare decisis.

(When Robert Welch of the JBS was blasted for charging that Eisenhower was a communist, he should said, "I meant Milton!" :-) ) (Russell Kirk at National Review had the best reply to Welch: "Ike's not a communist. He's a golfer." :-) )

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Frankly, Jim, I wouldn't vote for anyone who took money from a murderer. It obviously means that you endorse murder. Think about it, Jim. It's not too deep for you.

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He brought about the new era, the epic, "Warren Peace". I (didn't) like Ike. Matter of fact, my reaction to Ike started me on my first foray into the grown up world of politic, but I was just a dumb kid.

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Ping to wagglebee thread...

WORLD CONGRESS (of FAMILIES) DECRIES EU SUPPORT FOR EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH

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>> I (didn't) like Ike.

Nor I. Ike was the favorite target of National Review in its early days (founded November, 1955).

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>> Actually "blast" was a substitute for a swear word : )

I am shocked -- shocked! -- that you would post a pseudo-swear word to me. (Psst. Tell me what it was when we get outside.)

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>> ... by opposing congressional efforts to keep Schiavo's brain-dead wife alive...

I presume the above boilerplate must have been supplied by the two brain-dead Orlando Sentinel writers, John Kennedy and Jason Garcia. I oppose any congressional effort to keep them alive.

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>> Davis criticized Bush for breaking up the statewide Office of Capital Collateral Representative, which provided attorneys for Death Row inmates

Let's see. Democrat candidate Jim Davis [above] wants to coddle death-row inmates, and [#724] he takes money from a legalized murderer, Michael Schiavo. Davis obviously LOVES murderers. This is classic brainless leftism -- always side with the most anti-social persons or views.

Brainless leftism is the mainspring of the "right-to-die" movement.

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Helen Valois from RenewAmerica on the subjectivization of principal and similar noteworthy topics...

The subjectivization of principle is not confined to the realm of the Kelo case by any means. I recently detected it, for instance, during discussions in the wake of the Terri Schiavo slaying as well. A disability rights activist was denouncing conservatives for "using" Terri's case to promote "their own principles." This assertion was put forth without the slightest qualm about its making no sense. A principle, by definition, cannot belong to one group or another but stands apart from and supercedes all opinions. From this characteristic alone derives the obligation to submit to it equally. Apart from what she was deriding as "conservative principle" there would be no such thing as a "disability rights activist" to hear from, in much the same way that critics of the war in Iraq fail to take note of the fact that they are still wearing their heads, a circumstance which permits them to carry on with their criticizing in the first place. When phrases such as "their principles" or "property rights base" are treated as legitimate and used without question, they deprive us of the legacy bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers and by all American patriots, without so much as a shot being fired.

Patience, my blue friend

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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.

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Randall Terry on the march as reported by the AP and Sun Sentinal...

JACKSONVILLE · Randall Terry hopes northeast Florida voters will not simply focus on the more extreme comments he made as founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue as he campaigns to unseat powerful state Sen. Jim King in the Republican primary.

Nor does he want them to solely look at his role in the unsuccessful effort last year to reinsert the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who was at the center of a right-to-die case. He also hopes they can forgive his divorce and 1998 bankruptcy, the latter an effort to avoid paying $1.6 million in court-ordered civil penalties to Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women.

Anti-abortion leader takes on legislator ... Campaign focuses on property rights, medical malpractice

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>> ...we can confidently expect that other freedoms we currently take for granted will sooner or later be stripped of legal protection as well.

We still have some??

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More Florida politics...

OCALA - The contest for state representative in Marion County's District 24 pits an incumbent Republican with an attraction for controversial issues against a political newcomer who served in the Iraq war.

State Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, has been no stranger to controversy during the last two sessions in Tallahassee. He led the House's effort to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case and prevent removal of the brain damaged woman's feeding tube. He attempted to pass an "academic bill of rights" intended, he said, to keep liberal professors from punishing conservative students for their views.

Baxley faces challenger in House re-election bid

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We still have some??

I will have to get back with you on that question, soon, or so.

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Helen Valois, in the columns I've read, is always on the money and always makes you think. She lives in the Wisconsin northwoods, which is my favorite place [Oneida County, Helen, and you?]. God's country. Where better to contemplate realities?

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A classic hatchet job on Randall by AP. Just for the record, I rate the AP as #1 in the destroy-America biz. Sorry, New York Times.

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Important thread from simplemines! Needs our advice!

Caution, topics like this attract trolls and pro-death crowd.

Terri Schiavo 2 in NJ with my husband

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)