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

[8mmMauser]

However, if he does depart, all is not lost. We could raise enough money to have his face bronzed. He would be the perfect gargoyle. Somewhere in Florida is a building with a broken gargoyle that needs replacing.

Now this is series!

Once upon a time we visited elderly parents of a friend in the Phoenix area, a Del Webb Sun City development. They gave us a tour of the facility and proudly brought us to a place where a bronze statue stood tall and proud. I said, "Wow, is that Del Webb?" The old man responded very seriously that no, Del Webb was dead. I retorted, "Wow, they had him bronzed."

Solemn and meaning it, he explained that they did not have him bronzed when he died.

Personally, I think it would be very painful if Judgiepoo were bronzed before his time.

[floriduh voter]

Judge Greer's pale optic nerve may also be in play. With pale optic nerve comes neurological and progressive brain dysfunction. Clearly, he doesn't play with a full deck but instead of being Baker Acted, he makes life and death decisions when he's not on the very special interest (against the judicial canons) Magical Mystery Death Tour.

UPDATED THIS A.M.: WND, Conservative Voice, Topix-Net Newsfeeds and Tom Gallagher for Fla Governor newsfeed:

http://www.conservative-spirit.org/index.html

[floriduh voter]

The Party of Death has many RINOS in it too. They should just change their party affiliation and get it over with.

[T'wit]

How about gilding him, Goldfinger fashion?

Meanwhile I came across this from a Bert Prelutsky column yesterday at Townhall.com.

Sigmund Freud was the fellow who had the copyright on the ego, the id and the superego. He was also the guy who managed to turn the couch, formerly just another piece of over-stuffed Viennese furniture, into a legitimate business expense. But even he acknowledged that he was unable to decipher what it was that women wanted.

Well, now, if the greatest psychiatrist who ever, ever lived could not figure out what women wanted, how did Michael Schiavo figure out that Terri wanted to die in agony? Of course he didn't. He just drummed up some phony testimony from his brother and SIL and had the judge stamp it "clear and convincing." That's enough to flummox the rubes, yokels and national media.

[T'wit]

By the way, I can't read women's minds any better than any man but I DO know EXACTLY what Terri meant if she said, "I wouldn't want to live this way."

That means, "You are a lazy slob who doesn't earn enough and I'm sick of it. I'm going to get some new outfits and you are going to pay for them and take me somewhere really nice, like the French Riviera."

[floriduh voter]

Is Judge Greer going to this Schiavo How it's Done Mtg and if he is, I wonder what kind of award he'll get this time.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/southwest/orl-owgovwatch07_106jun07,0,1426015.story?track=rss

HAND JUDGE GREER A SUMMONS FOR HIS ARREST, PERP WALK HIM AND ON TO THE TELEVISED ARRAIGNMENT.

That is all he deserves.

www.judgegeorgegreer.com

[T'wit]

>> Judge Greer's pale optic nerve may also be in play

I wonder if he's diabetic.

[TheSpottedOwl]

To me, it is the callousness of our government towards the weak. You are correct about it being us who will have to assimilate. More and more jobs require you to be bilingual. I told my oldest girls years ago to take Spanish, but they didn't listen. Hopefully the youngest one will. Unfortunately, she'll need to Habla if she wants a job.

Terri was murdered for financial gain, but in my heart I believe that MS couldn't let her get better, because he caused her initial injuries.

[killjoy]

That is great news. That means you can listen to the audio if you have a good connection. Here it is:

I listened to part of it. What is it supposed to prove? Since it is only one sided, at least the part I heard, it doesn't mean much to me. I would rather hear a debate involving people on both sides of the issue.

[floriduh voter]

Greer catches cold easily. Is that a diabetic symptom? He drinks GALLONS OF WATER too. Luvs the stuff.

[floriduh voter]

seriesly. this thread is getting hugh. this is already the next part.

[T'wit]

>> He drinks GALLONS OF WATER too.

If he is ever found face down on Michael Schiavo's floor, we'll know it's due to potassium imbalance from drinking too much water.

[T'wit]

>> If, after weighing the facts, the committee decides further treatment is futile, doctors can end life support after a 10-day waiting period.

Sixth trimester abortion.

[8mmMauser]

I am supposing you are taking a fair look.

It is one sided if one supposes one side is fact and the other side is fiction. If that is the case, it is biased on the side of facts and evidence. That evidence is readily available through such sources and the Cheryl Ford, RN, book OurFight4Terri which is a compendium of paper trails reflecting the logic train the audio follows.

I really don't care to hear debates between fact and fiction, any more than to hear the devil's side at church to make it fair and balanced. Any debates at this point over the events which took place covering the fifteen year period have settled into the two camps, events supported by unbiased evidence, documents, medical and legal opinion opposing that fantasy developed by a sociopath and his team of supporters cheering on from the death culture.

The events of fifteen years ago were filed by LE at the time as cold case possible attempted homicide. One day that may be reopened with the motives of their attorneys, bioethicists and judges laid bare. I hope so.

Someone intentionally put Terri on that march to death and one day, justice on earth may still be served.

I wish you well on your search and that it cuts through the fog laid down by the MSM and the lovers of death.

[8mmMauser]

Sixth trimester abortion must be Post Partum Abortion.

[8mmMauser]

From Pamela Hennessy writing for the North Country Gazette, with a fascinating observation by Attorney Patricia Anderson beyond this excerpt...

This time, the ogre takes the form of a former member of the British Medical Association's ethics committee and Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Barts and goes by the name of Len Doyal.

Doyal has called for the legalization of non-voluntary euthanasia in the UK and -- by way of a media release from the Royal Society of Medicine -- has stated that doctors should be permitted to remove needed care from patients or kill them by way of lethal injection -- with or without their consent. That is to say that Doyal believes Voluntary Active Euthanasia (VAE) and Non-Voluntary Active Euthanasia (NVAE) should be viewed as morally acceptable and lawful actions, depending on what doctors perceive to be the best interest of the living patient.

OpEd - The Beast Across the Pond

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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]

Keeping up with the Joneses...

Judge Jones is still a hot news item as he defends our activist and runaway judges as we recall painfully he is one of the Bush appointments. But he has been busy lately on more weighty problems like staying an execution of a murderer. I wish he or one like him would have had the fortitude to stay the execution of an innocent helpless victim.

One particularly strident commentary piece by conservative columnist Phyllis Schlafly, published a week after the ruling, really set Jones off.

Schlafly wrote that Jones, a career Republican appointed to the federal bench by President Bush in 2002, wouldn't be a judge if not for the "millions of evangelical Christians" who supported Bush in 2000. His ruling, she wrote, "stuck the knife in the backs of those who brought him to the dance in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District."

Judge in intelligent-design case still fighting

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[Jezebelle]

I despise Crist. he's a gutless spinmeister pol.

Great thread and comments.

[8mmMauser]

Thanks, Miss Maam, who pings us to a thread by Aussi Dasher on the advancing of euthanasia in the UK, a topic similar to my post #116 above discussed by Pamela Hennessy...

No consent for mercy deaths 'OK'

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[Lesforlife]

Thanks for starting my day with a good laugh!!