Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:37 AM PDT by 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
The media blatantly lied because they need ad revenues. If they were for Terri, they might lose their sponsors, many who have their own agendas.
Haven't read my posts, huh? I find no reason to respond to your repititious crap. How naive do you think I am? There is nobody disagreeing with you on this thread about the evil seen in this world. There are a great deal of disagreeable people. You belong to a very foul club, indeed, for allegedly civil discourse.
Get over yourself, and try reading what people post in its entirety before you jump into something and end up having to wipe your feet!
Some of us see through your histrionics. It gets you attention, and makes you feel like you are changing things. Change is surely happening! The world around us is seemingly out of control. But, there is a plan to end all the conflict!
Not to mention that the media has long favored the eugenics agenda.
I believe that Terri's death was Michael Schiavo's will. Greer, Felos, and others jumped on the bandwagon, too.
God didn't will Terri's death. God allowed the free will of some unkind people to be exerted.
I don't think that many Christians accept the fatalistic outlook that you say they do. Folks from non-Christian faiths are more likely to believe in fatalism.
Acording to Christianity, God is not a puppetmaster. He doesn't force people, like Michael Schiavo and his cohorts, to starve and dehydrate innocent victims.
You asked us, above, if we have chosen to follow Christ, yet you dismiss our attempts to follow Christ's commandment to "do good" to others.
Remember: Christ's death freed us from our selfishness. "Saved" Christians can see how their sins hurt God and hurt others and they are given the grace to personally change. God frees them to more deeply love God and love man, in this life.
I do not believe God wills people to do evil things to others. I believe that God wants us to care for our suffering brothers and sisters.
On the other hand, God allows us to choose evil.
Also, God can bring good out of evil. Someday, someone might "talk" or an incriminating piece of paper might show up, and Michael might be exposed as a person who did not follow Terri's wishes.
By the way, there's an underlying contradiction in your position.
1. You've told us we shouldn't speak out to change minds in order to save victims like Terri.
Yet
2. You give yourself permission to speak out in order to change our minds.
Why do you bother to try to change other people's minds, after telling us it's wrong for us to bother to try to change other people's minds?
Nice outline!!
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Actually, it is just the opposite. You are the one in a very small minority.
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Free Republic Opinion Poll: Was it wrong to kill Terri Schiavo?
| Composite Opinion | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | 80.1% |   |
7,600 |
| No | 14.7% | |
1,394 |
| Pass | 3.0% | |
281 |
| Undecided | 2.3% | |
217 |
| 100.1% | 9,492 | ||
| Member Opinion | |||
| Yes | 83.3% | |
4,728 |
| No | 10.5% | |
598 |
| Pass | 3.6% | |
203 |
| Undecided | 2.6% | |
146 |
| 100.0% | 5,675 | ||
| Non-Member Opinion | |||
| Yes | 75.2% | |
2,872 |
| No | 20.9% | |
796 |
| Pass | 2.0% | |
78 |
| Undecided | 1.9% | |
71 |
| 100.0% | 3,817 | ||
Are you saying that we should be Buddhist-like?
You are the one who used a dying member of your family to illustrate a point, and then refused to clarify your point.
That is strange I think. "Discource" is just conversation or discussion generally. Is the poster who you addressed this to "foul" for just dicussing matters? Is FreeRepublic a foul club?
I was called a troll for coming to the thread, I thought with a call for clarity. I was accused of interfering, and I guess I hit home, when I called it a pity party. The only problem is that you are the ones to be pitied!
If anybody refuses to pat you on the heads, then they are ignorant and murderers. Sorry, but you will lose every argument with that crap!
I took this picture on the mountain one day last spring. It's just as clear as your thread! Please don't ping me, unltil you have something to deflect my posts, other than your ignorance!
Have a nice day.
Only in that any time we are at the mercy of judges anymore, it is risky. I think they need our prayers more than anything and they hope Liza just goes away.
What a pity!
Trolls have been bringing lively discussion to the threads lately in addition to the news. I guess if they didn't appear on their own, we would have to invent them to provide a forum since trolls are incapable of seeing themselves as others see them and of how foolish they look.
As you notice, I am fond of that Proverbs link. It refreshes my perspective.
"I told her, if she doesn't get out of her chair, they're going to kill her."
And as we all know now, that's what they did.
Who are they? That is a very good question, because it seems that fate (or something) put Terri in the hands of a self-serving husband, his attorney (a prominent "right-to-die" advocate), a pro-euthanasia judge, a Catholic Bishop who did little to intervene, and a state government that, for whatever reason, failed to invoke laws on the books in Florida which would have protected Terri Schiavo from a grisly conspiracy to put her to death.
Move over, Dr. Death, Here comes Dr. Doom
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Michael Schiavo always complained he didn't want the government involved when it came to his legal battle with Terri Schiavo's family over whether he should be able to euthanize her. Now, Michael is traveling across the country campaigning for candidates who back assisted suicide and euthanasia.
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Meanwhile, Terri's brother Bobby Schindler thanked Lieberman and said Michael was a "hypocrite" for saying the government shouldn't be involved when he started the battle in the courts.
"Michael Schiavo made this a public matter back in 1998 when he petitioned the court to remove the feeding tube," Schindler told the Hartford Courant newspaper. "And it's very troubling for me for him to be calling this a family matter. For him to even refer to Terri as his wife in all this. . . . Terri will always be our family."
Terri Schiavo's Brother Thanks Lieberman as Michael Campaigns for Lamont
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Terry and King squared off last year during the debate over the fate of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Tampa area woman who was the center of a right-to-die case. Terry was a spokesman and legal adviser for her parents, trying to keep her alive. King voted against state intervention in the case.
With many seats safe for one party, primaries where the action is
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During the 109th Congress covering this year and last, Chandler differed with Pelosi on 10 key issues coming before the House. On several such occasions Chandler was among a relatively small number of so-called "Blue Dogs" bold enough to buck the left-leaning Democratic legislative leadership.
For example, in March 2005 Chandler was among 47 of the House's 202 Democrats to back a Republican bill creating special federal court jurisdiction so Terri Schiavo's parents could continue fighting against removal of her feeding tube. Pelosi and 101 other Democrats did not vote.
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From Pamela: Liza has asked for extra time at the hearing... as she is now fighting for co-guardianship. Scott has indicated that he does not want to see Liza or have any further contact with her, nor does he want her to have anything to do with his guardianship. Scott did indicate that he would still like to see his son Logan, but without Liza present.
Please keep Scott in your prayers, especially this Monday morning @ 10:10 am. May God's will be done in keeping Scott safe and staying where he is now so that his recovery will continue.
New Hearing Scheduled for Monday, July 31st!
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Stem Cell Politics: Advantage, Republicans
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Ping to wagglebee thread on it...
Brother's a Lifeline: Stem cells boosting sickle cell patients
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