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
BOSTON — The Department of Social Services was sharply criticized yesterday by a legislative committee on its care of a young Westfield girl, who was at the center of a life- support battle earlier this year after police said she was severely beaten by her adoptive mother and stepfather.
Members of the House Post Audit and Oversight Committee convened for less than 10 minutes to release a portion of the report on Haleigh Poutre, which said a lack of oversight by DSS personnel may have "unduly placed the child in harm's way."
Legislative report harshly criticizes DSS handling of child
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In other words, absolutely everyone failed this girl.
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Deciding when life has come to an end, Medical board to review who can declare when brain dead
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A Grand Prairie mother who is fighting to keep her 11-month-old son on life support will have two more weeks to find a hospital willing to treat him, according to an agreement reached Thursday.
A court hearing that was set for today was postponed until June 30.
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Brian Potts, the attorney for Dixie Belcher, the mother, said he hadn't found out which hospitals doctors and caseworkers had contacted until this week.
"The search for a transfer is in full swing," Mr. Potts said. "Several leads are promising."
Agreement reached in life support case
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DO NOT AVERT YOUR EYES. Crist cannot claim he stayed out of it. CRIST HELPED THE DEATH WORSHIPPERS kill Terri.
If anybody's in the mood, feel free to call the Florida Elections Commission to demand an investigation into Charlie Crist making false statements about Terri Schiavo's civil rights investigations.
This is not just an opinion. I allege that these are pieces of the conspiracy puzzle. We continue to tell the truth. A candidate for governor has been making false statements about Terri's investigation for quite some time!
Crist is lying on his latest tv ad about how he handled MEDICAID FRAUD. Terri Schiavo was the biggest case of MEDICAID FRAUD and Civil Rights violations in the history of this country! Can CHARLIE CRIST make false statements on a tv commercial for governor? That is the question.
But, not all jerks order a hit on their wife.
Singing "Almost Like Being a Troll" while snacking on a bag of cristi-critters (bland and the after taste - ewe).
Gene Kelly and my Dad died on the same day. TV announced that Gene Kelly died and my Dad died about an hour later.
As we all know, PVS is subjective and open for debate. So, checking the PVS box is opting for suicide, likely inadvertently.
Time's past where we can trust medical providers. Medicine has changed and there's no way to know what kind of doc you have unless they start hemming and hawing.
If your doc starts hemming and hawing, time to get a SECOND OPINION.
When you elect RINOS like Bernie McCabe, you get just another scumbag with power.
He belongs in PRISON for what he did. So many laws were broken so that TERRI WOULD DIE. This is what's wrong with Amerika and I'd rather pay for HIS PRISON FOOD AND BED instead of his salary and pension that is equal to his annual salary.
GREER put a murder in play and I'm sick of paying his salary. Glad to pay for his prison room and board. ANY TIME.
www.judgegeorgegreer.com
bttt
There are pictures on google of Suzanne and Bobby getting kicked out of the hospice.
They just didn't realize it was HIS BIG MOMENT and also FELOS' big moment. They finally got to do that ritual thing and use the big black bag and everything. They were just giddy!
What a sick state Florida has become to allow an innocent women to be murdered.
ALL THE CRIMINALS RUN FREE.
He'll be hearing that the rest of his days. He hates being called a murderer but it didn't have to be this way. He let FELOS, et al push him around.
I'm sure that when he's not in Vegas or supervising those 150 employees (boy, was that a fast track to supervisor for a guy who got fired from McDonalds), Schiavo can read threads here and see that there's no love lost here. He has to live with the path he chose. So does Jodi.
Florida public servants are PUBLIC SERVE ME'S.
Maybe it was one of those Pinellas Park wink wink, nod nod deals and for all we know, the taxpayers ended up paying the $140,000. If they moved the bill to County from City, the people may have been cheated again.
And, the folks who were arrested at the Vigil were charged with SIMPLE TRESPASS. But, when they went home, the justice system changed the charges to INCITEMENT. They are so corrupt here and shameless about it.
Safe, he says. His good old boys are "safe". Maybe that's what he meant.
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