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
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Religious conservatives Monday criticized legislation in the U.S. Senate that would use federal taxpayer dollars to pay for embryonic stem cell research. "The Senate should not be tinkering in the baby body parts business, except to ban it and to punish it," said Paul Chaim Schenck, director of the National Pro-Life Action Center.
Backers of the legislation to fund more research say the testing would be conducted on excess embryos created during in vitro fertilization and stored at fertility clinics, and that the embryos would otherwise be discarded. The National Pro-Life Action Center insists that the use of these embryos represents the destruction of human life and is ethically wrong.
"To date, without exception, all of the miracle cures found from stem cell research come from adult stem cells," said Nancy Fortier Paltell, who is the associate director of the Respect for Life Department at the Maryland Catholic Conference.
"When all of these diseases are being cured, why are we even talking about embryonic stem cells?" she asked at Monday's news conference on Capitol Hill.
Stem Cell Research is 'Baby Part Business,' Say Prolifers
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Oh, no! There's an earworm if I ever heard one. Can't you just hear Mary Poppins singing, "Just a spoonful of sugar makes the hemlock go down, the hemlock go down, the hemlock go down........!"
Hmmm. Residents of Maine must pass through New Hampshire en route to the United States. Now it's not safe. They'll have to fly out or take a lengthy detour out to sea.
Good point! I was pondering that. Problem is NCG does have some articles found nowhere else, but in some cases only the summary is offered, that which I can post. To read the rest, a subscription is required, and I am not going to post the rest of the story even if I have a subscription, which I do not have. Perhaps I should not post those leads at all, only stories not requiring subscriptions. No way would I knowingly go against FreeRepublic rules.
That is how we do with other items requiring subscription. I skip over them, usually finding the same article elsewhere, unrestricted.
Any input? Otherwise, I will skip over these subscription items too.
PLUS, personal revenge, celebrity, private jet trips to Las Vegas, and potentially many millions of dollars in TV, book and movie rights to the murder story.
OTOH New Hampshire buffers Maine from the United States and we still are allowed to have private property here, which we can rent from the government at very low rates. "Live free or not."
It is also possible to head north to Quebec and then down through New York.
In other words, loosen the rules for killing patients so they can help themselves to the body parts. Worth a lot of money! The same cannibalistic urge is at work in stem cell lobbying.
Sometimes people think we are roaming off topic on these items, but it all relates to the greater goals of the death ghouls. Same with abortion issues. Some say these topics should be about Terri related issues, not abortions, but it all connects.
Some people think Terri is just a bad symbol for the right to life since she was only kept alive by extraordinary means. The people you want to convince will only be convinced you're keep away at all costs fanatics.
I think that organ harvesting is possibly the most dangerous facet of the culture of death. They will now want our dead bodies when we are still relatively healthy and the ramifications of that scare the hell out of me.
As for abortion, consider this, the genocidal maniacs of the 20th Century (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot) COMBINED killed less people than Roe v. Wade.
That's keep away at all costs fanatics.
Weird, won't let me use the word de*th.
June Maxam has every right to seek payment for her work. But she is doing it differently from many online publishers, who seek to get paid from advertising instead of subscriptions. With ads, you want as many readers as possible, so you make your articles public. June's work is original and exclusive, so you'd think she could attract many readers and do well seeking her revenues from advertising.
Try something more stylish, like "nonvoluntary euthanasia."
When society reaches a point that food and water constitute extraordinary means for keeping a person alive we are all screwed!
Anyone who thinks water and food are "extraordinary means" is intellectually dishonest and should be sent to his room without supper.
To experience "euphoria."/sarcasm off
Agree. It adds a profit motive and that can only spur the whole business. I know, it's all supposed to be "donations" to "organ banks" for the public good. But that's all so much trash talk. The organs are valuable. The hospital chop shops are in place to realize that profit. If they can't make the profit on one level, they'll barter a deal on another.
There was a series of articles in my local paper last week about the body parts "business" and it is a huge money maker. The "non-profits" that cannibalize corpses are allowed to charge a "reasonable fee" for doing so.
Don't get me wrong, I think organ donation is wonderful and has saved millions of lives. If I was killed in a car crash today, I want my organs to be used to help others. However, the slippery slope we're on is starting to reach a point when living people will be murdered for their organs.
The method of getting it into her is extraordinary since it wasn't even an option until about 20 years ago. So we must have all beens screwed for 99.9999% of our existence on Earth.
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