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
"Here's your special satchel, Mr. Mills. I'm afraid one or two of the packets of hundred dollar bills came undone in travel. Would you like me to rewrap those for you in some aluminum foil?"
The administration can put that one back in the barn because if the House stands its grounds, there will be no need for assimilation.
I don't know why the administration seems to be dividing us now. (illegals vs. Americans and he's on their side. Maybe he has big plans after he terms out in 08 with Mexico but it's not in our best interest. If he wants to become a wheeler dealer with countries south of the border, he should just wait until he's no longer sworn to uphold our laws.
The first three letters of "assimilation" are: fill in the blank. As in donkey.
Sheriff Coates has himself a young trophy wife too. She likes bling.
The media will be more than happy to cover us.
You don't care but you accidentally ended up on this thread impersonating a medical examiner? (sarcasm tag)
That was the invention of the first Fanny Pack!
I hope you are in time. George is getting along in years. He may choose to retire before then, or he may keel over and pass beyond this world. Which he won't enjoy.
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.
I read where there is going to be a Mexican Consulate in Kansas City. It's supposed to speed up the delivery of third world cargo. Read on FR, actually.
Many immigrants no longer "assimilate", and embrace our country. They stay segregated by choice. Amnesty for how many people? Millions? It has been said that the Bush and Fox families have been long term allies and friends. When Bush is no longer in office, he will no longer have the power to push through his agenda, so he's doing it while in office. Sad. This country is going to be another third world in 20 years. Some parts already are.
Like the one who ruled that Martin died of sickle-cell disease.
Even a Florida medical examiner would probably notice if the deceased had died fifteen years before the autopsy.
Lol, uh oh! He'd better get a second job to cover that.(yeah right)
Meanwhile, the BIKINI STRANGLER was from TAMPA. He was supposed to be released on 6-6-06 but for some reason, he was released in September of 2005.
The BIKINI STRANGLER's victim is dead thanks to the fabulous justice system of Florida.
Wait until Bill O' Reilly seizes upon this information. It will be another chance for him to put Charlie Crist on The Factor and we can see Charlie Crist make dumb expressions and say "not his job." Fabulous law enforcement and fabulous justice system in Florida (for the bad guys that is.).
Terri's killers didn't use a bikini top. JUDGE GEORGE GREER and his judicial buddies were Terri killers' weapon of choice.
Illegal immigration and what happened to Terri have so many parallels. She couldn't assimilate by using a spoon so she was "deported" so to speak.
Here is recent info on poor baby Daniel:
With Daniel's mother and his doctors at an impasse, the hospital — backed by the state's futile-care law — took steps that would lead to removal of Daniel's life support without her consent.
But last week, lawyers for Belcher and the hospital agreed to extend a temporary restraining order that bars further action until the case is heard by a judge June 16.
"She's grieving and in trauma and all of a sudden the people she thinks are helping her child are saying they'll override her and terminate treatment," said Belcher's lawyer, Brian Potts, who is working to change a law that in certain circumstances gives healthcare facilities the right to end life support. "Most parents don't know until they're in this situation that the final decision may not be theirs to make."
A Mom, a Texas Law and a Baby's Fate
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One of the dumbest things Greer said recently in Broward Cty before Broward judges and lawyers when asked why he stood his ground re: Terri, Greer said "I'm Scottish."
What up with that? I didn't think Scots are hell bent on killing other than Greer. I still smell that he got a big bribe and I think that to get Terri killed, someone higher than Judge Greer was BLACKMAILED.
There was bribery and blackmail imo re: what happened to Terri.
I'll get one the next time I order books.
It started as a daily but was redesignated, nevertheless is still active.
Mother fights hospital to keep baby on life support (Terri's Legacy)
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It IS a mystery. What moves this man? The bribes we know of were relatively small, surely (?) not enough to purchase the sadistic pleasure he exhibited in mangling the truth and executing a helpless woman by torture.
Maybe as a boy he was a weakling and a sissy who got beat up by all the other boys. Maybe he's waited all his life to be able to beat up somebody -- and it turns out to be a girl who cannot even lift a hand to defend herself from his attack. He is odious.
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