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

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It seems to me that the same "distract, distract, distract" can be said about the Liberal Media. Reporters are brothers and sisters in spirit with trolls. They speak the same language, refer to the same ideological templates and probably even cross-breed.

For me, the worst is the NPR voice. They all have that horrid condescending Uncle Screwtape nasal tone at a PH level that would etch glass. It is their shibboleth. It is their tribal identifier and mating call. You can hear it through a brick wall. Whatever they say in that voice is not merely lies but evil, evil, evil.

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>> For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat

How dare God talk this way? I'm going to have to report Him to PETA.

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The most powerful realization to come upon me on arriving at the Pinellas Park crime scene was the great force of epic battle between good and evil, one or the other, absolutes, no middle ground.

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That NPR sound, that Satanic dead air, has weighed on me ever since first noticing it decades ago. It is a strange dead air in the background of all the voices which somehow sound the same, like Bob Edwards as if he just got out of bed and hadn't had his coffee yet, and the background non-echo. It is not the ominous condescension of the voices, but the background as well, identifying it as disturbingly evil.

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Funny stuff on this topix.net. There's a grandma who's reading Michael's book and is just having a wonderful time shaving his and Jodi's tails. I don't know if I could muster the stomach to read that book, so I'm especially tickled that somebody's doing it for us. She's kind of reading aloud and visiting grandmotherly scolding on sinful children. She knows she had a gold mine and is paying no attention to surly trolls.

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>> That NPR sound, that Satanic dead air, has weighed on me ever since first noticing it decades ago.

Me, too.

You say, "...dead air." That brings to mind a most vivid image of a demonic, dead voice -- the talking head of decapitated criminal Alcazar in "That Hideous Strength" by C. S. Lewis (final volume of his space trilogy and a fictional version of The Abolition of Man). I didn't like the book the first time I read it (because I didn't understand it very well). But I perservered and have read it perhaps half a dozen times since -- without ever exhausting its treasure. The other two volumes are "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra." Easily available in PB and warmly recommended, all three.

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Hey there! Trying to stay on top of the ME situation, but wanted to catch up on the posts here.

Regarding that adolescent weight problem that Terri(and millions of other girls have), my second oldest was short and pretty darn round. One day in her late teens, she shot up 3 inches, and dropped 50 lbs. Okay, it wasn't one day, but it seemed like it happened within a week.

Was an advanced thyroid test performed on her at any time? I think it's a T-4 or a T-6, and naturally your HMO won't cover it.

This is a little esoteric, but if she wasn't healthy, people would have noticed. Did she call in sick frequently? She was well enough to care about her appearance, as well. When you're sick, the last thing you think of is going to the beauty parlor.

[TheSpottedOwl]

In court papers state investigators said Pou told a nurse executive three days after the hurricane hit that the patients remaining at the hospital would probably not survive and that a "decision had been made to administer lethal doses" to them.

Well, if they were going to die anyway, why did they have to be killed? We saw it on the news last night. My bf was shocked. You'd think he would know better by now.

I'm playing catch up. We have bf's son for a couple of weeks, so we have given up the computer to him. Too hot and nasty outside, and that's at 4500 ft!? That, and I'm keeping up with the Israel/ME situation.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Great link to more anti-smoking baloney. I know Terri Schiavo is contentious among many, but I think y'all might be interested in reading this article from the begining to end. Thanks for your consideration.

[Pepper777]

** God bless Mrs. Vo and family. Our prayers will be for them and her today.""

Thank you so much for the update on Mrs. Vo.

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>> anti-smoking baloney.

Hey, what's wrong with smoked baloney?

[T'wit]

>> Regarding that adolescent weight problem that Terri(and millions of other girls have), my second oldest was short and pretty darn round. One day in her late teens, she shot up 3 inches, and dropped 50 lbs. Okay, it wasn't one day, but it seemed like it happened within a week.

Um, I, er, halfway recall going through some changes at about that age :-)

When you said you wanted to stay on top of the ME situation, I immediately thought of Dr. Thogmartin, the Medical Examiner, instead of the Middle East. I guess you can tell where I've been hanging out too much :-)

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Dead for 17 hours, Bicol boy lives again (Philippines)

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When you both talk of ME, it means something different to me, Maine!

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Dominating news in recent hours is the Embryonic Stem Cell veto and the Legacy of Terri keeps being brought up. On the side of those who are not satisfied with stem cell research but insist we have to kill embryos to do it is candidate Crist for Governor of Florida. Maybe it isn't the right to research, but the right to kill embryos that they really demand...

Crist:

"I do. I think there are new innovations that come along that say you don't have to use the embryonic stem cell in order to get the advantage of the research. Had I been in the U.S. Senate, I probably would have tried to modify the bill to include that kind of new technology, but I probably would have voted for it," Crist said after filing the papers ensuring him a spot on the Sept. 5 ballot.

Opponant Gallagher:

After the veto, Gallagher's campaign issued a press release praising Bush's action. "Embryonic stem-cell research is an unnecessary practice which results in the destruction of human embryos - it is wrong to use taxpayer dollars to fund scientific research which destroys human life," it said.

Gallagher has courted conservatives such as Rep. Dennis Baxley, who said he is unhappy Crist failed to back issues such as the end-of-life fight over removing brain-damaged Terri Schiavo's feeding and hydration tubes.

Crist says he was for stem cell bill

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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.

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The other big news is the Katrina killings. Ping to a thread by catholicfreeper. Thanks Coleus.

Doctor, nurses arrested for Katrina patient deaths

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Trust your probate judge??? If so, read on...

Terri Schiavo was the 41-year-old woman whose life-and-death battle was been in the news. The attention the case has received resulted in many recent phone calls from clients wanting to avoid this situation. Here is my advice:

If you were to get sick, who would make your medical decisions? Would it be your spouse, or family, or your local probate court judge? Marriage does not entitle a spouse to make medical decisions for the other spouse. Family, unless named in a health-care proxy, are also not allowed to make these decisions. This leaves you with your local probate court judge. This isn’t necessarily bad, because the judge will do the best he or she can to try and determine what you would have wanted. So why not make a health-care proxy and skip all the fuss? This way you, or someone you know, who understands what your medical wishes are will be there to make any decision that is necessary.

Surabian: Lessons learned from Shiavo story

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Sleepy in Seattle, RINO sighting...

Reichert wisely bucked GOP leadership on one of the top-10 idiotic things Republicans did in 2005. Remember when the Republican-led Congress attempted, hideously, to intervene in the painful plight of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman? Reichert kept cool and voted not to intervene, the only correct move.

Reichert represents his district admirably on a few environmental issues by opposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in certain votes.

Joni Balter, columnist

Can Burner bushwhack Reichert?

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Ellen Goodman, neither good nor man...

BOSTON—So once more we reach into the right-wing toolbox, a political chest so spare that it holds almost nothing but a wide assortment of wedges. Who would have believed that the wedges used so successfully to divide America would end up dividing conservatives? That they would finally expose the differences between the right and the, um, loony right?

The latest of these wedge issues is stem cell research. But it’s not the only one. Gradually, over the past year, we’ve begun to see daylight emerge between common sense and nonsense.

Ellen Goodman: Putting A Wedge Between the Right and Loony Right

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Mikey campaigns hard for rights of innocents to be killed. In other news, Cindy Sheehan campaigns somewhere else for the same team...

But Michael Schiavo doesn't want the voters to forget. He wants them to remember how Congress not only intruded on his family's private life and ignored the clear rulings of the courts, but it also played politics with every citizen's right to self-determination at the end of life

The Schiavo Case: Terri's husband goes after those who politicized her struggle.

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