Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Renew America ^ | May 29, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

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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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Carla Sauer-Iyer...

ST. PETERSBURG -- Gov. Jeb Bush's latest foray into the controversy surrounding Terri Schiavo is raising eyebrows among some state lawmakers.

After conversations with the Governor's Office last week, the Florida Health Department asked the state Board of Nursing to dismiss a complaint filed in May accusing a nurse of violating state and federal privacy laws by talking about Schiavo on national TV.

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The Board of Nursing's probable cause panel could consider the case against Sauer-Iyer on Aug. 17.

Governor Intervenes for Nurse

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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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Resisting eugenics, from Madame X...

This view is unabashedly shared by many people, but more to the point, it enlists the sneaking sympathy of many more of us, which is why Kevorkian was able to ply his trade for so long and so publicly before being successfully prosecuted. Several years later, the Terri Schiavo case shone the spotlight on our national ambivalence toward assisted suicide. Many people who would identify their values as conservative could be heard muttering, "Why won't they let her die in peace?" during Schiavo's agonizingly long death. Others defended her right not to be tortured to death by food and water deprivation, but cringed at her severe disabilities. It is difficult to convince our imaginations that we could ever find life a good under circumstances such as hers.

Killing Kevorkian

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Standing strong, brave, courageous in defense of our enemies...

This contrast between right-wing and public interest was also clear in 2003, when Bush interrupted his vacation to fly overnight to Washington to sign "emergency" legislation keeping brain-dead Terri Schiavo alive against her and her husband's wishes. This from the same President who two years before had received the August, 2001 intelligence warning titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US" and left FOR vacation.

Survivor Lebanon - Like Katrina, Americans On Their Own Again

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Ping to a fine story, a thread by wagglebee...

We first heard of our daughter’s genetic condition long before she was diagnosed. It was considered a lethal condition, an extra 13th chromosome. Most babies don’t make it to birth and those that do live a few years and are severely disabled. I thought, “Well, what is the point of that life?”

When What Seems Broken is Perfect: The Mother of a Disabled Child Tells her Story

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And while Smith often talks about how he has worked with Republicans to improve legislation, defeat efforts to put a class size amendment back on the ballot and keep state government from intervening in the Terri Schiavo case, Earnest used a Smith boast against him.

"Voters in both parties and independents see Jim Davis as someone who's standing up to the problems in Washington D.C.," he said. "Rod Smith is the one who says he has his fingerprints over everything that's coming out of Tallahassee."

Smith says he's better suited at beating Republicans than Davis

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Hearing it again from Mother Jones on poor Senator Lieberman...

What’s more, although he had previously called for the censure of President Clinton after he had beaten impeachment — and offered up an extremely critical speech of the then-president in which he reiterated many of the Republican talking points vis-à-vis their hopes for impeachment — Lieberman, this time, said he thought the possibility of censuring Bush would be “divisive.” This followed on his decision last summer to side with Republicans demanding that Terri Schiavo be kept alive through feeding tubes, despite both her husband’s wishes, Florida law, and, it turns out, the U.S. Constitution.

As blogger Duncan Black, aka “Atrios” wrote in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, “Lieberman's problem isn't bloggers, it's the voters of Connecticut, who seem to be increasingly tired of his support for some very uncivil policies, including federal intervention into the Terri Schiavo case, the Bush administration's operations at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay and, yes, that disastrous invasion of Iraq.” Speaking of bloggers, The New York Times also reported that Lieberman “appears taken aback by the ferocity of the onslaught, particularly from liberal blogs. To Mr. Lieberman’s camp, the bloggers embody what his longtime friend Lanny Davis calls “the demonizing, hating, virulent, character-assassinating left of the Democratic Party.”

Think Again: Watching the Detectives

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MSM tailors the facts, replaces them as needed to make a point. The News Anchor, Carley Wegner invites commentary by leaving an email...

Next is your living will. The document states whether you want extraordinary means-- like a feeding tube-- to keep you alive if you are in either a vegetative state or if you have a terminal and incurable disease. This is what pushed the Terry Schiavo case in the spot light. After Terry had complications from heart failure in 1990 she went into a coma. She was kept alive by a feeding tube ... Her parents wanted to keep her alive but her husband wanted to let her pass away. After 15 years of legal debates the Supreme Court sided with her husband. The feeding tube was removed and she died in March of last year.

6 Important Documents for Your Family

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From ProLifeBlogs...

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Advocates of the culture of death have concentrated on the extreme ends of the life spectrum, oppressing the weak and the helpless whose lives depend on others and asserting that the humans at the earliest stages of life are without value. President Bush's recent veto of a bill that would release federal funding for stem cell research has been applauded by pro-life advocates. Representing disability advocates, Joni Eareckson Tada adds her support:

Disability Advocate Applauds Bush Veto

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>> You once WERE an adolescent.

Oh, yeah? Oh, YEAH? I resent that. I don't deny it but I resent it.

My kids are still adolescent, regardless of their age.

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>> ...into the controversy surrounding Terri Schiavo is raising eyebrows

I wish to add another Absolute Law of Liberal Behavior to the already lengthy list. Namely, LIBERAL REPORTERS ARE INCAPABLE OF WRITING A BIAS-FREE LEAD. They simply must get their editorial opinion in, right up front.

Real news isn't supposed to have editorial opinions, but the liberals conquered their need for real news eons ago.

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Here is my Living Will. In full.

"I'll go when I'm [bleeped] well good and ready. If anybody tries to take me off my wonderful life support system or my beloved tubes, call the Cavalry."

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>> Meanwhile, as Flannery O'Connor trenchantly observed, secular "compassion" leads inevitably to the gas chamber.

Bullseye.

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>> Meanwhile, as Flannery O'Connor trenchantly observed, secular "compassion" leads inevitably to the gas chamber.

Bullseye.

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Oops!

[floriduh voter]

FYI: Charlie Crist changed his web site into an Acrobat format... Curious it was after Reverend Dozier came out against all Muslims and held a protest against a mosque being built in S. Florida.

Crist is always hiding something.

I think I copied Reverend Dozier's paragraph from Crist's campaign site before they fixed it so it couldn't be easily copied.

It's not good to have an anti-semitic on your policy team.

I'll find what used to be at Crist's web site and re-post it here.

Shape shifters from Tampa Bay are ashamed of who they really are as they try to fool Floridians.

When citizens contacted his office to complain about Terri's civil rights being denied, Crist fooled Americans into thinking that he didn't have a Civil Rights Dept. Well, he actually does but it doesn't appear to work if you're the wrong color or if you're disabled.

He sold out for Judge George Greer (murderer).

http://www.judgegeorgegreer.com (Terri was murdered and Crist helped.)

Crist doesn't value human life. What happens after a hurricane or God forbid, a terrorist attack? Crist will be in a bunker with his head tucked between his spindly, tan legs. He is pro-Charlie, not a leader for our times.

[floriduh voter]

The hospice woodside epic: The bad guys wore black and they were good nazis.

[floriduh voter]

It's nice to see that they have a REAL ATTORNEY GENERAL in the State of Louisiana. Charlie Crist continues to send ads that say "we need a culture of life" when he knows that he abandoned an innocent woman going way back to 2002/2003.

[floriduh voter]

Charlie Crist said "we need a culture of life."

I AGREE.

Vote for Tom Gallagher for Governor of Florida. Visit his web site at: http://www.tg2006.com

Gallagher is the only candidate who is for a culture of life. Crist is FAUX-LIFE.

[floriduh voter]

ANNOUNCING: Forming TOM GALLAGHER FOR GOVERNOR PING LIST. If you are interested in joining, please freepmail: floriduhvoter

Please note in your freepmail to floriduhvoter if you are Floridian or "other". It will make a huge difference. Oh, and it will be a mild volume ping list

Thanks, FV

****Cristy Critters please note that the Gallagher Ping List will be a secret free zone. Mining for info will be futile.

[floriduh voter]

POSITIVE ARTICLE about Randall Terry for State Senate (RINO Jim King's opponent) Randall's coffers are fuller than they were...

http://www.topix.net/content/trb/2594164421233295656723439207471534621621