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
State Rep. Dennis Baxley raised a painful chapter in Florida history Tuesday while explaining why he thinks Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher should be the Republican nominee for governor instead of Attorney General Charlie Crist.
Baxley, R-Ocala, and two other legislators who back Gallagher had just filed qualifying papers for him Tuesday as a gesture of their support. The Marion County mortician considers himself a leader of the conservative wing of the legislature, and he accused Crist of not supporting a bitter legislative fight to intervene last year in the fight over Terri Shiavo.
Gallagher officially in the race...Supporters file papers, while slamming Crist
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From the Puffington Host...
In stark contrast to the righties of tight, most Dems can sift through the wide range of behavioral choices available today and through trial and error, and sometimes with a lot of error, (hello!) arrive at a lifestyle that works well for them. We must accept that the far right cannot resolve behavioral issues with a unique, personal response to the question: “Is this behavior right for me?” The right needs things black and white.
Effective social pressure requires every one in a society- everyone- to conform to the same behavior. (I never said their spiritual strategy didn’t have flaws.) The righties really aren’t interested in hunting down those who do “immoral” things. They are interested in using society to keep themselves in line. That’s why they went ape shit over Terry Schiavo. Any ethical or moral case made public will draw enormous amounts of right wing attention, while those cases out of the spotlight will be overlooked. They don’t’ want to recalibrate social norms to any degree- that is the same as throwing out all norms- and that would leave the right, in their view, with nothing to hold them together.
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Interesting stuff, friend.
They should hear themselves with human ears :-)
They should wake up with a hangover and THEN hear themselves :-) :-)
Dollink, that is a compliment to us. Did you fall asleep?
Dear Editor: You may recall Terri Schaivo. She is the woman who was in a coma for many years. The family had a tragic battle whether to end her life or continue her on feeding tubes.
In the worst moments of this tragedy, Mark Green sprung into action. Late on a Sunday night in March of 2005, Green returned to Washington, D.C. to make an emergency vote in the House of Representatives. There he voted to extend the life of Terri Schiavo.
Bill Craig: Terri Schiavo case showed real Green
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." -- Benjamin Franklin
Still looking for feedback on the Jerri Ward radio appearance yesterday on Texas Futile Caregiving...
Heartwarming about Mrs. Vo.
May we remember those still in peril as well as those who passed on.
>> However, if he becomes the governor of Wisconsin, he will have some real authority to stick his nose into our most sensitive family moments.
>> You can be assured that when your time comes to make the hardest decisions of your life, Green will be looking over your shoulder. He will be there for you, making sure that you do what he thinks is right. I can't wait.
They frame issues not in terms of what's right or wrong but in "private" behavior vs. bedroom police.
Asked about his differences with Davis, Smith said he believes it will come down to an assessment by voters of the two candidates' records on leadership and effectiveness. ''I think really though the question is who's been there and who's been doing the job,'' Smith said.
He said while Davis can talk about debating issues like the Terri Schiavo bill, Smith can point to his role in the state Senate in stopping the Republican-backed legislation. ''He talked on it,'' Smith said. ''Well, I stopped it.''
Democrats ready for primary showdown
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Man left in van dies in the heat
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Yes.
Andrea Clark died at peace, infinitely relieved to spend her last days and hours with her loving family. She should have been a "poster child" for "death with dignity." In fact it was the so-called death-with-dignity crowd, wielding the cruel Texas Futile Care Law, who wanted to leave her on the street curb to die. Only a public outcry and the intercession of a moral doctor saved her from a lonely, agonizing death.
Haleigh Poutre is still among the living and hopefully recovering.
Jimmy Chambers has passed, but may lessons be learned and may blessings come to his family members who stood strong.
The list grows.
Matthew 25:41 [KJV} Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink
Hooray for Haleigh and I sure would like to hear more about how she's doing. Do you suppose the bureaucrats still have that gag order on her mother? Wendy Murphy, please call your office :-)
Three charged in post-Katrina hospital deaths
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Michael could have saved a fortune if he'd thought of this.
Recalibrate?! WTF are they talking about, we are talking about human life, there is nothing to "recalibrate," this is as basic as we get.
They simply view humans as just another disposable machine, complete with the need for "recalibration" and, presumably, "planned obsolescence."
And yeah, I'll be happy to acknowledge to any of these leftist eugenicists that I do view the sanctity of life in black and white. We live in a world with good and evil and I don't give a damn what they say about "nuance" or whatever their latest term for the destruction of basic Judeo-Christian values happens to be.
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