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

[floriduh voter]

http://conservative-spirit.org/

[floriduh voter]

I saw the lyrics to Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. I think the Beatle knew all about the mainstream media. i.e.
"newspaper taxis await at the shore, waiting to take you away." (this line is about propanganda imo.)

[8mmMauser]

Important ping to shifting tides unsettling Florida. This election looms for the State of Florida and the Legacy of Terri looms heavily. We know what Crist did for Terri in support of cronies Mikey and Greer...

Florida Is at a Moral Crossroads

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)

[Sun]

>> 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."

lol

I think I'll always be an adolescent. :)

[T'wit]

>> I think I'll always be an adolescent. :)

Not me. Adolescence burns up WAY too many hormones. You need to put a few of those aside in a hormone savings account. You'll need them later. Trust me.

[T'wit]

Cheers to y'all and outta here again.

The Left seems to have a limitless supply of brain-dead writers. A given comment may SEEM to lay readers to be insufferable stupidity, but in reality, it is no more than a meaningless reflex from the brain stem. No cortical activity can be detected.

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Maybe it is projection. When the lefties say somebody is PVS, it is because they, themselves, are PVS. Haters call people they hate haters.

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We persevere.

Wow! A squeal emits from the St. Pete Times! Enough already, move on, please!!!! We conservatives gotta stop carrying on Terri's Legacy 'cause it is causing changes the libs don't like....

The Florida Health Department is the latest casualty in what can be described, more than a year after Terri Schiavo's passing, as an unhealthy political obsession. When will Gov. Jeb Bush move on?

By interfering in the normal professional oversight of a nurse who took care of Schiavo, Bush only taints everyone involved. Already, he has made Health Secretary Francois Rony look the part of a political lap dog. Rony's agency had insisted that divulging patient information was a violation of state code until Bush picked up the phone. Now Rony wants the disciplinary case against Carla Sauer-Iyer dropped altogether.

End the Schiavo obsession

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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.

[8mmMauser]

From the Florida Sun Sentinal. I don't want the devil to take my hindmost. Wonder if these folks are liberals...

There is bitter irony in the president's decision to veto the embryonic stem cell bill, which overwhelming majorities in both houses have just passed. Here is an administration that constantly reminds us that it stands for the "culture of life," opposing abortion, euthanasia, even willing to go to the Supreme Court to keep Terri Schiavo alive.

Yet it condones torture of suspected terrorists, supports the death penalty and pursues a tragic war that has no exit strategy. In addition, it follows economic policies that clearly benefit a tiny fraction of the population while following a "devil take the hindmost" view for the millions of families struggling to make ends meet.

Veto rejects `culture of life'

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[8mmMauser]

Here is another from the same Sun Sentinel:

This president's ethics are really in question.

Collateral damage, Terri Schiavo, aborted embryos, our sentient non-human friends -- we are truly descending into madness.

Stem cell `ethics' are inconsistent

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[8mmMauser]

Florida dems...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - If you read what Rod Smith and Jim Davis have to say about issues in the governor's race, there won't be much difference between the Democrats.

Neither likes how Gov. Jeb Bush has used standardized testing to reward and punish schools, both criticize Republicans for not doing enough to stabilize the homeowners insurance market, they agree Republicans have passed too many tax cuts that benefit too few people while schools and health care are underfunded and they tout their efforts to keep government out of the Terri Schiavo case.

Smith, Davis a contrast of styles, not substance

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[8mmMauser]

"Inertia" which is different from MoveOn, is a Greek Tragedy ...

Pacheco was inspired to write "Inertia," in part, by the Terri Schiavo case. He found the whole ordeal - a woman in a persistent vegetative state, her life hanging in the balance as her husband wants to take her off life support and her parents want to keep her alive in hopes of a medical breakthrough - a shocking study in sociology. Worse yet was the apathy displayed by his peers while the drama was unfolding.

"There was a person dying," Pacheco says of the case, which ended with the husband winning a protracted court battle and Schiavo dying on March 31, 2005, from starvation. "It was a huge controversy politically, emotionally and morally. And nobody cared. For me, that's very depressing.

A Greek tragedy in Crawfordsville

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[8mmMauser]

Haters call people they hate haters...

IS IT JUST me or is this eerily similar to “Love the sinner, hate the sin” — that refrain so familiar to us gays?

Funny, but I don’t remember mainstream Muslims causing mayhem in Florida. I do remember busybody fundamentalist Christians harassing women outside the state’s abortion clinics. I do seem to recall neo-Puritans terrorizing judges and family members during the disgraceful Terri Schiavo debacle.

These preachers ought to worry more about “the track records” of their evangelical friends before they point the finger at Muslims.

Hate can be colorblind

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[syriacus]

By interfering in the normal professional oversight of a nurse who took care of Schiavo, Bush only taints everyone involved. Already, he has made Health Secretary Francois Rony look the part of a political lap dog.

"Taints"
"Political lap dog"
Change a few words in the sentences, and this could be a "denouncing" of an out-of-favor politician in the old USSR.

Makes me think that, nowdays, Big Brother is the MSM, instead of the government.

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Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Governor Jeb Bush is coming under fire from some state lawmakers for siding with a nurse who cared for Terri Schiavo during the mid 1990s and helped expose her former husband's mistreatment of her. Last week, the Florida Department of Health urged the state nursing board to not revoke the license of a nurse who talked about Michael's mistreating Terri in an interview.

Carla Sauer-Iyer spoke about things that happened to Terri in an interview she gave CNN last March. Some of the material she discussed was in an affidavit she filed in the Terri legal battle.

Governor Jeb Bush Under Fire From Lawmakers for Helping Terri Schiavo Nurse

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[8mmMauser]

Well put!

[8mmMauser]

"It is all about me..." Mikey. His rights are left.

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

Schiavo’s right to challenge politicians

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[8mmMauser]

Ping to Alouette thread, a touching story of a battle with Dr. Death. Thanks to TheSarce..

How Faith Saved the Atheist [Why did the doctors stop asking to pull the plug?]

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[8mmMauser]

It is related in that the same folks who oppose Terri's Legacy have a dog in this fight. Kill at the beginning, kill the disabled, kill the old. Links to the "controversy" over stem cells...

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Proponents of embryonic stem cell research are busy minimizing the observed benefits and anticipated applications of alternatives that do not involve the destruction of human life. Their task is not easy, given the constant publication of new treatments and break-throughs that use various forms of non-ESC. Consider the following very recent reports:

• Adult Stem Cell Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries
  
• Stem Cells From Baby Teeth
  
• Studies Support Research Showing Adult Stem Cells Can Mimic Embryonic
  
• At the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, scientists are making insulin-producing cells from adult stem cells that could one day help millions of people with diabetes.
  
• Adipose-derived stem and regenerative cells were tested to be safe and improved heart function in a chronic ischemia model, representing a severe form of coronary artery disease
  
• Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have isolated a new source of adult stem cells that appear to have the potential to differentiate into several cell types
  
• The latest issue of the American Journal of Pathology carries a breakthrough study in which researchers have identified adult stem cells in hair follicles capable of differentiating into several cell types.
  
• A Japanese researcher presented the results of new studies he conducted showing the ability to turn mouse skin cells into cells that closely resemble embryonic stem cells.
  
• Researchers at about 16 sites across the United States are involved in a study on adult donor stem cells to repair the heart muscle after a heart attack.

And the list goes on.

Dr. David Prentice of the Family Research Council has reported that there are presently 72 treatments or cures involving adult stem cells while others list over 80 for umbilical-cord blood alone.

Continue reading "Stem Cell Alternatives and Embryonics Research Scams"

Stem Cell Alternatives and Embryonics Research Scams

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[Arrowhead]

I thought you might like to read this short treatise I wrote after the Schiavo tragedy.

Maxim on Rights

This maxim on "rights," as it relates to those who believe they have a right to die is premised from the following excerpt in the Declaration of Independence and this maxim:

"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are LIFE, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness...That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

"There is a difference from a Right to choose and the Freedom to choose." Arrowhead

A Right is the agency from which a person may choose freely with impunity and deserving of security by legal protection and from legal abstraction. With that said, the "right" to choose death does not exist anywhere within the maxims of Law. That right still remains within the omniscient wisdom of Deity. GOD decides who dies and who does not, even outside the sphere of free agency, modern medicine, state statute, physical laws of science, or civil circumstance. The "right to die" has never been endowed upon mankind. Respective of the fact that we all die, his only Right is to live. Now, he may be FREE to take his life, and indeed, a legal system may grant that wish. But, there is a difference to be endowed with a right to choose and possessing independent freedom of choice.

An example might be, if I am an inmate in jail, I do not have the right to escape. But, I am still free to try. If I had the right to escape, then, I would be immune from suffering consequence. However, since I have no right to escape, yet, I still possess the freedom to attempt and perhaps succeed, a consequence must follow. Even if I do not get caught, the wheels of Justice will find a way to impose it's punishment.

To surmise, the absence of a right does not exempt freedom of choice. We have the freedom to choose life, and likewise, we have the freedom to take life. The difference, however, is that if we take life, there is a consequence and any decision that constitutes a consequence is not a right. And since a right to life is immune from consequence, then, assuming a right to death would be counterintuitive since there exists the suffrage of consequence in that choice.

Neither Michael nor Terri Schiavo have the right to choose death. They are free to, if they like, but they would be subject to the Justice of our "Creator" -- who has never endowed a "right" to die. Since there is impunity with the right to live, Governors of State and the President of the United States have executive authority to pardon and secure the life of Terri Schiavo against enemies, both foreign and domestic; ESPECIALLY from domestic enemies in government who seek to take it. The LAW justifying executive action is no less found in the Supreme Law of the Land as annunciated in the Declaration of Independence. If the Constitution is the door for which the rule of law is opened, then the Declaration of Independence is the hinge upon which the Constitution swings and by which Executive Authority must pay homage.

I was making this same argument back in 1999 over the Elian Gonzales case, siding with the mothers intent of winning their freedom and success in getting her son to our shores, seeking political asylum, which was in accordance with our immigration laws. Elian won his freedom by virtue of making it to our shores and the giving of his mother's life.

And what does our government do? Defy executive authority to secure that boys liberty and instead, send him with his communist father BACK to a country whose people are exploited by a tyrant. We failed him! We failed ourselves!

My point is, though, just as we see a lack of use of executive authority in a case securing the liberty of a boy whose mothers' dying wishes were defied, her grave spat upon, we now see, in the same state no less, executive authority cowering to the exercise of that power to secure a life.

What is really uncanny about both cases, it is the same Florida law, ultimately sealing the fate of both Elian and Terri: the law which grants power of attorney to the spouse if the other is dead...or incapacitated as in the case of Terri Schiavo. I remember the argument of jurisdiction in the case of Elian. It was a freakin mess. Yet, executive authority as granted the President by Article II section 2 to extend "reprieve" by securing his liberty could have easily been exercised and justified.

Both cases threatening the "tranquility" of the United States as failing to secure the life and liberty of these icons does two things: It polarizes the people threatening the security therein; and it compromises the very security of our rights we all rely upon by our institution of government. Yet that trust has been betrayed first, by refusing to act in defense of a boy's liberty, and second, by refusing to act in defense of a young ladies life. My God Man! What is next?

Arrowhead

March 26, 2005