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

[T'wit]

Francis Gary Powers, I neglected to say. But you knew :-)

[T'wit]

>> One day maybe we will see some justice here on Earth.

People have an inborn thirst for righteousness. They never forget injustice. They never forgive injustice. Terri's story will never go away until justice is done for her. People who say "it's over" and "let her rest in peace" might as well try to sweep back the tide. It doesn't matter what anyone wishes, one way or the other. First, the wrong must be made right.

Otherwise, Terri will be here, in hearts and minds unborn, long after we are passed away.

[8mmMauser]

This comes from the San Francisco Chronicle, of all places. Do they foresee a sea change or an earthquake?

These courtroom fights and dozens of others pending across the country belong to the portfolio of the ambitious Alliance Defense Fund, a socially conservative legal consortium. It spends $20 million a year seeking to protect what it regards as the place of religion -- and especially Christianity -- in public life.

Snip...

The group has been battling embryonic stem cell research in Missouri and won a Supreme Court stay preventing the removal of California's 29-foot Mount Soledad cross. In Florida, where saving the life of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo became a crusade, the group supported efforts to nourish her. In San Francisco, the group has been battling same-sex marriage legislation and other issues.

Advocacy group for Christianity goes on offense

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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.

[T'wit]

Rumination on a matter you and I discussed. Notice the actual nature of the Nursing Board complaint against Carla Iyer. I was looking at some trollery at a different forum. They all scream that Carla violated patient confidentiality. The Mass. liberal accused Carla of saying outrageous things.

But let's analyze what Carla actually said in her deposition and subsequent interviews. Her comments about Terri were modest. They revealed little or nothing medically speaking. They were caring and tender. I don't see how anyone could object to them -- they wouldn't object if she'd spoken of anyone but Terri.

What they all scream about is what she said about Michael. How dare she, it's all lies, blah blah. But Michael isn't the patient! His confidentiality is not protected; not in the same way; not if he is guilty of abuse. Carla had a duty to report him. (We cheer whistle blowers unless they blow the whistle on our own sullied hero, see.)

All this falls under that same liberal formula that claims that wrongdoing, crimes, sins, wife abuse, whatever, are shielded by a right of privacy. What they say boils down to this: "If he wants to snuff his wife, that's his own business! Butt out!"

Privacy is a good thing but it should never be used to shield evil.

[T'wit]

All heaven is breaking loose! Run for your deaths!

[8mmMauser]

This is about the Florida dems. They just can't avoid mentioning Terri, maybe a problem shared with Lady Macbeth (as she chased her dog,) "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"

When asked what they would do to work with Republicans, Smith pointed to his success in forming coalitions with Republicans on issues like the Terri Schiavo case and school vouchers. He said Tallahassee has been able to achieve some bipartisan results in contrast to Washington, which he characterized as being in gridlock.

"We don't need Washington politics in Tallahassee," he said.

Few Differences Seen in Debate... Democratic gubernatorial candidates Rod Smith, Jim Davis find little to disagree on.

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[8mmMauser]

They are panicked, scared to life.

[8mmMauser]

From an email received this morning...

How to Become a Perfect Democrat

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on
demand.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and
governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans
are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands
of Chinese and North Korean communists.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by
cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by
soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being
homosexual is natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of
federal funding.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach
4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids
about sex.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony
activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than
actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own
money to make The Passion of the Christ for financial gain only.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain
parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports
certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too
high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are
more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert
E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial
quotas and set-asides are not.

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very
nice person.

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked
anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in
charge.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail,
but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag,
transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and
manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal..

20. You have to believe that illegal Democra tic Party funding by the
Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.

21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right
wing conspiracy.

[8mmMauser]

They do it again, can't scrub out that spot...

Both candidates tout their roles in Tallahassee and Washington, respectively, in blocking Republican efforts to stop the husband of severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo from removing her feeding tube. Michael Schiavo has endorsed Davis and sent out fundraising appeals on his behalf.

Democrats aim to bridge a rural-urban divide... AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF REPUBLICAN RULE, DEMOCRATS ARE READY TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION.

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[8mmMauser]

Reminders of the Masked Mauraders and the stark contrasts between good and evil. Faces masked, intentions unmasked...

Adam Tennant, from Kannopolis, North Carolina, had just driven into the church parking lot when the unruly mob piled on the car and began beating it with PVC pipe and bashing the windows with their fists.

Colorado Right to Life VP, Leslie Hanks ran to a squad car parked across the street and asked the individuals inside why they couldn’t do something to stop it. A gentleman who identified himself as an observer for Hinds County stated that it was private property and that no one had filed a complaint.

MASKED MAURADERS ASSAULT OPERATION SAVE AMERICA EVANGELISTS

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Canada Free Press covers the story...

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Christians, Jackson, Gospel

Anti-Christian violence erupts in Mississippi

By Judi McLeod

Monday, July 17, 2006

Going to church on Sunday can get your beaten or killed in some countries overseas. A number of parish priests have been slaughtered recently in Turkey for example.

But who ever would expect danger from church going in Bible belt Jackson, Mississippi where the faithful flock to church every Sunday to hear the Gospel of Christ?

Fascist rule is taking root in Jackson, Mississippi, reports the Christian Newswire.

The Unitarian Universalist Church and St. James Episcopal Church were both scenes of terror for church attendees yesterday.

As folk filed into the church, a group of masked anarchists sprang up from nowhere like threatening storm clouds out of the blue. Group members threatened to murder the Christians--all for trying to make their way inside to attend services.

At the normally peaceful Universalist Church, the uttered death threats were followed through with violence when a group of anti-Christian rioters, their faces hidden from view by bandanas and brandishing six feet of PVC pipe, attacked and threatened to murder the lone occupant of one car.

With the driver held hostage in his vehicle, the rioters smashed windows, ultimately destroying the vehicle before fleeing the scene "like cowards", in the words of the Rev. Flip Benham, National Director, Operation Save America.

One would think that terrorizing church-going citizens and wrecking cars with pipe anywhere in America would result in prompt charges and arrests

But the rioters were allowed to go free.

"One of Jackson's police officers on the scene stated that they (police) could do nothing because the rioters refused to identify themselves when asked," said Rev. Benham. "The police refused to control the situation and would not even take a report until congregants volunteered to handle the situation through church lawyers."

Frightened Christians, who threatened with death, requested that a supervisor be called to restore and maintain public safety, but authorities dispatched none.

Churchgoers now have the worry of the violence being repeated on future Sundays.

But in a show of resolve, congregants and their pastor refused to be cowed and returned to their church for a service on the day they were set upon.

As Rev. Benham put it: "Jesus went back to church today in Jackson, Mississippi as peaceful saints gathered outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church and St. James Episcopal Church."

It seems that the Gospel of Christ will not be tolerated by those who hate Him and those who would use violence as a tool against ordinary citizens.

It seems that Christians cannot depend on the support of authority against Sunday morning armed rioters.

"The City of Jackson has made it perfectly clear what side they have chosen, and it is not the side of the Lord Jesus," concludes Rev. Benham. ": The City of Jackson is under a declared state of emergency but not for the reason they believe."

"Bloodshed follows bloodshed and God has declared his own state of emergency. If you sow bloodshed in the womb you will reap bloodshed in the streets. There is but one King and His Name is Jesus and every knee will bow before Him!"

Meanwhile while the courts of the land continue to rule against the presence of crosses, while the Lord's Prayer is banned from schools and while this year's graduating valedictorians are forbidden to refer to Christ in their addresses, the anti-Christian contingent is becoming emboldened.

Christianity and violence are no longer synonymous in just some faraway country. It's happening in America, right in Jackson, Mississippi.
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard.
Judi can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com

Anti-Christian violence erupts in Mississippi

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[8mmMauser]

Thanks, Coleus. Ping to wagglebee's thread on the story of Mrs. Smyth, poster babe for the sour results of death culture efforts....

TORONTO, July 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In an op ed intended by the Globe and Mail to be a sympathy piece, a Toronto woman, who identified herself as C. Smyth, told the story of her intention to abort her 19 week old daughter because the child was diagnosed by a geneticist as having a chromosomal disorder. The child, said Smyth, did not meet her and her husband’s standards or fulfill their dreams of having a child athelete.

Globe and Mail Op Ed Propaganda for Renewal of Eugenics

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Thanks, Tutstar. Ping to another wagglebee thread, on one who approves the veto...

Disability Rights Advocate Backs Bush Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill Veto (Joni Eareckson Tada)

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[trussell]

I asked to be removed from your ping list. I expect it to get done. Please and Thankyou.

*request #2*

[Arrowhead]

Despite the huge efforts of the left to urge us and the Terri Legacy to MoveOn, well over a year later, the news is still packed with references, showing her Legacy is continuing and growing. Today'd and recent references are mostly from the perspective of the left simply because they squeal and whine like a pig with a boil on its ham. They keep it alive because of its sting to them...One may expect this topic to dwindle with time, but it grows instead.

The principle violated in the Terri Schiavo case can neither be articulated nor justified by either side of the political persuasion. What was done to her is a violation of the most sacred of rights: The right to Life. This transcends the political spectrum because it is an absolute so self-evident, to argue to any degree in defense of this violation reduces one to a liar, not only to others, but to themselves.

Contrary to trussell's comment that she is dead and there is nothing we can do to bring her back, I would respectfully disagree with that assertion simply by virtue of the fact that her spirit lives on and she will always be the icon that reminds how precious Life is and how we as a people, as a society, threw that sacred principle to the wolves because of political expediency and a "rule of law" which has been used to violate the very rights for which the "rule of law" is designed to protect.

We MUST NEVER stop talking about this! NEVER!

[trussell]

You all are welcome to talk about it till you're blue. It's a tragedy that she is gone, but she is not coming back. She is NOT Jesus...she will not rise up from the dead and walk among us again. I have asked to be excused, and I expect to be respected in my decision. REMOVE MY NAME FROM THE PING LIST

[T'wit]

>> a problem shared with Lady Macbeth (as she chased her dog,) "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"

But her spot remover didn't work.

[8mmMauser]

You may have made your request when I was out sick for a couple of weeks. If you read the posts recently you would have realized I was totally incapacitated. When I am physically able, I make the changes immediately as I just did. You are emphatically and unequivocally removed from the list.

Incidentally our threads if you notice are not just about Terri but the injustices we are battling for people like Terri. That prevails.

I am very sorry if I somehow set you off in anger, but it is Sunday and I wish you a happy and Holy Sunday.

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to July 23.)

[trussell]

I requested yesterday and today.

I am sorry you haven't been well, and I ask your forgiveness for my outburst. Thank you for removing me from the list.

You did not set me off in anger, I just didn't expect to have others start an arguement over my request

Have a pleasant Sunday

[8mmMauser]

Well said...

Terri is long gone now, and the epic battle of good versus evil persists. So long as I am able to do what I can to fight those forces, I will.