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
I don't think he knew Felos back in 1993 when he tried to kill Terri by denying her treatment for a urinary track infection. My perception is that he hired Felos to kill her because he could not. The Carla Iyer episode convinced him of that and it wasn't long after that that he linked up with Felos.
That's not enough. Cage him and send him a tour to raise money for battered wives. At each stop, he is dehydrated for 10 days. Then feed him a bowl of lard and a quart or two of pond water. Put his cage back on the truck and move him to the next location for ten more days of dehydration. Bake sales, carnivals, pot luck church suppers -- those are all good places to display him because he could smell all the good food and drink, and he could hear all those doggone Christians enjoying themselves and telling their children what a monster he is.
Maybe he could only do eight or nine days without a bleeding tongue. Maybe he could do eleven. That's a detail. On and on and on, through America's villages and small towns, with but a bowl of lard and a bucket of swamp water to quench his thirst just before his skin sloughs off like a snake's.
Oh, dear, did I forget to turn off the /sarcasm ?
Beautiful collage!!!
The Kansas Republican, one of the Senate's most socially conservative members, scheduled the session to explore "the consequences of legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia."
Assisted Suicide May Become Newest GOP Issue
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
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I could tell my question startled Connecticut Democrat Ned Lamont, who's running against Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), the war hawk and culture nanny par excellence. We were standing in Lamont's room at the Washington Hilton, the site of the Campaign for America's Future 2006 Take Back America conference. (Someone missed an opportunity for synergy by not booking the American Values suite.) As long as I was a hurdle for the candidate to jump before he could meet some people with checkbooks, I figured I could rope him into the "Libertarian Democrats" debate.
Lamont's first response was a look of wide-eyed, Marty McFly bewilderment. But after a moment of noodling, Lamont said "Terri Schiavo." Sen. Lieberman had rushed the stage when President Bush and Republican leaders were staging an intervention in the tragedy of the comatose Florida woman whose husband and parents disagreed on whether she should be taken off life support. "Sen. Lieberman thought it was the government's job to decide what was right for that family," Lamont said. "He's all right with the government intruding into our private lives. And not just in that case."
It was a good answer. (This judge would also have accepted Lieberman's video game censorship, his support for the Iraq war, or the Department of Homeland Security.) Last week, Markos "Daily Kos" Moulitsas floated the "Libertarian Democrat" idea and sparked a discussion of what the party of Jefferson Davis can do to bring libertarians into its tent. It was thrilling, insofar as anything in Connecticut politics can be thrilling, to find a little common cause with a real Democratic candidate.
The Libertarian Democrat: This Year's Jackalope
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The legislation will also allow people over 18 to make Advance Health Directives, or "living wills", that spell out what care -- if any -- can be administered to them in palliative care or other life-threatening situations.
Under the laws, an appointed guardian will also have the power to decide whether the person should or should not receive treatment, if that person is mentally incapacitated or unable to make "reasonable judgments".
The Advanced Health Care Planning Bill will be introduced into state parliament next week. Members will be given a conscience vote, the first since the emotional and divisive abortion-pill debate in 1998.
Attorney-General Jim McGinty has hailed the legislation as the nation's most progressive laws for the dying and will amend the criminal code to give medical workers protection.
Protection for doctors in laws for the dying
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Political analysts were befuddled by the final vote tally, expecting the bill to pass easily with Republicans going for their traditional give-the-bank-to-the-rich policy and Democrats voting for a fairness-in-death principle. Dr. Jillian Naikrovek-Todesengel of the Right to Death Association explained "death fairness" this way: "If you're going to give parents the right to terminate their almost-born children, it's only fair to give children the right to terminate their almost-dead parents."
In the end, the vote followed strict party lines.
Democrats were "appalled" by the final bill. "There is no way any decent Democrat could back such a bill," said Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D_MA), "unless euthanasia is made permanent."
War over Euthanasia Divides Congress
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But beneath the surface of Jeb's solid approval ratings lies another consideration. For all the acclaim he gets in conservative circles, there are still questions as to whether his record in Florida — which in reality has been a cycle of sunshine and tropical depressions, from pioneering accomplishments like Medicaid reform to embarrassing debacles like the Terri Schiavo spectacle — could survive the brutal scrutiny of a White House campaign.
First Brother: Is There a Second Act for Jeb Bush?
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Do you think that the Christian fundamentalist movement is doing some genius misdirection, overloading the media with superficial though inflammatory issues such as the Terri Schiavo case and the Janet Jackson 'incident' while downplaying issues such as the federal money being given to religious social service organizations?
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New Jersey Looking to Harvest More Organs by Easing "Brain Death" Criteria
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Dr. Mengele, there's a call for you from New Jersey.
Being Had: Another Look at the Death of Terri Schiavo
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Ohmygawsh! She went across the Hudson River!!!!!
>> ... and even further afield from the liberal ideology of which New Yorkers have grown so accustomed.
Accustomed? Well, we do hear it all day long, that part checks out. But one never gets used to the rhetorical twisting, the bombast, the moral degeneracy, the insanity and the sheer silliness of liberals exposing themselves and thinking they sound pretty important.
And she went voluntarily and didn't have to go. Liberals are omniscient in their own minds. They do have an urge to expose themselves, quite literally and not that titillatingly either.
"Life support"! For pete's sake, are these people as brainless as they are heartless?
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Real libertarians don't vote. To real libertarians, the state is the enemy -- the destroyer of the rights of life, liberty and property. It would be hypocritical in the extreme for them to hold office, take government jobs or even take part in the political process.
As usual for liberals: Change the law to protect the killers and take away the rights of their victims. Mark Australia one more place where you don't dare be sick. You risk your life if you seek medical help.
Today's ridiculous satire is tomorrow's liberal legislation.
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