Thread: Sad News for us all. Dr. Madeleine Cosman has passed away.

Dear ALIPAC: March 11, 2006

Thank you for informing us of the passing of Dr.
Madeleine Cosman.
and thank you, "BlueHills," for your link to George
Putnam's March 10, 2006 biography of Mrs. Dr. Cosman
appearing in NewsMax.com.

While I have been quite aware of the political
implications of what appears to be a deliberate
concerted attempt by certain people, "South of the
Border," to gain political ascendency in this land
which has traditionally honored the "opinion of the
majority of the people," by simply pressing for an
increasing numerical presence in our country, leading
to a rule by a majority of aliens, legal or illegal, I
was totally unaware of the problem which Dr. Cosman
has dedicated her life to solving: the introduction
into our country, in numbers approaching epidemic, of
life-threatening diseases. Diseases which often
Americans have worked hard and diligently to eradicate
from our presence. Until now. Until this
scarcely-stemmed flood of unwashed illegal aliens who
come here for whatever reason, good or bad, but who
often carry with them the seeds of death to us all,
native or alien.

The Prophet Ezekiel has written, "When I bring a
sword upon the land, if the people of the land take a
man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow
the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever
heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not
warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his
blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound
of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall
be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver
his soul.

"As I live, saith the Lord God; I have no pleasure
in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn
from his way and live." (Ezekiel 33:2-5, 11)

I thank our higher power for the life of this fair
watchlady, who has dedicated her life to using her
God-given medical and legal talents to do what she
could to warn the people of America, in particular of
this medical "sword," which now threatens all of us. I
trust she now rests in peace and comfort with the Lord
God who has used her eloquently, to warn our people of
the approach of this medical sword.

And I pray that each of us who remain, will now take
from her example the determination to recommit
whatever talents of intellect and conscience we
ourselves may have been given, to serve more
diligently than ever as "watchmen on the wall."

Thank you again, ALIPAC, for your continuing
testimony to the truth with respect to the problem of
illegal immigration. And thank you all who unite
through ALIPAC, to serve the truth, and in particular,
the continuation of "Life, Liberty, Property and
Pursuit of Happiness," in this fair constitutional
republic we call The United States of America..
God bless.

As the late Scot, the Rev. Samuel Rutherford wrote
in the 1600s, ultimately, I believe, "LEX REX," THE
LAW IS KING.

Sincerely, R. Greene

http://www.nytimes.com

March 19, 2006
Madeleine P. Cosman, 68, Medieval Expert, Dies
By MARGALIT FOX
Madeleine Pelner Cosman, a prominent writer, scholar and lecturer whose passion for what she called the "glorious order" of the past led her first to a career in medieval and Renaissance studies and more recently to wide public advocacy of tougher immigration laws, died on March 2 in Escondido, Calif. She was 68.

The cause was complications of scleroderma, a chronic disease of the connective tissue, her family said. Ms. Cosman, who moved to California in the late 1990's, was for decades a resident of Tenafly, N.J.

A longtime faculty member at the City College of New York, Ms. Cosman founded the Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies there in 1968 and was its director for many years. The institute closed in 1993, when Ms. Cosman retired. In the 1970's and afterward, she helped organize the annual medieval festival at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan and spoke frequently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere about daily life in the Middle Ages.

The author of nearly a dozen books, Ms. Cosman was best known to popular audiences for "Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony" (George Braziller, 1976). An illustrated study of culinary practice in the Middle Ages, it also included recipes for dishes like roseye (fried fish in a rose-petal sauce), mulled wine and peppermint rice.

Ms. Cosman took her work seriously. She could sing madrigals, play the lute and eat with her fingers off a trencher in the proper medieval style. Her house in suburban New Jersey was appointed with ornately carved period furniture. Arms and armor lay about, the walls were hung with Flemish tapestries, and the cellar was stocked with mead.

On special occasions, visitors might find Ms. Cosman, wearing a flowing velvet gown, presiding over an elegant table that could include blankmangere en doucette (chicken cooked with cumin and cream, served in pastry) and lentil mawmenye (a lamb and lentil stew). Utensils were not supplied.

Apart from medieval food and birthday cake, the only thing Ms. Cosman knew how to cook was hamburger, a dish that took her nearly 15 years to master. Her family was fond of hamburger, which was always served by candlelight.

Ms. Cosman could also play the piano, fly an airplane and shoot a gun. In the 1980's and early 90's, she made her living buying and selling medical practices, and in the mid-90's, when she was in her late 50's, she became a lawyer. In recent years, she worked as a health-care policy analyst and was a volunteer patrolwoman with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

At her death, Ms. Cosman was a member of the board of the California Rifle and Pistol Association. She was also on the board of the Wake Up America Foundation, which opposes illegal immigration, and was frequently heard discussing the issue on talk radio.

Madeleine Pelner was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 4, 1937, the oldest of three daughters of Louis Pelner and the former Lillian Rosen. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard in 1959, a master's from Hunter in 1960 and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia in 1964. In 1995, she earned a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

As a Jewish child growing up during World War II, Madeleine was acutely conscious of the need for self-protection, something she later discussed in interviews. As a young woman, she learned to shoot. If the knock on the door were to come, Madeleine Pelner would be ready. By the time she was in college, her devotion to the concept of personal responsibility had led her to the writings of Ayn Rand, whose libertarian ideas she embraced.

Ms. Cosman's diverse work was united by her interest in the history of medicine. As a scholar of medieval medicine, she found that early medical treatises often included descriptions of food thought to be curative. This led to "Fabulous Feasts." She was later the founder and president of Medical Equity, a brokerage of medical and surgical practices.

Most recently, Ms. Cosman's interest in health care policy led her to study the effects of illegal immigration on the United States health-care system. Her article "Illegal Aliens and American Medicine," published last year in The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, has been widely reproduced on anti-immigration and other conservative Web sites.

Ms. Cosman's husband, Bard, a plastic surgeon whom she married in 1958, died in 1983. Survivors include a daughter, Marin, of Scarsdale, N.Y.; a son, Bard, of La Jolla, Calif.; and four grandchildren. Information on other survivors could not be confirmed.

Ms. Cosman also leaves behind a vast library of illuminated manuscripts and a large collection of handguns.

Thank you Brian.

Added to the homepage

https://www.alipac.us/article-1112-thread-1-0.html

There are a few video clips from one of Madelines lectures up on my website.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=743

Thank you Watchdog. I like these clips but they are short. Can you locate any longer clips of Dr. C's work?

W

I loved what Dr. Cosman said here. This is such a great idea!


The solution according to Dr. Cosman, is the CRAG program. The people at our meeting gave her a resounding ovation when she explained the prongs of her plan:

C = Close America's borders
R = Rescind anchor babies citizenship
A = Aiding and abetting illegal aliens is a crime - Punish it!
G = Grant no amnesties

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She was such a great help to this cause and will be missed so much. I share the same affliction (scleroderma) and God willing I will have another 10 years as she did to raise some cain about this issue!

Okay, I added a longer clip. This one is 7 minutes long.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=743

I am new to the Anti Illegal fight and have just learned about Dr. C's life and contributions. What a human being. I got very motivated reading about all that she accomplished during her lifetime. What a role model.

Requiescat in Pace (RIP) Dr. C
rest in Peace

Steven A. Hill
editor

I am so sorry to hear this news. What a terrible loss to our cause and to the country.

My sympathies go out to the family. We are so saddened by your loss.

Dianne