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Degrees of Outrage #7

A country that allows over 1 million of its unborn children to be brutally murdered every year under cover of law is now expressing outrage over the enhanced interrogation techniques that were used on ruthless 9/11 terrorists.  So, we don’t have a problem killing 1 million of our kids every year but we draw the line at splashing a little water in a terrorist’s face or making them feel uncomfortable.  Under Senate Democrats we spent $40 million to generate a 6,700 page report that tells every terrorist in the world what we won’t do to them.  This report, released by Senator Dianne Feinstein, will most likely result in the deaths of foreign intelligence operatives and make any country think twice before assisting us in rooting out terrorism.

As a pro-life advocate, I don’t support violence, but I’m also a realist.  I don’t have a problem with the CIA roughing up a handful of terrorists if it helps prevent another attack.  What I do have a problem with is releasing classified information to the world on our means and methods.  I still remember watching as victims at the World Trade Center were forced to make the decision to either jump to their death or burn to death.  The day after 9/11 we were committed as a nation to doing whatever it took to prevent another attack.  Fast forward 13 years, and the politicians who were begging the CIA to do anything they felt they had to in order to prevent another attack, are now throwing them under the bus, in a partisan political move.

The lives of innocent people don’t matter to the left.  It’s all about politics and it’s all about them.  They’re perfectly fine with babies being killed by the thousands every day and sending over half a billion taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood every year.  They don’t have a problem with an airman, sitting at a computer console in America, firing a hell-fire missile from a drone half way around the world and killing a terrorist and everyone else near them.    But slap a terrorist with an open hand, subject them to loud music, or water-board them and it’s torture.

Torture is intentionally killing an unborn, pain-capable baby by ripping it apart with a Sopher clamp.  Torture is a blood-thirsty terrorist beheading an innocent victim in the name of an insane ideology.  Water-boarding 4 terrorists, under constant medical supervision to insure that they aren’t harmed, is not torture.  What would you not do to protect the lives of your loved ones?  If you were the leader of the free world and your country was under attack by murderous thugs what would you take off the table in your efforts to protect your citizens?

Those expressing outrage over the enhanced interrogation techniques that helped prevent another attack on our homeland are stumbling through an ethical minefield of moral equivalency.  They place the principles that our nation stands for on par with the ideology of an enemy dedicated to our destruction.  They claim to be outraged over the harsh treatment of unrepentant killers, while looking the other way as we kill over a million of our own every year.  They compare medically supervised interrogations to torture techniques employed by the enemies of humanity.

We made mistakes after 9/11.  We can do better and we are better than those who wish us harm.  The world will be a better place when the worst thing one man does to another is place him under temporary mental or physical stress in order to save the lives of millions.

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Degrees of Outrage #6

It seems like everybody in America is mad.  All you hear from the usual cast of race-baiters like Al Sharpton, who makes his living promoting racism, is that it’s open season on black men in America.  He knows, or should know, that there is no factual basis for his assertion; but facts don’t matter to him and his ilk.  He knows he can say that the police are hunting down and killing black men and that if he yells enough and acts mad enough, a lot of uninformed people will believe him.  He knows he can say the killing of black men by the police has become an out of control epidemic; that racism runs rampant in America’s police departments, and that most of those willing to listen to him won’t look into the voracity of his comments.

If 123 people out of 43,000,000 were killed by a deadly disease over the course of a year would you consider it an out of control epidemic?  Last year 123 black Americans out of a population of 43,000,000 black Americans were killed by police officers; police officers of all races.  From my perspective, if the police are trying to hunt down and kill black Americans, they’re doing a pretty bad job of it.  The numbers I’m citing are real numbers, and easy to confirm.

While Al Sharpton relies on the ignorance of his sycophants to promote himself and his false narrative of the slaughter of black men by police, a real slaughter is taking place every day in America’s abortion mills.   Of the more than 3,000 children killed every day by Planned Parenthood and its colleagues, more than 60% are black.  But you won’t hear a word from the race hustlers because the issue of abortion won’t get them in front of a TV camera.   While they’ll fly all over America to lead protests against alleged crimes that will get their ugly mugs on TV, they choose not to speak about the infanticide that occurs daily.  Stirring up anger and fanning the flames of vengeance is big business for those in the business of promoting outrage.  Taking any substantive action to solve real problems or to save the lives of innocent children is a nonsequitur for clowns like Sharpton.

If you can be stirred to outrage by flimsy evidence and an absence of hard facts, you are part of the problem.  If you are willing to blindly protest something that you know little or nothing about, you are part of the problem.  If you can be lead to civil unrest by a hate spewing knucklehead like Al Sharpton, you’ve got bigger problems than the one he’s trying to promote.

Many Americans have a hair trigger for outrage and a lack of interest in confronting hypocrisy.  They trust the media to provide accurate reporting and would rather accept someone else’s version of the truth over finding their own.  Our nation rises and falls on the waves of the news cycle and far too many of us look the other way as generations of unborn children are murdered in the womb.

If you feel you have to be outraged over something, get mad over evil practices like abortion and become part of the solution.

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Viable

Vi-a-ble: able to live; specifically, at that stage of development that will permit it to live outside of the uterus: said of a fetus or a prematurely born infant.

Many of those lacking the courage to oppose abortion at every stage of an unborn child’s development hang their hat on the issue of viability.  They try to justify the unjustifiable by taking the position that a child that hasn’t developed to the point that it can survive outside its mother’s body can be killed on demand.  They conveniently brush aside the fact that the unborn child, from the moment of conception, is a living human being.  Viability is an inexact determination and a fatally flawed premise on which to base the legal execution of an innocent child.

An unborn child, totally dependent on its mother for survival, is no less human and no less alive than the mother, and deserving of the same protections as the mother, whether it has developed to the point of viability or not.  A society that allows millions of human beings to be killed, and sanctions the killings based on the human beings’ stage of development, is traveling down a very slippery slope.  At what point do we decide that someone is too young or too old to exercise their Right to life?  At what point do we stretch the definition of viability to include children who were born years ago?

My 2 grandsons, aged 1 and 3, are viable by any standard.  They are happy, healthy children, but neither could survive a week without the love, care, and support of their family and others.  Does their stage of development make them candidates for post-birth abortion since they haven’t developed to the point that they can survive on their own?  At nearly 61 years old I’m in the best shape of my life, but I know the clock is ticking.  At what point will a society that allows Planned Parenthood and the like to kill human beings for money determine that I am no longer viable and unfit to express my Right to life?

The act of living is done so without regard for human judgments of viability or worthiness.  It is set into motion by a power beyond our comprehension and represents at once the most powerful yet fragile force in the Universe.  Life is its Creator’s manifest intention of His greatest gift.  Life is meant to flourish, not to be cut short on the whims of human discretion and political expediency.  Viability and worthiness are human concepts applied to Divine creations.  The gift of life is not granted by mistake.  Every new life is created on purpose for a purpose.

Every life counts and every life is equally as priceless as any other.  When we take it upon ourselves to determine who should live and who should die we become the judge, jury, and executioner of anyone we feel doesn’t deserve the same rights we enjoy.  When we cloth these judgments in words like viability and worthiness we do so at our own peril.

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December 3, 2014

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Letter to Planned Parenthood #55

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

1110 Vermont Ave.  NW

Suite 300

Washington, D.C.  20005

Attn:    Cecile Richards

 December 2, 2014

 Ms. Richards:

Just when I thought I’d seen it all, out comes Planned Parenthood tweeting #BlackLivesMatter.  This comes from an organization that has murdered millions of black children since 1973.  Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, had as her primary goal, the extermination of the black race.  She referred to blacks as “human weeds.”

Here are a few more facts that I’m sure you know, but many of my readers may not be aware of.  The number one cause of death for black people in America is abortion.  75% of Planned Parenthood’s clinics are within walking distance of minority neighborhoods.  64% of all the babies killed in America’s abortion mills are black or ethnic minorities.  Blacks represent about 14% of the U.S. population.  Had Planned Parenthood never opened its doors, blacks would represent about 36% of our population.  In New York City during calendar year 2012, 31,300 black children were aborted and 21,700 were allowed to be born.

Ms. Richards, black lives do matter.  Every black child is just as priceless as every other child.  Every black child deserves the opportunity to be born and to make the most of its life; the same opportunity you and I were given.   To your credit, Planned Parenthood no longer discriminates when it comes to killing children.  You’ll kill any child of any race as long as you get paid.

America’s first black President is Planned Parenthood’s most vocal cheerleader.  The woman hoping to be America’s first female President was a recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award.  In her acceptance speech she referred to Margaret Sanger as “a great visionary.”  Ms. Richards, I have zero tolerance for hypocrites and the clueless political class that worships at the altar of America’s abortion industry.  You and they will say and do anything to keep the abortion industry flush with cash and overflowing with the bodies of dead babies.

Ms. Richards, every life matters, be it black, white, or whatever.  Since this letter will never make it to your desk, I can only hope that the person in your office who drew the short straw and has to read letters from people like me, will take a few moments to think about the people who sign his or her paycheck.  I hope they ask themselves if they want to make a living working for the largest child killing organization in the world.  I hope they will reflect on the fact that every 26 seconds, as they read this letter, another unborn child will die at the hands of America’s abortion industry.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

 

 

 

 

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December 1, 2014

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My Best Friend #2

As I write this on a Sunday afternoon, my best friend, my grandson, is sleeping just feet away.  My daughter dropped him off this morning so he could play outside with Pop Pop.  We ran until we could run no more, we cut a tree down together, and then we shared a lunch of pizza and apples.  Five years ago I never would have imagined that my first grandson, yet to be born, would end up being the best friend I have ever had.  He is my inspiration to work for the pro-life movement, and every minute I get to spend with him and his little brother reminds me of how miraculous every human life is.

Over 3,000 of his peers will die tomorrow in America’s abortion mills.  They are the friends he will never meet and the innocent victims of a society that chooses the path of least resistance over the sanctity of every human life.  Since he was born nearly 4 years ago, about 4 million unborn children have been denied their Right to life in America.  When we exercise our free will to end a human life before it can even be born, we accept the consequences of our actions.  My belief is that we can’t begin to comprehend the consequences of allowing tens of millions of our innocent children to be killed by Planned Parenthood and America’s abortion industry over the last 40 years.  I also believe that anyone aware of the thousands of abortions performed every day and not working to end the killing, is offering their endorsement of the practice.

I’m sure that my best friend will become the best friend of countless others over what I hope is a long and happy life.  I hope to still be around when his children are welcomed to the world and I hope to instill the values in him that I try to live my life by.  Everyone needs a best friend, and every child that dies today in an abortion clinic was destined to be someone’s best friend.  Neither of my grandsons are guaranteed to be happy or successful, but they will both have the chance to make the most of the gift of life they were given.  That’s all any of us can hope for; an opportunity to do good works during the time we’ve been given.

I’m haunted by visions of the seemingly endless stream of dead babies churned out every day by the abortion industry, and I’m committed to leaving my grandsons a world that no longer allows its unborn children to be killed.  I refuse to do nothing as Planned Parenthood and its cronies peddle their industry of death, while they make billions from the pain and suffering of innocent children.

Your best friend should be someone you can always count on, no matter what.  My best friend will always be able to count on me to do everything in my power to protect him and every other child.  That’s what friends do.

 

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As I rapidly approach my 61st year, I’m optimistic.  I can sense the abortion debate slowly swinging to the pro-life side. The House and Senate both have pro-life majorities and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act has a real chance now to get to the President’s desk.  And I can see Rand Paul’s Life at Conception Act being the death blow to Roe v Wade as soon as we have a President with the courage to serve his or her country instead of his or her party.   President Obama will veto the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and I’m optimistic that someone in the press will ask him to explain why he thinks pain-capable babies should be killed by dismemberment.  I’m anxious to see how his spin machine tries to justify his veto as anything other than his willingness to sacrifice thousands of innocent children in order to placate his friends in the abortion industry.

Absent the fancy marketing and political correctness, the killing of America’s children by Planned Parenthood and its partners in the abortion business would be seen for what it is; crimes against humanity.  Americans have been conditioned to accept what they are told as the truth, without questioning the motives of the ones selling them a bill of goods.  Bottom-feeders, like Planned Parenthood, know they can package the brutal killing of unborn children as “reproductive health care” and that most people won’t ask what these words really mean.  Most of my fellow Americans agree that the taking of an innocent life is wrong, but choose to remain at arm’s length from the abortion debate; not willing to take a public stand for every child’s Right to life.

Standing on principle and fighting to defeat evil was never meant to be easy; but it’s the right thing to do.  If my work on behalf of the pro-life movement makes anyone feel uncomfortable; tough.  I’m not in this to make friends.  I’m in this to save lives.  While I have no metrics to measure whether I’ve changed any minds or saved any lives, I’m optimistic that if I stay the course, miracles are possible.  When you accept the call to save lives you start examining the course of your own life.  You realize that most of the things you once considered important are anything but so.  You accept on faith that sacrificing everything for what you believe in is a noble pursuit, and worth the sacrifice.

Feeling optimistic but waiting for someone else to take the actions that feed your optimism is a sure recipe for having your dreams dashed.  My dream of a world where every child is allowed to to be born will only be realized through my efforts and those of millions of other like-minding people, most of whom are much better equipped for the task than I.  James 2:14 says “What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works?  Can faith save him?”  In my humble translation of this verse, if you want something to happen, get off your butt and go do something to make it happen.  I invite any and all who agree with my mission to do just that.

 

 

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Letter to Al Sharpton #2

National Action Network

106 W. 145th Street

Harlem, N.Y. 10039

Attn:    Al Sharpton

 November 27, 2014

Mr. Sharpton:

When you speak out and take positive actions to stop young black men from killing young black men in America’s inner city neighborhoods, I’ll stop calling you a race baiting publicity hound.   When you speak out about the fact that more black children in New York City die from abortion than are allowed to be born every year, I’ll acknowledge that you are doing something other than promoting yourself and inciting racism.  And when you stop yelling, even though you are always speaking into a microphone, you may actually appear to have something to say that is relevant, or at least based in truth.

America has a lot of problems.  We don’t need hucksters like you clamoring to get in front of a TV camera every time you see an opportunity to insert yourself into a tragedy and make things worse.  If you’re really concerned about black children being killed, break your silence on the millions of unborn black children that have died in America’s abortion mills since 1973.   Speak out against Planned Parenthood, the world’s largest child killer; an organization founded by a racist eugenicist.

If the roles were reversed in Ferguson, Missouri, and a black policeman shot a white teenager would you be saying anything, much less accusing the policeman of looking for someone to kill and convicting him of murder in the court of public opinion?  I think we both know the answer.  Mr. Sharpton, you have a dismal track record in high-profile alleged instances of racism.  As a matter of fact, every single time you’ve commandeered the news cycle, incited civil unrest, and even leveled accusations of racism that resulted in innocent people losing their lives, you’ve been proven wrong.

As a result of decades of the playing the race card, you’ve become a public figure.  As a public figure, you have a moral obligation to use your platform for the good of your fellow man, regardless of race.  Don’t you think it’s about time you stopped promoting yourself and started promoting worthy causes?  Einstein once said “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”  Even though neither of us falls in either of those categories, we can both work to make the world a better place.

I’ll be spending my Thanksgiving Day praying for the thousands of unborn American children spending their last day alive.  Over 3,000 unborn children, both black and white, will die tomorrow in America’s abortion mills.   They’ll never get to spend Thanksgiving with their families and they can’t fight for their Right to life.  The only way the killing will be stopped is by advocates for every child’s Right to be born to speak out on their behalf and to make our fellow Americans aware of the magnitude of the slaughter taking place every day.

Sir, what will you do for America’s children?

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

 

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Moral Equivalence

I’ve heard a lot of talk lately about moral equivalence.  When Israel retaliated against Hamas, after enduring a barrage of thousands of rockets, our President asked both sides to show restraint.  How much restraint would America show if Mexico or Canada were lobbing hundreds of rockets across our border every day?  When ISIS began its murderous rampage across the Middle East our President called for a measured response.  Equivocating civilized behavior with that of brutal terrorists erroneously identifies barbarians as equals with the very ones they seek to kill.

The false narrative of moral equivalency put forth by our elected leaders has emboldened the ones wishing to do us harm and conveyed a sense of legitimacy to their cause.  The terrorists of the world see our leaders and our country as weak and unwilling to defend those who can’t defend themselves.  They look at a country that kills over a million of its unborn children every year and see the same nation demanding that the rest of the world respect the human rights of their citizens.  Mixed messages and moral inconsistency embolden the evildoers of the world to do more evil.

Moral equivalency in America allows a business like Planned Parenthood to openly advertise its business of killing children for money as they operate their abortion mills in neighborhood shopping centers.  Our President consults with race hustlers like Al Sharpton and treats them like anything but the publicity hungry parasites they are.  Charlatans and mass murderers are treated like sages and respectable businesses in the name of political correctness and everyone smiles and tries to act like they don’t see the hypocrisy in the comparison.

We pass laws making it illegal to intentionally kill another human being.  We pass laws making it legal to kill an unborn child at the mother’s request.  We pass laws making it illegal to stand within 35 feet of an abortion clinic’s door and asking the women going inside to not kill their babies.  We pass laws allowing anyone to freely speak in public, without fear of retribution, as long as they don’t make a woman feel bad about having her baby killed.  Our society implies a moral equivalency between the businesses that kill children for money and those who work to end the killing.

Our nation and the world are treading on the proverbial slippery slope when we fail to acknowledge the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.  When thugs torch their own town in the name of street justice we need to call them out as the thugs they are.  When terrorists kill innocent people and the abortion industry kills innocent children there can be no moral equivalence conferred between them and those of us who believe that their is no higher calling than protecting innocent life.

The evildoers of the word are counting on the complacency of the masses.  They know that most of the evil in the world is sanctioned by government.  They promote their agendas on the backs of those among us not willing to take action, and know their undoing is sealed when they are denied the legitimacy of moral equivalency.

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Letter to Planned Parenthood #54

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

1110 Vermont Ave.  NW

Suite 300

Washington, D.C.  20005

Attn:    Cecile Richards

 November 24, 2014

 Ms. Richards:

I’m curious.  What is your position on immigration reform?  Ostensibly, immigration reform will allow families living in America illegally to begin the path towards citizenship.  They’ll be having more kids, and that begs the question: do you see this as an opportunity for Planned Parenthood to kill as many of them as possible?  Your organization has already killed millions of American children, so one could logically presume that you will be looking at this strictly by the numbers, so to speak.

The Hispanic community traditionally leans pro-life, so in a perverse sequence of karmic justice, immigration reform may contribute to your eventual undoing.  Wouldn’t that be a kick in the pants?  The most abortion-friendly President in history unilaterally grants amnesty to millions of illegals, and they end up being the ones who put you out of business.

As I wrote to the President yesterday, Liberalism always results in the exact opposite of its stated intent.  Your promotion of a no-consequences society, where innocent children are killed as a matter of convenience, is another flawed liberal concept.   The liberal viewpoint that personal responsibility should not include protecting innocent children, has resulted in the deaths of over 57 million children since 1973.  Instant gratification and the no-consequences society that you work so hard to promote has resulted in Planned Parenthood becoming the biggest baby killing business in the world.

There are far worse things going on in America than poor folks from Mexico coming across the border in search of a better life for their families.  It’s not their fault that we don’t enforce our own laws or that we elect a community organizer as President who has never managed as much as a lemon aide stand.  We choose to enforce laws that allow our unborn children to be killed by the millions while we seem to let anybody come across our border, whether it’s someone looking for a better life or someone looking to end millions of ours.

As a nation, we’ve lost our moral compass.  We’ve allowed bottom-feeders like you to re-brand the act of killing an innocent child for money as women’s reproductive health care.  Political correctness has devolved to the point that we call the terrorist attack on Fort Polk workplace violence.  And we’re on the verge of completing negotiations with Iran that the whole world knows will lead to them developing nuclear weapons.  I honestly wonder on most days if anyone in Washington is looking out for America.

If we institute reasonable immigration reform, with the first step being securing our border, it will work.  I will support immigration reform legislation if it includes a rider to defund Planned Parenthood.  If immigration reform creates new citizens determined to end the practice of abortion, count me in.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

 

 

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Letter to President Obama #99

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

 November 23, 2014

 Mr. President:

You and I both know the Executive Actions you took this week were far beyond the bounds of your authority as President.  We also know that your assertion of prosecutorial discretion in order to circumvent the will of the people and to bypass Congress was not the lawful exercise of Presidential power.  Mr. President, elections have consequences and the trouncing your side took just a few short weeks ago was a resounding rejection of your policies; every single one of them; the very same policies you rightly acknowledged were on the ballot.  Unfortunately, the consequences of electing an incompetent, unqualified President are what got us to this point in the first place.

Mr. President, Liberalism always results in the exact opposite of its stated intent.  But, once again, we both know that the actions you took Thursday night had nothing to do with immigration reform.  They were nothing more than a partisan political maneuver designed to bait the incoming Republican majority into an exaggerated response and to make you look like you actually give a damn about our porous borders and the millions of illegal aliens living in America.  The fact of the matter is, if you had waited until the next Congress was seated in January you would have gotten most of what you illegally implemented with the stroke of your pen, and it would have been done with the cooperation and consent of all 3 branches of government, just as our Founders envisioned.  But you knew that too and still decided to poison the well and scuttle any chance of bipartisan immigration reform for years to come; simply to exercise your dissociative narcissism and to try to remain relevant.

Mr. President, let’s stipulate that you do have the authority to just waive your hand, whip out your Presidential pen, and change laws unilaterally.  Take out your pen and reverse Roe v Wade.  Issue an Executive Order making the intentional killing of unborn children illegal in America.  You’ve shown that you are willing to overreach your Presidential authority, and in doing so affect the lives of millions of people, so why not do it again and save the lives of millions of children?  You claim that your Executive Actions on immigration reform were the right thing to do.  What could be more right than taking action to end the killing of over 1 million American children every year?

Immigration reform must be implemented in America, but the first step has to be securing our borders.  You can’t clean up your flooded home until you stop the flow of water.  The elective killing of our unborn children has to end, but the first step must be changing the laws that allow it to be done legally.  America will not stop killing its own until respect for the sanctity of every life once again becomes the norm.  A show of respect by the leader of the free world would be a good first step.

As always, my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Write back and I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

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