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Hate Crimes

What is a hate crime?  This week’s shootings in Charleston, S.C. will be prosecuted as hate crimes.  My question is, what violent crime isn’t a hate crime?  One can logically conclude that the opposite of hate is love.  Is any violent crime not considered a hate crime a love crime?  It seems to me that, as a society, we are tying ourselves into knots with semantics; striving to classify the senseless killing of some as hate crimes while failing to even acknowledge the senseless killing of others.  Striking out against any innocent human being in an act of violence is most certainly not an act of love, but a manifestation of hate; and what good is done by placing labels on it?

When we call a crime a hate crime we are saying we know what the perpetrator was thinking at the time he or she committed the crime.  We are saying we know what his or her motivation was and that this violent crime carries more weight than a crime with the same degree of violence committed by someone whose thinking and motivation we don’t claim to understand.  While our laws allow the killing of our fellow human beings to be classified with varying degrees of egregiousness, they also allow the killing of millions of others with no penalty whatsoever.

Ripping an innocent child from its mother’s womb and killing it is not considered a crime in most parts of America. Killing the child moments after its birth is murder, but killing it before it is born is perfectly legal.  A psycho walks into a Charleston, S.C. church and kills 9 innocent people, and it’s called a hate crime.  A mother walks into an abortion clinic and pays to have her unborn child killed and it’s legal.  Innocent human beings are killed in each circumstance.  One is considered a heinous crime and one is called women’s reproductive health care.

On the day that 9 innocent people were killed in Charleston, 3,000 innocent babies were killed in America’s abortion mills.  The day after 9 innocent people were killed in Charleston, 3,000 more innocent babies were killed in America’s abortion mills.  By its very nature, any act of violence against an innocent human being is a hate crime, if you think placing labels on such acts is the proper thing to do. Calling the violent killing of any human being a hate crime should convey the same status to the violent killing of any other human being.

I join my fellow Americans in mourning for those lost to a senseless act of violence in Charleston, S.C. and I mourn daily for the thousands of innocent children killed by a bloodthirsty abortion industry in equally senseless acts of violence.

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My Life; My Choice

More and more every day my thoughts wander from the responsibilities of my day job to the thousands of tiny lives that are ending in America’s abortion mills.  I wonder at times if it’s only me who sits at his desk and sees visions of the pain and suffering that innocent children should never have to endure.  I know that at some point in my life I will be working full-time to end abortion, and I pray for the courage to take the step I know I must take, sooner than later.  I hug my grandsons and the joy they bring to my life is tempered by the knowledge that nearly a third of their future friends will be killed in an abortion clinic.

The thousands of innocent children killed every day in America couldn’t care less about a woman’s right to choose. They just want to live.  Given the choice between life and death, how many do you think would choose a grisly death over life, just as their lives are beginning?  Why should anyone among us, having been allowed to exercise their gift of life, feel empowered to decide which child should live and which one should die?  What part of being free gives us the freedom to take an innocent life as a simple matter of convenience?

These days I have more questions than answers.  I see the legal killing of unborn children in the country I love and I wonder how we got to this point.  I see the daily bloodbath and realize that we all share responsibility for the direction our country has taken.  Those of us on the pro-life side could have worked harder to protect our nation’s children. Those of us afraid to take a stand for life could grow a spine and defend innocent lives.  And those among us who profit by killing unborn children could finally understand that all the money in the world can never pay the price they will ultimately pay for the suffering and death they have wrought.

As I approach my 62nd year I’ve been blessed with good health and a burning desire to save children.  I can see the end of my so called career in the not too distant future and I look forward to working harder in my retirement years than I ever have during my work life.  My motives are simple; saving lives and changing attitudes. I’m not afraid to look evil in the eye and to call it what it is.  Abortion is the greatest human tragedy in the history of the world.  I’m prepared to spend the rest of my life to bring an end to abortion and look forward to working with no expectation of compensation, because I know that the rewards of working for a just cause will be compensation enough.

When my last day comes, I look forward to leaving a world behind that no longer kills its children.  And when I’m asked by my Creator if I helped my fellow man, I’ll answer honestly and stand by the actions I took in defense of life.

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Letter to President Obama #106

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C.  20500

Attn:    President Barack Obama

June 14, 2015

Mr. President:

The Senate is taking up the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and you have promised to veto it if it makes it to your desk.  Why?  How could any sane human being oppose a bill that will ban the dismemberment killing of unborn babies who have developed to the point that they can feel the pain of every rip and tear as they are literally ripped to shreds while being killed?   Mr. President, we condemn the murderous thugs of ISIS for killing innocent human beings by beheading and torture, and allow the same methods to be used to kill unborn children in our nation’s abortion mills.

By the end of your second term, over 8 million unborn children will have been killed on your watch; about 160,000 of them by dismemberment abortion.  As the father of 2 beautiful daughters, how can you allow the slaughter to continue without doing a thing to stop it?  Sir, the most basic of all human rights is the right to life.  The most basic and most important of all your duties as President is to protect everyone’s right to life.  Sir, your vocal support of Planned Parenthood and your long track record of supporting the abortion industry is contrary to your most important duty as President.

When the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act clears the Senate how will you justify your veto?  Will you say that some lives are more important than others or that unborn children are not living human beings?  Mr. President, all the fancy words and political spin in the world can’t justify the unjustifiable.  Dismemberment abortion of pain-capable children must be stopped.  You are in a position to stop it and the world will be watching.

Mr. President, innocent unborn children are entirely dependent upon us for their very survival.  We have a moral obligation to protect them and we all know that allowing the indiscriminate killing of them is wrong.  The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act will save untold thousands of innocent children.  It will be a small step towards ending abortion, but a very important step.  The thousands of unborn children that die every day in America’s abortion mills are dying senseless deaths.  It’s way past time to end abortion in the greatest country on earth.

Mr. President, allow the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to become the law of the land and watch as miracles occur.  Watch as babies doomed to die agonizing deaths are allowed to be born and to express their universally unique lives.  Sign the bill and take the political heat from the abortion industry and walk away, knowing you did the right thing.

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 Lindsey Graham: Reposted

I wrote the following letter to Senator Lindsey Graham nearly 2 years ago.  About the only thing that has changed since then is the fact that the Republican Party now controls the Senate.  This week Senator Graham introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act before the Senate for the second time.  This time it has a chance to pass the Senate before it meets a quick death at the hands of President Obama’s veto pen.

It’s at times like this that men and women of honor and integrity must stand up and fight for what they know is a righteous cause.  President Obama must be forced to publicly declare why he is against a bill designed to save unborn children from agonizing dismemberment abortions.  It’s time for men and women of honor and integrity to override the President’s veto and to stand on the side of life.

Lindsey Graham is still a dinosaur who should have been run out of the Senate a long time ago, but he’s doing a good thing and I applaud his efforts.  Now he needs to finish the job.

Since I wrote this letter, 2 million children have died in America’s abortion mills and about 40,000 were killed after 20 weeks, the point at which they can feel the pain of being killed.  The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is a small step towards ending abortion, but a step that must be taken.

 

 

 

 

Senator Lindsey Graham

290 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

November 7, 2013

Senator Graham:

In the interest of full disclosure, I feel that dinosaurs like you, John McCain, and Mitch McConnell should be run out of office and replaced with true conservatives.  I must, however, applaud your efforts to bring the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act before the Senate for a vote.  Senator Graham, if this bill is passed by the Senate and President Obama’s promised veto is overridden, the lives of at least 15,000 unborn children will be saved every year in America.  Sir, these children will be saved from a ghastly, indescribably agonizing death and will go on to claim their Right to life, just like you, me, and every other American was able to, whatever side of this issue we may be on.

Senator Graham, the President seems to have a tenuous grasp, at best, on the truth, so here’s an incontrovertible truth.  100% of the people voting for or against this bill were allowed to be born.  Don’t our unborn children deserve at least the same consideration?  Should the most pro-abortion President in history, along with his cronies at Planned Parenthood, be allowed to continue the slaughter of America’s children?  A third of America’s unborn children die at the hands of America’s abortion mills.  Your pro-abortion colleagues in the Senate continue to say they want abortion to be safe, rare, and legal while 1.2 million babies are killed every year in our country.  They all know that killing unborn children is neither safe, rare, nor should be legal, but it sounds good to their uninformed constituents and it gets them reelected so, what the hell, let the killing continue.

Senator, it’s gut check time for America.  We are sliding into tyranny and it’s time for all men and women of honor and integrity to stand up for the things that really matter; God, life, freedom, and family.  It’s time to stop worrying about elections or the consequences of doing what we know is right.  Senator, you have some heavy lifting to do in order to get the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act through the Democrat controlled Senate.  Ask your colleagues who are against this bill to explain to the American people why they feel that unborn children, who can feel the agony of being ripped apart, should continue to be killed in our country.

Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobbyists are hard at work twisting arms in the Senate to defeat this bill.  Sir, the lives of our children are worth fighting for and worth whatever price we have to pay, personally or professionally, to stop the killing.  Senator Graham, in closing, a simple quote from Ronald Reagan: “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

All my letters are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com.  Should you choose to reply, I’ll publish it, unedited.

 

 

 

 

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Positive Outcomes

So far, over the course of my life, no matter how badly I’ve screwed things up it always seems to work out for me.  A few years ago I decided to leave the industry that I had made a very good living at for over 30 years to take a crack at a totally different career path.  I failed miserably and was fired 5 months later.  Within a day of being fired I was receiving unsolicited job offers, and a week later was working again in the industry I had voluntarily left, for more money than I had ever made. Looking back, it’s always been that way for me.  Fall down, get back up, end up stronger.

Trying not to take anything too seriously seems to work for me; for everything except working to end abortion.  For most things in all our lives we can fail repeatedly and try again as many times as we want until we get it right.  When you’re trying to save lives, failure is not an option.  The only positive outcome in the fight for life is to save a life.  And the only positive outcome for an unborn child is the opportunity to fully express its universally unique life.  I truly believe that if you make every effort to do right, good things will follow.  And I absolutely believe that standing on the side of life is the right thing to do.

Positive thinking is a good thing, but positive outcomes are what really matters, and they will only be realized as a result of definable action and measurable results.  Einstein once said “Nothing happens until something moves.”  He was right.  You can sit around thinking about what you want to do and the goals you want to achieve, but until you get off your ass and make it happen, nothing will.

A little over 2 years ago when I was called to end abortion I vowed that I would not leave this world without saving more lives than I could ever imagine I could.   Every family has at least one member that the others consider weird, eccentric, or just a little off.  I’m that guy in my family.  I’m really not sure what my closest friends and family members think about my pro-life views; whether I’m an embarrassment or whether they are proud of me. I would prefer the latter, but what I am doing is much more important to me than the good opinion of others; even my family.

Amid all the suffering and death that occurs daily in America’s abortion mills, I see a positive outcome.  I see a world in the not too distant future where the doors of every abortion mill are locked shut for the last time.  Whether my efforts or the efforts of someone else helps bring an end to abortion makes no difference to me.  A positive outcome, the safety of every unborn child is all that matters.

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Not long ago, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards tweeted “Black lives matter.”  As the President of Planned Parenthood, Ms. Richards heads an organization that was founded by a racist eugenicist named Margaret Sanger. Sanger’s stated intent upon establishing Planned Parenthood’s first abortion clinics in poor, inner city neighborhood’s was the extermination of the black race, to whom she referred as “human weeds.”  Since 1973, America’s abortion industry, with Planned Parenthood leading the way, has killed 16 million black children.  Every day in America, over 1,400 black children are aborted.

As an epidemic of young black men killing young black men is spreading throughout our nation’s largest cities, Planned Parenthood is killing thousands of unborn black children every week.  Black lives don’t matter to Planned Parenthood; neither do white lives or hispanic lives.  The only thing that matters to them is how many innocent children, of whatever race, they can kill and how much money they can make doing it.  Every minute and a half Planned Parenthood kills another innocent child, and every year, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers, they are given over $500 million of our hard-earned money.

Planned Parenthood operates as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization while making billions of dollars killing children. A large portion of the income they get from killing children is used to support pro-abortion political candidates who, in turn, push legislation to make it easier to have your unborn child killed.  So, the money from unwilling taxpayers like me that is funneled to Planned Parenthood, from Planned Parenthood to their cronies in politics, and from their cronies in politics back to them, is then used by Planned Parenthood so they can kill even more children.  The circle of corruption is complete and everyone loses, especially our unborn children.

Every year Planned Parenthood bestows the Margaret Sanger Award upon some liberal sap in a Kabuki Theatre attempt to appear legitimate.  The award, in honor of their homicidal founder, is happily received by said liberal sap and everyone in the room smiles and basks in the glow of their collective ignorance and callous disregard for the lives of innocent children.  The next morning the killing resumes.

A few years ago Hillary Clinton received the Margaret Sanger Award.  During her acceptance speech she gushed that she admired Margaret Sanger’s vision.  That tells me all I need to know about her ethics and lack of character.  The woman who wants to be the leader of the free world is rabidly pro-abortion and quick to accuse anyone standing up for a child’s right to life of waging a war on women.

Hypocrisy, as I see it, is saying one thing and doing another.  It’s portraying yourself as caring and compassionate while supporting a cause that has resulted in 60 million unborn children dying senseless deaths since 1973.  Cecile Richards and Hillary Clinton are hypocrites.  They represent the smiling faces of pure evil.  Both have shown that there is nothing they won’t do for money, and the blood of millions of innocent children is on their hands.

Hypocrisy always results in the undoing of of those who practice it.  The universe’s perfect accounting system will eventually catch up with Cecile Richards and Hillary Clinton.  The price will be heavy and the debt will be paid.  The lives of Cecile Richards and Hillary Clinton are just as priceless as every life taken by the abortion industry they both support.  They both have had the chance to change the world for the better.  They both have failed miserably.

 

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Courage

Cour-age: the quality of being fearless or brave; valor; pluck.  I believe that the courage of one’s convictions is the true test of character.  How many who will read this have the courage to defend an innocent life, whatever the cost?  Too many of us choose to dwell in the past or rely on the future; ignoring the clear and present opportunity to save lives and to change the world.  With all due respect to Webster’s New World Dictionary, I disagree with their definition of courage. Courage, in my view, is doing what you know is right and of benefit to others in spite of your fear of failure, ridicule, or risk to your wellbeing.  It is taking a leap of faith and knowing that the cause you are willing to risk everything for is worth it.  It’s wanting nothing for your efforts other than the outcome you seek.

The unborn children I have dedicated the rest of my life to saving, deserve a chance to learn what courage is.  I chose to follow the courage of my convictions a long time ago when it came to saving children from the horror of abortion.  I don’t care if my friends and family disagree with my pro-life views.  I know that standing on the side of life is right and will continue to do so until my dying breath.  It doesn’t take courage to kill an unborn child and it doesn’t take courage to follow the crowd when it comes to turning a blind eye to abortion.  Ask yourself if the more than 1 million children who will die at the hands of America’s abortion industry this year would prefer that you have the courage to save them or the complacency to ignore their plight.

As human beings, we are morally obligated to defend the defenseless.  We have a sacred duty to protect the children of the world and to end the selective killing of them.   We must have the courage to defend all human life from conception to natural death.  Every child that we allow to be killed by a bloodthirsty abortion industry is one more lost chance to be courageous on the side of life.  A collective lack of courage got our nation to the point where we have killed over 60 million unborn children since 1973.  We can’t undo what is already done but we can end the killing tomorrow if enough of us are willing to do what we know in our hearts is the right thing to do.

I’m under no delusion that I can end abortion by myself.  I won’t give up and I freely admit that I need help. All are welcome to help and all you need is a little courage.

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Letter to Mitch McConnell #3

Senator Mitch McConnell

317 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C.  20510

 May 18, 2015

 Senator McConnell:

When a man makes a promise, he is honor bound to keep it.  When you became the Senate Majority Leader you promised to bring the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to the floor for a vote and to pass it.  Now’s your chance.  The House has done its part, and now it’s up to you.  Senator McConnell, this bill will save about 20,000 innocent children every year, and every day we allow the barbaric practice of dismemberment abortion to continue, hundreds more will die.

Empty promises and inaction seem to be the modus operandi in Washington these days.  Passing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is too important to be treated as business as usual with backroom deals and lobbyists calling in favors.  President Obama has signaled his intention to veto this bill if it makes it to his desk.  Make him veto it.  Make him explain to the American public why he thinks the slaughter of pain-capable babies should be legal in the greatest country on earth.

Senator McConnell, over 1 million unborn children are killed in America’s abortion mills every year.  Some people may think that the 20,000 children this bill will save every year is just a drop in the bucket.  I contend that every life is priceless and that every chance to save even 1 life must be pursued to its fullest.

Sir, this is where the rubber meets the road.  You made a promise and now it’s time to keep it.  You can pass a bill that will save thousands of children or you can look the other way and hope that no one is watching.  Whatever you choose to do, the killing won’t stop until men and women of good will do what it takes to stop it.  Passing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is just 1 step, but a very important step, towards ending abortion.

Time is of the essence.  Pain-capable children are being killed every day by dismemberment abortion, and will continue to be killed until you and your colleagues take action.  Getting this bill to the President’s desk and overriding his promised veto will be a daunting effort.  Nobody said it would be easy.  Nothing this important ever is.  If you and your colleagues aren’t up to the task, have the intellectual honesty to say so, and I’ll find another way.

Senator McConnell, America is watching and innocent children are being killed by the thousands.  What will you do?

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Through the Eyes of a Child

I marveled on Mother’s Day at the look of sheer joy on my grandson’s face as he romped barefoot through the lawn sprinkler in my backyard.  He wasn’t thinking of the thousands of innocent children who would die in America’s abortion mills just a day later.  He was living in the moment, and feeling the joy of being alive; knowing that he was safe with me.  I shared his joy, but knew that by the next Mother’s Day we spend together, over 1 million unborn children will have been intentionally killed in the country I love.

We can learn a lot from our children and grandchildren.  I watch my grandsons as they experience, for the first time, all the things that most of us take for granted.  They haven’t been taught how to hate anyone or to be biased against anyone who looks different or speaks in a different language than they do.  They see life as a daily miracle, not a daily grind.  They’re honest with their emotions and approach life with no agenda, other than the pursuit of happiness. They’re not looking to the future or dwelling in the past.  They are living fully in today, knowing instinctively that yesterday is done and tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.

I fear that over time they will succumb to the social conditioning that most of us fall prey to; the social conditioning that teaches us hate, bias, and indifference to the suffering of our fellow man.  I envy my grandsons’ innocence and wish I could shield them from all the evil and inhumanity they will be exposed to over the course of their lives.  I’m committed to keeping them safe and working to save all their future friends from the indignity of death in the name of a culture that passes laws to allow their killing to be legal.

If we all looked at life through the eyes of an innocent child, just imagine the world we would live in.  Children have no desire to kill their own.  Money and worldly possessions aren’t important to them.  They have no concept of politics and no need to make empty promises they have no intention of honoring.  Our world, as seen through the eyes of a child, would have no need for weapons of mass destruction that could destroy it a thousand times over.  Terrorism would not exist and children would have no interest in murdering anyone whose beliefs were different than theirs.

As adults, we think we have all the answers.  We think our life experience conveys wisdom and qualifies us to determine who should live and who should die; ignoring the fact that we were allowed to live.  My grandsons are showing me what is truly important.  I’ll take a Sunday afternoon running and playing with them over all the so called important things we spend our lives pursuing.  I’m seeing the world through their eyes and I’m determined to make it better for them and every other child.

 

 

 

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Looking For Answers

Where is our life energy before we are conceived?  Is it confined to our body while we are alive?  Where does it go after the death of our physical body?  Does the concept of time apply to the animating force we call life?  If our life force has no beginning and no end, why are we given such a short physical life to determine how we will spend forever?  I don’t have an answer to any of these questions, although I ponder them constantly.

While our lives, in the context of eternity, are short; our time alive is priceless.  We squander our time and our lives by killing our own, worrying about money, possessions, and countless other unimportant things.  We fail to see our fellow human beings as our brothers and sisters and the family that they truly are. We allow thousands of unborn children to be killed everyday; literally standing by as our family members are murdered.  We pursue our physical lives as if our total existence is confined to the time period between birth and our last breath.

I’m slowly seeing it differently.  I don’t know where I was before I became a physical being and I don’t know where I’ll go when the body I reside in dies.  I’ve come to realize that I’m more than a rather mediocre assembly of skin and bones.  So is every other human being, from the moment of conception until they leave their bodies.  We all received our gift of life for a reason.  No one will convince me that some of us were put here to kill millions of unborn children, or that industries dedicated to killing babies for money are serving humanity.  And someone please tell me why children go to bed hungry in America while our government sends over $500 million to Planned Parenthood every year.

As I get older I feel a sense of urgency to accomplish my goal of ending abortion.  While my time may be growing short, my resolve will never die.   That’s what life is about; pursuing worthy goals and doing what you know in your heart is right.  One of the great mysteries of life is that none of us knows when ours will end.  When my last day comes I hope to leave this world knowing that I saved some lives and changed some more.  I hope I will have made my children and grandchildren proud of what I accomplished and willing to carry on the work I began.

Life is short enough already.  The last thing we need to be doing is ending new lives just as they are beginning.  Help me end the practice of abortion and help make the world a better place.  If you choose not to help, I understand.  It’s hard to take a stand for something you believe in, even if you know it’s the right thing to do.  Find your own way to serve others and I’ll press on, unafraid and undeterred.