formerly,
Abortion is Murder, and, before that, skyp (stop the killing of young people)
April, 2013 Vol. 10
No. 15
PO Box 7424, Reading, PA 19603
Phone, 484-706-4375
Web, skyp1.blogspot.com
Circulation, 222
Editor, John Dunkle
“Contraception” is Murder, a
weak, pathetic response to baby murder, is sent out at least once a month. If the gestapo hasn’t jailed you yet for
defending the innocent realistically, you either have to tell me you want it or
go to the website. Emails are free but
snail-mail is free only for PFCs, a grand for others.
Because
I believe we should examine every legitimate means, including force, in our
attempt to protect those being tortured to death, I want to hear from people
who’ve been forceful and from those who defend them. I’d also like to hear from those who oppose
the prolife use of force and call it violence.
Prisoners
For Christ:
1. Evans,
Paul Ross 83230-180, FCI, PO Box
1500, El Reno, OK 73036
2. Griffin,
Michael 310249, BRCF, 5914 Jeff Atles Rd., Milton, FL 32583-00000
3. Grady,
Francis 131471, Wisconsin
Resource Center, PO Box 220, Winnebago, WI 54985-0220
4. Holt,
Gregory 129616 (Prisoner For Allah), Varber super Max, PO Box 600, Grady,
AR 71644-0600
5.
Kopp, James 11761-055, USP
Canaan, 3057 Easton Tpk., Waymart, PA 18472
6. Mower,
Donny Eugene 65828-097, FCI ,PO Box 3997, San Pedro, CA 90731
7. Roeder,
Scott 65192 PO Box 2, Lansing,
Kansas 66043
8. Rogers,
Bobby Joe, Santa Rosa County Jail,
PO Box 7129, Milton, FL 325872
9. Rudolph,
Eric 18282-058 US Pen. Max, Box 8500, Florence CO 81226-8500
10. Shannon,
Rachelle 59755-065, FCI Waseca, Unit A,
P.O. Box 1731, Waseca, MN 56093
11.
Waagner, Clayton Lee 17258-039, USP, P.O. Box 1000, Lewisburg PA 17837
Shelley’s
back and beautiful:
I’m planning to mail this to quite a few people,
including some I haven’t written to or heard from in a long time. I don’t even
remember who some of you are! Forgive
me. Since they limited our number of
correspondents, I found out we can juggle names in the computer, which is what
I plan to do for this.
When I was at the FCI in Dublin, CA, and
needed eye surgery, the doctor there said there was no such thing as a glaucoma
specialist. People contacted the BOP
/Regional Office and Central Office in Washington, DC, and a glaucoma
specialist was found and I got the necessary surgery. I won’t ask anyone to contact the regional
and central offices; after all we have a grievance process, futile though it
is. I’ll give you the contact information
in case you ever want to use it:
Federal Bureau
of Prisons Central Office
320 First
Str. NW
Washington DC
20534
BOIP North
Central Regional Office
400 State
Ave.
Tower II,
Suite 808
Kansas City,
KS 66101
Mostly everything is going well for me. FCI Waseca has been treating me unfairly with
regards to my mail, though. When I was at the FCI in Carswell, TX, I did a
grievance because they were refusing to give me my prolife mail. I won it and was then given all of my
mail. At Dublin for over five years I
continued to get my prolife mail, and here in Waseca for about the first two
years. Then suddenly I couldn’t have any
pictures that show aborted babies. I
took that through the grievance process assuming I would win again, though I
shouldn’t have needed to do it again. However,
the wicked at this regional office rubber stamped the mistreatment, as they do
with others. At first they said the
photos were a “security risk,” and now they claim it’s because the photos are
related to my “crime.” Others get photos
of co-defendants and such, and magazines such as Rolling Stone, even if they
have drug crimes.
I’ve never heard of anyone else with a
similar mail problem. I am being treated
differently than the other inmates, and I don’t thank them for making me feel
special because it is NOT RIGHT. Now
they have gone even further and won’t let me have newsletters or anything that
approves of the use of force to really stop the murders. I can still get hunting and fishing magazines
(so far) that advocate the use of force to kill meat with, and I got a
Bonheoffer book that advocates the use of force to stop another serial murder,
Adolph Hitler. What will they do to me
next?
Other than that things are well. This prison has a great track, and we even
have snowshoes, which I love to use. The
food is a lot better than Dublin’s.
There aren’t as many jobs, and the classes aren’t as good, though we do
have a College Office Administration program that I'm trying to get into. For now I teach grammar and math classes for
my job. It’s easy hours usually but
always subject to change. I feel healthy
and greatly blessed in the Lord. May he
bless you too.
Thank you for your help and prayers.. Love
I’m
assuming Shelley gets this newsletter because I do not approve of the use of
force. Nor do I disapprove. I just want to hear all sides. That’s all right, ain’t it, BO?
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Neal
comments, with his usual insight, on The March For Life in Columbus, Ohio:
Mark Harrington says, "Anti-Abortion Marches Are For
Babies". Yet the sign that leads the entire march says, "Abortion
HURTS Women."
The picture above demonstrates the fatal
double-minded attitude that is the main reason legalized abortion continues today
in the USA. In other words, for forty years the Pro-life Movement has been much
more about helping the women who commit abortion than about the babies whose
lives are destroyed by the decisions made by those women. That decision to
treat the plight of born women who murder their babies as more deserving of
Christian ministry than the babies who are in imminent danger of being murdered
has fortified the world in thinking that unborn babies conceived by God are
somehow less valuable, have less claim to being created in the image of God,
than people who are born.
We must correct this fundamental error or
Christians will continue to be the bedrock upon which legalized abortion is
allowed to stand.
If abortion is the taking of an innocent life, it is some degree of homicide. But pro-life Christians refuse to treat unborn babies with the love they deserve and that God commands.
If abortion is the taking of an innocent life, it is some degree of homicide. But pro-life Christians refuse to treat unborn babies with the love they deserve and that God commands.
To demonstrate the point I'm trying to make,
listen to Alan Keyes who chastised me on national television over a decade ago
for not properly showing "love" to the women who were committing
abortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnuJkBkCXE
As I tried to tell Keyes before it became
clear he had no intention of letting me explain myself, if babies are being
butchered in legalized abortion, the people who participate in that act of
homicide are in fact exactly like murderers we the people have incarcerated in
every State in the union when they have been convicted of unjustified homicide.
Yet still the PRO-LIFE movement and its
leaders insist on telling the nation, as the sign above proves, that Abortion
HURTS Women.
Now
it is undeniable that abortion hurts women. And I certainly am not
suggesting that the women who decide to murder their babies are not to be
ministered to. But just as it is undeniable that people who are arrested,
prosecuted and punished for homicide are HURT, and just as it is undeniable
that those people are valid, necessary focuses for the gospel ministry of Jesus
Christ, the pro-life Christian response to the women murdering their babies has
been out of order for forty years. Since I worked for years in a prison
ministry, I can testify with the authority that experience brings about how God
would have us--His ministers--deal with murderers. One thing is certain, I
never have heard of a Christian prison ministry that acted like God intended us
to minister to murderers--except in the most unlikely speculative scenarios--before
they were arrested. Until they had been arrested and were in a place where
repentance was a clear necessity, dealing with murderers was a matter for law
enforcement officers, not gospel ministers.
Needless to say, Christian prison ministries
do not organize marches involving hundreds of thousands of people in order to
tell the world that Murder HURTS Murderers, nor did we build our ministry on
the idea that murderers are fit subjects for ministry even before they have
been arrested, charged and prosecuted for murder.
Why? Because the world would think those
Christians were utterly batty, crazy as loons: in a word, INSANE.
Everybody knows murder hurts murderers who
get caught. History is replete with evidence that murderers who do
not get caught and prosecuted grow bolder as murderers, grow more proficient as
murderers, grow, in fact, to be examples of murderous problem solvers who have
the capacity to infect the people around them with their particular solution
to their problems with other people.
With this in view, it should be possible to
see the real problem created by the pro-life Christian response to legalized
abortion.
Pro-life
Christians have refused to admit that the women who murder their children in
legalized abortion are murderers.
And why won't Pro-life Christians admit it?
The short answer is this: the pro-life
movement has been dominated for forty years by women. Repeat: Christian women
have dominated the logic and rhetoric and strategy and tactics of the pro-life
movement for forty years. From the start until today, women dictate
what is to be said about legalized abortion because, as I have been told
hundreds of times, men don't get pregnant and have to decide what to do with
the "problem." So the men who are allowed to present themselves as
leaders in the pro-life movement either toe the party line drawn by women, stay
on the script written by women, or they are silenced and if they do anything in
an attempt to enforce God's Law against murder, they are put into prison by the
Christian pro-life women and their neutered boytoys who are allowed to stand in
front of the pro-life marches.
Forty years of the blood of aborted babies
cries out against these Christian pro-lifers who have allowed women to find a
way to fail to abolish legalized abortion.
Can you hear the blood of those babies cry
out to God?
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I don’t
understand some of what Tobra says here, but I love it anyway:
Buttercup's
Law &
Order Criminal Intent
Folks for those of you who were up in the middle of the night and
tuned into law and order criminal intent.
there was a pleasant little episode about saint slepian dropping
seem in this version which may differ from court recorded action
in the gov a ment vs. JAMES KOPP our handsome hero heroically drops saint
slepian in NYC. thereby drawing the attention of our gov a ment folks.
some other heroes receive attention & one particularly
handsome fellow who seems to resembles NEAL HORSLEY.
our gov a ment folks kidnap & incarcerate our hero in the end
and try to make themselves the heroes by saving our hero from his suicidal
plunge. fortunately anyone smart enough to read this email recognizes the
hypocrisy of that.
this episode will now be discussed by our panel of experts.
Frank: i was teaching a Bible class in room 499 of the Rentem
cheap motel my students will offer their expert opinion as well.
i think KOPP & HORSLEY are tougher than those actors.
Bible student amber: wow wow like wow that guy shot my abortion
doctor that is so cool.
Bible student tiffani: i kinda passed out along about the part mr
gifford is saying the taking of concubines not leading to abortion shooters
Bible student mimi: we madam gifford is how you say extra charge?
Kahtielee; folks i want to thank mr gifford and his Bible students
for their critique of this exciting episode.
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Matthew Jackson emailed me a goldmine recently:
May
26, 1988 James C. Kopp Interview, Part 1
Editor’s note: About 10 years prior to James Kopp
performing a post natal termination procedure of an abortionist in 1998, I had
a chance to sit down with him for about an hour and a half for an interview. I
recently, found the cassette tape of that interview while rummaging through my
old cassettes a few weeks ago. After I listened to the tape, I was reminded of
the deep wisdom and insight that James shared. I was so amazed at what he said,
I decided to transcribe the interview and share it with you. This interview is
quite long, so I will present it in several parts. Here is part 1.
MJ: There are a lot of things I don’t know about you just form a personal perspective. Could you tell us about who you are and where you are from and some basic background information before we start talking about rescue missions (sit-ins at abortion mills)?
JK: I was born in Pasadena, CA in 1954. I come from a family of five and I have one sister in heaven, and I guess part of my background includes the fact that my own immediate family has three single mothers. So to me, pro-life is very personal and the cost that mothers have to pay is something that I as a male could understand. I went to school in California, and I studied Darwinistic Biology as an under graduate many years ago, and was saved overseas in Francis Schaffer’s ministry and at the same time, through over Darwinism. But, I decided to finish up grad school even though by that time I started to think about pro-life and so I finished my Masters which was in embryology and fertilization. That started to get me into pro-life.
MJ: What year was this?
JK: I finished my Masters in I think about ’82. One of the reasons I got into pro-life was that… At one point during the Masters, I thought I might be interested in med school, so I became a pre-med, and I had some clinical experience. And, one day I was standing in the morgue of the Stanford Hospital and I assisted and observed autopsies there because I was in the pathology department and did my little bit of research at night. They brought in a baby that was 8 months from conception that had been aborted, for having Down’s syndrome. The Pathologist was particularly pleased to show me this baby because she knew that I was pro-life. She knew that I was in the morgue and she sent the baby in and she said, “You see enough of this kind of garbage and you really start to believe in abortion.” Those were the words she said to me, and I don’t think I will ever forget it. Up until then, I had some pro-life involvement intellectually, but it wasn’t until I saw that baby right in front of me, which was an absolutely beautiful baby that had been killed because it had Down’s syndrome. And, I heard those words and they just chilled me through my bones, “You see enough of this kind of garbage and you really start to believe in abortion.” Oh, and she also said, ”You pro-lifers really make me sick.” I was so stunned that I could not think of much to say but what happened is that I made a promise to God in my heart that I would try and do more. Up until then I had done political work in pro-life and my family has been involved in California politics for decades.
MJ: What year was this when you saw the aborted baby?
JK: That was 1982 also. The first rescue I did was in ’83 or ’84 and the first Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) that I opened was in ’84. So, it was after then I got on the pathway of CPCs and rescues.
MJ: You said you had your conversion overseas. Was this in Switzerland?
JK: Yes.
MJ: What was the name of the town?
JK: The name of the town was Huémoz-sur-Ollon. But the name of the ministry was L’Abri.
MJ: How many rescues have you done to date?
JK: I really don’t know the exact number, but it is somewhere between 15 to 20 I think. In terms of really big national type rescues with 100 or more people maybe 4 or 5 of those. And probably half a dozen lock-in rescues… maybe more.
MJ: Do you know how many arrests you’ve had?
JK: Well, let’s see... That’s right, some of the rescues did not involve arrests, so I have probably been arrested about 15 times. Not a lot.
MJ: Not a lot? (laughing) One of the things about you that is going against the grain of society is that a lot of people are soft and we have a lot of conveniences. And here, we have someone like you who has literally sold out everything for pro-life. I understand that you even took a vow of poverty at one time.
JK: (laughing) I don’t know about a vow.
MJ: That’s what John Witte told me.
JK: Well the hardest part was when I sold my trumpet. I used to be in the union and I put myself through college, or shall I say the Lord put me through college being in the union. And the hardest thing was when I sold my trumpet, which was an extremely good trumpet. That was how I made my living which was the culmination of my career as a professional musician. So that part hurt me, but ever since then it’s been downhill. I mean, in the sense that, once you…. I mean everyone has a trumpet if you know what I mean. Everyone’s got that one thing. You know, they will give up everything else, you know what I mean? And that trumpet meant probably more to me than anything else in terms of material things. I have already been moving in the direction of what I called, being judgment proof. You know, having no assets so that if N.O.W. (National Organization for Women) sues me, I would have nothing to fear. Which is the place I want to be in. So, I had been moving in that direction for a long time.
MJ: I could just see N.O.W. going after that trumpet. “We got to get Kopp’s trumpet!”
JK: (Laughing)
MJ: We read about Samuel Rutherford, Dietrich Bonheoffer, Corrie Ten Boom, then we look at people in our day and age… and I ask where are our heroes? And we have Joan Andrews and a handful of others. But our generation desperately needs some heroes that will sell everything out and just be radical. In our day and age this concept is very foreign and I just feel that we have a lot of soft Christians now days.
JK: Yeah, I think I see where you are going, and I definitely agree. In fact, any time the Lord has asked me to make a sacrifice… and of course, I cannot make a sacrifice in my own strength. If I were to form the resolution that I should sell my trumpet, that would be no big deal. That doesn’t mean anything if it is in the flesh. But, if you were to pray about it and you are sure that is what the Lord wants, and if you go to him and say, “okay Lord.” Then you are offering it up to God and He’s doing it. I definitely think that we don’t offer up enough things to the Lord, we are hanging on to too many things. That, I don’t think too many people would argue with you, especially in the United States. In my opinion, part of the core of this whole problem is that there has never been a country in the entire History of the planet that has had such a very large number of people with such an average high level of freedom from war, poverty, disease, coldness, hunger and pretty soon when you get that isolated and that independent, God is just an idea after a while. God is out there working on the fine things like do I feel good. If you go into most churches these days, people are concerned with feeling good. They are not thinking about, am I starving? Or, is that guy starving? Have I heard the Gospel? Or, has that guy heard the Gospel? You can say the same thing about missions. There are very few people in this country who will do missions, same thing with pro-life. So I certainly agree… Oh, I know what I was going to say, I ramble.
MJ: That’s okay.
JK: The other thing I was going to say too is, long ago could have done what I call an arrest cycle. I have done two of them now. Or, one or two, I can’t remember exactly. But anyway, its where I come into a town and keep doing rescues until they give me a hard time. And during the hard time I assess and say to the Lord, “do you want me to continue in this town, or do you want me to go to another one? Okay? That is what I would call and arrest cycle
MJ: Okay.
JK: In St. Louis, (laughing) they rotated me out to another position before I got in jail for a hard time because in St. Louis you can get arrested 100 times and never see the inside of a jail cell for more than 6 or 8 hours, it’s really incredible in St. Louis. But, the reason I have not done perpetual arrest cycles, in other words, keep going until you get arrested more and more, is that I sense that the Lord has asked me along the way to stop and take the time to open up Pearson Centers. Or, Crisis Pregnancy Centers. If my whole goal in life, and this is not my whole goal, but if my entire 100% goal in life was to save as many babies as I could, that I physically could myself, I would do nothing but open Crisis Pregnancy Centers. I think there is more at stake than just, how many babies can Jim Kopp save. There is a slightly bigger picture, not much bigger. But anyone who sets themselves a goal, I want to save as many babies as I can. That’s not a bad goal, and I certainly would certainly never fault that, but I think there is a little bit more to it. Something that the Lord has been showing lately is that there is more involved than babies. In China for example, if you go and do a rescue in mainland China, you will be in jail for 25 years, and you will be a martyr and the Lord would certainly honor all your prayers, who knows on a mystical level?
JK: (cont’d) But practically speaking, you can’t do anything in China to really help save the babies until you do something about communism. And you can’t do something about communism without being good Christians in general. You have to have a body working together and part of the body working together is exhortation and a word of knowledge and all these things that are… You see what I mean? There is slightly more to the picture than physically, just how many babies can Jim Kopp save with the hours that I’ve got left in my life. That’s why I take the time out, or I dare say the Lord has asked me to take the time out in Delaware and maybe in Texas, California, New Jersey, New York state or wherever he sends me, to leave a trail of these CPCs and they become focal points for pro-life work. And they become stepping stones for people who want to step up into rescues. Most people can’t take that step straight from political work to rescues. They just can’t do it, they need a stepping stone in the middle. A place where they can meet the girls, get a hands on view of how terrible it is out there, how badly these women are being lied to, and pushed around by their boyfriends, and pushed around by the abortionists…
MJ: Isn’t that the truth. All in the name of pro-choice.
JK: Exactly! Get a real solid picture. Demythologize the pro-choice deal, and then they start to get mad. It’s like when I saw that baby in the Stanford morgue, I got mad. If you come to me after that and start talking about trumpets, I would say… Hey! forget trumpets! We are on another level. You know? And I’ll tell you something, most national leaders that I know, that I have had the privileged of meeting… it’s a funny thing, but they have had a similar kind of experience. Not the exact same experience, but something like it.
MJ: There are a lot of things I don’t know about you just form a personal perspective. Could you tell us about who you are and where you are from and some basic background information before we start talking about rescue missions (sit-ins at abortion mills)?
JK: I was born in Pasadena, CA in 1954. I come from a family of five and I have one sister in heaven, and I guess part of my background includes the fact that my own immediate family has three single mothers. So to me, pro-life is very personal and the cost that mothers have to pay is something that I as a male could understand. I went to school in California, and I studied Darwinistic Biology as an under graduate many years ago, and was saved overseas in Francis Schaffer’s ministry and at the same time, through over Darwinism. But, I decided to finish up grad school even though by that time I started to think about pro-life and so I finished my Masters which was in embryology and fertilization. That started to get me into pro-life.
MJ: What year was this?
JK: I finished my Masters in I think about ’82. One of the reasons I got into pro-life was that… At one point during the Masters, I thought I might be interested in med school, so I became a pre-med, and I had some clinical experience. And, one day I was standing in the morgue of the Stanford Hospital and I assisted and observed autopsies there because I was in the pathology department and did my little bit of research at night. They brought in a baby that was 8 months from conception that had been aborted, for having Down’s syndrome. The Pathologist was particularly pleased to show me this baby because she knew that I was pro-life. She knew that I was in the morgue and she sent the baby in and she said, “You see enough of this kind of garbage and you really start to believe in abortion.” Those were the words she said to me, and I don’t think I will ever forget it. Up until then, I had some pro-life involvement intellectually, but it wasn’t until I saw that baby right in front of me, which was an absolutely beautiful baby that had been killed because it had Down’s syndrome. And, I heard those words and they just chilled me through my bones, “You see enough of this kind of garbage and you really start to believe in abortion.” Oh, and she also said, ”You pro-lifers really make me sick.” I was so stunned that I could not think of much to say but what happened is that I made a promise to God in my heart that I would try and do more. Up until then I had done political work in pro-life and my family has been involved in California politics for decades.
MJ: What year was this when you saw the aborted baby?
JK: That was 1982 also. The first rescue I did was in ’83 or ’84 and the first Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) that I opened was in ’84. So, it was after then I got on the pathway of CPCs and rescues.
MJ: You said you had your conversion overseas. Was this in Switzerland?
JK: Yes.
MJ: What was the name of the town?
JK: The name of the town was Huémoz-sur-Ollon. But the name of the ministry was L’Abri.
MJ: How many rescues have you done to date?
JK: I really don’t know the exact number, but it is somewhere between 15 to 20 I think. In terms of really big national type rescues with 100 or more people maybe 4 or 5 of those. And probably half a dozen lock-in rescues… maybe more.
MJ: Do you know how many arrests you’ve had?
JK: Well, let’s see... That’s right, some of the rescues did not involve arrests, so I have probably been arrested about 15 times. Not a lot.
MJ: Not a lot? (laughing) One of the things about you that is going against the grain of society is that a lot of people are soft and we have a lot of conveniences. And here, we have someone like you who has literally sold out everything for pro-life. I understand that you even took a vow of poverty at one time.
JK: (laughing) I don’t know about a vow.
MJ: That’s what John Witte told me.
JK: Well the hardest part was when I sold my trumpet. I used to be in the union and I put myself through college, or shall I say the Lord put me through college being in the union. And the hardest thing was when I sold my trumpet, which was an extremely good trumpet. That was how I made my living which was the culmination of my career as a professional musician. So that part hurt me, but ever since then it’s been downhill. I mean, in the sense that, once you…. I mean everyone has a trumpet if you know what I mean. Everyone’s got that one thing. You know, they will give up everything else, you know what I mean? And that trumpet meant probably more to me than anything else in terms of material things. I have already been moving in the direction of what I called, being judgment proof. You know, having no assets so that if N.O.W. (National Organization for Women) sues me, I would have nothing to fear. Which is the place I want to be in. So, I had been moving in that direction for a long time.
MJ: I could just see N.O.W. going after that trumpet. “We got to get Kopp’s trumpet!”
JK: (Laughing)
MJ: We read about Samuel Rutherford, Dietrich Bonheoffer, Corrie Ten Boom, then we look at people in our day and age… and I ask where are our heroes? And we have Joan Andrews and a handful of others. But our generation desperately needs some heroes that will sell everything out and just be radical. In our day and age this concept is very foreign and I just feel that we have a lot of soft Christians now days.
JK: Yeah, I think I see where you are going, and I definitely agree. In fact, any time the Lord has asked me to make a sacrifice… and of course, I cannot make a sacrifice in my own strength. If I were to form the resolution that I should sell my trumpet, that would be no big deal. That doesn’t mean anything if it is in the flesh. But, if you were to pray about it and you are sure that is what the Lord wants, and if you go to him and say, “okay Lord.” Then you are offering it up to God and He’s doing it. I definitely think that we don’t offer up enough things to the Lord, we are hanging on to too many things. That, I don’t think too many people would argue with you, especially in the United States. In my opinion, part of the core of this whole problem is that there has never been a country in the entire History of the planet that has had such a very large number of people with such an average high level of freedom from war, poverty, disease, coldness, hunger and pretty soon when you get that isolated and that independent, God is just an idea after a while. God is out there working on the fine things like do I feel good. If you go into most churches these days, people are concerned with feeling good. They are not thinking about, am I starving? Or, is that guy starving? Have I heard the Gospel? Or, has that guy heard the Gospel? You can say the same thing about missions. There are very few people in this country who will do missions, same thing with pro-life. So I certainly agree… Oh, I know what I was going to say, I ramble.
MJ: That’s okay.
JK: The other thing I was going to say too is, long ago could have done what I call an arrest cycle. I have done two of them now. Or, one or two, I can’t remember exactly. But anyway, its where I come into a town and keep doing rescues until they give me a hard time. And during the hard time I assess and say to the Lord, “do you want me to continue in this town, or do you want me to go to another one? Okay? That is what I would call and arrest cycle
MJ: Okay.
JK: In St. Louis, (laughing) they rotated me out to another position before I got in jail for a hard time because in St. Louis you can get arrested 100 times and never see the inside of a jail cell for more than 6 or 8 hours, it’s really incredible in St. Louis. But, the reason I have not done perpetual arrest cycles, in other words, keep going until you get arrested more and more, is that I sense that the Lord has asked me along the way to stop and take the time to open up Pearson Centers. Or, Crisis Pregnancy Centers. If my whole goal in life, and this is not my whole goal, but if my entire 100% goal in life was to save as many babies as I could, that I physically could myself, I would do nothing but open Crisis Pregnancy Centers. I think there is more at stake than just, how many babies can Jim Kopp save. There is a slightly bigger picture, not much bigger. But anyone who sets themselves a goal, I want to save as many babies as I can. That’s not a bad goal, and I certainly would certainly never fault that, but I think there is a little bit more to it. Something that the Lord has been showing lately is that there is more involved than babies. In China for example, if you go and do a rescue in mainland China, you will be in jail for 25 years, and you will be a martyr and the Lord would certainly honor all your prayers, who knows on a mystical level?
JK: (cont’d) But practically speaking, you can’t do anything in China to really help save the babies until you do something about communism. And you can’t do something about communism without being good Christians in general. You have to have a body working together and part of the body working together is exhortation and a word of knowledge and all these things that are… You see what I mean? There is slightly more to the picture than physically, just how many babies can Jim Kopp save with the hours that I’ve got left in my life. That’s why I take the time out, or I dare say the Lord has asked me to take the time out in Delaware and maybe in Texas, California, New Jersey, New York state or wherever he sends me, to leave a trail of these CPCs and they become focal points for pro-life work. And they become stepping stones for people who want to step up into rescues. Most people can’t take that step straight from political work to rescues. They just can’t do it, they need a stepping stone in the middle. A place where they can meet the girls, get a hands on view of how terrible it is out there, how badly these women are being lied to, and pushed around by their boyfriends, and pushed around by the abortionists…
MJ: Isn’t that the truth. All in the name of pro-choice.
JK: Exactly! Get a real solid picture. Demythologize the pro-choice deal, and then they start to get mad. It’s like when I saw that baby in the Stanford morgue, I got mad. If you come to me after that and start talking about trumpets, I would say… Hey! forget trumpets! We are on another level. You know? And I’ll tell you something, most national leaders that I know, that I have had the privileged of meeting… it’s a funny thing, but they have had a similar kind of experience. Not the exact same experience, but something like it.
Next issue, Part 2
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I just finished Eric Rudolph’s latest, Between the Lines of
Drift. This contributes to the love part of my love/hate relationship with my
country because you have to love a country so reluctant to employ the death
penalty that it’s enabled Eric to write Racism, Super Max, Feminism, Crime
and Punishment, The Sentence – A Satire, Explanation for Bombing the Abortion
Mill, Lick the Floor, Lil, Allocation-Birmingham Court, Pacifism, Pyrrhic
Victories, Settlement at Trial in Atlanta Court, Abortion -- the Irrepressible
Conflict, First Edition 2009, and this,
the fifteenth, Between the Lines.
And this is the best survival story I’ve ever
read, yes, better even than Robinson Crusoe.
The
“drift” of the title refers to places where people are, like paths, parks,
roads, etc. It’s a term Eric learned in
the Airborne School of the US Army where he also learned some of the skills
enabling him to survive for more than five years in nearly impossible conditions,
mostly by living between the lines of drift.
The legal murder of young people is a main
topic of Drift. Here’s
an excerpt:
. . . . when Paul Hill shot abortionist Dr.
Britton in Pensacola, Florida. I remember having a conversation with one of my
old neighbors shortly after the shooting.
I'd known this guy for years. A
self-described "pro-life Christian," he tried to explain to me that
Paul Hill was just as bad as Dr. Britton; that the cold-blooded killer of
thousands of innocent babies was the same as the man who had finally stopped
him. "How can you stop killing by
killing?" he asked, as if he were saying something truly profound.
I was curious about his strange reasoning,
given the fact Christian ethics clearly allows for self-defense, and the
defense of others, and Just War.
"Haven't you said to me on occasion that
'abortion is murder,' that 'killing a person the womb is the same as killing
her outside the womb’?" I asked.
"Yes," he said.
"So, if you knew that your neighbor was
murdering babies in his basement every day, wouldn't you feel obligated to stop
him. And if you ended up killing him, do
you really believe that your actions were
the same as his? How were Paul Hill's actions any different? If, as you claim, 'abortion is murder,' then
Dr. Britton was a mass murderer, and Paul Hill was a hero for stopping
him."
"Oh, but... but what Paul Hill did was
take the law into his own hands," he said.
"In other words murder is okay -- as
long it has the sanctions of the law?"
"Well, like it or not, abortion is legal
in America," he said. "And good Christians must obey the laws, even
the ones we don't like."
"You mean like King George's laws,
right? Don't you remember that our ancestors rebelled against the unjust laws
of Britain because they were being taxed without being properly represented in
Parliament. Was their act of rebellion justified? If so, do you mean to tell me that 'taxation
without representation' is a more weighty cause than the systematic murder of
over one million babies every year?"
"But you're talking anarchy," he
said. "If everyone acted like Paul Hill there would be chaos."
"On the contrary, if everyone acted like
Paul Hill then law order would be restored in this country. I can think of no
greater state of anarchy than the one we live in today, where any pregnant
woman can walk into an abortion mill and have her own baby killed for a nominal
fee. There is no ‘law and order’ in this
country.
He fumbled for words as he tried to rehash
his hollow arguments, but I cut him short.
"If, as you claim, 'abortion is murder,' then by standards of
Christian morality, Paul Hill was justified, and those who condemn him are
cowards."
He
got this smug look on his face, a look I'd seen thousand times before, and
hissed: "What you need is the k Jesus."
"What you need is a pair of
testicles," I shot back.
I never spoke to him again, but our little conversation
reminded me of an essay I read called "Christians and Abortion” by Richard
Shoenig. Written by a pro-abortion ideologue, the essay was one of the best
things I'd ever read on the issue. Acknowledging
that the pro-life movement is dominated by conservative Christians, Shoenig
laid out the argument that if pro-lifers really believed that abortion was
murder, then they certainly would support all means to stop it, including
force. He explored the Bible and the various writings of Catholic and
Protestant theologians, showing that Christian ethics clearly justifies the use
of force to protect innocent life, regardless of what the statutory law may
have to say on the subject.
When it
comes to protecting life, the law of God and Nature takes precedent to positive
law of the state. Laws permitting infanticide and abortion are therefore
illegitimate. A government that sanctions such practices is illegimate, and no
Christian is bound to obey the laws of such a government.
And yet, as Shoenig pointed out, so-called
pro-life Christians are the first to condemn anyone who shoots an abortionist
or who torches an abortion mill. To Shoenig, and any intelligent observer, this
indicates that these "pro-life Christians” are either hypocrites or
cowards. They either don't believe abortion is murder, or they lack the courage
to do anything about it.
However, it is not only we hypocrites and
cowards who argue against the pro-life use of force. Two of my favorite people, Fr. Aram Berard SJ
and Fr. Paul Rothermel, have tried to get me to agree with their opposition to
it. Fr. Berard even wrote an essay
against it in “Pro-Life Berks” when I edited that newsletter.
But folks, for every ten pro-force writings,
I get one anti. I don’t care if you’re
heroes, hypocrites, cowards, or Quakers – if you oppose the pro-life use of
force, let us hear why. Don’t surrender
the podium to the pro-force people no matter how persuasive they are.
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