Another Truth Attack
30 March 2002
Op-ed Editor
The Baltimore Sun Company
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Another Truth Attack
There is a certain inconvenience in being presented with the images of butchered babies while driving one’s child home from St. John the Evangelist School. Some good citizens, living in abject denial, are confronted with reminders of their own involvement in such a foul deed. And their children make it hard on them. Unschooled in the finer techniques of euphemistic eloquence, they cannot be persuaded that the picture of the dead baby is just a “blob of tissue” or that there was some “reason” why the child had to be sacrificed. How discomfiting that all rhetorical schemes are found powerless to deceive a child into believing that somehow child slaughter can be justified. And the frustration is well manifested in the intemperate and downright violent words and deeds proceeding out of the mouths and fingers of Severna Park citizens.
Others, whose cold consciences cannot move them to opposed this evil, must strain to explain to their children why they are doing nothing about it.
Ah, but let us not talk so directly. It is too heavy upon the hearts of so many to talk truth – “emotional issue” as it is. Let us just talk of “obscene” and “unlawful speech” (Readers’ Views, 25 Mar.). One Josh Mazer, a self-confessed non-lawyer, ought surely to consider taking up the career. He recommends that those who stand on the street be charged with displaying “obscene matter” and “stalking” the children of St. John’s.
This all makes sense when one realizes that lawful speech can be easily defined simply as follows: “Whatever the Left Wingers of the land like.”
When the Left opposed the Viet Nam conflict, the public could be treated to a Pulitzer prize winning photo of a North Viet Namese soldier getting a gun shot to the head. The daily six o’clock news treated us to the gore of the dead bodies of war to cause revulsion against war. That was OK because the Left opposed the war.
It is not OK to show pictures displaying the reality of child slaughter because the Left defines it as “a choice.”
Yes, it is a strange phenomenon. The Left-wingers, ever seeking to challenge any standard which purports to be grounded in revealed Truth (as in the Scriptures), allow for the free expression of sodomites, strutting down city streets half-nude, simulating all manner of obscene and (still illegal, on the books) sexual perversity. And public displays of “art” with a crucifix submerged in urine are “legally protected forms of expression.” But pictures which depict a gruesome murder – not for the frivolity of “expression” or the perverse thrill of striking horror in children; but pictures shown to establish the present reality and abominable sin of childslaughter – are called “illegal” by some citizens. Citizen Mazer wants to have the courts find some way of bending the law against these irritating truth tellers.
Not at all unrealistic. The same jurisprudence which guided the High Court into the evil buffoonery of Roe v. Wade is still loose in the minds of judges. They protect their precedent decisions from violation more vigorously than most pastors protect the Scriptures. Only a few weeks ago a judge displayed grand judicial confusion over the difference between humans and animals. In an Anne Arundel County Circuit courtroom, Judge Clayton Greene Jr. sentenced defendant John Zeits Jr., 24 for the “crime” of stabbing his own dog which had bit his 16-month-old daughter on the cheek. A half-sane jury found him not guilty of the second charge. But Judge Greene believed him guilty under the law which names both “animal cruelty” and “animal mutilation” as crimes punishable by 90 days and three years in prison respectively (Baltimore Sun, 23 March). Judge Greene sentenced the dog abuser to counseling, three years probation, and $1,740 for care of the dog. Finally, Judge Greene barred Zeits from owning pets other than goldfish. Michael J. Dunty, assistant state’s attorney, had sought jail time, but was glad Zeits was ordered into counseling.” Oh, the buffoonery of this anti-human mentality! Animals over humans! Is canis familiaris now endowed with the imago Dei?
Counseling! Yes, and Tahira S. Thomas, animal control administrator, said she was disappointed by the “lack of jail time for what she called one of the worst cases of animal cruelty the shelter has seen.” She declared, “It was such a heinous act.”
Strange. And what would she call the acts that are committed by the abortionist in his Gynecare facility? “A choice”? Not a “heinous act,” just a “choice.” I will bet my life she supports abortion rights without even knowing the woman. Strange, how animal rights fans stand opposed to the lives of (unwanted) children of the womb. When the God, who gave humans His image, is rejected, so are His laws and His children. Moral idiocy follows.
The fact is that the activity of holding signs showing the bloody products of an abortionist’s care has nothing to do with free speech. It has to do with raising an alarm: “Children are being slaughtered now! A man rips the bodies of children apart! Stop murdering your own! Defend the innocent!”
It is really quite sublime. Right there on Ritchie Highway and Cypress Creek Road, opposite one another are two facilities. One is a Roman Catholic Church and School pastored by Rev. Mitchell Rozansky; the other is an abortion factory (a.k.a. Gynecare) operated by an abortionist and ObGyn, whose name this paper won’t print.
Our national behavior calls to mind the “Good Germans” who looked the other way when albeit desperate war times justified the rounding up and elimination of certain deleterious elements of society.
I wonder if any of those who lived close to the camp at Dachau complained about the stench or raised objections about the smoke. It must have been inconvenient. (But then, the Left doesn’t allow comparisons between the German Holocaust of the past and the current American Holocaust.)
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