{"id":1921,"date":"2015-08-15T10:47:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2015-08-15T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T16:23:12","slug":"tom-condit-at-women-betrayed-rally-in-cincinnati-28-july-2015-at-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Tom Condit at Women Betrayed Rally in Cincinnati, 28 July, 2015 at Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the video here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-XDIvYzxLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He begins with apologies for his profession: &#8220;It is its twisted lawyers and its twisted judges which got us here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of his favorites scenes from the film industry, he recounts, comes out of\u00a0 &#8220;The Exorcist.&#8221;\u00a0 There is a scene where the\u00a0 priest somberly warns those who are contending with the demon that they are not dealing with.\u00a0 Conversations with the demon ought to be minimal because &#8220;the demon is a liar.&#8221;\u00a0 The first great achievement of this liar was to convince people that God does not exist.\u00a0\u00a0 And turning to the point, he says of Planned Parenthood, &#8220;the demon&#8221;:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;the second\u00a0great PR job accomplished by the devil\u00a0 was to convince people that Planned Parenthood helps women.&#8221;\u00a0 [Pause for applause]<\/p>\n<p>He exhorted the audience to appropriate accurate terminology in engaging in the &#8220;battle of \u00a0the words.&#8221;\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n<p>Too often we talk the way <em>they<\/em> want us to talk. We use words like &#8220;abortion doctor&#8221; and &#8220;abortion provider.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abortionist&#8221; is a neutral word which quite simply &#8220;says what someone does, like an organist or a dentist, or . . . an abortionist,&#8221; \u00a0he said.\u00a0 &#8220;But abortionists hate that word.\u00a0 Judges hate\u00a0 it.\u00a0 Attorney&#8217;s hate reading it in briefs.\u00a0 They scowl at this.\u00a0 They think it is an extreme word.&#8221;\u00a0 On the contrary, he signifies by expression, &#8220;It is a very <em>neutral<\/em> word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(And Tom Condit know this, having no equal in the land as a writer of\u00a0 legal briefs and\u00a0advocate before judges in behalf of activists across the country who have been dragged into court for their anti-abortion efforts.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It simply <em>says<\/em> what abortionist <em>do,&#8221; <\/em>he continued<em>.<\/em>\u00a0 And that is foul and filthy. . .We need to start using <em>that<\/em> word.&#8221;\u00a0 And he affirmed that such a word is quite <em>neutral<\/em> as well as true and accurate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, quite frankly, we need to up the ante beyond that . . . We need to recapture the Faith by using the right words and I am here to tell you the right words.\u00a0 These people [pointing back to the Planned Parenthood facility behind him with a dozen of their workers\/supporters dressed in their pink shirts carrying their signs whining about their need for money] are contract killers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which there followed applause and my voice, with camera rolling, yelling out, &#8220;Yeah! Murderers! Filthy murderers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Condit continued sternly and evenly:\u00a0 &#8220;Mafia hit men.&#8221; And pointing behind himself with his thumb extended and forearm arching back and forth with his eyes straight ahead fixed on the crowd, he enunciated:\u00a0 &#8220;These people take money to kill people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The crowd clapped and I joined in the same jubilation upon hearing such truth so rarely uttered in public with a loudly audible, &#8220;Filthy Murderers!&#8221;\u00a0 How good it felt to hear the truth spoken in a public gathering on the streets.\u00a0 And how seldom is it proclaimed before a crowd in the\u00a0out loud\u00a0for all who will to exult in.<\/p>\n<p>And he went on. &#8220;But they are worse than the Mafia hit men (their hits usually involve bad guys). These contract killers kill the innocent. \u00a0And we need to highlight that.\u00a0 And we need to talk even more extreme than that to recapture the ground . We need to have an American version of the Nuremberg Trials . . . crimes against humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on: &#8220;The people who work here,&#8221; pointing his thumb behind him, &#8220;the people who work in abortion clinics around the country&#8221; ought to be made to feel guilty and fearful so\u00a0 that they have dreams of\u00a0 their abortionists practitioners &#8220;<em>hanging by their necks<\/em> after a fair trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So let us recapture the debate by speaking the Truth.\u00a0 And the Truth is harsh;\u00a0\u00a0 it may not sound civil, but that we must not back away from the Truth.\u00a0\u00a0 God bless you all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was, of course, well pleased to hear such a clear declaration of truth\u00a0 not only from an American lawyer, but my own\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0and a most beloved friend.\u00a0 Oh, it felt good.\u00a0 Wish you were there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the video here: He begins with apologies for his profession: &#8220;It is its twisted lawyers and its twisted judges which got us here.&#8221; One of his favorites scenes from the film industry, he recounts, comes out of\u00a0 &#8220;The Exorcist.&#8221;\u00a0 There is a scene where the\u00a0 priest somberly warns those who are contending with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wilmington-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}