Posted on 31 March , 2017<\/p>\n
22 May, 1996<\/p>\n
Dear Op-ed editor:\u00a0 Oral arguments for Paul Hill\u2019s mandatory\u00a0 appeal of his conviction and death sentence will be delivered in the federal court house in Tallahassee on 31 May. Hill acted in defense of the innocent and ought to be acquitted.<\/em><\/p>\n Paul Hill\u00a0 terminated an unwanted abortionist and one accomplice on 29 July, 1994.\u00a0\u00a0 A majority of the people did not recognize Hill\u2019s deed as an act of mercy.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact the court wouldn\u2019t even allow\u00a0 Hill to argue his defense: the legal doctrine of justifiable homicide.\u00a0 Such a defense is predicated upon the popularly\u00a0 denied fact that children in the womb are in fact children.\u00a0 The prosecution and the whole abortion culture wanted to keep this trial a simple open-and-shut case about whether one man killed\u00a0 two others.\u00a0\u00a0 To grant Paul Hill his defense would have been to extend a measure of legitimacy to or even vindication of\u00a0 Hill\u2019s deeds.\u00a0\u00a0 But the just and sovereign\u00a0 state of Florida means to be certain that no innocent person gets the chair – terminal as that kind of punishment is.\u00a0\u00a0 So the mandatory direct appeal\u00a0 of\u00a0 Hill\u2019s death sentence is in progress.\u00a0 On\u00a0 Friday (31 May) oral arguments will be presented in Tallahassee by Hill\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n The present nationwide abortion policy is the product of a piece of judicial foul play known as Roe<\/em> v. Wade<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 It was conceived by that want-to-be progressive, semi-senile group of males on the bench of\u00a0 the U.S. Supreme Court of \u201973.\u00a0\u00a0 This oligarchy imposed its morality upon the rest of the nation contrary to the statutes of all fifty states!\u00a0\u00a0 But the arrogance of this decree is bested in unseemliness only\u00a0 by the abject submission to it by the citizens of\u00a0 these states.\u00a0 Accordingly, not only do they sit by and allow the yellow-page-advertised, savage killing of innocent children to occur daily in their neighborhoods;\u00a0\u00a0 they also condemn, when they are not ignoring, those who are prosecuted for coming to the defense of abandoned children.<\/p>\n The ensuing moral confusion regularly displays itself in some curious deeds. Jacqueline Williams comes to mind.\u00a0 A November, 1995 AP reports on a plot she hatched by which she killed a pregnant woman\u2019s two ex-utero children and then lethally sliced her open and took out the live baby for herself.\u00a0 (\u201cNow which unwanted ones\u00a0 were\u00a0 we\u00a0 allowed to terminate?\u201d)\u00a0\u00a0 Another is that woman at the University of California hospital in San Francisco a few springs ago\u00a0 who was delivered of her three-pound\u00a0 boy two months after she was pronounced legally dead.\u00a0 (\u201cNow, where do we put this \u2018organ\u2019 we are about to harvest?\u00a0 Not a cradle!\u201d) Of course the \u201cdilemma of ethics\u201d\u00a0 posed by the live<\/em> product of an abortion has long been a\u00a0 real brain teaser for thinking nurses (New York Times<\/em>, 15 Feb., 1984).\u00a0\u00a0 (\u201cWhat do I do with this breathing baby we just tried to terminate a moment ago?\u201d)\u00a0\u00a0 Then come those thorny little legal irritants caused by vehicular homicides in which a wanted child in the womb is killed along with an ex-utero person or two.\u00a0 A few years ago in Manassas, Virginia police charged a man with the manslaughter of two people: a girl inside Tasha Terry, 17, and Lavetta Brown, 31.\u00a0 (\u201cHow can I charge this chap with manslaughtering what they terminate in the local reproductive health clinic?\u201d)<\/p>\n Ah, but my favorite example of moral confusion is the story of Kawana Michele Ashley, 19, of Clearwater, Florida.\u00a0 Right in the middle of the five-month gap between the deeds of Paul Hill and\u00a0 John Salvi (terminator of abortionist accomplices in Massachusetts), Kawana shot herself in her own stomach, killing her child.\u00a0 She was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.\u00a0 Kawana had been \u201cturned down at a St. Petersburg clinic because she did not have enough money\u201d\u00a0 according the AP report.\u00a0 So she resorted to a desperate do-it-yourself-by-any-means-necessary abortion.\u00a0\u00a0 (Well, of course, the charges were dropped in order to avoid conflict with the current national abortion policy.)<\/p>\n The arrogance of the Court is not restricted to its judgments regarding the liberty to kill unwanted children;\u00a0 the oligarchy which imposed the decriminalization of abortion upon\u00a0 the republic has,\u00a0 in like fashion, moved in the direction of\u00a0 imposing legalized sodomy upon all the states.\u00a0 We refer, of course, to the Court\u2019s recent decree by which it thwarted the will of the people of Colorado, giving license to that which the people expressly wanted to keep outlawed. Romer v. Evans, <\/em>says Thomas Jipping of the Free Congress Foundation, \u201cvitiates self-government by substituting\u00a0 the personal opinions of unelected judges for the people\u2019s opinion expressed at the ballot box on an issue that violates no constitutional right.\u201d How are citizens to be expected to respect and\u00a0 submit to such a tyranny?\u00a0 Why do they?<\/p>\n A morally confused people are easily ruled by tyrants.\u00a0\u00a0 They believe in nothing for certain – except for the liberty to indulge in their individual appetites.\u00a0 And so they find themselves unable to withstand the demands by others for personal liberty.\u00a0 The \u201cchoice\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 to commit sodomy and abortion for the sake of personal pleasure or convenience is a \u201cright.\u201d\u00a0 And when the highest object of devotion is no longer the triune God of\u00a0 heaven and earth, His replacement becomes the creation.\u00a0\u00a0 Earth itself gains a new reverence. And the apotheosis of Earth yields new heroes: Her would-be protectors.\u00a0 Among the elite, then, Ted Kaczynski, not Paul Hill, is more the hero.\u00a0 He defends Earth from the onslaught of the villain, man.\u00a0 Behold the New Age hero: the Unabomber.<\/p>\n He is way ahead of his time, and we unenlightened adherents to the old moral order cannot be expected to appreciate him.\u00a0 The elitists only hint at the heroism of this defender of Earth.\u00a0 Syndicated columnist John Leo provides various excerpts of guarded praise from the pundits for the new age hero. Boston Globe<\/em> columnist Alex Beam, though dutifully acknowledging his horror at the killer\u2019s tactics, says, \u201cI envy him his disobedience\u201d toward \u201cAmerican society,\u201d\u00a0 which \u201cdrove him to madness.\u201d\u00a0 (Yes, whatever fault we may find is not Kaczynski\u2019s, but America\u2019s.)<\/p>\n Another of the several fans of\u00a0 the Unabomber\u00a0 mentioned by Leo is Professor Robert Harrison of Stanford University, who compares him to Thoreau.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Unabomber wants to wake us up with a treatise, yet the late 20th century is fundamentally different that the mid-19th century.\u00a0 In order to attract attention to a book, an idea, he had to get our attention with bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, yes, and I suppose Kaczynski would have loved to have typed his manifesto at Walden Pond.\u00a0 Other than that I am not sure what\u00a0 the connection is with Thoreau.\u00a0 But, of course, I am just one of those simple members of\u00a0 the \u201creligious right\u201d who believes that God made the world and all the creatures in it.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact that is the view of those of\u00a0 the old moral order of America.\u00a0 It was actually believed that the Creator made human beings in his \u201cimage\u201d and that because of this imago<\/em>, human beings were to be regarded with a profoundly greater respect than were all the other creatures\u00a0 (wicked \u201cspeciesism\u201d in the view\u00a0 of\u00a0 new order environmentalists like Animal Liberationist Peter Singer).<\/p>\n No,\u00a0 Thoreau would not have been a fan of Kaczynski.\u00a0 He liked his trees, but he held to the old moral order.\u00a0 And when the rest of\u00a0 the elite of his time, blinded by their tolerance of racist slavery and manstealing, condemned John Brown\u00a0 – that\u00a0 forceful defender of the oppressed in his time –\u00a0 Thoreau stood alone praising him.\u00a0 The Unabomber would have scorned both sides of the ensuing Civil War for stinking up the air with their gunpowder.<\/p>\n There are no Thoreaus today.<\/p>\n But there is a John Brown.\u00a0\u00a0 There is one who has stood up in defense of the innocent, oppressed children in the womb who suffer not the chains of bondage but the daily threat of death not just in certain southern\u00a0 states but in every bloody state in this Union.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court of Florida has the opportunity to atone for the sins of its cousins on the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 Florida can uphold\u00a0its own statutes which\u00a0– to this day – outlaw abortion and provide for the use of\u00a0 force by any citizen to defend the innocent.\u00a0 Standing upon its own laws, the courts of Florida can recognize a true hero of\u00a0 the old and true and good order.\u00a0\u00a0The Florida Supreme Court can do the right thing and vindicate Paul Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted on 31 March , 2017 22 May, 1996 Dear Op-ed editor:\u00a0 Oral arguments for Paul Hill\u2019s mandatory\u00a0 appeal of his conviction and death sentence will be delivered in the federal court house in Tallahassee on 31 May. Hill acted in defense of the innocent and ought to be acquitted. 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