It’s front-page news when a “doctor,” a person who delivers the head of a baby and sucks out his or her brain, is shot to death.

Pro-choice people are appalled and want to paint the entire pro-life movement as “violent” and “lawbreaking.” Pro-life people think pro-choice people should have been appalled by the doctor’s violence, can’t help feeling glad that he’s dead, but are forced by the way the debate has been framed to issue statements condemning the act.

Here’s the problem.

A democracy, in the form of a representative republic, is perfectly designed to deal with serious, divisive, controversial issues like abortion. Democracy may yield a variety of answers and significant compromise, but this will be accepted because it was arrived at honestly and openly with everyone having a say – and because there will always be a chance to change it further.

But on this issue, there is no democracy, there is no representation, and our republic has morphed into a monarchy.

When Roe v. Wade was “decided” in 1973 and became the “law of the land,” seven unelected lawyers wearing robes and meeting in secret wiped out the abortion-related laws in all 50 states. Some of these laws were prohibitive, some were restrictive, but all of them had been passed by elected representatives and signed into law by elected governors.

When this question was removed from debate in the public arena, pro-life and queasy-about-abortion people no longer had any democratic way to weigh in on the issue. They were unilaterally stripped of their rights. Yes, they could “write their congressperson,” but what good would that do? It had been taken out of their hands as well. They could protest, but the kings on the supreme court were totally removed from public sentiment and pressure. They could practice non-violent civil disobedience, and they did. They were arrested and jailed and financially ruined, but still no change occurred because the supremes don’t have to listen.

Democracy provides an outlet. When something important to tens of millions of people is taken out of their hands, when no matter what they do they can’t get at the dictatorship and make any dent in an arbitrary, law-abolishing “decision,” when they think justice has been turned on its head, it’s inevitable that something is going to bubble over into an “eye for an eye.”

Controversial decisions left to the supreme court have a very poor record. They voted 7-2 in Dred Scott that black people were property and not equal human beings. That led to a bit of violence – the Civil War and 600,000 dead. The majority voted in favor of segregation of blacks, exclusion of Asians, and “relocation” of Japanese-American citizens to concentration camps during World War II. Liberals winced when they “voted” 5-4 to make George W. Bush president in 2000. One of the common threads in all of this is that nobody voted for any of these “justices.”

Abortion needs the light and heat of democracy. Abortion has been a controversial topic for millennia, and was so in various ways in America before the 1973 judicial fiat. The reasons for this controversy should be obvious to any thinking, open-minded person:

• First, we’re talking about a living being. Framing this issue around the question, “When does life begin?” is absurd on the face of it, because everyone acknowledges that the fetus (Latin for “little one”) is alive. Biologically speaking, there is no other answer.
• Second, we’re talking about something human. This fetus may grow up to be many different things, but un-human won’t be one of them. It’s not a question of religion alone – it’s a question of DNA.

So points one and two create half of the controversy – however small and vulnerable, we’ve got a living human being here. The first two questions, “Is this a living being?” and “Is it human?” are the starting point of the debate. The answers – clearly “yes” – should be enough to guarantee protection of this vulnerable life. If we could ever see a video of George Tiller performing a partial-birth abortion – and it’s interesting that we haven’t in a nation where you can see everything – abortion would instantly end.

And then there’ the other side:

• Third, people get pregnant who don’t want to, who tried not to, or who thought they wanted to and changed their minds. This can create anger, guilt, depression, and a host of other issues for the mother and other people involved.
• Fourth, children are challenging. It’s challenging to have them keep them, raise them, or give them up for adoption. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

Points three and four create the other half of the controversy – however we got this “thing,” it’s a huge personal problem. We don’t want it and we don’t want to think about it. So another question, a different criterion, was added by “pro-choice” advocates facing points three and four: “When is the life viable?” or “When is this a viable being?”

But this is a trumped-up question that defines the word “arbitrary.” When is this fetus, this baby, viable? Birth? 12 weeks? 20 weeks? 28 weeks? At delivery? If we define “viable” as “able to function on its own outside the womb,” then no 3-year-old (or probably 10-year-old) is “viable.”

But others could take a different position. And that’s the beauty and power of democracy and debate and wrestling to common ground. We need to get this question back to the congress and president and states. We need to resolve this the American way.

The supreme court put the gun in the hand of the person who did to George Tiller what many states would have done to him before 1973. We need to put the guns away, by taking the biggest gun of all out of the hands of 7 arrogant people who thought they knew better than 300 million.

Alas, they missed my entire point, even when I posted a clarifying comment. My point was that I am filled with joy that so many babies will not be murdered today at his hands. I’m still filled with joy about that fact. The means by which he is no longer killing babies is virtually irrelevant to my feelings. I would have been equally filled with joy had Tiller realized the error of his ways and VOLUNTARILY stopped doing abortions. That result would have been better in almost every way, because it would have showed that even a hardened late-term abortion advocate can listen to his conscience. The man who murdered Tiller will and should be charged with murder and put in jail. As a society, we can’t allow people to take justice into their own hands. Even if what Tiller was doing WAS illegal, he deserved a jury of his peers to determine his fate.

It is not my place, nor is it the murderer’s place to judge this man’s heart or soul. Yeah, I said it. I don’t want any comments today saying “it’s not my place to judge” or “Pete, you’re evil for celebrating murder.” If you read everything I wrote, you can’t come to that conclusion. You might conclude that I’m splitting hairs, and that’s OK. And frankly, your judgment of me for my emotions isn’t going to change my emotions and it isn’t going to make me stop talking about it. I’m a big boy, and I have no problem taking responsibility for what I say and what I believe. In your comments, be fair (don’t put words in my mouth), and don’t be anonymous.

The fact is, when evil men have fallen (either by removal from power, execution, or whatever), the world has rejoiced. I think if you look back on our country’s own history, you would not find anyone crying over Hitler’s death. What Hitler was doing in Germany was “legal” by their standards, since Hitler basically WAS the law. Yet, Hitler was a mass murdered, and he got exactly what he deserved. (Great, now I’m going to be responsible for killing all the Jews because I said that…) Tiller didn’t kill 6 million babies (at least I don’t think he did), but he was a major advocate for late-term abortion… most called him an activist, and his activism influenced people all over the country. He personally performed tens of thousands of abortions, and he “specialized” in late-term abortions, where almost without exception the baby was nearly full term and could have lived.

When I said yesterday that Tiller reaped what he had sowed, I was indeed quoting scripture, but it’s not entirely accurate. Had Tiller actually reaped what he sowed, he would have either been injected with saline and chemically burned to death, or he would have had his skull cut open and his brains sucked out… all while awake.

I’m not saying that for the shock value. I’m saying it because I think proponents of abortion, particularly late-term abortion, somehow delude themselves into either thinking it’s not a baby, thinking the baby can’t feel anything, or thinking that it’s “necessary” for some reason. However, all modern science agrees that babies past 8-12 weeks DO feel pain.

“A Realtime ultrasound video tape and movie of a 12- week suction abortion is commercially available as, The Silent Scream, narrated by Dr. B. Nathanson, a former abortionist. It dramatically, but factually, shows the pre-born baby dodging the suction instrument time after time, while its heartbeat doubles in rate. When finally caught, its body being dismembered, the baby’s mouth clearly opens wide — hence, the title.”

Only the thalamus is needed to feel pain, and the thalamus develops at around 8 weeks. That’s irrefutable science. By the third trimester, the entire brain is developed, and the baby (“fetus”) will feel everything that YOU would feel if someone sucked your brains out while you were awake.

“Far from being less able to feel pain, such premature newborns [as are killed by partial-birth abortion] may be more sensitive to pain”…that babies under 30 weeks have a “newly established pain system that is raw and unmodified at this tender age.” P. Ranalli, Neuro. Dept., Univ. of Toronto

Can I be happy that Tiller is no longer doing what he was doing without condoning his murder? I think so, and if you’re not capable of having complex emotions and beliefs, I am sorry to confuse you with the facts. To close, here are a couple of interesting scriptures:

Proverbs 6:16-19 says “”These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.”

Regardless of the justification of Tiller’s murder or the fact that murder is murder, from this verse I could have predicted that Tiller would eventually be killed – Genesis 9:6 ““Whoever ?sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; ?For in the image of God He made man.”

Dr. George Tiller Shot to Death

This morning as he entered his Wichita church (what kind of church allowed this man to be a part of it boggles the mind), Dr. George “Killer” Tiller was shot and killed. No one is yet in custody for the murder. (UPDATE – 51 year old suspect is now in custody – and for the record, should be charged with murder. Although I might hyperbolically say “two wrongs make a right,” I don’t believe in vigilantism.)

I don’t condone violence, but Dr. Tiller got exactly what he deserved, it’s just a shame it that if it was going to happen, it didn’t happen 20 years ago because that could have saved thousands of lives.

For the past several decades, Tiller operated his clinic, one of only 3 that did late-term abortions on healthy “fetuses” who were already past the point of viability. Tiller is responsible for the government sanctioned killing of tens of thousands of innocent unborn babies (and yes, when a baby is in the third trimester, it’s a baby, dammit, no matter how hardened you are).

Tiller is also one of only a couple of abortionists who would do late term abortions for ANY reason, including gender preference, “inconvenience”, etc.

He has more blood on his hands than any serial killer that’s ever lived.

Expose’ of Tiller and his Clinic
Stunning Facts About Tiller
GRAPHIC LINK – Tiller “Partial Birth Funeral”

A voice was heard in Ramah: wailing and great mourning. Rachel was crying for her children. She refused to be comforted, because they were no more.” – Matthew 2:18

Apparently these two chuckleheads decided to burn down a dentists office here in Kansas City. They went inside and started setting things on fire. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t really have a game plan, and they ended up trapping themselves in the fire.

One of them was rushed to the hospital with extensive burns, and the local radio is reporting that the second suspect burned to death in the building.

I don’t know where these two went to arson school, but apparently they missed the day when the course on leaving an escape route was taught. Wouldn’t you think that… much like mopping the kitchen, you’d start at the back and work your way out of the building? They must have started by the door and worked towards the back instead.

I imagine that this is how Congress would go about torching a dentist’s office if they ever decided to.

We elected a new mayor of KC, MO, who is responsible for appointing people to various boards. He appointed an old lady, Mrs. Semler, to the parks board. Now, the parks board, while important, is not exactly a political entity. It’s responsible for making decisions about the parks of KC.

But, oh my! It turns out, Semler is a member of the Minutemen. Now, I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Minutemen. They are the group that has a bunch of old people sitting in lawn chairs on the border, who call border patrol when they see people running across. It’s not terribly effective, since there aren’t that many people there, but it’s prevented some drug dealers and criminals from entering the country. People say they’re racist. Well, that’s what people always try to say when they disagree with someone’s politics.

This is the Minutemen’s charter: “To see the borders and coastal
boundaries of the United States secured against the unlawful and unauthorized entry
of all individuals, contraband, and foreign military. We will employ all means
of civil protest, demonstration, and political lobbying to accomplish this goal.” Sounds pretty darned racist, huh?

Anyhoo, that’s really 100% beside the point since it’s not illegal to be a member of the Minutemen and it IS illegal to run across the border without going through proper channels. Go figure.

Now, Semler has never actually sat on the border… she just joined because she agrees with their mission of securing the borders. Ok, sounds pretty racist and evil, eh?

Enter La Raza (“the race”), an open-borders, pro-illegal-immigration organization who claims that it isn’t any of those things while actively working to forward those goals. La Raza was going to have their convention in Kansas City, and then found out about Semler. They went to the mayor and demanded he remove her or else they would not have their convention here. Now, this isn’t particularly well thought out, since many of the businesses who would be helped by a convention in KC are owned and run by minorities. But, that would entail logic, which is not important when you can go around spewing racial rhetoric.

Our mayor, man that he is, basically told them they were being ridiculous and refused to remove Semler. La Raza pulled their convention.

The NAACP had said they would pull theirs as well, but now that La Raza pulled theirs, they’ve changed their mind. But there’s some Southern Evangelical convention that’s supposed to be in KC next year, and now THEY are talking about cancelling. Guess why…

They say that the Minutemen organization is a white supremacist, near-terrorist organization.

Huh?

You know what. You think Kansas City (who’s been sending Emanuel Cleaver, a black man, to congress for frickin ever) is racist, then take your stupid toys and go home. Kansas City should not want to have their name tied in any way to La Raza, except in the context it already is – we told them to shove it.

Go Mayor Funkhouser.

Go HERE to join the Minutemen.

Wichita Kansas is one of only a couple places in the entire country that allow late-term abortions. “Doctor” George Tiller, a man who claims to be a Christian, is the guy who likes to do late-term abortions, and has even performed partial birth abortions. Not a good guy. We aren’t talking about a “fetus” that’s a blob of goo, as you libs like to claim. We’re talking about viable babies who could easily live outside of their mother.

The only restriction we’ve had here in Kansas is that abortion clinics have to report it when they perform an abortion on an underage girl…not to the parents, but to the state, so that the circumstances can be reviewed. In other words, there’s a good chance if a 13 year old is pregnant, there was rape or statutory rape involved.

Now, about a year ago, Phil Kline, the Kansas Attorney General, who is a pro-life Christian, began investigating the allegations about Tiller and his underage abortions. Let’s not forget that a 13 year old can’t even get her ears pierced without parental consent. Abortion is the ONE medical procedure available on the down low. That reeks of hidden agenda to me.

But let’s put that aside. It turns out, Tiller really was breaking the law, and Kline was set to go after him. That’s when Tiller decided to fund the campaign of Paul Morrison, a popular, hard-edged district attorney for Johnson County, Kansas. Morrison was a tough-on-crime guy with liberal leanings on abortion and gun control. So Tiller pays for Morrison to get elected, and Morrison reduces the pending charges to about 12 misdemeanors.

Now, the very fact Morrison felt he HAD to charge Tiller with those counts tells you how flagrantly Tiller has been ignoring the law. But still, Planned Barrenhood has gone on the warpath about how terrible it is that KLINE had this awful agenda of taking away women’s rights, blah blah blah.

Ok, so you hardcore libs, help me understand why it’s ok for a 13 year old to have an abortion without parental consent in the first place, and then help me understand why it’s wrong for an attorney general to go after someone who is, IN FACT, breaking the law. Law, I might add, that is very loose here in Kansas.

I have no doubt in my mind that Tiller is going to face judgement day and burn in hell, but somehow I feel it might be ok if he were shut down for breaking the law in the meantime. It’s not as if you can’t go down the street to Planned Barrenhood and get a legal abortion.

Late term abortion is the sickest, most immoral and disgusting practice I can even imagine, and I cringe every time I write about it. I’ve seen a baby born at 28 weeks and before… they sure as hell looked like babies to me. The amount of evil it would require to kill a baby when you can actually see ALL the features of a baby is just beyond words.

Tiller is the devil in the flesh.

No, I’m not making it up. I listened to a local news report about this, and apparently the woman was in the restroom for a long time, so coworkers went in and found her in the bathroom, apparently lamenting that she kept trying to flush, but the baby just wouldn’t go down. She also claimed that she had no idea she was pregnant.

This is disturbing and difficult to believe on many levels, all of which are obvious. First, how the heck can you NOT KNOW that you’re pregnant. You’ll occasionally hear stories like that… woman is shocked to give birth on the toilet. How can you not know? Aren’t there severe hormonal changes, lack of a period for nine months, weight gain, and KICKING INSIDE YOUR BELLY?

Alright, I can buy that a woman might be large enough that 30 or 40 extra pounds don’t get her attention. That’s conceivable (no pun intended). But what about the no period thing? I’m not a chick, but wouldn’t you notice that??? Let’s pretend that she is morbidly obese and for some reason that was messing up her cycle, so she really didn’t have those two indicators to help.

Did she think she ATE something that was still kicking?

But let’s put all that aside for the moment. IF you were morbidly obese and didn’t notice you were missing your period for nearly a year, and then you suddenly gave birth while on the toilet… would your first instinct be to FLUSH IT??? Would you try repeatedly to try and flush it?

The hospital says the baby is expected to live, no thanks to his mother. The ambulance crew gave the baby CPR and he started breathing on his own.

This sounds like either a case of outright insanity, or the worst case of denial E-V-E-R. There are some people who can ignore the most obvious and persistent clues about their lives and pretend like it’s not happening. A classic and much less outrageous example is ignoring the letters and calls from collections after you stop paying your bills. You know you stopped paying them. You know the letters are demanding money and threatening action. You know the calls are to get you to pay. How can you just pretend there’s nothing wrong and go about your business?

We humans are an odd bunch, able to deny truths about ourselves and our situations. No other animal is capable of such a feat.

This woman… she should be put in jail for attempted murder. At the very least, she should be sterilized and put into a mental institution.

Over last weekend, Greensburg Kansas was destroyed completely by a tornado. I watched interviews with the people there… they were all helping each other search for survivors and just generally looking out for each other. The people interviewed said things like the mayor of Greensburg, who said “I look towards the future, and I’m excited. We’re going to rebuild bigger and better.” And then there were the citizens, who said things like “I found my wedding ring, and that’s all I ever wanted” and “I thank God that so few died in such a horrible tragedy… it could have been so much worse.”

Those are not the Katrina-esque comments you heard in New Orleans. Our illustrious DEMOCRAT governor, Kathleen “Babies should all be aborted” Sebelius, went to a press conference in Greensburg where she told reporters that recovery efforts were being hampered by the Iraq war, which took away up to 60% of our national guard equipment.

Barak Obama yesterday jumped on that bandwagon, and in the process claimed that 10,000 people were killed. Those of us living in Kansas were suprised to hear that, since Greensburg only has about 1,600 residents. In reality, only 12 people died. But it’s the left, trying to use any tactic necessary to promote their agenda.

What about the people of Greensburg? They aren’t complaining about slow response. In reality, FEMA was on site before most of the people had even crawled out of their basements. Governor Sebelius received every single thing she requested from the National Guard… everything!

So, let’s see. The residents want to be independent and take care of themselves. The Governor has received everything she’s asked for. 90% of the Kansas National Guard troops are still in Kansas.

It’s a shame we have a governor here that does not represent our independent spirits and our strong sense of individuality. Thank God she’ll be done being our governor in 2008. It’s time we had a spokesperson that actually thinks the way we do.

That doesn’t happen often, does it!?

House Bill 2528 in Kansas was written to RE-preempt local legislation on concealed carry in Kansas. It did not make concealed carry legal, that was already done. This did not create statewide preemption… that was already done, too. However, the original laws were… of course… exploited by local politicians and the Kansas League of Municipalities. Loopholes were exploited, and power-hungry cities were passing countless retarded ordinances that practically guaranteed that someone would inadvertently get arrested for carrying a gun, even though they had a Kansas state license to do so.

Of course, since this was a piece of common sense legislation intended to clarify laws already in place and close loopholes, it flew through the House and Senate. After that, it was promptly vetoed by Kathleen “Gun Grabber” Sebelius, because… well, she gave some reasons, but the real reason was she’s in the back pocket of the Kansas League of Municipalities, and they were opposed to the bill because it took power away from them.

After writing eleventy-jillion letters, emails, and making phone calls to over 100 representatives and 30+ Senators, the bill went up for an override vote today.

House overrode the veto 98-26, Senate overrode the veto 30-10.

Common sense prevailed, even in the post-VT Rampage anti-gun blitz, making Kansas a better – albeit “redder” state to live.

So praise the lord and pass the ammunition.

$50.00 says nobody with a concealed carry permit shoots up the zoo or the Rennaisance festival (a constant retarded argument that Senators kept giving me).

Four hours from now, they’re forecasting severe storms including tornados, and then snow in the morning.

Here is my prediction:

30 percent chance of just a light rain
30 percent chance that we get more than 6 inches of snow.
30 percent chance we get less than two inches of snow.
10 percent chance it’s sunny and warm tomorrow.

Pete
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