All4lifetoo:
Are you sure?
Legitimate defense by miliitary force requires:
“–the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain.” This condition is met. The death of 40+ million in the USA alone is lasting, grave, and certain.
“–all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective.” This condition is met. Thirty years of legal and political fighting has still not outlawed abortion and there is no prospect of legal or political success in the future.
“–there must be serious prospects of success.” This condition could be met if a large enough rebellion is started.
“–the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver that the evil to be eliminated.” This condition is met. Consider that the total number of aborted children far exceeds all the US war fatalities since the Revolution, there is no way that the evil of a rebellion could even come close to the evil of abortion.
All4lifetoo:
There is a 3rd Option, that of MORAL FORCE, or “SATYAGRAHA”, also sometimes called “Non-violent resistence”, “Civil Disobediance” or “Moral Blackmail”.
Before I continue, how many of us are willing to GO TO JAIL repeatedly?? How many of us are willing to lose prospects for jobs because of arrest records?? How many of us are willing to have the police beat us up because they had to drag us out from inside of Abortion Clinics?? How many of us are willing to then be villified and DENIED MEDICAL CARE oir injuries received during these beatings because we opposed the pro-DEATH Orthodoxy of the media and political establishment??
If you are, then red on, if not, just tell me and I’ll not post on this ever again.
In the 1920’s, Mahatma Ghandi started the drive for Indian Independence, not with a bloody battle, but with a demonstration. Indians went to the Salt Factory that was run by the British and formed a line to get inside to MAKE SALT. The British troops blocked the gate armed with clubs and guns.
As the world’s press watched, Indians by the thousands walked up to the gate one or two at a time to try to gain admittence, and then were promptly clubbed by the Brits who bashed their skulls with their clubs.
It was a PR disaster for the British Empire. The “Savages” had been the civilized ones, while the “civilized” men had acted as “brutal savages” (per the newspaper reports). From that day forward, Britain was under incredible pressure to grant India her indiependence.
Similar scenes typified the NON-VIOLENT RESISTENCE of SATYAGRAHA, but none were so effective as when Indians tried to make their own salt.
FYI, it was this that Martin Luther King, JR., and the Marchers were trying to duplicate (and did - Sheriff Bull Conner’s dogs attacked CHILDREN on NATIONAL TV) when they walked into Selma, Alabama in the now infamous film.
Do you now understand the 3rd way??
We can close these clinics down without firing a shot, but only if we’re willing to BLEED!
Blessings and Peace, Michael
