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Michael Marcavage is arguably one of the last true heroes of our time. Unlike most defensors of liberty, Marcavage has put his own personal liberty on the line to defend yours and mine.

The story below gives the lie to the politically correct idea that history shows a progressive move toward increasing freedom – an idea that was first put forth by Marxist Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, touted by academics as “one of the greatest thinkers of our time.”

For the politically correct, that is for elitist leftist revolutionaries (mostly atheists) and the “useful idiots” who run along with them without having the slightest idea where their revolution is headed, freedom is on the increase. But freedom is only on the increase for these elitists, who now are in the final stages of taking over our planet. It is on the decrease, for example, for conservative Christians (I am not referring to redefined conservatives, of course, who are nothing but traitors and followers of Satan) and for adherents to common sense notions and principles. There are precious few left in our country who will stand up against the despotism described below. What the rest don’t realize is that the pogrom against traditional Christians is only the first step in the war against all common sense, including the notion of traditional family where parents still have rights over their children’s upbringing, where you have the right to buy gas to go to work, or, eventually, the right to a job or the right to life itself.

The loss of religious freedom is the beginning of the loss of all freedoms.

Wait and see.

Or better yet, don’t wait. Fight.

Donald Hank

 

Appeal filed in Liberty Bell case

Pastor Marcavage “guilty” for witnessing near Liberty Bell

Appealed to US District Court

 

 

 

 Watch the video of the arrest. 

 

 

 

U.S. District Court Judge Legrome D. Davis has been assigned to hear the appeal, and a conference has been requested by Marcavage’s legal counsel, C. Scott Shields, to discuss a stay of the imposition of the sentence pending the appeal.

“In a land that tolerates the killing of unborn children, it is not surprising that we find ourselves in a continual battle for our freedoms. When the church is silent as the most helpless among us have their beating hearts stopped at the hands of abortionists, then we do not deserve liberty,” Marcavage stated. “Although we do not deserve the blessings of liberty that God has bestowed upon our nation, we must be good stewards by working to preserve and utilize them to help bring an end to the abortion holocaust,” Marcavage continued. “In Philadelphia - the birthplace of American freedom - we will, as the Scripture-inscribed Liberty Bell declares, ‘Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof’ (Leviticus 25:10) regardless of the efforts to silence us,” Marcavage concluded.

 

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Candid Observations on 6/10/08 South Carolina Primary Elections

 

Upstate South Carolina rid itself of the Hillary Clinton of pennyante southern politics tonight, as Wendy Nanney withstood a remarkable onslaught of lies and misrepresentations from the Gloria Arias Haskins camp (as reported here) to defeat the open borders, voting privileges-for-illegals incumbent in the state House of Representatives, District 22 race (congrats to Wendy for a fabulous race, and for being a fabulous candidate).  And similarly mendacious Jim Ritchie appears to have gotten his comeuppance, as Shane Martin almost pulled off a majority in a three-horse race, and will be heavily favored in a runoff.  There were several other ingratiating results in this part of the state as well - as pertains to the minor offices.

 

But the news in the big races was not so good.

 

Lindsey (”we’re going to tell these bigots [ie proponents of border security] to shut up”) Graham, perhaps the only individual more reviled in South Carolina conservative circles than John McCain, defeated challenger Buddy Witherspoon by a 2 to 1 margin statewide.  This is far more remarkable than the 33% or so McCain got in “winning” the SC presidential primary a few months back.  Even here in the upstate, where I listened to hundreds of talk show callers the last few weeks and didn’t here a single caller express anything less than venom toward the RINO Senator, he somehow managed 48%.

 

And just as bad, Rep Bob Inglis, whom I encountered awhile back at a downtown Greenville townhall meeting where he told a hostile crowd that if we didn’t positively revel in the lock-up (for 11 and 12 years) of border agents Ramos and Compean (and consequent shutting down of effective border security) for taking their jobs seriously, then we were guilty of being unpatriotic, won by a similar margin over challenger Charles Jeter.  Making matters worse, Inglis is as much a global warming idiot as McCain, Obama, or Al Gore, adamantly opposing drilling in ANWR or anywhere else, or, for that matter, refining oil.

 

To rub all this in our faces, Inglis beamed in his victory speech that it was his (America-destroying) energy policies that won it for him (Jeter is a strong advocate for massive domestic drilling and refining).  My question: where are all the folks who, like my family, are going deeper and deeper into debt paying $4 and up per gallon for gas that’s under a dollar in the countries where the politicians let companies drill?  Where was the outrage over the draconian restriction on domestic oil production I’m hearing all over the local airwaves and everywhere I go around the area?  And where is all the outrage that showed itself in that 95% anti-Inglis crowd that turned out at that town hall meeting?

 

For that matter, where are the folks who cause the opinion polls to give congress that 14% approval rating?  Surely, if there is anywhere in the country that such low esteem should translate into defeat in the primaries, it should be here in South Carolina, where Graham and Inglis have been publicly spitting in our faces to the extent they have.

 

Could it be our old, friends, the Diebolds?

 

I suspect so, more so than ever.  Perhaps they don’t turn elections on their heads.  Maybe they just skew them mightily.  Perhaps where a Nanney can win, say, 80% of the vote (as the local yard sign ratio would indicate), the conservative can still win, with credit for maybe 62%, after the tallies are “laundered” through the computerized monstrosities.  On the other hand, a Jeter or a Witherspoon cannot hope to win, as their margins are much smaller, within the grey area where victories or near victories become sound defeats.

 

Just wondering out loud, but I’d like someone to explain to me the irregularities and peculiarities described above under any other scenario.  Either I’m the nutcase Charlotte talk host Keith Larson painted me to be a few months ago in my appearance on his show, or there’s something real here.

 

The bottom line is, after long and diligent research, I uncovered practically nobody who knew anybody who knew anybody who knew anybody who’d voted for McCain in SC.  Yet he “won.”  And ditto for Lindsey Graham, yet he “won” by a huge margin.  And everything I hear about these mysterious unverifiable voting contraptions tells me they’re eminently tamperable.

 

And we’re stuck with the “worst Senator” in America (or his inevitably overtly Marxist November Democratic opponent? - I’m voting for independent Mark McBride, for what it’s worth) and a congressman who wants to fiddle while gas prices and the general inflation and economic hardship that are consequences of gas prices cause America to descend into depression and chaos, and claim that his fiddling is precisely what appealed to 2/3 of the upstate electorate.

 

See our petition for observed, hand counted paper ballots by November on the SaveAmericaSummit website soon.  And make me the butt of your lunatic fringe jokes.  I’m going to do what I can till I breathe my last breath.

 

Epilogue:

 

1    In the case of yesterday’s Lindsey Graham “victory,” I’m being asked to believe that the vast majority of South Carolina Republicans don’t care one whit about the illegal immigration invasion qua colonization.  (If there’s one person in the Senate on record as siding completely with the hostile takers over of America and scornful of those who oppose them, it’s one Lindsey Graham.)

 

2    In the case of Bob Inglis, we’re being told that even in the ultra conservative upstate, South Carolina Republican voters not only don’t care at all about the above isue (I was there when Inglis told a packed house of seething citizens that they weren’t patriotic if they didn’t share his delight in the jailing - for long stretches - of border guardians who dare act like border guardians), but also don’t give a hoot about gas prices, and believe that “fighting” a blatant chimera known as “man made global warming” is worth putting at high risk their families’ very survival.

 

Now you tell me who’s the “nutcase” - someone willing to swallow these evident whoppers whole cloth, or one who questions - in the light of these remarkable inconsistencies and the fact that Diebolds have been found to be easily hacked - the inner workings of totally unverifiable mechanical machinery in the hands of a government that has betrayed us countless other times.

 

Again, watch for a petition soon @ http://www.saveamericasummit.com/ on returning America to observed hand counted paper ballots.

 

My cyber John Hancock:

 

Charles Lewis

Moderator

Save America Summit

National Outreach Director

Christian Exodus

South Carolina Director

Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

South Carolina Coordinator

America’s Independent Party

 

Perilous crossing

Olavo de Carvalho

 In his book America and the World Revolution (Oxford University Press 1962), a transcript of conferences given at the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1961, Arnold Toynbee wrote:

“If we wish to avoid massive suicide, we have to have our world State as quickly as possible, and this probably means we will need to install it in a non-democratic form to begin with.” 

This was not a prophecy, it was a proposal.  Or rather, it was a reaffirmation of a proposal that had already been under development in the upper echelons of the Anglo-American establishment at least since 1928, when Herbert George Wells published the first popular version of the plan, under the highly suggestive title The Open Conspiracy.  Some historians trace the project back to the end of the 19^th century and list its presence as one of the causes of World War I, but we need not go back that far.  The best studies on the life and work of Wells (W. Warren Wagar, H. G. Wells and the World State, Yale University press, 1961; Michael Foot, a history of Mr. Wells, Washington, DC, Counterpoint, 1995) leave no doubts as to the role played by the author of The War of the Worlds in the transformation of a general idea into a viable political project.  Like Wells, Toynbee was not only an intellectual but also an activist, an intimate collaborator of the British government and globalist circles. His monumental work, A Study of History (1939-1961), provides a unified vision of world historical development indispensable for preparing the ground for the advent of world government.

The most recent state of implementation of the plan drawn up by these visionaries can be appreciated from the following paragraphs published in the Taipei Times of February 2006, to which no Brazilian political commentator paid much attention, even though their author was no less than Richard Haass, president of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), the most powerful think tank in the United States and practically an antechamber of the US presidency:

“In the age of globalization, states should give up some sovereignty to world bodies in order to protect their own interests.

 Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change. Under one such arrangement, the Kyoto Protocol, which runs through 2012, signatories agree to cap specific emissions. What is needed now is a successor arrangement in which a larger number of governments, including the US, China, and India, accept emissions limits or adopt common standards because they recognize that they would be worse off if no country did.

Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker…. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.”

Observations:

• 1. The success of appealing to examples of commerce and “global climate change” shows that the world State plan can, on the one hand, be legitimized as a unified response to problems of an international scale and, on the other hand, in itself supports an alarmist trend regarding nonexistent problems in order to legitimize itself by false and fraudulent means. In 2006 the slogan “global warming” still might have looked like a friendly warning. Two years later, not only do thousands of scientists openly contest this dogma, but even school children are capable of debunking the legend foisted on the world by the billionaire campaign in which ex-vice President Al Gore serves as the poster boy.
• 2. The procedures used to impose global list reforms bypass normal democratic channels via decisions made in secret sci-tech and administrative commissions whose activity can hardly be understood by the public (source: here). The speed of the changes makes it impossible for the ordinary citizen to make sense of the events. “Public opinion,” which, generally speaking, is now little more than a set of vague impressions with little connection to reality, then becomes a mere tool for instituting changes that it will never be able to understand or influence. Toynbee’s program emerges, quite plainly implemented: the world State does not suppress democracy, it engulfs it. Democracy continues to exist, but as an organ in a larger body that embraces and controls it without its being in the least aware of this.
• 3. If other facts that I have cited in my articles have not abundantly proven it, the case of the Kyoto accord will suffice to show an obvious fact that many Brazilian nationalists refuse to understand, namely, that the control centers of globalist power are not found in the American government, nor do the interests of the global State identify in the least with those of good old “Yankee imperialism.” From California to New England, from Florida to Oregon, no one is unaware that submitting to the extension of the Kyoto accord implies destruction of the American economic base, reducing the United States to the status of a second-class power. Nor is it lost on the general public that other globalist projects proposed by the CFR, such as the Treaty of the Law of the Sea, or the dissolution of the borders with Mexico or Canada, would complete this destruction and close the chapter of the American nation in history. Curiously, the most lucid left-wing intellectual in the world, Antonio Negri, has explained and repeated a thousand times that the “Empire” and “United States” are not one and the same thing, that the global empire that is taking shape is supranational not only in its objectives but also in its only internal constitution (not that Negri was the first to discover anything. With minor differences, the essence of his concept of the Empire, published in 2000 by the Harvard University Press under the title Empire, was already all in my book O Jardim das Aflições (The Garden of Afflictions), of 1996). But the fact that not even the word of a renowned leftist suffices to unravel the confusion of globalism and Americanism shows in itself that much of Brazilian nationalism is only a form of morbid atavism rather than intelligent patriotism. The everyday discourse of politics reflects this. Indeed, while the only empire that exists in the world is the one referred to by Negri, in Brazil, the term “empire” is used as a synonym with “United States,” taking its cue from Fidel Castro’s communist rhetoric (“Nuestro espiritu de sarificio y el chantaje del Imperio,” of April 25 at this site). Thus, the great true Empire, with the Latin American left as one of its chief instruments, is spared public hostility, which is turned specifically against the one nation that, ironically - but not coincidentally - is precisely the one offering the greatest obstacles to Imperial designs.
• 4. The globalist scheme fostered by the CFR is not the only one out there. There is a Sino-Russian globalism consolidated under the Shanghai Pact, which operates essentially by two routes: the financing of terrorism and the control of entire nations by means of the most formidable corruption machine that has ever existed in the world. And then there is an Islamic globalism, which expands by immigration, which is used as a weapon of cultural warfare, in a highly efficient strategy of occupation from within. The relationships between these three schemes of control are extremely intricate and subtle. The Shanghai Pact, for example, is ostensibly a reaction of the left to “imperialist globalism,” but in reality, does not oppose it in any way, opposing only the United States, and thereby helping globalism undermine American resistance (the faulty Brazilian language pattern mentioned above is a local example of this phenomenon). The Islamic and Sino-Russian schemes can be seen, to some extent, as competing with each other, but here as well, a web of caveats and ambiguities renders any schematic simplification prohibitive.
• 5. No country can “confront” oppressive globalism, but each one has the obligation to integrate itself into it as beneficially as possible for its own people, without in any way compromising its vital interests. However, this calls for a highly trained intellectual elite capable of navigating the twists and turns of the most advanced and complex historic change of all time. In Brazil, this elite does not exist at all, and the assumption that our institutions of “higher” learning can provide it is so ridiculous it does not merit discussion. The courses that have not been reduced to the level of training centers for militants are dominated by the most rudimentary of economic pragmatism, or by academic formalism that can only reason in terms of institutions and doctrines without ever getting down to basic issues. As far as I know, the only Brazilian concerned about training this elite is yours truly, but as you know, I can only work on a very small scale in proportion to my resources, or rather, to the lack thereof. Brazil seems doomed to go through this perilous time without understanding where it is headed or who is leading it.

 

Translated from the Portuguese by Donald Hank

 

By Anthony Horvath

I need to admit from the beginning that I have not personally investigated the data said to be for or against Global Warming.  That said, I have been watching carefully how Global Warming is being promoted and defended and as a long time observer of how Evolutionary Theory is defended, the similarities are striking.

Examples of censorship against skeptics of Evolutionary Theory are now so numerous that Ben Stein just produced a whole movie on how those who advance ‘Intelligent Design’ are castigated and even have their careers threatened for taking a view that is not strictly Darwinian.  Have we not seen similar tactics employed in the Global Warming debate?  There are many examples, including comparing skeptics of Global Warming to holocaust deniers, threatening to fire climatologists, and more.

There is one unique difference between Evolutionary Theory and Global Warming, and that is that each of us, as ones living on the globe, can get a sense for themselves whether or not it is warming or cooling in any dramatic fashion, but we do not all have access to all the fossils.

I can tell you that in Wisconsin it was a cold winter and it lasted long!  Anecdotal, to be sure, but it makes one wonder when the Global Warming talk begins and hearing that long cold spells are exactly what you can expect from a warming globe certainly raises eyebrows.  What would you expect from a cooling globe? Hot spells?

It is very telling that promoters of Global Warming have resorted to tactics long employed by Evolutionists.  Rabid Darwinist Richard Dawkins famously said, “It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).”  It is not long- indeed, the day may already be upon us- before those who are skeptical of Global Warming make the same kind of statements.

We must ask ourselves why the proponents of Evolution and Global Warming feel like they need to advance their positions by using such hostile methods. In the case of Evolution I think the answer is obvious:  the science itself isn’t nearly as conclusive as we are led to believe.  As such, the position needs to be advanced with blunt force since the evidence is not as self-evidently persuasive as other, less controversial, scientific facts.  Might it be that Evolutionary Theory is actually propelled by philosophical naturalism and not the evidence as illustrated by another quote by Richard Dawkins, that evolution made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist?

Science has certainly done great good, although it has handed us numerous ethical dilemmas as well.  Yet few probably understand that what passes as science these days isn’t always like the science they learned in high school.  There we learned that science proceeded along a method:  first you make some observations, then you hypothesize about those observations, then you craft experiments which will tell you more about your hypothesis, and you do this a number of times, testing different explanations and challenges to the data you are generating, and eventually you come to the point where you can generate a theory out of it all.

It is here that the similarities between Global Warming and Evolutionary Theory become uncanny.  All of the really controversial aspects of Evolution happened in the past, outside of observation and beyond experimentation.  We have fossils, which must be interpreted, and we have small scale examples of variation within similar organisms, but the rest of extrapolation.  Nor can we make any precise predictions on what kind of organisms will emerge in the future, since the biggest driver of evolutionary change is change to the DNA code itself- which is random.  The theory is impotent in offering anything more substantially concrete beyond predicting that species will change, which anyone who has seen a baby and noticed that it is different than its parents will observe.

Moreover, you can’t falsify the theory because uncomfortable data merely calls for a revision of it, with no realistic hope that anything would actually refute it.

Global Warming seems to be developing along similar lines prompting us to wonder if it too might be agenda driven.  We observe the weather all the time, but as far as performing experiments at a scale that could actually tell us whether or not humans are causing the putative warming, that is an entirely different matter.  Short term weather forecasting has improved a great deal but attempts to predict how many major hurricanes there will be in a season have been embarrassingly off.  The year 2008 is producing a fair number of tornados, many more than previous years (though not all years), but as near as I can tell, there were not siren calls in 2007 telling us to watch out this particular year.

There is also the curious fact that according to the same data, the earth has endured numerous warming and cooling cycles with no help or hindrance from human activity.  What kind of experiment is being proposed that will help us distinguish between a global temperature change brought about by public policies and a change brought about by natural processes alone?  I am aware of none.  I am not even aware that Global Warming proponents think it important.

So whether it is hot or cold Global Warming is a scientific fact just as Evolution is a scientific fact whether it happens fast or slow (see Punctuated Equilibrium).  And don’t you dare question whether it happened!  Your job is at risk if you do.  That is perfectly justified, since if you do, you are ignorant, stupid, or insane- or possibly wicked.  Naturally, you don’t reason with stupid and insane people, and wicked people you must oppose as a matter of course.   Right?

No, I have not yet formed an opinion on Global Warming, but it appears that skepticism is called for.  If others were to become more skeptical- even of scientists- who knows what towering theories would tumble.

Anthony Horvath is the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries.  He is the author of the Birth Pangs series and his apologetics website, sntjohnny.com, is frequented by both believer and unbelievers.

Apologetics: Cure for America’s social ills

 

By Anthony Horvath

 

(Anthony Horvath is a Laigle’s Forum partner)

 

The evidence of societal decay is all around us. The California Supreme Court decision is not an isolated event. Despite eight years with a Republican president, much of that with a Republican-controlled legislature, abortion is still legal and rampant, and Roe v. Wade the “law” of the land. The cure, it would seem, is better legislative efforts and more efficient grass-roots campaigning for wholesome politicians. I don’t think so.

I should hasten to add that I think there is a proper place for attempts to advance decent legislation. I even doubt that we’ve done it enough. Yet, I should note that even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion will become a states’ rights issue, and even if all 50 states abolished abortion, there will still be people getting abortions. We can successfully resist the gay agenda and preserve the traditional understanding of marriage, and yet there will still be gays. Moreover, even the straight community is filled with sexual immorality.

Read more here here.

 

Bob Pawson

National Coordinator ~ PLEAS

Pro-Life Educators and Students

www.prolifeeducators.com

PO Box 2826 Hamilton, NJ 08690  (609) 610-3522

bobpawson@bringyourbible.com

info@prolifeeducators.com

 

Pro-Life Prayer & Picket Demo Against NEA Pro-Abortion Agenda

at the NEA’s own Convention & State Capital HQs

Washington Convention Center * Wednesday July 2 10AM-2PM

801 Mount Vernon Place, NW • Washington, DC 20001 (Rain or Shine)

Dear Pro-Life & Pro-Family Organizations, Leaders, Activists in DC, VA, MD & DE,

You are invited and exhorted to please help stage a massive, peaceful, highly visible, pro-life prayer-&-picket demonstration against the National Education Association leadership’s egregious pro-abortion agenda. I urge you to become stake-holders in this endeavor. Please commit yourselves and your organizations to adopting a pro-active leadership role in making this pro-life action effective and successful.

Press Release Link:

                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: One or both will surely speak at NEA Convention 2008 (as they did at the Philadelphia NEA Convention 2007); especially whichever one becomes the Democratic nominee. NEA-PAC may vote on and announce the union’s 2008 Presidential Endorsement at this convention. Please recall that late-term abortionist George Tiller addressed the pro-abortion Feminist Majority Foundation’s Women’s Leadership Conference held at NEA’s Washington, DC headquarters in March 2008.

This document has been sent to at least fifty pro-life & pro-family organizations with headquarters or operations in the greater DC area. Surely, such a coalition task force can mobilize a minimum of one thousand people for a few hours to picket the NEA Convention (and fifty+ people at each state capital’s NEA HQ). We cannot wait for “somebody else” to do this. In your hearts, you know that this is a good and Godly idea - and that you really do want to be a part of it. It is up to you/me/us to combine our forces, resources, and talents and get it done. Besides - it will be fun to do! Imagine smacking the NEA! Hard! Many of your organizations’ members would love the chance to smite the NEA leadership - on their own turf no less! This has got to be a Team Effort. Please be one of the Team Leaders.

Over 9,000 Delegates from all fifty states and US territories will meet at the Washington Convention Center, July 1-6, to set policy for 3.2 million NEA members. Celebrities & politicians address the convention. Fortune 500 companies set up exhibit booths. Approximately 3,000 visitors also attend the convention.

This is a unique opportunity for the Pro-Life Movement to make millions of American citizens and school employees keenly aware of the NEA leadership’s radical agenda by generating a tidal wave of news coverage through both secular and Christian media outlets such as FOX, CBN, ABC, USARadio, NBC, SRN, CBS, BOTT, CNN, TV & cable, newspaper and magazine front pages, internet sites, the blogosphere and more.

Nationwide press coverage of a dynamic, well-attended, pro-life demonstration is virtually guaranteed. Hundreds (yes, hundreds!) of reporters from international, national, regional, and local news media outlets always attend and cover NEA’s annual meeting. NEA prides itself on being the organization which does the picketing; not being the target of picketing. This prayer and picket demo can be one of the most significant pro-life news events of 2008 across the USA and worldwide.

This cooperative event has the potential to synergistically re-energize pro-lifers all across America as we stage an effective, united, nationwide, pro-life “happening”. It will imbue in all participants a great sense of accomplishment and feeling of satisfaction to give the NEA leadership a well-deserved, highly publicized thrashing. We will also hearten and embolden the handful of Pro-Life NEA Delegates inside the Convention!

If you or your organizations host radio or TV programs, print publications, or web sites, please promote this event via your broadcasts and columns. If you have access to media personalities such as Dobson, Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, Beck, Parshall, Levin, Schlafly, O’Reilly, et al, please tell them about this event and your group’s participation. Encourage them to inform their audiences about the event and NEA’s agenda. If possible, get yourselves booked as guests on their shows so that you can personally promote the prayer-&-picket demos.

Therefore: Please recruit as many pro-life people as you can muster to picket against the NEA leadership’s pro-abortion policies & activism. Imagine the impact of 1,000+ picketers from all walks of life taking the NEA to task: men & women, taxpayers, parents, children, babies, and clergy - in addition to school employees, teachers (especially NEA members), and students (public, private, parochial, home school, etc). Invite pro-life elected officials with whom you have influence.

The peaceful, non-confrontational prayer-&-picket pro-life demonstration is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2, 10AM-2PM (Rain or Shine) as the 9000 Delegates arrive to register at the Convention Center.

Pro-Lifers more than 90 minutes from Washington, DC: You can still participate! Please picket the NEA affiliate HQ in your state’s capital at least one time during NEA Convention week. Pick dates & times which work for you, although my suggested date is Wednesday, July 2, 11:00AM-1:00PM (lunch hour) in your local time zone for maximum impact & media boost. Send press releases to your local media tying in your state demos with the NEA Convention demo. Click this link for addresses of NEA State Affiliate HQs.

PLEAS will transmit a general press release* by June 26 via Christiannewswire.com and other outlets. All pro-life organizations, ministries, and churches supporting the demonstrations are encouraged to send out their own independent press statements June 27-30. A “flood” of press releases will enhance and reinforce media coverage of the event and impact upon the public’s consciousness.

(* If your organization would like to be listed as a participating group in the PLEAS press release, please advise me by June 23.)

Do NOT assume that other pro-life leaders, organizations, or activists already know about this opportunity. Inform them yourself. Forward this e-mail to them. Send out your own notification to any & all pro-life groups and individuals in your circle of contacts. Please send this plan to your entire e-mail list.

If YOU are committed to making this pro-life event a success, please contact me at once. Thank you.

><> Yours for Life,

        Bob Pawson

“A pro-abortion teacher union makes about as much sense as pyromaniac forest rangers.”

FYI:  If you need info about my pro-life background and ministry, go to bringyourbible.com for biographical sketch at bottom of page. Google search terms: “Bob Pawson” prolife     Also search: “Bob Pawson” bringyourbible

Additional Data, Maps, Suggestions, Rules of Conduct, etc:

NEA Resolution on Family Planning (currently listed as Res. I-15) was adopted in 1985, amended in 1986, and is reaffirmed annually at every NEA Convention:

“The National Education Association supports family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom.

The Association urges the government to give high priority to making available all methods of family planning to women and men unable to take advantage of private facilities.

The Association further urges the implementation of community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling by trained personnel.”

In 1990, the NEA delegates easily passed New Business Item 1990-65.

“NEA will oppose any legislation which will erode the status of Roe v. Wade and/or which impedes access to and choice of reproductive health care options, by providing technical assistance to state affiliates.”

The NEA leadership is one of Planned Parenthood’s primary advocates. The NEA leadership co-sponsored the pro-abortion rally in Washington, DC in November 1989, April 1992, and April 2004. Other sponsors were: PPFA, ACLU, NOW, NARAL. Late term abortionist George Tiller spoke at NEA HQ in March 2008.

You can find out more about the NEA leadership’s radical agenda on many issues (abortion, homosexuality, sex education, home schooling, illegal immigration, etc) by going to the NEA homepage at www.nea.org/index.html or a searchable PDF file at http://www.nea.org/handbook/images/resolutions.pdf.

SOME SUGGESTED WORDING for PICKET SIGNS:

OK to bring standard pro-life signs (Abortion Kills Children, Stop Abortion Now, Abortion Hurts Women, etc)

However, if you are motivated to create new signs, some ideas are below:

REPEAL NEA RES I-15     MAKE NEA ABORTION NEUTRAL    PRO-LIFE NEA MEMBER

PRO-LIFE TEACHER           PRO-LIFE SCHOOL EMPLOYEE        PRO-LIFE PARENT

PRO-LIFE STUDENT           ABORTION = FEWER STUDENTS     SHAME ON NEA

FORMER FETUS & CURRENT STUDENT (or future student)      25 ABORTIONS = 1 LOST CLASS

ABORTION = UNEMPLOYED TEACHERS       TEACHERS SHOULDN’T SUPPORT BABY KILLING

Please ~ All signs should be easy to read, BIG, DARK print - to be seen best by millions

of people looking at TV newscasts, newspaper & magazine photos, web sites, blogs, etc.

Media coverage will go National & International front page & top-story for several reasons:

1) The NEA is rarely targeted for any sort of public demonstrations. A massive picket against NEA is newsworthy in and of itself!

     NEA takes pride in being the group which DOES the picketing! NEA is never the target OF picketing!

2) The idea of the NEA being picketed by a broad coalition of Parents/Taxpayers; Children/Students; School Employees

     & Teachers (including NEA members) will be hard for media organizations to pass up. They’d get scooped by competitors.

3) The media will not be able to ignore such an event - partly because the media ATTENDS the NEA convention.

SPECIAL INFO for Pro-Life NEA MEMBERS, TEACHERS & SUPPORT STAFF:

Pro-Life NEA members can actually go into the NEA Convention and REGISTER to attend. There is no fee for NEA members; just show your NEA-affiliate ID card at the Registration Booth to obtain your Badge/Name-Tag “credentials”. [Note: Be sure to wear your credentials while picketing outside.] Do NOT picket inside - although it is OK to wear pro-life t-shirts & buttons inside. Visit the pro-life exhibit booths of “Teachers Saving Children” and “NEA Educators for Life Caucus”. Take a walk through the exhibit area July 1-3 to see for yourselves some of the radical organizations and causes on display. Bring your cameras! Pick up some of the free, high-quality gifts and goodies from the hundreds of exhibit booths. You may also register guests at (low cost or possibly no cost — esp for guests under age 18).

TRANSPORTATION & PARKING SUGGESTIONS:

MASS TRANSIT (METRO Subway or MARC Train) http://www.dcconvention.com/directions.aspx

(Note: METRO Station “Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St. Convention Center” on the Yellow or Green Line is ideal!)

CAR POOLS / VAN POOLS & BUSES ~ Drivers can drop off passengers & go park; or if your vehicle has a big pro-life sign or display, consider driving continuously around the blocks of the Convention Center.

DIRECTIONS:  The Convention Center is easily accessible via main roads and highways throughout the greater Washington area. http://www.dcconvention.com/directions.aspx

PARKING near Washington Convention Center: There are many Parking Facilities near the Convention Center (walking distance). A map of their locations is available at http://www.dcconvention.com/parking.aspx

WEAR PRO-LIFE MESSAGE T-SHIRTS & BUTTONS/PINS if you can!

Note: All of the graphics & maps below can be re-sized (enlarged) or copied-&-pasted.

 

Washington Convention Center   801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Located between 7th & 9th Streets - and- N Street & Mt. Vernon Place

Closest METRO stop is “Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St. Convention Center” on the Yellow or Green Line

http://www.dcconvention.com/directions.aspx

 

Numbered Red Dots ?thru? indicate key locations where pro-lifers should assemble.  = Metro Station

 

PROLIFER CODE OF CONDUCT for NEA DEMOS

General Rule: Honor the Lord in all we say and do.

This is an informational/educational picket - NOT a “Protest Demonstration”.

Pray & Picket at the Red Dot locations & in-between the Red Dots. (Idea: Bring this map with you.)

Be Peaceful, Polite, & Calm at all times. J Smile J Be Friendly & Cordial. Obey any Police instructions.

Do NOT block access to sidewalks or Convention Center doors. Respect all property. Do not litter.

Do NOT engage in verbal debates, arguments, or physical confrontations with NEA Delegates or passersby.

Ignore provocation: If someone says or does something offensive - do NOT respond; quietly walk away.

Carry no weapons, alcohol, or drugs. Parents: Please maintain control of your minor children.

Hold up your signs towards TV & newspaper cameras for millions of viewers to see/read.

 

Future Note: NEA Convention July 1-6, 2009 in San Diego; July 1-6, 2010 in New Orleans.

Start planning to picket the Conventions and NEA HQs in all 50 states.

 

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1. After MassResistance budget victory — State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson files budget amendment for $300,000.00 increase in homosexual programs in schools!  DON’T let it happen!

2. See video of horrific attack on photographers at May 10 state-run “Youth Pride”event - incited by speakers on stage.

3. Anti-Catholic / anti-Christian pamphlets given to kids at “Youth Pride” event causing national outrage.

4. Supporter reacts to homosexual lobby’s big money - donates $12,000 to MassResistance and challenges others to follow!

1. After MassResistance budget victory — State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson files budget amendment for $300,000.00 increase in homosexual programs in schools!  DON’T let it happen! Last week your overwhelming pressure caused the Senate Ways and Means Committee to do something the homosexual lobby never expected: it cut the funding for the homosexual programs in schools by $200,000.00. Here’s what the homosexual lobby group MassEquality sent to their supporters in an email on Thursday: Just this week, anti-gay activists [i.e., MassResistance!] sent another round of emails to state legislators, urging them to oppose any funding to support LGBT youth and accusing them of “caving in to the lies and intimidation of the homosexual lobby.” . . . Yesterday afternoon, the Massachusetts State Senate released its version of the 2009 budget. The problem? This budget didn’t include any of the increases that we fought so hard to win in the House. The deadline for submitting amendments with co-sponsors is Friday at NOON. We had also hoped that a pro-family Senator would offer an amendment to get rid of ALL the funding for these hideous programs. But none were willing to come forward. Is this the way you want your tax money to be spent? Well, get ready for more. State Senator Dianne Wilkerson (D-Boston) has filed budget amendments to give an additional $300,000.00 of your tax money for these homosexual programs aimed at schoolchildren! This Wednesday, the Senate is scheduled to vote on it. Wilkerson is doing this as a favor to the homosexual lobby for supporting her election against two challengers two years ago. (And she also has two challengers in this upcoming election!)     Amendment #466: Increases item 7010-0005 from $200,000 to $300,000     Amendment #654: In