Evil in the Mirror

There is pretty much universal agreement that Hitler was evil.  But, I wonder if Hitler saw himself that way.  Do you think that he looked at himself in the mirror every day, while shaving around the edges of that infamous mustache, and thought, “you wicked, evil man!”

I doubt it.  But we all see it now.  How could he not see it then?

What about the slave owners in our own country, or the people who hung “WHITES ONLY” signs in their businesses.  Our ancestors thought that, on no other basis than the color of their skin, people of a certain race either deserved no better than to be their “help,” or did not deserve to eat in their restaurants or sleep in their hotels.  We condemn them now, but did they know we would see them the way we do?

We stand together and call their racism evil today, but just like Hitler before them, I doubt they saw their own evil.

You know one thing that Hitler and our racist ancestors had in common?  Armed with “scientific” arguments, they denied the humanity of their victims.  Using Darwinian theories and survival-of-the-fittest arguments, the Nazis believed that their desire for a pure race of Germans justified their abominations. Like racist, Nazi Germany, our racist ancestors used similar arguments to deny the humanity, or at least full humanity, of our darker-complected brothers and sisters.  Because the black race was considered to be less fit than the white race, one generation enslaved them and another segregated them.

But surely we’re not evil like they were… are we?

May I Have Your Daughter’s Hand…?

A powerful letter from Adoniram Judson to John Hasseltine, asking for permission to marry his daughter:

“…I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world? Whether you can consent to see her departure to a heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary life? Whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean; to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death? Can you consent to all this, for the sake of perishing immortal souls; for the sake of Zion and the glory of God? Can you consent to all this, in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with a crown of righteousness brightened by the acclamations of praise which shall redound to her Saviour from heathens saved, through her means, from eternal woe and despair?”

I Am NOT Pro-Choice

I am not pro-choice, neither when it comes to rape nor when it comes to abortion.  I hate rape, and I hate abortion.

What I wrote was insensitive and offensive, and I intended for it to cause people to be outraged.  They were.

I wrote what I wrote to help people see how foolish pro-choice arguments are, and to help them see the inconsistencies in pro-choice arguments- inconsistencies that they don’t see because they have been indoctrinated by the abortion movement.

I first denied that being “pro-choice” when it comes to rape is equal to being “pro-rape.” This is obviously foolish.  Just because I said I would never rape anybody does not make what I wrote any less pro-rape.  Likewise, a person who is “pro-choice” when it comes to abortion is pro-abortion.  You cannot simply be pro-choice.  Murder is a choice.  Rape is a choice.  Theft is a choice.  We are all in favor of some choices and opposed to others.  If a person claims to be pro-choice, you must ask what choice they are referring to- and a person who claims to be pro-choice referring to abortion is pro-abortion, regardless of how they try to justify identifying as pro-choice.

Then I made the claim that rape is a private and personal decision, and that government should not be involved with our private and personal decisions.  People try to make this argument with abortion, but if we stop and think about it we see how blatantly foolish it is.  All crimes are personal decisions, and rape is a perfect example of a private decision that is wrong.  So, just because a decision is “personal” and/or “private” does not make it right, and does not mean that the government should or should not be involved in such decisions.  Government should be and is involved in personal and private decisions to rape.  Such personal and private decisions are identified as crimes, and those who commit them are identified as criminals.  Killing a 1-year-old child is identified as a crime, even if his parents made a personal and private decision to kill him, and his parents are called criminals.  It should be the same when parents make a personal and private decision to kill their child in the womb.

Next, I made the ridiculous suggestion that there should be rape clinics.  Although rape clinics might in some ways be “cleaner” and “safer,” there would still be a person getting raped.  The supposed inevitability of rape and the danger of back-alley rape do not justify rape-on-demand clinics, and such clinics would certainly not be a good thing for the victims of the rapes.  So it is with abortion.  Abortion clinics in some ways make abortion “cleaner” and “safer,” but not for the babies.  The baby still bleeds and the baby still dies, meaning abortion is never clean or safe for the baby.  Those babies are alive, and unless someone kills them they will live- with the obvious exceptions of miscarriages and complications.  The supposed inevitability of abortion and the danger of back-alley abortion do not justify abortion-on-demand clinics, and such clinics are certainly not a good thing for the victims of the abortions- which includes both mothers and babies.  Women who have abortions have to wake up every day for the rest of their lives as the mothers of dead babies, in addition to being mothers who paid doctors to kill their babies.  People often tell pregnant women to “deal with it,” by which they mean “go have an abortion,” but I don’t know how they “deal with it” for the rest of their lives.  Abortion-on-demand clinics are just as evil as rape-on-demand clinics would be, and we should be repulsed by the idea of each.

I concluded by using two popular pro-abortion slogans in my pro-choice regarding rape discourse: “Against rape? Don’t do it” and “his body, his choice.”  We see the absurdity when the arguments are used to defend rape, but not when they are used to defend abortion.  Why?  Because we clearly see that the liberty of the rapist ends where justice for the victim begins, whereas we do not see that the liberty of the mother ends where justice for the baby begins.

If you felt that what I wrote about rape was insensitive and offensive, and if you were outraged by it, then you responded exactly the way you should have.  However, you should respond in the exact same way when people say the same things about abortion.  Just as my words were insensitive and offensive to victims of rape and their loved ones, these pro-choice arguments are insensitive and offensive to the victims of abortion, as well as to justice.

This nation was once divided on the issue of slavery, to our shame.  We are now divided on the issue of abortion, to our shame.  May we all be as unified against the evil of abortion as we are against the evils of slavery and rape.

I Am Now Pro-Choice

I am now pro-choice.

After much thought and consideration, I have decided to become pro-choice; not on the issue of abortion, but on the issue of rape.

Some people would say this makes me pro-rape, but that is not the case.  I would never rape a woman.  However, if a man does want to rape he should have that right.  Rape is a private and personal decision, and the government should not intrude on our private and personal decisions.

Because rape is illegal, many rapists are forced to perform their rapes in back-alleys.  Wouldn’t it be better if we set up rape clinics where a man could pay for rape-on-demand?  Rape is going to happen anyways, so we should do our best to make sure that it happens in a clean and safe environment.  An environment where the rapist is free from harassment of anti-choicers who would force men to control their sexual urges.  Rape sometimes results in pregnancy or sexually-transmitted-disease, which could be eliminated if these rape clinics require rapists to use protection.

Conservatives who would force their morality on everybody have had their way with the issue of rape long enough.  It’s not the rapists who are the criminals, but those who rape our freedom.  Against rape? Don’t do it.

His body, his choice.

Hitler and Abortion: Bedfellows?

When I was a kid, I loved connect-a-dots.  You know, the pictures that weren’t really pictures until you drew a line from dot 1 to dot 2, from dot 2 to dot 3, and so on?  A documentary called “Maafa 21: Black Genocide in the 21st Century” paints a compelling connect-a-dot picture of Adolf Hitler in league with Black Genocide in America.  What Hitler was doing in 1930′s Germany toward Jews, whites in America were doing toward African-Americans.  There is even evidence that Hitler got some of his racist ideas from American racists.  The only difference?  Hitler was nowhere near as successful.  ”Maafa 21: Black Genocide in the 21st Century” makes this clear.  Here are some excerpts:

“Since 1973, legal abortion has killed more African-Americans than AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and violent crime combined. Every week, more blacks die in American abortion clinics than were killed in the entire Vietnam War.” -Clip 6 of 15 of “Maafa 21: Black Genocide in the 21st Century”

“In 1974, a study was released on population control that had been conducted by researchers at three major universities.  By analyzing data obtained from Planned Parenthood’s own records, they determined that the number one factor in deciding whether a county in the United States provided free or low cost family planning services was not poverty, but race.  The researchers said their findings seemed to support the contention of many civil rights activists that such programs are less intended to assist the poor than they are to control the growth of the black population.” -Clip 7 of 15

“Birth control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.” -Frederick Osborn, founding member of the American Eugenics Society, 1973 (Clip 7 of 15)

“The best way to hate a nigger is to hate him before he’s born.” -Leander Perez, Louisiana State Judge, 1970 (Clip 7 of 15)

“The civil rights elite has forgotten the lives of unborn black children and has joined those who choose to kill them. Unbelievable! They have forgotten that in the past racists snatched black babies from their mothers’ arms and sold them into slavery. Today, they snatch them from their mother’s womb and throw them in the garbage.” -Ismael Hernandez, Executive Director, African and Caribbean American Center, 2003 (from Clip 9 of 15)

-“The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” -Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, 1939 (Clip 9 of 15)

“A majority of people in Colorado voted for abortion, I think a majority of people in Michigan are for abortion, I think in both cases, well, certainly in Michigan they will vote for it because they think that what’s going to be aborted generally are the little black bastards… as I told you- we talked about it earlier- that a hell of a lot of people want to control the Negro bastards.” -President Nixon, White House Tape, April 3, 1972 (Clip 9 of 15)

“Planned Parenthood is the third largest health fund-raising agency in the United States, after the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society.” In 1970, they were 19th. “Basically what’s happened over the last 40 years or so is that Planned Parenthood has taken billions in government money while locating the vast majority of its facilities in minority neighborhoods.  And that has not only been a tremendous boost for the eugenics movement, but it has also allowed government funded family planning programs to target the black population while insulating the government from any direct connection to black genocide.” (Clip 10 of 15)

“If you’re going to curb population, it’s extremely important not to have it done by the damned Yankees, but by the UN. Because, the thing is, then it’s not considered genocide. If the United States goes to the black man or the yellow man and says slow down your reproductive rate, we’re immediately suspected of having ulterior motives to keep the white man dominant in the world. If you can send in a colorful UN force, you’ve got much better leverage.” -Alan Guttmacher, President of Planned Parenthood and former Vice-President of the American Eugenics Society, 1970 (Clip 11 of 15)

Watch the whole thing here.
The first video is clip 1 of 15.