It’s from our friends at WorldNetDaily:
ELECTION 2008
Dem cops cuff, stuff Christian girls
Sidewalk chalk messages challenged Obama’s moral positions
Yeah, Operation Rescue is back!
But if you read the story, you’ll find nothing about the cops being Democrats (although Operation Rescue does hint that some kind of vast liberal conspiracy might have been behind the arrests, and darkly notes that the cops could have ”had orders” from somebody, possibly Obama, to arrest the Christian teens).
And, sadly, there’s nothing about the Christian girls getting stuffed. So, we can only assume that something got edited out of the story before it made it online.
But here’s a little more about the Christian teen martyrs who were brutalized by the pigs just for peacefully coloring with chock.
[25-year-old Courtney] Blythe was raised in an extended family of anti-abortion activists. After graduating from Montreat College outside Asheville, N.C., she returned to her hometown to work for Room at the Inn, a pro-life Catholic maternity home. She’s now an organizer with Survivors, a Christian group that mobilizes teenagers and young adults for confrontational street protests.
During the summers, Blythe helps run Survivors’ nine-day training camp in Rosemead, Calif., which she calls a “pro-life boot camp.” Budding activists, starting at age 14, are taken to beaches, commercial neighborhoods and abortion clinics for in-your-face encounters that often involve the same graphic photos on display in Denver.
Campers also receive a crash course on what the movement calls “pro-life apologetics.” “They train you in how to argue with anyone and prove them wrong,” says Ian Giacopuzzi, a shaggy-haired 17-year-old who participated in Monday’s demonstration. Giacopuzzi, who says his father was active in Operation Rescue, first attended the summer camp three years ago.
Ian’s 15-year-year-old sister Julia was one of the the two Christian girls who were cuffed and stuffed.
The protesters’ youthfulness, in particular, outraged Joan Lipkin, a theater director and pro-choice activist who is visiting Denver from St. Louis this week. “What these people are doing is street theater,” Lipkin told me. “But they’re also engaging in child abuse. There are minors here who are being brainwashed and manipulated in ways that are most disturbing.”
From an activism standpoint, though, using children can be very effective, if unsettling. Kids haven’t developed adult filters yet, so it’s easier to train them to goad passersby relentlessly. And goad they did. [...]
Blythe insists that provoking passersby is a critical strategy for the anti-abortion movement to succeed.
Because nothing makes a person change their mind about a sensitive issue such as abortion like being heckled by an obnoxiously self-righteous teen.
Oh, and here’s our runner-up best headling of the week (also from WorldNetDaily):
Once again, if you read the story you will find that you were a victim of the old “bait and switch,” in that the story is actually about a CA bill which would allow medical professionals to give large quanitities of pain killers to terminal patients to “induce a state of decreased or absent awareness (unconsciousness) in order to relieve the burden of otherwise intractable suffering.”
The wingnuts object to this bill because since the patient would be unconcious, he could eventually die of starvation if he wasn’t, you know, fed. And that would be immoral, since God intended people to suffer (otherwise He wouldn’t have given them intractable pain), and He doesn’t want terminal patients to die until He kills them.
And hey, if we allow doctors to drug terminally ill people to ease the suffering of their last days, then it’s inevitable that soon evil nurses and greedy heirs will be pressuring depressed people to kill themselves.
(WND didn’t come up with that idea themselves — they quote Republican Doug La Malfa of Yuba City: “They’re already feeling vulnerable, and now, confronted with ways to end your life – this is a very delicate and, I think, dangerous idea here. You could have people like heirs that are anxious to get the estate started and quietly coercing people into making decisions like this.”)
Now, please enjoy the opening of this fine WND story:
Just as Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama was in Denver preaching to a crowd of thousands of fans about the “change” he wants to see in the United States, his party compatriots in the California Legislature were making a “change,” by approving a controversial plan that would allow nurses to assist terminally ill patients with suicide.
I like how the writer managed to bring Obama into the story while basically accusing the Democratic party of endorsing murder. It’s techniques like that which give WND its extra wingnutty flavor and its own special deranged charm.
Wait, you mean these people who went to Denver with the express intention of getting arrested… got arrested? I wonder if they were doing anything, you know, illegal, so that they could get arrested, which, again, was their entire goal. And then these cops come along and *arrest* them, while they’re minding their own business, which again is trying to be arrested. Good Lord, how unfair.
Incidentally, tiny brainwashed children, just because you can out argue someone, you have not necessarily “proved them wrong”. You may merely be more practiced at arguing, and you may indeed be saying very silly things to which your unwilling debate partner has no response simply because she can’t believe how genuinely stupid you are. It’s not uncommon for people to be unable to come up with a witty response to someone who’s just said “Blar, har har, yeargh! Jelly jelly antelope!” But stunned, bemused, confused silence doesn’t mean you proved that pesky theory of gravity wrong.
Left by D. Sidhe on August 30th, 2008