Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Feeling Our Abortion

One month ago, two of my liberty-loving friends and I attempted to produce a weekly two-hour pro-life radio program. We call it, “Pro-Life Unity Radio”, and it airs in Ocala FL, on 104.3 FM, and on the Liberty Works Radio Network lwrn.net. We had a guest last weekend, Pastor Johnny Hunter from LEARN Inc., a group working to educate the African American community to the racial dimension of abortion. During our conversation, we concluded, “What good is affirmative action to an aborted black baby”? We then expanded the question to, “What good are liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, to a dead baby?

These are philosophical concepts that lose their relevance without life. Affirmative action was a brainstorm to correct a perceived imbalance of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. History has shown that a person’s freedom and their ability to move within the economy are interrelated. When these two rights are taken away, the person begins to loose his or her identity. Taken to its extreme, the person could loose life. We use liberty, and our pursuit of happiness, to protect life. This is probably easiest seen with abortion.

In an early term abortion, the killing team can attack the person within the womb. If this occurs at an early enough stage, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are ended, within the veil of an adult female person. No fight! Nary a word. No problem?

The fight, the cruelty, the problem, become more evident when the child is brought out of the womb in the procedure commonly known as partial birth abortion. Its official name is intact dilation and extraction. What is inferred in this official procedural name is the third step in this “procedure”, the “killing” of the partially born child.

Here is the gruesome description:

Usually, preliminary procedures are performed over a period of two to three days, to gradually dilate the cervix using laminaria tents (sticks of seaweed which absorb fluid and swell). Sometimes drugs such as synthetic pitocin are used to induce labor. Once the cervix is sufficiently dilated, the doctor uses an ultrasound and forceps to grasp the fetus' leg. The fetus is turned to a breech position, if necessary, and the doctor pulls one or both legs out of the birth canal, causing what is referred to by some people as the 'partial birth' of the fetus. The doctor subsequently extracts the rest of the fetus, usually without the aid of forceps, leaving only the head still inside the birth canal. An incision is made at the base of the skull, scissors are inserted into the incision and opened to widen the opening,[8] and then a suction catheter is inserted into the opening. The brain is suctioned out, which causes the skull to collapse and allows the fetus to pass more easily through the birth canal. The placenta is removed and the uterine wall is vacuum aspirated using a cannula.[9]

A healthy child in the womb may: float in amniotic fluid, suck its thumb, listen to its mom’s heart, be fed, and stretch. This is the economy of the womb. The womb allows a child to exercise its rights of free movement, within a boundry, that allow for growth. To change the cervix, and contract the uterus, at a premature stage in development is an attack on the economy of the womb. The child’s pursuit of happiness has been taken. To grab the child’s foot, and pull he or she through the birth canal is the attack on its freedom, its liberty. Having lost both protective rights, the child becomes a defenseless victim.

The cervix of our economy has been dilated. Our money is worthless. We have allowed private powerful bankers to expand our money supply, print fiat paper money, and throw economic realities to the wind. The government now controls most aspects of our economy, so they have started the pitocin drip of fear. They are contracting the uterus of our civilized society with war as a way of life, with the unnatural as natural, and with the demolition of skyscrapers and our economic security.

Lets prepare ourselves for the next dose of pitocin: explosions, contrived riots, marshal law. We will need a little more induction before we can be guided into our birth canal camps: something to justify disarming us. Who would grab the foot of a little one if he or she was packing a 357 revolver? Once they take our guns, and the rest of our Bill of Rights, we will be defenseless.

Feel them grabbing for your foot? They will drag us through our canal of freedom, to be prepped for the completion of this procedure, “post birth abortion”, our abortion.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Yeave Me A Yone!

My wife and I attended the Campaign For Liberty Forum, last Friday evening, as part of the CPAC Convention in Washington D.C. We listened to six great speakers, which included Congressman Ron Paul, Thomas Woods, and Judge Napolitano. The ballroom had to be stuffed with at least four hundred liberty-loving patriots. We cheered for over two hours as we were enlightened, and inspired, by statements like Judge Napolitano’s, “Lincoln was our nation’s worst president!”

One of the guest speakers enumerated some of our liberties: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the right to bear arms, etc. Then he condensed them into a broad but encompassing right: “The right to be left alone!” This is what the American, and for that matter foreign, freedom lovers really want: to be left alone.

Our empire, is not only entangled with 135 foreign countries, is destroying the economic future of our financial system, our families, and the dollar, but has its crosshairs set on our right to own a firearm, and a mandatory draft. Our foreign neighbors are hollering, our free market is hollering, and our families are hollering, “Leave us alone!”

When my youngest son, who is 21 years old, was three, he prophetically coined our battle cry. He has always been strong willed, and at three, he had not quite mastered the roll of the tongue, which is necessary for the “l” sound. That didn’t stop him from exercising his freedom of speech. Whenever he was corrected, and decided he had had enough, he would let loose an emphatic directive, “Yeave me a yone!” He didn’t need the “l”; we knew what he said.

Having lived through this almost primordial sound of command, I could not get Friday’s message out of my mind. The truth of government's intrusion into our lives, begs the question of credibility. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are they still recognized rights in the USA?

So today, as I drove through a suburban wooded park, I opened my window, and let it rip: “Yeave me a yone!” It felt great. Try it. The revolution has begun.

Friday, January 16, 2009

An Alternative?

For those Maryland liberty loving conservatives who wish the Republican Party would speak boldly against:
  • The Federal Reserve,
  • Our involvement in the Middle East,
  • Our irresponsible debt,
  • The never ending growth of government,
THIS MAY BE FOR YOU?

Michael Bertocchi announces a meeting of The Constitution Party of Maryland on Saturday, January 24, 2009, from 11 am to 1 pm at: Howard County Central Library,10375 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, Maryland 21044. Call 410-313-7850 (The library is 3 blocks from the Columbia Mall.)

Guest Speaker -- Brad Botwin from Help Save Maryland ( http://www.helpsavemaryland.com/ ). He'll talk about the effects of illegal immigration on Maryland citizens.

The Constitution Party of Maryland will also hold their elections for Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, & Treasurer. (You must be a registered voter with the Constitution Party to vote & hold office.) Please bring your voter registration card so we know you are a registered voter with the Constitution Party along with a photo ID such as your driver's license. You may change your political affiliation to the Constitution Party by going to http://www.elections.state.md.us/about/county_boards.html

Other topics to be discussed are:
• The upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on Thursday, February 26 through Saturday, February 28 Omni Shoreham Hotel
• The Spring National Committee meeting -- Thursday, June 11 through Saturday, June 13 Newark, New Jersey.
• Discussion and talk concerning Alain LaReau’s decision to run for Congress in the 3rd Congressional district.

contact:
Michael Bertocchi
Rockville, Maryland
Constitution Party of Maryland
301-814-2005