On Thu, May 12, 2022, 1:04 AM Stephen D. Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Women are free citizens or they are slaves. Roe said they were citizens. > Now they will be slaves again. > > A clump of cells is not a person, let alone a citizen. Even a mostly > formed baby is not a person or citizen. There is no memory, no cognition. > That it will become a baby is not much different than observing that sperm > & eggs can become a human. Now, we could create a human out of a stem > cell, from the skin perhaps. Are those cells humans? Citizens with > rights? Doesn't make any sense. > > sdw > It used to be that feeding trolls could give you spam. Nowadays feeding trolls can give you life destroying political manipulation. Be careful ! But thanks for adding a more rational viewpoint. > On 5/11/22 9:49 PM, grarpamp wrote: > > When The Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope From Abortions To Executions > https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/when_the_government_plays_god_the_slippery_slope_from_abortions_to_executionshttps://doi.org/10.1108/01443339910788712http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html > > “Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State > simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, > and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State > protects the ‘right’ of some people to kill others, just as the courts > protected the ‘property rights’ of slave masters in their slaves.” > > - Ron Paul > > The government wants to play god. > > It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are > worthy of protection. > > Delve beneath the rhetoric and spin that have turned abortion into a > politicized, polarized and propagandized frontline in the culture > wars, and you will find a greater menace at work. > > Abortion may be front and center in the power struggle between the > Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or > the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, > sexual freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in > one’s body, but there’s so much more going on here. > > The Left would suggest that unborn babies do not have constitutional > rights and the only right that matters is a woman’s right to privacy > in choosing whether or not to abort a pregnancy. The Right, while > fixated on saving the lives of unborn babies, seems less concerned > about what happens to those lives from birth to death. > > What few seem willing to address is that in the 30 years since the > U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, the > government has come to believe that it not only has the power to > determine who is deserving of constitutional rights in the eyes of the > law but it also has the authority to deny those rights to an American > citizen. > > This is how the abortion debate—a politicized tug-of-war over when an > unborn child is considered a human being with rights—plays into the > police state’s hands by laying the groundwork for discussions about > who else may or may not be deserving of rights. > > Even if (as a leaked draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson > Women’s Health Organization suggests) the Supreme Court overturns its > earlier rulings recognizing abortion as a constitutional right under > the Fourteenth Amendment, that will not resolve the larger problem > that plagues us today: namely, that all along the spectrum of > life—from the unborn child to the aged—the government continues to > play fast and loose with the lives of the citizenry. > > Take a good, hard look at the many ways in which Americans are being > denied their rights under the Constitution. > > American families who have their dogs shot, their homes trashed > and their children terrorized or, worse, killed by errant SWAT team > raids in the middle of the night are being denied their rights under > the Constitution. > > Disabled individuals who are being strip searched, handcuffed, > arrested and “diagnosed” by police as dangerous or mentally unstable > merely because they stutter and walk unevenly are being denied their > rights under the Constitution. > > School-aged children as young as 4-years-old who are leg shackled, > handcuffed and strip searched for violating school zero tolerance > policies by chewing a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun and playing an > imaginary game of cops and robbers, or engaging in childish behavior > such as crying or jumping are being denied their rights under the > Constitution. > > Unarmed citizens who are tasered or shot by police for daring to > hesitate, stutter, move a muscle, flee or disagree in any way with a > police order are being denied their rights under the Constitution. > > Likewise, Americans—young and old alike—who are shot by police > because they pointed a garden hose at a police officer, reached for > their registration in their glove box, relied upon a cane to steady > themselves, or were seen playing with air rifles or BB guns are being > denied their rights under the Constitution. > > Female motorists who are unlucky enough to be pulled over for a > questionable traffic infraction only to be subjected by police to > cavity searches by the side of the road are being denied their rights > under the Constitution. > > Male pedestrians and motorists alike who are being subjected to > roadside strip searches and rectal probes by police based largely on > the color of their skin are being denied their rights under the > Constitution. > > American citizens subjected to government surveillance whereby > their phone calls are being listened in on, their mail and text > messages read, their movements tracked and their transactions > monitored are being denied their rights under the Constitution. > > Homeowners who are being fined and arrested for raising chickens > in their backyard, allowing the grass in their front yards to grow too > long, and holding Bible studies in their homes are being denied their > rights under the Constitution. > > Decorated military veterans who are being arrested for criticizing > the government on social media such as Facebook are being denied their > rights under the Constitution. > > Homeless individuals who are being harassed, arrested and run out > of towns by laws that criminalize homelessness are being denied their > rights under the Constitution. > > Individuals whose DNA has been forcibly collected and entered into > federal and state law enforcement databases whether or not they have > been convicted of any crime are being denied their rights under the > Constitution. > > Drivers whose license plates are being scanned, uploaded to a > police database and used to map their movements, whether or not they > are suspected of any crime, are being denied their rights under the > Constitution. The same goes for drivers who are being ticketed for > running afoul of red light cameras without any real opportunity to > defend themselves against such a charge are being denied their rights > under the Constitution. > > Protesters and activists who are being labeled domestic terrorists > and extremists and accused of hate crimes for speaking freely are > being denied their rights under the Constitution. Likewise, American > citizens who being targeted for assassination by drone strikes abroad > without having been charged, tried and convicted of treason are being > denied their rights under the Constitution. > > Hard-working Americans whose bank accounts, homes, cars > electronics and cash are seized by police (operating according to > asset forfeiture schemes that provide profit incentives for highway > robbery) are being denied their rights under the Constitution. > > So, what is the common denominator here? > > These are all American citizens—endowed by their Creator with certain > unalienable rights, rights that no person or government can take away > from them, among these the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of > happiness—and they are all being oppressed in one way or another by a > government that has grown drunk on power, money and its own authority. > > If the government—be it the President, Congress, the courts or any > federal, state or local agent or agency—can decide that any person has > no rights, then that person becomes less than a citizen, less than > human, less than deserving of respect, dignity, civility and bodily > integrity. He or she becomes an “it,” a faceless number that can be > tallied and tracked, a quantifiable mass of cells that can be > discarded without conscience, an expendable cost that can be written > off without a second thought, or an animal that can be bought, sold, > branded, chained, caged, bred, neutered and euthanized at will. > > It’s a slippery slope that justifies all manner of violations in the > name of national security, the interest of the state and the so-called > greater good. > > Yet those who founded this country believed that what we conceive of > as our rights were given to us by God—we are created equal, according > to the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence—and > that government cannot create, nor can it extinguish our God-given > rights. To do so would be to anoint the government with god-like > powers and elevate it above the citizenry. > > Unfortunately, we have been dancing with this particular devil for > quite some time now. > > If we continue to wait for the government to restore our freedoms, > respect our rights, rein in its abuses and restrain its agents from > riding roughshod over our lives, our liberty and our happiness, then > we will be waiting forever. > > Already, the politicos are beating the war drums to herald the next > phase of the abortion wars. > > President Biden wants voters to elect more pro-abortion rights > officials to ensure that “a woman’s right to choose is fundamental.” > The Senate plans to vote to codify the right to an abortion into > federal law. Chief Justice John G. Roberts is opening an investigation > into how the Supreme Court’s draft abortion ruling was leaked. And > polling indicates that the majority of the American people want > abortion to remain legal. > > Like clockwork, we find ourselves smack dab in the middle of yet > another political circus that could get scary, ugly and overwhelming > really fast. > > Before you get too distracted by this conveniently timed diversion > that has everyone forgetting about spiking gas prices, inflation, > housing shortages, and warring empires, remind yourself that no matter > how the Supreme Court rules in Dobbs, it will not resolve the problem > of a culture that values life based on a sliding scale. Nor will it > help us navigate the moral, ethical and scientific minefields that > await us as technology and humanity move ever closer to a point of > singularity. > > Humanity is being propelled at warp speed into a whole new frontier > when it comes to privacy, bodily autonomy, and what it means to be a > human being. As such, we haven’t even begun to wrap our heads around > how present-day legal debates over bodily autonomy, privacy, vaccine > mandates, the death penalty, and abortion play into future discussions > about singularity, artificial intelligence, cloning, and the privacy > rights of the individual in the face of increasingly invasive, > intrusive and unavoidable government technologies. > > Yet here is what I know. > > Life is an inalienable right. > > By allowing the government to decide who or what is deserving of > rights, it shifts the entire discussion from one in which we are > “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” (that of > life, liberty property and the pursuit of happiness) to one in which > only those favored by the government get to enjoy such rights. > > If all people are created equal, then all lives should be equally > worthy of protection. > > There’s an idea embraced by both the Right and the Left according to > their biases that there is a hierarchy to life, with some lives > worthier of protection than others, but there is no hierarchy of > freedoms. > > All freedoms hang together. > > As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the > American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair > Diaries, we must never stop working to protect life, preserve our > freedoms and maintain some semblance of our humanity. > > Freedom cannot be a piece-meal venture. > > -- > > *Stephen D. Williams* > Founder: VolksDroid, Blue Scholar Foundation > 650-450-8649 | fax:703-995-0407 | [email protected] <[email protected]> | > https://VolksDroid.org | https://BlueScholar.org | https://sdw.st/in >
