Raleigh PD declines to charge driver who allegedly tried to run over pro-lifers

According to tweets from pro-lifer Stephen Horn, the Raleigh Police Department is declining to charge the driver of a Ford truck who drove off the road toward pro-life activists who were volunteering as sidewalk counselors outside an abortion business last month. Horn is a relative and fellow church member of the alleged victims.

The group of pro-lifers had gathered outside A Preferred Women’s Health Center abortion facility. A Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center, operating as Your Choice Pregnancy Clinic, is adjacent to the abortion facility. The pro-lifers were in front of the abortion facility when the Ford Escape veered towards them.

“One anti-abortion protestor who was standing at the near corner of the road and the clinic’s driveway jumped out of the way to avoid being hit,” wrote Horn.

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In a follow-up tweet he explained, “The driver swerved far enough off the road to bottom out on the edge of the pavement, leaving visible scrape marks. The sound was loud enough that the clinic security came out to make sure everything was okay.”

According to the Raleigh PD, “The incident was investigated and there were no charges filed.”

Witnesses, however, told Horn, “It’s unclear what the investigation involved. We provided the tag number in the initial call to the police and the officer on scene never asked for that, or the make and model of the vehicle (which we had). Despite physical evidence on the scene (tire marks and scrapes on the pavement), several eyewitnesses, and the clear danger presented to several people — including several young children — when the vehicle lost control before swerving back on the road, there seemed to be little interest from Raleigh police to even question the driver. Since they had his tag number, that would be a real possibility.”

Attacks against pro-lifers have been rising in recent months since the Supreme Court draft decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked in early May. Pro-life organizations and churches have been firebombed, graffitied, and set on fire across the nation with one specific group, Jane’s Revenge, taking credit for most of the attacks. The Biden Administration has refused to condemn the violence and major media outlets are mostly failing to report it.

So many law abiding, “salt of the earth” type people are used to a friendly cozy relationship with police, and view them as the “good guys.” This has been the perceived situation for some time, so that “back the blue” and respect for the police, viewing them as good and integral parts of societal order is .... or has been... the norm.

However, when moral rot sets in, the rot affects every institution. Why should you consider it odd if that rot and corruption affects police? It does, you know. I know there are cops in here, many of whom are NOT on the cusp of the transformation to despotic little tyrants, and (worse) those who actively work to suppress our rights and become a kind of ruthless enforcer of little tin pot dictators.....,, but it is silly to pretend that this is not occurring in our culture. You see it in the anti gun pogroms and willingness (sadly sometimes the EAGERNESS) to trample our rights in the quest for “security.” It is worse in states where the left is in power, as the unchecked authority is bent towards goals which are blatantly evil. I see vids of Canadian pastors swatted on the highway, guilty of nothing more than the ghastly crime of publicly gathering to worship God outdoors during “Covid.” Now this... not is Canada, NYC, California, or Colorado... but here in Raleigh...

I heard ..... I think it was Beck...., who said the most important elections will NOT be for president, but for states’ attorney generals. They will decide who to prosecute, and who not to. The police WILL follow their leads. In NC, the police are part of a lawless order, increasingly committed to ideology over law.

If you just blindly wallow along, assuming “Protect and Serve” are operative phrases and that the cops are there to ENFORCE THE LAW, even (rather than to be keepers of the peace), you are going to find that the transition in your view of authority will be more painful than it need be.

For those of you who are more biblical in your views, there is a REASON why the world order of authority, political power, and judicial operation is referred to as a “beast.” (no, the silly insistence that this primarily refers to a “man of sin” or “antichrist” is nonsense).

The same bible which has Romans 13, also has the entire book of Revelation, which over and over portrays the entire world authority system as a beast, drunk on the blood of the saints, hostile to God, hateful to His people, and opposed to anything that challenges its claim to ultimate authority.

Although revolution *IS* in our vocabulary, the normal response to which we are called is: a) suffer injustice b) resist peacefully c) revolt peacefully d) flee and only at the end of this can we e) take up arms....., and even then not willy-nilly, but choosing to associate with a so called “lesser magistrate” in an attempt to replace corrupt power.

Just saying. It is worth considering that our relationship with the police has not changed......, and yet it has. Their perceived mission is going to reflect the general cultural ethos, and as that ethos becomes blind to intrinsic rights (and their source..... duh!), it is just going to be about enforcing power.

How are we to view this, and how are we going to teach our kids to view this? A mindless recitation of Romans 13, as though those were the only section of instruction we have, is not only surface and glib, but an actual IMPEDIMENT to thinking in a wholesome manner about authority, and figuring how we are to live in light of the current mess.

We are about to have a chance to rethink our fealty and extent of submission to the authorities in light of their (increasing) hostility to the Lordship of Christ. It is better to do it now, rather than try to figure it out when the boots are kicking in the door.

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