Posted on 12/26/2007 10:47:23 AM PST by wagglebee
Contact: Randall Terry, 904-461-0834
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Dec. 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Right now, three courageous pro-life heroes - Joan Andrews-Bell, her son Emiliano, and "Lifeboat Willy" – are serving a 5-day sentence in Manchester, New Hampshire for their part in a peaceful "sit-in" outside the office of GOP Presidential Candidate Rudy Giuliani. They refused to pay a $240 fine, and were jailed at the rate of $50 per day.
On the day before there arrest, eleven others (myself included) were arrested for the same activities. We are free, awaiting trial.
The purpose of these arrests is simple: draw attention to Rudy Giuliani and his hard-core support of child-killing by abortion. Rudy has done a masterful job hiding his pro-death, pro-homosexual marriage agenda, and has been selling himself as a "conservative Republican."
Our efforts have proven successful thus far; major newspapers have been carrying the unfolding story, and the web is abuzz with online news and blogs about our efforts and purposes. Our intention is for this to escalate through the New Hampshire and Florida primaries, culminating with Super Tuesday (Feb 5) on which we plan to celebrate the funeral of Rudy's deceptive campaign. May it rot on the ash heap of history.
Back to Joan, Emiliano, and Willy – yet sitting in jail.
They took this bold step to fulfill the role of "prophet" and "watchmen on the wall." By the 14 arrests over 2 days and their incarceration, a laser beam was focused on the evil of Rudy's positions. God bless them for their heroism.
But beyond the New Hampshire primary, and certainly beyond Rudy, those 3 souls sitting behind bars have pointed a second laser on something for more dangerous and damning – the silence of the clergy concerning evil men and women.
Throughout the Scriptures and Church history, God's prophets and Apostles have confronted kings and queens, princes and judges, by name. God's heralds have publicly rebuked and censored errant political leaders for personal scandalous sins, as well as condemned wicked policies denying justice to the oppressed both prior to and after the birth of the Church.
John the Baptist rebuked Herod by name; Jeremiah prophesied by name to kings Jehoiakim and Zedekiah; King Ahab and Queen Jezebel were rebuked by name--boldly and publicly--by Elijah. The Biblical examples go on and on.
Most clergy and leaders of ministries in America have refused to say one public word against Rudy – or any baby-killing candidate for that matter. Like the contemptible Priest and Levite in "The Good Samaritan" they have passed by on the other side while Rudy, Hillary, Obama, and a host of other villains have lurked in the shadows - accomplices to the murder of babies in the ditch of America's abortion mills.
Today's watchmen on the wall look the other way while the wicked prosper and the innocent perish at their hands.
Why do they refuse to cry out against this evil?
Perhaps the most damning excuse – the most self-incriminating fear - used to justify the deafening silence of bishops and protestant clergy during an election cycle or during battles over pending legislation is the fear of losing the Church's "tax-exempt status."
Words cannot express the revulsion we should all feel at this excuse. Who is Lord of the Church? Caesar or Christ? Who is Lord of the Gospel? Jesus or the IRS?
In honest assessment, the tax-exempt status can only be viewed as a glorified bribe--godless hush money--used to buy the Church's silence.
Bishops, priests, evangelical ministers and pastors, and ministry heads of every ilk have literally been told what they can and cannot say in their public ministry--for the sake of money!
Children are being slaughtered by the millions. It is undeniable that the Church and her leaders have a duty to decry this holocaust and to actively work to end child-killing.
Thus, we need the right lawmakers in office who will vote to make child-killing illegal again. Thus, we must expose and defeat those incumbents whose hands drip with the blood of the innocent, as well as new candidates who are eager to have their hands equally soiled.
Think of the great Saints throughout history who held kings and princes accountable for their darkest deeds and heresies. Why have the rules suddenly changed because we live under the heel of the IRS tax exempt status?
Any clergyman willing to take a muzzle from the government submits his ability to preach the Gospel of Life to the government.
It grieves me to say this – but it must be said: this 59-year-old woman, sitting in jail with her handicapped 18-year-old son and a 65-year-old man, have more courage and ethical clarity than the vast majority of clergy in America when it comes to holding the "accessories to murder" accountable for their bloodshed.
Joan's last statement – before being taken to jail was this: "Christians by the thousands should be sitting in at Rudy's offices nationwide; he is no different than Joseph Stalin when it comes to killing the innocent."
She is absolutely right. But let's face it – most clergy don’t have the vision to go to jail for righteousness right now. I would happily settle for them to simply say from their pulpits - and in every venue they can – that pro-choice candidates are child-killers, and that no Christian, in good conscience, may vote for them under any circumstance.
That won't get them martyred – like John the Baptist – nor incarcerated, like Joan and the Manchester 14 – but it would surely help bring this holocaust to a speedy end.
Words cannot express the revulsion we should all feel at this excuse. Who is Lord of the Church? Caesar or Christ? Who is Lord of the Gospel? Jesus or the IRS?
In honest assessment, the tax-exempt status can only be viewed as a glorified bribe--godless hush money--used to buy the Church's silence.
Very well said.
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God Bless these brave people for their courage and perseverance. They are the frontline prolifers.
I hope they bug Giuliani until he drops out.
I can’t help but question the timimg on this.
Giuliani’s going down, thankfully, in the all-powerful polls.
It seems his message is being heard, and rejected,by the base.
I hope this does not backfire.
TG for You-Tube. We don’t have to depend on MSM accounts of what happened here. We can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears the events outside Giuliani’s office.
The one who galls me the most is the young cop at the end who is arguing with the gray-haired woman (is that Joan?)
He sounds like a petty tyrant telling her she can’t exercise her Constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. Then he tries to throw a guilt trip on her by telling her she is harming the public by taking the cops off their regular beat.
Nasty little New Hampshire Nazis.
Someone in Giuliani’s office called out the cops on these peaceful demonstrators.
That horrible RINO adulterer Giuliani will never get my vote!
I disagree. It was Giuliani’s people who called in the cops on these peaceful prolifers. That makes Giuliani look like Mussolini Jr. Will NH Republicans vote for a petty tyrant who wants to squelch free speech?
He will lose any traction he had at all over this.
Why would a church lose its tax exempt status for saying, “Don’t vote for a candidate that favors abortion!” ? Why would it be illegal for the church to publish the position of candidates on this issue.
By the way, on Christmas Eve our family watched the movie about the great abolitionist William Wilberforce.
Rooty's toast.
Stupid maneuver even if he was set up. A word from Rooty would have seen the cops evaporate and made the RINO look good.
Thanks for posting wags.
A question for those who have stated Terry’s a crackpot, gives pro-life a bad name, is on a ego trip (from previous threads, yes, especially my friends)...
Is it the truth or not? I’ve heard every type of opinion on the person,, nothing on the truth.
It seems a lot of us have to choose our banners, there is no wiggle room. There is nothing without respect for life... period.
Now we can lambaste while sitting on our ample rears and maybe send a C note in, say ‘well I know someone or my wife does it’ or we can open our mouths and tell the truth. Sad to say, i’ve even witnessed an eugenic spirit (by ‘Christians’), when it comes to abortion and minorities. If anyone wants to create levels... we’ve become Darwin, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Sanger and the Buck case lawyers (as you know way back, we had forced sterilization in almost thirty states way before it really kicked in). Eugenics is a huge tree with many branches operating full speed this minute. There is a choice to be made.
Here in NYC we have yet another case of a teenager and the parents differing opinions re: pulling the plug (btw, same hospital 12 year old boys plug pulled pronto after dentist incident). Not only does this teenager mirror my daughter’s story in her early life, I know a lot on this medically and I know the doctor in question. It’s personal. I made an appointment to meet with him, maybe he’ll kick me out, who knows. The story doesn’t sound right in so many ways.
Go to the NY Daily News website and read the cover story.
I think that the message of Christmas reminds us that NONE OF US are perfect and we all have flaws. And I think in the end, the human spiritual experience boils down to one beggar showing another beggar where the bread is.
I don't know Randall Terry, but I do know that he has done a lot of good in the fight to protect life and until I am told of a reason to mistrust him, I will continue to applaud his work.
Eugenics is a huge tree with many branches operating full speed this minute. There is a choice to be made.
Eugenics is, in my opinion, the most dangerous tool that Satan has EVER developed. Nearly all widespread human conflict in the past century and a half has been related to some eugenics-based agenda, yet if you asked the average person about eugenics they wouldn't even know what it was about.
Here is an interesting editorial on eugenics:
I want you guys to read this. This is not the story for the cover in the right sidebar... It was two full pages with pics.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/index.html
Agree.
Buh-bye, Rooty!
Thanks for posting this.
8mm posted about it today in the Terri thread, it is definitely a story that needs to get out there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937601/posts?page=173#173
From what I've seen of the Rooty Rooters on FR (both banned and not banned), the vast majority of them aren't even nominally pro-life, in fact many of them are enthusiastically pro-death.
Therefore, Rudy has no negative impact from this action.
I don’t know.
Is Giuliani surging in NH?
If not, the timing may be bad. That is what I worry about.
If memory serves me correctly, Terry lost credibility over a personal issue.
I have spent time with him, and while I did not doubt his sincerity about the sanctity of life, he did seem to love the media attention.
I wouldn't say that. FReepers and people who are very committed to a candidate at this stage are more likely to be "die hard" types who tend to know a lot more about nearly every potential candidate than the average voter. Once the primaries get into full swing, people will start paying a lot more attention.
My first reaction when I saw this was: “Why aren’t these people demonstrating outside Hillary’s Campaign HQ?”. Or Obama’s or Edwards, for that matter. Clearly, it’s because they know that if they’re going to get any news coverage at all, you’ve got to bash a Republican candidate. That doesn’t make them wrong about Giuliani, but it does make them a bit selective in the target of their wrath. Then again, and you can call me cynical, this may just be another Huckster or Willard ploy.
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