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Breaking News: Pro-Life Advocate Murdered in Michigan
Catholic Online ^ | 9/11/09 | Deacon Keith Fournier

Posted on 09/11/2009 8:14:05 AM PDT by tcg

Of course, the fact that this murder of a pro-Life defender occurred on September 11, the anniversary of one of the greatest acts of violence perpetrated against the United States, only magnifies the profound evil of taking innocent human lives. It also reminds us all that a cycle of violence has been unleashed in our age.

In 1994, at a National Prayer Breakfast, in the presence of then President Clinton, that little sign of contradiction and prophetic voice, God rest her soul, Mother Teresa, hit the nail on the head. Speaking at a podium where her small stature could barely be seen over she spoke these words:

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion?"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: abortion; activism; catholic; michigan; moralabsolutes; murder; owosso; pouillon; prolife
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To: tcg

What was he doing in front of a school holding a sign?


21 posted on 09/11/2009 8:36:50 AM PDT by Fawn (Rush Limbaugh---> America's pinata)
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To: Marty62

I was just reading about this - this was a dialectic used by the nazis to co-ordinate (consolidate) power. Have the brown shirts and storm troopers create disturbances at target events, then have officials from above proscribe the events or associations in the name of public order.


22 posted on 09/11/2009 8:37:40 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: tcg
It's not enough they have to murder the unborn, now there targeting everyone else.

I can here the left commentary on this now. That is, if it's even broadcast at all, by the lame stream media.

23 posted on 09/11/2009 8:39:26 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Verginius Rufus
I don't suppose the Pro-choice people are rushing out to condemn the killing, either.
24 posted on 09/11/2009 8:39:46 AM PDT by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: tcg

Our prayers for James Pullion, his family, and all of the children he prayed for, and tried to save.


25 posted on 09/11/2009 8:40:21 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Fawn
What was he doing in front of a school holding a sign?

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My guess is that he was both following his conscience and exercising his right to free speech.

26 posted on 09/11/2009 8:41:13 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: tcg; wagglebee

Waiting for this to be classified as a hate crime.


27 posted on 09/11/2009 8:41:41 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: All

Crickets..................I only hear crickets.


28 posted on 09/11/2009 8:43:02 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Verginius Rufus

How close is this to where the bomb threats and evacuations are going on in Mich.?

http://www.freep.com/article/20090911/NEWS01/90911028/1320/Detroit-students-evacuated-after-bomb-threat


29 posted on 09/11/2009 8:43:54 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I wonder if the media will be as outraged over this killing as the “hero” partial birth abortion doc (can’t remember the scumbag’s name)


30 posted on 09/11/2009 8:49:33 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: Gene Eric

Can’t even bet on that. Our elites don’t want to hear any of this stuff. not even the “conservatives” who live in the Beltway.


31 posted on 09/11/2009 8:50:54 AM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE HOMO!)
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To: penelopesire

Owosso is near Lansing and the bomb threat is Detroit area so its 70 or 80 miles.


32 posted on 09/11/2009 8:52:58 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: RobbyS

Didn’t ya know, Outrage is explicity held in check until you do something...”THEY” don;t agree with .....

Thats why we are all eventually headed to a an Obama re-education camp.


33 posted on 09/11/2009 8:54:04 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Joe Wilson was speaking truth to power in the Peoples House. I am Joe !)
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To: tcg

A man was shot dead at a gravel pit in Owosso. It is believed the shooter stole the deceased man’s car and drove to Owosso High School where he then shot and killed Jim Pouillon, a pro-life activist. The Flint Area Right to Life says Pouillon was a quiet man who prayed often in front of schools and local organizations.

“We have two murders,” Shiawassee County Sheriff George Braidwood said, according to the Shiawassee County Argus Press newspaper. “We believe they are related and we have a suspect in custody.”


34 posted on 09/11/2009 8:54:06 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: tcg

Not an abortion provider....nothing to see here....move along.


35 posted on 09/11/2009 8:56:01 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I’m guessing there will NO statement from obama on this at any time.


36 posted on 09/11/2009 8:56:13 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (O-B-A-M-A = One Big Ass Mistake, America.)
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To: Rutles4Ever

Uh Huh.


37 posted on 09/11/2009 8:56:58 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (O-B-A-M-A = One Big Ass Mistake, America.)
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To: rockinqsranch

Amen!


38 posted on 09/11/2009 8:58:17 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (O-B-A-M-A = One Big Ass Mistake, America.)
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To: tcg

OWOSSO, Michigan — An anti-abortion activist gunned down Friday morning in front of Owosso High School has been identified as James Lawrence Pouillon, 63, of Owosso.

Pouillon was a longtime abortion protester, known for his highly vocal and visible public demonstrations around the community and even outside the state.

Longtime friend and fellow activist Judy Climer, president of Flint Right to Life, described Pouillon as “just a nice, elderly gentleman who was disabled, used an oxygen tank and wore leg braces.”

“I knew him very well. He told me one time God put in his heart a passion for the little babies that have the right to be born and they were being denied that right,” said Climer, who said Pouillon often stopped at her office for coffee breaks as he drove from one location to another to demonstrate.

“He even told me once he’d be willing to die for that belief. That’s what I hear him saying right now.”

Climer said Pouillon called her last week and told her he planned to be in Flint later today, parked across the street from the Feminine Health Care Center, 2032 S. Saginaw Street.

“He always comes. He would even go up to Saginaw at 7:30 a.m. and pray, then come here to Flint at noon,” said Climer. “This was a passion he’s had for 20 years, to just pray that abortion would come to an end and that women would see the truth that abortion is murder.”

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/09/owosso_antiabortion_activists.html


39 posted on 09/11/2009 9:01:34 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: tcg
This story, according to Google, is now reported on MSNBC.com, AP, and FoxNews, in addition to local press and Pro-Life media. Truly, a day to be weeping ... for many things that were, and are no more, and things that should be, but are not.
40 posted on 09/11/2009 9:05:45 AM PDT by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word ...)
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