Posted on 11/23/2010 9:07:14 AM PST by CharlieOK1
The Minneapolis couple behind the website birthornot.com have been revealed as internet fraudsters.
Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30, set up a website claiming they were torn about aborting or keeping their healthy baby boy and asked the public to vote online and help them decide.
But the alternative weekly City Pages revealed Pete is a pro-life activist who posts his beliefs on the internet under the alias Zeeboid.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“But the alternative weekly City Pages...”
If it is like the other “alternative weeklies” Village Voice Media publishes, much of the advertising comes from strip joints and “escort” services.
http://www.citypages.com/about/index/
Like when a caller spoke with Planned Parenthood staff and asked if they could target their money to a minority neighborhood but weren't really ever going to donate a cent?
Or when a couple dressed up as a pimp and sex worker visited ACORN offices and made an appeal for help in setting up a whorehouse for illegal immigrant minors to work out of?
Nah, I’m not in objection to your plan in the least. If anything, I believe the illegal immigrants are callous to our rule of law.
Those who voted for death are outraged! Their vote has been suppressed and they have been disenfranchised!
They want that baby dead just as they wanted Sarah Pablin's baby and grandchild dead.
I’m not a proponent of that sort of shock campaign. Also, being a male, I don’t believe I have a say in a woman’s goings on. I’ll put forth my beliefs, but that’s all I can do. I don’t believe in restraining someone in that case.
They didn’t defraud me. Besides, I said in my initial post that I couldn’t care less if fraud was perpetrated. I was just commenting on the insensitive nature of their fraud.
Gee, a pro-abort objecting to pictures that depict the atrocities of abortion, why am I not surprised.
HUH?! Where on Earth did you get that I was pro-abortion? May I point you to my other posts in this very same thread? I think you will find your statement completely unwarranted.
OK, how about protesting in front of an abortion clinic, inferring that the women who enter and use the services are killing their babies?
Is that callous?
I’m not sure if that’s the inference I would make, but I have no problem with them standing outside and doing so. I always honk at the folks in my area who do exactly that. If they can get one young woman to change her mind, I believe they’ve done God’s work.
Wouldn't that also be true of the website in question?
The website from which the story was reported or the website with the poll asking if they should have an abortion?
The website (LifeNews) is always doing God’s work, but these two hucksters weren’t doing God’s work; they were spitting in the face of people with a big abortion loogie.
I thought this was a genius stunt to get people to consider abortion for what it is...terminating a child.
Brilliant
I tend to agree with you.
How?
They brought attention to the abortion debate, in much the same way protestors outside an abortion clinic do.
They made people think about the abortion question on a personal level, just as those who carry posters of aborted babies do.
They made it very ‘in your face’ just as the moving billboards do.
They allowed everyone to ‘go on the record’ just protestors who argue with the pro-life crowd do.
And, if this was a hoax, they brought more attention to the abortion question than any protest, billboard, or even an arrest outside a clinic has doen for a long time.
And they did this all without even endangering the life of one baby.
So, specifically, what is it that they did that was so offensive to saving babies lives?
Umm... my apologies if I’m misunderstanding something, but doesn’t the article state, specifically, that it was a hoax? Even by virtue of your response, you’re stating “And they did this all without even endangering the life of one baby;” so then you understand that this was a hoax, right?
The problem with petty back and forth in these exchanges is that the original article/statement is forgotten. The actions of this couple, defrauding, by definition meaning “deceitful pretenses,” an entire audience of web users and even having their poll hijacked, in a sense, by leftists; the intent to even entertain the idea of aborting a child by means of a simple majority vote is disgusting and deserving of reproach.
If you mean the protesters outside of an abortion clinic; I didn’t mean to imply that I was offended by them. I even honk at them and wave in approval. God bless them for standing out on a street corner and diligently trying to save lives. Like I said, if they can change the mind of even one young woman seeking an abortion, I believe they’ve done God’s work.
Did I explain myself clearly enough there? I’m still a little fuzzy on your context, so if you need more clarification, please let me know.
Does that 'hoaxing' and 'deceitful pretenses' condemnation also extend to the young lady, and others, who enter abortion clinics and decive the workers there?
I'm referencing those who claim to be pregnant, underage, sometimes 'hoaxing' the employees there to believe that they are underage, and pregnant by someone who would, if the 'hoax' were not a hoax, would be guilty of statutory rape.
Should our outrage extend to those people also?
I think we have strayed quite a ways from my original post. I am not sure what you are getting at. Your scenario seems highly unlikely. Why would a young woman hoax an abortion clinic worker into thinking that she is underage? In many states, underage girls are required to have parental approval for an abortion, or, at the least, have the parents informed.
If the underage woman hoaxes her parents by not informing them and then proceeds to hoax the abortion clinic worker into thinking she is at least 18, then I would be more than willing to lump shame on her for her deceit.
Otherwise, I find your scenario hard to believe. Why would someone who is of age lie about being underage to an abortion clinic worker? What benefit does that confer? Either way, shame on both the young woman for dismissing life and shame on the worker for not checking her identification, at the least.
Is this entire discussion based around the word hoax?
You obviously are very uninformed.
This brilliant 'hoax' has been going on for a couple of years, at various clincs across the country, and I'm sure has been reported on extensivly at Life News. WorldNetDaily has reported on it many times.
It has caused stated Attorneys General to investigate PP organizations for their active involvement in covering up criminal activity.
The young lady is very calloused in her approach, almost as calloused as the people of the website we are talking about.
I'm surprised you haven't been protesting her actions.
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