Thanks for giving the lie to the “master of my own fate” myth.

I ran across a poem last night that says the same thing another way. It goes like this:

Once on a time a paper kite
Was mounted to a wondrous height,
Where, giddy with its elevation,
It thus expressed self-admiration:
”See how yon crowds of gazing people
Admire my flight above the steeple;
How they would wonder if they knew
All that a kite like me can do?

Were I but free, I’d take a flight,
And pierce the clouds beyond their sight.
“But, ah! Like a poor pris’ner bound,
My string confines me near the ground:
I’d brave the eagle’s tow’ring wing,
Might I but fly without a string.”
It tugged and pulled, while thus it spoke
To break the string; at last it broke.

Deprived at once of all its stay,
In vain it tried to soar away;
Unable its own weight to bear,
It fluttered downward through the air;
Unable its own course to guide,
The winds soon plunged it in the tide.
Ah! foolish kite; thou hadst no wing;
How couldst thou fly without a string?

My heart replied, “O Lord, I see
how much this kite resembles me!

Forgetful that by thee I stand,
Impatient of thy ruling hand;
“How oft I’ve wished to break the lines
Thy wisdom for my lot assigns?
How oft indulged a vain desire
For something more or something higher.
And but for grace or love divine,
A fall thus dreadful had been mine.”

The title of the poem is “The Kite, or the Fall of Pride” and it was written by that notorious brutal trafficker in human flesh known as slavery, John Newton. He wrote lots of other poems, the best known of which is the hymn, “Amazing Grace”.

How can it be that 4,000 innocent babies are destroyed every day, under cover of law and in the name of “choice”, in this “land of the free and home of the brave.”

Let us continue to work and to pray to end the horror.

As I write this, I can smell the smoke of the brush/forest fires currently devastating the state of Florida. I’m told that the main cause of these fires is the severe draught that state is experiencing. It is so severe that you cannot even park your car on the grass for more than a minute here, due to the likelihood that the grass will spontaneously combust, the fire will reach the gas tank of the vehicle very quickly, and the car will blow up.

I cannot help recalling another execution of the innocent in Florida not too long ago, in addition to the thousands of innocent little boys and girls killed there by “safe, legal” induced abortion; an innocent, brain damaged woman, in a condition similar to Christi Stiles, was brutally starved to death while most Floridians either did nothing at all or, worse, cheered the killers on. The Pinellas Park Police were the worst: in shifts, they took turns standing within 100 feet of this murder in progress for the express purpose of arresting anyone who tried to intervene on Terri’s behalf; a couple of them even colluded several days after her death to arrest a woman who had the temerity to call a spade a spade. After about 12 days, Terri Schiavo succumbed to the unjust, premature and tortuous death her husband and his fellow pro-death/ scientologist cronies in higher places desired for her AND FOR MANY OTHERS WHO DO NOT FIT THEIR DEFINITION OF “LIFE WORTHY OF LIFE”. I distinctly recall someone asking me whether or not I thought God would judge the state of Florida for the bloodbath unleashed upon the handicapped, elderly, and unable to plead for themselves through Terri’s murder. I remember saying that He certainly had been given provocation to do so and that, while I certainly could not speak for Him, a draught would seem the most poetic justice for that outrage. So it seems that, as Florida dehydrated Terri, God is dehydrating Florida. Now, let’s see, does that make Floridians the masters of their own fates?

Feldt, Allred, Michaelman, et al care no more for women than do the “wham, bam thank you ma’am” self-centered, irresponsible, predatory males who impregnate women and then coerce into abortion mills, or the “wham, bam thank you ma’am” self-centered, predatory, irresponsible abortionists who kill the children and send so many of their mothers to early graves. Another point of “pro-choice” hypocrisy: We have actually heard fathers of children about to be tortured to death in abortion chambers state that they cannot tell a woman what to do with her own body, but we seriously doubt whether any of these guys had that difficulty just before the child scheduled for execution was conceived. The only reason any anti-lifer objects to a pro-lifer pleading with a woman not to kill the body of the child she is carrying is that they want to reserve that prerogative for themselves, and that to serve their own selfish ends, not for the woman’s welfare or best interests any more than those of the child.

We’ve heard former abortion mill workers state that they really thought that they were helping women while they were working in the killing cartel and they may have really thought this, or they may have just told themselves that to salve uneasy consciences.

But the reality is that legalized abortion was never about a “woman’s right to choose”; it was, and still is, about the state arrogating to itself to decide, in collusion with the medical profession, who lives and who dies, based on a demonstrably phony “quality of life” search and destroy mission. Anyone remember Auschwitz? It was conceived and maintained by the exact same ideology & agenda. The main players in Terri Schiavo’s death did not give a rip about her quality of life, or else she would have been given the social contact and other therapy denied her for the 15 years preceding her death. Likewise, the proabortion “quality of life” argument is a lie; we cannot know how the quality of life for many may be enhanced if we stop that killing until we do; we do know, however, several things: everyone who ever made a major life-improving discovery, from electricity to indoor plumbing (yes, prolifers know all about that, contrary to the media stereotypes of us!) to sliced bread, started out as an unborn child; none of these discoveries was made while the genius was still in the womb and lastly, killing people never improves their quality of life. You’d think that would be obvious; but the geniuses who came up with the “life unworthy of life” idea really sold all humanity down south with that quality vs. sanctity of life mess of pottage. The reality is better represented by a tree, of which sanctity of life is the root and quality of life is the fruit. Just ask any honest Auschwitz survivor…or, for that matter, any honest, thinking human being.