Operation Rescue posts the video that YouTube does not want the public to see
Wichita, KS – A video exposing Sen. Barack Obama’s extremist support for abortion that was produced by a Kansas pro-life group as been blocked by YouTube.com yesterday.
The Kansas Coalition for Life, which partners with Operation Rescue on a number of pro-life projects, produced a video titled “Obama: WRONG Change for Children,” which included information about Obama’s voting record on abortion-related bills.
YouTube sent the group a generic message indicating that the video was being blocked because it did not meet a “Community Guideline.”
“The video is in no way distasteful, pornographic or outside of the ordinary,” said KCFL Director Mark Gietzen. “It does however make a strong point, and we feel that it was pulled ONLY because it makes a simple, clear statement about what Obama’s change is all about.”
The video begins with a warning stating, “This video contains graphic images showing what Obama supports.” It contains a brief photo of an aborted baby.
It is doubtful that the brief graphic image was responsible for YouTube removing the video. Numerous other videos posted on YouTube.com show images of aborted babies without any problems, including videos of protesters with large aborted baby signs, and Operation Rescue’s Truth Trucks. A hard-hitting video graphically exposing the practices of late-term abortionist George R. Tiller that was produced for Operation Rescue was restricted by YouTube to viewers over 18, but remains accessible.
“Political censorship is the only remaining explanation for YouTube blocking the KCFL Obama video,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger. “Apparently, it is allowable to criticize political candidates on YouTube, as long as you do not criticize Obama on his abortion track record. It is unconscionable for YouTube to engage in this kind of political censorship in the middle of a battle for the future of America. We have posted this video to our web site to ensure that it will be easily accessible.”
Operation Rescue encourages concerned individuals to contact YouTube.com and ask that they reinstate the KCFL video “Obama: WRONG Choice for Children.”
Click here to contact YouTube.
[YouTube has made it very complex for you to email them, but it is possible. Click the link above then click the Abuse link. Click the "Video Taken Down" link, then click Contact Us. Under that click "Report Abuse." You will have 4 options. Click "General policy inquiry." Now click "Account Suspensions," then click "Account Suspensions" again. Then click "Contact us." That will take you to a form that you can fill out.]
It is blatantly obvious who controls Google.
Just follow the Money Trail. If this “Character” gets into
power, God help all of us.
Mr Obama, if you or your pals are reading this, I strongly suggest that you watch the Video ” The Silent
Scream” then you will see that Abortion is Murder.
Catch a wake up!!!
Powerful video; no wonder they’re banning it! Google answered when I tried to call YouTube; interesting, Google is just getting over a lawsuit about refusing to run pro-life ads.
Like the mainstream media, YouTube is in the tank for Obama.
I can’t find an email contact form on You Tube.
Help!
All of the pro-life organizations and individuals whose pro-life videos are blocked should file a huge lawsuit together and sue You Tube & Google RIGHT NOW for monetary damages for violating their First Amendment rights. This would keep Obama, You Tube & Google in the spotlight with bad publicity up to the election.
Usually I am against lawsuits, but in all of these cases, it is about making a statement for justice and to prove to the US citizens how the anti-life side is trying to silence the pro-life side.
In my opinion, this is more of the same from the Obama campaign and its surrogates like Google/YouTube. The Obama campaign tried to bully a radio station into not interviewing someone who talked about Obama’s connections to William Ayers, a terrorist. Obama’s campaign said nothing when Denver police beat and frivolously arrested peaceful young prolife women who were exercising their right to freedom of speech in chalk.
I fear for the freedoms in our country if Obama/Biden (or Obama/Hillary based on rumors of democrat buyer’s remorse on the Biden pick) wins. A major intent of our country’s founders was to allow criticism of the government. Based on Obama’s tactics, I cannot imagine he would stand for freedom of speech.
I have viewed this video and do not support YouTube’s decision to delete it. Inscrutably, our current laws allow for late-term and partial-birth abortions; Mr. Obama has done little to nothing to oppose them.
Moreover, I observed the Democratic candidate’s response to Rev. Warren’s questions (“it’s above my pay grade) during that recent interview with mounting frustration. This bland, milquetoast answer does not give credence to the tragedy of abortion, nor to the toll it has enacted upon others.
I believe Obama is a good and decent man. However, as with his tepid replies to the controversies surrounding Rev. Wright, he can be maddening.
And this is most unfortunate.
Youtube pulled our video about Henry Morgentaler (abortionist) receiving the Order of Canada award for the same reason. It too shows aborted babies. Youtube guidelines state that showing dead bodies is not allowed. You can see “Sympathy for Morgentaler” here: http://www.prolifekelowna.com.
Actually I think the video would have been more effective if it didn’t show a picture of the aborted baby and just stated the facts. The facts speak for themselves.
Maybe Godtube.com will allow it.
This is what I said to YouTube:
…if you are saying that there is a dead “body” in the clip…then I guess you ARE pro-life as you consider this a “body” rather than just a clump of cells!!!!
I won’t hold my breath waiting to hear back from them!
I also could find no link for email on youtube’s site. They claim they have one,, but you can not get to it. However, there is a phone number, I strongly suggest that each person who reads/sees the clip,, call. Enough, protest = REAL CHANGE,, hopefully for the better:)
I plead with all of humanity to watch this video and tell me that, that is not a real human life in that picture. What will it take for Obama and the far left to realize that murder of babies will not be tolerated. I say Nobama, Nowhere, Nohow, Notnow.
I did send an email to youtube and was told it was blocked as spam. nice.
You know, the message would have been nonetheless effective had you chosen to leave out the image of the aborted child. Better that you had a beautiful child overstamped in dramatic fashion with a red circle with a line through it.
Paul, for full disclosure, I will say I am the creator of the video. I understand your point but I just don’t think that would be strong enough. People need to see what abortion actually looks like. Otherwise, it gets reduced to a concept that people debate. This is why something like Operation Rescue’s Truth Trucks are so effective. Operation Rescue has one of their trucks parked near the entrance to Tiller’s gate whenever it’s open. It’s been known to save lives. Other leaders in the prolife movement such as Fr. Frank Pavone have often stated that America will not reject abortion until America sees what abortion looks like.
The other issue is to clearly show what kind of change Obama believes in. He believes in abortion — which is definitely a form of change — and even taxpayer funding of abortion (also, a form of change…changing your tax dollars into Planned Parenthood’s gravy train so they can abort more babies). Obama has even voted multiple times to deny medical care to babies that actually survive abortion.
It is my opinion that political censorship is the only answer, as Cheryl Sullenger stated. YouTube has monitored and left other videos with graphic pictures. My opinion is that YouTube would find an excuse to remove this one even if it had no graphic pictures….simply because it criticized Obama on abortion in a short, concise manner (unlike my comment here).
John 8:44-45
You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
PLEASE provide a link to the original video (WMV or AVI or something) so that we can post this vid on youtube as well!
Bill, you’re right. When a young black man from the North went to the deep South in the 1950s and was brutally murdered for crossing the race line, his mother insisted that the newspapers publish his picture. This ignited the Civil Rights Movement.
Young college women who have seen the pictures of aborted babies have been so touched that they’ve turned away from this sanitized “pro-choice” stance.
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=general
Here is where you can leave a comment on Youtube
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/static.py?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=general&selected=safesearch&ctx=general_safesearch_57709
This is where you can choose “contact us” on bottem of screen…you need a user name to do this…
Is there a way to get the code for this video so I can put it up on my website?
where is the link for this video ?
My thought is to forget a lawsuit…. all those enraged should simply not ever go to You Tube …… when we get a chance and someone sends us a You Tube video, email them back and tell them why we are not going to view it (no matter how tempting the subject)… if everyone really does this, You Tube will be broke in a year because their advertisers will get the idea…. IMHO. bpp 9/23/08
Ben, thanks so much for your interest! We’ll look into setting up space so an original file can be downloaded (note that it’s about 10 MB). I’ll post more info in a response here. But if you don’t see anything in a day or so, send email to questions at kcfl.net (substitute @ for “at” and remove spaces).
The file can also be downloaded from the Viddler page but that will produce a second generation copy of lesser quality.
Steve, thanks so much. Excellent comparison. I was not even aware of this history regarding the Civil Rights Movement. And of course, in the late 20th/early 21st century, in my view abortion is now the premiere Civil Rights issue so this is doubly an excellent point.
Linda and Larry, the video can be found at:
viddler.com/explore/kcfl/videos/4/
If you want to display this in your web page (as Operation Rescue did in this press release), click the red “Embed This” button below the video on the Viddler page linked above. You will then be given code you can insert into your web page. Thanks very much for your interest!
Pictures are powerful.
When people saw pix of the “Highway of Death” in ‘91, they suddenly realized that real people were getting really dead, and that the first Gulf War was NOT just a “video game war”.
They thought it was “too horrible” and forced us to quit…before the job was done.
12 years later, we had to go back.
Leave the image in the video.
Let some “real world” intrude into people’s comfort zone.
Force them to choose, then let each live with their own decisions.
Avoiding reality does nothing but delay and prolong the conflict.
The conflict will remain until it is truly ended, thus it is better to push hard for the finish rather than dick around while more die needlessly.
Until that time, the innocent will continue to pay the price.
650-343-2960
that is the number for youtube’s corporate office.
and here are some appropriate contacts. not sure if the contacts are current, but they would be a good place to start.
Head of Marketing and Community- Chris Di Cesare
VP Content – Kevin Donahue
Head of News and Politics- Steve Grove
CEO- Chad Hurley
Age 30
Director Programming- Mia Quagliarello
OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS???
AND IF ABORTION IS “OK” FOR THEIR CANDIDATE TO ENDORSE, WHY DO THEY FEEL THREATENED TO HAVE OTHERS EXPOSED TO THE ENTIRE TRUTH OF THE ACTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES INVOLVED??
they obviously know, deep down, that abortion is wrong.
STIR THEIR CONSCIENCE, BRING OUT THE TRUTH, CONFIRM THEIR FEARS AND BE A VOICE FOR THE PRE-BORN.
I don’t understand how anyone can come to the conclusion that there is no need to include images of the babies, that text and facts would suffice. I guess Sally Struthers should remove pictures of starving children, Jerry Lewis should remove his kids from the telethon, and Sara Mclaughlin should remove pictures of injured animals in her ASPCA commercials. The TV news stations should also only tell us the news, including sports highlights, because we’d be getting the facts. Heck, why don’t we just turn off our TV’s and stick to radio? Newspapers? Please, no pictures; we’re adults – we know how to read.
If I had the link I would send around and it would be seen by many people.
I would suggest giving us access to a copy of this video; then we can all upload the video to Youtube. It should keep them hopping when thousands of copies suddenly start appearing….
It is so amazing to me that the mainstream media is so blind to Obama’s lies. He blatantly denied voting against a bill that would have provided medical care for a baby born alive in a botched abortion, yet it is in black and white on paper, and I have actually heard his voice speak against it at the vote on an audio tape that Sean Hannity found, and a nurse who was at the vote who witnessed it.
How can all of these people have a blind eye to this??? Why do they keep believing his lies? It’s almost eerie to me.
I agree, the public needs to see what abortion actually does. And they need to know that Sen. Obama has consistently voted to support this murder of innocents. I believe he cannot possibly understand, has not honestly considered “what if my mother had chosen to abort me?” There seems to be no objection – nor should there be – to seeing the real results of war, terrorism, even natural disasters, with the purpose of encouraging people to do all they can to limit these horrific results! The results of murder should be likewise made known, that they may be limited, insofar as is possible and reasonable. Personally, I think the video is offensive and will do more to harden hearts than soften them. I think a quieter, yet entirely resolute, approach would get better results. The message needs to come from a heart that is broken and weeping for the deceived, not one that is raging in anger against them for their stupidity.
hey guys if you will notice the link to embed the video is located next to the + sign on the bottom right of the video. It is the < shaped icon. click it to copy the embed link. I posted it on myspace…
There’s a difference between a mail address and an e-mail address. Since you want an e-mail address, that’s what you should ask for! My comment was that there’s a difference between good taste and bad taste. To contrast a live baby with a blob is in terrible taste. It’s no wonder the video was not acceptable. It really isn’t acceptable, regardless of what we think about abortion.
Why try to push through with a frontal attack toward those whom have the right to ban at will.
Seek God’s wisdom on how to get this message through just as affectivly and in a manner which “slips in through the back door.”
That is, unless of course there is more to gain by reaping the direct ban in reponse to your frontal attack.
Was such a gain anticipated, as to why the video was posted in a manner which Youtube had already established they would ban, when they encountered the Canada issue that was mentioned in an above posted reply.
I must be blind. Can anyone help me find the yanked Obama/abortion video Operation Rescue says I can view?
Maybe you should let this video be downloaded so that thousands or millions of us can post the video in our own YouTube accounts. This will generate great publicity and put some pressure on YouTube!
In any case, thanks for exposing the truth!
I was about to write to YouTube, but ended up finding the video in question on their site… Who knows for how long, but here is the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaxN5tXr_dA
Not only does he kill babies in this country, but he has stated that one of the first things he will do as president (God help us all–Lord, protect us from the evil one) is to reinstate the funds that were used in the Clinton admin. to kill babies around the world. Bush put an end to those policies and those funds and he wants to refund the killing machines in the rest of the world. How does a mother in a third world country say no to abortion and forced sterilization when they offer to feed her starving family? This is pure evil and inhumane. The killing must stop! We have to do whatever we can to make sure Obama does not win. Please pray and work hard to make sure that does not happen!
Mary, while I understand your concerns, I want to make it very clear that this was not done with the intent to earn a ban. We wanted the video to be seen and therefore we uploaded it to the top video site on the Internet. Obviously, however, we were very disturbed to see that the kcfl1 account received a “community violation warning strike” as a result of a video which criticized Obama, a liberal political candidate. KCFL was not going to stand for this censorship and thus word spread. Operation Rescue did an excellent job getting the ball rolling with this press release.
Mary (continued), as noted in Operation Rescue’s press release, they have a hard hitting video about Tiller that has many graphic pictures on YouTube. Their video was merely restricted to those age 18 and older. The KCFL video, with far less graphic content, was outright banned. What’s the difference between the Operation Rescue video and the KCFL video? Operation Rescue’s video did not mention Obama. There are plenty of other prolife videos with much more graphic content that are not even restricted. Had YouTube merely treated everyone equally, they would not be the subject of this criticism.
Ray, what you saw on the video was the result of an abortion. It in no way looks like a “blob.” (Of course, that’s a term used by abortion businesses in order to sell an abortion to a woman in distress.) The face and hands of a human being can be seen.
Ben, Ken, Dion, and anyone else, the original file can be found at
groups.google.com/group/kcfl
Look for the file wrongchange.wmv This can be downloaded and posted on YouTube. Thanks very much for your interest in doing it. But in fair warning, note that you too may get a “community guideline violation strike” from a YouTube censor. Remember, this video criticizes Obama. Please send a note to questions at kcfl.net (remove the spaces and change “at” to @) with the address of the video if you post it. Thanks!
I’ve tried to explain the different methods of abortion to people. The procedures and results have to be understood to convey the urgency of the message. Our local nursing school at the community college only spends about an hour on abortion out of an entire two year curriculum.
Every adult knows about the abortion debate. But can one person in fifty describe any method in depth?
We have this great national horror in progress, and even nurses aren’t trained in the procedures used. How would young women who enter the field of nursing to allieviate suffering and comfort the weak react to the graphic violent killing of the unborn or nearly born. Screaming women running from the training room would not sell the nursing program to high school seniors and their parents.
Imagine someone trying to sell one of these expensive HD televisions without models on display. To say they have a sharper picture than the television you bought two years ago doesn’t do them justice.
If you’ve never seen a chainsaw used by an experienced lumberjack, you couldn’t imagine what amazing possibilities it has. But after you see a mighty tree fall, you will never forget it.
Photographs are just one valueable tool in the task we have before us. Every tool should be used as often as nessessary to get the work done.
Interesting comments,
Truth…. Abortion is the poorest form of contraception
Truth…. People see only what they want to see
Truth…. Life is fleeting but man can end it quickly
Truth…. Life is defined by conception, therefore a man
murdering a pregnant woman can be tried on two
counts.
Truth…. Obama is the golden child of the “Intellectual” because
he is so easily manipulated. Where is the “Beef”?
Truth…. We are destined to become communistic since we fail
to take care of the Constitution (the best governing
document that has ever enhanced the
lives of man). “We the People” now act on it!
I looked for a place to contact YouTube but found no email address that was open for general complaint. Apparently the powers that be are above reproach, SAD. But in dictatorship of the proletariat we are not smart enough to fend for ourselves.
“…and the Truth shall set you free.” I don’t get it. Sen. Obama voted and spoke. He had the courage to vote and speak on abortion and everything related before he was in the presidential race. Why has he gone from courage to coward. Obama! Stand up for what you believe! If you can’t be truthful or can’t speak about the issue of abortion because you believe the idiom of political correctness may be violated or worse yet you may lose some votes, then sit down. If you don’t have the courage to stand, then sit. This goes for Youtube also. Unrestricted freedom of speech through the video medium or get off the internet! Courageous or cowardly. You decide.
Discussion of this video made a casual friend and obama supporter send me downright nasty mean messages on my Myspace page. I tried to respond LOVINGLY but to talk about how this video is true and what the unborn child looks like and she actually told me (she had had an abortion) that its a LIE and that there is no heartbeat at three weeks! she actually wanted to debate scientific fact with me! I wanted to be sarcastic and mean and let her know that only an idiot in this day and age could believe that an unborn baby is a blob of tissue…i mean you can get on the internet and see medically documented pics and find out the truth…i wanted to slam her for her promiscous lifestyle…but I had to force myself to realize that she is post-abortive. She needs to hold onto her ignorance or else she will be confronted with the grisly reality that yes, her child WAS A CHILD and she consented to its murder. thats an awful truth to have to swallow! so she lashes out in anger at anyone who puts the truth out there. i had to respond in love even though I felt angry and stung. But we have the truth on our sides and we just need to keep persistently and lovingly putting it out there.
Unfortunately, we have chosen to take down the original file from the KCFL Google Groups site. KCFL has received phone calls from around the country about altered versions of the video appearing on YouTube. While we appreciate the interest in reposting the video, we do not want to have people mistake altered versions with our official version. I’m sorry about this.
Our official version is on Viddler, since YouTube chose to censor our video containing criticism of Obama.
I cannot even stand to hear this man speak. He is annoying, arrogant, irritating, etc. He is a very hollow man and I pray that people will begin to see through him. With the democrats in control of the House & Senate, please Lord help us if Obama is elected….the preborn children won’t have a chance.
Someone at http://www.OurCountryDeservesBetter.com might be interested in this. They are working hard to stop Obama from getting elected.Check them out.
I had an abortion 23 years ago. I totally support this video and am angry that youtube will not publish it. The truth needs to be told. I am so tired of hearing about Chrisitians supporting Obama. What side of the fence are they standing on? LIFE is a foundational issue and Christians must vote as such. If abortion was not legal many women would not choose abortion. I also agree that the graphic images need to be included in the video.
The future will look at us much like we look at the Germans in world war II OR WORSE
may The ALMIGHTY TRINITY Help Us, To make a stand, against against those in our society that still throw the children into the fire! They believed back then that it made their lives easier by appeasing baal i wonder how different we really are today if it makes their better or easier throw the children away and say that they do not have souls
the germans rationalized this as well and called them Jews or anything they did not approve of this is the trap of liberalism today
its core is an elitists society
Best Regards
Sorry wrote that on the run. I see that proof reading would have been helpful in the presentation of my thoughts in a more articulated manner
Please see the sadness and not the grammar
Like it or not, YouTube is a privately-owned and operated organization that has the right to post or delete whichever videos it deems appropriate. I believe this is more or less the same argument Christians use to support the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to deny membership to both gay men and atheists.
In a free society, private organizations have the right to espouse any religious/political belief they choose.
Besides that, the video in question ends with a freeze frame on an actual aborted fetus. YouTube has strict guidelines about what material is appropriate and perhaps a bloodied fetus is just as damaging to children as graphic depictions of sex and violence.
Don’t like it? Start your own video-sharing site. Free expression of controversial ideas, of either political persuasion, is one of the cornerstones of our struggling democracy.
Maybe, just maybe, if most of the abortions conducted in the U.S. were minorities, Obama’s thinking might be reversed.