Murder in the neighborhood

Let’s start with this pull quote from something Carmen passed along:

In fact by now in order to get an idea of how many deaths they have been responsible for – just pretend that nuclear weapons detonated in and wiped out the entire populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Washington DC combined. (Though you’d still come up on the short side.)

Imagine wiping out 40 million 34 year olds and younger.

Who is the “they” responsible for this massacre? Planned Parenthood.

Using false pretense, misdirected answers on applications, and fraudulent forms Planned Parenthood is awaiting word to see if it will be allowed to open a super-butchery in Aurora Illinois this coming Tuesday.

(You may have been following this here.)

The way it works is first they set-up a phony name for a phony company. In the Aurora Illinois case they filed their fraudulent permits under the name of Gemini Office Management Corporation. Pretending to be a neutral landlord, they then asserted on the forms requesting the construction permits that the “tenant is unknown.”

With the municipality duped, the residents of Aurora feel betrayed. Several reports have emanated from the region demonstrating that even people who do not normally protest abortion publicly are outraged and feel that they have been lied to.

And they should feel this way, because they have.

But they are expressing it in the most dignified and ultimately powerful way imagineable. They are praying, in growing numbers, and holding peaceful sidewalk demonstrations and walks through the neighborhood. Families with small children are there, people of all ages, clergy, pro-life leaders and former abortion clinic workers.

Yesterday, the largest rally yet was held outside the Aurora abortion clinic, and though this is getting to be a national story, the Chicago news hardly covered it. I saw one report that was plainly deceptive in what must have taken creative filming and careful editing to avoid the obvious – the large and charitable crowd. The report showed only tight shots on a couple of people here, an individual there, and at most a few standing close together. It showed one man shouting, as if it represented an angry crowd. But he had to shout to be heard because the crowd was so large. At no time did this report give a wide or long shot of the rally, or any representative interview of the overwhelmingly good natured people there. It was purposely misleading.

But we’ll help them out. We’ve got coverage here. (Thanks, Pete.)