Prolife Violence In Perspective

LifeSiteNews has compiled a list of facts that should be taken into consideration as we examine the implications of the killing of George Tiller. Below are the first four points from their list...

1. George Tiller is the first abortionist to be killed in eleven years. If you think that's a "trend,” or an “epidemic” as some have said, you're just not a serious person.
2. All of the posturing going on in the pro-abortion movement over the safety of abortionists is a ruse. There are four times as many hairdressers and 150 times as many convenience store clerks murdered as there are abortionists. Where is the “pro-choice” grieving over them?
3. George Tiller made his money performing late-term abortions, which often involves the killing of a viable human being. According to Kansas state statistics, he killed 395 viable third-trimester babies in one year – 2001 – all for “mental health” reasons (which, as we know, is the category for all elective abortions). Not one of those abortions was for a mother’s physical health or for a medical emergency. Americans overwhelmingly believe this disgusting practice should not be legal. If any objective journalist were to look into his practice they would see that most people, and all sane people, are appalled by what happened in his clinic every day.
4. Tiller has been tried on criminal indictments for multiple abuses of his practice, including breaking state laws requiring another medical doctor to verify that certain patients' lives were at risk before performing late-term abortions. This man was no hero or saint, and his being held up as a martyr says more about pro-abortionists than it does about those they are trying to condemn.h

Click here to continue reading the article. For eye-opening documentation of violence carried out by members of the anti-life camp, visit www.prochoiceviolence.com.

hat tip: Semper Vita

Shoot First, Police Arrive Later

"Zhuofeng 'Titan' Jiang, a Tokoroa takeaway owner who shot a masked gunman in the leg after wrestling a semi-automatic .22 rifle off him could end up being charged for defending himself.
Aotea Chinese Takeaways owner Zhuofeng "Titan" Jiang, 25, grabbed the rifle as the gunman pointed it at Mr Jiang's 19-year-old cousin and demanded money from the till about 9.45pm on Monday.
The gunman had already fired a warning shot into the floor. Another shot went off as the men wrestled with the rifle.
When Mr Jiang got hold of the rifle he fired two shots, one into the floor, and another into the man's leg, to stop him from being attacked.
The gunman screamed in pain after being shot and fled.
Mr Jiang said yesterday that he was not a hero. "I was not scared. I would do it again. I hate these people. I will never give them any money." - Dom Post 29/4/09

Titan is a sterling example of an independent and free-thinking citizen. A "fat man, 6ft tall, wearing dark-coloured clothing." points a semi-auto Sterling 20 rifle at his kid cousin, and he responds with decisive skill, disarming the low-life and putting him out of action. However this comment from the Detective Senior Sergeant Todd Pearce of the NZ Police is alarming,

"This situation could easily have resulted in a fatality and it could have easily been one of victims that had been shot or killed... Fighting back, when firearms are involved, dramatically increases the dangers to everyone present and should not be considered or attempted." - NZ Herald 28/4/09

To heck with that. If you find yourself in a situation like Titan, it is up to you to weigh up the situation and determine whether or not you have a decent chance of overpowering the attacker. As a citizen, you have the freedom to defend yourself and the other innocent people caught up in an assault. It is an incredibly dangerous mindset to fall into, that we put our trust in the police (the state) to save us whenever we are under threat of physical harm.
Anyway, the police apparently took 18 minutes to turn up on the scene - by which time the incident was over and the attacker had run away. In most assault cases, all the police can really do is to turn up with the body-bags. I am in no way dissing the Police-force; they do a great job, but they are not omnipresent.

Sinister Side to Beijing Olympics

I've already written about the Chinese Government banning churches from operating for three months surrounding the Olympic Games.  We've looked at the evidence that some members of the Chinese gymnastic team were underage.  And now finally, we have the inside-story from a New York reporter who was arrested, interrogated and abused.  His crime? Taking photos of a Free Tibet protest

Rae refused to give the police the passwords, which made them very angry. One interrogator stood menacingly in front of Rae with a steel bar in his hand. He also hit him on the shoulder with an open hand. “I don’t want to exaggerate what happened,” said Rae, “but after having been awake so long, it’s difficult to get hit like that.”

At one point, Rae asked his interrogator what was going to happen to him. “We’re not sure if we want to slit your throat or shoot you,” was the answer he was given...

...After the 22-hour interrogation, Rae was made to sign and fingerprint every page of a 45-page document that was all in Chinese. He and the others were then driven to the Chong Wen detention center about 30 minutes away. They were kept in separate cells and made to wear prison uniforms of red T-shirts and red shorts. The police told him he was not in a jail, that it was “just a detention center.”

Rae was mixed in with the general population of prisoners—about a dozen people in a cell with narrow wooden platforms as beds, all pushed up against a wall. When they slept, it was shoulder-to-shoulder. He was given a military blanket that reeked of urine and a dirty plastic bowl and spoon for meals. Potable water was made available to the prisoners for only 15 minutes a day. Rae scrounged an empty plastic soda bottle to store water in for the day.

Read the full article here: www.en.epochtimes.com

Hat-tip: Half Done blog

Use a Real Gun Next Time

On Monday 4 August, two apparently drugged up young (Polynesian) men wearing blue bandanas over their faces ran into the dairy on the corner of Orrick Crescent and Wainoni Road in Christchurch.  One was wielding a long knife, and the store-owner Nike said that the offenders were frantic, and life-threatening.  Below is the order of events

A dairy owner who wishes only to be known as Nike said he armed himself after Indian liquor store owner Navtej Singh was murdered by robbers in South Auckland in June.  Two robbers who he described as Polynesian, aged in their early 20s or late teens charged into his store on Wainoni Road about 8.30pm on Monday.  They were wearing blue bandanas over their faces, and one carried a long knife. Nike was cleaning out his cash register when a man ran at him and slashed at the air near his throat and chest, then backed him up against a cigarette rack. Nike's wife handed him the air pistol. Nike fired the air pistol at the robbers five or six times, hitting one of them. "I definitely shot one of them in the face. "Usually in the movies they say 'give me the money' but they tried to kill us from the very start. It happened really fast. They ran in holding the knife out and started trying to chop me."

Nike said he suspected the men were on drugs as "normal people don't act like that". "We would never have used (the gun) if they weren't so threatening. "They were frantic."

Detective Constable Grant, of the New Brighton police, said Nike's actions were "certainly not good practice". Grant said they were "discussing" whether Nike's actions would have further repercussions.

Asian Anti-crime Group campaigner Peter Low said the robbers were lucky it was only an air pistol and if they came into his store he would shoot them with a real gun. "The scum gangs have got to learn and the police need to wake up. They have invaded our rights. We have to defend ourselves. It's logic, it's common sense."

Compiled from the article on www.stuff.co.nz.

As is so often the case the emphasis is put on the victims of the assault, and we hear that the Police will be investigating (clears throat loudly) excuse me, who?  Yes, believe it or not, they are going to launch an investigation into the actions of the brave dairy owner, who defended the lives of himself and his wife.

When it is illegal for good law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, it means that the criminals often get their way.  Think back on the Virginia-Tech Massacre for a minute.  It was illegal for anyone on campus to be armed, and so when the murderer ran about the place with a gun, killing 33 people, there was no one able to stop him.

Bob McCoskrie of Family First responded to the incident,

"The safety of families should be paramount. If families are resorting to vigilante type actions, it begs the question – why aren’t we doing more to protect them?"

Use a real gun next time mate.

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Hat-tip, NZ Conservative

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Call to ban GTA 4 in New Zealand

I have long been opposed to computer games where the environment is almost indiscernable from the one we live in. This is the intention with games like Grand Theft Auto, where no detail is spared in an effort to transport the player into a parallel world to the one he lives in. In this virtual world, the player is rewarded for breaking laws, hurting and killing people and a host of other morally and ethically questionable actions.

Grand Theft Auto 4 is due to be released in New Zealand this week. Family First is calling for a nation-wide ban on all the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) video games.

Grand Theft Auto IV is scheduled for release this week. It follows on from previous Grand Theft Auto games which included constant graphic violence and sexual situations. Players could re-enact having sex with a prostitute, beating her bloody, taking her money and running her over with a car and shooting at police officers.

Rockstar Games which produces the game says the company is going even further in its pursuit of realism with this latest game in the series and players can buy cocaine, set enemies alight, shoot a policeman, drink drive, and visit strip clubs...

...“It is completely naïve to believe that teenagers and young children won’t have access to and be able to play the game,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. “It is also completely unrealistic to believe that young people will not be influenced in their attitudes and behaviours by constant exposure to this type of material.”

- Family First Press Release 27/04/08

"But what about our freedoms!", you scream. Would you still support people's right to own and play the game if pedophilia was one of the themes? I don't bring this up light-heartedly, however we must ask - if it's wrong to portray that in an interactive video-game, then it must surely be wrong to portray murder and drug-use. Even more so in such a realistic game, set in such a similar World to the one we live in.

On 17 April 2007, I wrote on the subject of violent computer games, and the link with violent crimes, particularly school shootings.

Video games such as Unreal Tournament, F.E.A.R., Half Life, Doom and Quake. These are games that idolise, sensationalise, stylise and glorify violence. Gore (blood) levels can be increased or decreased to suit the gamer. In F.E.A.R., extremely violent acts can be perfomed in explict detail on your victim (ie. a guard). Games such as these are immoral and have been proven to be the cause for gamers getting out there and "playing it real".

- "33 murdered students, Elephant, video games" Star Studded Super Step, 17/04/07

In that post I recommended that people watch the film Elephant, and concluded by saying that it is important that legislators don't swing too far the other way. Where are we as New Zealanders going to draw a line in the sand? Or are we forever going to push moral and ethical boundaries?