13 May 2013 –
What a day. Two things.
A jury in Philadelphia
rendered a verdict of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of
involuntary manslaughter in the Kermit Gosnell trial. The three murder counts were for three of the
babies whose spinal cords this “doctor” severed with scissors after they were
born alive during botched abortions. The
involuntary manslaughter verdict was for his killing of a woman with an
overdose of drugs while he was preparing her for a late-term abortion. On 21 March, the trial will enter the penalty
phase with deliberation for sentencing.
Pennsylvania has the death penalty and life in prison for first-degree
murderers. Much now should be written
about the appropriateness of the death penalty for this murderer of innocent
children. I defer those remarks to
others. I don’t have the skill to
express my feelings and still maintain control on a keyboard.
This sad moment in
history is too long time in coming. Elite
intellectuals in the last century choked legal logic until it finally vomited up
new privacy rights in the penumbra of the Constitution, i.e., abortion on demand.
An abortion industry sprang up and soon
gained enough power to stretch “the right to abortion,” to extend it well
beyond the first trimester of a pregnancy.
This killing industry’s spokesmen then pushed the argument even farther from original intent, enabling
a junior senator from Illinois and presidential candidate to use the term “women’s
reproductive rights” instead of “abortion on demand” to soften the issue beyond
all original recognition. At the same
time, other senior lawmakers were proposing that life isn’t life until a mother
and doctor say that it is.
This trial of a monster
murderer of babies finally yanked the argument away from the hollow parsers of
language and the obfuscators of original meaning. It put the argument in the hands of twelve ordinary
citizens on a local jury. One may contend that these jurors were unprepared
to be Solomon. But, these jurors
performed a far wiser act than did Solomon when he determined the actual mother
of a live baby. They saw killing babies for
what it was—murder—and declared it so. Theirs
was the right decision. We should thank
God that the jury system often brings us back to stark, simple reality. Now, these same jurors need to recommend to
the judge to do the right thing in the final, punishment phase of the
trial.
I cannot imagine a more
tyrannical use of government power than the Internal Revenue Service’s recent harassment
of conservative, non-profit organizations.
Such corrupt, politically motivated actions are real dangers to the Founders’
original concept of property and speech rights.
Perhaps, only dictatorship could be worse.
The IRS’s role is to collect
taxes. It should do so by impartially implementing
tax codes. But, its corrupt day-to-day
operations appear to have made it a dangerously powerful arm of the executive
branch of government. Alas, the IRS
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 seems to have done little to prevent the
IRS from using its audit and policy powers to harass and rob those who exercise
their constitutional rights to oppose the present administration.
The IRS’s
public statement that it targeted conservative political organizations with “increased
scrutiny” is a stunning admission that demands immediate corrective action. The President must treat this corruption as a
crisis. He must quickly move this situation
to near the top of his “to-do” list instead of leaving it where he penciled it
in during today’s press conference. The
President should aggressively cleanse the IRS and prosecute those responsible for
their latest crimes. He should do this
for his own protection. After all,
corruption honors no code but its own.
An unrepentant IRS could target an ex-president after 20 January 2017,
especially if the new president turns out to be as flexible in his moral standards
as the present one has shown himself to be.
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