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Both the Death Penalty and Abortion should be Aborted
by MichaelBernard1

While it is safe to say that rape of children or women or boys or men is not to be condoned or coddled, America would be far better off by doing away with all judicial and extra judicial death sentences, as well as eliminating officially sanctioned abortions. Both extinquish life, thereby cheapening the life of those executed or aborted, as well as the lives of the rest of us. Without establishing this bright line in favor of Life and Limited Government, we lose the opportunity for clarity, for civility,
and for consistency. Without favoring mercy and justice, we allow ideologies and proselytizers and the worst sort of ambulance chasing politics to rule with emotion, not reason. Let me ask you, do you feel threatened by crime and by criminals, as much as you do by governments that are not limited, that are not prescribed from starting wars, that trample people and civil rights and liberties? While it is a close call, I will concede, if you look around the world, the problem is not with rogue citizens, rather it is rogue governments that are the problem. The United Nations is full of them, and the international elites and corporations that benefit from, and sustain, these rogue governments, our own included, make for a direct assault on the lives and sacred honor of Middle Class Americans. I do not want to end up in thrall to these evil, money driven, dishonest and powerful forces seeking my own demise as a middle class American with influence and control over my own destiny. I would rather turn the tables on these forces, and hew to the Ten Commandments, which are simple, straightforward, and elegant. What most people overlook with their tattoos and rotten music and depraved lifestyles, is that the Catholic Church promotes middle class values, enables them, builds the foundations for a broad middle class. So many leaders and countries and businesses and special interest groups and governmental units nowadays, oppose these Catholic, or Universal, values. They are for everyone, not just for Europe or for fundamental Christians or for Italians. The Catholic Church teaches that we should not engage in abortion or execution or other gratuitous or politically motivated killing or war or calamity. It is really quite simple. I guess the appeal of evil is found, in part, in it's complexities. Let me quote it to you again, and please listen, as though you are hearing it for the first time: "Thou Shalt Not Kill."

Of course, the Ten Commandments say it two or three different ways, that you should not take another man's wife. But we do not even have wives nowadays, under the Feminist Regime of America, even when we have so-called marriages. Certainly, we do not seem to have an American appreciation for family life, such as we had just a generation or two ago. Like Samson and Delilah, Americans have been shorn of our strength by the Corporate and Governmental Delilahs of Deceit. Hugh Hefner funded Feminism, and I don't think he did so, to benefit Women. Rather, I think he saw it as a way to benefit himself, and I don't mean in a Catholic way. What do you think?

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