thepowerofme

Yesterday, I posted a comment on the conflict between Gaza and Israel.  This post stirred up a hornets nest of comments that roasted me on reddit.com as well as some e-mail attacks that followed.  I posted the article yesterday to get a sense of the anger about the abuse the Palestinians received at the hands of their neighbors.  I was moved by some of the comments and for others just shook my head on how we can only look at one side of the conflict and never question about the reason why?  But a resounding response that came from multiple parties is that this conflict is nothing more than an attempt of genocide from Israel.  So the question is, what is genocide?  According to Wikipedia it is as follows:

any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

While I do not agree with that statement, I can see where one can get the idea that this was what Israel was trying to do.  Where I question this outright is that in most cases where genocide has been noted and charged there were hundreds of thousands killed not twelve hundred.  So what would you say to a genocide that has claimed more than 45 million lives, in no more than thirty six years.  Now that my friends is genocide with out a doubt.  In America we have killed over 45 million leaders of our country with out ever asking their opinions, or giving them a chance to bring something to this country - whether it be bad or good.  That my friends is the number of unborn children that have been killed in the United States since the legalization of abortion in 1973.

Now why would a man blog about the atrocities of abortion in the United States?  The answer is simple, yesterday I posted that if you don’t challenge or do anything about a situation then you are supporting it by your lack of action.  I do not want to be considered as part of the problem this country is facing, so I am speaking up now.  Whether a person be a man, woman, or some mixture of the two; we have a responsibility to share the truth about this genocide of convenience.  No longer can we state that this is not a problem in this great country and sweep it under the rug as protecting the rights of women to be able to choose.

All throughout our country my decisions are being made for me each and every day by the U.S. government.  Take for instance the law requiring me to wear my seat-belt.  I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that wearing my seat-belt will increase my chance of survival in a car accident, but shouldn’t I be given the choice of whether or not I want to wear it.  Or, why is it that when a person turns 18 they are mature enough to get a loan, join the military, or get married.  But that same person is not mature enough to walk into a bar and get a drink.  Why?  Because someone in Washington said they are too young and forced every state in the country to follow the national suggestions.  Better yet, who decided that marijuana should be made illegal?  While studies have shown that clean marijuana is less addicting than cigarettes or alcohol.  So many of our choices in this country are made for us by the government, then why will they not make the hardest decision of all to end the right of abortion and begin to save the lives of our unborn children.

I know, I know, what about the cases of rape and incest.  Who am I to tell a woman that she has to carry to term the unborn life of her attacker.  That is true, I can not make that decision for a woman.  But, I found it odd that while that is a reason for an abortion; a chart showing the reasons as to why women have abortions, that reason was given less than 1% of the time.  The biggest reason for having an abortion was due to personal reasons of the woman, a resounding 76%-98% of the time.  Some of which state were, it would ruin my career path.  That is the reason that abortions need to be stopped.  It is not there for the safety of the mother, or in case of rape or incest, it is there and still being practiced because of a bad choice I made in a moment of passion.  It is murder for nothing more than convenience.

I know, many of you folks out there believe that an unborn fetus is not a living human being.  I remember a billboard I saw that sums that up the best, it read “If it’s not a life, then your not pregnant.”  Wow, what an amazing time to be in the working world, because if a woman is not pregnant till the baby is born, then why should their employer provide maternity leave for them until after the baby is born?  Because lets be honest some people believe it really doesn’t matter if the baby lives or dies, because it is not really a person or a living child.

I couldn’t believe the way people were up in arms about the deaths of 400 Palestinian children.  Though, they could care less about the 45 million or more unborn children that have been killed in this country.  Who knows, maybe there was another Albert Einstein, J.F.K, Martin Luther King, or the doctor that would find the cure for cancer or AID’s.  See, we will never know, because it was easier for the woman to end a life than to give it up for adoption after a nine month burden as a result of a bad choice in judgment.  Too bad all our bad choices couldn’t just go away with a simple procedure.  Our prisons would have a lot less residents.  We convicted Kevorkian for helping end the lives of terminally ill patients, who were making the choice to die.  For those that are willing to take the lives of unborn children, we give them offices to make it more convenient.