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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 16, 2012
MULTIPLICATION OF THE UNFIT” If you aren’t
by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist
creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren’t lis- tening closely enough. The anesthetic of
FREEDOM FROM RELIGION The U.S. military I entered in
WASHINGTON --
by Oliver North Syndicated Columnist
“We don’t need you, so shut up!” That’s the message the Obama admin- istration has sent loud and clear to Amer- ica’s Roman Catholics. And it’s a message
now being sent to U.S. military chaplains -- to the detriment of our armed forces. During World War II, the War Department and the Department of the Navy urged -- the operative word is “urged,” not “ordered,” mind you -- U.S. military chap- lains to encourage soldiers, sail- ors, airmen, guardsmen and Ma- rines that God was on our side in the global battle against fascists, Nazis and the godless heathens running rampant across Asia and the Pacific. The hymns “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” were sung with fervor at chapel services regardless of denomina- tion.
1961 still had tens of thousands of men and women familiar with such experience. My regimental chaplain in Vietnam, Cmdr. Jake Laboon, a Jesuit priest, was a decorated U.S. Navy combat vet- eran of World War II. He routinely administered last rites to griev- ously wounded -- and often dying -- Marines and sailors without regard to a denominational pref- erence on their dog tags. It’s a good thing he was there when I was wounded, because, as oth- ers related to me later, he was the one who told the surgeons to “take this one next” while I was unconscious on a triage litter at a field hospital. If he hadn’t been there, I might not be here. All this helps to explain my
bias. As a general matter, I like chaplains who do their duty to God and man. I especially ad- mire men like Jake Laboon. And I don’t like the way the Obama administration is treating them. This week’s order to muzzle what chaplains can say is yet another O-Team salvo aimed at See NORTH on 22
progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. When a bunch of wealthy white women and elite Washington bu- reaucrats defend the trampling of religious liberties in the name of “increased access” to “reproduc- tive services” for “poor” women, the ghost of Margaret Sanger is cackling. As she wrote in her autobiog- raphy, Sanger founded Planned Parenthood in 1916 “to stop the multiplication of the unfit.” This, she boasted, would be “the most important and greatest step to- wards race betterment.” While she oversaw the mass murder of black babies, Sanger cynically re- cruited minority activists to front her death racket. She conspired with eugenics financier and busi- nessman Clarence Gamble to “hire three or four colored minis- ters, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engag- ing personalities” to sell their genocidal policies as community health and welfare services. Outright murder wouldn’t sell.
But wrapping it under the egali- tarian cloak of “women’s health” -- and adorning it with the moral authority of black churches -- would. Sanger and Gamble called their deadly campaign “The Negro Project.” In other writings, historian Mike Perry found, Sanger attacked pro-
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grams that provided “medical and nursing facilities to slum moth- ers” because they “facilitate the function of maternity” when “the absolute necessity is to discour- age it.” In an essay included in her writing collection held by the Library of Congress, Sanger urged her abortion clinic colleagues to “breed a race of thoroughbreds.” Nationwide “birth control bu- reaus” would propagate the prop- er “science of breeding” to stop impoverished, non-white women from “breeding like weeds.” Speaking with CBS veteran
journalist Mike Wallace in 1957, long after her racist views had supposedly mellowed, Sanger again revealed her true colors: “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world -- that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prison- ers, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin -- that people can -- can commit.” Sanger also elaborated on her
anti-Catholic animus, telling one of Wallace’s reporters that New York Catholics had no right to protest the use of their tax dol- lars for birth city birth-control programs: “(I)t’s not only wrong, it should be made illegal for any religious group to prohibit dis- semination of birth control -- even among its own members.” When Wallace pressed her (“In other words, you would like to see the government legislate religious be- liefs in a certain sense?”), Sanger laughed nervously and disavowed the remarks. Fast forward: Five decades and
16 million aborted black babies later, Planned Parenthood’s in- sidious agenda has migrated from See MALKIN on 20
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