Even though OSA and some other groups publicly disavow violence, they maintain associations with others who are more open about their own understanding of the will of God. Joining Benham and OSA in Raleigh was Johnny Hunter, director of L.E.A.R.N., Inc., who has built a career on denouncing abortion as "black genocide," and says that "It is time for the women of our nation to become like the mothers and midwives in ancient Egypt." Hunter appeared with Mark Crutcher - whose Life Dynamics web site details the addresses and phone numbers of every abortion-providing clinic in the country under the header Death Camps -- to expound upon the "holocaust" of abortion. The video of Mark Crutcher's interview with Johnny Hunter is available in its entirety on the web site of the Rev. David Trosch, and it is hard to imagine that either the highly litigious Crutcher or Hunter would permit it to remain there without their permission and approval. David Trosch is a renegade priest who openly advocates the murder of physicians who provide abortion care.
Benham to Hunter to Crutcher to Trosch: Tinker to Evers to Chance and then some. Following are excerpts from the OSA version of what Benham, Hunter and their friends did in Raleigh on May 27.
At 9:00 a.m. sharp, in accordance with the sound permit, Bill's sound system begins operation. Roger with his sharp eye has previously informed Bill that the clinic has the American flag hung backwards - stars to outside. This becomes a great opening dialogue for Bill, "The flag is hung backwards like everything else inside the clinic is backwards against God's laws. You can pretty up the outside with a flag and flowers out front but it is the devils death camp, filled with his lies and murder. Your flag hanging backwards and the killing done inside gives only dishonor to America on this day." Curtis Fenison (with shofar trumpet across his back) and Johnny Hunter in Raleigh After several hours of disruption and intimidation at the Raleigh clinic, what Flip Benham calls God's "gentle Christian warriors" reassembled at the home of Susan Hill.
Flip had printed posters with Susan's picture headlining that "Susan Hill has Murdered Thousands of Children in Raleigh - Please Pray for Her Repentance and Conversion to Christ!" Below her picture is a list of "Did you knows" with a call to speak up in witness for the least of God's children. Copies will be available in Jackson . Last year, Dr. Warren Hern had this to say about OSA'a campaign of intimidation against him in Boulder.
Hern said the group had spent two days demonstrating at his office and another Boulder clinic before going to his neighborhood to pass out the flyers. This is the "Justifiable Homicide" ad circulated by the "Reverend" David Trosch. This is the flyer that Operation Save America used to target Dr. Warren Hern less than a year ago. And this is the text of the poster - which bears two photographs of Ms. Hill [pdf link] - that OSA distributed in Raleigh, and plans to use to incite the mobs in Jackson next month.
Susan Hill has Murdered Thousands of Children in Raleigh It feels reassuring to think that these campaigns of fear are being carried out by fringe groups that lie -- in a phrase beloved of politicians on the religious right -- "outside the mainstream of the American people." But the truth is that Operation Save America has a great many friends among the politically powerful. Fr. Frank Pavone, the Vatican's own "vicar for life" who actively participated in the OSA action in Colorado last July, had this comment on the recent attempt to pass an abortion ban in Mississippi: "[W]hen the people and lawmakers of a state want to protect their own children, and have been prevented from doing so for over three decades, perhaps the only way to regain that right is to force the issue." And Pavone enjoys access to the highest corridors of power. One of Pavone's more notable allies is Senator Sam Brownback, whose "constituency of one" makes him God's Senator. So Flip Benham and his friends might have reason to be feeling cocky right now. Flip Benham meets with Don Wildmon of the American Family Association
"... Shall your countrymen go to war while you sit here?" They are sending a message to the nation already, loud and clear, if only the nation will hear it.
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