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Copyright: © 2010 Tom Flannery
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NOW I'M A TERRORIST

By: Tom Flannery

I've been called a lot of things through the years for my beliefs, but never a terrorist.

At least until now.

My high crime is having written opinion columns over the past few years for the Christian conservative site WorldNetDaily (wnd.com).

WorldNetDaily is, without question, one of the most influential news and opinion websites on the Internet.  As such, it has become a lightning rod for the Left.

Most recently, in a published report funded by the Guggenheim Foundation, WorldNetDaily was identified as being part of a “Network of Anti-Abortion Domestic Terrorists.”

It’s a standard case of guilt by association, except without any association.  The report accuses WorldNetDaily of having ties to a group called the “Army of God,” even though WorldNetDaily founder and publisher Joseph Farah had never heard of the group before.  No matter.  Not when it comes to leftist smear campaigns.

But it goes far beyond that.

This report uses its so-called “terror network” list to slander not only WorldNetDaily and all who have written for (as I have) or worked for the online journal, but the entire pro-life movement.  It brands everyone from Concerned Women for America to the millions of Americans who have attended (as I have) March For Life rallies in Washington D.C. as terrorists.  Or, at the very least, terrorist sympathizers.

My question is this:  Where are all these acts of terror that this broad network comprising tens of millions of Americans have committed?  And who has been targeted by terror attacks from such WorldNetDaily writers as movie star Chuck Norris, singer Pat Boone, former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, the brilliant academic Thomas Sowell, columnist David Limbaugh (Rush's brother), evangelist Greg Laurie, and so forth?  I’m still waiting to see those lists.  

Public opinion polls consistently show that more than half the country opposes abortion.  That means at least 150 million Americans are pro-life.  Yet only five abortionists have been murdered in America since the Supreme Court enacted Roe vs. Wade into law by judicial fiat in 1973.

Here are the numbers:  37 years of legalized abortion, 50 million unborn children exterminated, five abortionists killed by mentally deranged or woefully misguided individuals. 

To be sure, the five slain abortionists are five too many, as the vast majority of the pro-life movement would readily affirm.  The idea that you commit murder to stop murder is not only morally repugnant, but it goes against everything that the pro-life movement stands for (the sanctity of human life, the evil of justifying or condoning murder, etc.).

The sixth commandment is clear:  "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13).

Nevertheless, the only “terror network” that apparently exists in America — or on the planet — is the pro-life movement.  Never mind the fact that, on one day alone, Muslim jihadists murdered more than 3,000 Americans.  In just the past few months, we’ve had the Fort Hood massacre, the botched Christmas Day underwear bombing and this month’s attempted Times Square attack at the hands of Muslim jihadists.

Again, no matter.  Those were “isolated incidents” carried out by “lone wolfs” and “one-offs” who were caught in subprime mortgages and probably hadn’t been given enough chocolate chip cookies when they were kids.

Everyone knows that only law-abiding conservative Americans are terrorists.  At least that’s what the Left keeps telling us.

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