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Entry: Mutual Assured Damnation Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mutual_assured_damnation#198 Post contents: Silence is still complicity, however I can only gawk in horrified wonder at those who in the face of 40 million murders, 6 million since 9/11 in abortion clinics won't even suggest MLK style civil disobedience as it would be disproportionate. Then in the next segment or article explain how we must incinerate Tehran, or torture, or whatever because there is questionable evidence they might have some weapon and might use it. But what is disproportionate to end the holocaust in our midst sets a high threshold for any use of violence or even disorderly conduct. But as Catholic answers points out (transposing the rules to an insurgency on abortion): * the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; The holocaust continues, there aren't 50k troops in Iraq because they were killed 2 decades ago. * all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; If appeasement is still working here, I see no evidence. If it is working, we should have treated Iraq like Cuba (which is closer) - and wait for the evil people to retire or die of natural causes. * there must be serious prospects of success; And "insurgency" could easily end abortion by removing the sites and providers. Or Bush can get his "Enemy Combatant" stamp out and send every abortionist to a military brig like Jose Padilla (no charges, no review...) * the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. I doubt it would need to destroy or kill a single noncombatant. Or to ask two koans: If an insurgent ran into a building, and it as an abortion clinic, would it be OK to blow that clinic up? (noting we regularly destroy apartment buildings killing a lot of uninvolved civilians). If Al Queda contaminated pregnancy vitamins with RU486 so caused 3000 unwanted abortions, would the justifiable response be rosaries or rockets? I'll support the Iraq war only after every clinic has been turned into a smoking crater, every abortionist executed or locked up being subjected to touchless (or more common) torture, and regime change bullets are used to turn a 5-4 vote to uphold roe into a 4-3 to overturn it. But this is merely what you get when you apply the far weaker justifications for our military wars to our ongoing homegrown holocaust. I'll stay a pacifist, but if they really wish to stop the destruction of the innocent within our borders, they can start with the phone directory under "A". Sent at: 2008 11 23