NOTRE DAME, PART 1

George Offerman

It has been nearly two years since the now infamous “ND 88” was arrested and had trespassing charges pending over our heads for that duration. Since this was an ongoing case, we had been advised by our attorney Thomas Dixon, to refrain from making direct statements or comments that may have jeopardized our case. Because this particular event and circumstances took on a life of its own and grew larger than any of us ever expected, others picked up the mantle and ran with it, and in the process, discovered more information that was very embarrassing for ND. It is in this way that many in the pro-life movement has shown support for our cause and without pressure from the various groups and influential individuals, we may have been looking at a very different outcome. As far as I am concerned, this is a very large victory for our side and it exposed the weaknesses of the Church and confronted them on their weaknesses and hypocrisy. This is my story of the events that transpired over the two months leading up to the Obama speech and honorary doctorate at Notre Dame.

It’s not my issue.

Nine of us from the Insurrecta Nex team had just returned from a very successful trip to Rome, in which we were able to meet with nine prelates and four representatives to present them with compiled information Oves Sine Pastore (sheep without a shepherd). It became apparent after this trip that we could not depend upon the American Church or most of the Bishops within the body of the USCCB to be overtly supportive of the pro-life movement (although many individual Bishops have been bold in their statements and support). Randall Terry had made suggestions while in Rome, that we ‘need a fallback position’ and it seemed at the time the soon to commence Sotomayor hearings and nomination to the Supreme Court would be this position.

Upon returning to the states, we learned that Notre Dame announced it had invited Obama to speak at it's 2009 commencements, and he had accepted. Notre Dame was also going to honor Obama with an honorary degree, and the school spun this as ‘opening dialogue’ concerning many of his ‘social issues’. Despite the fact it disgusted us, no one other than my wife Kathy thought much about doing anything other than writing letters of protest, and allowing for the local pro-life groups in the Midwest to do something about it. After all, we were focused on Sotomayor and getting the word out about her pro death positions to the country. It was not something we thought we should invest in, and it was seen as a ‘distraction’ from the stated purpose of moving forward in the soon to be supreme court hearings.

It was a couple of days later that Randall Terry had an ‘epiphany’ that it was Obama’s position, coupled with the Catholic Churches complicity in allowing this atrocity to occur that needed more urgent attention than even the Sotomayor hearings. So we gathered as a team, and it was decided that Randall and his family would re locate to South Bend for the next two months and begin a ‘boots on the ground’ campaign to have Obama cancelled from Notre Dame.

At that time, there was little commentary written about this atrocity, and no other groups were present at South Bend, and no other groups demonstrated any interest in pursuing this as an issue equiring their persence there. With a donated office, and two homes rented, the Terry’s and several members of the Insurrecta Nex made South Bend their home. And for the next two months, these vigilant warriors made noise that began to attract a great deal of media, both positive as well as negative. Many groups in the pro-life movement were negative about this effort, and were highly critical of tactics used and were convinced this was the wrong move to make. (Many of these groups ultimately showed up on the weekend of the 17th, and have been taking credit for the publicity and exposure to the media of these efforts).

As the efforts at South Bend began to bear fruits, it began to attract the attention of a much wider swath of the pro-life movement, and people of stature began to commit to this effort. Joan Andrews Bell, a well-known warrior from days gone by committed to the cause. Norma McCorvey, of Jane Doe fame, Fr. Norman Weslin, founder of the Lambs of Christ, Dr. Monica Miller of the Citizens for a Pro Life Society, Jack Ames of Defend Life, Missy Smith of WAKEUP, and eventually Alan Keyes joined in on the efforts.

The arrests start

Randall Terry, along with other protestors, entered the Notre Dame campus on Friday, May 1st with baby carriages filled with bloody plastic fetuses. While Randall was arrested fairly quickly, Diane Roccogrande nearly made it to the administrative building that houses Fr. Jenkins’s office. These arrests lead to a step up in tactics and ultimately set the stage for confrontation with Notre Dame. Had Fr. Jenkins let this effort play itself out instead of ordering the arrests, it may have been likely that little attention would have been paid, and this occasion very well may have generated little interest in the media. Since Fr. Jenkins decided to use the tactic of arrests, it ultimately brought about the ‘media circus’ he was hoping to avoid, and drew attention to his very un Catholic stance by inviting the most pro-death president in the history of the United States to speak at this prestigious university.

Once it was apparent that the tactic to be used by Notre Dame would take in the future for protests would be arrests, the nature of the tactics used by the Insurrecta NEX team also changed. It became apparent that in order to make the point we were attempting to make would require significant sacrifice on the part of all those who planned on going onto the campus. The team also decided to abandon the bloody babies, and simply challenge the school by coming onto campus and praying the rosary. The team thought that Fr. Jenkins would not be so bold as to arrest peaceful prayer warriors praying the rosary on a so called Catholic Campus. But to our chagrin, we were wrong in this assertion and it thus changed the whole strategy of what we wanted to do.

To be continued.

NOW WE LOOK AT THE SCORE

George Offerman

The elections are over and it is time to assess what went well, and what did not. There will be many of the pro life organizations that will take credit for this outcome, as I have already witnessed in some of the ‘press releases’ by a few of the pro life media outlets. These same organizations will revel in the incremental and snail paced changes they believe they caused, and most likely they will not bother to mention the little fact of the tea party in this outcome. Truth be told, the pro-life movement was non-existent in this election and all the rhetoric and BS they will come up with will not change that fact.

This is easily verifiable by looking at the importance of the issues, and who is driving the debate. It is very apparent the number one issue by far, is getting the out of control spending and entitlement goodie basket back in line. Next is creating jobs, then accountability and transparency in government dealings. This vote was a referendum on stopping the rapid takeover of this country by socialistic/fascist elements that believes government knows better than the individual, and thus should have a prominent role and say so in the day to day life of the ‘incompetent’ American. Nowhere, and I mean nowhere, did the life issue come up at all.

However, the capital area was abuzz with the 225 ads that Missy Smith was able to run, and it has created controversy in this metro area of nearly 4 million people. This basically occurred in less than 3 weeks, mainly WITHOUT THE HELP OF ANY PRO LIFE ORGANIZATIONS other than the Insurecta Nex team, and advanced more discussion and true education on the issue of legalized child killing than the rest of the multi million dollar funded, 501c3 organizations combined. For the first time ever, the Washington, D.C area got to see firsthand, the bloody and gory reality of legalized child killing and for the first time since the cursed Roe decision, the forces of death had to confront and defend the reality of their creation, and all they could come up with was derision and hate. It showed their true nature, and many people, who on the surface look moderate, were shaken to their core, and now have many of these images ‘burned in their memories’. That is how real change takes place, not this mamby pamby BS that is sold as real activism by these impotent organizations.

A challenge was put out by Missy Smith’s campaign to the major players and ‘leaders’ in the pro-life movement. There were three simple requests, and all three could have been met without any threat to non-profit status or violation of the 501c3 status. These three requests were 1) endorse Missy Smith personally, 2) donate to Missy’s campaign personally and 3) send out or link Missy’s site to the distribution lists. Do you know how many organizations or leaders did these three items? Ambassador Alan Keyes of The Conservative Majority PAC, Jack Ames of Defend Life, and blogger Jill Stanek. That’s it!!! There were a few who completed one or two of the requests, but most requests were ignored. And this is after all the ‘hoopla’ over how the MSM continually ‘hoses’ the pro-life movement, and after all of the fuss over how candidates run for office, yet sells out the movement once in office. Missy Smith represented both of these facets 100%, and she received the best coverage from the likes of the Washington Post, CNN and the other ‘hated’ MSM outlets that supposedly never tell the true story of legalized child killing. Well, who got caught with their pants down now?

What should be obvious by now to the front line pro lifer is that the vast majority of these supposed pro life organizations are nothing more than organizations that are more concerned over their continued existence and funding than truly ending legalized child killing. We have documented the letters and phone calls to these leaders and organizations, and will be putting out a ‘report card’ on them. It is only fair that their donors know what these organizations and leaders are up to with their money, and the donors should be given an option to fund those organizations that truly are about ending this holocaust. These donors should know how their money has been absconded and wasted in the name of ‘saving babies’ when in fact, it is for the proliferation of the organizations themselves.

Think about it. If an organization has a 501c3 status, and they claim they cannot call out any candidates by name that are pro death, and likewise, cannot by name, endorse a pro-life candidate, why do they fund raise for elections? Is this not a scam in the first degree? But that’s exactly what these organizations claimed, and they will now take credit for the ‘landslide’ in the Republican victories that the tea party actually created. Does this not boil the blood of the front line pro lifer who truly wants to see this bloody holocaust end? Why do these organizations claim to be faith based, when the IRS is their god, and they bow to man’s laws instead of God Almighty? They have their priorities, and the laws of God backwards.

So, over the next several weeks to months, we will be spotlighting these leaders and organizations and ‘calling them out’. We will be naming names and informing those who butter the bread of these organizations that their butter is ending up on moldy bread. For legalized child killing to truly end, we must use graphic images, and confront, face to face, the forces of death. That means getting rid of the shackles of the cursed 501c3 status, and facing the fact we are going to royally piss off the forces of evil. That is the way, and the path is narrow, and lightly traveled.