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I know Calla. 

“The protesters outside started calling me a jezebel a lot more,” Hales said. “And I got letters in the mail saying that I deserved it.”

They also said things they could have known only from talking to her attacker or seeing her rape kit. Hales has a tattoo of a serotonin molecule on her left rib and one day, a protester asked what molecule her tattoo was of.

Hales received a barrage of anonymous text messages, phone calls, and voicemails. She’d pick up the phone and hear someone breathing heavily. She’d get voicemails that said, “Do you remember it?” Some days, she received hundreds of blank text messages. One night while at dinner with friends, she got a text from an unknown number that said, “That shirt looks pretty on you.”

This wasn’t a “lone wolf” - this was a fully accepted member of the local “pro-life” community and instead of being horrified or disgusted by his actions they cheered him on and celebrated what he did. 

I want my pro-choice followers to know that I and the groups and organizations I currently volunteer with, as well as every group I’ve worked with in the past, would never condone this behavior.

If a fellow volunteer told me he’d raped an abortion worker, I would immediately call the police. Nobody deserves to be raped, and every rapist deserves to be in prison for the rest of their life.

I also want my pro-choice followers to know that there is frequently conflict and drama on the sidewalk between what I call “compassion” groups and “moral war” groups.

“Compassion” groups are those like 40 Days for Life, Students for Life, and Sidewalk Advocates for Life. These groups emphasize compassion for women considering abortion, women who’ve had abortions, and abortion workers. These organizations and the volunteers they train would never condone what happened to Calla.

“Moral war” groups are those who show up to the sidewalk not out of a sense of compassion for those in crisis, but out of moral outrage against abortion. They may see themselves as “soldiers” in a “moral war” against not just abortion, but every evil in our culture. You’ll recognize them when they start talking about women using demeaning terms and try to “call women to repentance for their promiscuity.” They will often make assumptions about women going into the clinic and why they’re there and what they’re thinking. These assumptions are frequently wrong.

Compassion groups get into conflict with Moral War groups both because of our different approaches (kindly offering resources vs yelling and condemning) and because the Moral War groups see us as weak and soft, and will often turn and berate is just as they do abortion workers and clients. They tend to hate Catholics and either try to convert them or straight up call them names and condemn them.

You should see what these groups say about former Planned Parenthood clinic director and current pro-life advocate Abby Johnson. It’s vile.

Moral War groups tend to be small, local, and loosely organized. Some are associated with Abolish Human Abortion (AHA), which itself is a very loosely organized group made up of individual chapters. These chapters can be wildly different from each other, with some being well-intentioned but misguided and others being straight up harmful.

When Moral War groups show up to the sidewalk, Compassion groups will sometimes try to reason with them and ask them nicely to change their behavior. It usually doesn’t work. So Compassion groups will then physically separate themselves from the Moral War groups and pray quietly, with maybe one or two sidewalk counselors trying to reach out while making their different approach clear (using a softer voice and expression, welcoming body language, etc).

When I was a child, from the time I was about four and could understand things, my mom told me and my brother that we should have a secret word. That way, if we were ever in trouble or felt unsafe and we didn’t want the people around us to know we needed her to come get us, we could let her know. So she let us pick the word and my brother and I chose the phrase “peanut butter cups.” (I’m happy to share the phrase now since both my brother and I are adults now). 

I used the phrase twice in my life. Once, I was at a friends house when I eight years old. Her dad got really drunk and was throwing things against the wall. I was really scared and I didn’t want to draw attention to myself on the phone when I called my mom to come get me because I didn’t know if he would get more violent if I asked her to come get me. So I called her and was calm and after a couple minutes I asked “Hey mommy, did you get me those peanut butter cups from the store?” And she said “I’ll be right there.” And she came and got me within minutes. 

Second, I was a teenager spending the night at a friends house. Her brother and dad were drinking and they started talking about things that made me uncomfortable - ie: what they liked to do to women. My friend didn’t seem perturbed and said that was normal for them and that I shouldn’t worry. But I was worried because they were really drunk and I was 15 and the only ‘woman’ around that wasn’t related to them. I went in my friends room, told her I needed to call my mom and say goodnight. Before I hung up with her I asked “Next time we go to the store, can we get some peanut butters cups? I’ve been craving them.” And she came and got me, just like that. 

Even if you just ask the child “Do you know this person” if the adult butt’s in make sure to ASK THE CHILD! Even a shy kid will tell you they don’t know this person or just met them or something!

The World Economic Forum (WEF) was founded fifty years ago. It has gained more and more prominence over the decades and has become one of the leading platforms of futuristic thinking and planning. As a meeting place of the global elite, the WEF brings together the leaders in business and politics along with a few selected intellectuals. The main thrust of the forum is global control.

Free markets and individual choice do not stand as the top values, but state interventionism and collectivism. Individual liberty and private property are to disappear from this planet by 2030 according to the projections and scenarios coming from the World Economic Forum.

Eight Predictions

Individual liberty is at risk again. What may lie ahead was projected in November 2016 when the WEF published “8 Predictions for the World in 2030.” According to the WEF’s scenario, the world will become quite a different place from now because how people work and live will undergo a profound change. The scenario for the world in 2030 is more than just a forecast. It is a plan whose implementation has accelerated drastically since with the announcement of a pandemic and the consequent lockdowns.

According to the projections of the WEF’s “Global Future Councils,” private property and privacy will be abolished during the next decade. The coming expropriation would go further than even the communist demand to abolish the property of production goods but leave space for private possessions. The WEF projection says that consumer goods, too, would be no longer private property.

If the WEF projection should come true, people would have to rent and borrow their necessities from the state, which would be the sole proprietor of all goods. The supply of goods would be rationed in line with a social credit points system. Shopping in the traditional sense would disappear along with the private purchases of goods. Every personal move would be tracked electronically, and all production would be subject to the requirements of clean energy and a sustainable environment.

In order to attain “sustainable agriculture,” the food supply will be mainly vegetarian. In the new totalitarian service economy, the government will provide basic accommodation, food, and transport, while the rest must be lent from the state. The use of natural resources will be brought down to its minimum. In cooperation with the few key countries, a global agency would set the price of CO2 emissions at an extremely high level to disincentivize its use.

In a promotional video, the World Economic Forum summarizes the eight predictions in the following statements:

People will own nothing. Goods are either free of charge or must be lent from the state.

The United States will no longer be the leading superpower, but a handful of countries will dominate.

Organs will not be transplanted but printed.

Meat consumption will be minimized.

Massive displacement of people will take place with billions of refugees.

To limit the emission of carbon dioxide, a global price will be set at an exorbitant level.

People can prepare to go to Mars and start a journey to find alien life.

Western values will be tested to the breaking point..

Beyond Privacy and Property

For the last 4+ years, the Democrats have gone scorched earth. You have salted the fields and now you want to grow crops.

The problem is we have memories longer than a hamster.

We remember the women’s march the day after inauguration.

We remember the 4 years of attacks and impeachments.

We remember “not our president” and the “Resistance…”

We remember Maxie Walters telling followers to harass us in restaurants.

We remember the Presidents spokesperson being kicked out a restaurant.

We remember hundreds of Trump supporters physically attacked.

We remember Trump supporters getting Doxed, and fired from jobs.

We remember riots, and looting.

We remember “a comedian” holding up the President’s severed head.

We remember a play in Central park paid with public funding, showing the killing of President Trump.

We remember Robert de Niro yelling “F" Trump” at the Tony’s and getting a standing ovation.

We remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union Address.

We remember the total in the tank move on the mainstream media.

We remember the non-stop and live fact checking on our President and his supporters.

We remember non-stop in your face lies and open cover-ups from the media.

We remember the President and his staff being spied on.

We remember five Senators shot on a ballfield.

We remember every so-called comedy show turn into nothing but a Trump hate fest.

We remember 95% negative coverage in the news.

We remember the state governors asking and getting everything they ask for and then blaming Trump for their problems.

We remember a Trump top aid verbally assaulted in two DC restaurants.

We remember people banging on the Supreme Court doors.

We remember that we were called every name in the book for supporting President Trump.

We remember that Hollywood said they would leave after Trump was elected but they stayed.

This list is endless, but you get the idea.

My friends will be my friends, but a party that has been on the attack for 4 long years does not get a free pass with me.

This pretty much sums up everything!