The Christian Science Monitor recently reported, "The killing of an abortion doctor in Kansas has set the stage for a closely watched trial that could affect how future abortion-related cases are tried. Scott Roeder has admitted to gunning down George Tiller in the vestibule of his church in May 2009. Mr. Roeder is charged with first-degree murder, but late last week, his defense lawyers persuaded the judge in the case, Warren Wilbert, to allow them to argue that their client’s actions warrant the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. Voluntary manslaughter is applied in cases when a defendant acts believing that his or her actions are justified. Roeder has insisted his actions were justified because they prevented Dr. Tiller from performing further abortions. Some call this a ‘necessity defense’ argument."
While Scott Roeder is right to vigorously oppose abortion, his chosen method of murdering George Tiller cannot be justified on biblical grounds. Nor, might I add, is it necessary to murder other abortionists. There is one way, however, to stop the holocaust against the unborn and that is by forcing Americans to see for themselves what we are allowing our government to do. There is a historical precedent for forcing citizens to view sanctioned government killing of the innocent.
At the end of World War II, the Allied Forces liberated death camps throughout Eastern Europe. The first Nazi concentration camp freed from bondage was Ohrdruf—liberated by the U.S. Army’s 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry. This hellish place was a Nazi forced labor and extermination center located near Weimar, Germany and served as part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network.
One report recounts, "When the soldiers of the 4th Armored Division entered the camp, they discovered piles of bodies, some covered with lime, and others partially incinerated on pyres. The ghastly nature of their discovery led General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit the camp on April 12, with Generals George S. Patton and OmarBradley.
After his visit, Eisenhower cabled General George C. Marshall, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, describing his trip to Ohrdruf:
". . .the most interesting--although horrible--sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said that he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’"
When Eisenhower was informed that local citizens protested in saying that they had no knowledge of the atrocities committed at the death camps, he ordered the citizens to be forced to view what they had allowed their government to do.
It is time for Americans to be forced to view the slaughter of the innocent. You can begin by viewing The Silent Scream on the web. It will stop abortions.
