Still on the Line

An incident that occurred June 23 in Wichita, Kansas provoked a response from the local Chief of Police.  The incident was reported by Roxana Hegeman of the Associated Press on July 4th in an article titled "Kansas Shoppers Step Over Dying Woman".  Part of the response by Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams to Wichita Eagle columnist Mark McCormick was reportedly, "What happened to our respect for life?"

I am not left wondering long which leaves me more incredulous: 1) the shoppers stepping over the dying stabbing victim, LaShanda Calloway, without rendering aid, or 2) the question asked by Chief Williams.  His question wins hands down.

Let me explain.  But, first let me quote a great old song popularized by Glen Campbell:

"I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road
Searchin' in the sun for another overload
I hear you singin' in the wire, I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation but it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line

And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line"[footnote 1]

Chief Williams, I may be just a lineman for the county, not a police officer, and not a media reporter, but I "hear you through the whine", and I can't believe what I am hearing.  Your question leaves me incredulous.  I cannot believe that the Chief of Police of Wichita, Kansas can be asking such a question in 2007.

Why would I say that?  Why would I respond with such incredulity?  Can you really be asking, "Why?", in Wichita, Kansas?  Can you really ask, "What happened to our respect for life?" especially in a city, Wichita, Kansas, which is the Nation's "Abortion Capital" [footnote 2] ????  If Wichita, Kansas had "respect for life" there would have been no need for the "Summer of Mercy" in 2000 and 2001, and no need for the "Wichita Awakening" on July 14-16, 2007!
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In 2003 there were 11,600 babies murdered in "bloody Kansas". [footnote 4]  How many of these murders were committed in your city, Chief Williams, where you ask, "What happened to our respect for life?"

Here in Pennsylvania we don't ask that question.  We stopped asking that question in 1973.  We know better.  We know that our Nation has no respect for life.  We know that our governments, including our Congress and Supreme Court, the medical industries, the many pro-murder non-profit organizations, and the Nation's doctors have no respect for life.  If they did there would not have been 48,589,993 babies murdered in this nation from 1973 to 2003.
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Chief Williams, some of us are "still on the line"!  Our nation stands in jeopardy of the judgment of God because of what goes on every day, day in and day out, in cities like your's where human beings are murdered, cruelly destroyed, their blood shed on the ground crying out for the vengeance of Almighty God.

[Note:  This letter has been sent to the editor of the Wichita Eagle, and to Chief Williams.]

Footnotes:

1.  "The Wichita Lineman", by Jimmy Webb.  Lyrics from "Oldie Lyrics" at: http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/glen_campbell/wichita_lineman.html.  For further information see Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman.

2.  Operation Rescue at http://www.operationrescue.org/?page_id=582.

3.  "Summer of Mercy observes relatively quiet conclusion", by Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press, on MorningSun.net, http://www.morningsun.net/stories/072201/kan_0722010008.shtml, and "The Wichita Awakening" on ProLifeUnity.com at http://www.prolifeunity.com/index.php/article/the_wichita_awakening_july_14_16_2007/.

4.  Centers for Disease Control, Morbitity and Mortality Weekly Report, Surveillance Summaries, November 24, 2006, "Abortion Surveillance - United States, 2003, by Lilo T. Strauss, MA, Sonya B. Gamble, MS, Wilda Y. Parker, Douglas A. Cook, MBIS, Suzanne B. Zane, DVM, Saeed Hamdan, MD, PhD, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5511a1.htm.  Kansas is not unique in deserving the title of "bloody".  She earned that title in the mid 19th century, however.  Today, every one of the states wears it as the murder of the unborn continues within their boundaries.  The entire United States is bloody with complicity and guilt deserving of the fearful judgment of the Creator.

5.  National Right to Life, "Abortions in the United States: Statistics and Trends" at http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html.