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15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - When The House is on Fire · 0 replies · -1 points

Second, the belief that your drip campaign of theatrical releases is exposing Planned Parenthood as "burning away" is nothing but narcissism. Or wishful thinking. Poking beyond the general media silence on the topic, you'll find there are as many thoughtful stories out there right now about why this LiveAction campaign has failed as there stories asking the questions you'd like them to ask.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - When The House is on Fire · 0 replies · -1 points

First, feminism is broader than one NGO, an acknowledgement you make at the end of your essay. So why create a straw-man that it's an "allegorical home" to it? And it's ham-handed rhetoric to think liberals would "house" their beliefs somewhere. I assume the rhetoric is designed to convince liberals who do think this (good luck finding them) that it is time to cut & run. Yet the essay is so insulting, any persuasion it could hope for lands with a thud.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - When The House is on Fire · 0 replies · -1 points

This sophomoric writing exercise is rife with problematic ideas. The burning building metaphor is both dangerous (despite your claims) and hopelessly strained. I'm running into a burning building to save my stuff? And my stuff is ... amorphous left-wing ideologies? I don't get it, but I'll try to unwind it.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - DC Planned Parenthood ... · 0 replies · 0 points

I hate to get into semantics, but you have too narrow a view of what "partisan" means. I don't mean adhering to a Party. I mean adhering to a cause. You don't think the authorities will take your very partisan viewpoint into account when reviewing "evidence"?

And what do they prosecute? A fake crime that was part of a sophomoric drama? Has LiveAction done the hard, real-world work to find real cases of abuse? Or is the thrill of theatre too beguiling to do that dirty (and time-consuming, and detail-oriented) work.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - Planned Parenthood's F... · 0 replies · -1 points

The Christian Science Monitor has reported that "prosecution would be hard" ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0207/Do...

... and there's one thing AG's don't like -- cases that aren't imminently winnable. So, in the end, Planned Parenthood will likely look back and thank you for tightening up some of their training, finding some of the un-disciplined, low-hanging fruit in their organization, and calling it a day. Somehow I think the people that you're feeding all this red meat to will not be satisfied.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - Lila Rose Letter To US... · 0 replies · +1 points

I doubt it. What professional would take action on this thin evidence, obtained in such a stagy manner? Especially after kindred-spirit Mr. O'Keefe's misadventures that landed him in prison and humiliated by CNN?

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - Caught on Tape: Planne... · 0 replies · +1 points

"The forces of righteousness have once again unleashed their most feared weapon: fake pimps and hos. This time the victim was Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey, which was revealed, on tape, to provide abortions! To prostitutes! And teens!"

Lol.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - Planned Parenthood's F... · 2 replies · -1 points

You're drilling down pretty far to try to prove that mp3s and mpegs obtained by a biased party are, in fact, evidence. They are not. Especially when obtained under false pretenses.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - DC Planned Parenthood ... · 4 replies · -2 points

Thankfully you're not the arbitor of that. You're not a law enforcement group. Your videos are not evidence. Get over the idea that something that gets posted on a partisan website should, by necessity, trigger arrests, prosecutions, or punitive measures.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - Lila Rose Letter To US... · 0 replies · +1 points

Because Planned Parenthood reported an incident to the Indiana authorities, but LiveAction had not staged an event there, Ms. Rose leaps to the immediate conclusion that it represents malfeasance in Indiana branch.

That is either (1) deeply flawed logic, (2) a troubling narcissism that suggests only her staged events are what should be under discussion (no real events need apply!), or (3) she has some kind of super-human omnipresence and knows what happened in Indiana.

In either case, it's a poorly crafted legal argument to be sending off to the top law enforcement officer in the land.

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