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“A society committed to benevolence will produce a more benevolent individual, and the incidence of violent crime will subside“
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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“A society committed to benevolence will produce a more benevolent individual, and the incidence of violent crime will subside“
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)
DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.Skip to content
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“A society committed to benevolence will produce a more benevolent individual, and the incidence of violent crime will subside“
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)
DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is BornMartin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic. If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion. Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them. Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life. It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer. It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
* * *A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”-Author Unknown
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* * *The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become StatesThe Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
* * *NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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“A society committed to benevolence will produce a more benevolent individual, and the incidence of violent crime will subside“
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)
DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.Skip to content
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)
DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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http://www.USHLAC.com & http://www.WholeLifeParty.US & http://www.USHLAC.org> (Grass Roots) <* * ** * *“A society committed to benevolence will produce a more benevolent individual, and the incidence of violent crime will subside“
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is BornMartin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic. If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion. Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them. Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life. It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer. It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
* * *A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”-Author Unknown
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* * *The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become StatesThe Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)
DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.Skip to content
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“A society committed to benevolence will produce a more benevolent individual, and the incidence of violent crime will subside“
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)
Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.
(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is Born
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.
Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.
Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic.
If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion.
Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life.
It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer.
It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
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A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.
-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.
-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”
-Author Unknown
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Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)
DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:
“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.
“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.
“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“
Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”
In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become States
The Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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http://www.USHLAC.com & http://www.WholeLifeParty.US & http://www.USHLAC.org> (Grass Roots) <* * ** * *“A society committed to benevolence will produce a more benevolent individual, and the incidence of violent crime will subside“
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The Fessenden Report (April 6,2023)
Executions in Alabama to Resume
Bummer! After the Alabama Penal System’s brief “internal investigation” of itself, a little more than a month ago now, Governor Ivey announced that executions will resume.
Alabama Moratorium on Executions
(IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?)Will Alabama see the light and finally abolish the death penalty? Will our penal system finally stop looking for the vein? Of the states with the death penalty, Alabama is the only one that does not provide post-conviction legal assistance to the indigent. There is no statewide public defender system. Alabama cannot afford the financial responsibilities incurred by maintaining the death penalty. As simply a practical matter, it would do well to abolish capital punishment. Many ‘Republican conservatives’ around the country are taking a hard look at the death penalty and seeing it for what it is; a very impractical, incurably flawed system that needs to be abolished. The practice of executing the condemned is on the decline in the U.S., and in fact in most western democracies. Public support for the death penalty is at an all-time low.
I am quite concerned about Governor Ivey’s position on the death penalty. She has been an effective champion for the right to life (that of the child in the womb) I respect that. But for myself, being the right to life absolutist that I am, I am of course at odds with her on the death penalty. She embraces the common notion that the execution of a killer gives closure to the victims loved ones. That is not quite true. It may be for some. Although the testimonies of a great many are that they would be satisfied to be assured that the convicted killer would be incarcerated for the rest of their life. They will never have the chance to murder again. They wake up every day knowing why they are where they are, and that they will be there, most likely for the rest of their days. …to be continued
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JANUARY 24, 2023
Arizona Follows Alabama -Executions on Hold
Arizona’s new governor, Katie Hobbs, has suspended all executions while a review of death penalty protocol is undergone.(THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN RETURNED FROM ARCHIVES DUE TO IT’S RELEVENCE TO THE TOPIC AT HAND)DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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JANUARY 26, 1950
The Democratic Republic of India is Born
Having endured thousands of years of Monarchy and centuries of British rule. India becomes the world’s most populous democracy. Mohandas Gandhi and his followers struggled through decades of passive resistance before Britian finally conceded to India’s independence.
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JANUARY 15, 1929
A “King” is BornMartin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. He would be 94 today. On the closest Monday to January 15th each year we celebrate a national holiday in his honor. He is the only person in history, who was not a president, to be so honored. Though he only lived for 39 years, he left an indelible legacy.
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JANUARY 6, 2021
Chaos at the Capitol
America and the world quiver at the site of an angry mob storming the US Capitol Building. They break and enter, aiming to prevent Congress from formalizing the 2020 election results. They fail. Congress and the Vice-President, having been forced to evacuate for some while, return to their positions under the dome and resume their constitutional obligation to certify the election results. The tragic death and destruction that occurred on that day will remain in the process of resolve for some time to come.
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JUNE 24, 2022
Roe v Wade Overturned
The Supreme court has now reversed the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. But we in the pro-life movement must not rest our case. Abortion advocates are scrambling to find ground in the minority of sixteen states and D.C., where the child in the womb’s right to life is still vulnerable.Now that Roe v Wade is no longer the law of the land, we pro-lifers can rejoice, but we must not relax. The pro-abortion camp is determined to cement abortion tolerant legislation in place wherever they can and enlarge upon it wherever they can. The fight is not over, and it will not be until the inalienable right to life is fully protected by a human life amendment to The United States constitution.Even in this time of international saber rattling, rampant gun violence, social unrest, and an unprecedented level of animosity between the political parties, there is hope. There is evidence that society is trending toward embracing a consistent life ethic. If forty-nine years of liberalized abortion has had any social value, it is the lessons it has served up. There has been an awakening. The countless testimonials of women persuaded to have an abortion who have come to regret it and suffer lasting if not life-long emotional problems, have probably contributed as much to the momentum of the prolife movement as all the rest of us put together. Planned Parenthood and their like have made such an industry out the practice that it became so conspicuous at one point that it awakened a lot of people. We may have the majority we need to finally illegalize abortion. Our essential rights are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as enumerated in our Declaration of Independence. We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them. Abortion advocates use the oxymoron “abortion rights” to imply that abortion is a right, and not an assumed privilege, that clearly alienates the child in the womb’s inalienable right to life. It is the goal of consistent life ethicists, that: “No person shall be denied life.” Which is the first sentence in The United States Human Life Amendment Proposal. If no one is denied life under the constitutional amendment, it will guarantee that all lives will be protected, from that of the innocent child in the womb, to that of even the vicious mass-murderer. It cannot be proven that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide. Only insomuch as “The dead can’t kill.” But we have far better alternatives than execution. We instinctively approach death sentences with an abundance of caution. Society, through one course or another always ends up footing the bill for the costly process of appeals, etc. Consequently, it costs less to feed prisoners for the rest of their lives than it does to execute them. The effort to execute the convicted rarely comes to that end. When it does it is “cruel and unusual punishment” which is clearly prohibited by the 8th amendment. Society can justify incarcerating those who have committed heinous crimes, even for the rest of their lives, if it cannot be determined that they would not return to crime if they were free.
“We are determined that the Supreme Court decision on abortion shall not stand.”
* * *A Few of my favorite quotes
“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”-Harriet Tubman, 1896
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“If there is one population that we can be certain are prolife, it is that of the child in the womb.-Daniel Fessenden
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“Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.-Gandhi
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The anti-abortion forces are not instruments of political and social conservatism. Rather, they are related to protests against the Indochina war, the militarization of American life, and the social crimes perpetrated against the poor.-Richard John Neuhaus
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.-Henry Ford
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We must make the distinction between rights and privileges. Rights are only sustainable if no one assumes the privilege of violating them.-Daniel Fessenden
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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”-Thomas Edison
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“Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists”-Author Unknown
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* * *The U.S. Bill of Rights
Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, then according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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(Archives)DECEMBER 20, 1989
US Invades Panama & Topples Noriega
Dubbed Operation Just Cause: The U.S. invades Panama to remove Manuel Noriega who had been indicted on drug trafficking charges. The regime falls. Noriega is arrested and ultimately sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
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DECEMBER 18, 1944
Supreme Court Decision Ends Japanese Internment
During world II in a gravely mistaken decision, the US forcibly incarcerated more than 125,280 Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1945. The Supreme Court issues an ex parte decision on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, a former government employee who petitioned in 1942 for release from an internment camp. The high court declares that the US has no ‘power to contain a concededly loyal citizen’ like Endo, and as a result, the West Coast is reopened to Japanese Americans.
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DECEMBER 17, 1991
Yeltsin Declares Soviet Union will Cease to Exist
Boris Yeltsin declares: “There will be no more red flag.” Most former Soviet republics had already declared independence from the USSR. The Berlin Wall had already been dismantled two years prior. One would have been naive however, to believe that this would be the end of Russian aggression toward it’s neighbors. The current events in Ukraine are overwhelming evidence of that.
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DECEMBER 13, 2022
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Commutes All Standing Death Sentences
Oregon has not executed anyone since 1997 and has since exhibited a steadily diminishing appetite for the death penalty. In 2019, the state legislature passed a law that significantly limits the scope in which the death penalty can be imposed. The seventeen people whose sentences were commuted still face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown has stated:“I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people—even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” Brown said in a statement.“Unlike previous commutations I’ve granted to individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary growth and rehabilitation, this commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row,” she continued.“Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.“Governor Brown leaves office next month and will be succeeded by Tina Kotek who is like-minded with Brown on the death penalty. While judges and juries can still impose death sentences, governors can still commute them. It’s beginning to look like the death penalty is dead in Oregon.
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Sandy Hook Massacre
A mentally disturbed 20-year-old, having murdered his mother in their home proceeds to the grade school he once attended and takes twenty-six more lives, mostly first grade children. After committing one of the worst mass-shootings in US history Adam Lanza turns the gun on himself.
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DECEMBER 11, 1941
Germany & Italy Declare War on US
The US replies in kind, having already declared war on Japan in response to their horrific attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7. All this brings about World War II. Adolf Hitler predicts the Axis powers will forge a new world order. We all know how that worked out.
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DECEMBER 9, 1990
Lech Walesa Elected President of Poland
The electrician who shocked the world. He fought for free elections and in 1990 he won the presidential election by a landslide and became Poland’s first democratically elected president since 1926. As a humble tradesman and influential speaker, he became a labor leader and won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Walesa has been lauded as one of the most influential figures of the century.
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DECEMBER 7, 1941
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
“THIS DATE WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”In the early morning hours, the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet in Hawaii is plummeted in a two-hour assault by 360 Japanese war planes. The fleet is destroyed, and 2,403 American troops perish. The U.S. declares war on Japan the next day.
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DECEMBER 8, 1941
US Declares War on Japan
President Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan. In a stirring speech he refers to the events of the day before as “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress obliges and this brings the US into World War II.
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Gerald Ford Becomes U.S. V.P.
He succeeds Spiro Agnew, who had resigned after pleading no contest to tax evasion. Ford will serve as vice president for less than a year before succeeding Richard Nixon as president, after Nixon resigns in the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
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NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
As the presidential motorcade Cruised through Dallas, Texas, suddenly, shots rang out. The unthinkable had happened. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested, but not before he took still another life, that of police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald would not make it to his arraignment. Enroute he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1945
Nuremburg Trials Proceed
Judges from the US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union preside over the military tribunals in Nuremburg to try Nazi officials for crimes against humanity. Twelve Nazis are sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler not among them, as he had already committed suicide.
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OCTOBER 4, 2O22
Euthanasia for Depression Ruled Unjust
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the euthanasia of a depressed woman in Belgium violated Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The 64-year-old woman was given a lethal injection for “incurable depression,” a surprise to her psychiatrist and a deep anguish to her son. People like this woman can get much greater care than can ever be available when euthanasia is advocated.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1863
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[1] Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.[2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1777
U.S. Becomes a Country – The 13 Colonies Become StatesThe Second Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. It unifies the 13 American colonies under a weak central government and names this new country the United States of America. This document is a precursor to the United States Constitution. It will not be ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.
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AT A NEWS CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 17, 1973
A Quote from Pres. Richard Nixon
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” As the Watergate scandal wore on, it became perfectly clear that indeed he was a crook. Nixon resigned. The statement would live on in infamy.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
* * *NOVEMBER 11, 1918
War to End All Wars Ends
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the war. Over 16 million people died in four years of fighting. The First World War is described as “the war to end all wars” due to the bloody devastation. This day was to be known as Armistice Day. However, we now call it Veterans Day.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1944
FDR Wins 4th Term
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats GOP candidate Thomas Dewey and becomes the only US president in history to win a fourth term. Having concealed his failing health during the campaign, he will die three months after being sworn into office. He is succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1860
Lincoln Elected President
The Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin become the first Republicans ever to win a presidential election. It was only several weeks before the civil war began. Lincoln was re-elected near the war’s end in 1864, running as the candidate of the newly formed National Union Party which nominated Andrew Johnson to run for vice-president. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865
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