What if They Rebelled?
Every major historical event, as well as every minor event in history began as a thought, a decision made either by someone or by a group of individuals. To decide essentially means to cut away at an issue so as to take a course of action. We must separate the various aspects of a given problem or opportunity in order to decide how we will proceed. At one time, one person’s decision will impact a relatively few people and other times millions, even billions, of people are affected by a decision made by one person. We live in a very small world these days. The prophetic ‘explosion of knowledge’ is definitely here.
I am writing this in The dichotomy of this area is astonishing. The majesty and ingenuity of the buildings, the beautiful clothing and fine art are juxtaposed with the urine soaked streets and the massive amount of decay. The wafting smell of gourmet food and within a few steps, spilled grey water from this morning’s pumping. There are so many reparation projects; one may only walk a couple of blocks of the city without entering a safety barricade or walk under scaffolding. Time and circumstance have a way of degrading things.
As I walk, I am in awe of the magnitude of the place, but more so of the history of this place and of the people here. So much history has already been made and so much is being made even today.
I recall, as I walk, Mayor John Lindsay and his various troubles. He served as mayor from 1966-1973. During that tumultuous time of racial unrest and labor unions, sex, drugs and rock’n roll this liberal politician dealt with many social and economic issues. Most prominent in my mind are the strikes. They brought the city to its knees. Maybe the most widely publicized, was the garbage strike. It took just 9 days to change the economic structure for the workers, their families and incidentally the whole city because of the increased taxes imposed. 10,000 people refused to work for just over one week and the whole country was alarmed.
In 1916 New Yorkers had been instrumental in the ‘Bread and Roses’ strike in Lawrence , Massachusetts
Children were sent to New York
One mill owner decided to reduce pay. I wonder what he weighed to make that decision. I wonder how the history of those events helped to decide the strategies strikes of the 60’s and 70’s in New York
As I look at the immensity of this one city and ponder the events of the history here, I wonder how many people were involved in making decisions that changed the course of history for so many people. Just think about policy decisions enacted and the impact they have. It can be astounding. The financial cutbacks in police and public health services of the late 60’s and early 70’s here in New York City surely contributed to the rise in communicable disease and increases in violent crime. The reinstatement of programs and the rebuilding of the police force brought noticeable decreases.
I wonder about September 11, 2001. I am sitting a short distance from Ground Zero. The impact and number of people killed that day, because of the decisions of a small group of people, cannot be overestimated. Every single one of those people were important. Their individual and collective contributions to this world are inestimable. I wonder what they would be doing now, if they were alive.
I wonder because about that many people, more than 3,000, are killed every day by abortionists in the United States alone. What would all of those people be? What would they do? What inventions, what cures, what art, what valor, what wonder would they have contributed to us, to each other, to the future? I wonder what would have happened if the employed people of 1973 had gone on strike at the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Decisions. What if they rebelled?
I wonder especially here, because New York City has had many notorious abortionists. This is where Margaret Sanger started, what is now called, Planned Parenthood. This is where the shift in perception of abortionists changed. Once, all abortionists were thought of as despicable, dastardly criminals. Even the New York Times and the Tribune reported abortion as an absolute evil. Then some time during the 1930s and 40s there became a distinction between degenerates and ‘skilled’ abortionists, between disreputable filthy killing centers and clean equipped facilities. Suppose that change never occurred.
In the 50s and 60s the general economic status and standard of living were on a steady incline. Just about every area of the country’s services and industry increased. Conveniences of all kinds gave way to increases in free time and excesses. The influences of spiritualism and people like Aleister Crowley and other deviant leaders lead people to believe that there is no need to submit to a creator God, but that everyone has the power to be their own god and “Do what thou wilt”. The country’s inner conscience was insidiously and slowly withering. The promotion of the ideas of Spiritism spread with slow quiet intent. The Rock music and subculture that had started in theory in the early part of the century were coming to a head in the 60s and 70s. By 1971 it was clear to some that there would soon be a major action against the laws that protected babies and their moms from the terror of abortion.
There have always been prolifers. They were not necessarily called that. There have been matrons and mentors who steered young women away from exploitation when moving to the big city and those who would care for girls and women pregnant out of wedlock or by unscrupulous men. There were still many prolifers who protested and provided opposition to abortion and many who did not throw their hands up when the Supreme Court circumvented the foundations of our society, including the Declaration of Independence, the bill of Rights and the Constitution and the legislature by handing down the decisions that resulted in the horrendous, brutal murder of approximately 50 million babies and left as many women wounded, fathers robbed of their heritage and a country offering blood sacrifice daily on the deceiving alter of convenience.
There were, according to the census bureau, close to 210 million people in the US
- What if all the employed people walked off the job?
- What if say, 5,000,000 people walked out?
- What of 50,000?
- Would it have made a difference?
- Could the people have taken back what had been subjugated by the Court?
- How many of the people killed by abortion would be alive and among us today?
- Would there be a Social Security crisis?
- Would illegal immigration be tolerated by the administration?
- Would the universities promote promiscuity and deviant behavior?
- Would death reign supreme in
- Would middle school students be marched through Planned Parenthood abortion facilities as a field trip?
- What if the people of the time had a clear vision of what would result of the acceptance of the whole sale slaughter of millions of totally innocent people?
- What if they rebelled?
With the many complex issues involved, such speculation may be unproductive, maybe even wasteful. The box is open and the contents spilled out. There is no taking it back now. During a walk along the cobblestone streets of New York City it seemed prayerful. I pray you’ll decide to open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die.