Two "Yips" for DiClerico, Lapdog for the Culture of Death
                                by
                                   Jack Kenny
Aw, doggone it! He just missed it. With a little more haste, U.S District
Court Judge Joe "Say it Ain¹t So" DiClerico in Concord, NH, could have
given the howling Harpies and harridans of Planned Parenthood and NARAL
their victory by Christmas Day. Instead, his decision to strike down New
Hampshire's Parental Notification law came one day after the Feast of the
Holy Innocents on the church calendar. We can¹t blame Judge Joe for that,
though. December 28 fell on a Sunday this year and DiClerico's decision
came the very next day, just two days before the law would go into effect.

It's possible, I suppose that Judge "D" could have issued his ruling on
Sunday, but that is traditionally the day of rest. Perhaps DiClerico still
has respect for some traditions.

Apparently neither he, nor our courts, nor a near majority of our
legislators have much respect for parental rights. (The bill passed last
year by the narrowest of margins.) No, parental rights are part of the
debris swept aside by the strong, bold winds of the New Freedom that
includes, of course, the "right to choose" death for your pre-born infant as
a matter of personal preference. You know, some say "tomayto" and
some say "tomahto," and some say "potayto" and others "potahto."
And some choose life and some choose death, so what's the big deal?
"Can't we all just get along?"

No, we can¹t, really. There will be no peace, nor should there be, as long
as there is, in the words of Planned Parenthood's blasphemous holiday
greeting card, "Choice on Earth."   The greeting of the Christmas angel,
"Peace on earth to men of good will" pretty much wrote the "pro-choice"
crowd out of Christmas and beyond the pale of peace. There may be some
religions and some moral codes that regard people who defend the right to
kill babies as persons of "good will."  But they are neither the religion nor
the moral code that Western Civilization has regarded as normative for
most of the past 3,000 years.

Nor does it reflect the best of the religious and moral values of pagan
antiquity. The Code of Hammurabi prohibited abortion. By the Oath of
Hippocrates, the Greek physician who died nearly 400 years before the birth
of Christ, physicians promise to neither perform nor help a woman procure
an abortion. Those ancient pagans had some scruples, after all, unlike their
modern counterparts.

But the modern pagans have a lot going for them--the major news media,
much of the publishing industry, the greater part of the political establishment,
the Hollywood celebrity industry.   And, of course, they have the federal
courts, including the U.S. District Court in Concord.  In Judge DiClerico's
court, the pagans have the home field advantage.

Not that DiClercio himself is a pagan.  No, I imagine not.  He just follows
the precedents set by his own and other courts, especially, the higher
courts all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which discovered the right
to abortion 31 years ago next month.  DiClerico is a cog in the machinery of
injustice, of tyranny really.  He is not responsible for creating the Culture
of Death, he just does his part to perpetuate it.  He may or not believe in
that culture with its diabolical tenets, but he has become a part of it and
he defends and upholds it because that's his job.  It pays the mortgage and
puts food on the table. And it's possible he has never considered that when
the Lord said, "You cannot serve both God and Mammon," he was talking
to all of us, including Joe DiClerico.

How far down this path will the courts take us?  At this point, that seems
entirely up to the judges.  They are accountable to no one and those who are
accountable to us--the human poodles and toy terriers representing us in
Congress--have neither the will nor the spine to impeach them.  The federal
judiciary has gone from "separation of Church and State" to separation of
school from morality to separation of the federal government--and especially
the federal judiciary--from the constraints of the U.S. Constitution.  And
with decisions like the one DiClerico issued this Christmas week, we have
come that much closer to establishing a constitutional principle of
separation of parent from child.

But don¹t blame Judge Joe.   He is just following orders or, in legal terms,
adhering to precedent. I n the legal world, "precedent" means one bad
decision deserves another--and another and another until we have totally
lost our moral compass.   Some of the judges are steering the ship of state
without a compass.  And some are just following orders, obedient lapdogs
in the Culture of Death.

Two "yips" for Joe DiClerico.