I received many responses via email to yesterday's WorldNetDaily.com column, "Sioux Tribe plans to scalp its own." Some follow below; I'll post more tomorrow.

Many respondents appear intent on carrying on the theme of yesterday's piece - stupidity. I'm not surprised but have no patience for pro-aborts who will say anything to detract from a discussion of abortion.

In this case, I presented factual and I think compelling reasons why the Oglala Sioux should reject their president's plan to place a Planned Parenthood in their midst, which will undoubtedly do more harm than good.

But instead of discussing abortion and genocide, some would rather discuss Custer and Bush... or even my "deranged" photo.

See page 2 for letters.

Born again idiot racist

YOU! Custer and his military asked for what they got. I suppose you would have been happy if the Lakota had laid down and allowed Custer free rein! You're one of those "born-again" idiots who think people have no remorse and no feelings when it comes to abortion. Abortion is not an easy option, and very rarely is it the "partial birth" sort. You're a racist and resort to the abortion issue to voice your views. Nothing changes.

Donna Delgadillo

What white men want

Thank you for this article, I agree with you. I am a native American woman and feel like this is exactly what the white man would want of native American people, to kill their own. And the horror of abortions, what is this woman thinking. I had respect for this woman until now, she lost any respect I had for her. Thank you again.

Dolly Wells

Mad at both of us

You got one thing right. Cecilia Fire Thunder is stupid. She claims to be a nurse in Cali, but there are no records to verify that claim. Cecilia does not represent the tribe, this is her own personal opinion. Tribal members do not donate land. Instead of attacking Indians you should attack the argument. You have pissed me off with your racist comments. I bet you wear your white sheets.

Stacy Swift Bird

Put it best

Great article, you have said it better than I've ever seen it put! Excellent!

Rob Jones

Insensitive, racist, disgusting, and wrong

As an enrolled member I found your story insensitive and racist. We are a soverign nation by law. If our president chooses to put a clinic on our reservation, that is our right to do. After reading your story I felt disgusted. I am emberassed for you not only as a writer but as a human being. And please get your facts straight Custer was not massacred by the Siouxl. He just got his ass kicked.

Michael Black Eyes

Never mind abortion, let's talk about Custer

I must admit I have never had the opportunity until today to read your article. It was forwarded to me by someone who thought I might be interested in it and its contents. What a treat! I thought the KKK was only for illiterate morons. How utterly sad to find the same mind-set in someone who claims to be educated. Do you really believe the garbage you dispel to the world? If so, how do you live with yourself?

You really need to do some research before you start claiming that the Sioux nation was responsible for massacring Custer and his ilk. Custer was responsible for his own actions, as are you. There are two sides to every story and you are the "stupid" one for only reporting one. Shame on you and those like you who are so narrow- minded and "little" as to only tell one side of any story. It deeply saddens me to see this in America. Conservatives with blinders on who propagate this trash to the rest of America do more harm to our nation and tearing it apart than any terrorist ever had a chance to do.

I hope all of your evil verbiage comes back to haunt you!

dandnlewis@centurytel.net

Thanks for saying it as you see it

Thanks for telling it like it is. Bravo! May God bless you personally and all that you endeavor to do. May He continue to give you the strength, courage and wisdom to continue to speak out for the unborn.

Bill Goodwin

Etc., etc., etc., even though this is a waste of time

I am appalled that a woman as well traveled and educated as you seem to be would resort to making such racist statements as you did in this article.

Don't you think it odd that it is called a massacre when Custer could be in command of adult men of fighting age and physical health and attack a village of Indian male and female of all ages and lose the fight; yet the 7th can bunch up unarmed, captured Indians, male and female of all ages, and mow them down with gating guns and be rewarded with congressional medals of honor?

I don't understand, are you saying the Indians boxed themselves up on the reservations? How many baby scalps have you seen at Pine Ridge? Would you call a group of European decent who disagree with you "baby scalpers"? Are you forgetting it was the Europeans who offered a bounty for Indian scalps?

Why would you call Mr. Giago "chief"? I am sure he would not call you a "lady."

My grandfather adopted three kids. My great uncle adopted two kids. My uncle and his wife adopted three kids with fetal alcohol and drug syndrome. Shortly thereafter his wife died of breast cancer. His sister helped
him with the kids until she died of brain cancer. My uncle kept those kids, and they are doing very well right now. Both you and Custer seem to have a similar trait, charging into battle while being misinformed.

These are my words and I will say no more. I have wasted enough time on you.

Doug Groh

Learn to recount

Before you go recounting Indian history, you should learn it!

amrain@ncia.net

And you look funny, too

Not that you care or will even read this, but I am stunned at your hate-spewing article on the Planned Parenthood clinic on Pine Ridge. I've had a full life but I haven't run across anyone as hostile and angry and fanatical as you. Of course I don't watch Pat Robertson or let myself be dragged down into the hate and fear that seems to motivate you so-called Christians. I am a white 65-year-old female who thought that Christ spoke of love and acceptance and doing unto others. Your condemnation of all Indians as stupid shows how ignorant, loveless, UN-Christian, hateful and miserable you are. A real journalist would not stoop to such name-calling; you're only showing us that you are unbalanced, vengeful and sorely in need of an exorcism.

I hate to stoop to your level but your picture makes me laugh. You even look deranged.

Judy Bell

Sock it to you

Stupid, your editorial was way off the mark. For being such a Christian woman, what happened to love thy neighbor, forgiveness? You know the saying, 'Until you walked a mile in my shoes"? I highly doubt you have even met a Native American or been to a reservation.

Why tout President Bush as a friend, as a friend to the Indian? He cut our budget, not only our BIA budget, but also our education monies, and our health monies, so our children are the ones hurt by this, we are not the ones killing ourselves. It's your stupid Republican government, they don't respect treaties (Ft. Laramie Treaty), they steal from our lands and ourmonies (Cobell lawsuit), and they simply don't know about us, the first people of these lands. (Your wonderful President Bush's response to, "What does tribal sovereignty mean?" Bush: "Uh, uh, it means you're sovereign, you're uh, uh, a sovereign entity..." He should have just answered "PASS!"

All Native Americans don't believe in abortion, but we believe in a right, a right we don't have, a right that as Native Americans we don't want the government telling us what to do, we have been hearing this for 500 years.

Don't comment on Native American Issues, because as a White Woman, you have no experience of our lives or how we live, and if you ever called me Chief in front of my face I would sock you in front of your kids and call you Whitey! What a bunch of bull crap, i feel sorry for your kids! By the way, I have my own radio show in Kansas City, and you can sure as heck know i am gonna be talking about your racist editorial.

skycitygirl@yahoo.com

In 1876, the Oglala Sioux were responsible for massacring Gen. George Custer and his men at Little Bighorn, mutilating and scalping them as they went.

Stupid is...

Continue reading my column today, "Sioux tribe plans to scalp its own," on WorldNetDaily.com.

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Link to article on South Dakota and Native American law: www.lifenews.com/state1532.html

New America Foundation fellow Phillip Longman in USA Today on March 13 (synopsized from a longer piece in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy magazine) says basically this: Population equals power; therefore, conservatives/traditionalists have historically and will soon again inherit the earth. Writes Longman:

Childlessness and small families are increasingly the norm today among progressive secularists. As a consequence, an increasing share of all children born into the world are descended from a share of the population whose conservative values have led them to raise large families....

This dynamic helps explain the gradual drift of American culture toward religious fundamentalism and social conservatism.

Juxtapose that to this massive Zogby poll** (30,117 respondents in 48 contiguous states with margin error of +/- 0.6%) conducted March 10-14, and you'll see why the pro-abortion position is a growing loser for Democrats.

*The logo, right, is from the environmentalist website Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Its motto, "May we live long and die out," could not more aptly demonstrate why liberalism is a dying concept.

**The Zogby poll is detailed in today's LifeNews.com.

Most interesting about the controversy surrounding Harvard Right to Life's preborn poster campaign is what pro-abort students are saying about its "Elena" poster series. This educational effort has resulted in repeated vandalism....

From the Oh Harvard blog, February 16:

I think I have a right to not see that crap on my way to breakfast, lunch, and dinner....Ethically charged posters like that have no place in common spaces. Quite simply, if one is pro-choice, they make you uncomfortable and annoyed.... Some things aren't suited to cute posters with girly fonts and doodles. Some things don't serve a real purpose....

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From an article entitled, "Pro-Life Posters Spark Debate: Students rip down controversial pro-life posters in protest," in the Harvard Crimson, March 6:

"I personally find the image disgusting and don't want to walk past it everyday,"” said Nichele M. McClendon '06, who said she did not tear down any posters. "It doesn't have to do with abortion as an issue or free speeh; it's about being decent and not being disgusting."

Jamie R. Smith '08... said in a phone interview that she felt the combination of a shocking picture and controversial message made the posters disagreeable to students. However, she felt that groups have the freedom to poster about causes that are important to them.

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From an editorial entitled, "The Right To Reason: Recent campus abortion posters are purposeless," by Harvard Crimson staff writer Alexandra Atiya, March 10:

The "Elena posters" are the newest tactic of Harvard Right to Life. They feature a little fetus saying, "Oh, HI! I was just celebrating all my organs and me being 56 days alive!" I am not a fan....

They seek to cause anger, not excitement. In doing so, they reveal their antagonistic purpose, implicitly admitting that their primary function is to irritate pro-choice supporters on campus.

This kind of purposeless aggression is a hurtful and unproductive way of expressing opinions....

[I]t is simply a statement of anger to express your ideas in the way of the "Elena Posters".... [I]t's unnecessarily divisive.... [T]his deliberately flattens an intensely painful and complicated issue. It also happens to misrepresent the pro-choice members of this campus as bloodthirsty baby killers.

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I'm reminded by this story of the recent flak created when a newspaper considered ultrasound photo ads "too graphic" to run.

The pro-life movement has apparently discovered something infuriating to pro-aborts: ultrasound photos of preborn humans.

Gotta the story headline in today's Sunday Times out of London: "US states join abortion revolt to bring back ban."

"I might say, 'This is Pete; he juggles. Your son will never juggle because he won't have any arms. He'll be cut to pieces.'"

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Scheidler's favor for the third time in the landmark case, NOW vs. Scheidler. NOW sued in 1986 for conducting sit-ins at abortion mills.

NOW's filing under the RICO statute alarmed protestors of other venues and thus brought together strange bedfellows with Scheidler against NOW, including Martin Sheen and PETA.

In 2003, the Supremes ruled 8-1 in Scheidler's favor, but the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incredibly refused to implement the decision in 2004. Yesterday's unanimous ruling dealt a death blow to NOW's case... hopefully.

"It's over now," Scheidler said, according to the Trib. "I think it's over."