Pro-life video of the day: Pro-lifer attacked at IL roadside protest
by LauraLoo
This month, pro-lifer Kevin Rilott was attacked by a man at a roadside protest in Rockford, Illinois. Pro-Life Action League has posted the video on YouTube, along with this information:
On August 16, 2012, the Pro-Life Action League joined the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative for a Face the Truth Day. At the first site at Riverside Boulevard and Alpine Road, a man leapt from his car and attacked pro-life activist Kevin Rilott, head of the Initiative.
The man had already caught Kevin’s eye for splashing pro-lifers up the road with a dark liquid, so he caught the entire incident on video.
The police have been provided with this footage and it is hoped charges will be filed against him soon.
WARNING: This video contains EXTREMELY graphic language. Not for sensitive ears.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDFPEQgVgVA[/youtube]
[HT: Jill]
“This video contains EXTREMELY graphic language. Not for sensitive ears.”
It’s good to have disclaimers like this for the squeamish pro-choicers who come to the forum. ”Reality-based community” — not so much.
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This man and woman both need prayer. With such a strong reaction to that image it is clear they have experienced a great deal of pain. Using those photos on sidewalks may convert some but it seems they drive away and anger others. Obviously this man has serious anger mangement issues and should be dealt with by the authorities.
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I don’t understand where that rage comes from. I lost my mom to alcoholism some years ago but I don’t go on a frenzy when I hear jokes about drunks, or if I saw some MADD protestors doing something provocative I wouldn’t be angry at them for that. That probably doesn’t rank anywhere close to miscarriage (I’m guessing that’s what the woman was talking about), but I still just don’t understand.
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Chris: “I don’t understand where that rage comes from.”
Unfortunately, I have to get back to work right now, but if no one else explains this for you, Chris, I will do so later today.
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This angry young man reminds me of my ex-husband who coerced two girlfriends (that I know of) before me to abort and tried his best to coerce me.
I pray that the authorities require anger management for this guy and I pray that he gets to the bottom of where his anger really stems from. If he doesn’t get help, the people around him are in real danger.
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Pretty sure they are both post abortive.
The rage comes from seeing THE TRUTH! I remember my own anger quite well.
How dare we remind them??
If it were a poster of mutilated puppies I am sure folks would demand to know who in the world hurt the puppies!! Not tear the poster out of someone’s hands.
Nobody ever asks to know which abortionist did this!!
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Hi Chris – the anger expressed is very likely due to being post-abortive. I’m not sure what the relationship is between the woman and the guy who tossed the sign, but her claims that she lost 3 “kids” doesn’t sync with her reaction, unless she’s post-abortive herself.
Still, if her children were already dead via miscarriage, then she wouldn’t necessarily be angry about pro-life imagery. There is a possibility of a D&E being used to remove a miscarriage, but that’s less of an occurrence than an elective abortion. 3 desired miscarriages needing to be removed… while still possible, suggests complications that would tend to make someone more sympathetic to a pro-life view, not less.
MusicBringsJoy is right – they are both in serious pain – and his rage is likely from being legally helpless as a man to do anything to defend his child. Roe has figuratively castrated men. The images and her remarks are simply a gut-wrenching reminder of his helplessness.
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Rockford’s nasty clinic may be closed, but Rockford’s community is still highly death-minded. That is, many people believe that violence and killing are valid solutions to life’s irritations. (Not that the city is full of murderers! I’m just saying that the city has more than the usual number of people who are quick to justify their own violence in response to their own anger.)
The pro-lifers in Rockford are courageous. And they will need more courage, now that the Culture of Death in Rockford realizes that it is seriously threatened by a growing Culture of Life.
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Nobody ever asks to know what abortionist did this!!
Right, Carla. Why don’t people jump out of their cars and say, “Who the *&%# did this to these children?”
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Something struck a nerve. But it’s the well-being of the nerves of his child that I fear for.
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That would be something Praxedes!!
A demand to know what monster perpetrated such violence on innocent human beings??!!
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I had a miscarriage six months ago. I’ve never had an abortion. I’m 100% pro-life, but…since then, I will admit that those images make me angry. It’s hard enough to grieve…it’s even harder when you are grieving the death of your baby, and people want to show you pictures depicting the death of others. I will admit to feeling a bit of hatred towards the people holding them (rational or not).
And I didn’t even have to have a D&C, but if I had…knowing it was a similar procedure, all I would be able to think is that I did that to my baby, even after death, and that I am a horrible person for it, in my eyes and theirs. I hate myself enough for the fact that I couldn’t find my baby’s body, and he/she was likely flushed down the toilet rather than buried.
Obviously, the reaction the couple had in this video was extremely over-the-top and wrong, and I hope the authorities deal with them, but in a way…I guess I’m just saying I know a bit of what they feel. Anger is a stage of grief, too.
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What this comes down to is abortion breeds violence. Violence against children and violence against those who show the truth that abortion is murder.
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A great deal of the problem feeding the emotions of people is the steady drumbeat of over-the-top hateful rhetoric seen on radical leftist blogs and heard on left wing radio. If anyone has had the “pleasure” of hearing some of the infantile rantings heard on leftist radio you know what I mean.
Carla is probably right in that they are both post-abortive. When we see this kind of rage expressed in gestures, screaming, taunts, swerving of cars at us and in profanity of the most vulgar sort it is almost a sure bet that at some point in their lives they were involved in some manner in an abortion.
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I’m pro-life to the point where I agree with Rep Akin about saving lives even in the case of rape. But, it’s just wrong to hold pictures of aborted babies along the roadside. If it was just adults looking at the pictures, I wouldn’t have a problem. But, a few years ago when I had my grade school daughters with me, I was very upset to see people right beside our car holding these pictures. 8 and 10 years old is just too young to see something like this. Let’s try a different approach. Or at the very least, if someone wants to hold these signs up ion public, have the decency to cover them up when they see children in the car.
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“A great deal of the problem feeding the emotions of people is the steady drumbeat of over-the-top hateful rhetoric seen on radical leftist blogs and heard on left wing radio.”
First of all, there is virtually no left wing radio. Right wing radio (Rush, Hannity, Beck, et al) dominates the market share. The reality is that the abortion doctor murders are fed by what is on blogs like this and what spews from evangelical and Catholic pulpits across this country. It’s a short hop from pastors, priests, and pro-life Jihadists talking about how abortion is murder to murder of abortion providers.
But please, do cite “leftist” radio and its arbitron market share.
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“Carla is probably right in that they are both post-abortive”
Right – everybody who is pro-choice is post abortive. While the wishful thinking does make a sweet validation for your world view, it just isn’t true. LOL.
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BTW, how do we know that this isn’t some staged incident in order for the anti-choice jihadists, like Ms. Stanek, to be able to post it on video?
And if it isn’t staged, the videographer allowed the car’s registration to be easily identifiable. If it isn’t staged, the owners of the car might be getting some nice, pro-life death threats as we speak.
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Chris handled it well. Too much hate, especially from the Fox News and right wingers, some left wingers as well.
I knew this would happen sooner or later. My friend of a left wing persuasion was attacked at a debate 2 years ago. She is very petite and frightened. Her attacker was a nasty right wing woman. It comes from both side.
Again, the Christian did the right thing.
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Kate, I, too, have had a miscarriage and fail to see how these images make you angry towards those who are attempting to stop the killings. Maybe you could further explain why they make you angry.
I hope you get some help for your anger and hatred.
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If it is wrong to hold pictures of aborted babies along the roadside, imagine how wrong the actual act of abortion is. While it is possible that the couple had been through an abortion and reacted so strongly due to the act, and it is also possible that they are simply pro-infanticide liberals that believe women should have the right to kill their children. Given such a view, attacking pro-lifers would be relatively small potatoes. The guy appears to be in need of psychiatric help.
I am wondering if anyone has any thoughts about this: Is there a point during a confrontation when a pro-life advocate is justified in protecting himself from physical harm?
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it really is quite amazing that probably a very nice young man like this would go into such a rage over someone voicing their opinion.
It’s difficult not to believe there is some kind of guilt over sexual sin or perhaps even abortion there. The sins of lust and anger go together.
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Caroline, I watch Fox all the time, and I still have yet to see any expression of hatred. Could you please cite examples?
Love,
Another Nasty Right-Wing Woman
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Praxedes, it’s a knee-jerk, emotional reaction. Before my loss, I was perfectly fine with them using those images. I don’t believe they are “wrong” for doing it. But a previous poster asked where such strong emotion could come from, and I was just trying to explain that I could see where it would.
Why does it upset me? Because it reminds me that like the children in those posters, my child is gone. Dead. Because I fear my child having suffered like that. Because I was unable to protect my child’s life, or to give my child a proper burial, and the guilt I feel over that makes me feel like my child was thrown away just as they were. And then I’m angry that I’m in that situation, where all those thoughts and emotion, the grief and sadness and anger over the loss of my baby are there at the surface. And so I get mad at those holding those pictures because I feel like if they hadn’t been there at that moment, I might have been able to keep that buried down deep inside me and to avoid feeling it, at least for a while.
I know it’s not rational for me to feel that way. I do receive grief counseling–it’s a process that I am actively working through. I haven’t seen such signs in a while (I live an hour from the nearest abortion clinic, so it’s rare that I do) and, in fact, don’t even know if I would react the same way now.
Like I said, I only brought this up because, to me, I can understand why seeing such pictures can anger a woman who has had a loss.
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Hello Kate,
I have had an abortion and a miscarriage. I delivered my 10 week old child into my hand during my miscarriage. Perfectly whole, tiny and beautiful. And I flushed him down the toilet. It pains me to even type that.
My daughter in my abortion? She was chopped into pieces and sucked through a tube into a bloody jar. That is the truth.
There is no comparison but I do understand your emptiness, sadness and longing. I really do.
I’ll Hold You in Heaven by Jack Hayford is one of the most precious books I have ever read.
I am praying for you and I am a moderator here. Please feel free to email me.
carla@jillstanek.com
Those that are holding the graphic signs? They are not doing it to hurt. They are calling us all out to CARE and TAKE A STAND against what is happening 3500+ times to innocent human beings every single day. They are trying to stir the conscience to actually give a rat’s rear and DO SOMETHING to stop the evil of abortion.
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Hi Frank,
A prolife woman was holding a graphic sign of an aborted baby. A proabort woman walked up and asked, “How can you allow children to see these horrible pictures??”
The prolife woman asked her, “How can you allow children to become these horrible pictures??”
The anger is misdirected. Think about it.
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One time a pro-abort swerved their car at me when I was peacefully praying outside the Planned Parenthood House of Horrors in Aurora IL.
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Thanks for the explanation, Kate. I still carry the sadness from the loss of our baby. He was the only child me and my husband had together.
If anything I became more angry at those responsible for legalized abortion after my miscarriage and more supportive of those who are trying everything to stop it.
My prayers and thoughts are with you.
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@Kate: Perhaps this is me talking “out of turn” but I feel like I should say this.
You say you worry that your child was “just thrown away” the way an aborted child would have been because you were unable to give them a burial. However, the very fact that you grieve and anguish over the loss of this life means that your child’s life did not pass unmarked. You have honored that life, and you still value it. Though perhaps that won’t bring the closure that a burial would, you don’t need to fear that your baby is considered unimportant. They are important. You are proof of that.
I’m sorry it’s been such a struggle for you, and I am glad that you are working through it. I hope that you are able to continue healing and building peace. God bless.
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BTW, my comment about how this could have been staged in order to promote more pro-life propaganda wasn’t published. I also noted that the license plate of the car is prominently displayed and if this wasn’t staged, the owner of the car could be at risk from guys like Jasper who talk about second amendments rights – which, of course, are not, unless one lives in a “stand your ground” state, open endorsements of murder.
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“Caroline, I watch Fox all the time, and I still have yet to see any expression of hatred. Could you please cite examples?”
Coverage of the so called “Ground Zero Mosque” was an exercise in Islamophobia. Hannity’s show is one great big hate fest directed mostly towards Obama and liberals. Their treatment of immigration issues is very nativist. Bill O’Reilly frequently attacks those with whom he disagreed. He waged a multi-year crusade against Dr. Tiller who was murdered in a climate of hatred aided and abetted by Mr. O’Reilly. He has also expressed some very homophobic opinions.
If you need more information on Fox bias and hatred of their fellow Americans, read News Hounds. They watch Fox so you don’t have to.
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ive been attacked for holding a beautiful poster of the developing baby so it was the fact that it was anti abortion that was the issue. also over twenty years ive had so many people critisize the photos and asked them to come with a their own pro life stuff that they think works and set up a tablel to change minds but 20 years later not one of them has showed up. it is very easy to be judgmental but not so easy to take action yourself
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Jasper – your comments at 8:00 PM are completely wrong.
As much as you disagree with others, you shouldn’t be calling other commenters names, nor advocating violence.
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CC,
You know the commenting rules. You have been here longer than I have.
Jasper’s comment was deleted. As well as yours.
And that is all the interaction with you that I will need today.
Carry on.
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CC: You’re using the word “hate” really loosely, irresponsibly, and in an entirely undocumented way.
Could you please define “hate” in a non-ad hoc way, and then specify something you believe meets that definition without requiring additional premises inside your own skull (viz., not in evidence in a way repeatable for other minds) to complete whatever inference or syllogism you imagine is supplying your conclusions?
I’m in earnest. It’s not because I doubt there’s hate out there, whatever network we’re talking about. It’s simply because “hate” has become little more than a slur, an epithet of late. It’s something to laugh at by default until the speaker substantiates their use of the word.
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CC, so exposing Dr. Tiller’s crimes (thousands of illegal, late term abortions) is hate?
Of course Dr. Tiller’s murder was wrong and reprehensible. That does not change the fact that his little victims deserve that his crimes be exposed to the light of day for all to see.
Truth is Truth. I guess Hitler’s war crimes should not have been exposed. We certainly don’t want poor Mr. Hitler to feel ‘hated’.
What a laugh that you and other pro-aborts defend Tiller and other late term abortionists like Gosnell. Shows your true colors, through and through.
Never one word of sorrow, empathy or sympathy for the tiny victims of butchers like Tiller and Gosnell from the likes of you. Not one word of condemnations for their crimes, ever, while 99.99999% of pro-lifers are peaceful, loving, law abiding citizens. Because you are clearly loosing the argument, you spew out angry rhetoric.
I really don’t know how it is possible to go through life with such malice and blackness of heart and soul. Life is beautiful and much too short.
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Wow, so…wanting immigration reform is hateful and “nativist”. I should press charges against myself.
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CC,
I watch Fox News so you don’t have to.
The Ground Zero Mosque was opposed because people thought it would be a little jarring for relatives of the victims visiting the 9 / 11 memorial to hear the call to prayer. Go figure. There were some 20 mosques in Manhatten. There was no need to have the 21st that close.
Bill O’Reilly is always misinterpreted as being hard right simply for his bombastic style. He’s actually quite middle-of-the-road, always playing devil’s advocate on issues where you know he agrees with the conservative viewpoint.
He distances himself from conservatives by calling himself a “traditionalist”. And he constantly steps on the comments from those on the right, even more than those he disagrees with.
That’s his ego talking. He constantly dismisses expert opinion with his own. He is not conservative’s favorite pundit, despite his ratings success.
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CC, since you align yourself so squarely with abortionists, it makes absolute sense that you should also choose to throw your hat in with terrorist sympathizers. Islam is a political system as well as a religion. You might want to read up on the latter half od Mohammed’s life. Islamists mean America and Americans no good. The sooner you realize it, the sooner you might want to move to Canada. (hint hint)
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I like how CC is so down on Catholicism because it’s like, anti-woman and stuff, but throws in with people who regularly stone female rape victims to death. Because, feminism.
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Misogyny!!!!
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I think CC’s just a phobophobe.
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Now that’s scary! :)
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She subscribes to the FDR school.
This is easily tested, though the setup can be difficult. If she’s in a low-lying area when a hurricane or tsunami is coming — does she flee to higher ground? If so, she’s not quite into FDR territory. If someone’s chasing her with a gun, does she stand her ground or run? Again, a shibboleth of the FDR school.
Aspiring to phobophobia (of the FDR sort) is a heckuva commitment. I’m not sure she’s really up to it.
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Alrighty. Giving a child the right to live regardless of the crimes of their father is WORSE THAN STONING A WOMAN TO DEATH BECAUSE SHE WAS A RAPE VICTIM.
I think I’m done here.
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CC,
I am soooooooo done with your bashing of other’s beliefs. Sooooo done.
I deleted your comments.
Blasphemy will not be tolerated.
And PLEASE don’t feed the troll. CC is only here to stir it up and derail the threads.
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this is an iisue same as slavery in the 1700\1800s we are now being judge the only true and living god remember the civil war.God is not mock you sow baal worship you reap babilon.
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