protect the innocent and to punish the guilty he sees that failure and only then does he move

into his role as protector of the innocent and punisher of the guilty. Admittedly, this is a sad state of affairs we now find ourselves in. Anti-abortion vigilantism has arisen for a reason; it has not occured in a vacuum. It only makes sense that, if abortion truly is the violent murder of over one million human beings a year in America, some people will eventually resort to vigilantism. Valid authority has absolutely failed to protect the innocent preborn child. Considering the life and death nature of the situation and the length of time that anti-abortionists have spent trying all other means available, I am of the opinion that we have been very -- perhaps too -restrained in our actions. Even some people who are pro choice acknowledge that if what we say is really true - that human beings are being slaughtered in abortion clinics - then the use of force would obviously be justifed. The fact that so little violence has actually occurred shows just how restrained most pro lifers really are; they are good people who truly abhore violence. Most Christians, however, seem to have more patience than God has when it comes to the slaughter of innocent children in their communities. Perhaps the violent infiltrators, as you call them, are God's judgement upon us all because of our refusal to take serious, forceful if necessary, action in order to stop the killing. I might also point out that perhaps you make your point too well. You leave no doubt that you believe abortion to be a violent act that destroys -- murders -- an innocent human being and that there are over one million babies murdered by abortion every year in our nation. I would suggest that if a person were to actually believe what you are saying, such a person could logically be expected to turn to the use of force (or, violence as you would call it) in order to stop the slaughter since the valid authorites will not.

Think about it. A violent person is, more often that not, stopped only by force.
Occasionally he can be talked out of it, but a violent man who will not stop preying on the innocent and will not listen to reason must be stopped by force. I can think of no greater evil than for a violent man to murder thousands of defenseless and innocent babies for profit. If the police won't stop him and the courts won't try him, if he is allowed to continue his murderous ways with impunity day in and day out, what then are good people to do? Should we write more letters to the editor? Give more money to National Right to Life? Make more phone calls? Give more speeches? Donate more money to politcal campaigns? Do we just keep on talking and shuffling papers year, after year, after year, while the abortionists keep on plying their deadly trade? The city I live in has an absurd example of just this sort of nonsense. The Arkansas Right to Life headquarters has for many years been located right next an abortion clinic. Both are freestanding buildings (about thirty feet apart) and if you look at them from across the street and "look" through the walls what do you see? You "see" two ladies shuffling papers and talking on the phone in the one building and in the other you "see" a man butchering 30-40 helpless little children. And it's all right there in front of you staring you in the face. You "see" both at the same time, in the same place. If this is not social insanity then I don't know what is.