September 26, 2009  

For Immediate Release:

ROCKY RIVER – Fred Sokol, Chair – Stop Abortion in Rocky River Committee was recently told by a person in front of Rocky River Health Center [Planned Parenthood] 20800 Center Ridge Road that offers ... “Abortion pill (medication abortion) … up to 9 weeks after the start of your last menstrual period.”  That my graphic abortion sign display is not ethical.  I disagree. 

“ETHICAL” MEANS DOING THE RIGHT THING IN WHATEVER YOU DO.  

My graphic display of an ‘unborn baby’s abortion and death’ to save unborn baby’s lives from abortion and death, … makes people see, remember and turn away from the horror of abortion.  That is, ethical and the right thing to do.

“For America to turn from its sin of abortion – America must be shown its sin of abortion – and if America rejects the message to turn from its sin of abortion – America’s sin remains.” – Fred Sokol   

For God has said Himself, “Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins.” Isaiah 58:1  

‘PHOTOGRAPHS’ THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY - HELPED STOP IMMORAL ACTS IN AMERICA BEFORE … AND THEY WERE ETHICAL AND THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

STOPPING SLAVERY IN AMERICA

During the American Civil War [1861-1865] … Americans were shown a particular graphic picture of the savagery and horror of human slavery.  That picture [below] crystallized the North’s reason and resolve needed to win the American Civil War.  That ultimately led to the stopping of human slavery in America.  Ethical and the right thing to do … YES!

^[1.] “… the 1863 photograph of a slave who had been savagely beaten by his overseer. The gracefulness of man's pose contrasts sharply with the stunning gruesomeness of his wounds, capturing the horror of slavery.” ^{[1.] [Prologue Magazine - Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4 From Pearl Harbor to Elvis: Images That Endure - By Ellen Fried]}

THAT THE NAZI HOLOCAUST’ DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN

On April 15, 1945 World War Two in Europe was coming to a close.  Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower as he toured with the advancing American First and Third Armies through Germany.  Came across “a German internment camp near Gotha” Germany [concentration camp was not used as a term yet].  He visually encountered “starvation, cruelty and bestiality” at the camp.  So gruesome was the encounter General “… George Patton would not enter” a room with human horror and savagery in it.  General Eisenhower upon seeing said human horror and savagery was then prepared to give ‘first hand pictorial testimony’ to the World … to make sure that the Nazi Holocaust did not happen again.  Ethical and the right thing to do … YES!

^[2.] “On a recent tour of the forward areas in First and Third Armies, I stopped momentarily … But the most interesting – although horrible – sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha.  The things I saw beggar description.  While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates … The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick.  In one room, where they piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. … I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to “propaganda”.” – ^[2.] [Letter, General Eisenhower to General [of the Army George C.] Marshall [The Chief of Staff, Washington, D.C.] concerning his visit to a Germany internment camp near Gotha (Ohrdruf), April 15, 1945 [Dwight D. Eisenhower's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box 80, Marshall George C. (6)]

Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George Patton are given a tour of Ohrdruf concentration camp – April, 1945. [Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum]  [Please Note: tour guide standing sideways and center of photo was later recognized by former inmates as a camp guard and stoned to death. – Fred Sokol]

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHILD LABOR LAWS IN AMERICA

At the close of day in the coal mine the children who work in the mine wait in the usual crowded cage that is entirely open on two sides and not very well protected on the other two … to go up to the top.  These small boys’ eyes are burning and blinded by the dust that is very dense in the mine that obscures their view. The ‘mine dust’ also penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs.  Black Lung Disease will one day visit them to take their pre-mature life away.  Yet the children are glad the day is over as they wait to go up to the top.  They also think about the slave-driver that stood over them during the day prodding and kicking them into obedience.  The children appear to be 12 to 14 years old.  It was hard, dangerous and deadly work in the mines for the young children of the early 1900’s in America.

Lewis W. Hine, American, 1874-1940 who was best known for his use of photography as a means to achieve social reform, ...  In his hand, the camera became a powerful means of recording social injustice and labor abuses.

Lewis W. Hine cared enough for these children’s welfare.  He photographed them in their plight.  He showed the pictures he took of child labor not only from the mines, but from the factories, mills, fields and the streets showing poor and hapless children suffering in dangerous and fatal work … to the people of the United States.  Ultimately to establish Federal Child Labor Laws in America.

Then in 1938 Federal regulation of child labor was achieved in the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act - for the first time, minimum ages of employment and hours of work for children are regulated by federal law.  Ethical and the right thing to do … YES!

[Early 1900’s] Breaker [Coal Miner] Boys - Hughestown Borough Pa. - Coal Co. Pittston, Pa. Photo: Lewis Hine [photo supplied by: Child Labor Public Education Project]

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I WILL CONTINUE TO DISPLAY GRAPHIC ABORTION SIGNS TO CRY OUT AGAINST THE MORAL AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE AGAINST THE UNBORN BABY.

As past Americans did the right ethical thing … to erase certain moral and social injustice in America … by showing those social injustices to America.   

I will continue to do the right [ethical] thing as past Americans have done. … by my display of graphic abortion signs to show to America as well … the social and moral injustice of abortion towards the unborn baby.   

So I can protect the unborn baby from abortion and death … in a peaceful and legal way.

MY TIME ON THIS EARTH IS LIMITED.

A motorist drove by me as I displayed my graphic abortion signs this last Tuesday evening.  He put his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at me.  My time on this Earth is limited.   

YET YOU WHO OPPOSE US PRO-LIFERS – YOU WILL NEVER STOP PRO-LIFERS.

Oh, Rocky River … you who oppose our display of graphic abortion signs … why are you afraid of the truth?  Do not be afraid of us pro-lifers.  We are peaceful and love life. 

Yet you will try to shut us up anyway.   

Yet you will never silence the screams of the aborted and murdered unborn babies.  You will never silence the pro-lifers that keep coming forward to stand up for the unborn baby in Rocky River, in the United States and in the World.

You will never stop God from continuing to call even more ‘everyday people’ [for our Government, Religious, Business and School leaders have failed to stop abortion] to come forward to pray, to stand and to display graphic abortion signs.   To finally one day stop abortion in Rocky River, in America and in the World.

For God the Creator of All Life wants all Human Life to live. 

Even puny mankind who rebels against God - and the Human Life He gives as a gift to this World … will fail to Stop God from raising-up more Pro-Life Ministers to protect Human Life in this World.    

FINALLY [AND AGAIN]

“FOR AMERICA TO TURN FROM ITS SIN OF ABORTION

AMERICA MUST BE SHOWN IT’S SIN OF ABORTION

AND IF AMERICA REJECTS THE MESSAGE TO TURN FROM ITS SIN OF ABORTION

AMERICA’S SIN REMAINS.”  - Fred Sokol

Fred Sokol, Chair – Stop Abortion in Rocky River Committee - JMJ