preoccupied
with the ghosts of children,
She
hammers nails into the wall
for improbable angels
they float above
small, intricate, perfect
real girls
each flicker just a moment then
Snuffed out
Because they were not…
Because they were not…
born boys.
A basket full of deplorables:
they say love is in the eye of the beholder
Whatever the heck that means
But what about deplorable?
Is that open for interpretation as well?
Or is it etymologically and irrevocably anchored to hell?
To white, doughy, affluent men who use their power and money to force themselves on teenagers?
Or white, doughy, affluent women
Who malign child rape victims to
Free the perps sooner,
take their campaign donations by the hundred million
Buckets full of baby parts
Littering the sterile field
Capitalizing on
the saline burn, scissor beheading
Of minority
disabled
And female fetuses
Deplorable
Basket
where there should be babies
It has troubled me for some time that in Texas people are legally allowed to kill human beings and use their tiny, defenseless body parts for “science.”
But the two people with the courage to infiltrate and expose this science-fiction level atrocity were indicted by a Harris County grand jury for using fake IDs.
So to recap–fetus harvesting: legal
Fake IDs: a big deal
Or are they?
I spend way too much time listening to Texas teens brag about their fake driver’s licenses to believe that we in Texas are suddenly cracking down on forged driver’s licenses.
In fact, I wish we were.
But in the case against the brave people from The Center for Medical Progress the prosecution is selective, punitive, and political.
In fact, one has to wonder how many of the grand jurors in this case have ever owned or used a fake ID? How many of their children are using them now?
These are far simpler, easier questions to ask than how many Texas mothers have allowed their own children to be carved up, evacuated from their wombs, then bought for “science” while the rest of us hide behind the now meaningless phrase “everything they did was legal.”
In Texas.
when discussing
Atrocity
I find that it is best to begin
With scenes (at least a single scene)
Of domestic tranquility–
A sister reads a children’s story to her little brothers who have memorized the words. They punctuate the story with lines of dialogue and laughter…
Because
If you do not see them–real
Alive
Vivid
Indelible
Then you won’t understand the tragedy when they go missing
Completely legally, of course
The voices in support of holocaust of one sort or another are always quick to point out
Everything they did to destroy the wee ones was completely legal
–The stripping of their rights
–The dehumanizing monikers
–The methodical pillaging of their history, family, identity
–The medical framing of their naked deaths
–The sanitized commodity of their skin, blood, stems, and cells
–The clinics where they do their tinkering
Piecemeal
Tiny pieces
–All government sanctioned
–Legal to trade in and cultivate small
Parts
Tell me again
How
Piles of skin and hair and blood
Can be so..
Bought and sold.
Where was the conference room? In what hotel?
They served a light
Lunch/over the topic
How to separate the spine of a…
living soul
The way a man would gut a fish
Mark Twain said that when he was growing up in a slave state (Missouri) he was never confronted with a single dissenting viewpoint.
Pastors preached the (biblically erroneous) notion that Africans were cursed by God and therefore ought to be slaves.
No one saw any abuse of the slaves.
The slaves kept quiet about their opinion one way or the other.
In the Missouri of Twain’s youth slavery was a de facto good not evil.
A situation he addresses well in Huckleberry Finn.
But it was not true. Slavery was and is an abomination, an aggression against other humans.
What aggressions against humans do you take for granted or even passionately support?
Abortion?
Child sexual abuse?
Human trafficking?
Abortion is legal in the US and many people are passionately supportive of it. But it is a greater evil than slavery.
And while child abuse and human trafficking are illegal, if our government does not enforce their extinction, they will and do flourish in the gap.
Little Byreon Hunter was an abuse and murder victim before anyone began to look for him.
The details of his abuse, torture, and slow agonizing death are more than any of us want to face.
But face them we must. Humans, parents, bad boyfriends do unspeakable things in our midst.
This is America. And if we don’t like what happened to Byreon Hunter then we must insist that his murderers face the full force of the law.
Knowing, as we do, even that would not be enough.
It is easy to rejoice in the death of a monster. It is easy to see Ariel Castro’s suicide as the final word on the life of an evil man.
But is that enough?
I don’t think so.
I think I must grieve.
Grieve for his countless victims.
Grieve for the irreparable harm of his years of sin.
Grieve for broken justice, in this case blind for too long.
Grieve because he was once a baby whose life, like all small humans, was once so full of potential…
Grieve because all he did to hurt, disfigure, and destroy was his choice.
And he could have chosen light instead.
So much noise lately–first Mark Ruffalo lends his voice to the pro-abortionist cacophony, then Miley Cyrus lends that and a bunch of other body parts to our monkeys-on-display culture.
I have not and will not watch the Miley display. Poor girl. But I have read the Ruffalo letter and found it remarkably resonant to both situations.
Ruffalo describes his mother’s abortion as
“traumatizing…shameful, and sleazy, and demeaning.”
He is right. All abortion is traumatizing, shameful, sleazy, and demeaning.
There are plenty of places where prostitution is legal, but there is no place on the planet where it is anything but “traumatizing, shameful, sleazy, and demeaning.”
A point Ms. Cyrus has just proved rather infamously on a public stage in front of millions of people.
Abortion, prostitution, and this much publicized burlesque–so much in common, and none of it–none of it–raises the dignity of women.
You can make a great many immoral acts legal–SCOTUS has proved this over the course of the years, but no matter how legal a thing is, if it ever was “traumatizing, shameful, sleazy, and demeaning”…it still is.
I remember being shocked and outraged by the original story–an unsuspecting mama is accosted by a couple of African American teens and her baby is murdered .
Appalling, right?
When the story re-surfaced meme-style as a defense for racism and murder I left it alone. I thought–tragic, but the assailants were charged.
Then my fellow child advocate, Miranda Yonts posted very quiet updates on the story.
It seems that there are other suspects in the case–the baby’s parents. Both tested positive for gunshot residue.
When you go back to the original story something stands out–the original suspects were tagged based on truancy records. Mama says–two black teens and the system finds two black teens. They might be guilty of nothing more serious than skipping school.
Four suspects. A terrible story. Who do you believe?
Carrying Light 