The Revolutionary Roots of Birth Control and Abortion

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian Church. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

- Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, “Birth Control and the Revolution,” 1917

Liberty Letters Comment: Few recognize it, but the roots to creating legislative, judicial, and classroom support in favor of that which is immoral, and against that which is moral, or consistent with that most inspired of moral system, the Judeo-Christian ethic (as expounded most clearly by Christ), are so very often calculated, not to liberate man in the spirit of the American Revolution, but to enslave him in the spirit of the Marxist Revolution. This confession by Margaret Sanger is but one of so many that are out there for our serious consideration, if we just open our eyes and stop pretending that it doesn’t matter. It does matter, it always has, and always will. We are in a war between good and evil, and we had better be up to it. Our civilization and our souls are on the line.

The Footstool of Despotism

An enlightened people, who have once attained the blessings of a free government, can never be enslaved until they abandon virtue and relinquish science [the science of government and of laws]. These are the nurses of infant liberty and its fostering genii when matured. To seek their favour is to secure its; to neglect it, is infallibly to lose it. … the ignorance of the people is the footstool of despotism … when ignorance is united with [moral inactiviity], liberty becomes lethargic, and despotism erects her standard without opposition.

- St. George Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States, p. 14.

Liberty Letters Comment: Tucker’s work is a much respected founding era source of study on the Constitution. George Tucker is the man who edited Blackstone’s works to apply to the American situation. His point is vital to the entire constitutional and educational debate about the value of morality, and the freedom to inject the religious perspective in the public debate. Lose our moral foundation, lose a nation full of men and women who are willing to lay down their lives, whether figuratively or in reality, for moral principle, and how easy to defeat this people - and that’s the point.

But What Can We Do?

“… nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.”

- Al Smith

Liberty Letters Comment: I often hear from my readers, a nearly helpless, “But what can we do?”

Here’s the simple answer: “Education is the key.” First educating yourself and your family, and from there , humbly, but evangelically, outwards to others, as you avail yourself of the opportunities placed before you.

And one more thing: live the standard you hope to spread, to the best of your ability, without hypocrisy (that is, though you as an imperfect being will sin; your heart, nevertheless, loves truth and virtue, not darkness and debauchery. The former is your quest, despite bumps and bruises along the way that are common to man).

Litvinenko unveiled FSB dirty work, Putin, EU’s Batten, players

In the book Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within, Litvinenko alleged that agents from the FSB co-ordinated the 1999 apartment block bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people. Russian officials blamed the explosions on Chechen separatists and in that year the Kremlin launched a new military offensive on Chechnya. In the book Gang from Lubyanka (Лубянская преступная группировка), Litvinenko alleged that Vladimir Putinwas personally involved in organized crime during his work in FSB.

In a July 2005 interview with Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, Litvinenko alleged that Ayman al-Zawahiri, along with other al-Qaeda leaders, was trained by the FSB in Dagestan (a republic neighbouring Chechnya) in 1998.^[1]

In April 2006, a British MEP for London, Gerard Batten (UKIP), cited allegations by Litvinenko that Romano Prodi, the Italian Centre-Left leader (now Prime Minister) and former President of the European Commission, had been the KGB’s “man in Italy”. Batten demanded an inquiry into the allegations. He told the European Parliament that Litvinenko had been informed by FSB deputy chief, General Anatoly Trofimov (who was shot dead in Moscow in 2005,^[2]) that “Romano Prodi is our man (in Italy)”. According to Brussels-based newspaper the EU Reporter on 3 April 2006, “another high-level source, a former KGB operative in London, has confirmed the story”. Among Litvinenko’s most serious claims is that Prodi assisted in the protection of KGB operatives allegedly involved in the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981.^[3]

On 26 April 2006, Batten repeated his call for a parliamentary inquiry, revealing that “former, senior members of the KGB are willing to testify in such an investigation, under the right conditions”. He added, “It is not acceptable that this situation is unresolved, given the importance of Russia’s relations with the European Union”.^[4]

Sudden critical illness

On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko fell suddenly ill while investigating the death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. He had had lunch at Itsu, a sushi restaurant in Piccadilly, with an Italian acquaintance, Mario Scaramella, to whom he made the allegations regarding Prodi.^[5] Scaramella, attached to the Mitrokhin Commission investigating KGB penetration of Italian politics, claimed to have information on the murder of Politkovskaya, 48, the journalist who was killed at her Moscow apartment in October 2006. He passed Litvinenko papers on the Russian journalist’s fate. On 20 November, it was reported that Scaramella had gone into hiding and was in fear for his life.^[6]

Oleg Gordievsky, another former KGB colonel who defected to the UK (and a longtime acquaintance of Litvinenko), told the BBC he believed Litvinenko was poisoned at the flat of an old Russian friend with whom he had tea before going to the meeting at the sushi restaurant.

Scotland Yard is investigating claims that Litvinenko was poisoned by thallium. Preliminary tests appeared to confirm the presence of the poison, which is colourless, odourless, and completely water-soluble. It was once a common ingredient in rat poison, but its use was restricted in the 1970s, and it is now difficult to obtain. Litvinenko is said to have ingested a potentially fatal dose^[7][8] but his specialists consider that they may never know what the poisoning agent was. Among the distinctive effects of thallium poisoning are hair loss and damage to peripheral nerves,^[9] and a photo released of Litvinenko in the hospital indeed shows his hair to have fallen out. Litvinenko attributed his survival to his cardiovascular fitness and swift medical treatment.^[10] Following a deterioration of his condition on 20 November, Litvinenko was moved into intensive care. It has been reported that his doctors have given him a 50/50 chance of survival over the three- to four-week period following the poisoning.^[9]

The incident was widely covered in the British media on 19 November 2006, with much speculation that he may have been poisoned by Russian secret service. Comparisons have been made to the 2004 poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko and the 1978 poisoning of the journalist Georgi Markov by the Bulgarian State Security. The incident with Litvinenko has also attracted comparisons to the poisoning by radioactive thallium of KGB defector Nikolay Khokhlov and journalist Yuri Schekochikhin of Novaya Gazeta (the Novaya Gazeta interview with the former was prepared by Anna Politkovskaya).^[11] Like Litvinenko, Yuri Schekochikhin had investigated the Russian apartment bombings (he was a member of Kovalev Commission that hired Litvinenko’s friend Mikhail Trepashkin as a legal counsel).

Dmitry Petrov, a Kremlin spokesperson, dismissed the idea of Putin’s involvement as “pure nonsense”.^[12]

Source: Wikipedia. Sent to Liberty Letters by Steve Montgomery

Attempt on Dissident Litvivenko’s Life Was Kremlin Sponsored - KGB Defector

Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned on the direct orders of the Kremlin because of his biting mockery of President Putin, according to a former Soviet spy now living in Britain, The Times wrote Monday.

Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior KGB agent to defect to Britain, said that the attempt to kill Alexander Litvinenko had been state-sponsored.

It was carried out by a Russian friend and former colleague who had been recruited secretly in prison by the FSB, the successor to the KGB. The Italian who allegedly put poison in Litvinenko’s sushi “had nothing to do with it”.

“Of course it is state-sponsored. He was such an obvious enemy. Only the KGB is able to do this. The poison was very sophisticated. They have done this before — they poisoned Anna Politkovskaya (the campaigning journalist murdered on October 7) on a plane last year. Who else would know where she was sitting and could poison her food? Probably also it was the KGB that shot her.”

Read the full story.

Contributed by Steve Montgomery

Liberty Letters Comment: It has been long suspected in some circles - with evidence - that the fall of the Soviet Union (and the Eastern European Block Nations) was a planned event, dating back to a 1950’s planning meeting (or earlier), a strategic advance (according to the dialectic), saved for a time where they believed it was safe to so do, and this in anticipation of a merger with the free world under a socialist/fascist United Nations, that would later turn on a dime to full communism. That during this ‘fall’ the communists would in actuality still maintain control while masking the democratic process and riping fantastic financial rewards from the free world for their ‘change.’ This editor has long believed the same, though on the other hand, that doesn’t mean that they will succeed, and it is my belief that they shall not — if we do our part to be ever vigilant. We are, however, wondering why our politicians continue to turn a blind eye to the truth?

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