In 2009, Rufus Seth Williams was elected to become District Attorney of Philadelphia, succeeding long-time prosecutor Lynne Abraham, a position he held from January 4, 2010 to July 24, 2017. Mr Williams was a decent prosecutor, but he wound up in legal trouble of his own, and spent 2½ years in federal prison.
Why do I begin with that? The answer is that, despite Mr Williams being a convicted felon and former drug addict, he has been turning his life around, and at least appears to be doing so successfully. Because he is doing that, and because he does not seem to minimize the personal failures he has had — Mr Williams states plainly in his Twitter biography that he was “Federally Incarcerated” — I can respect him.
On October 14, 2022, Mr Williams tweeted:
Tragically, yesterday 3 homicides were added to Philadelphia’s official year to date total. Sadly, we are now 0.7% off the all time record high. This should be unacceptable to everyone that truly values life. The violence, lack of accountability and lawlessness need not continue.
“This should be unacceptable to everyone that truly values life”? It has to be asked: how many people in heavily Democratic Philadelphia truly value life? In November of 2020, the good people gave 603,790 (81.44%) of their votes to the (purportedly) Catholic Joe Biden, who publicly supported, and still supports, an unlimited abortion license, to just 132,740 (17.90%) for Donald Trump, who at least claimed to oppose abortion, and appointed three pro-life Justices to the United States Supreme Court.
In 2016, the margin was even higher, percentagewise, as Philadelphians gave 584,025 (82.53%) of their votes to the odious Hillary Clinton, versus 108,748 (15.37%) to Mr Trump. Democrats outnumber Republicans in Philadelphia by huge margins, and the city’s last Republican mayor left office while Harry Truman was still President of the United States.
It is the stated position of the Democratic Party to always and everywhere support abortion, in every case, for any reason. The elected political leadership of the city support an unlimited abortion license, and The Philadelphia Inquirer wholly supports unlimited abortion.
So, I ask the question again, how many people in heavily Democratic Philadelphia truly value life? A Google search for abortion clinics in Philadelphia indicates that the city itself supports six abortion clinics, with two more nearby, in Bensalem, Pennsylvania and Cherry Hill New Jersey. While the political and media leadership of the city support abortion, it’s pretty clear that enough of the population do as well, if they can support that many abortuaries.
Is it any wonder, then, that a city which so heavily supports getting rid of inconvenient life when it comes to abortion would not be all that upset about other people getting rid of inconvenient life when it comes to the gang-bangers?
Because, let’s be brutally honest about this: getting rid of inconvenient life, whether we are talking about a pregnant woman who does not want to be ‘burdened’ with a baby, or a gang-banger or wannabe who does not want a member of a rival gang clique of young men¹ to burden his life are taking exactly the same decision, based on exactly the same reasons.
This lesson is not lost on the teenaged and twenty-something young men males of the City of Brotherly Love. They can see that ‘inconvenient’ life is cheap in Philly, cheap enough that the Philadelphia Police have a difficult time finding cooperating witnesses to solve homicides, and cheap enough that most people just don’t care! A wannabe gangsta gets offed in Strawberry Mansion? BFD, nobody other than his family cares, and a whole lot of people think that, hey, the neighborhood is better off with the victim no longer around. Even the very #woke² Inquirer only seriously covers the victims of the city’s murders when the victim is an ‘innocent‘, someone already of some note, or a cute little white girl.
I have noticed that the (apparent) gang-land killing of 13-year-old Jeremiah Wilcox generated just one sympathetic story about the victim, and since then, the Inky has gone radio-silent; a site search for Jeremiah Wilcox, conducted at 10:18 AM EDT on Friday, October 14th, four days after young Mr Wilcox was murdered, returned no new stories. I suspect, given that, and the apparently deliberately-targeted nature of his killing, Inquirer journolists³ have found nothing new that they want to publish.
It’s clear: life is just plain cheap in Philadelphia, and no one other than the immediate family and friends of a particular murder victim care about the victims. Because the Philadelphia media don’t cover the deaths of the not-so-innocent victims, all that those of us who do care, who do “truly value life,” are left with are the numbers, the statistics.
Abortion is like that. No one knows who was not born because his ‘mother,’ and some ‘doctors’ and ‘nurses’, saw to his unnamed death. Children killed by abortion are not names, just numbers, statistics often poorly kept.
And everybody who pays attention sees that, everybody who pays attention can tell that, to mangle the quote allegedly attributed to Josef Stalin, the death of one person is a tragedy, the death of 429 is a statistic.
My apologies to Mr Williams, but he has it entirely wrong: few people in the City of Brotherly Love actually do care about human life. That’s how they can support six abortion clinics, and that’s how they can choose not to help the police catch killers. In the end, there really is no difference.
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¹ – We were reliably informed by The Philadelphia Inquirer that there are no gangs in the city, just “cliques of young men affiliated with certain neighborhoods and families,” who sometimes had “beefs” with other cliques, so we must replace the term “gang-bangers” with “cliques of young men” or “clique beefers”. District Attorney Larry Krasner and his office seem to prefer the term “rival street groups“
² – From Wikipedia:
Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from the African-American Vernacular English expression “stay woke“, whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues.
By the late 2010s, woke had been adopted as a more generic slang term broadly associated with left-wing politics and cultural issues (with the terms woke culture and woke politics also being used). It has been the subject of memes and ironic usage. Its widespread use since 2014 is a result of the Black Lives Matter movement.
I shall confess to sometimes “ironic usage” of the term. To put it bluntly, I think that the ‘woke’ are just boneheadedly stupid.
³ – The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias.
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I noticed no mention of Jeremiah’s father in any of the stories. His mother had him out of wedlock at age 16! I can’t imagine my mother being only 16 years older than me. My oldest sister is 10 years older than me. He was shot at 6:50 pm on a Monday night, a school night, Columbus Day. He was probably off that day as a holiday but had school the next day. He should have been at home, not out on the street. This just shows the typical pattern in urban America, little importance placed on education, dysfunctional family structure (no fathers in the home), teen out of wedlock births. This is what happens without a stable nuclear family at the heart of society. Segments of our society are self-destructing by the very purposeful destruction of the family unit, the building block of stable societies for millenia. Abortion is one of the obvious consequences of devaluing family, tradition, faith and country. Nothing is valuable, including innocent lives in the womb or in the 8th grade.
If life is so inconvenient, that Philadelphians, or any locale, can sweep it under the rug through abortion, and the punishing of evil so heinous that it cannot be put to death, that is a contradiction.
One thing I learned from an atheist, Ayn Rand, is that to understand an event, one must first check their premise. Democrats begin with the premise that there is no value in either. That is irrational. That’s from an atheist. Then, the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, I believe in Leviticus, and about a dozen more places in it, that evil should be put to death. The problem with Democrats is that they apparently don’t believe in God, the Bible, or any religion that orders life as precious, yet commands that death be appropriate to those who commit acts of evil.
If a rational and God fearing human being gave this it’s due, he would find that the baby is innocent of any crime, including the ridiculous crime of inconvenience, and would protect life of the unborn as far as possible, including condemning the man who performs the abortion, for inconvenience, or any other reason it chooses, like what Margaret Sanger had in mind, which is evil. and kill the man who aborts.
Besides, what biological creature or organism with or without the benefit of a conscious mind tries to kill its offspring.
God gave us the gift of life. we must protect that, even if it means killing the evil that wishes to prevent it.
The left treats life as if they were just stepping on a bug on the sidewalk.