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Iowa pro-life legislators plan to throw another game

7/10/2023

Tom Hoefling

As a general rule, I'm not much of a fan of sports metaphors, because they always seem to fall short. However, once in awhile I will indulge in the practice. My apologies ahead of time.

For half a century, pro-life elected officials across the land have been running bad plays. Instead of simply invoking the self-evident humanity of the unborn child, and the Constitution's explicit requirement that they be equally-protected, in every state, they have come up with a dizzying array of immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive regulatory gimmicks that are really nothing more than bad substitutes for doing the right thing.

Here in my home state, a decade ago, with the help of my friend Tom Shaw, we offered those pro-lifers a moral, constitutional, clean equal protection bill to end abortion in Iowa once and for all. They buried that bill before it could even be considered in committee, or have a single public hearing.

Five years ago, with full control of the Iowa legislature and the Governor's office, they passed an immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive "heartbeat" bill, which was, predictably shot down immediately by the liberal state supreme court. Then, Dobbs came down from the US Supreme Court, and the pro-lifers thought that they would simply begin to enforce their "six week" "heartbeat" bill. Again, predictably, the state's highest court said "no."

And so, how do the pro-lifers who completely control the law-making process respond? Tomorrow, in special session, they're going to make the exact same immoral, unconstitutional, counter-productive, oath-breaking error that they've been making for fifty years. They're going to meet in special session and pass another awful "heartbeat" bill.

It's overtime. The other team is ahead. It's fourth down, and the ball is on the two yard line. The ball has been snapped. The pro-lifers are rolling out to the right, with not a single defender between them and the goal line and the win. And what are they determined to do? Spike the ball and lose again.

Except, this isn't a game. Thousands, nay millions, of innocent lives are on the line. The very basis of our form of government and our claim to liberty is at stake.

Why do they refuse to stop this holocaust when they have the governmental power to do so?

If it really was a sports team, you'd think they'd been paid off by the bookies, and they would be forever banned from playing the game. Seriously.

A message to Iowa legislators as they move to pass another immoral, unconstitutional "heartbeat" bill tomorrow

7/10/2023

Sent to all IA legislators and the Governor:

Dear Iowa legislator,

As you go into this special session, this is the primary thing you should be thinking about:

As per the imperative Article Six requirement of the United States Constitution, you took a solemn, sacred, oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Every single clause of the stated purposes of that Constitution is destroyed by abortion, most particularly the ultimate stated purpose, which is "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity."

Posterity, of course, by definition, includes those who are not yet born, and, those who are not even as yet conceived. The framers of our Constitution put the rights of succeeding generations - which includes us - on an equal plane with their own rights.

Abortion destroys an innocent child, which is bad enough. But, more than that, it erases entire blood lines. Instead of securing Posterity, it eradicates Posterity.

And, that same Constitution you swore to uphold, in multiple amendments, explicitly, absolutely, requires equal protection under the law for every single innocent person, in every State in the Union. This is not optional.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." – The Fifth Amendment

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." – The Fourteenth Amendment

Likewise, the Iowa Constitution you swore to support and defend starts out by recognizing the equal, inalienable right to life of every innocent person.

So, any bill you pass which fails the equal protection test is immoral and unconstitutional. It is a wicked violation of the most important aspect of your oaths.

"Six week" bills, like all regulatory abortion bills, in effect, grant explicit legislative permission to murder all of the babies, as long as those babies are murdered by your arbitrary schedule.

Whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, that's totally wrong, and it's time you admitted as much to yourself, and to your fellow citizens.

There is only one just, constitutional bill you can pass. It's one that, as Tom Shaw's equal protection bill (attached) would have done a decade ago, goes straight to the murder code and rightly defines the unborn child as a human being, as a human person, from their creation onwards, and declares that they are protected by our laws, the same as any other person, at any other stage of human life or development. Then, scrub out any language in the existing Iowa code that is permissive in any way of murdering babies.

All you really have to do to accomplish this is to dust off Tom Shaw's bill (attached), with the additional step of stripping all the language that has been added by pro-lifers over the last decade or so that says it's okay to kill innocent babies, as long as they are killed by the rules.

Dobbs vs. Jackson, like Roe vs. Wade, utterly failed to recognize the self-evident humanity of the child in the womb, and the consequent duty to provide all persons in our country, born or unborn, equal protection under the law. But, at a minimum, it stripped away any fallacious excuse you might still have as a state legislator for continuing to fail to physically protect the most innocent, helpless, and defenseless among us.

Please, just do the right thing, finally. Bring this bloody holocaust to an end in our state.

Restore equal justice.

Respectfully,

Tom Hoefling
Lohrville, Iowa
President, Equal Protection for Posterity

I'm a canary in the coal mine

6/17/2023

Tom Hoefling

I have been faithful to real conservative principles in the public arena for decades.

I've told the truth, as I know it, without fear or favor, consistently.

I've offered the people the only true roadmap for saving America, which is individual and national repentance, and a return to true moral and political principles.

I've run for president three times, governor of my state once, and served in the leadership of two political parties.

How much support have I received from conservatives and Christians during that time? Very little.

How much coverage have I received from the media? Almost none.

At the same time we've seen a string of completely unprincipled candidates lifted up within the GOP, the supposedly conservative party, culminating in the ascension of a complete moral reprobate named Donald J. Trump.

How much support has this craven individual received from folks who call themselves "conservative"? Overwhelming support, to the point of cult-life devotion.

How much media coverage has this dangerous, craven, crackpot received from the media? Literally hundreds of billions of dollars worth of free advertising.

It's no fun being the canary in the coalmine, believe me, but at least my experience can be an object lesson to you about the true state of America, and the American church. I hope and pray that you draw the right conclusions from it all. The earthly fate of our children and grandchildren depends on somebody doing so.

The Cause of America

3/19/2023

If you murder one, you murder them all

3/14/2023

Tom Hoefling

After the birth of her second child, in the wake of severe post partum depression, a young woman in her twenties was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She spent most the next decade in the mental institution, but two years into her commitment, on a short visit home, she and her husband conceived another child.

Since there was no way that she or her husband was going to be able to care for this child, should he have been aborted?

That woman was my mother. The child was me.

Seven years into her commitment, my mom was raped in the hospital and conceived child number four.

Should that child have been aborted?

That child was my half-sister.

If my sister and I had been aborted, our 25 amazing, wonderful children and grandchildren would not exist.

You see, when you exterminate a helpless child, for any reason at all, you exterminate posterity too.

I'll say it again: Abolitionists, abortion is NOT legal

2/28/2023

Tom Hoefling

Another in a long line of loving, but firm, notes, delivered over the course of many years, to those abolitionists who continue to wrongly claim that abortion is legal in America.

When you cede legality to abortion:

1. You are admitting that you don't really know much about what law is, and how our American constitutional form of republican self-government, premised in the moral law, is supposed to work, or,

2. You are lazy and don't care how badly your rhetorical sloppiness harms the cause of stopping the abortion holocaust in America, or,

3. You are, in reality, on the side of the abortionists and the regulationists in agreeing that the most heinous, lawless, illegal, illicit, illegitimate, and unconstitutional acts can be made "legal" just because you, or they, or a court, or a legislature, or somebody, says so.

I know this going to offend some, but it must be said:

If you insist on continuing to cede legality to abortion, even after you've been repeatedly, patiently, lovingly, corrected, (some of you repeatedly over the course of years,) you despise your brother. You are arrogant and unteachable. And, therefore, you are a danger to the cause and not to be trusted, no matter the number and volume of your proclamations, or how large the crowd of your followers.

"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void."
-- Alexander Hamilton

"[A] law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and [...] courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument."
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, summation, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Here is the supreme law in America. Any statute or court opinion to the contrary is null and void. In other words, it must be considered not to exist:

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." – The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." – The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Abortion is not legal anywhere in America. Never has been, and never can be. Get it through your thick skulls, Christians.

"Gay marriage" will remain illegitimate, even if they pass a lawless "law"

11/16/2022

Tom Hoefling

Both Obergefell and the current "gay marriage" bill working its way through the Congress are illegitimate.

By every principle this country was founded upon, the court opinion and the proposed statute are lawless, and therefore null and void.

Not a single clause of the stated principles of our Constitution can be fulfilled when natural marriage, and the natural family, the way God created, defined, and instituted them, are overthrown. It's not possible.

When it comes to marriage, God has already decided. "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." So neither individuals, nor states, nor our national government, have any legitimate right to decide otherwise. All they have is DUTY. The absolute imperative DUTY to agree with nature, and nature's God, and through the laws, and the enforcement of those laws, to protect and preserve one man one woman marriage. You may have the POWER to distort what God intended, but all you're doing when you exercise that illegitimate power is codifying injustice, and destroying your own form of republican self-government, and obliterating the very basis for the American claim to liberty.

The natural moral law is an absolutely indestructible, immovable object, and no man, or collection of men, is an irresistible force. Attack it if you will, but know this beyond any shadow of doubt: You will only dash yourself, and those who are foolish enough to follow your example, to pieces.

William Blackstone:
"Good and wise men, in all ages...have supposed, that the deity, from the relations, we stand in, to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is, indispensably, obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever...This is what is called the law of nature, which, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."

Alexander Hamilton:

"Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty and personal safety."

"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void."

We must repent and restore American constitutional self-government

11/12/2022

Tom Hoefling

Civil government is of God. He instituted it as a force for the restraining and punishment of evil in a fallen world, one which will be needed until He comes again and destroys evil. The scriptures are quite clear about this. You can read Genesis chapter 9 and Romans chapter 13 for yourself.

Americans were, at the beginning of this republic, almost entirely professing Christians who understood all of this quite well. For all their faults, they did set up functioning civil governments that more or less reflected a moral, biblical model. All officers of that government were, and are, required constitutionally to swear a sacred, solemn oath before God to uphold moral, constitutional, republican self-government.

Why is the great American experiment in self-government beginning to fail? It's so simple. It's because the people, including the professing Christians, have lost their fear of God. They have abandoned basic morality. They have become corrupt oath-breakers. They put other corrupt oath-breakers into public office. They reject the Lord's sovereignty over all things, and sneer at those who continue to advocate for just, righteous, decent politics.

Without repentance, there is no hope for our country, or for our children and grandchildren. And that repentance, not just in words, but in deeds, must start with those who name the Name of Christ.

Black and White in the Red, White and Blue

11/7/2022

My rose-colored glasses have been shattered,
Turns out the world has always been black and white, you see,
Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

Don’t sell your immortal soul to the red, white and blue,
Don’t give it to the Reds, or to the Greens.
Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

“It’s fine, it’s lawful, it’s a good thing, to kill the babies,” they say
“The blood of the multitude of the innocents that is on our hands, it will wash clean.
God is far too loving to punish us, things will remain the way they’ve always been.”
But, sorry, man, good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, bloody shades in between.

Someday very soon, no matter who you are,
No matter what else, in your own own righteousness, in your own power, you try to do,
You’ll run smack into black and white reality,
And your rose-colored glasses will shatter too.
Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

God is a God of mercy,
But, you know quite well He’s a righteous God of judgment too.
The whole world, for its sin, stands judged.
No matter the shape or the shade of your banner,
We’re all going to be called to account, except we truly repent,
Even here, in the land of the free and the brave
In the land we love, the home of the red, white and blue,
Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

(c) Tom Hoefling, Nov. 7, 2022

What, to the unborn American child, is your Fourth of July?

7/5/2022

Tom Hoefling

What does Dobbs v. Jackson, the recent Supreme Court opinion that supposedly “overturns Roe v. Wade” actually do? Not much. The decision is deeply un-American, and it allows the abortion holocaust to continue.

“The Court’s decision today does not outlaw abortion throughout the United States,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in his concurring opinion to Dobbs.

Just as in Roe, the court failed to do its primary duty, which is to acknowledge the self-evident humanity of the unborn child, and the child’s protection by the Fourteenth Amendment’s explicit requirement that the right to life of every innocent person be protected within every state.

The Fourteenth Amendment states, “No State shall…deprive any person of life…without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Contrary to those crystal-clear words, Dobbs leaves the legal disposition of our supreme God-given, individual right – the right to live – up to the arbitrary whims of a democratic majority, either in the Congress, or in the state legislatures.

“It is time to…return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives…. That is what the Constitution and the rule of law demand,” Justice Alito wrote in the majority opinion.

What could be more un-American or unconstitutional? What could stand more in opposition to the clear words of our Declaration of Independence than to make our supreme right subject to a vote?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.”

Our God-given rights, starting with the right to life, precede and supersede all mere man-made laws and constitutions. Therefore, those rights are unalienable. This is the cornerstone principle of the American republic, the main principle we celebrate every July Fourth, for goodness’ sake.

But, contrary to those principles, if Dobbs is to be heeded, every single child conceived in this country is still in danger of being slaughtered, by the abortionists or the pharmacists, if his or her murder-minded mother is willing to order up some pills, or to simply change locations.

“[A]s I see it, some of the other abortion-related legal questions raised by today’s decision are not especially difficult as a constitutional matter,” Kavanaugh said in his concurring opinion. “For example, may a state bar a resident of that state from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no [sic] based on the constitutional right to interstate travel.”

You don’t need a law degree to understand that, in America, our most sacred, essential rights are supposed to be protected by our laws, not merely by travel inconvenience.

You may ask me, as others already have, “Aren’t you happy that Roe has been overturned?” To which I reply that I can’t be happy about a dangerous, destructive myth. According to the principles upon which our republic was founded, Roe v. Wade was a legal nullity from the moment the court promulgated it in 1973. It should have been ignored from the beginning. It was nothing but a vile vapor, an illicit court opinion, not a law, and certainly not in accord with the laws of nature and nature’s God, or our Constitution.

In Federalist 78, Alexander Hamilton said, “There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void.”

In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared: “The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court…in ordinary litigation between parties…the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having…resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

So, forget about Roe and Dobbs. They are, in legal reality, as irrelevant to the question of abortion as Dred Scott v. Sandford is to the question of slavery.

I’m submitting this article for publication on July 5th, 170 years to the day since the great Frederick Douglass, former slave, delivered his historic address in Rochester, NY, on July 5th, 1852, entitled “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” Hence the title of this piece.

Douglass had freed himself some years before – voting with his feet – and had trained himself to become, almost certainly, the most eloquent spokesman for his brothers and sisters who were still being held fast in slavery.

You may notice that Douglass, by use of the word, “your,” didn’t at that time refer to America’s Independence Day as his own, being a black man in America, more than a decade before the end of slavery in the United States.

He said, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.”

In this great speech, Douglass expresses his admiration for the founders of this American Republic. He eloquently speaks of his love for the principles they expressed in our great national charter, the Declaration of Independence: “The Fourth of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history – the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism… prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. …[T]he Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny… The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”

He declares the Constitution to be a fundamentally anti-slavery document, in part because of the fact that slavery (like abortion) violates all of its stated purposes.

And then, he righteously lambastes his generation, especially the Christians, for their gross hypocrisy: “I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me…This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

Do you not see, my fellow American, my point? Blacks were not being protected, as they should have been, and today, our generation is guilty in just the same way when it comes to the protection of innocent unborn children. Except, perhaps, our guilt is even greater in scope, with more than seventy million innocents dead.

“What have I, or those I represent (the enslaved), to do with your national independence?” Douglass asked. “Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?”

Ask yourself, in our day, are the great principles of natural justice embodied in the Declaration of Independence being extended to our posterity? The obvious answer, even in the wake of Dobbs, is NO. Absolutely not. Again, any child conceived in America today can still be murdered under the color of “law.”

This Independence Day, millions of “pro-life” Americans celebrated what they thought was a great victory for life, when, in fact, they should be mourning continued abject defeat.

They think they have “overturned Roe” with little or no understanding of what that means or doesn’t mean.

By far the greatest threat to the existence of our republic has always come from those who would dehumanize some portion of humanity, and thereby strip them of their rights. The ultimate destruction of many great nations throughout history can be traced to the injustices brought about by their abject failure to recognize and respect the God-given rights of all. If all are not equal before the law, no one’s rights are secure.

No matter what the Supreme Court says, there can be no moral or constitutional neutrality when it comes to genocide.

Fundamentally, Roe and Dobbs are the same

6/28/2022

Location, Location, Location?

6/27/2022

More of Justice Alito's Gross Hypocrisy in Dobbs v. Jackson
Tom Hoefling
June 27, 2022

Our natural rights adhere to us because of who and what we are, not because of our location. We are, each of us, made in the image and likeness of God. (See Genesis 1:26). Our value derives from that fact, from that reality, not from where we might happen to be today.

When God said, "You shall not murder," He meant that you shall not murder anyone, obviously. When He said, "You shall not steal," He meant that you shall not steal from anyone, obviously. These are the simple moral premises of decent, just human government. I have a right, granted by God, not to be murdered or stolen from. And you have an equal right not to be murdered or stolen from. It's simple. This is American Civics 101.

He never said, "You shall not murder or steal, unless your victim is over there rather than over here." No. Everyone has an intrinsic God-given, unalienable right to not be murdered or stolen from, no matter where they are. These rights precede and supersede all manmade laws and constitutions. They apply to all human beings, all persons, everywhere, in all ages. We are ALL supposed to be protected by our laws, not by our location.

These natural law principles were the very foundation stones of the American republic.

In Dobbs v. Jackson, "Justice" Samuel Alito rightly points out the arbitrary nature of Roe v. Wade, and how foolish it was for the Blackmun court to determine whether a child would be protected based on their location in relation to a hospital. But, then, hypocritically, he and his colleagues ruled that innocent babies would henceforth be protected based SOLELY on their location, i.e., what state they happen to be in today. And, very poor protection that is, in light of the fact that any murder-minded mother can still simply change her location in order to slaughter her offspring, at any time, under the color of "law."

The phrase "overturning Roe" is utterly meaningless when any and all unborn children can still be murdered in our country, as long as they are murdered in the government-approved place.

It's not supposed to be that way in America. Our republic was founded and established on the principle that government - all government, at all levels - exists to provide equal protection for the God-given, unalienable, individual right to life.

Our Constitution's ultimate stated purpose is "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity."

And that Constitution, which every officer of government in this country is required to swear an oath to support and defend, absolutely requires equal protection under the law for every innocent person, in every state. It's not optional. It's not "up to the states to decide." Please, America, stop pretending that it is. And, stop doing the wicked things that these foolish, hypocritical judges tell you to do.

Ukraine, give God the glory, and depend solely upon Him

6/10/2022

Tom Hoefling

Deep down in their hearts, both the radical American Left and the Trumpish so-called "Right," very much want to appease the dictator of Russia, war criminal Vladimir Putin. They're hedging their words very carefully at the moment, but it's right there between the lines of everything they say, if you know how to listen. They're just waiting for their opportunity to once again gain the political ascendency.

As costly as it is to them and their country, the Ukrainians should thank God that they're forced to fight their own war, without NATO or American boots on the ground. Because, depending on the United States to fight your battles for you, long-term, has been, for many throughout the history of the last century, a losing proposition. Ask the Poles, or the South Vietnamese, or the Afghans, or the Iraqis, or the Kurds. They'll tell you. Swings in American public opinion and politics make it an unreliable ally in long wars, in far too many instances: especially for those in the most dangerous circumstances, militarily, geographically, and geopolitically.

If I was advising the Ukrainians, I would tell them to get everything they can out of the West. But, don't put all your precious eggs in that basket. Technology can only get you so far. In the end, all you can truly depend upon is yourselves, and, more importantly, upon Almighty God.

"Slava Ukraini," they say with justifiable patriotic pride. But, the only way that real glory, and security, can come to Ukraine is for Ukrainians to give the glory to God, and to rely entirely upon Him to defend their land and people. The West is not your savior. Only Jesus is. Depend upon Him, and continue your glorious fight, against the invaders from the east, and against the appeasers, in faith.

How we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4/11/2022

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Tom Hoefling – Do Babies Have Rights? A discussion on Abortion

3/28/2022

Changing the Narrative
Tom Hoefling Interview with podcaster Rashad Leonce
Taped March 2022

First you must make the demand

3/13/2022

Tom Hoefling

The natural moral law is the basis for republican self-government, the rule of law, and justice, in America.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."

The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of our land.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." "No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Both explicitly require equal protection under the law for the right to life of every innocent person, in every jurisdiction. It's not optional. It is imperative.

No additional laws or court opinions are needed to provide equal protection under the law for the innocent unborn child and thereby end this bloody holocaust that has claimed the lives of so many tens of millions of helpless, defenseless, innocent boys and girls.

All that is needed is enforcement of the law by the executive branch of government, at both the federal and state levels. Nothing more, nothing less.

But first, you, Christian, must make the demand that it be so.

"The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever . It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.” — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78

Obey, America, or be destroyed

2/14/2022

By Tom Hoefling

Abortion costs a helpless, defenseless, innocent little boy or girl their life. But it is also a dagger in the heart of American republican, constitutional self-government in liberty.

Abortion utterly destroys the natural law moral principles spelled out in our national charter, the Declaration of Independence. It represents the total denial of our Creator, of the concept of God-ordained equality and God-given unalienable rights, and of the very raison d'etre of human government, which is to secure that equality and those rights to every person.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."

Abortion destroys every stated principle of our Constitution. Our national Union is attacked by abortion at the most fundamental level: the natural bond between the mother and her child, which is the essential first building block of our entire civilization and society. Instead of establishing Justice, abortion establishes the worst kind of injustice. What greater wrong can be committed in the physical sense against the individual person than that you murder them? How can you have any sort of true domestic Tranquility, i.e. peace at home, when you have entered into the very heart of that home and annihilated the children? Our society is supposed to assure the common Defense, or the defense of all. How can anybody consider themselves to be safe when certain disfavored classes of human beings are declared to be the "legal" prey of hired mass murderers? How can you claim to be defending the Welfare of all, when you are sacrificing the most innocent and helpless among us on the altar of ease and convenience? How can a nation possibly claim to be securing the Blessings of Liberty to a Posterity that they are slaughtering by the tens of millions?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The Democrats and the Republicans both claim to stand for the Constitution. When elected, they all swear the Article VI oath, as they are required to do, to support and defend that Constitution. How many of them are actually doing it? None. Not as long as a single innocent child is being destroyed under the color of "law" in this country.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Here is the stark truth: unless and until equal protection is restored to the little children, in compliance with the explicit, imperative requirements of our Constitution, all hope is gone for this country's survival. Union, Justice, Tranquility, our national security, the good of the entire nation, Posterity itself, is gone, trampled into the dust because the people were too immoral, and too stupid to understand what it was that they inherited from their much wiser forefathers.

Obey the Lord, and live. Disobey the Lord, and keep destroying the innocents He made in His image, and you will be destroyed. It's as certain as the sun rising.

That's your choice, America.

"You shall not murder."

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

-- Thomas Jefferson

The "Pro-Life" Flat Store

11/30/2021

by Tom Hoefling

It's time for American Christians to stop playing a rigged game that is costing tens of millions of innocents their lives.

A very long time ago, I was a fifteen year old street kid from a very broken family who ended up working on the carnival for ten years. I'll have to tell you all some stories some time. I've got some good ones.

But one story will have to do for today.

In the carnival game business back in the Seventies there were still a few that were flat out rigged. Carnies called them "flat stores." The sort of thing that had a hidden kicker to make the ball pop back out of a wooden "bucket" every single time the operator wanted it to.

That's what the abortion business in America is. A bloody flat store. On the surface, it looks like there are "two sides" fighting against each other, the pro-abortionists and the pro-lifers. But, it's a complete scam. Even when what I call "Pro-life, Inc." "wins," it loses. Every single time. They are in practice nothing but shills for the abortionists. And that's true because the statutes they pass through our legislatures, long before they ever reach a court, have already surrendered the only real moral, constitutional, and legal argument against permitting the mass murder of innocent babies. And these lawless statutes that they pass are all done within the framework of the fallacy of judicial supremacy. So, not only are they certain to lose every time, they're double certain to lose every time. Even if the operators let them "win" once in awhile for effect, at best, all they end up with is come cheap, useless trinket.

Tomorrow, the "Supreme" Court will hear oral arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which involves Mississippi's "15-week" "pro-life" "law."

Emblematic of fifty years of utter failure, with this case the "pro-life" side, as usual, walks into court having already surrendered the only real moral, constitutional, and legal argument against abortion, which is constitutionally-required equal protection under the law for the supreme God-given, unalienable individual right. And they are still completely bound by the continued destructive misimpression that the court has sufficient governmental authority to continue to authorize mass murder. It's so predictable as to be a farce.

This lawless "law," which in effect ends with "and then you can murder the baby," is not going to change anything, inside or outside of the courts. That's true because most American Christians remain either ignorant or morally compromised when it comes to abortion. And their Republican/National Right to Life political "leaders" like it that way. It's how they make their money and win their votes from ignorant or morally-compromised Christians.

There is once again a lot of "pro-life" and media hype going around about this case. Both sides need to raise money, I guess. But this Mississippi law is a bad joke. It does nothing good. It should not be praised by the church. It's a bad tree which cannot possibly produce good fruit. All an abortionist has to do if he wants to keep killing, and making mountains of cash, is lie on some paperwork, or not even file. He, a mass murderer by profession, is given, by "pro-life" (Christian?) statute, the role of judge, jury, and executioner, without due process for the victim. There is no due process of any sort before the execution. This "law" denies that process to the innocent child. If it stands, with the imprimatur of the court, that serves to do nothing but continue the demise of the principles of due process and equal protection under the law for the supreme God-given rights of all people in this country.

Please, just stop it. Abolish abortion now, in spite of the courts. The Christians in this country have the political power to do so, if they will simply stop playing an obviously rigged game and thereby supporting evil. Demand that your executive officers and legislators provide equal protection for all persons, as God and our Constitution require.

The Greatest Threat to the Existence of our Republic

11/19/2021

Tom Hoefling
Originally published on November 19, 2016

We are all CREATED equal by God at the moment of our conception. This is self-evident. At that precise moment of time God has declared His divine intent, which is to bring a unique individual human person, made in His image and likeness, into physical existence. From that moment onward, until natural death, His command, "you shall not murder," fully applies.

Our national creed, as expressed so well in our national charter, the instrument that brought this nation into existence, perfectly conforms to this understanding:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

The U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of our land, in its wording, has also always fully conformed to God's stated intent in this matter. In that great document's original statement of purpose, it was made crystal clear that all were to be protected in their God-given rights, including those persons who were not yet born, or even as yet conceived, i.e. posterity.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union (that is the union of ALL), establish Justice (that is justice for ALL), insure domestic Tranquility (that is peace and tranquility for ALL), provide for the common defense (that is the defense of ALL), promote the general Welfare (that is the welfare or well-being of ALL), and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves (that is ALL of us who are now living) and our Posterity (that is ALL who are yet unborn or unconceived), do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The first round of amendments to the Constitution, which we call the Bill of Rights, in its wording conformed fully to God's will and command as well, specifically in the Fifth Amendment, in which it was made explicit that no innocent person could - at least legally, legitimately - be stripped of their God-given, unalienable right to live.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

In the wake of the terrible civil war which nearly tore our national union apart - a war that was fought, whether everybody wants to face that fact or not, over the intrinsic rights of persons, and the intrinsic obligations of states to respect the intrinsic rights of all persons - the Fourteenth Amendment was debated, passed, and ratified. This amendment not only reiterated the protection for every person which was already required by the Fifth Amendment, it also made quite explicit the absolute obligation each of the states has to provide equal protection for the right to life of every human person within their jurisdictional bounds.

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

All fifty of our state constitutions not only acknowledge God as the Provider of all of the blessings of our liberty, they recognize the unalienable rights of all persons, and require equal protection for those rights, beginning with the right to live.

My state's constitution:

"WE THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF IOWA, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government, by the name of the State of Iowa...All men are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights - among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness."

By far the greatest threat to the existence of our republic came from those who would dehumanize, depersonify, some portion of humanity, and strip them of all of their rights. The ultimate destruction and demise of many great nations throughout history can be traced to the injustices brought about by the abject failure to recognize and respect the God-given rights of all.

The dehumanization, the depersonification, of any portion of humanity can only lead, inexorably, to hell on earth.

If all are not equal before the law, the rights of none are any longer secure.
Do you see your precious rights as an American slipping away, one by one?

Do you see your country slowly but steadily being destroyed around you?
You would have to be willfully blind not to see it.

Do you care enough about your children and grandchildren, your posterity, to do what it takes to save this great republic for them, as our forebears fought to save it for us?

Then you must do whatever it takes to reestablish respect, in principle and in practice, for the supreme right of the unborn child, the God-given, intrinsic, unalienable right to live.

Before it is too late.

Stop saying that abortion is legal

10/6/2021

Tom Hoefling

I'm gobsmacked every time I see abolitionists continue to use language that cedes legality to abortion. They simply don't listen, no matter how many times it is patiently explained to them that this is a destructive fallacy, one that digs a deep hole for our side that cannot be overcome as long as it is continued.

Abortion violates the law of God. It violates the laws of nature that God ordained. It violates every stated purpose, and the explicit equal protection requirements, of the supreme law of our land. It is not, and cannot, be legal in America.

Laws or court opinions that violate the laws of nature and/or the Constitution are, by every principle this free republic was founded upon, absolutely null and void. That means that, legally, we are to act as if they do NOT exist.

Please, please, please, get this vital, fundamental lesson through your head, because as long as you refuse to do so, you are, whether you know it or not, or whether you will admit it or not, continuing to give (im)moral, legal, and political strength to those who are perpetrating this bloody holocaust.

"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void."

-- Alexander Hamilton

"[A] law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and [...] courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument."

-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Words mean things

7/16/2021

Inform the ignorant

7/16/2021

When once a republic is corrupted...

5/1/2021

I am what I am, and I believe what I believe, in spite of them

2/16/2021

Tom Hoefling

I am an abortion abolitionist, in spite of all of those who are compromising the basic principles of abolitionism in the way they do their politics. Why? Because conscience dictates that abortion must be abolished.

I am against socialism, in spite of all of those who also say they're against socialism while supporting every unconstitutional socialist government program under the sun. Why? Because socialism is theft, writ large, and it destroys nations and peoples. I love my children and grandchildren, and I don't want to see them destroyed, economically and politically.

I'm a conservative, in spite of all of those who have made a mockery out of that title. Why? Because the American system of republican, constitutional self-government built on the natural, God-ordained moral law is worth preserving and conserving.

I'm a republican, small "r," in spite of the political party that continues to dishonor that honorable title. Why? Because the American system of republican, constitutional self-government built on the natural, God-ordained moral law is the best form of human government there is in this fallen, sinful world, and it's worth fighting for.

I'm a Christian, in spite of the large percentage of Americans who have taken that label upon themselves while putting the lie to it in the way they act in their civic life.

I'm a Christian, in spite of my own terrible failures to live up to that most honorable of titles. Because, Christianity is all about repentance, and mercy, and grace, and perseverance.

Figure out who you are, and what you stand for, folks. And then stand, without wavering. Otherwise, moral compromise is going to be the death of us all.

Ignore the hypocrites and the liars, and simply resolve to do what is right, no matter what anyone else may or may not do.

Donald Trump is the opposite of George Washington

2/10/2021

Tom Hoefling

At the conclusion of the American Revolution, when King George III of Great Britain heard that General George Washington would resign his commission to a powerless Congress, he reportedly told the American painter Benjamin West: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

Years later, Washington willingly gave up power again when he left the presidency after only two terms, even though there was at that time no constitutional barrier to him serving as many terms as he wanted, or, more properly, as many terms as the people would be willing to give him. In his case, of course, that probably would have been as many terms as he wanted.

George Washington set the example for the peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America, an example that has been followed perfectly for more than two centuries.

Until Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is nothing like George Washington. In fact, he is the exact opposite of George Washington.

It's crystal clear that Donald Trump was willing to do literally anything, up to and including the unleashing of a violent insurrectionist mob on the Congress of the United States during the conclusion of the presidential electoral process, to prevent the peaceful transfer of the power of the presidency to the candidate who clearly defeated him in the 2020 election, Joseph Biden.

Donald Trump is not the greatest man in the world. In fact, he is the worst man in the world. He is the worst man, by far, to ever step foot onto the public stage in America. No one else is even close.

The Senate must convict Donald Trump and block him from ever holding any public office ever again. It's absolutely necessary.

If the Republicans refuse once again to uphold their oaths and convict Trump, they will go down in history as feckless, unprincipled, oath-breaking fools - like Trump, utterly unworthy of their high offices.

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'Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.'

Tom Hoefling on Government:

"Just as 'good fences make for good neighbors,' good government is mainly about knowing where the legitimate boundaries are, and having the courage to defend those borders forcefully. This is true in terms of the defense of our territory, our security, and our national sovereignty, but it also applies to the sworn duty of all of those in government to equally protect the God-given, unalienable rights of each individual person, from their creation onward, their sacred obligation to stay well within the enumerated powers of our constitutions, and of the role legitimate government must play in balancing the competing rights and interests of the people, in order to establish justice."