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Tom Hoefling: Abolishing abortion is the priority

2/18/2016

Tom Hoefling

Without an accurate sense of proportion you can't have a decent view of what should be the priority, and if your priorities are askew your best efforts, no matter how well-intended, will be diffused and wasted. So, ask yourself the question: What is the greatest evil of our age, the one thing that is destroying America more than anything else? The obvious answer is: The daily denial of equal protection and due process for the supreme God-given, unalienable right, the right to live, of innocent, helpless, defenseless little children in our country. Nothing else even comes close. Thousands more are being slaughtered TODAY. Restore respect for the rights of the preborn children, not just in words, but in fact, and you will be well on the way to restoring the foundations for American justice, American peace, security, and prosperity, and the American claim to republican, constitutional self-government in liberty. Fail to do this, and America will continue its inevitable slide into the abyss.

Tom Hoefling: The folly of attacking the natural moral law

2/9/2016

Tom Hoefling

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.

Tom Hoefling: We can end the slaughter of the innocents, if we only have the will

1/29/2016

Tom Hoefling

I see that the new governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, has ordered the closing of a Planned Parenthood abortion mill. What is his stated reason for doing so? Their paperwork isn't in order. They don't have their LICENSE, or permission slip, from the state, to dismember and destroy children.

So, if a governor can close an abortion mill for lack of appropriate paperwork, why on earth can't he shut it down for MASS MURDER?

Why can't he shut it down for violating the most important fundamental principles of our republic, the principles upon which our very claim as a people to liberty are premised?

Why can't he shut it down for the gross violation of every clause of the stated purposes of the United States Constitution?

Why can't he shut it down for the gross violation of the explicit due process and equal protection requirements of that Constitution?

Why can't he shut it down for the gross violation of the explicit equal protection requirements of the Kentucky constitution?

Why can't the President of the United States shut down every abortion "clinic" in America, for such egregious violations of the supreme law of our land, a supreme law that he himself has sworn an oath before God to support and defend?

The answer, of course, is that our chief magistrates, our governors of any and all of our states, or the President, could shut them down in a day, if they only had the will to do so.

I repeat: We can end the slaughter of the innocents, if we only have the will.

Please read the following article.

Thank you.

Tom Hoefling: "I will close every abortion clinic in America"

The Hoefling Counter Revolution

1/23/2016

The simplest, most efficient, and, we pray, the most effective campaign in the history of American presidential politics

Please read and consider this message carefully and prayerfully:

With this vehicle of Tom Hoefling for President 2016 we are not only continuing to strive to turn the country back to God, back to our founding principles, and back to adherence to our Constitution, as we have done for so many years, we are working to completely re-create the way we do politics.

Our 2016 campaign is 100% of the people, by the people, and for the people. We are not relying on money - once again we are taking no donations and expending no funds. We are not relying on the commercial media. We are relying solely on the citizen media. You are our national, state, and local campaign managers.

Our Front Porch Campaign with a 21st Century Twist is designed so that all you have to do is put together delegations of any size and have them come to our telephone conference line at a time you've scheduled with us, or at any other time we're scheduled to be in session.

I sit on my Front Porch, you sit on yours, as does everyone else. No travel for me, or you, or anybody. No hotel rooms. No fancy ballrooms to rent. No repetitive stump speeches. No fuss, no muss, whatsoever. And the people have direct, unfettered access to talk directly with the candidate, with no media filter, and no spin from a bunch of hired political guns.

Our 5x5 organizational plan is simplicity itself. It's completely people-powered, and is divided up into 12 easy stages.

Stage one is already complete. Only eleven stages left to go between now and the November general election.

At each stage, all we're asking you to do is go get at least five more people, from anywhere in America. We're asking each and every one of our supporters to do exactly the same thing. We're all in this together. We're all working together for the same goal, at the same time.

All you have to do is recruit five more supporters, get them to the support page at tomhoefling.com, sign them up as quickly as possible, so we can all move on together to the next stage.

We're not just building this organization for the purpose of electing me president. We're building a new, permanent vehicle for principled, accountable, constitutional self-government, an organization that is not beholden in any way to the corrupt existing political parties, but is owned lock, stock and barrel by We the People. One that is made up of American patriots who are partisans only for moral right, only for justice, only for equality under the law - for the born and for the unborn - only for the natural family, only for your right to keep and bear arms, only for the sovereignty, security, and borders of the United States, only for the Constitution, only to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

All you have to do is help us get at least five more supporters at each stage of the campaign. It's not difficult.

But it is all up to you.

Which is the way elections in this self-governing country were meant to be.

It's time to tell the money men, and the media men, and the "political professionals," to take a hike. We don't want or need them any more.

Thank you for hearing me out. May God richly bless you and your family, and may He grant us all mercy and divine assistance in the days ahead, as we strive together to find the means to deliver a free, prosperous, and secure America to our children and grandchildren.

Signed,

-- Tom Hoefling of Lohrville, Iowa, candidate for President of the United States in 2016

[email protected]

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Tom Hoefling: 7 reasons abortion on demand continues in America

1/19/2016

Tom Hoefling

The #1 reason abortion on demand continues in 2016 America:

1. Americans continue to turn away from God and His Word.

The #2 reason abortion on demand continues in 2016 America:

2. Americans continue to turn away from our historic understanding of the laws of nature and nature's God, which are the foundation of our claim to liberty, as was spelled out so eloquently in our national charter, the Declaration of Independence.

The #3 reason abortion on demand continues in 2016 America:

3. Americans continue to ignore all of the stated purposes of the U.S. Constitution, every clause of which is violated by the practice of human abortion.

The #4 reason abortion on demand continues in 2016 America:

4. Americans continue to ignore the explicit, imperative equal protection and due process requirements of the supreme law of our land, the Constitution, as laid out in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as in the constitutions of all of our States.

The #5 reason abortion on demand continues in 2016 America:

5. Americans continue to be deceived by the judicial supremacist lie, the belief that judges are somehow constitutionally-authorized to make laws, or veto laws, when nothing could be further from the truth.

The #6 reason abortion on demand continues in 2016 America:

6. Christians and others who call themselves "pro-life" continue to support an immoral, unconstitutional "strategy" that surrenders the principles of God-given, unalienable rights and equal protection under the law, thereby guaranteeing the continuation of abortion on demand.

The #7 reason abortion on demand continues in 2016 America:

7. Christians continue to support for public office candidates who have no moral commitment to the keeping of their sacred oath to provide equal protection to every innocent person, including the innocent unborn child.

Reason #7 is the summing up of why abortion on demand continues in 2016 America.

Tom Hoefling: You don't regulate a holocaust. You end it.

1/13/2016

Tom Hoefling

I tell people I'm running for President and they say, "Are you serious?" And I tell them, yeah, I'm very serious. Thousands of innocent, helpless little kids are going to be slaughtered in America again today under the color of "law," even though we live in a republic that was, from its inception, to borrow Lincoln's phrase, "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

And then I tell them another very important, very serious fact, which is that it is a dead certainty that NONE of the Republicans who are running are at all serious about ending the carnage. Each and every one of them is a self-admitted regulationist, not an abolitionist. They have communicated that to us very clearly by means of the immoral, unconstitutional, "and then you can kill the baby," bills that they support.

Come on. Stop trying to regulate a holocaust.

End it.

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Tom Hoefling: My non-negotiables:

10/4/2015

The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not negotiable. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not negotiable. The authority of the Bible is not negotiable. Self-evident truth is not negotiable. The natural law, as created and instituted by God, is not negotiable. That all men are created equal by God is not negotiable. The principle that every person should be treated equally under our laws is not negotiable. Our God-given, unalienable, equal rights to life, liberty, and private property are not negotiable. The God-given, equal right to life of every unborn child is not negotiable. Marriage between one man and one woman, as God intended it, is not negotiable. The protection of the natural family, created by the union of one man and one woman, is not negotiable. The protection of all legitimate parental rights is not negotiable. The protection of children is not negotiable. The right to keep and bear arms – in protection of ourselves, our families, our communities, our nation, and our liberty – is not negotiable. Our national sovereignty, security, and borders are not negotiable. Adherence to our republican form of limited government is not negotiable. The fulfillment of the sacred oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States is not negotiable.

Most other things we can talk about.

– Tom Hoefling

No co-existence with liberty

10/4/2015

"Moral, constitutional, republican self-government in liberty cannot possibly co-exist with socialism, with Islam, with the homosexual agenda, or with the practice of human abortion. One absolutely precludes the other, sooner or later.. Pick a side, because it is an existential fight to the finish, whether you like it or not."

-- Tom Hoefling

The schools are now spiritual, moral, intellectual, and physical free-fire zones

10/4/2015

"The government schools have become God-free and gun-free. So, they are now, quite predictably, spiritual, moral, intellectual and physical free-fire zones. If you have children there, find a way, make any sacrifice necessary, to get them out of there before they are led to the slaughter. What could possibly be more important?"

-- Tom Hoefling

The Supreme Court is not supreme

9/7/2015

Tom Hoefling

To believe the judicial supremacist lie, that the courts rule over us, no matter how immoral or unconstitutional their opinions, you have to believe some really unbelievable, ridiculous, and even frightening things.

You have to believe that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were wrong. They should have gone ahead and bowed down to Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol.

You have to believe that the Apostles were wrong. They should have shut up about the Gospel of Jesus Christ when they were told by civil authorities to do so.

You have to believe that the great Roman statesman Cicero was wrong, that there is no universally-applicable natural law which binds all men everywhere, throughout time.

You have to believe that Augustine was wrong when he said that, "an unjust law is no law at all."

You have to believe that Thomas Aquinas was wrong when he said that, "Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason; and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence."

You have to believe that William Blackstone was wrong when he said, "this natural law, being as old as 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, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, from this original.”

You have to believe that Samuel Adams was wrong when he said that, "[A]ll men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator."

You have to believe that Alexander Hamilton was wrong when he said that, “The Sacred Rights of Mankind...are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power," and that "the judiciary... 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."

You have to believe that Thomas Jefferson was wrong when he said that, "it is a very dangerous doctrine to consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy."

You have to believe that all of America's founders were wrong when they challenged and defeated the supreme civil authority of that old tyrant King George III.

You have to believe that Abraham Lincoln was wrong when, in his first Inaugural Address, he said 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, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers..."

You have to believe that Justice Taney should have been obeyed into perpetuity when he pronounced in the infamous Dred Scott opinion that black men were not human beings.

You have to believe that it was fine for a tinpot probate judge to pronounce a literal death sentence by dehydration and starvation on a helpless disabled woman, Terri Schindler Schiavo, and that it was acceptable to have the entire legal and political establishment of Florida and of the United States stand passively by as her tormentors tortured her to death by cruel and unusual means.

You have to believe that it's just fine that, by judicial decree, and through the passive connivance of a whole generation of American lawyers and politicians, more than fifty-five million defenseless babies have been brutally slaughtered, even though those same politicians swore a sacred oath to God to provide equal protection for the right to life of every person under their jurisdiction

You have to believe that nobody can do a thing when judges, in gross violation of the laws of nature and nature's God, and contrary to every single clause of the stated purposes of the Constitution of the United States, invent an imaginary "right" for a man to "marry" a man, or for a woman to "marry" a woman, even though such a perverted thing is physically, naturally, impossible.

You have to believe that our Constitution, and our republican form of government, with its necessary checks and balances, is a dead letter.

You have to believe that the sacred oath of office is nothing more than a formality or a photo op.

Please, quit believing nonsense. It's killing people, and destroying American self-government in liberty.

It's simple

5/28/2015

simple rules for legislation

Clearing out the Roe thicket of lies

4/21/2015

Tom Hoefling's fruitful garden 2014

Photo by Tom Hoefling

Tom Hoefling

In my yard, near my garden, I've got a green ash tree. It puts off seed like nobody's business. Tiny little ash trees spring up everywhere every year. Now, if you pull them when they first come up, it's really easy. They slide right out of the ground using only your thumb and forefinger. But if you leave them very long they get harder and harder to pull. Leave them long enough and your yard would be an ash thicket, one that could only be cleared with chainsaws and a backhoe.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because there is a parallel to abortion in America.

If, back in 1973, Americans had simply been faithful to the truths of the Declaration of Independence, the stated purposes and requirements of our Constitution, and boldly asserted the obvious natural fact of the personhood of the individual child, and then consistently stood without compromise or wavering for the equal rights of every single one of those innocent children - children whose protection is explicitly required by God and by our Constitution - this vast holocaust would have been stopped long ago.

But that's not what happened. The "pro-life movement" got sucked into the trap of arguing within the destructive framework and demonic fallacy of Roe, under the thumb of out-of-control judges who ruled, and continue to rule, illegitimately.

And sadly, "pro-lifers" have never yet extricated themselves from the trap.

So, maximum resources and effort are now required to remove the thicket of lies which have been planted, even in the hearts and minds of Christians.

Personally though, you can clear out the thicket in an instant by simply returning to the fundamental truths and principles of America's founding, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, to the stated purposes of our Constitution in the preamble, and to the equal protection for every person which is absolutely required by our federal and state constitutions.

God-given, unalienable, EQUAL rights for persons who have not yet passed through a birth canal.

Focus on that.

Measure every policy and politician by that.

It's the only way that we will ever turn America back into the fruitful garden that it was intended to be.

The fight for the crossroads

3/11/2015

"Wars are more often than not fought at crossroads. Check out Gettysburg sometime. Or Bastogne. The battle for America's survival in liberty is no different. Today it is being fought at the crossroads we call marriage. You see, marriage lies at the intersection between what is eternal, and right, and inherently good, and most of the critically-important temporal blessings. It is the type, or picture, of the Lord's eternal relationship with His body, the church. But it is also the earthly guarantee of the domestic tranquility, the economic productivity and prosperity, the security, and the future physical EXISTENCE of civilizations, societies, governments and peoples. So, please give no place to the enemy. And don't surrender the crossroads. We have the laws of nature and nature's God on our side. That's an absolute guarantee of ultimate victory right there, if we don't compromise and if we don't quit."

-- Tom Hoefling

How to end abortion in America

3/11/2015

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Pro-Joe Mo: "Your mama's gonna kill you"

2/21/2015

by Tom Hoefling

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Hi Joe, I'm Mo. And I'm pro-Joe.”

Joe:
“Oh....uhmm...hello.”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Joe, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your mama's gonna kill you.”

Joe:
“Oh...uhh...well, she said she was going to kill me lots of times when I was bad as a kid, but...”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“No, I mean, she actually wants to kill you. Says you're messing up her life-style.”

Joe:
“Oh, well...uhh...”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“And the Supreme Court says it's okay for her to do it, too.”

Joe:
“Really?'

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Yeah. They say she can kill you any time she wants. It's her choice, since you're not really a person and you're a part of her and all.”

Joe:
“Well, that doesn't sound right.”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Yeah, I hear you. But, don't you worry Joe. Because I'm pro-Joe. And so are the Republican politicians I'm helping to get elected. We've got majorities almost everywhere now.”

Joe:
“Well, that sounds good. What a relief.”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Yeah, aren't we awesome? Why, just last session we passed a law that gives your mama legal permission to kill you, but only if she does it before the end of the year. And another one that requires her to use only approved hit men.”

Joe:
“Wait. You passed laws that give her legal permission to have a hit man kill me if she wants, as long as she does it on schedule?”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Yeah, we're pro-Joe.”

Joe:
“Wow, really?”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Yeah, really. Why, this session we passed a law that requires the hit man to operate only from an approved Planned Parenthood mega-killing center, with admitting privileges at a hospital. And another one that makes your mama look at your high school graduation picture before she has you offed.”

Joe:
“Wow. That doesn't sound so good from where I'm standing. So, what do the courts say about that?”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Well, they struck those laws down. Said it placed an undue burden on your mama's access to the ability to kill you. And you know, we have to obey the judges, no matter what, right? But don't you worry about it, Joe. We sent out some more fund-raising letters telling people about our great pro-Joe successes, and they sent us millions of dollars again to help elect more pro-Joe Republicans. And we're working on some other great pro-Joe legislation too.”

Joe:
“Oh, really? Uhuh...hmm...I'm almost afraid to ask, but what kind of legislation?”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Well, we found some scientists who say that if the hit man gives you a double dose of morphine, you won't feel a thing when you're killed. So, we passed a law that says they have to give you the morphine. We call it the 'Pain Capable Born Child Protection Act.'”

Joe:
“Oh my. Uhmm...but, I'll still be dead, right?”

Pro-Joe Mo:
"Well, yeah, but, we have to save some, you know. And hey, you won't feel a thing!”

Joe:
“Uhmm...Mo, let me ask you something: Didn't God say 'you shall not murder?' Didn't the Declaration of Independence say, 'all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,' starting with the right to life? Doesn't the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of our land, require equal protection for the right to life of every person, in every state? Doesn't my state constitution require pretty much the same thing? And don't all the people we elect swear an oath to God to support and defend those constitutions?”

Pro-Joe Mo:
“Oh, I get it now, Joe. You're one of those All-or-Nothing Purists. Hey, do me a favor and stay away from me from now on, okay? We'll never beat the Democrats as long as you're around. Anyway, I gotta go,. I'm on my way to a National Rights of Joe meeting. We're planning a big prayer meeting and fundraiser with all the Republican presidential candidates. They all want our endorsement again and I have to get ready for the photo-op. And besides, I see your mama coming and I don't want to make her feel bad about her choice...”

Keep your oath, check the other branches, or get out

2/16/2015

Tom Hoefling:

In Federalist 44, James Madison, the father of the US Constitution, gives us the formula for solving most of our current political problems, which in the end amounts to "make the other branches provide the necessary checks and balances," and, if they won't do that, "throw all the bums out." And what he said in this case applies in just the same way to the judiciary as it does to the Congress:

"What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them...the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.'"

-- James Madison, Federalist #44

Two choices

2/16/2015

"If our rights don't come from God, all that leaves is the arbitrary whims of men. Good luck with that."

-- Tom Hoefling

Marriage is what marriage is

7/27/2014

"Marriage wasn't created "in tradition and the law." It was created by God, at the very beginning. In just the same way "up" and "down" were created by God. It is what it is. Tradition and law are forced to deal with these realities, and to be just and non-destructive they have to conform to them, but they didn't create them. This is not a nitpick. It's very important. The camel's nose in the tent is the idea that men, or governments, have any kind of legitimate choice in matters of natural law."

-- Tom Hoefling

God has already decided

7/22/2014

"When it comes to the right to life, and marriage, God has already decided. "You shall not murder." "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, and to provide EQUAL PROTECTION for the right to life of every single innocent human person. 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."

-- Tom Hoefling

Once again a free people

7/8/2014

"Those who rebel against legitimate authority, in other words authority instituted and authorized by God for our own good, for our own protection, and the good and protection of others, shall not prosper. Conversely, neither will those who refuse to rise up against illegitimate power, against evil. Either way you're a slave, to your own selfish passions, or to a wicked outside force. Instead, let us once again be what our wise forebears were, the moral, self-governing, sovereign, free people of the United States, under Almighty God."

-- Tom Hoefling

"The rectitude of our intentions...with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence"

6/30/2014

Tom Hoefling

The “lesser of two evils” philosophy is by definition godless Utilitarianism.

That philosophy excludes faith, the belief that if we will simply align ourselves with right, and do right, God will, in His good time, step in on our behalf.

It destroys the foundations of American independence, liberty, and self-government.

George Washington, and the rest of the founders, made constant reference to divine Providence, crediting that Providential Power as the Source for all their successes.

Unless we are willing to return to their attitude, and emulate their moral, courageous actions, there truly is no hope for the republic they fought so hard to establish.

“If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.”

- George Washington

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

— Closing lines of the Declaration of Independence

Statement of Tom Hoefling on Toledo and Tama primary election results

6/12/2014

Toledo Chronicle, Tama News-Herald

Editor's Note: Republican candidate for governor Tom Hoefling was asked by The Chronicle for his reaction to the Toledo and Tama June 3 primary results which showed him out-polling Gov. Terry Branstad 64-57 in Toledo and losing by a single vote 41-40 in Tama.

Here was Hoefling's message received in an email on June 4:

"I would like to express my appreciation to the people of Toledo and Tama for their votes on Tuesday," "Your experience with the closing of the Iowa Juvenile Home is an object lesson in what happens when government gets it wrong. The real world isn't made up of the rhetoric of politicians, the machinations of lawyers, or entries on a bureaucrat's ledger. in fact, it consists of real people, real families, and real communities, who bleed when they're cut," Hoefling wrote.

"My prayers are with your community, that over the long haul, the spirit of your people will overcome this adversity."

Iowa Gubernatorial Candidate, Tom Hoefling -- American Statesman [American Right to Life]

5/28/2014

American Right to Life national press release

Contact: Donna Ballentine, American Right To Life, 888-888-ARTL, [email protected]

DENVER, May 28, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Leslie Hanks President, and Jefferson George, Vice President, of American Right to Life:

Tom Hoefling interview - Mac's World - May 13, 2014

5/14/2014

Tom Hoefling addresses Lee County Tea Party - May 4, 2014

5/4/2014

'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."