Gregg Cunningham, the head of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR), Models Pro-Life Treason

(Christian Gallery News Service, October 16, 2007) To put Gregg Cunningham, the head of the pro-life organization Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, and the other leaders of pro-life organizations in America in perspective it is necessary to look closely at the strategy each and every one of them holds in common. That strategy begins to be seen when we compare the leaders of the pro-life organizations to the other leaders of important organizations in this nation. Carol Hymowitz is a staff writer for Wall Street Journal's Executive Career site so she can be expected to be the voice of the consensus presently existing among business leaders in the USA. In a column on October 15, 2007, Ms. Hymowitz declared, "Executives know success in business depends on identifying and fixing problems before they become crises. It is the most basic rule in management..." Ms. Hymowitz merely states the obvious. Business leaders whose purpose in life is to maintain maximum cash flow do everything in their power to prevent problems from turning into crises. If you will look back on the last 34 years of pro-life leadership in this nation, you will see that pro-life leaders, with the exception of those few pro-lifers who took the law into their own hands, have done everything in their power to keep the problem of legalized abortion from turning into a crisis in the United States of America. In that decision to avoid doing anything that could turn the problem of legalized abortion into a national crisis, the pro-life leaders have proven they are simply another variety of American business leader who manage events to avoid crisis. No one demonstrates the truth of this accusation better than Gregg Cunningham. The remainder of this report examines words that Gregg Cunningham has written and boldly published before the pro-life Christians in this nation, words that show us all exactly how Christian pro-life leaders evolved to embrace and embody the mind set and strategy of business leaders in this nation with the resulting rivers of blood and mountains of hideous corpses of eviscerated babies you see--or ignore--around you today.

Exhibit A: Gregg Cunningham posted an article on the front page of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform web site at abortionno.com on September 18, 2007 entitled "Why Killing Abortionists Is Immoral and Stupid." The article began with these words, "The subject of anti-abortion violence sorely tries my patience."

In the article, Mr. Cunningham does not explain why his "patience" was tried so much that he was moved to write an article about "killing abortionists" in 2007, nearly ten years after the last abortionist was killed in the USA, and at a time when the attacks against property used in legalized abortion has nearly disappeared.

I can tell you why. He wrote the "Killing Abortionists is Stupid" article in response to an ongoing fight that has developed between the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and my campaign for Governor of Georgia. That fight occurred because Mr. Cunningham and others with CBR censored two songs I had written and posted on the Internet. CBR had Youtube censor the songs by saying I had violated their copyright when I, to amplify the message I was sending in my songs, used three or four of the hundreds of images of eviscerated dead babies CBR claims to "own".

When CBR censored me, I did my best to point out to CBR the truly weird situation where a pro-life organization was refusing me the use of the best graphic evidence of the horror of legalized abortion when all I was doing was trying to deter people from butchering babies.

CBR explained to me that they censored my songs because I had failed to conform myself and my words and my thoughts to what CBR requires people to think and believe about "abortion related violence" and therefore they could not allow me to use "their" images of dead, eviscerated babies in my abortion abolition work.

In an attempt to overcome their censorship, on September 15, 2007, I sent a letter to several thousand people and then published it on my web site. In the letter I said, "Before CBR will give me permission to use their images, they require that I sign a contract. That contract says I will condemn "abortion related violence" and will not associate with anyone who refuses to condemn 'abortion related violence.' But NO WHERE do they define 'abortion related violence.'"

In response to my complaint about the absence of a definition for violence, Mr. Cunningham defined "violence" in the article cited above.

"Violence," Cunningham told us, "means physical assaults against the persons or property of people who perform elective pregnancy terminations."

That one sentence defined the reality about "abortion related violence" that CBR had required every pro-life person in the nation who used their images to sign or agree to for over ten years.

If you will think about the definition that Gregg Cunningham offers of "violence" you will see exactly how the leaders of the pro-life movement have created an environment in the USA over the last three decades where the very pro-life Christians who were ostensibly devoted to stopping legalized abortion actually became the federal government's most effective agents in the perpetuation of legalized abortion. Look closely at that definition of violence and you will see that Gregg Cunningham has created a tool that is designed to protect abortionists--the ones Cunningham calls "people who perform elective pregnancy terminations--so that the "elective pregnancy terminations" they perform can never be effectively outlawed by those who embrace Gregg Cunningham's definition of violence.

I know that is a shocking accusation. But criminal law, in order to be established so that people obey it, must carry with it the expectation of punishment if the law is broken. Otherwise you have "scofflaw" and no true law at all. Gregg Cunningham is a lawyer. How could he not know the absolute necessity of sometimes using violence to enforce the law? But, in his definition of "violence," Pro-life Leader Cunningham erected a wall of protection around abortionists where even duly authorized officers of government in the performance of their duty to enforce a law prohibiting abortion could not use "physical assaults against the persons or property of people who perform elective pregnancy terminations" without being guilty of violating the definition of "violence" formulated by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform.

Preposterous? Look again at Cunningham's definition of violence. "Violence," he said, "means physical assaults against the persons or property of people who perform elective pregnancy terminations." Period. Cunningham gives us no additional qualifying explanation that tells us what might happen should abortionists be seen by government to be the murderous outlaws, the premeditated murderers, I have contended for decades they are in fact and should be in law. No where does it tell us that abortionists might, should abortion be outlawed, be arrested using deadly violence if the abortionist resisted arrest sufficient to justify police officers using such violence against them.

Think about it. Gregg Cunningham not only requires me to "condemn" "abortion related violence," he requires that I sign a contract saying I will not "associate" with anyone who fails to "condemn" "abortion related violence."

If I signed Cunningham's pledge, my entire strategy for seeking the office of Governor of Georgia would be nullified. I am running on a platform promising to order the police forces or militia in Georgia to nullify the evil federal abortion laws even if they had to use violence to stop federal authorities from enforcing the federal government's legalized murder. But if I signed Cunningham's contract, not only would I have to abandon my campaign strategy, I could not even associate with the people who are supporting me for Governor!

THE BACKGROUND OF PRO-LIFE TREASON

The most obvious way to overcome my critique of Cunningham's definition of violence would be to say that Cunningham defined "violence" so that his definition was confined only to the times when abortion was legal. But if you look closely you will see that the part of Cunningham's mind that wrote the definition of violence anticipates that abortion will always be legal. There is nothing in his definition of violence or the article surrounding it that can be used as proof showing Cunningham anticipates abortion will ever be illegal again.

Without meaning to do it, when Cunningham wrote his definition of violence he telegraphed the true double-mindedness about legalized abortion that is the actual condition of virtually every pro-life leader in this nation and has been for over three decades.Gregg Cunningham does not have to stop and define violence so that his definition accommodates the time when abortion--what he calls, "elective pregnancy terminations"--will be illegal again because he has no strategic faith that abortion can be made illegal. Even though Cunningham makes his business center around showing pictures of dead babies, and even though he claims to think showing those pictures will result in outlawing abortion, his definition of violence proves he has no faith, no anticipation of that day ever arriving in the USA. Gregg Cunningham embodies the central truth of the pro-life movement today: the entire pro-life movement is predicated and implemented on the premise that abortion will remain legal for the duration of the USA.

Let me tell you how I learned this and perhaps you'll agree I see the truth. I first ran into Gregg Cunningham about ten years ago when my web site, The Nuremberg Files, was accused by Gloria Feldt, the Presidentress of Planned Parenthood, of being actively involved in the assassination of the abortionist Barnett Slepian. Feldt said my web site was a "hit list" for abortionists who were slated to be murdered and Feldt implied during a nationally reported news conference that I had advance knowledge Slepian was to be assassinated. A tornado of national publicity and unending accusations hit me. Instead of being afraid, I reveled in the action because I had done nothing wrong, merely spoken the truth in love as my Lord commanded me. Every chance I got, I said the web site was what it said it was, a place to accumulate evidence against abortionists and abortion enablers who were to be charged with crimes against humanity when abortion was outlawed. Instead of being supported by pro-life leaders, they stabbed me in the back. I got to know Gregg Cunningham well because he was a leader of a list of pro-life leaders who became allies of Planned Parenthood in vilifying me and my web site and everything I was trying to do in the defense of the unborn. Because I refused to back away from my stated intention of outlawing abortion and turning abortionists into hunted outlaws, in the end I was ostracized by the vast majority of pro-life Christians in this nation, and shunned by Christians where I live in West Georgia.

I learned much from that experience. Over a decade ago I could see that the pro-life movement, instead of actually abolishing legalized abortion, was inevitably going to become the main tool used in this nation to perpetuate the legalized murder of unborn children.

Cunningham's definition of violence proves I was correct in that assessment.

If you examine Cunningham's statements about "violence" closer, you will see that he is teaching people to not even think about doing things that have the power to arrest abortionists. Cunningham said, "Abortion is legal.  Justifiable homicide is cognizable only when acting to stop an UNLAWFUL killing." In that statement, Gregg Cunningham effectively takes the right to use armed resistance against tyrannical government away from people who allow themselves to be enslaved to his definitions. Cunningham's implication is clear: If something is made legal by government, then Christians have a duty to treat government's actions as if they are authorized by God Himself.

Think about Gregg Cunningham's definition of violence and you will see that Cunningham is saying exactly the same thing about violence that the agents of king George III said when Patrick Henry stood up and talked about liberty and death in terms so serious that hardly anybody thought he was involved in an exercise of mere political rhetoric. But King George's agents did everything in their power to convince people that men like Patrick Henry might be serious but they were still evil men who were rebels against the government authorized by GOD ALMIGHTY.

The founders of the USA built this nation upon a premise: Armed resistance against tyranny requires the use of deadly violence when tyrannical government can be stopped no other way. In other words, the actual foundation for the creation of the government of the United States of America involves an explanation for why and when it is not only "cognizable" but the duty of people to take up arms and prepare to kill those who make themselves instruments of murder. The Declaration of Independence states, "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security..." So said the founders and so must say every citizen of the United States of American today unless they want to be found to be New Revolutionaries committed to destroying the government handed down to them by the founders of the government of the USA.

But the agents of king George turned men like Patrick Henry not only into rebels against king George and Great Britain, but they painted them as rebels against Almighty God. To do this, king George's agents pointed people to the ancient principle upon which the entire doctrine of Divine Right of Kings had been erected and stood, the doctrine that carried the title "Rex Lex."

“Rex” is the Latin word for “king,” and “Lex” means “law.”  If we arrange them in the order “Rex Lex,” the phrase means “the king is law.”  In this sense we may well understand the age-old divine right of kings, whereby whatever edict came from the mouth of the king became the law of the land.  So may we understand the legal code of Hammurabi and all the rest of the Oriental despots down through the centuries.  If we arrange the words to say "Lex Rex" we say that the law is king and overthrow "Rex Lex" thereby.

Today every citizen in the United States of America is faced with a horrible truth. Even when the people no longer are held in thrall to the idea that the king rules by divine right and the decree of the king is law, we still are left with the potential for the law itself to become an instrument of evil. Even when "Lex Rex" rules, as our present national government proves, Lex can be as great a danger to right and truth and justice and the kingdom of God as any of the most perfidious kings throughout history. To prove my point all you have to do is look, look with eyes that see truth, at lawful abortion. Today abortion is LAW FULL.

THE FUNDAMENTAL CONFUSION OF GREGG CUNNINGHAM, ET AL

CBR makes it their business to send a stream of trucks--trucks costing millions of dollars--across the nation and the world. On the side of those trucks in pictures ten feet tall we see the dead, eviscerated bodies of little people, people who were killed in the USA with the full protection of LAW, the full protection of the federal government of the USA. But at the same time CBR does that, CBR issues messages to the Christians and others in this nation that unequivocally tell everyone that they must support the government that creates the conditions leading to the pictures on the side on their trucks. CBR issues definitions of "violence" that make it clear people are not even allowed TO THINK ("justifiable homicide is not cognizable," CBR tells us) about treating the babies who are pictured on their trucks the way we would expect every other person in this nation to be treated if they were in imminent danger of being torn limb from limb like those babies.

With this fundamental contradiction in view, is there anybody alive who fails to see the confusion CBR creates?

While it is true that God sometimes brought confusion into the camp of those who opposed Him. It has never been the case, nor will it ever be the case, that God brings confusion among those who live their lives in His service. The presence of confusion within the Body of Christ is ALWAYS a sign that the Body has been invaded by a virus, an alien trespassing agent, an invader that must in time be cut off from the Body unless the whole Body be destroyed.

Gregg Cunningham is the author of confusion with his requirement that people bind their consciences to a definition of "violence" that literally makes it impossible to ever arrest abortionists and destroy their places of "business." Before this is over, either Gregg Cunningham will repent of the confusion he has sown among God's people or he will be cut off the Body of Christ for treason against the Lord Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.

PRO-LIFE TREASON

Treason is a crime in every nation in the world because the word stands for actions that endanger the very survival of a government. There is an enormous difficulty in applying the word treason to matters involving Christians because Christians are required to carry dual citizenship.

The dual citizenship can be described like this: While in this world, and therefore subject to the rules that govern citizenship in this world, the Christian is also a citizen of another government, subject to another King. This dual citizenship reality obviously complicates the life of a Christian far beyond anything a non-Christian has to deal with. Confusion among Christians can be avoided only by paying serious attention to the details of government. Since few Christians in this generation in the USA have been willing to pay this attention, and since God puts Christians on earth to be the salt and light to a confused and dying world, most of the problems in this nation can be tracked back to Christian confusion that prevents Christians from being who they were created to be in this nation.

Gregg Cunningham is an example of the kind of "Christian" who often steps into this confusion and, working as an agent for the government of this world, leads Christians into abject and horrible treason against the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You can see the treason of Gregg Cunningham and the other pro-life leaders like him by identifying the actual goal of all their actions. It's fairly easy to do. Gregg Cunningham and the other national leaders of the pro-life movement have had one central goal for decades now. That goal is obvious to anyone who will look with honest eyes: Pro-life leaders have been doing everything in their power to keep legalized abortion from taking this nation into crisis.

Alan Keyes first showed me the heart of pro-life leaders several years ago when he berated me on national television for trying to shame women so that they would be deterred from abortion. First he told me that he was speaking for the entire pro-life movement, then he said to me, "...what I am doing is I am treating this situation [legalized abortion] as what it is, a situation in which we must not unleash greater evils in what we do to stop the evil we’re looking at."

Now with Keyes's statement in mind, think back to what we saw in the beginning of this report about the "most basic rule in business management...identifying and managing problems before they become crises." Alan Keyes was clearly saying that we must be willing to accept legalized abortion if there is the possibility that we will "unleash greater evils in what we do to stop the evil we’re looking at."

In that statement, Alan Keyes is defining a strategy that refuses to admit God sometimes brings people into crisis before they become capable of solving the problems they are struggling with. Alan Keyes and Gregg Cunningham and the other leaders of the pro-life movement like them are willing to tolerate legalized abortion for the rest of their lives, and they are willing to train the next generation of Christian pro-life leaders to do the same, rather than risk doing anything that might bring the United States into crisis if that is what is required to stop legalized abortion.

Alan Keyes and Gregg Cunningham and all the Christians like them do everything in their power, even to the point of censoring my work in exactly the same way Planned Parenthood censors my work, because they know I embody a strategy that is the diametric opposite of the one they embody. I embody a strategy that is designed to take this entire nation into crisis if that is what is required to abolish legalized abortion.

Referring to the present debacle in Iraq, a retired American general said, "While the politicians espouse a rhetoric designed to preserve their reputations and their political power, our soldiers die."

The same thing can and must be said of the leaders of the pro-life movement personified by Gregg Cunningham. The babies die because of confusion being sown by Cunningham and the others like him in the pro-life movement. I pray that God will either lead them to repentance that works to destroy legalized abortion even if it means we take this nation into crisis, or that God will damn their souls to hell for eternity for their treason against the least of God's children and the Body of Christ composed thereof. That is my fervent prayer because to pray anything less is treason against the image of God in the babies and the kingdom of God on earth today.

Now do you see why Gregg Cunningham, et al, are doing everything in their power to silence me?

Neal Horsley
October 16, 2007