Abortion Supporter Knocks 69 Yr. Old Pro-Lifer Unconscious, MSM Silent

Photo of Warner Todd Huston.

On December 22nd a 69 year-old pro-life activist who was standing atop his automobile and protesting in front of the Hillcrest Abortion Clinic in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was physically attacked by an abortion supporter and thrown to the ground with enough force to knock him unconscious. Doctors even worried for a time that the elderly man might perish from the attack. And here, nearly 7 days out from this attack, there aren't any accounts of the attack in the MSM. As I searched for the story myself, I found two and only two Internet hits for it. Why the silence from the MSM? Can you imagine the MSM swarm that would have occurred if it had been a pro-lifer that attacked an abortion supporter? The cacophony would have been deafening if a pro-lifer had been the one to get violent.

The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property issued the first story to hit the net a few days ago. Also, a Catholic PRWire and media advisory from Catholic Online was released on the 28th. But the MSM has remained silent on the matter.

Here is the account from the TFP:

When Mr. Snell tried to counsel the woman, his words were cut short when the man became furious, jumped the fence and, in the words of Mr. McTernan, “leaped on the vehicle with Ed and catapulted him off of the vehicle and onto the ground.” Mr. Snell hit his back and head on the pavement and was knocked unconscious.

His medical report outlines the extent of his injuries: “multiple trauma, right subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding in the area between the brain and the tissues that cover the brain), compression fractures of four vertebrae (T3, T4, T5 and T10), right scapula fracture and fracture of the fourth and fifth ribs.” Before doctors were able to stop the bleeding in his head, they even feared Mr. Snell would die.

An elderly man almost dies from an attack by an abortion supporter and the MSM is mum.

But, the receptionist at the clinic sure wasn't mum!

When asked on the phone about the vicious attack, the receptionist at Hillcrest Abortion Clinic refused to give a recorded statement and angrily shouted: “He got what he deserved! He earned what he got!” She then hung up the phone.

Again, can you imagine the high dudgeon with which the MSM would have reported this story if it was the pro-lifer saying that an abortion supporter "got what he deserved" should one had been attacked like this?

And, on top of this indignity, the Harrisburg police didn't seem to want to do their duty and arrest the attacker at first, letting the man go home after witnesses pointed him out as the assailant.

Ed was taken away in an ambulance and three police officers arrived to investigate. They went into the clinic, where the assailant was waiting. After a few moments, the assailant and his companion left the clinic freely, got into their car and drove away.

Shocked, Mr. McTernan shouted to the police: “What are you doing? That’s him! That’s the assailant!”

One cop replied: “It is none of your business!”

To "protect and serve," eh? Apparently not to serve the victim of a vicious attack in this case.

So, why the widespread disinterest by the MSM over this story? It can only be because the wrong guy got attacked.


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Typical Drive by media move

I'm not surprised about this incident not being reported. If it were reversed and an abortion supporter was knocked off we would see the headlines everywhere. It's like when the stock market goes through the roof....not a mention everywhere but when it drops 100 points "oh my God a recession is here". I have relatives that live and die by the evening news and only get biased reporting. My mother-in-law believes that G Bush and the republicans are out to raise taxes and should always be voted out of office! I wonder why she thinks that way?  We should be thankful most of us have access to the internet and alternative news sources,

Mike     http://mtaricani.blogspot.com/

 

Liberal thugs

Let some rogue nutjob blow up an abortion clinic, and even though the entire pro-life movement repudiates it, the MSM declares the whole movement guilty.  If pro-lifers practice civil disobedience ala Operation Rescue, and the MSM declares all pro-lifers prone to violence.  But let the anti-life crowd act like thugs and the authorities refuse to act, and all you hear are crickets.

It's often said, why don't moderate Muslims speak out more forcefully against the terrorists?  In the same vein, are all liberals as thuggish as this, or are the libs going to start reining in their extremists?

The courts are so insane when it comes to abortion that there's no guarantee Mr. Snell would win the lawsuit he's bound to file. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

These people don't have

These people don't have regard for life- baby inside the womb, person on life support or an elderly- because they're "useless". But they will rally in support of the release of murderers, rapist and heinous criminals out of prison or lethal injection. To them criminals, and even terrorists, are more valuable to their cause than babies and elders...That's demented thinking. God forgive them.

Another story that you will

Another story that you will not view or read is as follows:

"Over 4,000 babies were murdered this day . . . er . . . 4,000 fetuses were aborted this day (1.5 million divided by 365 - the number of days in a year).  With few exceptions, due to the convenience . . . er . . . right to choose of the 'mother.'"

Now, back to much more important news . . . the presidential candidates take on a murder on the other side of the planet.

Eh

They don't care about killing babies, why would they care about killing the elderly? I predict its only a matter of time before people gain the right to terminate their elderly parents. Those old folk sure can be a hassle afterall!

 It's not new's because

 It's not new's because liberal's believe the pro-murder supporter was just trying to perform a late-term abortion, which they believe should be legal anyway, especially when it comes to offing conservatives.

 

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

pro-abortionists have turned into the scum of the Earth

Today's pro-abortionists have turned into the scum of the Earth. They prove
over and over again what is wrong with society. They camouflage their screwed up
beliefs by sugar coating it into their "pro-choice" slogan. They are discusting examples of human beings.

Every child should be taught the
history and ideals of the pro-abortion movement.

Pro-lifer attacked in Harrisburg, PA

ktjm6

Thanks for the notice on this!  I live 15 miles from Harrisburg and it didn't appear on any of the local tv news programs or (as far as I can tell) the local newspapers.  I am surprised by the lack of coverage on the local level.  The question I have is 2 fold .... why not cover it? ...... and ...... who locally made the decision to kill the story. 

 Thanks again!

 

 

Call Hillcrest!

Ask if they think Kelly Morse got what she deserved, when she died in their care:

http://realchoice.0catch.com/

These people are all about the bottom line. Give the woman drugs
she told you she was allergic to, then stand around with your
thumbs up your butts while she turns blue. Sneer when an elderly
man suffers life-threatening injuries. It's all in a day's work.

No big deal here, the

No big deal here, the pro-death movement doesn't give a hoot about babies or the elderly.

I had a liberal tell me once that babies who are born with physical deformities don't deserve to live. Her reasoning was that it would cost too much to keep them alive. The money would be better spent on other things. I didn't even have a come back for her due to the fact that I was in shock!

 I am not sure what it is

 I am not sure what it is going to take.  The war between the states fervor was ignited by John Brown due to an institution every bit as odious as abortion. John Brown offered up and indeed did give his and his son's lives for what he knew was a stain upon our country. Abortion is no less a stain. 

How will future generations judge us on the actions of us and our government now? I do not think we will appear in a good light. We must not let 7 people dictate against the wishes of a minimum of 200 million people.  These 7 people must be made to see the error of their predecessors ways.  We need a President who will force the issue,  they will get the backing of the majority of the people in this country. They just won't get the backing of the MSM and the Leftist in this country, BFD.  But they are afraid of not having the backing of the Leftist and the MSM.

I ask again, what more will it take Misters Romney, Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Paul?

Will one of you be the one to finally stand up for the innocents in this country? Or will you continue to let them down? Their blood cries out for justice! It has been crying out for 36 years! Will you finally listen?  Have the internal strength to do the hard work, you will be rewarded many times over. Put the damn thing to a vote by the people! As it should have been 36 years ago, when weak men determined they knew best for the American people.  I would hate to have to answer to that.   

MSM Shills For Abortion Industry

If an abortionist so much as gets a skinned knee from a pro-life protester, the news media is all over it.  When pro-lifers are assaulted by the peaceful, tolerant, open-minded "choice" crowd, which happens fairly often, you hear nothing except from Catholic or pro-life sources.

The media is overwhelmingly pro-death for the unborn, the elderly, and the sick.  Reporting about assaults on pro-life protesters, clinics not reporting statutory rapes, or the many cases of quackery in supposedly safe and legal clinics that leave women sterile or even dead only gives the pro-life side more ammo.  We can't have any of that!  They're determined to protect the baby butchery industry at all costs.

"Liberal" hypocrisy

No report? Is anyone suprised? This is modern "liberalism" in action. The acceptance of abortion on demand defines modern "liberal" hypocrisy. These "caring", "tolerant" people kill babies, sans conscience. And don't you dare put their immoral, murderous ways on display. Except that so many of them are cowards, a few "liberals" will even knock you down and stomp on you if you dare to expose them for what they are. This is why you must tell anyone you know, please don't vote for Hillary, Obama, or Edwards. For the future of our nation, we need judges who will begin to limit the odious practice of abortion on demand.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Teach tolerance, practice

Teach tolerance, practice hatred

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Scrooge

It is at this time of the rolling year we think about how Scrooge, so often portrayed as a grouchy conservative, was really a "liberal".  It is he who says, " If they are to die , well let them do it and decrease the surplus population".  Modern "liberalism" in a nutshell.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Well, to be honest, they do

Well, to be honest, liberals do care about life... at least in 3 situations:

1. If it's their's.

2. If it's a convicted murderer.

3. If it's a terrorist.

When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).

Right on, Warner ...

Excellent post. Thank you for getting the news out on this.

"Can you imagine the MSM swarm that would have occurred if it had been a pro-lifer that attacked an abortion supporter? The cacophony would have been deafening if a pro-lifer had been the one to get violent."

That sums it up right there.

And liberals say there is

And liberals say there is no bias in the 'news' media. The jump they make from pre-delivery status to post-delivery status is a huge one.  They say an unborn child is just part of the mother and as such her choice to do with it as she wants.  But if it truly were a part of her body, why wasn't she born with it?  It is a separate, independent being (short of needing nourishment from the mother) that will be delivered in nine months.  It will never be in the mother again.  It is not guilty of doing anything bad and is a result of the choice (usually) of the woman and a man make.  (That is where the choice is made, not after becoming pregnant.)

Then on the other end, when someone chooses to do bad, they scream if they are made to pay for their crimes!  It boggles my mind also.  They don't want there to be any punishment for criminals or terrorists.  Perhaps if we named capital punishment 'post-term abortion', they would jump on the cause and start putting those guilty of it to death to cease their threat to innocent citizens.  I know that is quite a jump on my part, but one can hope something will get through to liberals.

The slippery slope.

The slippery slope. If we can kill the babies we don't want , why not the "old", or the "retarded", or the "infirmed", or the Jews, or the Catholics? They're all "useless", anyway. Sounds like  Naziism to me. Ironic.

NEVER,NEVER trst a "liberal"

Soylent Green is

Soylent Green is liberals...

tastes just like chicken. 

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

iveseenitall, You make a

iveseenitall,

You make a good point. If we allow abortion, it becomes a slippery slope to eugenics, which is absolutely cruel.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Abortion is capital

Abortion is capital punishment without a trial and no chance of appeal. "Euthenasia through neglect" is a policy prevalent in Europe and is the reason Tony Blair did not convert to Catholicism until after leaving office as he favored all of the culture of death.

The church would have busted him. 

 

basicly

This was a line fron the tv show "Frisky Dingo" (google it it's great) 

Dottie was a Repubican presdential campaine mananger ( I say as because she was shot and killed because she was getting on the candidates nerves and egging him on about his manlyness) she had a very deep southern drawl and she said

 "Supporting a woman's right to choose is basically supporting her right to be a whore."

 

Nuff said

 

"Get off the phone you big dope!!!!!!!!!!" Mark Levin

Hillary's car hits cop - media mum

Warner. For some reason, that reminded me of the following event, which the media ignored, as well. I would imagine that had the Senator at the time been a leading Republican candidate in this years election cycle, that the press would have never stopped hounding them about the issue. I add to the story. A follow up account noted that Hillary never got out of the car to see if the officer was OK, and that no-one ever bothered to follow up with the officer to see if he was OK. Insensitive and uncaring comes to mind - with the "it takes a village - taking a back seat:

10/14/01) YONKERS - A bizarre accident at Westchester County Airport involved Senator Hillary Clinton's entourage Sunday.

Sources tell News 12 Westchester that a vehicle in Senator Clinton's security team tried to bypass a mandatory check point at the airport, which has been under a heightened state of alert since the terrorist attacks. A county police officer attempting to stop the vehicle from getting through injured his shoulder. That officer was taken to Saint Agnes Hospital in White Plains, and his condition is not known.

Senator Clinton, who turned 54 Sunday, was en route to board a private jet to an unreleased destination. The former first lady could not be reached for comment.

Copyright © 2001 News12.com.

I remember that...

... story, and I also remember that it nevr made much of a splash in the news, too.

February 1997 - National

February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the
President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said,
"is a war against
the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how
can we tell other people not to kill one another." --Mother Teresa

 

Paging John Edwards - Not

Yeah Warner, if this had been a pro baby murder supporter that was hurt John Edwards would have beat the ambulance there.

Two Americas indeed Johnny.

Tell you what, cops, stay

Tell you what, cops, stay out of this, let us bring justice to this pathetic low life coward who would attack an elderly man. Let me tell you, if I was there, I would have went up to him and gave him one solid punch between the eyes -- to hell with these pathetic policemen.

 

Just one punch? I would'a

Just one punch?

I would'a beat the brakes off his ass, country style, but I have a heart. I would've helped him pick up all of his teeth afterward's.

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

The msm never hesitates to

The msm never hesitates to report on the "pain at the pump" whenever gasoline goes up in the summer (surprise surprise people are driving more duh!). But pain inflicted from a pro deather to a pro lifer? No big deal. Just like two homosexuals torturing and murdering 13 year old Jesse Dirkhising got a big yawn from the msm. But when Matthew Shephard, a homosexual, was killed, the msm engaged in a frenzied outcry for a long long time.

So the msm couldn't give a crap about a human being getting attacked and/or murdered. They only care about what promotes the liberal agenda. That's why the media IS the Democrat Party, as Rush Limbaugh said.

 

Are we really going to be THAT stupid as to put the Clintons back in The White House??

From 1973-2006 there have

From 1973-2006 there have been 48,589,993 abortions in the US. This is the mass murder of unborn children in the womb. Six million Jewish men, women, and children were put to death in Nazi concentration camps. The Abortion Holocaust in the US is operating in concentration camps called abortion clinics.  This is big business. No wonder proponents of abortion fight to defend their ill-gotten gains. Supporters of abortion are the new Nazis.  A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for abortion. Shame on the pro abortion Democratic Party which has large numbers of  abortion storm troopers in its ranks.

 

Mother Teresa said: "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

I am definitely voting for

I am definitely voting for Hillary then.  Can you imagine 48,589,993 more people in the U.S.?  Population control at its best.

Yeah, mrsimele

Given the choice, you'd obviously rather slaughter babies in order to make room for illegal aliens.

No I hate illegal aliens

No I hate illegal aliens too.  Oh, and I never considered anything "unborn" to be a person.  A fetus is just a fetus to me.  Sorry, lots of people feel the same way.

Yes, I noticed your glee at the prospect of slaughtering babies

....as you point out that you think the babies are expendible.

Well see that's where your

Well see that's where your wrong mrsimele.

We conservatives dont' hate the illegal's, we hate the system that allow's them to arbitrarily migrate unimpeded, reward's law breaking and the fact that our g'ment doesn't put any stipulation's on melding into our culture on them. If you lived in their corrupt third world nightmare you would try the same. Still it's not our problem what happens there.

But it is our responsibility, and in the best interest for our future to keep them out, and hate has nothing to do with it, comon sense does. 

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM. as in...

Obi-wan Ben-Kenobi? I swear I saw him fighting with a light saber just the other day. Damn Lib fighting Cheney. Cheney won.

Use the Force!

S

Lot's of cretins you

Lot's of cretins you mean.  What kind of a woman does it take to kill an unborn baby?  Just what kind of a monster does that? mrsimele, can you answer that and not feel even a tad guilty?  That kind of an attitude makes it possible for folks to care more about animals then human babies.  Think that over.  I am sick of the whole damn bunch of "pro-choicers".  Pro-choice my ass, who gives the baby a choice? 

Furthermore,  if a black woman supports abortion, it is the exact same stance the KKK takes on blacks.  How's that for logic?  Cut that nose off to spite your face. 

The only thing that can come with having unlimited abortions is that proportionally it is liberals who have more abortions than conservatives.  So I figure if we cut off the source of their other voting base (illegal aliens) then we as conservatives can pretty much wrap up most elections in the near future.  But I sure would like to see the aborted babies have a chance to choose how the vote goes, but they won't.

It happens more than you

It happens more than you think.  Before I moved my office home, one of the pro-lifers demonstrating at the PP next door (a retiree herself), was assaulted twice in one month; ending up with facial lacerations and a sugar tong splint. 

It made one channel of the local news.

-PJ

"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07 

You know why they had the fence there?

I used to picket with Ed Snell. The waiting room for Hillcrest is in the front of the building, and the patients could see the prolifers out the windows. They'd go outside and talk to them, and they'd leave. So the clinic started making the women wait in their cars in the parking lot behind the building, then herding them like cattle into the building en-masse, hoping I guess that this would keep them from talking to the prolifers.

I was there one day, it must have been 90 degrees outside, and the women were sitting in their cars -- some of them with kids with them -- sitting and sweating with the windows down, trying to stay cool. Some "escort" came out and started waving a coathanger.

I told her, "Shame on you! You treat these women like this and pretend that you care about them! The staff are inside, enjoying the air conditioning that these women are paying for, while you leave them sweltering in their cars. You wouldn't treat a dog the way you treat these women! Shame on you!"

She came back and herded the women inside. 

The "privacy fence" is there because Ed Snell is effective. He's a sweet,  gentle man who would give you the shirt off his back. He and his family take in troubled young women. They cared for three kids while their mom was in prison. Anything those women need, Ed and his family will move Heaven and earth to see to it that they get it.

And for that, Hillcrest hates them.

Yeah, the staff hate him and think he got what he deserved, because he's a thorn in their side. They can't stand anybody who actually cares about the women.

As for Hillcrest, look at what they did to Kelly Morse and tell me how much you think they care about the women:

http://realchoice.0catch.com/library/weekly/aa012903a.htm 

felony assault

This was at least a 'year and a day' felony assault, and the cops walked away??? This calls for a Federal civil rights lawsuit against the crappy cops and the city! My great uncles were Chicago cops. They would have given the perp a hardwood shampoo and put him in the bad guys block with his wrists cuffed to his ankles. What a disgrace!

abortion = age based slavery

The pro-abortion forces believe a woman has a right to end a pregnancy on the concept a woman has a right to 'privacy'.  The problem is that privacy rights are rights of property therefore their argument is an infant is the property of the mother.

If someone believes another can belong, as property, to another person that is in definition, slavery.  To follow further, since the woman has absolute property rights over her child, the pro-abortion forces believe this gives her the right to terminate the pregnancy, or murder the child.  This is further predicated on the age of the child, or ageism. 

It is twisted 'logic' the pro-abortion forces use.  It is clear from their philosophy, however, the age of a victim is less important than the right of a mother to enslave and utimately murder her child, or they wouldn't advocate partial birth abortion.

In essence the argument of the pro-abortion forces is that slavery and murder are a right (of the mother), so long as it is in some nonsensical way determined by the age of the victim...and we are surprised one would violently attack and attempt to murder (allegedly and in my opinion) an aged man trying to save the most innocent of all mankind?

I am surprised by the police involved here as well, but in my mind they are accessories to the crime and should be charged as such, either criminally and/or civilly for not doing their job, everyone should have equal protection under the law.  Just one man's opinion.

 My heart goes out to Ed and his family.  I wish him a speedy and full recovery.