(I originally wrote this about five years ago when the blog readership was much smaller. I thought that current readers might wish to know why I refer to Planned Parenthood as Worse Than Murder, Inc.)
Lately, in several posts, I have been in the habit of referring to Planned Parenthood as Murder, Inc. I apologize for doing so. It was unfair of me to draw this type of comparison.
In the late twenties of the last century, gangsters Charles “Lucky” Luciano and Meyer Lansky set up the National Crime Syndicate. Organized crime needed a mechanism to keep anarchy from breaking out within its ranks between various gangs and factions. Operating out of a 24 hour candy store in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, Murder, Inc. ( the name was a newspaper invention) provided this mechanism. Louis “The Judge” “Lepke” Buchalter and Albert “The Mad Hatter” Anastasia were the leaders of Murder, Inc.
The Syndicate, by majority vote, would order the slaying of an unruly gangster and Murder, Inc would carry it out. The hitmen of Murder, Inc. operated under strict guidlines. No innocent bystanders were to be killed. No hits could be ordered against judges, police or prosecuting attorneys for fear of reprisals from law enforcement.
Over the years Murder, Inc. murdered some 800 fellow gangsters. In 1940 the downfall of the murder enterprise began when Murder, Inc. killer Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles, turned informant in order to save himself from the electric chair. Louis “The Judge” “Lepke” Buchalter died in the chair in Sing Sing in 1944, after the US Supreme Court rejected his appeal which raised, among other issues, the contention of Buchalter that lurid press coverage had tainted the jury. Other Murder, Inc. members swiftly followed “The Judge” down the last mile. Albert “The Madhatter” Anastasia would have followed in their footsteps but for the tragic “accidental” death of Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles when he fell from room 623 of the Half Moon Hotel on Coney Island. In the gang world he was ever after known as “The Canary that sung but couldn’t fly.” However, with the attention of law enforcement focused upon it, Murder, Inc. could no longer function and it ceased to exist except as a gangland legend.
Based upon this grim record I hope you can see why it is necessary for me to apologize—to Murder, Inc.Â
1. Their death toll of 800 over a little over a decade would be exceeded in Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics in this country on even a slow day.
2. They restricted their lethal ministrations to fellow gangsters, unlike the contract killers employed by Planned Parenthood who target the most innocent and defenseless amongst us.
3. The killers of Murder, Inc. never attempted to argue that their activities were a Constitutional right.
4. Murder, Inc. rarely dismembered their victims which is a daily part of doing business in a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.
5. Almost all the murderers of Murder, Inc. came from the lower economic rungs of American society and had very little education. The leaders of Planned Parenthood and the abortionists they employ have often been educated at elite American institutions of higher learning and are usually solidly upper middle class or wealthy.
6. All decent elements of society opposed Murder, Inc., and Murder, Inc. never claimed that their killings should be embraced by the public at large. Planned Parenthood has convinced large segments of our society that their killings are acceptable.
And so I must apologize to the shades of the members of Murder, Inc. You were despicable killers of your fellow men, and I rather hope you are paying a stiff sentence indeed in the world to come, but I did you an injustice. From now on I promise to refer to Planned Parenthood as Worse Than Murder, Inc.
You’re correct to apologize. Your posts may have been somewhat uncharitable and unfair . . . to Murder, Inc.
Compared to PP and the vast murder-abortion complex, the Mafia is a microscopic consortium of angels.
However, for both gangs all of it is strictly “business.”
And we expect God’s Mercy on us and our nation.
Every day is His mercy being poured out on us….I just cringe at the thought of God completely turning His head away.
What will we do in the times of “dry wood?”
Meyer Lansky was also, in his odd way, a patriot. He helped to root out pro-German informers on the docks in WWII. His son Paul graduated from the Naval Academy and retired as a Captain.
[As an aside, Jewish gangsters in America didn’t, as a general rule, have generational crime families. They quickly shuffled their offspring into genuine law-abiding careers.]
Interesting side note Dale!
Great post.
There are a couple of points this article reminded me about that I wish to bring up:
When planned parenthood loses across the board funding (as opposed to the laws that say money that goes to planned parenthood cant be used for abortions), they are forced to jack up their prices for the various non-controversial women’s health stuff they provide, which discourages people from going their, which ends up forcing them to close.
A word on what happened with Gosnell. It actually wasn’t pro-life advocates who first exposed him. Pro-Choice providers and groups were the first to start making noise about the monstrous practices he was engaging in. They just didn’t get the press coverage later groups got.
Obviously this doesn’t get to the heart of the abortion debate…….but I think its fair to keep these facts in mind.
When planned parenthood loses across the board funding (as opposed to the laws that say money that goes to planned parenthood cant be used for abortions), they are forced to jack up their prices for the various non-controversial women’s health stuff they provide, which discourages people from going their, which ends up forcing them to close.
And?
“A word on what happened with Gosnell. It actually wasn’t pro-life advocates who first exposed him. Pro-Choice providers and groups were the first to start making noise about the monstrous practices he was engaging in.”
Rubbish. Pro-aborts did their best to spike this story. Read the grand jury criticism of the National Abortion Federation for not informing on Gosnell to the authorities:
http://www.jillstanek.com/2011/01/national-abortion-federation-implicated-in-gosnell-case-failed-to-report-illegalities-to-authorities/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_back_alley/2011/02/what_happened_to_the_women.html
Pro-lifers constantly prayed and picketed outside Gosnell’s abortion clinic all while it was in operation. However, the authorities turn a blind eye to pro-life activists when they aren’t trying to shut them up through bubble zone legislation and illegal trespass prosecutions.
A word on what happened with Gosnell. It actually wasn’t pro-life advocates who first exposed him. Pro-Choice providers and groups were the first to start making noise about the monstrous practices he was engaging in. They just didn’t get the press coverage later groups got.
Let me be blunter than Don: Bull. Shit.
Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania knew he was a monster running a chop shop but expected the brutalized women to report it, not them. They sat on it instead.
“The Gosnell trial has shifted the focus off the high-quality services we provide,” said Dayle Steinberg, the organization’s president and chief executive. “These are criminal, horrendous . . . acts and should be appropriately punished.”
Steinberg said that when Gosnell was in practice, women would sometimes come to Planned Parenthood for services after first visiting Gosnell’s West Philadelphia clinic, and would complain to staff about the conditions there.
“We would always encourage them to report it to the Department of Health,” Steinberg said as she sat with Steinem before Tuesday’s events.
http://articles.philly.com/2013-04-18/news/38619220_1_gosnell-trial-abortion-issue-kermit-gosnell
Abortions are medical procedures. The facilities in which these procedures are carried out should therefore be subject to regular and unannouced inspections by local Departments of Health.
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Why no inspections in the Pennsylvania clinics? Does anyone doubt that Gosnell’s facility would have been shut down had the local Department of Health showed up and inspected?
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Where I live the Department of Health makes unannounced visits to Nail Salons.
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Why no inspections in the Pennsylvania clinics?
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I believe career officials have said they neglected inspections in deference to Gov. Ridge.
Oh just great…and Governor Ridge is Catholic.
Excellent post.
“Worse Than Murder, Inc.” is much too generous!
Viva Christo Rey! I pray for my country every day. I pray that the American people return to God and his Commandments. After all the ten commandments are a means to a happy life. God wants us to be happy. But the American people are not happy and it is because they have become selfish, self-serving people. A what’s’ in it for me kind of people.
“But the American people are not happy and it is because they have become selfish, self-serving people. A what’s’ in it for me kind of people.”
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Some people indeed may have become selfish, but only because government has replaced the person’s thoughts and feelings, his life and conscience, not allowing the person to mature, spiritually and physically. This why we’re are having so much effeminism, arrested development.
Curious, I had always assumed it was because abortion is worse than murder that you had dubbed PP as such.
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