I just could not say goodbye without posting Michael’s (in my opinion) magnus opus.  It has comforted my soul a thousand times.

I can see night in the day time
Into the woods I quietly go
It takes all the strength I have in me
These are the woods
The night of the soul
Painful to see
Love without action
Painful to see years of neglect
Achin’ to see all that they see
Still telling lies to the remains of respect
Creatures we are worth defending
It takes the right word said from the heart
Given to you without ending
Given to you, the purpose of art
Thousands of plans, I’ve made many
I wonder just how many plans I have made
Feelin’ this mood overtake me
Finally to see the truth as it fades
Out of these woods will you take me
Out of these woods, out of the storm
Oh Sinless Child can you save me
Oh guilty man, freedom is yours

UPDATE:  On July 15, 2010 the Honorable Roger Cosbey, US Magistrate, ordered that the unredacted forms filed with the county government by the abortionist Ulrich Klopfer not be released to the public.  In deference to this order of the federal court the redacted copy of the same (that had been filed in the federal court’s open docket by the abortionists’ attorneys) that was previously posted on this website has been removed.  bjb

The ArchAngel Institute is concerned that Fort Wayne abortionist Ulrich Klopfer is giving into temptations to “game the system” in his battle against a common sense public safety ordinance passed by the Allen County Commissioners.

Klopfer has not only sued to enjoin the ordinance, he has recently alleged, by innuendo and with no evidence other than his own vague testimony, that someone has already misused information he tendered to the government in response to the new ordinance.

Here is the link to this morning’s report in the local newspaper.

The ArchAngel Institute wishes to make two observations in light of Mr. Klopfer’s vague allegations: (more…)

My name is Bryan J. Brown. I served Kansas as a Deputy Attorney General under Phill Kline between 2003 – 2007 and as a First Amendment litigator for Don Wildmon’s American Family Association in the six years before that.  Prior to that professional experience I was involved in pro-life activism as far back as Francis Schaeffer and Dr. C. Everett Koop’s seminal 1979 seminar “Whatever Happened to the Human Race” and as intense as leading “rescue movement” groups in Fort Wayne and Wichita.  During those tours of duty on the front lines of the culture war I was privileged to meet, and work beside, some of America’s most well known pro-life and pro-family leaders.

I have stood up to statism and stood against due process violations in courts across the nation and, most recently, (more…)

(Cont’d from this post)

Which brings me back to the topic at hand:  My experience as a political dissident and social reformer move me to heartily endorse the “personhood” movement sweeping across the nation.

Merely consider the great social reform movements of the past:  The abolitionists did not rest until passage of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all equal rights regardless of color; the suffragettes did not rest until a series of constitutional amendments guaranteed women the right to vote and fully participate in the civil life of the nation; even those opposed to “demon rum” had the will to fight for a constitutional amendment enshrining their moralist aims.  Shall we value the life of the unborn less than they valued an alcohol-free society?

By amending the organic documents that form the very bedrock of the American legal order to protect the unborn (more…)

Attorney Abraham Lincoln’s Address Before the
Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois

January 27, 1838

As a subject for the remarks of the evening, the perpetuation of our political institutions, is selected.

In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.–We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them–they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Their’s was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; ’tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform.

How then shall we perform it?–At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?– Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!–All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or (more…)

Source: http://www.in.gov/judiciary/citc/articles/browning.pdf

PIVARNIK, ALFRED J.
(Ninety-eighth Justice)
Justice Pivarnik was born in 1925 in Valparaiso, Indiana, and died June 3,
1995.
He received his law degree from Valparaiso University in 1951. During
World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Force.  He served as deputy
prosecutor of Porter County from 1952 to 1958 and as prosecuting attorney from
1958 to 1962.   He served as Porter Circuit Court Judge from 1962 to 1977,
when he was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created
by the retirement of Justice Arterburn.446 Justice Pivarnik was the first justice to
join the Indiana Supreme Court through a nonpolitical merit system.  He retired
in 1990 due to poor health.

JUDGE WAS THE ‘JOHN WAYNE OF LEGAL SYSTEM

Article from:

Post-Tribune (IN)

Article date:

June 5, 1995

Former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Alfred J. Pivarnik, who started his legal and judicial career in Porter County, died [June 3, 1995] at Porter Memorial Hospital. Mr. Pivarnik, a Porter County prosecutor before serving as a Porter Circuit Court judge for 15 years, was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1977 by former Gov. Otis R. Bowen.

Mr. Pivarnik, 70, a Valparaiso Law School graduate, retired in 1990 because of health reasons.

“He was the John Wayne of the legal system,” said Neil Hannon, chief of adult probation in Porter County and a longtime friend. “He stood by his convictions and lived by them. He was a true statesman and you always knew where he stood.”

Hannon, who worked with Mr. Pivarnik for seven years, said that Mr. Pivarnik set an example for him and others, to do their best and work beyond the expected hours.

Porter Circuit Judge Raymond Kickbush said he will close the circuit court on Wednesday in Mr. Pivarnik’s memory.

“He was a very fine man who stood by his convictions,” said Kickbush, who knew Mr. Pivarnik for 40 years and visited him last week in the hospital.

During World War II, Mr. Pivarnik served in the U.S. Army as a radio operator and gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress. He received the American Theater Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal and Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged in 1946.

Survivors include his wife, Catherine Alyea; three sons, Daniel E. Pivarnik , Edward J. Pivarnik and Timothy A. Pivarnik, all of Valparaiso; one daughter, Laura Rouse of Carmel; his twin brother, Robert J. Pivarnik of Palm Desert, Calif.; one sister, Florence Kelly of Ohio; and 10 grandchildren.

THE ARCHANGEL INSTITUTE THANKS THE LORD GOD OF HISTORY FOR GREAT AND CHIVALROUS MEN LIKE ALFRED J. PIVARNIK.

Indiana’s most notorious abortionist and Third Reich immigrant, Ulrich George Klopfer (meet him here and here) has sued the government of Allen County, Indiana for its recent ordinance causing him to register with the local hospital.

Klopfer, as interesting as he is,  is not the most interesting twist on this story.  The most interesting twist on this story is the likely appellate trajectory of the litigation.

Here is a section from today’s Journal Gazette on this Memorial Day court action:

Klopfer believes that only the state of Indiana has jurisdiction to regulate doctors and medical facilities. His medical license allows him to practice anywhere in the state, he said, and the county shouldn’t be able to interfere.

His clinic is also licensed by the state and operates under state regulations, Klopfer said

Those regulations require him to provide emergency contact information to patients and keep a written procedure for providing emergency medical care and contact numbers, according to the copy of the lawsuit.

The suit also argues that the county’s ordinance is unconstitutionally vague, that it discriminates against certain classes of doctors, that it violates patients’ privacy rights and represents an undue burden on the patients to obtain an abortion.

The lawsuit states there are no provisions in the ordinance to protect the privacy or the names of the patients seeking medical care from these doctors, which could keep women from seeking services.

Click here to read the whole story.

Klopfer is represented by the usual suspects — Indiana’s ACLU (click here) and the same law firm from New York that crucified Bryan Brown and Wendell Brane (and one other) way back in 1990.  (Click here for that history and here for the victory almost 20 years later).

NOW HERE IS THE VERY INTERESTING QUESTION ARISING OUT OF ALL OF THIS …

Why state court and not federal court?  The ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, based in New York,usually prefer federal court for such filings.

They have, historically, prevailed in almost all federal court litigation — especially in the lower courts.

So why is this case filed in the Allen County court, pointed toward Indianapolis for the eventual appeal,and not the Northern District of Indiana (federal court)?

I can only guess, but I think my guess is a good one.

Last year an Indiana judge pulled back the veil of many decades to speak of his crucial role in the starvation of Baby Doe of  Bloomington in 1982.

It is a study in the use of “death panels.”

I have posted on that legal killing of a born infant more than a few times on this website, both before and after that interview was posted by Indiana Lawyer magazine.

In fact, I had started a four part series and finished only three.

Here is post one.

Here is post two.

Here is post three.

This is the fourth post in our Baby Doe’s final-human-judge-revealed series.

Here is Indiana Lawyer’s recent  picture of the Indiana  judge who, in a four minute hearing, doomed Baby Doe to suffer the painful death of dehydration.  The man pictured  is the highest ranking appellate court judge in the State of Indiana.

No, this is not Chief Justice Randall Shepard of the Indiana Supreme Court.   Shepard is undoubtedly pro-choice, and he is often lauded, even doted on,  by the powerful appellate  judge pictured.  No doubt Shepard chose this powerful appellate judge for both the appellate court and as chief judge of Indiana’s important, law-making appellate court.  Shepard is the most powerful and longest serving incumbent in the State of Indiana and perhaps in the Midwest.  He is a king maker and pro-life activist breaker.

But enough about Chief Justice Randall Shepard.

Who is the powerful appellate judge of whom I speak, the judge who ordered the sacrificial death of Baby Doe and boasts of the same more than 25 years later …

I speak of  Judge John Baker, Chief Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.  (Click here for official bio).

Judge Baker, who recently confessed, in a front page article of Indiana Lawyer, to being the judge who ordered Baby Doe’s extermination.  (Click here for that article).

Judge John Baker, who is up for retention vote in 2012.  (We have our marching orders!)

Judge John Baker, who will likely have a say in any appeal of abortionist Klopfer’s case that files on June 1, 2010.

Susan Hill (pictured) was a trailblazer in many ways. 

Fort Wayne, IN; Jackson, MS; Fargo, SD; Milwaukee and many other midsized American cities were without abortion providers in the 70’s. 

Susan raced for the cure, founding an abortion empire based in mid-sized cities.  Here is a link on that empire that she lost long before her death.

Fort Wayne fought Hill’s cure.  Susan won that battle.  Click here for that deep background.

Phyllis Avila, Phyllis Morken and five other nurses in Fort Wayne stood on their Christian faith and against Susan Hill’s Fort Wayne child killing operation back in the early 80’s.  They were successful in reaching out to abortion bound women, getting some to choose life rather than choosing to enrich Susan Hill.

Susan raced for the cure, bringing one of the first, if not the first, federal lawsuits against pro-life sidewalk counselors in the nation.  The case was against the Nurses Concerned for Life.  

Frank and Phyllis Avila fought Susan’s cure.   Susan won that battle when (more…)

UPDATED Friday night, see comment from Dr. Tom

Dr. Thomas McGovern is Fort Wayne-based medical doctor and expert on the cruel, ancient practice of crucifixion.

(From an article printd in the Toledo Blade, journalist DAVID YONKE)

For 17 years, Dr. Thomas McGovern has studied one of the pivotal events in history: the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

He has pored over scripture, reviewed medical research, and interviewed experts around the globe about the physical suffering of Christ in his final hours.

Dr. McGovern believes that while modern-day Christians are aware that Jesus suffered, they don’t fully comprehend the agony and brutality of his death on a cross – a punishment so barbaric that it was banned in the 4th Century by Roman Emperor Constantine.

“Being a Catholic, I like to say that our crucifixes are much too (more…)

Modernity has so many ideological guns to use against our Faith.    It is now usual and customary to have an all out assault on our Faith from the forces of secularization during Holy Week.

Thus we should rejoice when just the opposite happens.  Could it be a sign of the times that the London Telegraph is today reporting a solid historic and scientific foundation for …. ready for this …. all ten of the plagues from Exodus!

Click here and enjoy.

The timing of this report is interesting — Passover began at dusk today and continues on Tuesday, March 30. 

The ramifications of this study are far reaching.  Plague #10 was death on the firstborn.   Personal and social death that was avoidable through an act of Faith that foreshadowed the fulfillment of the entire sacrificial system of the Old Covenant – beginning with the clothing of our original, fallen parents as they departed Eden — in Christ Jesus our Lord.  One cannot understand Jesus Christ, the Bible,  (more…)