The Fighting Ninth: Rick Boucher versus Morgan Griffith

Tonight, the eve of the 2010 election, in Virginia's Ninth Congressional District, The Fighting Ninth, we have two pro-abortion candidates:  Rick Boucher and Morgan Griffith.

Rick Boucher, the incumbent, is a liberal Democrat committed to keeping child-killing the most protected institution of the state since slavery.

Delegate Morgan Griffith, the challenger, is a Republican who stands the best chance in 28 years of unseating Congressman Boucher. . . if you believe the polls.

Morgan Griffith claims to be 100% pro-life.

Morgan Griffith is NOT pro-life.

Morgan Griffith does not believe that life begins at conception.

According to Blake Roark, the Field Director out of the Abingdon office, Morgan Griffith believes that life begins at "implantation".

This statement is consistent with Morgan Griffith's vote against Bob Marshall's 2007 HB 2797 LIFE AT CONCEPTION ACT.    Actual vote results:  http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+vot+HV0657+HB2797

Morgan Griffith's position leaves room for the following:

- RU-486
- "Research" (experimentation) on live human embryos
- Fertility clinics that throw live human embryos in the trash

Morgan Griffith has kept information about his actual position quiet and deliberately confusing, even from his own staff members who think he is 100% pro-life.

Principled voters must not vote for Morgan Griffith unless he commits in writing that he is 100% pro-life from the time of conception.  This is a very simple, principled, uncompromising stand.

Unfortunately many people will approach their vote pragmatically and vote for Morgan Griffith.  They will see him as the lesser of two evils.

These people will disregard what I have to say.  I direct my remarks to the principled voters of Virginia's Ninth Congressional District.

1.  It is God who decides the outcome of all elections.
2.  To vote for the "lesser of two evils" is to fear man rather than God.
3.  We have rulers who are pragmatists because we have been a nation and a church of pragmatists.  "We are so afraid of losing to the 'greater evil' that we consistently give away the farm to the 'lesser evil'."
4.  It is the duty of Christians to vote righteously.  If there is no righteous candidate in the race, leave the ballot blank or vote for yourself.

A friend of mine comments, "Is the urgency to defeat Rick Boucher really strong enough to justify replacing him with a slightly less liberal version of himself?

"Morgan Griffith is wrapped up in a shiny "Pro-Life" wrapper, but he has demonstrated that his idea of pro-life isn't much different than Roe v. Wade, which recognizes unborn life as beginning at "viability". Viability vs implantation, the only difference is later versus sooner."

A vote for Morgan Griffith is a vote for more abortion.  I would personally rather have a Rick Boucher in office whom I can count on as being my enemy than a wishy-washy weasel like Morgan Griffith who will say he is my friend but stab me in the back.

Stop Dangerous ID

On January 21, 2009, at 1:00 pm, a coalition of 10 organizations from across Virginia will rally at the Virginia State Capital Bell Tower, 910 Capital Street, Richmond, VA 23219 in support of legislation to stop the implementation of Dangerous ID, the so-called Real ID Act of 2005. John Tate, President, will speak on behalf of Campaign for Liberty.

At least three pieces of legislation are being introduced in the 2009 Session of the Virginia General Assembly to stop the implementation of the federal mandate to come into compliance with the Real ID Act by the beginning of next year.

Similar legislation went no where last year but lobbying efforts will gain momentum as grassroots organizations take the news of the bills to the districts across the state. We are certain to shake things up in local politics with upcoming state elections on the horizon.

Leaders of the opposition consider the "REAL ID Act of 2005" to be a bad law passed under false pretenses. It was rejected three separate times by the U.S. Senate, and was only passed because it was buried in a larger bill containing disaster relief and funding for Iraq military operations. The Senate didn't want it, and the American people don't want it either. But the majority leadership in Congress imposed it on us, and so now we have to fight to get it stopped in Virginia.

Opponents fear the creation of a centralized federal database containing personal information about all Americans. Decisions about the exact nature and scope of this program will be made by Homeland Security bureaucrats in the Executive Branch. It seems inevitable that biometric information and electronic tracking tags will be included at some point. No one intends a bad use for this system today, but it is inevitable that it will be used in bad ways in the future.

There are valid concerns with regard to security of the citizen’s personal information due to the number of databases that would be storing personal information by the federal government and shared between the states across the country as part of standard procedure within Motor Vehicle Administrations in the states, and as enabled by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. Neither the Federal Government nor the states can control access, which under International law includes data sharing even with Canada and Mexico. No one can know who is getting into those data bases and for what purpose.

According to the DHS, "Real ID is a nationwide effort intended to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy of identification documents that State governments issue." Yet it does nothing to prevent terrorists and other criminals from fraudulently obtaining a "Real ID" by forging the required documents. In fact, with multiple on-line, federated databases shared across multiple organizations and federal and state agencies, it will become much easier.

Many good arguments can be made against this Dangerous ID, but they all reduce to one overpowering truth. The more information government has the less it seems to know. The more power government has the less it seems able to accomplish. Big Government doesn't work. The federal government needs to do less in order to accomplish more. Small government is focused government. We need smaller government, not a massive new federal identification system.

Please plan to attend and tell your Virginia legislators to stand up to Congress and Homeland Security to keep federal bureaucrats from hijacking your state driver’s license for their national citizen control scheme.

Please log in to RSVP here, or email your RSVP to me at donna.holt@campaignforliberty.com.

One Gun Too Few

Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.:

One Gun Too Few: Virginia Tech has long been a “gun-free zone” for the purposes of its students’ self-defense. In the name of preventing violence, the university has prohibited every student with a Virginia license to carry a concealed firearm from doing so on campus. Surely debatable is whether such a regulation is even legal—given that such a license is a Virginia statutory right of any individual who qualifies for it (and, I should argue, a constitutional right as well) that no mere administrative body has any authority to deny. Beyond dispute is that events have written in blood just how disastrously that idea worked on Monday, 16 April 2007: Apparently everyone among the student body obeyed the edict, except the killer. The regulation perhaps disarmed students who might otherwise have legally been carrying a firearm with which they could have stopped the killer in his tracks. And the police, who were armed and on the campus, proved ineffective, because they were not on the scene.