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Frank (Franky) Schaeffer
Recorded in Brookfield, Wisconsin, July 24, 1992
Missionaries to the Preborn Video
Obtained and transcribed by BARF
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The fact of the matter remains that just as in our wars we find a
few men and women bravely go to the front and fight them for us, and
just as in the great philanthropic movements of the world, whether
it's Mother Teresa, whether it's the great missionary adventurers of
the 19th century, the truth of the matter is when we're not lying to
ourselves you must realize something very basic. And that is that
historical change is usually brought about by a handful, a dedicated
minority, that put to shame the apathetic majority and bring to them a
new consciousness or awareness that they too must take a stand in some
way. And without the fringe of the envelope if you like being
constantly pushed out by the activist minority in any political
movement, the center, the large listless mass in the middle will never
be roused to any sort of action even on its own level.
So the fact of the matter is without people like Missionaries to the
Preborn there would be no letter writers to Congress because they
would forget about the issue. The fact of the matter is without
people who are willing to go to jail for a cause in which we claim
that human life is being taken there would be no people running crisis
pregnancy centers because the issue would have been relegated to the
comfortable middle American back burner along with other do-goodism
and hand wringing and pietism of the kind with which we are all too
familiar, and which substitutes for most of the church in this
country.
And the fact that we get a hearing, the fact that anyone is
interested in this issue, the fact that any newspaper or television
coverage even by a biased media exists at all is because we are
blessed in this movement to have a lunatic fringe. We are blessed in
this movement to have a fanatical cutting edge like a flying wedge in
an old football formation out ahead of the rest of us who not only
keep the country's attention pinned on this issue, uncomfortable, like
a worm squirming on a hook, that is about the sense of it, but
nevertheless, pinned on this issue.
And the fact that those of us who find other ways of expressing our
pro-life convictions, whether it is speaking, or writing, or making
films, or picketing, or writing letters or running for office, or
donating money, or volunteering for a crisis pregnancy hotline, our
work only makes sense because of the people willing to be
arrested, and I'll tell you why. Because if abortion truly is murder,
and no one is willing to get arrested to stop it, it gives the lie to
our claim. If abortion is truly the taking of human life, and no one
is willing to go out in the heat of the day and act as if that is more
than an intellectual proposition, and actually behave as each one of
us would confronted with the murder of a loved one who we knew, then
our claims that this is a serious pivotal issue around which the fate
of our nation will revolve sounds very hollow indeed.
The abortion issue in our day and age, properly understood, is of
much graver consequence. It is the rearing of the ugly head of the
eugenics movement which divides the human race into the fit and the
unfit, the human weeds and the well-tended human lawn if you like,
into those who should be protected and given full life and citizenship
and due process in the courts and a vote, and those of whom not only
citizenship shall be stripped, but their very humanity.
It is the rearing of the head of the brave new world of which Huxley
wrote, it is the rearing of the head of the politics of "Animal Farm"
and Orwell's "1984." And if you want to see a movie that I would
suggest you all rent sometime, whether you are nice Christians that
don't watch R rated movies or not I suggest you make the exception for
this one, go down to your local video store and rent Ridley Scott's
"Bladerunner." "Bladerunner" is the future of the United States of
America if the pro-abortion side wins. A country, a country divided
into two peoples living in one land. One group, the yuppie fascists
that control the society living in the high towers of the mythical Los
Angeles, while on the street, it rains perpetually on second-class
citizens, mutants, mere, mere creations of genetic engineering in
which false life forms are toyed with and experimented with, in which
human life is trivialized, in which the meaning of sacredness and
dignity is squandered for profit and filthy greed, in which the
freedoms so hard won in the Second World War and by our forefathers
are squandered as we ourselves create the Nazi totalitarian nightmare
as if we had lost the war and were now forty or fifty years into the
eugenics program.
No longer now aided and abetted by cranky pseudo-scientists like
Margaret Sanger, but now aided and abetted by the real and naked fist
of amoral modern technology as it rolls up its sleeves in the human
genome project and gets ready once and for all to sort out this sorry
mess called the human race, and to see that none survive but those
created in the image of the knowledge elite. That is the future. If
you want to look into the mirror of tomorrow that you are leaving your
children, look at "Bladerunner" and look at it again. And contemplate
it, and to use the biblical phrase, "bind its truth to your heart."
The image of the future of this country is in the books, in the
great prophecies of the twentieth century, that did not come from our
pseudo-Christian leaders but came from the pen of Orwell and Huxley,
and came from the filmic talent of Ridley Scott in "Bladerunner," that
is the future. It is the totalitarian future, it is a future that
works, it is a future that is efficient, it is a future in finally
which our welfare, health and education problems will be solved, not
by persuasion but by that gentle tyranny that is provided today to the
one-child policy in China which Planned Parenthood supports, in which
women are forced to abort the unwanted, the unwanted children which
they themselves wish to bear. That is the future.
The future, the future of this country, is a geneticists, is a
geneticists plaything, and is a nightmare to those who have any
conception however vague or remote, however vague and distant, of
ideas which once rang in our republic, of freedom, and dignity, and
equal rights before the law; due process, and representation before
the court system.
We also have no excuse in 1992 as we go into this fiasco of an
election season, we have no excuse to tolerate any longer in our
midst, whether they call themselves Democrats or not, such uncivilized
behavior as that proposed by the national Democratic
platform. <applause>
Let us call Clinton and the Democratic party what they are. They are
the spearhead of the new neo-Nazi eugenic movement. <applause>
I frankly do not care if his miserable wife bakes cookies or not.
<laughter and applause>
Nor by the way am I moved by Al Gore's tearful testimonals to how
moved he was looking into the eyes of his dying child. Every
abortionist does the same every day of the week and his platform will
kill millions of little boys. <applause>
These people are not civilized opponents with whom one can bandy
words and arguments. These people for all their smiles and
middle-class goodwill have about them the air and the stench of the
concentration camp, the whip, the bullet in the nape of the neck, the
curette, the saline solution, the oily smoke of human remains as it
fouls our air. And as they convened in New York at their great
convention and released their balloons, with a slight adjustment of
their forward-looking program one could have rolled back the clock and
been at Nuremburg. One could have been at those great torchlight
rallies of the Nazi era in the late 1920's and heard the same rumble.
Nationalism without morals, sheer self-interest of the white
apathetic middle American class imposing itself on the whited bones of
the innocent. All class of people singled out for destruction, why?
Because they get in the way of the yuppie fascists like Clinton and
company. <cheers and applause>
These people, these people are indeed our opponents. But they
should be to us opponents in the same way that in Nazi Germany Hitler,
Goebbels, Goering, Eichmann and company were opponents to Winston
Churchill. That is the perspective on those who use death as a
solution to social problems. They are beyond the pale. We are not
even discussing here Christian ethics, we are not discussing what the
bible says or doesn't say, we are not discussing even modern biology
and technology, we are discussing something very simple and very
basic. And that is that very clear line that is drawn between all
civilizations and peoples, that demarcate, that divide between
barbarism and civility. <applause>
You, you, the few, and the brave, truly, truly stand in the place
of those of whom, as I said at the beginning, it can be said, never
has so much been owed by so many to so few. Because what we are
engaged in, ladies and gentlemen, is not, is not a conflict of civil
disobedience, it is not a political debate, it is not even a religious
debate. We are engaged in the beginning of the second American civil
war. That is the state of the union tonight.
And if George Bush, our President, and the other political leaders
elected to Congress were not so greedy for the American public's vote
but would tell them the truth, they would tell you first that we here
in this country having won the Second World War against eugenics and
social engineering have lost the peace. That we in this country are
not what George Bush said in his last State of the Union speech, when
he said we are basically a good people. That is a lie.
We the American people tonight, you and I, are by any historic
definition an evil people. We are barbarian. We are on the side of
tyranny. We, we today are in the place that Stalin was in the 30's.
The only difference is, that we are much cleverer about it. That our
social engineering product works because it is tied to the free market
and gives an illusion of prosperity. But behind that facade is death.
Behind the facade of peace there is no peace. We in this country have
developed to a science the art of self-esteem for no reason. We in
this country are perfecting the idea that we must feel good about
ourselves and that the only national sin is to not achieve full use of
your human potential.
Well let me tell you something. Measured by the standard of the
Nuremburg war crimes trials this nation now stands accused and
convicted. Measured by the standard of Winston Churchill that he
applied against Hitler when he said, "I shall track the dog to his
lair," measured by that standard, we are an evil people, not a good
people, and all this wishy-washy nice middle American pie in the sky
to the contrary is a lie. It is a drug with which to put our minds to
sleep in which we say we are still a good people.
And so I would tell you that you have two tasks before you. One
is to confront the uncivilized and barbarous second nation in our
midst, those yuppie fascists who would tear the heart out of our
country as they tear the limbs from children. And the second is to
confront the pioutistic fundamentalist ghetto that the church has
turned into in this country. It is so pleased with itself that it is
not as other men, that it's so happy that it can stand before God with
clean hands because it doesn't go to R-rated movies or drink, or
something. That it is so busy recarpeting the sanctuary and building
a 200 foot tower on its Christian college steeple, that is so
enamored with church growth which really is just sheep stealing since
no one's getting converted these days. <applause and cheers>
That it itself begins to simply be, simply be like the German Lutheran
church that sat at the gates of the Nazi holocaust and did nothing
because their great, en quote, theologian Scheilmarcher had told
them following the logic of Lutheran pietism, that to be a good
Christian simply meant to be a good German. We've heard that in our
country all too often. America first, America the beautiful, America
the great, God and country. Well it isn't God and country
anymore. It's Satan and country. And we must stand in opposition. We
must stand in opposition to that new America, not be fawning pawns of
a system of government and education which is creating a new barbarism
the likes of which would be the envy of Hitler and Stalin. And
therefore we have two tasks. It is to confront a stupid, moronic,
sleepy, ghettoized church on one hand and a greedy, lascivious,
barbarous, fascism on the other. And it's not a pretty picture.
And in between there is a true ecumenicism, where all real Roman
Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant evangelicals, charismatics and
fundamentalists will join hands in the only true church in America
today, and that is usually found sitting outside of a pro-life clinic
in the heat of the day. God bless you. <applause>
Frank (Franky) Schaeffer
Recorded in Brookfield, Wisconsin, July 24, 1992
Missionaries to the Preborn Video
Obtained and transcribed by BARF
Originally transcribed January, 1998
Updated page layout and re-encoded video, August 4, 2003
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