Observation of the day:

I know many are voicing concerns about the growing threat of ISIS and the Islamic Jihadist movement here and abroad (And rightly so). Europe, America, and Western nations have for years rejected their Christian roots in favor of Progressivism, Marxism, Communism, Humanism, and Socialism. Progressivism, as it name implies, is in a state of evolution. It progresses from one state to another.

Progressivism has moved Western Civilization from one God and code, Christianity and the Bible to another god and code, Allah and the Koran. Those who believe in an evolutionary faith are finding to their horror, their worldview has no fixed standard and is always in a state of flux. Little did they also know their worldview would prepare the way for a beast (Islam) that takes advantage of their naivety to conquer them.

Islam demands that all faiths, worldviews, and philosophies either convert, become their slave, (Dhimmi) or die. They are growing and the threat is very real. Sharia law is being implemented in what was once the free nations on earth. What will Western civilization do? Will they submit as Islam demands. In fact, that is what the word Islam means or will they return to the true and living God of the Bible?

Would it not be interesting, if the Lord uses Islam to expose the fallacies of all the isms that deny Him and demonstrate once again that only those nations whose God is Lord will be blessed (Psalm 33:12).

Psalm 81:13, 14 admonishes, “Oh, that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways! I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against their adversaries.”

As Western civilization recognizes the gods of humanism are fraudulent and paved the way for the Islamic beast to dominate, perhaps this double incentive will cause us to humbly return to the Lord our God, obey His commands, and watch the Lord subdue our enemies intent on our destruction. Just a thought!!!

New Orleans Planned Parenthood Report

Pastor Bill Shanks Leading the Saints at the Gates of Hell

Planned Parenthood sent out 500 email invitations to contractors in the New Orleans area. They requested their presence at their “job fair” that took place today. Planned Parenthood is desperate to find someone to help build their new death camp in New Orleans. All previous contractors either walked off and refused the job or the ones Planned Parenthood managed to hire got busted by the authorities for illegalities. The proposed site still lies in ruins.   Between 30 to 40 prospective contractors showed up to hear Planned Parenthood’s pitch to construct their altar of Moloch. The contractors, however, were not alone. Pastor Bill Shanks, Pastor Dale Sochia, Bishop Otis Kenner, and the saints showed up as well. Armed with signs, literature, and the preaching of God’s word, they engaged the contractors. The saints were stationed on the sidewalk right near the door. They had no problems per say, though some of the contractors were a bit peeved.

 Bishop Kenner and Pastor Bill Engaging a Contractor

Apparently, one of the contractors asked the million dollar question, “Why did the work on this project stop?” The Planned Parenthood representative pointed him to the saints outside and said, “Because of those people out there!” Pastor Bill shouted, “GLORY!!!”

Infamous abortionist Warren Hern believes Operation Save America is more dangerous than the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade. How much space is OSA renting in the minds of the abortion industry? Keep pressing on saints. The gates of hell will not prevail against the church of the living God!

 

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More woes for the proposed Planned Parenthood in New Orleans. This comes right after our national event a couple of weeks ago. We praise the Lord for watching over His Word to perform it. May this proposed death camp continue to be albatross around the neck of the infamous Planned Parenthood and their bloody, wicked practices. 

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Martin Haskell, who invented the evil of partial birth abortion in Dayton, Ohio had his death camp shut down recently. This is a great victory and we praise God for it. His infamous abortuary was one of the locations Operation Rescue/Operation Save America concentrated on during our national event back in July of 1997.

As a result of Christians intervening, six were charged with F.A.C.E. Some of us were charged with four counts. Our lives were essentially over. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines and possible several years in federal prison awaited the defendants. God performed a miracle through a lawyer named Rick Nelson. The Department of Justice case against us was obliterated by this able attorney. We were set free to continue to storm the gates of hell. With the closure of Haskell’s death camp, it is clear once again that the gates of hell will never prevail against the church of the living God.

The following is the historical account of that time, location, and case. Enjoy!       


God at Work in Dayton, Ohio FACE Case

 

The following is a chronology collected from both the OSA and ORN web pages detailing the trial of alleged FACE offenses in Dayton, Ohio.

 

The United States Department of Justice, no matter how much money it spends or how many hours it works, cannot seem to get “done” what it has been attempting to do for the past eight years now. In its frothing attempt to annihilate, obliterate, and ultimately destroy any peaceful proclamation of the Gospel of Christ outside abortion mills. It has suffered yet another setback. That’s right! Federal Judge Walter Rice, who declared a mistrial in the Justice Department’s FACE case against Operation Rescue and five named defendants on September 13, 1999, has now indefinitely postponed the retrial of that case which was to have begun on February 15, 2000.

 

There is no question that we are absolutely helpless against this huge bureaucratic monolith that stands opposed to those living out their faith in the streets of our cities. We have no weapon nor do we have armor that can withstand the onslaughts of the United States Department of Justice, yet we remain! How? God Himself is intervening on our behalf and on behalf of His precious children waiting to be born.

 

“Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from that noisy crowd of evildoers … They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares … They plot injustice and say, ‘We have devised a perfect plan!’ … But God will shoot them with arrows … He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin … All mankind will fear; they will proclaim the works of God and ponder what He has done.” Psalm 64:2-9.



December, 1999

 

The United States Department of Justice Filled with Fury

 

In its relentless pursuit to silence the Gospel of Jesus Christ out side child-killings centers, the Justice Department is bringing several of us to trial in Washington, D.C., on December 9 for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) law. As with the Dayton, Ohio FACE case, to be tried in February of next year, the Justice Department has been less that discreet in its desire to smash and obliterate Operation Rescue. It is seeking a national injunction against all of us that we may never again go near an abortion mill in this country. In seeking to repent the miracle of Christmas from taking place at a abortion mills (the Word of God becoming flesh, the United States Department of Justice finds itself shaking its fist in the face of Almighty God! This is probably not a good idea.



October, 1999

 

The Battle Between Two Seeds Rages in Dayton, Ohio

 

After spending several days in Dayton, Ohio with the saints who are being unjustly brought to trial, I realized once again that we do not war against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. There is not a doubt that the United States Department of Justice is being used by the enemy to censor the Gospel of Jesus Christ at child-killing centers.

 

The recent revelations about what really happened in Waco, Texas, in March of 1993 demonstrate clearly that the Department of Justice knows how to lie, lie often, and cover it up well. Just a few years ago, it launched a multi-million dollar investigation in an attempt to fabricate a pro-life conspiracy to blow-up abortion mills and shoot abortionists. Ms. Reno placed federal marshals at several abortion mills for over a year to gather data. The investigation was a bust. There was not one shred of evidence of a conspiracy. There were no convictions. Thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars in taxpayer money went down the shoot in a witch-hunt to frame those who love Christ and His children.

 

Undeterred by the findings in her first investigation, Ms. Reno has appointed yet another task force to find her imagined pro-life conspiracy. Coupled with this, we have the Department of Justice spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of man-hours filing two civil FACE lawsuits against Operation Rescue in Dayton, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

 

If anyone is wondering why the Justice Department is not prosecuting child pornographers, drug dealers, gamblers, gun carriers, etc., it is because it is spending most of its time and money prosecuting and persecuting Christians who are living out their faith at child-killing centers.



October, 1999

Mistrial in Dayton

 

On September 13, 1999, Federal Judge Walter Rice declared a mistrial in the Justice Department’s federal lawsuit against Operation Rescue and five named defendants. “God sent confusion into the ranks of the Justice Department attorneys.” said Rick Nelson, attorney for Rusty Thomas, Jim Anderson, Flip Benham, and Operation Rescue. “We give all praise and glory to Jesus Christ, but the battle is not over. They are going to press this issue until the Christian witness is totally silenced at abortion mills.”

 

Rick Nelson, Tom Condit, and David Langdon are the courageous attorneys of record defending those who are bringing the Gospel of Christ to the gates of hell (the local abortion mill). They are doing it at no cost to the defendants but at great sacrifice to themselves and their families. Judge Rice kept them in Dayton for almost three weeks, at their own personal expense, while the Department of Justice muddled through its pathetic case at taxpayer expense. The vaunted United States Department of Justice spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to persecute and prosecute Christianity only to return to Washington, D.C., with its tail between its legs and a mistrial. How absurd!

 

Pharaoh’s officials pleaded with him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?” Exodus 10:7. Pharaoh, in his insane zeal to destroy God’s people, paid no attention to his advisers and was destroyed. In the same way, Adolf Hitler’s generals pleaded with him that Germany was in ruins and that continuing the war was insane, yet a demonic presence drove him to destruction.

 

The question must be asked of Janet Reno. How long will you continue this prosecution and persecution against God’s people? Your entire Department of Justice is unraveling before your very eyes. Yet, like Pharaoh and Hitler before you, you are insanely plunging on, totally devoid of reason. The Scripture is being fulfilled in you: “… He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”

 

The same spirit that inhabited the shell of Pharaoh and Adolf Hitler now inhabits the shell of Janet Reno. Please pray for this poor woman who has been used by the devil to wreak havoc on the pro-life movement and is now being pummeled by him. She will surely be destroyed lest she repent and call on the Name of Jesus to rescue her from Satan’s merciless grasp. Jesus longs to save her. It is, however, her choice.



August, 1999

 

United States of America vs. Operation Rescue, August 23-27, 1999

 

The United States Department of Justice is coming after us with both feet as it attempts to squeeze every last breath from a people who love Jesus and His precious pre-born children. Because of the heinous act of laying our lives down that others might live at abortion mills in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio during the summer of 1997, we are being railroaded by our own government into paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil penalties to the child-killing industry. Though many children are alive today because of the sacrificial acts of hundreds of Christians who gave up their freedom to speak for those who could not speak for themselves, these Christians are now considered enemies of America.

 

“Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.” Pr 28:4.

 

There is no question that our nation has forsaken God’s law and, because we have, the wicked are being praised and the righteous are being excoriated. It is our duty to resist governmental apostasy and rightly represent the law of God no matter the cost. And that it cost much the annals of Christian history will testify. Please keep us in your prayers as our attorneys and the saints have the privilege of representing Jesus once again in the courts of our land.



August 23, 1999
Press Release

 

Dayton, Ohio Becomes Flashpoint in Abortion Battle

 

“Through a series of events that could only have been orchestrated by God Himself, Dayton, Ohio has become the focal point in our nation’s battle over abortion.” Said Rev. Flip Benham, National Director of Operation Rescue.

 

Martin Haskell, the originator of the partial-birth abortion procedure, offices in Dayton and has botched two abortions recently. One child lived for three hours and then died in the arms of Shelly Lowe, a medical technician at Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati.

 

Another baby was born two weeks ago at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, a survivor of Mr. Haskell’s horrific procedure. This baby is alive today and residing at Children’s Medical Center in Dayton. The baby has been placed in the charge of Montgomery County. The Children’s Medical Center has received hundreds of calls to adopt the baby.

 

Operation Rescue and six named defendants including its National Director are being tried today in Federal Court in Dayton. The United States Department of Justice is seeking violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) statute for rescue activities that took place in the summer of 1997 at two of Martin Haskell’s abortion mills. Many children were saved at the event.

The Judge presiding over this trial is Judge Walter Rice, who overruled the State of Ohio’s law banning partial birth abortions. He is a judge who views himself above the law.

 

Hundreds of Christians, several Dayton and Kettering Policemen, City Council woman Peggy Leaner, and dozens of pastors gathered in front of the Federal Court House in Dayton to support those who are being unjustly brought to trial.

 

The people of America are becoming fed up with a judicial system that continues to protect men like Haskell, whose butchery is well documented, while prosecuting those whose love for the Lord and His children is equally well documented.” said Rev. Benham.



August 19, 1999
Press Release

 

The United States of America vs. Operation Rescue, et. al.

 

In an unprecedented move to thoroughly squash the Christian witness at abortion mills in America, the United States Department of Justice has taken upon itself to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to pursue and sue the one force the abortion industry fears most – Operation Rescue!

 

Using the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) statute, the Justice Department is bringing to its Federal Court in Dayton, Ohio several named and unnamed defendants to prevent them from ever going to an abortion mill again. The case begins August 23, 1999 with Judge Walter Rice presiding over the trial. He is the judge who, by fiat, overruled the state of Ohio’s law banning partial birth abortions.

 

Why does the abortion industry fear Operation Rescue? Because Operation Rescue represents the Church of Jesus Christ fighting God’s battle in God’s way. Simple Christians living out their faith, day after day, at places where children die. The gates of hell cannot prevail against God’s Church. The steady decline in the number of abortions, abortionists, and abortion mills attest to this fact.

 

“Unfortunately our own government, sworn to protect life, has become its greatest enemy. It has become a willing dupe in the hands of the abortion industry.” Said Rev. Flip Benham, National Director of Operation Rescue. “The United States of America has declared Christians enemies of our own country. Never has more been spent, more malevolent legislation passed, more absurd court rulings levied, than this present effort to silence the speech of gentle Christians at abortion mills.”

 

Miami Valley Law enforcement officers will join Christians from all over Miami Valley Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Federal Court House, 200 West Second Street, in Dayton, Ohio to reaffirm their allegiance to Almighty God and their sworn oath to protect innocent life. “As law enforcement officers we do not appreciate, nor condone being utilized as tools to further protect the morally wrong slaughter of unborn children by way of the partial birth abortion procedure.”

Words from David Mehaffie

 

It is clear from the wording of this lawsuit, that this action is not limited to the named defendants.” Said David Mehaffie, the only native of Dayton named in the lawsuit. “If you or your church can be described as attempting to or encouraging others to, in any way hinder a woman offering her child to be murdered, you too can be “named” among the defendants. Janet Reno and the Department of Justice refer to this ‘law’ as Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE). In this case they seek $60,000.00 PER DEFENDANT and $40,000 per defendant would go directly to the abortionist. There is also the threat of 2 to 5 years in a Federal Penitentiary.”

 

Dave goes on to say, “I in no way wish to be “rescued” from the wrath of this court. On the contrary, there is no place else I would choose to be. For if we stand idly by while judges pass decrees that support murder, truly we forfeit our own souls. Better to hold no to my soul in prison than to lie in bed with my wife and my children nearby, having betrayed all that I have told them I stand for. The enemy wages this battle, not only for the lives of the innocent and the souls of women who give them up, but also for the very soul of the church in Dayton.”

Please enjoy this wonderful video summary of the mission of Operation Save America. It was filmed and produced by one of our own, Charity Johnston. Please pass this video along to your spheres of influence.

Now that the Smoke has Cleared

Controversies ignited like brushfires as Operation Rescue/Operation Save
America confronted the culture of death in New Orleans, Louisiana
(Jeremiah 5:14). Now that the smoke has cleared, what actually happened in
the Big Easy?

OSA ministers in cities at the invitation of local pastors and churches.
OSA is the wheel that helps lead the church to the exposed areas where
babies are murdered. OSA leadership consists of Christian pastors,
reverends, and layman in good standing with the church.

All Christians have a responsibility to spread the Gospel (Matthew
28:18-20). Additionally, all Christians have the responsibility to “rescue
those unjustly sentenced to death” (Proverbs 24:11) and to speak for those
that cannot speak for themselves (Proverbs 31:8-9). When OSA receives a
“Macedonian Call” for help from a pastor or minister, OSA visits that city
with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and exposes the unfruitful works of
darkness (Ephesians 5:11).

OSA members preach the Gospel of the Kingdom at different venues (abortion
clinics, parks, street corners, and neighborhoods). In addition, OSA uses
one day of the week long outreach, Sunday, to appeal to area churches to
plead the case of the fatherless to win it (Jeremiah 5:28). The appeal is
based upon Hebrews 10:24, which states, “Stir up one another to love and
good works.”

During OSA’s New Orleans outreach, OSA visited more than forty area
churches with this godly appeal. In addition, OSA determined to visit the
Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans to bring loving correction
through the Word of God (Ephesians 5:8-11). UUC is a vocal supporter of
Planned Parenthood. UUC is helping to spearhead a new building site for an
abortion mega clinic. This violates the clear teachings of Scripture.

Below is OSA’s official response to the controversy regarding OSA’s visit
to the Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans. The media slandered
former National Director, Rev. Flip Benham, and colluded with the abortion
industry to distort certain incidences during our week long event.

1. The Unitarian Universalist Church Disruption was not Authorized by OSA

a) In addition to the Unitarian Universalist Church, OSA visited over
forty other area churches without a single incident

b) As a result of OSA’s appeal to the churches, at least three local
pastors and numerous layman joined the outreach

c) The OSA member who spoke during the Unitarian Universalist Church
service was not authorized by OSA to disrupt the service.

d) The OSA member who spoke during the Unitarian Universalist Church
service was not present during OSA’s instructions on how to share the Word
of God with church members.

e) The disruption was contrary to OSA’s specific instructions. OSA
instructed members to dialog with church attendees AFTER the service.

f) OSA leadership brought correction. The OSA member repented.

g) Finally, the media reporting (see below) of what happened at the
Unitarian Universalist Church was grossly exaggerated. The media never
contacted OSA for an official comment.

2. Reporting by Social Media and Traditional Media was Biased and Largely
Inaccurate.

a) The general lack of fairness, accuracy, and objectivity contributed to
a mischaracterization of OSA. (Specific media inquiries should be directed
to Dr. Pat McEwen, Media Relations, pmcewen@cfl.rr.com, or Rev. Rusty Lee
Thomas, National Director, at rusty@elijahmin.com

b) Biased reporting was especially apparent in the slander of Reverend
Flip Benham, former National Director of OSA.

c) Media outlets repeated the “talking points” of feminist and abortion
rights groups. By definition, talking points are intended to present only
one side. The typical purpose of a talking point is to propagandize. The
continuous repetition within media outlets of Benham being a “convicted
stalker” created an environment of “proof by assertion.” Although the
facts revealed something else, the media refused to report on it. The
slander is seen as fact due to its not being challenged by truth. As a
result, the media was a mouthpiece for abortion supporters.

d) Throughout OSA’s week long outreach, DuVergne Gaines, Legal Coordinator
for the Feminist Majority Foundation and National Clinic Access Project,
slandered Benham to the press. A North Carolina abortionist accused him of
“stalking.” Benham’s conviction was overturned by a higher court. Benham
was exonerated. However, media outlets repeatedly referred to Benham as a
“convicted stalker,” parroting the Feminist Majority’s “talking points.”
Fact checking would have squelched the story.

e) The neighborhood outreach was similarly mischaracterized. According to
media reports, the neighborhood outreach was a “threat” rather than a
Gospel witness. OSA plans its national event during the summer, to
encourage mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents to minister the
Gospel as families. Rather than report grandmothers and mothers pushing
baby strollers visiting an abortionist’s neighborhood with Gospel tracts
and signs, the media mischaracterized OSA members. Neighbors were
naturally concerned to hear “anti-abortion activists” were coming to
“picket” their neighborhood with a “convicted stalker.” Again, a little
fact checking would have presented a more balanced report.

Our Operation Save America New Orleans facebook page was inundated with
hundreds of vile, blasphemous, and vulgar attacks. Many who support
abortion on demand railed against our efforts to save lives and souls
through the Gospel of the Kingdom. We thanked them for their comments and
did our best to respond as our Lord commanded, “But I say to you who hear:
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse
you, and pray for those who spitefully use you” (Luke 6:27, 28).

Those in the abortion camp may not agree with our methodology due to their
ideology, but our motives and actions are Biblically based. Our intention
was to save babies and the lost. There is no salvation for eternal souls
apart from Jesus Christ. Our call as Christians was to speak this truth in
love.

During the Civil War and the great polarization that divided our nation,
Abraham Lincoln made this statement, “With malice toward none, with
charity for all…let us strive on to finish the work we are in…to do
all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves
and with all nations.” To friend and foe alike in New Orleans, we must
finish the work to end child sacrifice and the shedding of innocent blood
to achieve a just and lasting peace in our nation. With malice towards
none and with charity for all, OSA was, is, and will be committed to end
the America Holocaust.