Pro-life strike (abortion boycott) mission: To purify our prayers and other pro-life efforts, and to make a concrete difference, we refuse to fund the abortion industry. We boycott corporate abortion funding, and hold back abortion taxes. We pray for life; we will not pay for death!
Pertaining to U.S. citizens: The sign-up page now contains a checkbox for "No ObamaCare". If you refuse to comply with the mandates of the new health care bill, you may thereby count yourself as being part of the pro-life strike.
As a follow-up to the aforementioned phone call to Congressman Obey's office, here is the text of a message just transmitted to his official web site:
Tues. March 16
Dear Mr. Obey:
As a follow-up of our March 3 phone messages to Matt Rudig, your staff person in Superior, this message is our due notice to you that we may hold you responsible for any legal ramifications of a health care mandate that passes with your support. Whether it is done under the guise of some parliamentary trick or whether it is done openly: if you support any measure that results in federal health care mandates, you may be held legally responsible for its consequences to us.
To be specific, as we hope it was made clear on March 3, we will not obey any mandate to purchase health insurance, nor to take part in a health care program or any such similar measure. All the measures proposed have amounted to tax-funded murder of the innocents and tyranny for citizens. Even if abortion mandates were not included, government health care mandates are simply unjust and tyrannical. We will not obey any such tyrannical measure. If a fine is therefore imposed, we will not pay the fine. If further legal ramifications follow, we will hold you personally responsible. The respondent in any lawsuit will be Mr. David Obey, not Congressman Obey.
We hope this is quite clear. Do as you please, but beware the consequences. This message serves as legal notice.
We're all in the same boat, each man doing his job, every one pulling his weight. That's how the system works. No shirkers; we're in this together, each laborer doing his job, every man to his oar. Cooperating in this way, we are able to make steady progress.
Gradually and slowly, however, a few of the workers begin to wonder about the overall course we seem to be taking. There begins to be some buzz about whether or not we're going the right way.
The sense of unrest grows. It is becoming clearer and clearer to more of the crew that the "progress" we are making is in the wrong direction. Besides that, our leaders have apparently gone over to the enemy's side. The misdirection may be deliberate! Those who are steering are using the ship, powered by our muscles, to work destruction and murder. Our toil has become counterproductive, perhaps deadly. We are empowering our wicked masters and helping them to wreak havoc and to shed innocent blood. Without realizing it, we are now party to evil deeds. We have become slaves on our own vessel!
Finally, one slave stops rowing. He looks around at his fellows who are still pulling on their oars. A thought forms in his mind. He begins to say, first to one and then to another of his comrades, "Hey, I just had an idea. What if we all stopped rowing? The ship would stop dead in its tracks, and our leaders would be helpless to proceed. Wouldn't that be a good thing?"
Heretofore, my tax resistance strategy has been within the confines of civil law. As outlined on the manifesto page, Jerry DePyper has taken the "reduced income" approach, reducing or eliminating income tax liability by reducing or eliminating my income. But as I consider the looming "health care" tyranny being pushed by Democrats even as I write, I have come to realize that the time has come to take the next step.
Since tax-funded abortion is baked into all viable versions of recent U.S. "health care" legislation proposals, it necessarily becomes grist for the pro-life strike mill.
With federally mandated coverage, legal and passive resistance now seems to be inadequate.
So today I called the local office of my congressman, David Obey (pronounced Oh-bee). After a few busy signals, I got through and talked personally with a staffer named Matt Rudig. My message was that I would refuse to obey any health care mandates, and would hold Democratic Congressman Obey responsible for any legal ramifications, if he supports it with his vote. Mr. Rudig sounded a bit surprised at the message, a declaration of intent instead of a docile plea or an outraged demand, but he took my name and address, and promised to relay the message to Obey. Well, then: Jerry DePyper is now officially on record as being a potential outlaw, and an actual law-breaker if any of these tyrannical measures pass.
I do not take lightly the decision to disobey my government. Think of St. Thomas More, who obeyed his king for as long as he could, without disobeying God. But in the end, when forced to choose his first loyalty, More declared, "I die the King's good servant, but God's first." St. Thomas, pray for us.
