From: chaneysa@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu (Steve Chaney : Borg Operating Space Systems, Revision 2.0)
Subject: Another hit off my CAN'T DODGE THIS album: That "Big" April 5 Rally!
Originator: chaneysa@nextnet
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:43:58 GMT


I got a letter from Alan Cranston a while back (US Senator, D-CA), talking
about the 500,000 people who marched during the March for Women's Lives, to
defend Coat Hanger Terrorism (aka legal abortion).

We still hear rings of pro-aborts talking about 500,000 marchers on that
day, all over the place.

Well, pro-aborts, I've got your asses nailed to the wall and I'm gonna
preserve that look on your face for future generations:

Where in the world do you get that 500,000 figure, from?

Certainly not from the OFFICIAL count.

Where does the media CONTINUE to get this count?

See the answer above.


The FACT is, the major US Media continues to hawk that 500,000 count, when
the OFFICIAL count was 250,000.

I remind the pro-aborts, who specialize in impaired reasoning and selective
reading, that this letter was NOT, repeat NOT, originated as a claim by
Representative Chris H. Smith. THIS LETTER CAME FROM - read this VERY
CAREFULLY, pro-aborts - THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. All facts IN this letter, were brought forth by the
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, NOT Rep. Chris H. Smith.

So when we hear the rampant "But this was a claim by a Republican anti
choice fetus zealot" b.s. from Adrienne Regard, Dan King and all the other
pro-aborts, let it be known that beforehand, their case has already been
destroyed.

Here is the letter:

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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service

Honorable Chris H. Smith
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515-3004

Dear Mr. Smith

This is in response to your April 15, 1992, letter to Chief Robert E.
Langston regarding the abortion rights rally that was conducted on the Mall
on April 5.
Using the procedures set forth in the Federal Register, Vol.56, No.186,
dated September 35, 1991, the official United States Park Police crowd
estimate for the National Organization for Women (NOW) rally on April 5 was
approximately 250,000 persons. Our estimate was not released until April 6
because of a significant disparity in the estimate provided by the
Metropolitan Police Department and the estimate of our United States Park
Police on April 5. A recheck of bus counts and a verification of the final
Metro Transit ridership count for April 5 was accomplished on April 6, in
graphs. After completing these tasks, the 250,000 estimate was confirmed.
We have no information concerning the methods used by the Metropolitan
Police to arrive at their crowd estimate.
We regret that we were unable to estimate the crowd as it marched past the
White House. Our officers assigned to perform the count became concerned
when they observed some of the marchers throwing tennis balls, golf balls,
and, in one instance, a billiard ball over the north fence of the White
House. They also observed some of the marchers committing acts of vandalism
to police vehicles. These incidents necessitated that our officers their
attention from the crowd count, to prevent further damage of Government
property and to ensure the officers' protection.
Our officers became aware of the illegal solicitation of funds by the NOW
group during the rally on the Mall at approximately 4 p.m. They immediately
responded to the stage and advised the organizers of the impropriety of
such activity and requested that they immediately cease further
solicitation. The organizers complied with the officers' request and no
further action was taken. Since the organizers were very cooperative with
our officers' requests, no sanctions will be imposed; however, this topic
will be discussed with the NOW organizers prior to any future events being
held in the National Capital Region areas...
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Now, any more takers out there to claim that this rally was 500,000 strong?

I didn't think so. Nothing shatters a pro-abortion argument better than a
direct attack.

Pro-lifers can now rest assured that we won't hear any more "500,000"
claims from the pro-aborts.

Oh, and let me make this assertion: Can we please get a letter from the DC
Park Police saying that the pro-lifers commited half as much vandalism as
the pro-aborts? 

The fact is, pro-lifers have hardly ever vandalized Washington during their
Marches for Life. Of course, us Moral Nazi's, as the pro-aborts like to
call us, consider it morally wrong to go around throwing stuff over the
White House Lawn or marking up cars. We prim and proper Dan Quayle-ites
have this social impairment which keeps us from doing such politically
correct things.

And we all know that it's a-okay to mark up government property as long as
it's for a politically correct cause, right?

Refutations, pro-aborts? Get a bed and sleep, pro-lifers, for this one may
be long and few in coming. It takes a while for these pro-aborts to recover
from the shock of realizing I've guessed them right, and then turn and lie
to us and say they don't agree with antics of the NOW crowd.

Because without the NOW, pro-choice would wilt and die.

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>##       "My logic is based on ... a religious perspective which says
>##  that personhood begins at birth (actually a month after birth if
>##  we want to be precise)..."
>##    -- Gloria Feldt,
>##       chief executive, Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona

>##   "I see nothing extreme or reprehensible about this statement."
>##     -- garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) <BtnDAw.Iwo.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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