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Debunking the
Politicians' Double Standards
DO AS THEY
SAY, DON’T DO AS THEY DO…
At times, a small event of no particular
importance becomes a turning point in one’s life, bringing about
a much clearer insight into reality.
It happened in the course of a visit to Princess
Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, where I had taken one
of my children to undergo a minor surgery.
While we were waiting for our turn to be seen by
the doctor, I made good use of the time by reading some
excellent literature produced by the Health Department of
Western Australia.
The one that attracted my attention more than
any other was titled, “Let’s look at… Smoking and Your Baby”. It
was produced by Princess Margaret Hospital and the Health
Promotion Services Branch of the Health Department of Western
Australia.
A simple, concise, down-to-earth text explained quite
satisfactorily to anyone with an unbiased mind about the harm
caused to unborn babies by their mothers’ smoking habits.
It succinctly demonstrated the risks presented by cigarette
smoking for the unborn baby, the newborn baby and the toddler as
well.
The dangers of poisoning, passive smoking, matches and
lighters, emergencies, etc., were also scrutinised in that top
class production.
Of course, at the end the pregnant mother and her partner
were encouraged to Quit.
Very sound advice indeed: every pregnant mother should heed
it for the sake of her baby’s health.
The whole community should undoubtedly give this Government
initiative our full support, especially because ordinarily we do
not enjoy too many of such opportunities.
 A
few paragraphs from the “Let’s look at… Smoking and Your Baby” are
certainly worth reproducing here:
- Did you know that even
before birth, tobacco smoke can damage YOUR BABY?
- Nicotine inhaled by a
mother during pregnancy – or exhaled by others
smoking nearby – passes through the bloodstream via
the placenta into the UNBORN BABY.
- For your own health and
that of YOUR BABY, try to give up smoking in THE
FIRST THREE MONTHS OF PREGNANCY. If you do give up,
and you stay off tobacco, YOUR BABY should be born
with no adverse effects from your earlier smoking.”
(emphasis added)
Here both the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and the
Health Department of Western Australia make it abundantly clear
that the one being harmed by your smoking during the first three
months of pregnancy is YOUR BABY, YOUR CHILD, your own flesh and
blood, she who carries your characteristics and those of her
father for life. Your baby may well look like you!
Yes, by all means, do heed this salutary Government advice:
quit smoking during your pregnancy!
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THREE
MILLION-DOLLAR QUESTIONS
 Three
Questions For Pregnant Mothers To Ask Our Government:
1. IS MY BABY
BEING HARMED by my smoking during the first three months of my
pregnancy?
YES, the WA Government says. And they earnestly
encourage you to Quit. Do listen to them. Don’t harm your
own flesh and blood.
2. Am I
allowed to have that same baby of mine killed, if I so choose?
YES, YOU ARE. The WA Government has also passed
legislation that allows you to have THAT VERY SAME BABY
KILLED. If you’ve made a choice based on your “informed
consent”, they will respect your ‘choice’ and not try to change
your mind. In WA you may have your baby killed not merely during
those three months, but also up to twenty weeks, and even later
under special circumstances.
3. In
conclusion, does my child’s life have any value at all?
YES AND NO. Yes, if you want to keep her. No, if you
choose to have her killed. Both options are supported by your
‘caring’ Government. Your baby's life has the same value as a
slave in a barbarian tribe: if the master turns his thumb
upwards, the slave lives. if he turns it downwards, the slave
dies. As simple as that.
Please think for a moment:
What to think about this contradiction? Is it the by-product
of an insane mind? Or is it just a sick politician's joke?
Please read on.
It gets more interesting.
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SMOKING AND
ABORTING
 Most
Australians – especially smokers – must have seen the compulsory
warnings that the tobacco companies are obliged to print right
in the front of the cigarette pack: "SMOKING IS ADDICTIVE",
"SMOKING CAUSES LUNG CANCER", “SMOKING KILLS”, but the best one
is, “SMOKING WHEN PREGNANT HARMS YOUR BABY”.
BUT – you may rightly ask – why am I not supposed to smoke
when pregnant because it might harm my baby - and yet I am
allowed to abort THAT SAME BABY if I so choose?
Good question! Since the one you are carrying in your womb in
the first three months of pregnancy is YOUR BABY, why does your
Government allow you to destroy her life through ABORTION?
 Why
is it that they respect your informed consent on abortion,
but bombard you with propaganda to interfere with your
informed consent on smoking?
 How
can anti-smoking, pro-aborting parliamentarians have the nerve to pretend
they care about the health of UNBORN BABIES threatened by
smoking, since they allow over 8,000 of them to be ‘legally’
murdered every year in WA alone?
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It takes no great intellect to realise that the same
principle applies to other Australian states, as well as
countries in North America, Europe and everywhere else whose
government has legalised abortion. |
To be consistent, Health Department authorities should warn
you not to smoke when pregnant IF AND ONLY IF you wish to keep
your baby. But if you do not wish to keep her and choose to
abort her life, what difference will your smoking or not smoking
make to her health? Her health – and life – will be destroyed
anyway!
"SMOKING WHEN PREGNANT HARMS YOUR BABY", reads the warning
on your cigarette pack.
"ABORTING WHEN PREGNANT KILLS YOUR BABY", they should warn
you at the reception of every abortion clinic.
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OPEN
LETTER
OPEN LETTER TO
ANTI-SMOKING, PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS
The Health Department encourages every pregnant mother
not to smoke during the first three months of pregnancy
for the sake of her baby’s health. They do not refer to
the one being damaged in her womb as ‘your embryo’, ‘your foetus’,
‘your blob of cells’ or your ‘uterine growth'. They say,
‘Your Baby’. They call her a ‘mother’, not 'just a
pregnant female’.
And rightly so. She is a human mother, and she carries
a marvellous little being in the enclosure of her womb: a
child. Her very own child.
At the same time, the legislation passed by you and/or those
of like mind allows - and funds - that same mother to have
that very same baby killed.
In Western Australia, a mother can have her unborn
baby killed up to twenty weeks into the pregnancy, and
sometimes even later than that.
You, politician, clearly respect the mother’s ‘informed
consent’ regarding abortion. And yet you advise her to change
her ‘informed consent’ regarding smoking. If she chooses to
smoke during pregnancy, you say, Quit! But if to abort
during pregnancy, you say, it’s your ‘choice’.
In plain English, what your double standard policy says is:
If you wish to keep your child, do not smoke. The chance of
harming her worries us. But if you wish to have her killed, no
worries, it’s your choice.
Be consistent and have the courage to state that the
unborn child’s health and life have value only if she is wanted.
Her mother should not smoke IF AND ONLY IF she chooses to let
the baby live. If she chooses to have her baby’s life
‘terminated’, you’ll support her ‘choice’.
What difference will smoking or not smoking make to her
baby’s health? The child will die anyway!
How can you have the nerve to pretend that you “care” about
the health of unborn babies damaged by smoking, all the while
refusing to legislate to stop nearly one hundred thousand babies
being legally murdered every year in Australia - and we, the
taxpayers, foot the bill?
At times, I think that to have the likes of you in Parliament
is like holding a thick cloud of cigarette smoke in the lungs -
it is hazardous for Australia’s health.
I sincerely believe that to fight the evil of smoking
while condoning the immensely greater evil of abortion is a
double-standard policy, fraught with contradictions and
hypocrisy.
Both evils must be fought, especially the greater one that
kills 100% of its victims and leaves thousands of mothers
damaged in both mind and body.
Raymond
de Souza
St
Gabriel Communications
Email Saint
Gabriel Communications
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THE BIG CASHING IN
IF SMOKING IS SO
BAD, WHY DON’T YOU MAKE IT ILLEGAL, ONCE AND FOR ALL?
 The
answer is quite simple: Because there is big money coming in
from the excise duty imposed upon the tobacco companies!
According to Anne Jones, Chief Executive Officer of
Action on Smoking and Health Australia:
“The federal government collects over
$5 billion p.a. on excise duties
from cigarettes and on average spends as little as
$2 million a year on anti-smoking
education. The excise percentage is around
70% of the retail price so the federal government makes
more money out of smokers than the tobacco companies do”.
Fancy that! $5 billion in income, a mere $2 million spent in
public anti-smoking education, not a cent spent in public
anti-abortion education...!
To be consistent, at the very, very least, the Government’s
anti-smoking education should be matched by an equivalent
anti-abortion education: They should spend the same amount of
funding and resources in anti-abortion awareness projects as
they spend in anti-smoking.
Otherwise, clear-thinking Australians will continue to
believe that anti-smoking pro- choice politicians’ ‘concern’ for
people’s health remains flawed, fake, and pharisaic.
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CHALLENGING
THE DOUBLE STANDARDS
Anti-Smoking, pro-aborting politicians in both the State and
Federal Parliaments must be challenged on their contradiction,
for the sake of the health of the whole community, not only
smokers, but also and especially the helpless, defenceless
unborn.
There is an ongoing argument about smoking-related diseases,
and the harm they cause to the health of the community,
including many deaths. In several countries, tobacco companies
and the anti-smoking lobby fight a truceless war, sometimes all
the way up to the courts. The argument rages on. Good: Let the
truth prevail!
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By the same token, there no
argument whatsoever about the deaths caused by
abortion: IN 100% OF CASES, THE UNBORN CHILD DIES!
And in many cases, the mother suffers irreparable
physical and psychological damage, many more than
the pro-abortion politicians would have us believe!
The mother is often left with a
long series of side-effects, such as, risks of
breast and cervical cancer, bleeding, infertility,
psychological traumas, guilt, etc., etc.!
But both your Government and
anti-smoking lobbyists are remarkably silent on this
widespread atrocity.
If the pro-health stance of
your Government is to deserve any credence by
encouraging smokers to Quit, let them also encourage
abortionists to Quit!
Let us live in a healthier
society, with neither smoking nor aborting.
Australia will be much better off this way.
It is our considerate opinion
that the policy of anti-smoking pro-abortion
politicians is a double-standard, hypocritical,
two-faced contradiction: to try to draw a square
circle would be easier than to understand what goes
on in their convoluted brains. |
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A YOUNG
JEWISH RABBI SPEAKS UP!
This comprehensive educational initiative has drawn much
encouragement from a speech delivered by a young Rabbi at the
local Jewish place of worship. He showed the utmost contempt and
abhorrence towards authorities who indulged in double standard
policies. He said:
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"Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go round about the sea
and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is made, you
make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.
"Woe
to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make
clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you
are full of rapine and uncleanness.
"Woe
to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are
like whited sepulchers, which outwardly appear to men
beautiful but within are full of dead men’s bones and of all
filthiness. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just:
but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
"Woe
to you, blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a
camel. ‘You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you
flee from the judgment of hell?" |
Wow! Hypocrites, children of hell, full of rapine and
uncleanness, whited sepulchers, full of hypocrisy and iniquity;
blind guides, serpents, generation of vipers…!
When it comes to exposing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, no
pulling punches with that young Rabbi, that’s for sure! (Full
text of the Rabbi’s speech can be read in the Gospel of Matthew,
chapter 23)
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UNFAIR
DISCRIMINATION
 Smokers
are the most discriminated-against class of people in the
Western world: they are forbidden to light up in the workplace,
public transports, buildings, airplanes, restaurants, schools,
shopping malls, virtually everywhere. You can see them
sometimes, both men and women, standing or squatting on the
sidewalk outside a building, pretending not to be on display,
and yet looking as guilty as sin, as some passers-by frown upon
them and public authorities speak of limiting even more the
places when they can have a puff.
And yet those who procure abortions, both the men who push
their partners into having their baby killed and the women who
undergo the killing procedure, are not the object of scorn and
horror for doing something immensely worse than smoking.
Again, Tobacco companies are criticised, maligned, reviled,
scorned, belittled, denigrated as public enemy number 1 for
allegedly making money out of other people's illnesses. Heavy
excise duties are imposed on them (usually around 70% of the
retail price), they are forbidden to advertise their product -
which is not illegal - are taken to court, sued for damages, you
name it. In the meantime, Governments cash in the billions of
dollars from their sales.
And
yet abortionist doctors who do the killing and pro-"choice"
politicians who make it legal and State-funded, the whole
abortion industry that murders more unborn children every day
than any Nazi executioner, Communist gulag prison torturer or
fanatic suicidal terrorist today, are not the object of horror
and revulsion, as they so richly deserve.
Why is it that to harm one’s baby health by smoking IS NOT
ON, but to have that same baby killed, IS?
My, O my, how efficiently has propaganda manipulated our
criteria of judgment!
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THE BEATTY
JOKE
But the big joke came from Queensland Premier Peter Beatty.
On 7 September 2004, he appeared on TV announcing much tougher
anti-smoking legislation to be imposed upon smokers in
Queensland:
 In
the sunshine state, smoking will be forbidden in pubs and open
public places such as flagged beaches and near playgrounds. Wow!
How will Mr. Beatty’s government monitor those places? By
employing an army of Wardens at tax-payers expense? Or just by
placing surveillance cameras in pubs and beaches?
While he’s busy curtailing the freedom of smokers in such
places, Queensland has reportedly an average of 14,000 abortions
per annum.
That means nearly 40 babies killed every day in
Queensland.
About the new promised tougher anti-smoking legislation, Mr
Beatty said:
“Look, not everyone will be in love with it, but this is
about saving lives!”
Saving lives, says he!
Ha! This one takes the biscuit! Does this bloke take himself
seriously?
But there is more: what about smoking in Queensland's many
legal brothels? Will prostitutes be fined if they accept clients
who wish to smoke in that business legalised by Mr Beatty’s
Government? How will they monitor such places? By employing an
army of Wardens knocking at doors at the smell of smoke? Or just
by placing surveillance cameras in brothel rooms?
My, oh my, this time,
Mr. Beatty, Big Brother(s) will be REALLY watching!
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HELP FOR
SMOKERS, DEATH FOR BABIES
Still, smokers have a real choice: they can defend themselves
from potential harm and prevent a possible early death – they
can always heed the Government advice and Quit. There is plenty
of help available.
But the unborn child is totally defenceless in the face of
certain death. No help is available to her. Once the ‘informed
consent’ has been accepted, the termination sentence will be
executed. The Government does not offer the necessary,
equivalent advice to prevent her death.
If having one’s baby killed is a legal ‘right’, because some
say that it’s just a blob of cells, (“Whose body is it
anyway?”), why isn’t smoking a ‘right’ as well? Whose body is it
anyway? Why am I not allowed to harm my lungs and throat and
heart, or my baby, but I am allowed to have my baby’s life taken
away, tearing to pieces not only her lungs and throat and heart
but her whole little body?
Are anti-smoking pro-abortion politicians out of their mind?
That’s why I sincerely and truly believe that to fight the
evils of smoking and not to fight the much greater evils of
abortion is a double-standard policy, fraught with
contradictions and hypocrisy.
That’s also why I think that having those jokers in
Parliament is like holding a thick cloud of cigarette smoke in
your lungs - it is hazardous for Australia’s health.
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A SOLUTION
(To put politicians’ sense of justice to the
test)
Short term: The Government must spend at least 2
million dollars per annum to educate the public on the dangers
of abortion. The education effort is to be carried out in
conjunction with a coalition of Pro-Life individuals and groups.
Education must include graphic depictions of abortion to be
shown on national television and billboards so that potential
clients of the industry may see what happens, just as graphic
depictions of smoking-related diseases are depicted on TV and
billboards for smokers to see.
Medium-term: Smoking on demand is already forbidden by
law and smokers have less and less opportunity to light up (and
even so in restricted places). Likewise, abortion on demand must
be immediately outlawed and potential abortions must be given
less and less opportunity to occur.
Long term: Australia, a full-fledged smoke-free zone!
Australia, a full-fledged abortion-free zone! The Government
will provide assistance to smokers to Quit the cancer stick, as
well as to potential aborting mothers to Quit the idea of having
their baby killed, and send the abortionist doctors to the
unemployment queue.
What that joyful day will come, then, and only then, we’ll
begin to trust those politicians again.
That is, quit smoking and quit aborting. Smoking when
pregnant HARMS your baby’s health. Abortion when pregnant KILLS
your baby!
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CALL TO
ACTION
St Gabriel Communications believes that the two-faced anti-smoking
pro-abortion stance of certain politicians needs to be unmasked
as flawed, fake and pharisaic.
St Gabriel Communications demands consistency on the part of those
mere politicians (MPs) who make a big fuss about smoking and yet
support the murder of innocent unborn children.
St Gabriel Communications intends to fund-raise in order to finance
advertisements in newspapers, radio and television to debunk the
myth of such MPs being ‘caring’ regarding the health of the
wider community threatened by smoking, especially unborn babies.
This is a healthy mind and body
awareness project of Saint Gabriel Communications. It
is a educational initiative aimed to unmask the double standard
policy of the self-righteous, anti-smoking, pro abortion
politicians.
If you believe that this educational
effort has merit, and deserves your concrete support, please
send us a donation to defray the expenses involved.
Please make your cheque or money order
payable to:
Saint Gabriel
Communications and post it to
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Postal Address in Australia
PO Box 6884
East
Perth BC * WA 6892
(08) 9740 6254
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Address in the USA
PO Box
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Conyngham, PA 18219
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ATTENTION
SMOKERS
Please consider quitting, or at least reduce it a great deal,
like reserving for only after a cup of coffee, for instance. I
know what it’s like, because I’ve done it myself. I did Quit
years ago.
As you endeavour to smoke less and less, the money you will
save could be very well employed in supporting worthy pro-life
causes, especially St Gabriel Communications efforts to unmask the
two-faced policy of those anti-smoking, pro-abortion politicians
whose presence pollute the breathing air of our Parliaments.
If you feel hurt by the discrimination you have suffered in
the hands of those double-faced MP's, don't just Quit smoking
for your health's sake. Do more than that: Quit, yes, by all
means, but also get back at them ‘Mere Politicians' for those
long years of discrimination against you: help Saint Gabriel
Communications debunk the myth that they ‘care' for children's
health: Help us publicly unmask their pharisaic double standard
policy on smoking and aborting. And, in the next election, let
us vote for people who are CONSISTENT – that is, intellectually
honest.
Raymond & Theresa de Souza
WHO DARES
GRINS
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