I'm definitely a pro-choice pro lifer. I believe in a woman's right to choose beyond the shadow of a doubt.

There's a video of the incident below, but note to date (now May, 2008) there is no youtube footage of that incident.

I also believe in the right of a woman to have her baby or babies as she chooses without contest, control, force or violence.

I wonder what that other breed of pro-lifer will say about these police officers who determined on a dime, during a "routine traffic stop" that a Kansas City Black woman - who is their employer by the way - was "faking" when she explained nine straight times that she was pregnant, bleeding and needed to go to the hospital.

That other brand of pro-lifer tends to be conflicted in their advocacy for "life" as they promote militarism (meaning they also love America best when its dropping bombs on people). They're so talented you know - how they can can split their philosophy of love for humanity down the middle when it suits them.

Imagine on top of feeling sick, the combined outrage and fear Sofia Salva (at right) must have been feeling when this photo was taken at the time of her arrest.

These two officers prove once again how the "Bell Curve" bends in opposite form than that which Euro-researchers love to erroneously claim. Incapable of concluding that Ms. Salva was driving illegally for the reason she stated, they repeatedly castigated her in a manner comparable to a parent-child relationship. All indications were, she was likely losing her pregnancy.

Ms. Salva had a miscarriage on the day following that night in jail.

One moral of this story is that bigotry makes people who might have a chance at being intelligent, stupid - and I don't refer to people as "stupid" lightly. It follows then, that if great numbers of a population are inflicted with the disease of bigotry, as a collective they inclined not to think clearly, rationally and in step with normal speed and accuracy. For example, while Kansas City Police brass may suspend these offers, review, re-review, and investigate this case to death, we all know there are officers all over this country who think these officers were on target, and are merely suffering unfortunate reprecussions.

We see this struggling to make easy, ethical, solid decisions not only in police culture, but in other cultures and disciplines such as public and organizational policy, journalism, medicine, religion and others. White supremacy, misogyny, intra race bigotry, xenophobia and homophobia leave their carriers sick and suffering.

For whom does the "Bell" Curve toll? Of course we know that the curve is deliberately shaped and molded for Euro-appeasement. And that allows this resounding insecure, and dangerously irrational voice emanating from these various entities to exclaim - however misguided, "we think we're smarter than you, better than you . . . AND, IT DOES NOT TOLL FOR THEE!"





Bear witness to this sickening video exhibit of just one example of the widespread historical and contemporary incomprehension of truth when told from the mouths of Black people at:

SOFIA APPEALS NINE TIMES

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Note and update, May 25, 2008


I just visited a blog claiming among other things that Sofia Salva doesn't have "the right" to advocate "for the downtrodden" given her addiction to alcohol.

"Joan of Arc, she ain't" this blogger proclaims while he poses in a nearby picture with man in an Elvis suit. Elvis of course was the biggest drug addict known to humanity, and got a star on the "walk of fame."

Someone comments at this blog, they don't have "people like us on these juries." They go on and on . . .

Here is my post at this blog:


"I hope Ms. Salva makes and wins her case as quickly as possible so she can move on with her life. What Ms. Salva was doing is absolutely relevant. Justice is NOT RESERVED LIKE A HOTEL ROOM for people who are doing what you think they should have been doing.

I hope Ms. Sofia Salva makes and wins her case as quickly as possible so she can move on with her life. What Ms. Salva was doing is absolutely irrelevant. Justice is NOT RESERVED LIKE A HOTEL ROOM for people who are doing what you think they should have been doing.

Your forefathers made it quite clear that justice is a human right - and while they didn't determine Africans as fully human until just before folk "like you" were born, I am completely comfortable with her prevailing - which would only be base ethics and then going on with her life clean and sober now which it appears she is.

We love and respect you Ms. Salva, and keep doin' what you're doing. If "First Lady" Betty Ford, wife of a U.S. President could get high in the White House, and ultimately found and chair one of the largest addiction clinics in the world, you can certainly advocate for folk who get high who don't have the luxury of having tax payers paying for you to be driven around in a limo.









Terry Howcott is a Master of Social Work, speaker, activist, thinker, and writer and your host at Terryhowcott.com

She can be reached at terryhowcott@terryhowcott.com

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