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!
An interesting development has occurred, just in the past few days, though not completely unexpected. I have accepted an offer on my home here in Wisconsin, and plan in early June 2010 to move to another part of the world, to escape the tyranny of tax-funded murder.
To repeat: this is not totally unexpected. As noted on the "Manifesto" page, the "Flee" strategy has always struck me as the purest Pro-Life Strike strategy of all, because it is a clean sweep. Now at long last (Lord willing, and the sale goes through), after years of trying other strategies, I may be able to get out of jail, so to speak.
My near future is a bit of a blank slate right now. I expect there will be work to do wherever I end up. I do not expect rest as long as I am on this earth. (Peace would be nice, if not rest.) As for this website, it is paid for until January 2011. If there is an internet in my future, expect to hear from me again at some point before then. Please surprise me with a few hundred signups, folks who are willing to resist tax-funded abortion in some way, any way. I would love that kind of surprise.
You may still contact me as usual for a couple weeks yet. After that, ¿quién sabe?
Besides all that, today is the very last day Blogger will let me publish via ftp. (See "Blog changes coming" below, with notes.) So, even with a future internet presence, this may be the last blog entry. You can no longer add comments, either. But the blog will stay up, as a sort of library of thoughts, as one reader put it. As to what may develop in a few months - - ¿quién sabe?
Speaking of dilatory, the pace of blog posting has fallen off of late, hasn't it? There are some reasons for this. For one thing, I've been spending time recently doing winter chores, digesting flytes, following up on other web-related pursuits, catching up on domestic and mundane duties, etc. For another, I haven't been inspired to write much; perhaps just running out of things to say. Only so many ways to frame the argument that pro-lifers ought not fund the very thing they regard as murder.
A third reason is that this blog will soon have to undergo a technical alteration. In a few weeks, Blogger will no longer support ftp publishing, which is how this blog has been published up until now. The following options are available:
1. I could migrate this blog away from "prolifestrike.org/blog" to a Blogger-owned server. This would leave the blog intact, but screw up any bookmarks, etc. Notwithstanding Blogger assurances, this option seems to have great potential for headaches during the transition.
2. Switch to Wordpress or other blog publishing facility. Same potential for headaches.
3. Close the blog. Visitors could still read the blog articles and their comments, but could not post new comments, and no new articles would be added. Am leaning toward this option.
4. Do my own publishing, sans Blogger, Wordpress, or any third-party software. Transition headaches as above, but no threat of future third-party hurdles. Comments would be via an amateurish, homegrown facility similar to the site's "Contact" page feedback form. Could employ this option right away, or at some future time after choosing option 3.
Meanwhile, normal Blogger comments are still working. So, if anyone cares to weigh in on this, feel free to leave a comment.
NOTE: Assuming option 3 or 4, at some point in March 2010 you may no longer be able to post comments to this or earlier blog articles in the normal Blogger fashion. You may always use the "Contact" page form to offer any feedback.
NOTE 2 (posted March 8, 2010): Blogger has extended the cutoff date to May 1, 2010. I plan on making the necessary changes here sometime before that.
As noted elsewhere, my "Dogpatch, Ergo Sum" blog was a sort of precursor to ProLifeStrike.org. It is an ideas blog; its descriptive text is "Random rantings on faith, culture, life... ". As opposed to a more pure journal type of web log, in which news and events are reported at regular, timely intervals, the articles in this blog are mostly about ideas, concepts, principles, truths.
As time passed and the blog grew, one idea came to dominate: that of a pro-life strike. So much so that in January 2009, after about two years of blogging, I launched ProLifeStrike.org. Now I'm attaching a blog, based upon that one idea: that pro-life folks ought not be paying for abortion, and therefore ought to seriously consider not paying their taxes.
Please feel free to add your thoughts and comments to any post herein, in the usual Blogger fashion.
