David Daleiden CMC '10 Helps Defund Planned Parenthood From Millions in Federal Monies

David Daleiden CMC '10 is the director of research for Live Action, a pro-life group that, in a series of undercover stings, documented widespread corruption on the part of Planned Parenthood affiliates throughout the country. On Friday, the House of Representatives defunded Planned Parenthood of all the federal tax monies -- all $317 million of it. As a taxpayer, I appreciate it, David, and as your friend, I want to congratulate you. Your steadfast dedication to a cause you believe in has always been a great example to me.

David, dear readers, was one of the first people I met when I came to campus. We both lived in Stark, we were both night owls, and we both were very broadly speaking conservatives. Over time, he won me over on many -- though not all -- of his pro-life arguments. And as I celebrate your victory, I can feel a small part of it. After all, this website was part of the "intense public scrutiny" that David credits with getting his ban from Pomona College overturned. Have a look.

In March 2009, David and a fellow student were banned from sister campus Pomona College after videotaping a Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles speaker denying Planned Parenthood’s responsibility for the cover-up of statutory rape. The ban was soon lifted after intense public scrutiny.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant and intense public scrutiny is the best weapon. 

Everything I Sent The Board of Trustees on Frangieh Part VI

The following was one of the petitions that Bassam Frangieh signed that I sent the Board of Trustees.

The American Attack Makes Brute Force a Principle of International Policy

Statement from Arab and Non-Arab Intellectuals Against the War on Iraq

1 April 2003

Despite the passage of more than four days since the beginning of the American-British-Australian hostility/attack on Iraq, we continue to receive more signatures of Arab and non-Arab intellectuals on the statement that we released before the war. With the escalation of the courageous Iraqi resistance, we hope there will (also) be an increase of the voices of intellectuals who reject the continuation of the war as well as the principle of regime change by American decree. To add your name, please write to the site of Majelat al-Adab (“Magazine of the Arts”):

www.b_adab@cyberia.net.lb

After more than a decade of tragedy for the Iraqi people, and (the people’s) official authority having complied with all the demands of the United Nations inspectors, the United States launched an all-out military attack on Iraq under the pretext of “disarming Iraqi weapons of mass destruction,” but driven by different known goals. The purposes of this naked aggression, which was rejected by the nations of the Arab League as well as many (other) peoples, are to place American hands on Iraqi oil, and to tamper with the future of Iraq, its national unity and geography, and to support Israeli designs to renew the Palestinian tragedy which never ends.

The new American aggression, in an unprecedented case in the Arab world, relies on a principle of changing the political regime by force, as if the United States were putting themselves in the place of the governments and peoples of the region, as well as in the place of the League of Arab Nations. At the same time that Washington was proposing its aggressive action by lifting up the standards of “democracy,” and “combating terrorism,” and “destroying” the alleged “weapons of mass destruction”; it also endeavored, unequivocally, to support the tremendous Israeli armament which threatens all Arabs, and to ensure the continued destruction of the Palestinian people by various Israeli means.

The American attack on Iraq is without justification, and disregards the Arab and worldwide administrations that reject it. It makes brute force a principle and a benchmark of world policy, which will lead to the victory of the strong and the destruction of the weak, and effectively install the United States in the place of the United Nations. This necessarily results in the imposition of Israeli authority over Arab fate, due to the American-Israeli alliance, which became increasingly firm during the administration of Bush Jr. (George W. Bush). Thus it has become difficult to distinguish between each side’s policy. As Arab and non-Arab intellectuals, we condemn the American attack on the people of Iraq, in which we see hostility toward the entire Arab nation. Thus we reject the “principle of changing Arab regimes by American decree,” because that change, no matter what the reason, is the right of the Arab people, and not of anyone else.

(Signed)