{"id":185,"date":"2006-05-22T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=185"},"modified":"2006-11-01T08:34:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T15:34:59","slug":"185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/05\/22\/185\/","title":{"rendered":"I should give this a title"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>You know that fat guy, dressed in black, who goes to Pioneer Square, wears this beret, has a sandwich board on him telling you that everyone in a wide variety of categories is going to go Hell, waves a poster of a giant bloodied fetus? Or maybe you saw him marching at the front of a Gay Pride Parade, or — probably his main location for such things, as per numerous law suits — in front of an Abortion Clinic, where he has been known to take photographs of women exiting or entering for the purpose of posting on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Paul deParrie has passed away.<\/a><\/p>\n

I flick around the Internet, and go his message board, and see that someone has already written this:<\/p>\n

Paul’s dead and Jesus spits upon his grave. Good riddance to another foul stench terrorist.<\/a><\/p>\n

I do not know if he is, um, technically a terrorist or not. He is, as I’ve noted before, a source that the news media will go to if they need a quote condoing violence against Abortion providers, after a quip fromthe mainline anti-abortion (pro-life if you must) organizations who will as quickly as possible condemn it all.<\/p>\n

But others, like Paul deParrie editor in chief of Life Advocate Magazine in Portland, Oregon, said: “I think it is wonderful any time an aboriton clinic is closed for whatever reason. If the toilet backs up and closes the place, that is great. I think it is great when babies’ lives are saved through whatever means. I am not going to try to condemn somebody that God won’t condemn.” The bombing was perhaps the most violent act — at least in its potential for destruction since four killings at abortion clinics in 1994.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the New York Times, circa January 1997, and is par for the course for deParrie’s contribution to the national dialouge.<\/p>\n

I have gotten to know the man a bit, and have some sort of bizarre relationship with him. deParrie once posted, quite correctly, that I was avoiding him… something I’ve done regularly and did just a couple weeks ago, actually. He called me a snob. This was from a protest he and his friends held on September 11, 2002, across from Pioneer Square with a year-old memorial to 9\/11. For that, I shrugged, allowed myself to have a couple conversations with him, and generally avoided him nonetheless. There was this time where they shouted out toward me, with a large group heckling them. I was obliged to yell something back at them, and thus went “Just remember — THERE IS NO GOD!!”, which for whatever reason the crowd found “ballsy”.<\/p>\n

Or I could go with, “Obey the Buddha!”, which I did once when his son-in-law, a less frightening sort who seems to share a similar sense of humour as I, pulled the same stunt with me. But he I once had regular weekly conversations with.<\/p>\n

Never mind. Paul deParrie is dead. His niece, who has for the past decade vowed to counter-act her uncle’s work by working with Planned Parenthood and assorted pro-choice work, can either keep going by way of eulogizing what he stood for, or do whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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