"Dark Knight" Movie Quote Used to Vandalize Pro-Life Billboard
"Why so Serious" Over Baby's Face is No Laughing Matter
The billboard, sponsored by the Stephenson/Jo Daviess County Right to Life, features a baby's face. Over the baby's mouth a piece of red tape was placed to make it look like The Joker's smile, with the black, spray-painted words, "Why So Serious?" The eyes of the baby were also circled with black spray paint.
In my interview this past week with Frank Munda, who is in charge of updating the "Pro-Life Corner" website in Stephenson County, he stated the baby in the poster had already been given a name before the vandalism took place.
"We named her Amanda, which we found in a name book to mean 'she who must be loved'." (The billboard has been undergoing repair. See the untarnished billboard and vandalized version here at the Pro-Life Corner website: http://prolifecorner.com/node/2765.)
The Pro-Life Corner website is not only dedicated to the babies, mothers and fathers of abortion, but to those who have lost a baby due to miscarriage or Sudden Death Syndrome (SIDS), and to all those who are in the midst of a crisis pregnancy.
Munda's Pro-Life group considers this a serious matter, not a laughing one. He acknowledges that there has also been violence against abortion clinics and their workers; in fact a car apparently intentionally crashed into the nearby Rockford clinic a couple of years ago. Fortunately, there were no injuries.
"We do not condone any kind of violence or vandalism against abortion clinics or their employees. Shooting abortion doctors is evil. But we should also realize its frequency is nothing like the number of babies aborted every day in America."
Munda says that people began to contribute money toward repairing the sign. "We've been getting donations from both the U.S. and Canada. God has even used this for good. One man never noticed the billboard before it was vandalized. Now his heart has been touched."
The perpetrators have not been caught. According to the incident report in the Freeport Focus Newspaper, vandals in several states have been using the same Joker trademarks on various billboards.
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17 Comments
Post a CommentWhat a horrible crime! Great article.
Good report. It's sad that this sign was targeted.
Thanks for the great report~I hadn't heard of this.
First I had heard of jthis! Great reporting and sad there is that type of metality out there!
Outstanding job on this very well presented!!!
What "cahotek" says does not justify the vandalism of the billboard. If a Pro-Life group did the same to an abortion clinic's billboard, it would already be labeled a hate crime. That word has not come up in this investigation. It's the double standard again.
Sheryl, although I come down on the other side of the issue here I applaud the group for the work on the other causes and the billboard should not have been vandalized.
Another good article, Sheryl. Vandalism is so juvenile and all too common. It is just too bad we live in a modern civilized society where some feel disrespecting others by vandalizing their property is OK just because they have differing opinions.
Don't the liberals know how infantile that is? What should we do? Should we take a baseball bat to their car because we don't like it, or maybe just beat them up because we don't like their views? It has always amazed me how they attack conservative viewpoints but if the conservatives strike back they would be the first to condemn our actions. Oh well, in the words of Cindy Lauper, "We see your true colors shining through".
Thanks for reporting this. I am struck, time and time again, by how it always seems that the conservative/prolife side seems to protest in legal ways, while the liberal/prochoice side seems to choose methods along this line ...