I appreciate your taking the time to read this letter as well as the (attached to original email) Doctors Opposing Circumcision Commentary on American Academy of Pediatrics 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement. Please read them in full, regardless of whether you agree with these opinions or not. If you don't agree, you'll want to be familiar with this argument. If you do agree, you'll want to be familiar with this argument. You have not heard the last of it on this matter whether you want to face it or not. As congressmen, you can appreciate the importance of having complete and valid information upon which to base your decisions.
The dialectical method can not operate properly and draw correct conclusions without complete and valid information. It is an atavistic digression away from the goals of Rule of Law to attempt to "win" this, or any, argument or attain "consensus" by disallowing some information, or by disallowing or "discouraging" participation by those who do not advocate the prepucial guillotine... I think protecting babies is likely to help win elections. Do not underestimate the intelligence of your constituency. Praise it. Support it. It's hard to fly like an eagle when you're surrounded by turkeys.
A year or so ago, I wrote to yous asking for a sponsor for the "MGM Bill." I no longer support that bill because I am now quite certain, beyond any reasonable doubt, that "circumcision" is tantamount to "aggravated object rape of a child, culminating in mayhem, and felony aggravated child abuse", crimes which are already illegal in Utah, thank Goodness, and carry an appropriately high penalty. Obviously the "solicitation for conspiracy to commit ..." is also illegal. The MGM Bill is a masked attempt at weakening the penalties associated with that crime, since under existing law, it amounts to a mandatory prison sentence of life without parole, where the poorly written MGM Bill has it as "up to 14 years or a fine."
I happen to know that, presently, some of the Judges presently on the bench in Utah do not appear to recognize infant genital mutilation as a crime. I know this because they have referred to it as "first rite," on the record, in the Family Court. I assert that it is not a "rite" (nor is it a "right") It is a crime. There is most certainly malum in se when the most sensitive part of an infant's body is amputated. I believe in application of strict liability for the strict labectomy... res ipsa loquitur is a screaming infant victim, whom we all have a moral Duty to Rescue, iussum quia iustum.)
People are reasonably logical thinkers, regardless of whether or not they have formally studied formal logic (or legalese latin pretty quick on Wikipedia). When given several "facts," they will draw the logical conclusion from those facts. But if certain facts are omitted, an invalid conclusion can be drawn from those "facts," and often those "facts" turn out not to be valid, accurate, or true. Sometimes they even turn out to be blatantly false! Caveat emptor. Our individual sets of initial assumptions can vary widely, and so depending on what you've been taught about the "foreskin," you may or may not believe that amputating it is a crime. What will you do if you discover that you have been deceived about it by those you trusted with your important health decisions? (Have another statin pill. Trust me, right? Oh, and give up and just inhale the smog. It's all there is. You'll be Ok. It's not what's really causing your atherosclerosis, or anything...)
In fact, the American People have been deceived about the the "foreskin" by a conspiracy that has gone as far as to censor Anatomy and Physiology textbooks, so that the anatomical diagrams of the male genitalia do not feature the prepuce, but instead depict a denuded glans. In the particular textbook that I have, the only mention, in an otherwise very detailed college textbook, of the foreskin (or prepuce, it's medical name) is in one short paragraph, and in the context of "circumcision." It makes me wonder what else they have cut out of the pictures or knocked off the statues... Just keep guessing. (Zener cards, anyone? Oh, but let's play it with a Tarot deck.)
The Doctor's Opposing Circumcision web site has an Anatomy Lesson available to remedy this situation, for those who (won't beg the) question why they are being taught to amputate something they are not being told anything much about... or anything; So, why is our foreskin being "cut out of the picture?" As congressmen, you can appreciate the importance of having complete and valid information upon which to base your decisions.
The AMA has an agenda that includes working to prevent any new laws from being passed to make "circumcision" illegal, and I think that's just fine, since it's already illegal under existing laws. In order to draw that conclusion, this argument presumes that yous have "done your homework" by reading several documents and web sites:
The Utah State Constitution, in Article I, Section 24, reads "All laws of a general nature shall have uniform operation." I feel certain that the intended meaning of the phrase "uniform operation" is closely related to the meaning of the word "Integrity," in the context of Ethics. Quoting Wikipedia:
Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Integrity can be regarded as the opposite of hypocrisy, in that it regards internal consistency as a virtue, and suggests that parties holding apparently conflicting values should account for the discrepancy or alter their beliefs.
The word "integrity" stems from the Latin adjective integer (whole, complete). In this context, integrity is the inner sense of "wholeness" deriving from qualities such as honesty and consistency of character. As such, one may judge that others "have integrity" to the extent that they act according to the values, beliefs and principles they claim to hold.
A value system's abstraction depth and range of applicable interaction may also function as significant factors in identifying integrity due to their congruence or lack of congruence with observation. A value system may evolve over time while retaining integrity if those who espouse the values account for and resolve inconsistencies.When I search the Utah Statutes for "Volkswagon," "Buick," or "Ford," I find that there are no laws prohibiting the theft of any of those brands of automobiles. However, there are, of course, laws against stealing high valued personal belongings from other people. Those "laws of a general nature" certainly apply to theft of any brand of automobile. I feel very certain that no Reasonable Person will disagree with that assertion.
In computer science, an abstraction level is a generalization of a model or algorithm, away from any specific implementation. These generalizations arise from broad similarities that are best encapsulated by models that express similarities present in various specific implementations. The simplification provided by a good abstraction layer allows for easy reuse by distilling a useful concept or metaphor so that situations where it may be accurately applied can be quickly recognized.
I also feel certain that no Reasonable Person, given true, complete, and factual information regarding the true anatomy and function of the prepuce, as well as a view of what goes on in there, behind the closed doors of the pedo-O.R., where babies are strapped down to a mini crucifix known as a "circumstraint," given an erection with an antiseptic swab, and then tortured. The use of anesthesia only adds insult[1] to injury: He'll never feel a thing... after they amputate 50-80% of the nerve endings from his little penis.
I imagine that you've all heard of the "Stop Kony in 2012" campaign, since it was all over the news for a while, touted as having "gone viral"... I'm sure that many Americans have learned about it, and through that, many who were not already aware of it are now aware of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. I wouldn't bet against the assertion that a majority of those citizens are in favor of congressional ratification of the Rome Statute.
Since President Bush (believed he had) withdrew our signature from the Rome Statute, some have said that We the People have accede the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and that the United States and it's territories are, de facto, subject to it's jurisdiction, regardless of whether or not those who allege to represent us in congress agree with that assertion or not. Do I need to tell you this every day for the next several thousand sessions? Think about it. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, especially when you represent the People, as a government official. Take care of this. It's your responsibility. (Perhaps you will like to join the posse comitatus, assuming you're not one of those who will be indicted...)
The Rome Statute recognizes rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, "or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity" as crime against humanity if the action is part of a widespread or systematic practice. Guess what? Think about it. Lead, follow, or get out of the way again. People are not going to continue to put up with it. They are not stupid. They are not ignorant. They are not bystanders; they are victims.
They were misinformed. When they find out, they are going to be very angry. Will congress be their target? I hope not, given that it is easy to show that infant genital mutilation is a very serious felony in every state of the union... except for those which have an (unconstitutional? unethical!) exemption for "ritual circumcision" in their statutes...
Circumcision is not part of Judaism, nor is it part of Islam. It is something that was imposed upon them by an oppressive conqueror. And Christians do not circumcise. That is one of the primary things that set them apart from the Jews. Only in America, the land of freedomination... sarc. The currents of law are changing.
I would like the executive officer of the State of Utah, our Governor, to issue a decree stating that, indeed, infant genital mutilation, is in fact against the law. All who were offering that "service" must cease and desist. The State Police must confiscate all contraband related to the performing of that atrocity -- circumstraints, plastibells, "permission" forms, etc. Medical records must be subpoenaed, and these crimes investigated. From now on, DCFS and the State Police must enforce the law. The state and district attorneys must prosecute the offenders. Judges must see it for what it is, and when a suspect is duly convicted, pass sentence appropriate to the severity of the crime. If they are unwilling to do these things, then they become accessories after the fact. If those laws mean nothing, in light of the facts, then none of them do. We may as well have civil war in light of a bonfire of law books. Hey; weiner roast anyone? Yours first. Fair dinkum? Think about it. We're at your gates, and we're not praying for Bloody Sunday. We can read and write, and we do. We recognize that violence is the problem, not the solution... But I can not speak for everyone without first hearing their opinions, res ipsa loquitur.
I suggest a diversion program, where if parents solicit for conspiracy to commit child abuse and aggravated object rape that culminates in mayhem, they are warned, reported to DCFS and the District Attorney, and then faced with either attending the diversion program or being charged with a crime. The diversion program will educate them, perhaps using material provided by Intact America, so they understand why it's a crime. Babies need love, not trauma. It's simple. Ask the prince. ;-) What are we supposed to do? Follow the example set for us by leadership, or by history? Riot? Pogrom? Because violence is the problem, not the solution, I suggest that we set a positive example for future generations to follow. They need love, not trauma. They need truth, not inevitably discoverable lies. How will they trust you otherwise? What will it do to their faith? What kind of resentments could it foster? How will we address those resentments? Shall we use the legal structure, or would you prefer a bloodbath? Oh, and what about that Agenda 21 thing? We're all watching to see what you do, as lawmakers and representatives of We the People. The time has come for some common sense.
Sincerely,
Karl Martin Hegbloom
http://karlhegbloom.blogspot.com
[1] All of you have known some guy who's always putting other people down, always bragging, squealing his tires, showing off, beating you up when nobody's there to witness it, etc. (Maybe some of you are that character; if so, then I strongly suggest you maintain your innocence by supporting the Intactivist agenda.) They pretend they've done nothing wrong, and that you're lying about having been assaulted... The only ones who know for sure what really went on are yourself and the bully. When bullies like that have attained positions of authority, a very serious situation exists. Bullies love to turn their victims into bullies. People learn by example; and from those who mentor them. But if a bully dominates someone and "mentors" them... Hello Columbine!
Intact America also responded to the AAP:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.intactamerica.org/aap2012_response
Please read about the Gilgal Society on Circleaks.org.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting tidbit of hypocrisy can be found here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-russia-usa-idUSBRE8AE1OA20121115
They are complaining about human rights violations by the Russians, while ignoring similar situations that occur here in the USA.
Thank you for your comment. After reading it, I think that it is especially ironic that they are complaining that the Russians let a lawyer die in jail. How many Americans are falsely accused and forced to sit in jail, effectively incommunicado, while they await "trial," while represented by State paid "public defenders" who do little more than "negotiate" plea agreements? Oppressive pre-trial incarcerations are used quite often in this country to coerce plea agreements from defendants for whom the State's prosecution honestly lacks sufficient evidence for conviction at a jury trial. Somebody should do some very serious research into this problem domain.
DeleteGreat to stumble upon your blog and to read your thoughts. I am truly astounded at the apathy that prevails in respect of this barbaric practice and am actively involved in the movement to secure legal protection for boys such as there is for girls.
ReplyDeleteI am not a US resident but am currently promoting the White House petition to all who are: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-practice-circumcising-individuals-under-age-18/DbCyTjRH It is a long way from the target and needs more promotion. Surely there must be 25,000 people in the US who would support it if they knew of it.
Blogger does not automatically make URL's clickable; you have to use HTML markup to do it. Here's the link from Patrick's comment, made clickable:
Deletehttps://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-practice-circumcising-individuals-under-age-18/DbCyTjRH
Patrick, I don't have your email address. Please locate me on Facebook and send a friend request with a message in it. I would like to communicate with you regarding this matter. I'm also wondering... have you read my article entitled "Domestic Violations of International Treaties"?
DeleteWe know that Those Who Advocate Circumcision have actively pursued control of the availability of information regarding the true anatomy and function of the prepuce, or posttheon, which they've dimunized as the "foreskin." They have censored textbooks. They have made male frontal nudity a taboo. They have "taught" people to cover their ears and eyes and to never speak of it.
ReplyDeleteThat is because the human mind is an inherently logical thing with a decent sense of right and wrong in the context of social norms that will promote long term peaceful coexistance among human beings... And it is only by managing our perceptions of that "filthy flap of skin" that they've managed to cause people to submit to it's torturous removal.
Since that is the tactic they've applied in the past, you can bet they're likely to try to apply it again. They may try to "scour the internet" of all reference to true information, and to set up the search engine so that it won't turn up anything but the censored "facts" (as in "manufacture"). We need to strike while the iron is hot, to stop them from nipping it in the bud...
Please, use a tool such as the Zotero plugin for Mozilla Firefox to make snapshots of websites from hospitals and medical providers -- kidshealth.org, for instance -- and also of sources of true information -- intactamerica.org, cirp.org, and doctorsopposingcircumcision.org -- and then write articles that point out the flaws and false information being promulgated by those medical providers, in light of obviously unfalsifiable information presented by the Intactivist community.
Those snapshots will be useful someday in court, when we sue them for fraud and mayhem. It will show what they taught people about what they did to children behind the closed doors of the pedo O.R. The articles we create will be useful as letters to send to the board of directors of those medical providers, to their risk management department, and to the press, if they'll publish us.
Write to congress. Write to your Attorney General, to your District Attorney, to your State High Court Judges, to your Governor, and to your Legislators. Write to your Sheriff, and to the Chief of Police. Distribute copies to the men and women who enforce the law. In the USA, what are the odds that many of the men in law enforcement organizations are victims of genital mutilation?
Since most municipalities require at least a bachelor's degree to become a police officer, you can be sure they'll be hip to the kind of moral and intellectual debates often presented in general education or "University Studies" classes required for any degree at every University. They'll be ashamed if they haven't done the reading assignment prior to the... dialectic conversation (not "debate")?
How many men, who learn the truth about what was forcefully amputated from their bodies as infants; who learn the truth about the extent and nature of the deception perpetrated upon their mothers and fathers... who have been to University to study Administration of Justice, to become Dudley F. DoRight the Good Guy police officer, Our Municipalities Finest, the un-bully who enforces the Rule of Law, who is sworn to support, obey, and protect the Constitution... How many men in that category will think it's Okay to do THAT to baby boys?
Show them the true anatomy and function of the part that got stolen from them as infants. Show them that it's Malum in Se, a form of sexual battery. Show them that it ain't fair dinkum to let that happen to boys. Remind them of their Duty to Rescue, and make sure they discharge the duties of their office with Integrity.
On Facebook, in response to a man who posted a draft of a letter he wrote to the AAP complaining about the results of the circumcision he was given as an infant, I wrote:
ReplyDeleteSo, does anyone at the "AAP" actually collect instances of this kind of letter of complaint, and use them for anything? Is a statistic kept? Are the letters available to the public? They are big, and we are small individuals. They don't have to release that information, assuming the "flapper" (as in Guliver's Travels) who opens the envelope even does anything with it... it would be amazing if they actually scan it and distribute copies.
Government agencies, such as the Office of the District Attorney, are required to scan and ensconce within their document management system at least anything related to an open court case... But what about the Alleged Academy of Pedophiles? Who opens the letter when you send it? Is that person required by law or policy to do anything specific with that letter?
I think that if, rather than a letter, you sent them Service of Process, they'd treat it very differently... But would it get sent out to each and every Pediatrician (and Ob/Gyn?) who, implicitly with "membership" or "affiliation" with the AAP, has acceded the AAP Policy Statement on Circumcision? Does that committee truly represent them and their best interests? Please feel free to challenge that presumption!
How will those "affiliates" or "members" feel when they learn of the deception being perpetrated in their name... for by displaying affiliation or membership in the AAP, they are implicitly personally endorsing those policies. If we can show enough of them that doing so will seriously affect their credibility, then perhaps we can cause them to replace those committees, or to withdraw their membership affiliations, en masse. Perhaps they will form a new organization?
It occurs to me what a brilliant political move it will be for the United States to admit and denounce the infant male genital mutilation that has and is happening on a massive scale within our borders, as well as the anti-HIV programs that are presently (?) engaged in mass circumcisions of African men. That kind of human rights violation is atrocious. Once it's been made obvious that we've all been lied to by those who advocate circumcisions -- that they lied about the true anatomy and function of the prepuce, and they lied about the prophylactic benefits of it -- it will be clear to most Americans that the right thing to do is to enforce the laws that are supposed to protect us from fraud and from malum in se crimes against the person.
ReplyDeleteHow can we claim any merit to the invasion of Nazi Germany (Hitler, holocaust), Iraq (Gassing of Kurds, Hussein's son's abuses) if we ourselves are not free of wrongdoing? (I did not personally participate in, nor did I advocate the "throwing of the first stones" in those international armed conflicts.) This country is rife with internal human rights abuses! Let's put a stop to that. Many of us are not afraid to point them out to the world. We're not going to stop complaining until the abuse ends and Justice is fairly wrought.
The Gospel, among other wisdom tradition with similar ideals, teaches us that when one is convicted of a crime or caught doing something wrong, the thing to do is to confess and repent. I want the world to sue the USA's pants off. Bust them for human rights violations. Demand that a referendum be voted upon by the American Citizens concerning accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. We will accede. We will ascend with You, and abide by the Rule of a fair Common Law; that law that is the stable state of sets of rules; of what it has "shaken down to" over many millennia of evolution of the principles of Peace and Justice.
There are some things you just don't do in a civilized society. Don't steal other people's things. Don't hurt other people. Play and do business fairly. Be honest and truthful. It's simple. Violence is the problem, not the solution. Genital mutilation is violence. Pretending it's an accepted and beneficial medical procedure is fraud. Mass circumcision is a crime against humanity.
"The truth is the engine of our judicial system, and if you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost." -
ReplyDeleteUS Special Prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald
"During circumcision, the baby's sensitive foreskin is crushed audibly, and the raw flesh is cut with scissors. In all neonatal circumcisions, forceps or other probes are inserted into the delicate foreskin, scraping, tearing apart and destroying the normal erogenous tissues of the child's sex organ. This causes considerable pain and leaves the raw glans open to infections, with any resultant scar tissue on the glans further compromising sexual sensitivity.
ReplyDeleteTearing the normal protective adhesions between the glans and foreskin resembles ripping a fingernail from the quick. If a clamping method is used, the foreskin is crushed over a bell-shaped device, to enable amputation. Circumcision removes 50 per cent of penile skin and thousands of specialised nerve endings, fundamental to normal sexual response. The externalised glans and inner foreskin remnant become dried and skin-hardened (keratinised), further desensitising the penis, with progressive lifelong loss of sensation.
Reduced sexual function and pleasure has been acknowledged for centuries, though circumcision proponents expediently deny this. Indeed, Maimonides wrote in the 12th century: ``The bodily injury caused to that organ is exactly that which is desired ... there is no doubt that circumcision weakens the power of sexual excitement.'' --- From: Circumcision of Healthy Boys: Criminal Assault? on the CIRP site.
There is a gold mine to be had in tort litigations over this issue. If I was an attorney, I'd be taking those perverts to court! For example, read this article at www.cirp.org entitled "Legal Remedies for Penile Torts" : http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/USA/llewellyn/
ReplyDeleteAlso see: 76-5-406(12), Sexual offenses against the victim without consent of victim -- Circumstances:
ReplyDelete(12) the actor is a health professional or religious counselor, as those terms are defined in this Subsection (12), the act is committed under the guise of providing professional diagnosis, counseling, or treatment, and at the time of the act the victim reasonably believed that the act was for medically or professionally appropriate diagnosis, counseling, or treatment to the extent that resistance by the victim could not reasonably be expected to have been manifested. For purposes of this Subsection (12):
(a) "health professional" means an individual who is licensed or who holds himself out to be licensed, or who otherwise provides professional physical or mental health services, diagnosis, treatment, or counseling including, but not limited to, a physician, osteopathic physician, nurse, dentist, physical therapist, chiropractor, mental health therapist, social service worker, clinical social worker, certified social worker, marriage and family therapist, professional counselor, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric mental health nurse specialist, or substance abuse counselor; and
(b) "religious counselor" means a minister, priest, rabbi, bishop, or other recognized member of the clergy.