[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: NRTL fails to pull the plug

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 5 July 2008 AD
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    Friday, July 04, 2008



National RTL Fails to Pull the Plug

Arlington, VA, July 4 -- The fireworks in Washington D.C. have not been 
relegated to the National Mall. American RTL 
<http://americanrighttolife.org> is hosting another hospitality suite in 
a series of connected rooms at National RTL's annual convention on the 
top floor of the Crystal City Hyatt.

Scores of NRTL conventioneers are streaming into the ARTL suites to 
enjoy good food and drink, and to consider the moral argument for the 
personhood strategy toward ending "legalized" child killing. A NRTL 
conventioneer from Virginia told our hospitality team that Nellie Gray, 
main organizer of the D.C. March for Life, argues that a 'pro-life' law 
is a bad law if it ends with the words, "and then you can kill the 
baby." Praise the Lord for Nellie and the rapid spread of truth through 
the pro-life community!

The Hyatt told ARTL that we could place a poster advertisement for our 
hospitality suite on a tripod in their lobby inviting folks to our 
Regency Suite to celebrate the "personhood amendment 
<http://coloradoforequalrights.com> on Colorado's November ballot!" Four 
things happened immediately after Hyatt personnel placed our poster in 
their lobby.

First, pro-lifers immediately came to our suite. Second, NRTL officials 
insisted that the Hyatt remove our poster. Third, Hyatt removed our 
poster. Fourth, we held our first meeting with Hyatt officials.

Our ARTL hospitality suite was on the same floor as the John McCain's, 
although ours was twice as large and far nicer with flowers, red white 
and blue decorations, much better food and drink, shrimp cocktails, 
literature, DVDs, darkened theater, media center, better seating, etc. 
However, after NRTL's complaint, the Hyatt <http://hyatt.com> officials 
maintained that even though ARTL is renting a significant section of the 
top floor of their hotel, and even though the Hyatt had posted our 
notice in their lobby, and even though they admitted that, "yes, we 
misrepresented that you could post your notice in our lobby," still, 
they would not restore our notice to its tripod.

Attorney James Odom, representing ARTL, told the hotel's general manager 
that since the Hyatt would not post our small poster board notice in the 
lobby as had been promised, we would hold signs in front of the hotel 
with enlarged versions of the poster, blown up to a huge 48-square feet. 
The hotel called in the Arlington Virginia police, and told ARTL 
officials that if they stood on the sidewalk in front of the hotel, they 
would be arrested.

Businesses and police officers often claim that protests in front of 
businesses are illegal, falsely claiming that public sidewalks are 
private property (rarely are sidewalks actually on private property). 
So, veteran street activist and ARTL spokesman Bob Enyart surveyed the 
scene and decided not to challenge the hotel's claim. Instead, the 
protesters organized across the street. The front of the Hyatt is all 
glass, hundreds of hotel rooms, glass elevators, enormous lobby windows 
spanning two floors, etc. By holding signs on the sidewalk directly in 
front of the hotel, only those entering and leaving the hotel would see 
them. Instead, by standing across the street, ARTL's massive protest 
signs were visible and readable to the entire hotel!

We had a team of ten people hosting our hospitality suite. Within a 
couple hours, it was evident to all that not only the NRTL 
conventioneers, but at least a couple thousand people were aware that 
our ARTL hospitality suite was on the 18th floor. And they started 
streaming in.

Pro-life leaders. NEA teachers. Activists. Pro-life attorneys. 
Convention exhibitors. NEA teachers. Pro-life teenagers. They just kept 
coming. We had lengthy talks with dozens of important people in the 
battle against abortion, from leaders in the anti-euthanasia movement, 
to reporters, to activists from Canada and Spain. One pro-life attorney 
from New Jersey, Howard, heard ARTL argue the case against regulating 
abortion and then when the call went out that we needed a second string 
to replace those holding the signs outside, he volunteered to pull a 
90-minute shift and he held up on end of a massive sign while inviting 
those with NRTL badges to "go on up for free food and drink to Suite 
1811." And a supportive chiropractor, not one to stand on a street 
corner and hold a protest sign, helped out by suggesting stretching 
techniques and even did some heavy lifting holding a side of one of the 
larger signs for a couple hours!

Peter Shinn of Pro-Life Unity took advantage of our "media center" and 
set up an ad hoc studio with lights, tripod and video camera and 
interviewed ARTL spokesmen. Later this evening, Peter phoned to tell 
ARTL that he was determined to work for a personhood effort in his state 
of Virginia. Praise God!

An Abraham Lincoln lookalike who has worked for years at Mt. Rushmore, 
Everett Stadig, traveled from Denver to D.C. to help ARTL host this 
hospitality suite in grand style! Abe was a major attraction out on the 
street, with many conventioneers, and tourists, asking to take pictures 
with him in his full regalia and stovepipe hat. Abe told everyone that 
we're "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal -- NO 
EXCEPTIONS!" And he'd say, "If you can't remember Suite 1811, just 
remember that I was born in 1809, and then go to the next door" :). And 
Abe did not discriminate between pro-lifers and others. For the National 
Education Association had their own convention at the Hyatt, at the same 
time and in the same hotel as NRTL's convention. So, Abe invited the NEA 
delegates, known for being pro-abortion, to the American Right To Life 
hospitality suite! ARTL had set up a Lincoln Theater in their suite, 
equipped with a projector, and three PCs showing various DVDs: Focus on 
the Strategy, Romney Fairytale Ads <http://artlaction.com>, Forty Years 
in the Wilderness, and the Planned Parenthood racism YouTube video. When 
African American NEA teachers entered the suite, after they filled their 
plates with good food and sat around the living room, Leslie Hanks, 
longtime Denver pro-life leader, showed them the Planned Parenthood 
racism <http://youtube.com/watch?v=Eygv8qEkiFE> video to great effect!

Various regional pro-life leaders either came to our hospitality suite, 
or sent word wishing us well. We've been distributing the 600 copies of 
glossy and colorful ARTL literature and press releases we brought, as 
well as the 200 DVDs. Our ARTL team includes a former governor's speech 
writer, pastors, a flight attendant, a nurse practitioner, and other 
professionals, as well as ground support from Christians in the D.C. 
area. One of our team members, a great-grandmother, relaxed in the late 
evening in the hotel's hot tub, and spent a half out talking with the 
teenage kids of NRTL conventioneers who were surprised and fascinated to 
learn about Colorado's personhood amendment.

This report is for yesterday, Thursday, July 3, the first of our 
three-day project, Meeting Hostility with Hospitality. Despite 
undeniable signs of life, NRTL tried but failed to pull the plug on the 
ARTL event! Please pray that this project goes well and honors God! (Oh 
yeah, and also, that we don't get kicked out of the hotel :).

Contact Donna Ballentine
American RTL
1-888-888-ARTL
office at AmericanRTL.org
Posted by Leslie at 7:37 AM 
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