I am responding to Alan Cesar’s column, “Abortion protesters resort to questionable tactics,” in the Oct. 5 Northern Star.

I feel it is a sorry state when an organization can use the same tactics and procedures the mafia has been using for their criminal dealings and get away with it.

A town hall meeting, where the people can vote to approve or disapprove of a puppet organization without knowing about the concealed identity of the parent organization to sidestep the legal proceedings to attain a free-and-clear building permit, left these poor citizens without much recourse.

To have Mr. Cesar insinuate that their right to assemble and their right to speak should be infringed upon so an organization that terminates the lives of unborn babies can open unchallenged, after numerous attempts to open this facility were successfully blocked by the residents of Aurora, is unbecoming of a journalist.

What harm did these men and women do? Gather together, chanting that the Planned Parenthood center and their bused-in employees and rally members go home?

What is wrong with that, I ask you? Is it not our duty to assemble as a group and petition our government to rectify wrongs we, as citizens, perceive?
I would be more lenient if Planned Parenthood had been honest enough to ask for the building and occupancy permits under their own name.

However, they attempted to do an end-run around the local laws and ordinance by, in effect, lying to the people of Aurora who thought that an organization named Gemini Construction Co. was going to open shop there and use that as an office to help them build more office complexes.

And discounting this immoral and unethical behavior as, “This kind of corporate subterfuge is standard practice,” is not a valid excuse! Just because Billy steals a candy bar and Sally steals a candy bar does not mean I think it is OK for my children to steal a candy bar!

Sean M. Honeycutt
Post-graduate, math education

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