WorldNetDaily: Planned Parenthood superhero terminates Christian protesters

That's terminate as in "with extreme prejudice." And I warn you: follow that link with caution. I don't usually have to say this about an article in WorldNetDaily, but I'll say it now: Parental judgment and discretion are advised.

Comic-book costumed mutant or otherwise enhanced one-man (or in this case, one-woman) vigilance committees are all the rage in motion pictures, as any cursory check of the local movie ads will show. You've seen them: Spider-Man, Batman, Electra...the list is endless. (All three are registered trademarks of their respective comic-book publisher-owners.)

Planned Parenthood's entry in the costumed vigilante sweepstakes is named Dianisis. This sounds like a hybrid of the names of two goddesses. The first is Diana, the Latin name for Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and, in a supreme irony, generally regarded as not only virginal but fiercely and violently protective of her virginity against any male assault, divine or otherwise. The second is Isis, the queen of the ancient Egyptian pantheon, whose cult enjoyed a revival of sorts during the period of the Flavian dynasty in the Roman Empire. I also suspect that the name Dianisis is a play on the name Dionysus (literally meaning "Born of Zeus," since Dios is the genitive and ablative form of the name Zeus). This god, son of Zeus by the Theban princess Semele, was the god of the vine, and as such was the patron of drunks. (Ironically, he was torn to pieces every winter, by some accounts on the orders of Hera, Zeus' wife, who was, of course, jealous of all of Zeus' bastards.)

So the name "Dianisis" is baggage enough. She also happens to be black--and I imagine that Walter E. Williams would be spitting mad at this caricature, except that Walter E. Williams' usually roars with laughter at that kind of insult--laughter at the perpetrators for missing the obvious irony. I'm sure that he and I would agree that making Dianisis black is especially ironic, since Planned Parenthood, under Margaret Sanger, began as an organization dedicated to the extermination of the black race by encouraging black women to abort and contraceive!

Not-so-subtle racism aside, Dianisis is a murderess, plain and simple. Anyone who suggests that teen-agers ought to wait until they are adults--and married adults, at that--before being intimate with one another is subject to summary execution. I won't belabor the details here. If not for the outrageous message she propounds, I'd tell her to go pick on somebody her own size--like Osama bin Laden and those three brazen clerics in London who openly say that they are at war with non-adherents.

As others have said: if anyone created a costumed vigilante and had him (or her) retaliate against abortion providers, that person might be subject to arrest for incitement to murder. What, then, shall we say about Dianisis?

And for that matter, what shall we say about the whole Planned Parenthood organization, when they encourage teen-agers to have sex out-of-wedlock? I thought we made the tobacco companies pay dearly for getting kids hooked on cigarettes. Did I miss something?