Elderly Pro-Life Advocate Breaks His Hip After Alleged Violent Attack by Angry Pro-Choicer
- Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:11pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Everett Stadig, a 69-year-old volunteer who has been collecting signatures for Colorado’s Personhood amendment, was reportedly violently thrown off of his bicycle and assaulted this week. The pro-life advocate suffered a broken hip and has gone through surgery to replace a portion of it after a man became irate and attacked him outside of a grocery store in Denver.
Problems started for Stadig when, as LifeSiteNews reports, he asked the man in question if he would be willing to sign the Personhood petition (activists need 86,000 to get the measure on November ballots). The individual refused to sign and apparently started yelling, swearing and proclaiming, “I’m pro-choice.”
Everett Stadig (Image Credit: LifeSiteNews)
At this point in the conversation, Stadig told LifeSiteNews that he explained to the man that a pro-choice stance meant being supportive of abortion and he, once again, urged him to sign. This was apparently too much for the suspect to handle, as he initially walked away, but then came back seconds later ranting once again.
In addition to telling Stadig that he didn’t have a right to be stationed outside of the store, the currently unnamed man (the victim describes him as about six feet tall and in his mid-thirties) turned violent.
“I do have a right to be here, this is a Colorado Petition Drive,” Stadig recalled telling the man. “Then he grabbed my petition pad, and with the same movement threw me to ground, and I was hurt so bad I couldn’t get up.”
Image Credit: LiveActionNews.org
Interestingly, the victim claims that 10 to 20 people were nearby and that seven witnesses saw the altercation unfold. Unfortunately, he claims they were too far away to intervene and that the man promptly left after harming him. Stadig initially couldn’t get up off of the ground, so someone inevitably help him by writing the culprit’s license plate down before he drove off.
Oddly, no one surrounding Stadig offered to help him up, but security personel from the store eventually came over to assist him. He spoke to LifeSiteNews from his hospital bed, where he is receiving treatment for his broken hip, the ball socket of which needed to be replaced.
(H/T: LifeSiteNews)
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Comments (113)
Kuffar
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:45pmAct of violence against a person at risk… Hate Crime anyone? Not in Denver.
Police are more concerned about the self manufactured threats against the GLBT’s. So move along, nothig to see here.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:02pm“Act of violence against a person at risk… Hate Crime anyone? Not in Denver.”
Why would it be a hate-crime? Being pro-life or pro-choice is not a protected class covered under hate crimes legislation. The man wasn’t targeted because he was old or disabled (which are classes included under hate crimes legislation in most states), so it makes no sense to charge it as such.
Obviously his attacker should be arrested for assault.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:07pmCouldn’t they run with LGBLT no mayo this time of year. Who cares if you are gay and violent as long as there is a blt in the offing. We live in a time of violent granolas clad in birkenstocks and hemp shirts.
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:11pmSomeone should take up a donation drive to get Mr. Stadig a Glock and some HiPo ammo.
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:26pmSorry folks ,there is no such thing as “hate” crime, a crime is a crime,period.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:35pmHate crime laws like everything liberal, are so anti American, anti freedom, it’s disgusting. But if you are going to pass some bogus law, making it more of a crime to do something out of hate, all hate should be included. There sure are more crimes committed by hateful liberals every year in this nation against Christians, than have been committed against blacks, gays, lesbians in the last 100 years.
Report Post »cannon12pdr
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:54pmIt is called elder abuse along with battery. In TN it is punishable by 10 years in prison and a substantle fine
Report Post »Locked
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:56pm@Blazebanned
“Sorry folks ,there is no such thing as “hate” crime, a crime is a crime,period.”
Sure there is. 18 U.S.C. § 245 for example (commonly known as the Civil Rights Law of 1964).
Just because -you- don‘t believe in them doesn’t mean they don’t exist in our legal system.
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:12pm@ LOCKED — You said: “The man wasn’t targeted because he was old or disabled.”
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At 86, he definitely is old, and I wonder if the coward would have made the same moves if the victim had been a 6′6″, 225 pound 26-year-old!!!!!!!!!!!!
txjb
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:10pmlocked , get a grip !!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:15pm@Woodyb
“You said: “The man wasn’t targeted because he was old or disabled.”
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At 86, he definitely is old, and I wonder if the coward would have made the same moves if the victim had been a 6′6″, 225 pound 26-year-old!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The man is 69, not 86 (where did you get that number from?). As per the article: “Everett Stadig, a 69-year-old volunteer…”
And you’re missing the point: he wasn’t targeted -because of- his age. That’s the determination for hate crime status: that someone is attacked simply for being part of a specific class of people. If this person had been attacking him because he was old, then yes, it would be a hate-crime (again, depending on the state hate crime laws; ageism is not a hate crime everywhere); but he was not attacked because of that.
Report Post »toto
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:20pmWhat could be more violent than ripping a baby from limb to limb. The Pro-choice guy was totally in character.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:56pmKuffar – please don’t use the Communists terminology. You’re only helping them. There’s no such thing as Hate Crime, becuase that’s really code for “Thought Crime” where we create special sub-classes of human beings and treat them differently from everyone else. That’s what the Communists want.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:58pm@Locked
Come on, stop being intellectually dishonest. You obviously knew he was being hyperbolic with his statement, but then you douched on him anyway. Seriously, Locked, buy a grain of common sense.
We know they’re on the books, and you know we reject them on principle. You might disagree with our principles, but do so openly, instead of being a slime.
Best Regards.
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 6:46amIt would be a hate crime because leftists hate anyone who doesn’t believe what they believe. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can’t take Stalinism out of leftists.
Report Post »DLG1956
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:45pmA 69 year old man with a broken hip under Obamacare would just get ‘the pain pill’ unless he is a he is a high ranking DNC member, or bundler or a DC politician.
At 69 the payback to justify the surgery under Obamacare just isn’t there. We are all now subject to return on investment (ROI) and the eldery, very young and chronically ill and mentally disabled will immediately see their lives snuffed out by the ROI model Obamacare is now making. Why do you think they want all our medical records to kept electronically, it certainly is not for your safety.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:57pmYou are right.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:17pmBeat me to the keyboard – my initial thought was would obLamacare cover a situation like this one – then I realized that it would not cover a PRO-LIFE advocate.
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:07pmof course, if the man has private insurance (which most Americans do) Obamacare doesn’t mean jack squat. you people are so frightened that big bad gov’t is coming to get you.
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:34pmWhen the liberals don’t get their way, they turn to violence. Boy this November is going to be interesting when obama is booted to the curb.
Too bad the gentleman wasn;’t packing a pistol for self defense
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:40pmMERCENARY – so it’ the liberals who are killing abortion doctors and bombing abortion clinics?
Report Post »FaithfulCitizen
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:10pmPhillyAtheist: When was the last time an abortion clinic was blown-up or an abortion “doctor” was killed?
Now: when was the last time someone died at the hands of said “doctor”?
Report Post »When was the last time a crime (e.g., fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, operating without a license, etc) was committed at an abortion clinic?
When was the last time that anti-abortion protestors were verbally or physically abused by a pro-choicer (who actually only believes in one choice: abortion)?
phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:18pm“Now: when was the last time someone died at the hands of said “doctor”?”
never. “someone” implies a person, which a fetus is not.
there have been bombings, break-ins, and constant threats in Atlanta just this year.
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:31pmYou’re right. Progressives only care for the “worker”. That means NOT babies, especially not special-needs children and definitely not old folks.
Google Dr. Jill Vecchio. She is a radiologist and has taken the time to sort-out what Obamacare means to us. She has 7 youtube lectures on Obamacare. It’s scary to watch, and very sobering.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:43pm@Philly
Report Post »How does having private insurance protect you from Obamacare if:
1. Insurance companies are required to cover people who will inevitably be a drain their revenue, forcing companies to raise their prices.
2. Insurance companies are taxed under the new law, which in turn is passed on to the people through higher premiums.
3. If the government can fine you for not being insured that means they get to decide what it means to be insured. If the government decides your insurance isn’t good enough….
tzion
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:49pm@philly
Report Post »Define “person”. What is a “person”? Do you have an answer? Can we test for personhood? A fetus is genetically human possessing its own organs that are 100% independent from its mother. The mother’s single role is to provide sustenance during pregnancy. In theory, if one could create the proper environment, you could grow a fetus into a full-fledged baby without its mother being present.
snapperman
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:43pmI hope he mends quickly – guess he‘s lucky this didn’t happen 2 years from now when the death panel might deny replacing even a bandaid….
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:55pmI hope the police get the guy and charge him with assault and battery with intent to harm in criminal court AND I hope that Mr. Stadig sues the daylights out of him, and his family in civil court.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:39pmIs the “Death Panel” at the VA just a practice session before the real thing hits the streets?
Report Post »Yaya2
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:42pmThis is so repulsive, but not surprising. The libs have no tolerance for anyone with a different perspective. It’s almost like an evil spirit directs them to commit such acts of cruelty. I wish Mr. Stadig a very speedy recovery.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:59pmIf they can’t out shout you with their forked tongues they turn to violence and then blame a Conservative for the fight!!! This day and age makes me feel like I am in an alternate dimension and looking for the bearded Spock!!
Report Post »Brad Wesselmann
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:04pmPerhaps you may be right…I was always a skeptic about that but in light of recent “evil” attacks on people I’m beginning to think otherwise. Keep the faith, and know that it only requires that of the size of a mustard seed, but it must be pure. :-)
Let those with ears hear, and those with eyes see.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:41pmWhat would you think going in for an operation and your Doctor is pro-choice? what would your chances be then. Give me pro life Doctors and Nurses any day . I have worked with both in home health and hospital settings. If the patient only knew what was being said.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:35pmIf a Dr. is for slaughtering the unborn, euthanizing the aged and infirmed can’t be out of the question for him
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:09pmoh brother. there really are 2 Americas. i can’t even identify with the species of people like you. are you sure you are human?
Report Post »FaithfulCitizen
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:13pmTure – there is the America of ignorance (”liberals are the only truly enlightened people, and always have the purest intentions”) and the America of reality and experience (”if you’re an adult and a liberal, then you have no brain”).
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:19pmFAITHFUL – well i’m 38, clearly have a brain, and i am liberal. i am also smart enough to be able to call you Fido, but you likely aren’t smart enough to know why.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:33pmWell, you‘re certainly not smart enough to know when you’re making a fool of yourself, which is often.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:59pm@philly
Report Post »I‘m sure you weren’t being serious with that human question but regardless I find your language frightening, vile, and downright dangerous. To question whether someone is human is to call into question whether that person has any fundamental rights. Same goes with questioning if someone is a person or not. The Nazis justified their evil by claiming that Jews and others weren’t real people. You already deny that a fetus is a person. What about people who are permanently on life support with little measurable brain activity? You’ve drawn a line called “person” that has no clear definition. That’s not just stupid, that’s dangerous.
T-2
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:40pmGod bless you mr. Stadig.
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:39pmthere was a segment on Dr Phil where people want to people to murder their retarded kids now too…. when i saw the south park episode about 40th trimester abortions I thought it was a joke, guess its a real thing…..
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:39pmWhen the lives of the innocent unborn have no value except as a political “choice”, the lives of ALL of us are cheapened.
Exhibit #1, see above.
Report Post »chuck_in_st_paul
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:38pmWhat is with all the anger on the left?
Just look at all the foam at the mouth posts on Kos and other sites. I admit that occasionally conservatives post angry outbursts, but I have yet to see the physical attacks that crop up regularly from ‘progressives’ and abortion seems to draw out the absolute evil in them.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:12pmAbortion is EVIL!
Evil begets evil!
BUT, God wins in the end, and I can’t wait to meet that six week fetus that my body lost spontaneously a number of years ago! I am so looking forward to seeing the person who wasn’t to be in this world and tell them how much I loved them from their conception and even before. . .
Sadly, many are NOT looking forward to that, but some, having been reconciled with God after an abortion, will be able to say they are sorry for their biggest mistake to the ones affected most by it, their child and themselves, with God smiling on.
Thank you “old man” for your tenacity and faith and for all you have done for the most helpless among us. May you heal quickly and be well rewarded with many crowns to lay at the Son’s feet!
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:37pmI’m seriously amazed at the amount of crime there is. Does nobody have a conscience anymore and a sense of right or wrong? What is going on in today’s society. How can you be a human being and do something bad against someone else. I don’t get it.
Report Post »debkk9
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:56pmI have been saying this for years….people do not live by the golden rule anymore. Why is it that people are sooooo mean to each other?? Just when I think nothing could surprise me anymore…something does. What happened to morals and common decency, people being nice to each other, helping each other, just doing the “right” thing??? Our society is going to hell. It seems like most people are just out for themselves…it’s just me me me…what’s in it for me..what can I get…everyone owes me something…I think we need to pray ALOT, everyday, that something turns around. I seriously worry about my grandkids and great grandkids and the world they are being given. It’s too bad they will probably never experience the childhood we had. There is no innocence anymore:(
Report Post »Link8on
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:28amThe criminal told Standig
” that he didn’t have a right to be stationed outside of the store ”
Were that the case, he could have brought out store security to thier job.
His violent act , followed by his going to his car, and then driving away show he had no support for that statement.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:37pmThis should be prosecuted as a HATE CRIME. It is obvious this ANGRY LIBERAL IS FULL OF HATE.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:34pmNot out of the norm for these people. What was it Rodney King asked? Oh yeah, “why can’t we all just get along?”. Here is the answer, this is why, like their leader Obama every disagreement is attempted to be solved by thuggery. The worst thing to ever happen to socialism is Barack Obama. If it were not for him Conservatives would still be sleeping. So, if you think about it, we actually owe Obama a thankyou!! I will be one of the first, thankyou Obama for being so blatently Socialisticly Marxist.
Report Post »dblaess
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:30pmWhat a coward. No only did he cause this person much pain and permanent damage, but he walked away. If they catch up to him, he will have a hard time claiming accident since he did not stay to help. I believe this is someone who most likely does this often, picking on people much older/weaker than him. Must be a fan of Dan Savage.
Report Post »fiveft15
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:29pmReal brave coward, wish he would try that on this 60 year old.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:51pmAmen, Brother. I’m 57, and I would give him something to remember me by.
Report Post »jaelge
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:27pmI suppose they want it legal to kill unborn children and elderly folks as well!
Report Post »I hope they put the ******* in jail for a while regardless of whether he’s prochoice or prolife.
grannyjojo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:26pmThis is what happens when you decide that a certaiin segment of the population (the unborn) have no rghts. It becomes easier and easier to continue down the same path, adding more and more segments of the populace to that list. Reminds me more and more of the movie “Logan’s Run” I pray the Lord interceeds soon. “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess”
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:12pmthe unborn have no rights. they are part of the mother before birth. the mother, as a living/breathing human does have rights, including the right to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. her choice, not yours.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:39pm@philly
Report Post »“part of the mother”. The unborn have their own heartbeat, DNA and blood that is entirely independent from the mother. The two are so separate that breastfeeding is necessary in order for the child to inherit its mother’s antibodies. Next you’ll tell me that fertilized bird eggs are part of their mother as well.
red_white_blue2
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:25pmWhat are these leftist so damned threated by? A piece of paper? The bible told of these kinds of events where the believers would be vilified. God Bless this man! He is in my prayers!
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:25pmThe signs of the times, all the man had to say was no thank you, but he became violent and attacked a senior. This is very sad and tragic. But I am sure some of you will side with the attacker and find some excuse for his actions but that is a reflection of the heart. I pray for the victim and attacker , for healing and for justice, but also that the victim can forgive and show the LOVE OF CHRIST. Holding a grudge is easy forgiving is hard. But a crime has been committed .
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:23pmThe cynic in me says the market is going to have to pay something.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:21pmLeftwingers are unhinged and mentally defective.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:21pmA simple “No thank you” would have sufficed….but, that would just not be the militant liberal way!
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:21pmLike I’ve always said, the left has no bottom. Just when you think they can sink no lower, WHAM! Liberalism is disgusting.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:20pmAh, those pro-murder folks……………kill a baby, attack an old man. All in a days work.
Report Post »fiapoliticofoi
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:03pmExcellent comments…I concur!
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:14pmit’s incredible how delusional you are. it almost takes my breath away. can whatever state you live in secede please? hurry.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:27pmPhillyatheist – How would you Marxists survive without the rich to be able to mooch off of since they’re leaving your utopian societies for business friendly areas?
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:17pmI gues Pro-Choice means nobody else gets a choice.
Report Post »De minimus
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:34pmYou are allowed to make the choice they want you to make. This is only the beginning of their violence and no one is going to go after them because their victims are on the wrong political team.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:13pmthese people have no problem killing babies whats the problem attacking an old man ???they are just plain evil
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