The Kansas City Star’s Witch Hunt Against Phill Kline

By Rick

Yesterday, I read a commentary written by Jack Cashill in the American Thinker, that encompasses my opinion of the Kansas City Star, as much as anything I”ve read lately. Excerpts of the piece follows:

Witch Hunt in the Heartland
By Jack Cashill
January 2, 2012

The story that follows has taken place in and around Kansas City. But it could have unfolded in any city in which a stealthily leftist publication has a near monopoly on the production and distribution of news -- in other words, just about every city in America.

"Monsignor backed the four altar boys up against the wall, "shoulder to shoulder." writes Judy Thomas of the Kansas City Star. "Then he forced them to perform sexual acts on each other and on him."

"If you ever tell," the monsignor reportedly warned the boys, "you'll be kicked out of the Catholic Church, your parents will disown you, and you'll die and go to hell."

So begins Thomas's ultra-Gothic, front-page series, "The Altar Boys' Secret," served up by the Star just in time for Christmas.

Although the Catholic League has accused Thomas of "anti-Catholic bigotry," the accusation is too narrow. A local evangelical leader has more precisely identified the Star's larger goal, namely the "the destruction of the Christian pillars that have stabilized the country for more than two centuries."American Thinker.

I have followed the fight between former Kansas Attorney General, and later Prosecutor for Johnson County, Kansas, Phill Kline, against Planned Parenthood and the Tiller Clinic in Wichita. I have read an many accounts from the Kansas City Star, as well as the Wichita Eagle, as time provided, and I have compared the so-called facts against what I know has happened.

Abortion, according to the Supreme Court decision handed down in Roe V Wade in 1973, was made ‘legal’ after which we have had around 50,000 abortions in the United States. Kansas Abortion law provides for no abortions after a fetus reaches viability. According to Kansas Law KSA 65-6701 (k) "Viable" means that stage of gestation when, in the best medical judgment of the attending physician, the fetus is capable of sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical means. Kansas and several other states use 20 weeks, after which an abortion can not be performed, unless other critical life-threatening conditions are present.

Phill Kline filed charges against both George Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider, and Planned Parenthood for performing abortions past the twenty week limit. The clinics at times ‘estimated’ the number of weeks the women were pregnant, added so-called mental reasons for abortions. He also charged them for not reporting statutory rape involved in teens younger than sixteen being made pregnant by older men, some in their twenties. In the two years 2002 and 2003, 166 girls 14-and-under had abortions at one of the two Kansas clinics.

In February 2011, Disciplinary Administrator Hazlett filed ethics charges against Phill Kline in order to protect Planned Parenthood from criminal prosecution, even though he was cleared of similar charges in May 2008. They wanted to make an example of him, not only to punish him for daring to file charges against abortion mill, but also to intimidate future law enforcement officers.

Topeka , February 2011, — Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline sought Tuesday to rebut a key allegation in an ethics complaint against him, testifying during a hearing that he did not aim to identify adult patients of the late Dr. George Tiller during an investigation of the Wichita abortion provider.

Kline said instead he was trying to identify child victims of sexual abuse and anyone traveling with them when he subpoenaed records from a hotel near Tiller's clinic. It was his second day of testimony before a three-member panel of the state Board for the Discipline of Attorneys, which will recommend to the Kansas Supreme what, if any, sanctions Kline should face over the complaint.

The complaint alleges Kline and his subordinates mishandled abortion patients' medical records and misled other officials while investigating Tiller's clinic and a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. Kline, who investigated the clinics as attorney general from 2003 to 2007 and as Johnson County district attorney from 2007 to 2009, vigorously disputes those allegations. Source: The Lawrence Journal World.

It seemed that every time new false allegations against Kline emerged, the Kansas City Star would publish an editorial besmirching Kline’s character. Mr. Cashill sums it up later in his article:

When then Attorney General Phill Kline tried to expose the abortion clinics' ongoing cover-up, Star editors fought his efforts with such zeal that in 2006 Planned Parenthood bestowed its top national editorial honor on the paper. Oblivious to the hypocrisy of it all, the Star continues to resist attempts to make the clinics report child rape. Source.

The Kansas City Star, along with other liberal, anti-Christian, pro-abortion print media, have long since left their original status as the fourth estate, being a watchdog against corrupt government, and now persecuting those who dare to be against their support of corruption, becoming corrupt themselves. Their actions, along with the actions of a corrupt group of elected and appointed officials, show clearly that abortion is a part of the culture of death–resorting to lies and the destroying of anyone who stands in their way for the right to kill pre-born children. They owe former Attorney General Phill Kline a public apology for their public damage against his reputation.