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69-year-old pro-life Personhood petitioner attacked, suffers broken hip
LifeSiteNews ^ | 7/4/12 | Angela O’Brien

Posted on 07/04/2012 11:31:09 AM PDT by wagglebee

DENVER, CO, July 4, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) —Days after Personhood USA president Keith Mason’s home was attacked in the night leaving his wife and children traumatized, a Personhood volunteer, 69-year-old Everett Stadig, was assaulted, sustaining a broken hip.

On Saturday, Stadig – a soft-spoken and slender gentleman - was thrown off his bicycle while peacefully gathering signatures for the Personhood amendment in Colorado, and as a result has had to undergo surgery to replace part of his hip.

Stadig stopped outside a grocery store to invite people to sign the Personhood petition. One woman expressed interest in signing, but had to return temporarily into the store. While Stadig waited, a man came by whom he also invited to sign the petition.

In a telephone interview from his hospital bed, Stadig told LifeSiteNews that the man was “in his mid thirties and looked about six foot tall.” He refused to sign, and began to swear and shout at Stadig.

“He was yelling ‘I’m pro-choice!’”  Stadig recalled, adding that he used “most foul language.”

Stadig explained that being ‘pro-choice’ meant pro-abortion, and again urged him to sign. At first the man walked away, but returned half a minute later, still swearing and yelling.

“He said ‘you don’t have a right to be here!’” Stadig related, “and I said ‘I do have a right to be here, this is a Colorado Petition Drive’. 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.”

Stadig was on tall bicycle. He struck the ground hard on his hip and was in too much pain to rise. Stadig said that there were between 10 and 20 people present, and at least seven witnessed the assault, but no one had tried to stop the man. “It happened so fast, and they were too far away,” he explained.

The man who had attacked him did not stop to see if Stadig was injured. “After he threw me off the bicycle, he proceeded to leave,” Stadig said, “and I was trying to get people to call the police… to get that man’s license number, because I couldn’t do it.” Eventually a woman came forward, took the man’s license plate, and wrote a report.

Stadig learned later that his hip had been broken.

He remained on the ground for several minutes. “There were people around,” he said, “but no one offered to help me up.”

Eventually security personnel came out of the store and got Stadig off the ground and into a chair to wait for the ambulance.

Stadig was bruised and his hip badly injured: “I found out that it was separated, and I must get a replacement ball socket.”

While recovering from surgery, Stadig has still been gathering petitions in the hospital among the nurses and therapists.

Personhood USA President Keith Mason commented to LifeSiteNews, “There he is chillin in the hospital bed with his clipboard getting signatures of the hospital staff… he’s a great guy, an inspiration to us.”

Stadig is pressing charges, but does not yet know the name of his assailant and has still heard nothing from the police. “It’s unbelievable what happens in this country,” he said. “There’s so much violence.”

Stadig - tall, bearded and thin - bears a resemblance to Abraham Lincoln.  He has made use of these traits to attract young people to his pro-life appeals. His signature Abe Lincoln tux and top hat have brought smiles and photo ops to many a family.

Stadig’s pastor Bob Enyart of Denver Bible Church, visited with Stadig in hospital.  Pastor Enyart told LifeSiteNews, “Everett is so soft spoken, if he yelled you might hear him ten feet away. He’s a gentle giant who has the boldness of a lion when it comes to protecting an innocent child. Here in Denver, Everett is a local hero. As Jesus said, love God, and love your neighbor! That’s what Everett’s all about.”


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Stadig explained that being ‘pro-choice’ meant pro-abortion, and again urged him to sign. At first the man walked away, but returned half a minute later, still swearing and yelling.

Murdering bastards!

1 posted on 07/04/2012 11:31:27 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 07/04/2012 11:32:34 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 07/04/2012 11:33:30 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Time for an unCivil War!

It’s us against the forces of evil that keep trying to wrest control of this nation and they’re winning!


4 posted on 07/04/2012 11:34:34 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: wagglebee

Hopefully the stores video cameras caught this assault.


5 posted on 07/04/2012 11:35:18 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Obama must Go.)
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6 posted on 07/04/2012 11:35:52 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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IMHO - the left is just getting warmed up, the violence will escalate as the push through their fascist agenda. Obama and his ACORN followers are ready for bloodshed.


7 posted on 07/04/2012 11:38:37 AM PDT by stockpirate (No longer proud to be an American! SCOTUS is just as corrupt as congress. IMPEACH ROBERTS!)
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To: wagglebee

IMHO - the left is just getting warmed up, the violence will escalate as they push through their fascist agenda. Obama and his ACORN followers are ready for bloodshed.


8 posted on 07/04/2012 11:38:52 AM PDT by stockpirate (No longer proud to be an American! SCOTUS is just as corrupt as congress. IMPEACH ROBERTS!)
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To: wagglebee

Its coming. Be prepared.


9 posted on 07/04/2012 11:40:32 AM PDT by skeeter
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So someone got the vehicle tag. Has the perpetrator been identified? If so, has there been an arrest? If not, why?


10 posted on 07/04/2012 11:45:19 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
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Prepared and ready to go here.


11 posted on 07/04/2012 11:45:55 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: wagglebee

Why so much hatred from the liberals? It’s because they’re worried that they might not be one of the 30 million people that they say this earth can support. Billions of us must die to reach that 30 million number. The fact that our planet is already supporting billions of people doesn’t enter into their brains.


12 posted on 07/04/2012 11:50:33 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Stadig explained that being ‘pro-choice’ meant pro-abortion, and again urged him to sign. At first the man walked away, but returned half a minute later, still swearing and yelling.

Interesting...he walked away but returned...

Satan and his minions must have been whispering in his ear...someone who thinks abortion is Ok, has blood lust in their soul...something stirred it up...

Ephesians 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 posted on 07/04/2012 11:51:06 AM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
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Not only that.....all those people around and they did exactly SPIT; they didn’t stop the bastard attacker, they didn’t help an old man when he was knocked down.

WTF has happened to this country???????????????????????


14 posted on 07/04/2012 11:54:42 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: wagglebee

Just what I thought: when it comes to offing the elderly, these people will do it with a club - not with a syringe.


15 posted on 07/04/2012 11:55:37 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Popman

Demons exist...perhaps he was possessed.


16 posted on 07/04/2012 11:56:47 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: skeeter

I started preparing over 40 years ago.

LLS


17 posted on 07/04/2012 11:59:26 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: wagglebee

Hope he gets any hip replacement surgery now before Obamacare goes into effect. Not only is he old, he’s also pro-life. Definitely a candidate for extermination under the rules of the Death Penalty.


18 posted on 07/04/2012 11:59:47 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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Death Penalty = Death Panel.


19 posted on 07/04/2012 12:00:41 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: wagglebee

America’s Leftists have fully embraced the politics of confrontation and violence.

Obama’s pals; no doubt they’re taking their example in lawlessness from America’s Attorney General - the biggest lawbreaker in the nation.


20 posted on 07/04/2012 12:03:13 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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