Dear Sir:

US presidential candidate Barack Obama likes to be, and often is, compared to the late Martin Luther King Jr. He talks much of the struggle for freedom and human dignity. Unlike Martin Luther King Jr., however, Obama fails to recognize and fully appreciate the bedrock principle of human rights - that great "promissory note" of freedom which guarantees the right to life. I refer especially to the principle enshrined in the United Nations’’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." I believe this is hypocrisy asking to be elected.

Obama, in fact, vigorously opposes the right to life. In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama supported infanticide by vetoing the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which would have protected babies who were accidentally born alive during attempts to abort them." The first thing I’’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," he told Planned Parenthood last July. This would make the United States the most pro-abortion nation in the world.

At a recent town hall meeting he claimed that if his own daughters made a "mistake" and became pregnant he wouldn’t want them "punished with a baby." Can anyone trust a president who views the gift of human life as a punishment?

Obama also fully supports homosexuality which thwarts the natural generation of life and which is the anti-thesis of the family.

Obama is a false prophet who preaches "change" and "hope" while pursuing a culture of death. The 20th century has witnessed many such initially charismatic leaders in Germany, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere, who promised change but who delivered nothing but unimaginable horror. Let us make sure this does not happen in America. Though the slogan "change" is usually invoked to signify something positive, in this case it hides a different agenda - one which is very dangerous for America and the world.

Paul Kokoski