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One system. Two sets of rules.
Eco-terrorists have attacked priceless works of art and history. Hamas supporters have blocked roads, bridges, and airports. They’ve shut down campuses and assaulted students and faculty.
And all of it has gone unpunished.
But one woman is going to prison for almost 5 years for protesting abortion.
federal judge sentenced the leader of an anti-abortion group to more than four years in prison Tuesday for orchestrating a conspiracy to violate patients’ rights by forcibly blockading a D.C. clinic in 2020.
Lauren Handy, 30, and nine co-defendants were indicted on felony charges of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for forcing their way into the Washington Surgi-Clinic on F Street under a false name and then using chains, bike locks, furniture and their bodies to prevent patients from entering the facility and police from removing them.
So exactly what Hamas supporters are doing all over the country. Except they had the wrong politics and they did it at a place where civil disobedience is not allowed.
Now personally I oppose violent protests, vandalism and generally interfering with and blocking people. It’s a measure to only take in extreme cases when you’re willing to go to jail for your beliefs.
That said, we cannot have a system in which some people protesting go to jail for 4 years and 9 months while others get a desk appearance ticket.
Nor can leftists insist that campus riots can’t be stopped because of free speech but that abortion protests should lead to 5 years in prison.
FACE is very blatantly unconstitutional because it criminalizes some forms of protest for purely political reasons. But it’s also the way that FACE has been enforced. The FBI has made only two arrests (that I’m aware of) for the nationwide rash of attacks on pregnancy centers by pro-abortion activists.
Either way, allowing nationwide riots by leftists for years while criminalizing a largely conservative form of protest activity with years in prison for non-violent protests is a mockery of the First Amendment. It has to go.
Kasandra says
As I’ve previously commented, this is Herbert Marcuse’s world of “Repressive Tolerance” (in which anything from the Left is to be tolerated and supported while everything from the right is to be ruthlessly suppressed), we’re just living in it.
DetroitOtaku says
This predates Marcuse by a lot.
This is Anthony Comstock’s world of censorship. Those like Marcuse, Tipper Gore, Catherine MacKinnon, Anita Sarkeesian, and Fredric Wertham are all merely using the Comstock playbook on censorship.
Jim says
Excellent piece. 100 % accurate. Israel will have to go it alone which they will….and survive. Biden cooked his goose, no one will trust him now
Ralph P says
t’s always all politics all the time with leftists. Especially when they say it isn’t political. hate it what they do.
Steven Kardas says
I am not surprised in the slightest by the the draconian prison sentence. Justice in our Nation is a myth.
gabrielle says
The real “sin” of these pro life protesters is not allowing people to carry out their ritual murders. This is a desired act bysatan-loving leftists.
Sword of The Spirit says
And Jesus gave us the bigger picture.
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own:”
“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you”.
John 15:18
Matthew 5:10-12
We have satanic moo slims and communists running this country now. Remember Mao ZeDong, Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro. And now Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, ISIS, Al Queda,…… etc., etc., etc.,
MuggsSpongedice says
commie nations take children from parents, parents have no rights to children, satanic pagan wonton abortion is the Old Testament child sacrifice ritual known as molochism. Leviticus 18:21, God tells Moses: ”Do not allow any of your offspring to be offered up to Molech” Leviticus repeatedly forbids the practice of offering children to Moloch: And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to set them apart to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.— Leviticus 18:21 What we are living in is a total demonic coup d’etat by the uber wealthy that funded the pLandemic and the rigging and stealing of the 2020 federal election and 2022 election in Arizona, installing their whore puppets like Joe Briben and KKKatie Hobbs, Az, and the list goes on and on. These people may not see who ultimately they are working for and it is not the US citzens and it is only . Make a deal with the devil he’ll screw you every time just as a pet rattlesnake with bite the owner every damn time! The good and Godly people of USA must not sit quietly mumbling in our coffee and complaining to each other. We must take action or what we will see will be nothing we can turn away from. This is abosolute horror!
MuggsSpongedice says
Antifa and BLM that burned down cities, assaulted and murdered gets a no bail release if they were arrested at all and a bench warrant and cases dismissed by equally demonic bought and sold satanic whore judges. President Trump is in a banana republic fake charges made up by drawing arbitrary statutes together that make no sense and have no application in a real crime President Trump did not crime, Asswipes blocking access and assaulting Jewish students on colleges and nothing happens. We have an all out war on our hands and even with President Trump back in office January, 2025, these ghouls will not give up and the war will continue. The advantage is that President Trump 47 will send in National Guard and arrest and indict and charge on real charges!
DrLarry says
Kamala Harris, on Twitter, June 1, 2020 in support of the rioters, “If you’re able to, chip in now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”
Kamala Harris on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, June 17, 2020, saying: “But they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. They’re not. This is a movement. I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop, and everyone, beware. Because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before election day in November, and they are not going to stop after election day. And everyone should take note of that on both levels. That they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we should not.”
SPURWING PLOVER says
Allowing mobs to tot through the streets while arresting people to block abortion centers is certainly telling the mobs that they get protection while Right to Life get Jail we see the Inmates are running the asylum
Hugh Jassol says
That’s Meritless Garland for you.
Alec Witham says
The irony here is that of blocking ‘parent’s’ rights.
KI says
Take a break with this singer from Israel, Eden Golan
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STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
QED! The system is inspired by evil! Most abortion is done for convenience sake. It is the willful killing of God’s image in the womb which disrespects of God’s wonderful gift of reproduction. But protesting abortion gets the protester five years persecution in gaol, whilst, paradoxically, illegally disrupting free speech, hatefully chanting genocide to Jews and blocking the right of way of the public is OK and tolerated?
SPURWING PLOVER says
They sure didn’t do anything about those Animal Rights idiots Dumping out the Milk at the stores