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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: The Best of Enemies - John Dee
- Message-ID: <bob1.722542493@cos>
- Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
- References: <1992Nov23.051005.26181@ncsu.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:14:53 GMT
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- In <1992Nov23.051005.26181@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov20.153702.719@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- >chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
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- >>dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >>> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
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- >>>> Dee was recently sentenced to a six-month jail term for violating the 12-
- >>>> person limit at the Robbinsdale clinic. He will start serving his term on
- >>>> the day after Thanksgiving.
-
- >>> What is the meaning of a "12-person limit", and why does a person
- >>> deserve six months in jail for violating this limit?
-
- >> The abortion protests at the Robbinsdale clinic got rather rowdy this
- >> summer. In the interest of keeping the peace, a judge issued a temporary
- >> restraining order saying that no more than 12 people from each side could
- >> demonstrate in front of the clinic.
- >>
- >> As for Mr. Dee, he has been arrested many times at abortion protests, and
- >> as a repeat offender, merited the extra time.
-
- >I still don't understand why a non-violent protester deserves
- >six months in jail. Who cares how many times he violated
- >the restraining order? That still doesn't warrant a six
- >month jail sentence.
-
- What do you propose as an alternative? A restraining order is a legal
- order directed at some person, or persons, issued in order to prevent
- some specific act. If restraining orders can be ignored upon whim, then
- of what value are they? Surely you have read of the great number of
- such orders, usually directed against men who abuse their wives or SOs,
- that have been ignored and the usual result is the death of the woman.
- Suggesting that 6 months is severe is, to my mind, reducing the effect-
- iveness of such orders. Personally, 5 years seems like a better way of
- increasing the effectiveness of such orders (and that is just for
- ignoring the order, any actual abuse commited at the same time should
- be punished according to the applicable statute.)
-
- REB
-
- >
- >>Chris Lyman
-
-
- >Doug Holtsinger
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-