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- From: sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.society.civil-liberty
- Subject: Re: Operation Rescue
- Message-ID: <1175@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 01:04:33 GMT
- References: <1162@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1992Dec25.191755.12514@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec26.212139.9327@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec26.212139.9327@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu
- (Doug "get yer black ass down here" Holtsinger) writes:
- #In article <1992Dec25.191755.12514@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- #clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge) writes:
- #
- ## The *really* interesting thing is that [Mr. Holtsinger] apparently regards
- ## firebombs, death threath, vandalism, and couragous acts such as pouring
- ## gasoline into the ceiling of a clinic and dropping in a match as acts of
- ## "civil disobedience".
- #
- #Gee, I guess some 'civil libertarians' are too dumb to
- #recognize a defense of 'free speech'. The article that
- #I posted mentioned nothing about firebombs or death
- #threats, but it did mention several instances where
- #Operation Rescue had its free speech rights curtailed.
- #One wonders whether the 'civil libertarians' on this
- #newsgroup are that in name only.
-
- If you could read, Reverend Holtsinger, you'd know that
- the comments were not a reply to the newspaper article that
- you posted, but to your comments describing O.R.'s actions
- as civil disobedience. Do you consider firebombing and
- death threats to be part of guaranteed free speech? Do
- you have any documentation for O.R.'s claims that their
- rights have been abridged? The group sued the city of
- Pittsburgh in federal court - the case was dropped because
- there was no evidence of any of their claims. In another
- incident, an O.R. member here claimed that he had been
- stun-gunned by the police. The videotape that they offered
- as evidence clearly showed the officer's "stun gun" to
- be a flashlight.
-
-
- Are you defending O.R. because they're fetus fanatics like
- you, or because they're pathological liars like you?
-
- Susan
-