NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/talk/abortion/57891

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From: [e-mail] (J H Woodyatt)
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Subject: Screwheads to the Left, Screwheads to the Right
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Date: 25 Jan 93 21:48:47 GMT
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I was in Washington D.C. over the weekend.  I spent most of my time
with an old friend volunteering for clinic defense with WACDTF
(Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force) against Operation Rescue's
`Capital [sic] Rescue' offensive.

I was fairly relieved to note that the other side has as much troubles
with people showing up to their events with the OneBigAgenda mentality
as the side I'm on does.  While the losers from Refuse and Resist that
provided Mojo and I with rides were too clueless to keep the rest of
their leftist agenda at home, at least the Operation Rescue people had
trouble keeping their agenda straight as well.

Don't get me wrong -- I ain't dissing WACTDF.  WACTDF had their heads
on straight.  Most of the Refuse and Resist people were fairly on the
ball, even -- it was just the losers Mojo and I had hooked up with for
rides that got under my skin after hours of helplessly driving around
D.C. because they were too impatient to wait for the word from the
people with the radios and the cellphones -- cluetime: R&R is too low
tech for such things.

Perhaps my favorite moment was at a counter-demonstration with Refuse
and Resist at the Crystal City Marriot on Thursday night, six O.R.
types (one of which later gave me his business card which read "Randy
Des Champs; Operation Rescue; Servant") came up onto the sidewalk
where R&R was making noise and waving banners at a completely empty
street.  The O.R. types were wearing cheap white T-shirts that read,
``Homophobic?  You bet!'' and had a little cartoon of an
unidentifiable rodent-like mammmal above a small caption that read,
``Save the Gerbil Foundation.''  Mr. Des Champs then proceeded to
explain to Mojo that AIDS cures homosexuals and how homosexuals are
deliberately spreading HIV, before launching into end-times prophecy
about how God will exact His vengeance upon America for opposing Him.
Mojo got sheepish looks out of them when he asked how they could wear
T-shirts like that when hate is a mortal sin -- which was fairly
amusing since, as I observed later during the ride back to Baltimore,
hate is not a sin according to the Bible (except hate directed at
God).

What I didn't understand was the weird abundance of NRA paraphernalia,
e.g. hats, pins, buttons, even hunting jackets, among the O.R. types.
I had been led to believe that NRA types were big on civil liberty --
what were they doing blocking access to women's health clinics?

Anyway, after all the hellishness of letting these screwheads dictate
my sleep schedule on my vacation, I am fairly pleased with the early
news that Operation Rescue was effectively thwarted and utterly failed
to deny anyone access to the women's health clinics in Washington,
D.C. while I was there. (Whose bright idea was it, anyway, to blockade
Planned Parenthood at 5:30 AM on Saturday morning -- is this, like,
the height of PP's business hours?)

Did anybody else note a sort of `call to arms' motif running through
Cal Thomas's latest column?


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+---------------------------+  My vote for best anti-O.R. chant:
| J H Woodyatt              |  "We're tired.  We're cranky.  We hate
| [e-mail] |  your f**king singing."
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