Posted on 01/30/2024 7:39:48 PM PST by Kazan
Six pro-life activists were found guilty on Tuesday for “conspiracy against rights” and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) in relation to a peaceful protest outside of a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021.
President Joe Biden’s pro-abortion administration announced in October 2022 that it had charged 11 activists involved in the March 5, 2021, “blockade” of the Carafem Health Center Clinic in Mount Juliet. Attorneys for the activists said they were conducting a “rescue” and had gathered on the second floor of the office building where the clinic is located to pray, sing hymns, and urge women not to go through with abortions. The peaceful protest was also live-streamed on Facebook, according to the Catholic News Agency (CNA).
Six of the activists have now been found guilty of a misdemeanor FACE Act charge, as well as a felony conspiracy against rights charge, which carries with it the possibility of up to 11 years in prison and fines up to $250,000. They include: Chester Gallagher, 73, of Lebanon, Tennessee; Heather Idoni, 58, of Michigan; Calvin Zastrow, 57, of Michigan; Coleman Boyd, 51, of Bolton, Mississippi; Dennis Green, 56, of Cumberland, Virginia; and Paul Vaughn, 55, of Centerville, Tennessee.
Four other activists who have not gone to trial yet were only charged with a FACE Act violation and face up to one year in prison and fines up to $10,000. They include: Eva Edl, 87, of Aiken South Carolina; Eva Zastro, 24, of Dover, Arkansas; James Zastro, 25, of Eldon, Missouri; and Paul Place, 24, of Centerville, Tennessee.
Another activist, 24-year-old Caroline Davis of Michigan, already took a plea deal in 2023 and agreed to testify for the government.
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We should all be suspicious of those that are more concerned with anything going on in Russia when our citizens are facing this kind of political persecution.
Most of these are probably traditional or conservative Catholics. That way they can kill two birds with one stone.
Next R president needs to pardon A LOT of people. Day 1.
“Maybe those wringing their hands about alleged political prisoners in Russia should be more concerned with OUR political prisoners. “
EXACTLY !
The people most hyped for Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, Iran, North Korea, Kosovo, Red Sea... are also the ones least interested in doing something about J6/truckers, Third World Invasion, child castration.
Exactly.
Indeed.
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican serfs will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
Justa:
Here's your answer... The Aamerican sheeple now understand that the First Amendment has nothing to do with "free speech & thought"... It just calls for them to: :
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Western society has abandoned rules of conduct for its women. These people were trying to save human life. Our government declares that to be a crime. In the West, unborn life is cheap, and unvalued, so we must import Muslims to address the falling population growth.
+1
Yea, verily.
Yes, indeed!
Police state tactics
Wow
Gog dem usa
Magog dem nato
Rev 13
es they are political prisoners. We are quickly becoming just like China or Iran. And the Left is swinging hard into fascism.
When we did it in California back in the day they threatened RICO charges against us - laws which had only previously been used against the mafia and organized crime.
I used to see Carol Sobel (lead attorney for the Southern California ACLU) every Saturday when we did rescues.
She'd always walk up to me and say "Hi, Politicket (insert real name) - you know I'm going to take your house away from you, right?"
I'd always say: "Do what you need to Carol. No babies are dying here today".
"for 'conspiracy against rights'"DoJ: For "when conservatives protest peacefully"
Illegals in New York City can beat two policemen down in the streets on camera and stomp their heads and not get 11 years.
Think about that.
“Conspiracy against rights”. What kind of 1984-style fake crime is that? You can call anything you want a conspiracy, and there are no “rights” defined in the Constitution regarding killing babies.
They call America the Great Satan. The name fits.
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