Posted on 05/03/2024 9:08:56 AM PDT by Morgana
A pro-lifer convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act has allegedly suffered a stroke after being kept in solitary confinement in prison — before even receiving sentencing.
Heather Idoni was found guilty in January of violating the FACE Act in Tennessee and of one count of “conspiracy against rights.” She, along with five other pro-lifers, each face up to 11 years in prison. Additionally, Idoni was found guilty on the same charges last Autumn, relating to a pro-life rescue held at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in 2020. In that trial, Idoni and seven of her eight co-defendants were all remanded to prison until sentencing, which will take place between May 14th and 17th.
Idoni is therefore facing up to a combined 50 years in prison and over $1 million in fines.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews, Idoni said she has been held in solitary confinement; similar information was also given in a press release from the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU).
According to Idoni, she was placed in solitary confinement for sharing food with other prisoners. She said she was allowed outside of her cell for just two hours a day, and only in the middle of the night, and that while in her cell, the lights were kept on non-stop. This allegedly took place at the Alexandria Detention Center, where she was held before being transferred to the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Virginia.
LifeSiteNews also noted that Idoni was not only confined, but also shackled like a violent offender.
“… [W]hen Idoni was brought into the courtroom for a pre-trial hearing in Detroit for yet another FACE Act trial, the U.S. marshal had the middle-aged woman shackled at the wrists, waist, and feet, as if she were a dangerous criminal,” reported the outlet. Fellow pro-lifer Cal Zastrow told LifeSiteNews that “the shocked judge ordered the shackles removed. Initially the marshal agreed to remove the shackles from only one wrist to allow Idoni freedom to write, a concession necessary for her to take notes, as she was then representing herself in court. Only at the insistence of the indignant judge were the shackles of both wrists finally removed, although the marshal left the bars around her waist and feet.”
Both PAAU and LifeSiteNews additionally reported that Idoni even suffered a stroke and had to be rushed to the hospital. She has since been stabilized, and will allegedly be returned to prison shortly.
“The ongoing abuse and mistreatment at this facility is sick and cruel and must be stopped before more people are killed by neglectful jail staff,” PAAU Executive Director Caroline Smith said in the press release. “This is elder abuse that is being perpetrated and paid for by the DOJ and the US Government. The Department of Justice should release Heather and grant her time served for her conviction. We do not want a dead Heather Idoni – we want a free Heather Idoni.”
Do pro-Hamas protestors who are blocking access to classrooms on college campuses similarly violate other people’s rights?
In the meantime NOT ONE Hamas rioter/supporter will spend 2 days in jail.
Soon to be a Christian Martyr it seems.
Already a martyr in one sense.
is this the woman who survived the holocaust only to be jailed by American liberal communists?
regarding rescues:
Prov 24:11 “Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.” (NIV)
Lev 19:16 “You are not to stand idle when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the LORD.” (ISV)
The law enforcement people who carried out the arrest of Idoni are not innocent in this injustice.
Not at all.
“Following orders” is not an excuse.
The people behind this travesty and miscarriage of justice like the ones (many the same) behind the travesty and miscarriage of justice with the ‘Jan 6’ patriots are going to burn in hell.
But unfortunately it will be too late for us to get any benefit o enjoyment from it..
FR thread-——Joe Biden’s DOJ civil rights chief appointee, Kristen Clarke, has always been a problem.
She’s been hauled into Congress for her draconian, flimsy and politicized prosecutions of pro-life activists, effectively acting as Joe Biden’s knifewoman to punish his political pro-life enemies as if on a political mission closely connected to Joe Biden’s bid to stick it to his political opponents.
Now we learn she’s quite the knifewoman, and a leading congressmember says she lied about it under oath. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke admitted Wednesday that she was arrested and chose not to disclose the legal matter during her Senate confirmation process because it had been expunged from her record.
During her 2021 confirmation process, Clarke, who heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, was asked by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a questionnaire if she’d “ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person.” Clarke responded, “No.”
The Daily Signal reported Tuesday that Clarke was arrested in Maryland in relation to a domestic violence complaint back in 2006. The outlet cited court documents, her ex-husband Reginald Avery and text messages between Avery and the head of the American Accountability Foundation, a conservative nonprofit group. Avery told the outlet that his finger was “sliced to the bone” after Clarke allegedly came at him with a knife after he revealed that he was cheating on her. Charges against Clarke were dropped, and more than a year later, she filed paperwork that would wipe the arrest from her record. (Americanthinker.com excerpt)
Message: DOJ Clarke’s testifying falsely to Congress, falsifying govt documents about her arrest and jailing, her comments about racial superiority, and her role organizing a 1994 event at Harvard that hosted a professor who accused Jews of persecuting black people are troubling.
She should step down immediately.
Clarke falsely testifying indicates she apparently believes Americans
who pay her salary are too stupid to determine the facts.
Americans cannot tolerate a self-serving justice official with an utter contempt for its citizens.
This is just one of many things which demonstrate to me that convinces me that normal people in this country face one of two outcomes. Slavery or large scale violence.
The frog in the kettle tells me it is unlikely to be the latter.
If they steal the election in November do you think the normies will fight back (violence)?
If Trump wins do you think the left will instigate large scale violence?
Reminds me of the treatment of political prisoners under Stalin.
We aren’t far from the start of execution of dissidents.
Has the FBI made any progress on all the terrorist attacks against no-kill crisis pregnancy centers?
Those centers area also protected by the FACE act. At least, they are supposed to be.
And in the meantime, HAMAS protesters trash college campuses, threaten and prevent Jewish students from attending classes-They are already being released from jail. 🙄
Tn. must like incarcerating innocent defenseless Americans and killing of innocent defenseless Americans.
Those protesters on campus are just recycled ANTIFA protestors paid by Soros. Only now he has them with a Palestinian doo on their head while waving a Palestinian flag.
You do realize these are the same people from years ago that were arrested then released on the streets for doing same crap. Andy Ngo posted their pics and it was like looking at “faces of meth” mugshots. Now we will have faces of meth mugshots with them wearing Palestinian doo rags. Point being, pay attention it’s the same people!!! Remember “buffalo head guy” wanna be he’s one of them?
The public 'rent a mob' period is over.
These people have 'the same look'... As you say "Andy Ngo posted their pics and it was like looking at “faces of meth” mugshots" - - that's part of my "homeless" guess. Andy Ngo could be right.
Also, as much as I hate George Soros this is beyond him. These organizer skills are way too sophisticated for Soros or his Open Society or what ever he calls it.
Seems there are two major reasons we don't know squat about who these people are: First, our 'intelligence' people could be in on it. Which is very possible. Or they run their organization with cells. Cells, so to stop anyone from getting to the top people you only have to kill one person. That's also possible.
Well, and a third possible reason is the people in the American press are so stupid - and/or so dependent on information handouts from DNC War rooms that they're incapable of looking into this. All these riots happening spontaneously is about as likely as the odds of having two back to back dogs that only bite Secret Service agents but not enough to kill them - just to lightly wound them. Two dogs, same 'bite', and same victims. Close to zero chance. All that said, none of us have a clue what's really happening. Just dots we try to connect.
Source: The Atlantic-——Soros-related
Eli Lake of The Atlantic reported detailing the fact that George Soros, the billionaire investor whose hostility to Israel and Zionism is no secret, is in fact one of the Israeli lobbies-—J Street’s—— larger donors, even though J Street has suggested, time and time again, that Soros was not a supporter.
The passage of the funding bill made George Soros very happy.
Is this another source of income for Soros, for his financing lefties in the US govt?
J Street Lobby exhorts its supporters——”On Friday, October 20th, 2023, the Biden Administration sent a Supplemental Funding Request to the Congress that contains key priorities for the American Jewish community:
Please urge your federal elected officials to take action by sending an email below or picking up the phone to call using the script at the end of this form. Your advocacy will help ensure Congress passes the Supplemental Budget Request, which includes the following:
<><>$14.3 Billion in Emergency assistance to Israel: This emergency assistance will bolster Israel’s ability to defend herself and replenish vital defense systems, including the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense programs.
<><>Increased Funding for FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP): Jewish communities are in a state of elevated readiness and have already been forced to increase their security measure. FEMA’s Nonprofit “Security Grant Program” helps ensure the safety and security of Jewish and other faith-based community institutions. The increased funding included in Biden’s Supplemental Budget Request will help bolster our Jewish community’s capacity to protect itself at this challenging time.
<><>$61.4 Billion in Emergency Assistance to Ukraine: The J Street Lobby stands in solidarity with Ukraine and supports efforts to strengthen its democracy in the face of aggression. This funding will aid Ukraine’s efforts to safeguard its democracy and protect its citizens. Jewish Federations are actively engaged in supporting the Ukrainian people—including by resettling over 2,600 displaced Ukrainians across the United States—and we seek continued U.S. support for these critical efforts.”
Reference-——J street Lobby Policy on the US-Israel Special Relationship
(with the financial help of $750 million from George Soros).
J Street believes that maintaining a strong, vibrant US-Israel relationship is a core American interest. We want to see a secure, thriving Israel that is a healthy democracy, a national home for the Jewish people and a state for all its citizens that embodies the shared values that have long formed the heart of the special relationship between our two countries. We believe that American diplomatic leadership has an important role to play in helping to make this vision a reality, as does cooperation in (financing) Israel’s security, economic, technological, academic and civil society spheres.
WIKI-—Confidential IRS documents obtained by The Washington Times in 2010 showed that George Soros had been a donor to J Street since 2008. The approximately $750,000 from Soros and his family, together with donations from Hong Kong-based businesswoman Ms. Consolacion Esdicul, amounted to about 15% of J Street’s funding in its early years.
In previous statements and on its web site J Street had seemed to deny receiving support from foreign interests and from Soros.
J Streets’s Jeremy Ben-Ami apologized for earlier “misleading” statements regarding funding from Soros. Ben-Ami also clarified that donors to 501(c)(4) organizations are promised confidentiality by law and challenged critics to make public the contributions from opposing organizations.
Confounding this story even more: the destruction of buildings at Columbia and UCLA is creating a backlash against Biden and Pelosi.
The Jewish vote could go Trump now.
But I wholeheartedly agree that “intelligence” agents funded by we the taxpayers could be helping to instigate this destruction, similar to the estimated 200 intelligence agents who were in the crowd on January 6th.
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