Not your ordinary college orientations, Seton Hall University Pays Janet Reno To Speak at Law School

The Newark Star Ledger ^ | 08.26.03

[Coleus]

When Seton Hall University's new law students arrived for their first day of orientation yesterday, they found a famous face waiting to welcome them.

The Newark law school hired former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to give the 350 new students a pep talk in between the usual building tours and paper work.

[Coleus]

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[Coleus]

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[cyborg]

Can someone say... Elian Gonzales at gun point?

[Wolverine]

WACO CASE STUDY available fron Reno's site, only $49.95.../sarcasm

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Murdering scum!

[joesnuffy]

Janet Reno feminihilist poster girl

[holyscroller]

This is so depressing. To think that so many of our future sharks are starting off from Day One being brainwashed into some Politically Correct Leftist cause. The whole legal/judicial profession is out of control, and instead of getting reined in, is getting worse.

[mountaineer]

In a nutshell, this is what's wrong with colleges. Their graduates can't write a coherent sentence, but at least they've been successfully and thoroughly indoctrinated throughout their collegiate careers by high-priced guest lecturers! I mean, an environment-themed freshman orientation with Robert Kennedy Jr.? Wow, the benefits of such a program are incomprehensible.

hacksaw - what's going on with these Jesuit colleges and Janet Reno? Yecchh.

[giznort]

Funny.......I would have given money to make her go away....

[Arthur McGowan]

Pro-abortion Catholics on the staff and faculty of "Catholic" colleges signal their true beliefs, and avoid serious trouble with any ecclesiastical authorities, by inviting pro-aborts like Reno to speak and receive honors. Reno was invited to be Commencement Speaker at Wheeling Jesuit University (in W. Virginia) in 2000 by the President, Fr. Thomas Acker, S.J. This enabled Acker and the faculty to signal their complacency about abortion to the students, without making a more explicit statement that could get them in trouble.

[nothingnew]

RE your link. Thanks...I think. I may be sick to my stomach for some time.

FMCDH

[Hobsonphile]

The new school year is being launched, which means the end of the relative silence of this list.

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[TheCrusader]

"Funny.......I would have given money to make her go away...."

Admit it, you think she has sexy legs.

[nightdriver]

"I knew I was coming home to overwhelming political criticism. But that was neither here nor there," Reno said.

No, it wouldn't be "here nor there" if you never have to pay for your illegalities.

Reno showed that it is possible to denigrate the office of Attorney General by metamorphing it into an office that is nothing more than a defense attorney for a crooked president.

[TheCrusader]

"Pro-abortion Catholics on the staff and faculty of "Catholic" colleges signal their true beliefs, and avoid serious trouble with any ecclesiastical authorities, by inviting pro-aborts like Reno to speak and receive honors."

They may be pro-abortion, but they're not Catholic anymore:

Title VI OFFENSES AGAINST HUMAN LIFE AND FREEDOM

Can. 1398 -- A person who procures a successful abortion incurs an automatic (latae sententiae) excommunication.

Abortion

Deliberate termination of pregnancy by killing the unborn child. Such direct abortion, willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. (Source #1)

Abortion is not only “the ejection of an immature fetus” from the womb, but is “also the killing of the same fetus in whatever way at whatever time from the moment of conception it may be procured.” (This clarification of Canon 1398, reported in the Dec. 5, 1988, edition of L’Osservatore Romano, was issued by the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts — in view of scientific developments regarding ways and means of procuring abortion.) Accidental expulsion, as in cases of miscarriage, is without moral fault. Direct abortion, in which a fetus is intentionally removed from the womb, constitutes a direct attack on an innocent human being, a violation of the Fifth Commandment.

A person who procures a completed abortion is automatically excommunicated (Canon 1398 of the Code of Canon Law); also excommunicated are all persons involved in a deliberate and successful effort to bring about an abortion. Direct abortion is not justifiable for any reason, e.g.: therapeutic, for the physical and/or psychological welfare of the mother; preventive, to avoid the birth of a defective or unwanted child; social, in the interests of family and/or community. Indirect abortion, which occurs when a fetus is expelled during medical or other treatment of the mother for a reason other than procuring expulsion, is permissible under the principle of double effect for a proportionately serious reason; e.g., when a medical or surgical procedure is necessary to save the life of the mother. Such a procedure should not be confused with the purportedly “medical” procedure of the partial-birth abortion, a particularly cruel form of abortion. (Source #2)

2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.

2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:

You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.

God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,", "by the very commission of the offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. (Source #1)

[George from New England]

Seton is a disgrace. Catholic shashlic. There is NEVER a time when a Catholic school supports, pays, funds a pro-abortion individual or cause. NEVER, NO ONE.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I don't know what you're complaining about...my alma mater, Cornell University, made her a visiting professor.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Coleus]

Yes, it sure is. I may buy one of those T shirts.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[victim soul]

Catholic Bishops, Pro-Lifers Under Fed Surveillance
NewsMax.com

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/6/25/164336

Monday, June 26, 2000

First it was an FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin warning that a car with an NRA bumper sticker was a tip-off that the driver might be a dangerous terrorist. Now being pro-life could get you on a list of suspected terrorists, especially if you happen to be a Catholic bishop.

In what one FBI agent calls a "political witch-hunt," Janet Reno’s Justice Department is running a Gestapo-like spy operation on Americans who dare to support human life by opposing abortion.

A blockbuster expose by Insight magazine uncovered the existence of a huge database to monitor pro-life organizations, compiled by such federal agencies as the FBI, the BATF – the folks who brought you Ruby Ridge and Waco – the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Marshals Service and assorted other government snoops.

Documents obtained by Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and made available to Insight explain justification for "intrusive investigative activity" by the feds, allowing them to infiltrate, investigate and compile dossiers on "groups as divergent as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Rifle Association and the Women’s Coalition for Life."

The super secret program, known as VAAPCON (Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy) or just plain VAAP, maintains records not just of suspected criminal activities by some groups among the anti-abortion or pro-life movements, "but also the political activities, biographies and lobbying efforts by some of the most well-known – and law-abiding – groups in the country," Insight revealed.

America’s Catholic Bishops got VAAPed with an entry under the category "Profiles of Pro-Life Groups … NOT PARTICIPATING IN DIRECT ACTION." (That category includes the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Americans United for Life, Feminists for Life, Women’s Coalition for Life, American Life League, the Christian Coalition and Concerned Women for America.)

In one of the documents dating back to the mid-1990s, an entry says: "Led by [the late] Cardinal John O’Connor, the Conference is considered by many to be the broadest, best organized and most powerful of the pro-life groups," according to Insight. "The Conference is primarily engaged in education and provides information and technical assistance to pro-life offices in the 189 dioceses and 18,000 parishes across the United States. They strongly condemned the shooting of [Wichita, Kan.] Dr. [George] Tiller, saying that ‘there is no room in the pro-life movement for violence.’ They oppose the Clinic Access bill now pending in Congress." (This reference apparently was to the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinics law.)

All the prominent pro-life groups, and a number of religious organizations also got VAAPed by the federal busybodies.

The Women’s Coalition for Life, for example, earned a place on the list as people who "describe themselves as both pro-feminist and pro-life. It’s an umbrella organization of approximately 1.8 million members, linking 15 existing grass-roots groups led by women opposed to abortion. Founded in April 1992, the coalition counsels women in crisis pregnancies and lobbies for antiabortion legislation. They have formed a ‘Susan B. Anthony List’ to rival Emily’s List and provide financial support to pro-life women candidates in 1994."

And here’s an entry about Concerned Women for America, the nation’s largest women’s organization: "With about 600,000 members, Concerned Women for America focuses on social issues like abortion and homosexuality, but has also attacked the Administration’s health-care package and the economic stimulus package. More recently, they attempted to derail the nomination of Dr. Joycelyn Elders as U.S. Surgeon General, and to prevent President Clinton from opening up the military to homosexuals."

The Reverend Pat Robertson also made the VAAP hit list: "The Christian Coalition is an evangelical advocacy group founded by the Rev. Pat Robertson after his 1988 campaign for President. In the past, the Coalition focused on such issues as abortion, homosexuality and school prayer. They are presently trying to move more towards the mainstream. At their recent annual conference, it was decided to expand their agenda to include the economy and health-care reform. They engage almost exclusively in lobbying and grass-roots organizing."

"What in the world are Janet Reno, Hillary, Bill and their VAAPCON task force doing using law-enforcement personnel to infiltrate, collect and assemble database information of this type?" fumed Judicial Watch’s Larry Klayman.

"We were told by one source that some in the FBI objected to the monitoring of these groups on legal and ethical grounds but were overruled by upper levels at Justice."

Even more outrageous, two senior federal law-enforcement officials, one at the FBI and one at the Justice Department, told Insight is the fact that the VAAP database is under the auspices of the Criminal Division and that virtually all entries are part of what is called an "FI" tag – that is, a "full-investigation" label.

"This is wrong and it ought to be exposed for what it is, a political witch-hunt," one concerned FBI agent told the magazine.

"Mixed in with the bishops, for example, is information on violent groups and astounding details on surveillance and monitoring techniques by a variety of federal law-enforcement agencies. This includes tracking mail sent to or received from all manner of organizations in contact with people in the federal database, including the NRA, Nynex Telephone Corp. and even the Blind Work Association in Binghamton, N.Y.," Insight concluded.