Posted on 05/28/2007 9:51:58 PM PDT by monomaniac
Montgomery, AL (LifeNews.com) -- If you're a member of a pro-life organization, there's a chance you could be among those who are involving in plotting terrorist attacks against the United States. That was the view of the Alabama state terrorism web site until recently, when state officials took it down to revise its content in the face of a huge outcry.
The Alabama Department of Homeland Security put together a web site that was partially intended to help state residents spot possible terrorists and report them to officials.
The only problem was that the site included several various political groups on the site, including gay and lesbian groups, anti-war organizations, and pro-life advocates. They fell under the heading "single-issue" terrorists.
"Single-issue extremists often focus on issues that are important to all of us. However, they have no problem crossing the line between legal protest and ... illegal acts, to include even murder, to succeed in their goals," the web site said.
Jim Walker, the head of the department, said the agency received numerous calls from people opposed to abortion and members of other groups that were on the web page. The site will be back on the Internet soon but will no longer include the political groups.
Walker told media outlets that the site had been up since 2004 but it started receiving notoriety when several bloggers noticed the listing of the groups and cried foul.
Birmingham attorney Eric Johnston, president of the Alabama Pro Life Coalition, is one of the people upset by the content and says pro-life advocates have nothing to do with terrorism.
"Our group's main mission is educational. The thought that we would somehow be harboring terrorists escapes me," he said
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Ala. terror Web site angers activists [Homeland Security Caves in to PC]
Blue text makes the baby Jesus cry.
So trying to protect the most innocent among us — the unborn — makes you a terrorist?
I guess im screwed :)
In my home state of NY, that wouldn’t surprise me one bit. But Alabama?????????
CAPITAL Letters In E-mails Spark Probe (World Net Daily May 27, 2007)
I’m already there =P
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1841129/posts?page=18#11
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1841129/posts?page=18#32
To be fair, they included homosexual and environmental groups, as well.
If you want to blow up clinics it does. Look, it’s happened in the past and it will happen again in the future. Granted they’re not islamic terrorists but we’d be neglect not to check up on at least the groups who advocate violence.
Do any of the cinic bombers have any real connections to the pro-life movement? I’ve never known of any, and the pro-life movement universally condemns them, as the people who put up this website know well but don’t want you and me to know.
It’s amazing how these guys seem to pop up whenever the pro-aborts feel as if they might be losing ground.
Much as I despise their politics, I wouldn't label those groups as terrorist either, except for the small minority who actually commit violence. But my point is that Alabama is a strongly pro-life state. That is one movement I would never have expected its officials to condemn in such harsh terms.
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