Free Republic

The June 2017 meeting at America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) held by Shi Zhengli – known as 'Batwoman' because of her work on sampling and sequencing the animals' viruses – will bolster fears of Western collusion in a Chinese cover-up after Covid resulted from a reckless laboratory experiment. A new cache of documents, obtained by Freedom of Information campaigners and seen by The Mail on Sunday, reveal the extent to which the controversial work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was supported, and often funded, by America. They show that US researchers seeking funding for work to engineer 'spike...

Public officials concealed their conflicts of interest and role in funding research that may have caused the pandemic, says health reporter Emily Kopp.Journalists and scientists routinely dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as a crackpot theory and even as "racist," up until the summer of 2021 when science journalist Nicholas Wade published an influential article, and a viral rant by Jon Stewart pushed it into the mainstream. Until that point, social media platforms had been removing or throttling posts that took it seriously. Anthony Fauci, who didn't respond to our interview request, said it wasn't worth even considering the possibility that...

With precious days left to sway primary voters, three of the four Colorado Republicans seeking their party’s gubernatorial nomination are aligning themselves with the anti-establishment wave that just toppled the second most powerful Republican in the U.S. House, majority leader Eric Cantor. After Cantor lost his seat Tuesday night to a virtually unknown professor, Dave Brat, due to strong support from anti-Cantor forces within conservative talk radio and beyond, Tom Tancredo, Scott Gessler and Mike Kopp openly celebrated. “If I were a drinking man, I’d have been drunk last night.

Sometimes you just don't appreciate all you have and all that has been given to you. Sometimes it takes another to challenge your thoughts, beliefs and preconceived notions, in order to make you see that which has been sitting right under your nose all along. God sometimes uses others, and even their own errors and misconceptions, to wake us up to His presence and the Truth He has preserved for us in His Roman Catholic Church. Throughout college, in all my pre-med courses, I was constantly taught the Darwinian dogma, that we are all the products of the blind...

Buffalo, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors sought two life sentences Tuesday for a militant abortion opponent already serving 25 years to life for murdering a doctor who performed abortions. James Kopp's sentencing in U.S. District Court will bring to a close a case that began nearly nine years ago with the sniper-style slaying of Dr. Barnett Slepian in the kitchen of his suburban Amherst home. Kopp was convicted in 2003 on a state charge of second-degree murder for Slepian's death and sentenced to prison. In January, a federal jury convicted him on related charges that he violated the Freedom of...

Exposing the facts of homosexuality Posted: December 13, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Dr. Brian J. Kopp © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In the recent pro-life victory on partial-birth abortion, graphic images illustrating its barbaric reality were arguably one of the decisive factors in its ban. Ultrasound views of the fetus juxtaposed with images of mutilated and discarded aborted babies are involuntarily burned into subconscious memory, changing hearts and minds. Christian activists see the lengths to which pro-abortion groups and the mainstream media go to censor this harsh reality from the view of the public; both sides know that when the average citizen witnesses the...

He insisted he is not a murderer. He swore that he shot Dr. Barnett A. Slepian only because he was trying to wound him and prevent him from aborting unborn babies. But after listening to James C. Kopp's story for 90 minutes Friday, a judge gave him the maximum sentence for the 1998 assassination of the Amherst physician and abortion provider. Saying he disputes Kopp's claim that he did not intend to kill Slepian, Erie County Judge Michael L. D'Amico sentenced the 48-year-old anti-abortion activist to 25 years to life in prison. D'Amico said he found it "inconceivable" that Kopp...

Anti-abortion militant James Kopp was sentenced on Friday to 25 years to life in prison for the 1998 murder of a New York doctor, whom Kopp called a ``mass murderer'' for performing abortions. Kopp, 48, spoke for more than 90 minutes, trying to justify the shooting, before being handed the maximum sentence for the slaying of Dr. Barnett Slepian. Kopp admitted shooting Slepian on Oct. 23, 1998, with a high-powered rifle through the kitchen window of the doctor's home in Amherst, New York, a suburb of Buffalo near the border of Canada. ``They had a mass murderer living there,'' Kopp...

James C. Kopp likely will be sent to prison today for the maximum term of 25 years to life for the murder of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian. Even Kopp's attorney expects nothing less. Kopp, who killed Slepian in his Amherst home with a single bullet from a high-powered military rifle, will speak in his own behalf for the first time in court. Lynne Slepian, who has been in court for every proceeding since Kopp's arrest in March 2001, may also speak in court for the first time since her husband's death. She and three of the couple's four children are...

The eyes of the nation and the world will be on Buffalo tomorrow, when the confessed killer of Dr. Barnett Slepian is expected to make a statement. It's the most high profile case in recent memory in Erie County. Security will be tight for James Kopp's sentencing tomorrow, but Sheriff Patrick Gallivan expects no problems: "There's no threats. There's no real extra concern that there will be a problem, but we're not meeting our obligation if we don't take every precaution," Gallivan said. It took four and a half years to get to this point, and there have been several...

Abortion foes Loretta C. Marra and Dennis J. Malvasi accepted a plea deal in a New York City courtroom Tuesday that guarantees they will spend no more than five years in prison for helping James C. Kopp while he was a fugitive. Attorneys for the Brooklyn couple say they will try to persuade the judge that Marra and Malvasi should be granted a substantial downward departure in the federal sentencing guidelines to obtain their early release. Marra and Malvasi also will make another try for bail while they are awaiting their July 11 sentencing by U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley...

She is the mystery woman in the case of James C. Kopp and sniper attacks on abortion doctors. Loretta C. Marra, a 39-year-old mother of two from Brooklyn, has been an important part of Kopp's crusade against abortion since 1990, when they were first arrested together at a women's clinic in Vermont. It was Marra's car, according to police, that was seen near Vancouver, British Columbia, before and after the shooting of a Canadian abortion doctor in 1994, an attack that many believe was done by Kopp. When Kopp fled to Mexico after killing Dr. Barnett A. Slepian, authorities said...

Slaying of Amherst doctor intentional, judge rules.James C. Kopp intentionally murdered Dr. Barnett A. Slepian, a judge ruled Tuesday, ending the debate about whether Kopp was right to use the defense that he shot Slepian but did not mean to kill him. Erie County Judge Michael L. D'Amico sealed Kopp's future with a single sentence, without explanation, as judges often do in nonjury trials. D'Amico, by convicting Kopp of intentional murder, never had to consider the second count of depraved indifference to human life. The second murder charge was added after Kopp's November confession to The Buffalo News. "After very...

Is James C. Kopp a religious zealot and coldblooded assassin who meant to kill Dr. Barnett A. Slepian? Or is he a deeply moral man who intended to only wound Slepian to stop him from performing abortions? Kopp, 48, a longtime abortion protester, was described both ways Monday as he finally had his day in court, a very unusual day in court. It was a trial without witnesses, without testimony, as prosecutors read aloud a 35-page summary of the evidence agreed to by both the defense and the prosecution. Many of the events had previously been described piecemeal - either...

Just reported that James Kopp was found guilty by the judge. Thank the Lord. Kopp is no friend of the pro-life movement.

James C. Kopp won't have anything to say Monday during his one-day trial in Erie County Court for the assassination of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian. No one will testify. There will be no witnesses. It now appears likely he won't have anything to say in U.S. District Court, either. By shooting Slepian, he faces federal charges of obstructing access to an abortion clinic. Legal sources also expect a nonjury trial in federal court - using evidence agreed to by the prosecution and defense - similar to Monday's trial before County Judge Michael L. D'Amico. Or they expect some other resolution...

No witnesses will testify; judge will hand down verdict in Slepian killing James C. Kopp rejected the advice from two of his three lawyers and even the judge Tuesday, giving up his right to let a jury decide the evidence against him in the October 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian. And Kopp, in an even more unusual move, agreed to give up his right to a traditional trial. Kopp said he wants the judge - Michael L. D'Amico of Erie County Court - to find him innocent or guilty based on a 30-page summary of the evidence prepared...

A jury trial that could have lasted as long as a month now could be over in less than a day. James Kopp is waiving his right to have a 12-member jury decide his fate. Instead, Erie County Court Judge Michael D'Amico will decide whether Kopp is guilty in the murder of Amherst abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian. Kopp was indicted on two charges: intentional murder and murder by impraved indifference. there would be no witnesses taking the stand, all of the evidence presented by the prosecution would be agreed to by the defense. Attorneys on both sides see a...

James C. Kopp already has removed the mystery of who shot Dr. Barnett A. Slepian. Will he now short-circuit his murder trial by agreeing to a stipulated set of facts and asking the judge, not a jury, to hear the case? Legal sources close to the case say that such an announcement could come today when Kopp returns to the courtroom of Erie County Judge Michael L. D'Amico. But neither Kopp's attorney, Bruce A. Barket, nor Erie County District Attorney Frank J. Clark, citing a gag order in the case, would comment on what was expected to happen. However, they...

As jury selection begins, questionnaires look for signs of bias on volatile pointsProspective jurors in the murder trial of James C. Kopp are being asked whether their views on the issue of abortion would affect their objectivity in the case. Jury selection began in earnest Monday morning in the trial of Kopp, 48, who is charged with the October 1998 sniper slaying of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian, an obstetrician/gynecologist and abortion provider, who was shot as he stood in his Amherst home. Out of a potential jury pool of 500, 150 people filed through the courtroom of Erie County Judge...