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Obama Admin Takes Legal Action Against Anti-Abortion Activists

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Justice Department under President Barack Obama has taken a harder line against anti-abortion activists accused of trying to block access to clinics, suing at least a half-dozen of them under a federal law that lay mostly dormant during the Bush administration.

The law, written to protect people who seek or provide abortions, was revived after Obama took office and in the wake of the 2009 slaying of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, who was shot to death moments before Sunday services were to begin at his Wichita church.

Since Obama’s inauguration, federal lawsuits have been filed against a woman who blocked a car from entering a clinic in West Palm Beach, Fla.; a Texas man who threw his body across the door of a patient waiting area in San Antonio; and a Pennsylvania man who posted on the Internet the names and addresses of abortion providers and extolled his readers to kill them.

Government records obtained by The Associated Press show that in slightly over two years, the Obama Justice Department has filed six lawsuits under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, mostly to seek injunctions and fines. That compares with just one such lawsuit during the entire eight years of George W. Bush.

Tiller’s slaying “brought home to many of us the terrible potential for violence and the need to use every legal means at our disposal to prevent it,” said Barry Grissom, U.S. attorney for Kansas.

President Bill Clinton signed the law in 1994 after a turbulent period that included massive sit-ins at clinics, clinic bombings and other anti-abortion activities that culminated with Tiller being wounded in a 1993 shooting. The Clinton Justice Department subsequently filed 17 civil lawsuits under the law during his remaining term.

Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor who follows the federal judiciary, said Justice Department decisions usually mirror the president’s views. He was not surprised to see the government acting more aggressively.

“I think President Bush was pretty clear about his position on that type of issue,” Tobias said. “It is less clear what the present administration’s position is, but maybe it is partly reflected in their willingness to be more rigorous about enforcing it.”

Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, has said protecting abortion providers so they can do their jobs is of the “utmost importance.”

The Justice Department “will continue to aggressively enforce the FACE Act against those who seek to violate the rights of their fellow Americans to safely provide or obtain such services,” Perez said in announcing the Kansas lawsuit.

The figures do not include criminal prosecutions, which have been more consistent from one White House to the next during the early years of the Bush and Obama administrations.

The law was heavily used in the years immediately after it took effect. During President Bill Clinton’s two terms, 37 criminal prosecutions were filed, compared with 18 under Bush and six under Obama. Since the law was enacted, the Justice Department has filed criminal cases against a total of 89 defendants, convicting 86 of them.

In civil court, one of the latest cases is a Kansas lawsuit filed last month against an abortion opponent who allegedly sent a threatening letter to a doctor. The government sued Angel Dillard when she wrote that thousands of people across the nation where watching the doctor and suggested she check under her car daily for explosives.

Citing First Amendment protections, Judge J. Thomas Marten ruled that Dillard’s letter was not a “true threat” because she did not personally intend to harm the doctor. He refused to issue a preliminary injunction that would have kept her 250 feet away from the doctor, her clinic and her home.

The lawsuit is still pending while the judge awaits arguments on whether to dismiss the case entirely.

Grissom has said the Justice Department pursued a civil case against Dillard – rather than criminal charges – because the legal standard needed for a preliminary injunction is lower than “beyond a reasonable doubt,” which is required for a criminal conviction.

In the Pennsylvania Internet case, the government obtained a court order that prohibits the defendant from posting threats against the doctors. The other recent civil cases remain to be resolved.

The sole civil lawsuit filed under the statute during the Bush years was a 2007 complaint against a separate Pennsylvania man who made similar threats on his website.

Hans von Spakovsky was counsel to the assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s civil rights division from 2001 to 2005. He said the fact that the Bush administration filed lots of criminal cases under the clinic law is evidence that the agency was willing to prosecute when the situation deserved it.

Von Spakovsky, now manager of the Civil Rights Reform Initiative for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said the Justice Department’s decision under Obama to bring numerous civil lawsuits raises two issues: It brings up First Amendment questions because some protests are protected speech. And it suggests authorities are pursuing civil action “because they know they don’t have the evidence” to file criminal charges.

Anti-abortion activists harbor the same doubts.

“You don’t just go around filing injunctions against people that you believe are proponents of violence,” Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said. “Domestic violence cases have proven that little injunctions don’t stop people from committing acts of violence. … They are pretty weak cases all around the country.”

Newman – who along with other defendants was sued in 1998 for blockading a Washington, D.C., clinic – said that if the Justice Department is serious about stopping abortion violence it should file criminal charges under more broadly written criminal statutes, rather than using an act that specifically targets abortion activists.

Kathy Spillar, executive vice president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, a women’s advocacy group that works to protect abortion rights, said the Justice Department needs to do more, given the heightened level of threats now against abortion providers since Obama’s 2008 election.

The lawsuits “send a very strong message that extremists are not going to be able to make threats, much less carry out threats, without consequences,” Spillar said. “The sooner and more diligent the response, then you don’t get a ratcheting up and ultimately a horrific act of violence.”

During the Bush years, Congress heard considerable testimony suggesting that the Justice Department – particularly its civil rights division – was highly politicized, Tobias recalled.

“I suppose other people would say that in fairness to the other side … that the Obama administration is just as politicized in its Justice Department as the Bush one was,” he said. “That is a fair criticism, I think. All the administrations have different priorities.”

Comments (142)

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  • Sinista MACE
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:27am

    I don’t support the Reptilian Abortion Agenda.

    Population Control is EVIL.

    SATAN’S DEMONS taught man the blows of death in the womb after their fall, along with their other disgusting practices.

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  • Unbelievable
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:24am

    Why have we allowed them to change the name of Pro-Life to the negative name of Anti-Abortion? Progressives have a great way of playing the word game to make Conservatives look evil.

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  • love the kids
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:22am

    It seems that Anti abortion protesters were trying to cause Chaos back when Clinton was signing these bills. It was a group of people, community organizing, to stop what they feel is an injustice. Why is is NOT O.K. for them to creat Chaos and have the edns justify the means?
    This is what Progressives are all about.

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  • awall1231
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:22am

    Happy Beaner Day. Be sure to give your illegal lawn mower a burrito with a green card in it.

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  • NEAF
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:19am

    Is the DOJ cronnis are going to sue the SEIU and FLCIO? for obstruction. No?

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  • Mateytwo Barreett
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:19am

    Little Bart Stupack should be SO proud!

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  • fredsmycat
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:17am

    But it is ok to stand in front of a poling place with a night stick.

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  • Room 101
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:13am

    Sadly, there is no “responsibility to protect” when it comes to the unborn. The courts and government OK the control of food and drugs we’re allowed to put into our bodies, but it‘s hands off when it comes to putting a spike into an unborn child’s skull. They will legislate and adjudicate every part of the human body… except a woman’s womb.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:11am

    Dear GOD,

    How can we hope for YOUR forgiveness when our leaders are so against YOU? We are crying out to YOU, LORD GOD, to come to our aid, to lift us from this cesspool of hate and perversion AMERICA has become. LORD, we ask for YOUR mercy. We ask for YOUR courage to stand against the wrongs perpetrated against us and against YOU by this absolutely godless and demonic government.

    Teach us, LORD, to use all the talents and powers YOU left us here. We need YOUR wisdom to fight this fight for it is a spiritual battle.

    We love YOU, LORD.

    HAPPY NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, AMERICA! PRAY ON in JESUS’ name. Amen.

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  • Jeremiah 23
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:11am

    It is murder period……………………………..

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:11am

    Hmm… so the right to vote isn’t as important as the right to “choose” (i.e., abort a pregnancy)? Well, thanks for clarifying that, chumps.

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  • olddog
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:10am

    Next their going to prosecute the union member that damaged the Wisconsin capitol building and the unions that extorted business that wouldn’t support them. OOps maybe not

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    • nitestik
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:10am

      kind of reminds me of the nixon-speech“I AM NOT A CROOK”, only this white house crew are 100 times worse!

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  • Seabee79
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:09am

    and yet obama and his ass hat buddies let the new black panthers off the hook for voter fraud, and Intimidation.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:31am

      And Obama and his ilk also allow union thugs to intimidate. You have to be in one of their chosen groups in order to be allowed to protest aggresively. It‘s only if Obama doesn’t agree with the motive for your protests that you are targetted. He will be help to account one day, as will the rest of those who support and promote abortion, and it will be a judgement by One much more just then our government and who will discern their real motives and beliefs for promoting a culture of death.

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  • John 3:16
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:09am

    Where is Superman when you need him? Oh that’s right, he is a socialist now. I think the new “supermoms” AKA: Tea Party woman, are more likely to save America. Go Sarah! Go Michelle! Go Jenny Beth!

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  • Jeremiah 23
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:08am

    When the egg and sperm merge that is a human live and to kill it is murder plane

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  • liesnomore
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:07am

    I could almost tolerate the rigorous enforcement of this law IF they would be equally rigorous about others as well….say the borders, and voter intimidation laws, oh and maybe acting without the consent of congress to unilaterally bomb Lybia

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  • Joshua Thompson
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:05am

    Amen!

    I wonder if there is a loop hole in the “law” that states or iludes to that it IS NOT the govern
    ments responsiblity to provide abortion or actions thereof???

    THANK YOU TO THOSE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE FOR BEING THE VOICE FOR THOSE WHO COULD NOT SPEAK.

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:03am

    “then you don’t get a ratcheting up and ultimately a horrific act of violence”, really? What is abortion! Is there any act more horrific than abortion? Are they going to go after union thugs the same way with all the threats they utter? God forgive this administration.

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    • ReddenBlack
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:41am

      Let’s see an act more violent than an abortion….

      How about walking up to a guy and shooting him at POINT BLANK range in the head in front of 100 of his friends family and children in his church? That sounds pretty bad to me…

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 6:20pm

      NHWINTER,
      No, they will not. Unoins are GOOD. Unwanted babies are BAD.
      When our President was a State Senator in Illinois he opposed the “Infant born alive protection act”
      Senator Barry Dunham saw no need to protect babies who were born alive after BOTCHED late term abortions.
      After hearing heartbreaking testimony from nurses who had to take these infants to a room filled with soiled operating room debris to die….,he was unmoved.
      Infanticide is an acceptable choice for President Dunham.

      The info is out there. GOOGLE Nurse Stanek who testified for Illinois State Senate on the infant born alive protection act.

      As an aside…,Kathleen Sebelious our head of H.H.S. counted Dr. Tiller the Baby Killer as a huge campaign contributor when she was Governor of Kansas. Is that why he could perform his monstrous partial birth abortions without fear? Just asking.

      Eric holder is President Dunham’s “Barney Fife”. Holder does nothing that President Dunham does not sanction.

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  • GETLIFE
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:01am

    Anti-abortion activists should stick with Westboro tactics.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:38am

      Nah……but the Tiller method seems to work….I wonder how many dozens of children are about to start kindergarten because someone had the metal to stand up to TILLER the KILLER

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  • thermonator
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:57am

    Yea, but blocking and threatening people at polling places by the Black Panthers is ok. Claims of your concern for peoples well being are laughable.

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  • kermitthetoad
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:57am

    Amazing to me. The left protests something and the gov calls it democracy in action and the exercising of free rights. Someone with morals protests and they write a new law and sue the protesters. Try convicting the ones who endanger or threaten life and limb. But a protester who values the sanctity of life…? Yep…everything’s just right as rain. (sheesh).

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    • PavZilla
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:09am

      Add a little extra irony – some of the abortions may be being paid for with their own taxpayer dollars. I’ll never forget Stupak on that piece of crockery.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:56am

    Well, hate to say this, but since the Supreme court deem’s abortions legal (for now) this is a subject and a football no candidate should ever touch, they simply need to state that it is a matter for the Supreme Court to decide upon, however since many US citizens oppose abortions on personal, moral and religious reasons, their can be no taxpayer funding or support of any company, entity and individual who provides any form of abortion services. There is no way to make sure that citizens taxes, once entiering into the state and fed systems, can be differentiated from pro-abortion advocates.

    Therefor companies, groups, entities and individuals who provide any form of abortion services must make the decision that even if they are doing any form of services such as cancer screening, to actually developing the next ground breaking drug for the world, they need to make the choice – drop any form of abortion services and continue their other work with funding, or loose that funding completely if they choose to continue to provide abortion services, it comes down to them to decide, all candidates should clearly take this stand and not have to fumble around with the social issue and stay focused on fiscal issues.

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  • cece959
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:54am

    Every notice how everyone who is for abortion has already been born? What an ironic twist of fate.

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  • ares338
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:53am

    This administration picks and chooses which laws to enforce.

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:00am

      Exactly! Where’s their Freedom of Speech like they gave Westboro Baptist Church? Laws are only convenient when it suits this Admin’s need.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:07am

      The republic won’t survive another year and a half. The economy will be ruined and the programs this administration put in place will take decades to undo.

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    • Dale
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:20am

      Unfortunately, every administration does it. This particular regime chooses to follow laws it supports and ignore/violate those it does not.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:51am

    You can’t turn to the Government to end abortion.

    Churches, synagogues and other pro-life groups need to establish crisis pregnancy centers that promote adoption. If each church in America helped one scared, young, pregnant woman per year we could bankrupt the abortion industry in 5 years or less.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:55am

      I don’t have any problem with the government going after killers or would be killers of any stripe. I just wish they would also get tough on all the other stripes.

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:00am

      For those on the left who are screaming about the killing of Bin Laden. Just picture it as a late term abortion…..and you should be fine with it.

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    • capitalismrocks
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:00am

      Agreed. We need to see more churches and charities stepping up to the plate now, and we need people to help support those charities, every $1, $,5, $10, $100 donation helps, lending a few hours of time helps. I‘ve recently been helping my local Catholic church on the weekends with some of my time and some donations where I’ve been able to spare the money…

      This campaign cycle we need Conservatives and Republican candidates to pro-actively get churches and charities involved in social services, so that when it comes time to make cuts, they can stand at the podium with dozens of supporting national church groups and charities to say that the US govt is beginning to step away from providing such things at the taxpayers and debt laden expenses, and that we have moved much of these services back to where they belong, in the hands of local community churches and charities to help provide more proper connections and services to the communities.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:02am

      Good idea. And if the people who blocked city council meetings in court houses, legislative meetings, etc, were sued, perhaps that would go away too. The law needs to go both ways (and I understand we are talking apples and oranges).

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    • DogWithA_Bone
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:05am

      Reaching out to these scared young women BEFORE they are pulling in the drive way of the clinic is the best way to reach them. I agree totally with NICK…

      They are told in their schools (My neice being one but she was horrified at the thought and got out of the nurses office quickly.) that they are ruining their lives and could get an abortion and no one (not even their parents) will know about it.

      Teaching our children right and wrong is the first step and good communication with them is the next.

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    • BIGJAYINPA
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:05am

      Okay Bin Laden is dead and Obummer is currently riding a wave of euphoria and rising poll numbers. Take one victory lap at Ground Zero and see if we can keep it going. Meanwhile don’t forget we must continue to suck up to the pro-choice gay and lesbian loving kill as many unborn as we can crowd. Must not forget who got you into the Oval Office and who you need to stay there. Kill the unborn as fast as you can and use Holder and the boys to block those nasty gun, Bible and Life clingers at every turn. Wonder if the SEALs will be any help against them?

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    • The_Rev_In_Co
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:07am

      The real killers are the ones being protected by Our government!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:08am

      @NickDeringer:

      Agreed, completely and wholeheartedly.

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:09am

      Would it be legal for those sued to counter? After all Fundamental Law–(the Declaration of Independence) set in writing the fundamental principles that our US Constitution cannot violate. ( And remain that supreme law of the land) the “Self Evident Truth that all men are Created equal;that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ;that among these are Life…” On the basis of fundamental law (the Declaration of Independence roe – Doe and Planned Parenthood all legal opine based upon Roe v.Wade are “unconstitutional”.

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    • bible quotin' science fearin' conservative american
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:10am

      I don’t even like abortion.. Section 8 housing ? well, thats a different story all together…

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:10am

      lets you know where he stands, agains the constitution. but he lets you know

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:12am

      I wonder what Obama’s Administration would do to a Muslim abortion protester who killed an abortion doctor?

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    • wildjoker5
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:22am

      Will sue people for their beliefs, but not take legal action against those that stop people from voting. Priorities are all jacked up.

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    • maumau
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:23am

      Walk For Life baby our church and many others provide funing for a local pregnancy center that helps woman choose life. They have saved so many children.
      @ Nickderinger
      you are right not just abortion all the change has to start with us no gov

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    • psst
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:26am

      Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:00am
      For those on the left who are screaming about the killing of Bin Laden. Just picture it as a late term abortion…..and you should be fine with it.
      ——–
      I hope they take your piece of advice. Now that you’ve splained the cure, they can sleep well at nghts.
      By seeing our Special Forces as abortion drs. All will be well.
      The leftists are beholden to you.
      Now send the taxpayers a bill for your advice. Why not?. Everyone else does it.
      This way, you’ll get a ROI (your tax dollars).
      That’s what the socialist/marxist government says when they waste our tax $$ ,or increase our taxes. They refer to it as “Investments”

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    • thebarbarian
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:28am

      WTF it’s ok to murder innocent babies but not ok to kill murderers? WTF> leftist are a disease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • 101
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:35am

      Why hasn’t Attorney General Eric Holder stepped down for allowing an operation by the (ATF) to occur on his watch that involved the sale of guns to suspicious customers with ties to Mexican drug cartels.
      “Operation Fast and Furious may have gotten one or perhaps two federal agents killed, and countless other innocent victims have been murdered with the illegal guns that our own government allowed into Mexico all to advance a political agenda.

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    • JohnFourteenSix
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:36am

      Here is just a partial list of crisis pregnancy centers. http://covenantnews.com/pregnant/

      I‘m the first to admit that the ’Church’ has dropped the ball on many things, but this is not one of them. As far as bankrupting the abortion industry, well…first we must stop the government funding…that’s the only way those killers will ever go bankrupt.
      Have a BLESSED DAY!!

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    • marhee9
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:38am

      And yet the administration has no problem with all the union activists shutting down banks and schools to make their point. It’s like the illegal immigration issue, if you’re on his side, anything goes.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le53dbWpg_Q

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:39am

      Once again the obama admin protects the child murderer’s and prosecutes those that want to stop the murders. So while they prosecute those block entrance to the abortion clinic doors, why are they not pressing charges on all the libs and progressives that block access to state buildings, private businesses, voting areas, and the like? Oh, that’s right, it is only wrong if you disagree with the libs and progressives.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:42am

      The unions can go to any length to protest anything they want including destroying public property, assault on people not of their thinking and/or threatening a person’s life but people trying to SAVE the most innocent among us they believe should be sued. This administration is evil, plain and simple.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:42am

      Abortion is the unholy sacrament of the left. When you see the players that promote this murderous practice, then you understand what it really means to them.

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    • LittleLordFauntleroy
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:43am

      Place Holder does a fine job of occupying space in Obamaland.

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    • I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:48am

      If it were better to tie a mill stone around your neck and cast it into the deepest waters than to hurt a child. There are allot of people in trouble. I just never under stood the lefts argument, against war, death penalty, right to defend your self, but put an innocent little kid in front of them and all they see is a opportunity to kill.

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    • Nobamazone
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:55am

      @capitalismrocks
      I totally agree with you. I think that one of our biggest problems is that we Christians have not been following what God told us to do, He told US to take care of the poor and needy, NOT THE GOVERNMENT. We have allowed this take-over of our duty, even encouraged and promoted it. We give our tithes (well some of us do, maybe even few of us do) and call ourselves righteous. If we want any hope of taking our country back we better stand up, and shell up, and be prepared. I work for a non-profit Christian organization and I can tell you that government funded social programs are enslaving to more and more families every day. Food and gas prices are hitting very hard already and the requests we are getting for help are skyrocketing. Our donations are definitely NOT, and I live in a pretty conservative, Christian town. My town will celebrate the National Day of Prayer today with many from the community (including city officials) meeting in front of City Hall for organized prayer. The ED of the organization I work for will be leading a prayer for our Nation, others will lead prayers for our families, police, churches, etc, the ED of our local pregnancy care center (supported by the community and pro-life) will also be there, for that I am blessed. I will add my own private prayer that those in attendance will realize that organizations like mine CANNOT do it without support, and much more of it, both financial and volunteer support.

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    • Unix
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:56am

      To prevent violence, that is a good thing, but please explain to me how an abortion is non-violent? The joker in the DOJ is making mistakes left and right. Just like the suit against AZ, when the Feds do little to nothing to secure our borders. Violence is not the answer to any problem, a reasoned, sound, factual approach would do much better – alas neither side can make that claim can they?

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:58am

      but you can’t sue organizations that take over government building and disrupt business, or organization to teach children to do the same?
      Why is that?

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:20am

      to thebarbarian:

      And let’s all remember that the babies are unarmed, as are the protestors, who are just using their First Amendment rights.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:21am

      Lets see you can protect someone having a abortion but you can’t deport illegals, close the borders, etc.. nothing like picking the easy jobs instead of tackling the HARD ones.. goes to show DEMS can’t do any REAL work..

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:22am

      Open Door Policy, Just like the border.

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    • freedomweiner
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:25am

      http://www.prisonplanet.com/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-flag.html

      Going viral………..MUST watch

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:29am

      grandmaof5:
      “Good idea. And if the people who blocked city council meetings in court houses, legislative meetings, etc, were sued, perhaps that would go away too. The law needs to go both ways (and I understand we are talking apples and oranges)”
      _________________
      Nope…Grandma, I don’t think you are talking apples and oranges here…good point…Under Holder, et al we have become a “nation of men” instead of a “nation of laws”…

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:33am

      This Holder is the biggest duffas. If he has to make a decision you can bet it will be the wrong one.
      He has to go along with his boss in 2012.

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    • BIGJAYINPA
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:37am

      Let us never forget Margeret Sanger was a heroine of the National Socialist Workers Party, Her views on Eugenics were considered to be almost Holy Writ to them. She is still talked about reverently by the Progressives and Liberals of today…Just Sayin’

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:55am

      +6Freedom to murder trumps freedom of speech as far as the left is concerned.

      Hell is hot you morons.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:00am

      I’m just curious where that concern for violence is with groups like the black panthers that threaten to kill “crackers” and the concern for violence with these radical groups that threaten overthrow of the government and the economic system. The DOJ is just as corrupt as the rest of this admin.

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    • No1YaKnow
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:57am

      I agree with Nick–you can’t stop the abortions. I am not in agreement with it, but you can’t block access. What we can do as citizens is demand we aren’t paying for it. Only SCOTUS can stop abortions. However, I am OVER this administration picking and choosing who they will prosecute along ideological lines. (and for the moonbats who start yammering “but Bush….”, shut it, this is Obama’s administration and he is responsible for what he does during his term–period)

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    • Dale
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 11:18am

      CITIZENS may not inhibit entrance to abortion clinics – yet UNIONS may disrupt much less repugnant institutions with impunity.

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    • Happy Killmore
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:53pm

      Can‘t block an abortion clinic but it’s totally okay for Eric Holder’s “people” to block voting site. Again, we see where this administration’s priorities lie.

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    • bert2020
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:38pm

      pro life people are just not their people

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 2:28pm

      Clearly out the Justice Department’s purview and perhaps illegal. Eric should be very careful, he is at risk of serious criminal prosecution when the next Administration takes over.

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    • Loveyourneighbor
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:24pm

      I think all killers should be prosecuted, but just because someone stopped a car or jumped in front of a door the feds are going after them. That should just be a misdemeanor trespass charge. What about all the protesters who enter banks and governmental building? What about the protesters in Wisconsin who vandalized the capital building and surrounding property? It is just the double standard again.

      Side note: we the church should not be protesting but like you said NickDeringer we need to provide alternatives

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 10:24pm

      When people violate Federal law, the Federal government steps in. Regardless of what you may believe personally, we are a nation of laws. Maybe on religious grounds you advocate ignoring certain laws. You want anarchy: individuals can decide to follow the laws they agree with, and may freely not follow those they don’t agree with or actively violate them.

      The United States is a nation of laws. If you don’t like them vote people into office to change them.

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    • bree001
      Posted on May 6, 2011 at 11:28am

      Your right, Christian and moral people should step up and do their part. If we sit ideally by and let unmoral people take over our country, then we are just going to have to live with the consequences.

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