Posted on 09/07/2015 10:52:40 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
...She is a serious criminal.
Linda Gibbons doesn’t count her arrests, but probably she’s been in the back seat of squad cars a couple of dozen times in the past two decades — and that’s including the five years she took off to care for her dying father.
She has spent an astonishing total of 10 years and seven months behind bars.
...She’s a veteran pro-life protester outside Toronto abortion clinics. She’s on the wrong side (the pro-life side) of the wrong issue (abortion) and yet she persists in trying to make her voice heard.
Canadians have largely forgotten the whole abortion issue...Those, like Gibbons, who still care about abortion, are profoundly unfashionable, regarded as cranks. Perhaps that’s why she’s also probably the country’s most ignored serious criminal.
Her arrest proceeded quietly and without fuss.
...She was by herself.
Holding her sign — it’s always the same one, which features a cartoonish drawing of a chubby baby and reads, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give” — and in her hand a model of a 10-week-old fetus.
The clinic, as its website notes, has “extensive security systems,” and within minutes of Gibbons’ arrival, there were three cars from the Garda security agency and three beefy fellows on the sidewalk with her.
[bit snip] Yet she looked so alone in the back of that squad car. How is it that she can be so harshly punished simply for exercising freedom of expression?
Oh yes, because in this country, when people disapprove of what you say, they will criminalize the speech. It’s not quite Voltaire, is it?
cblatchford@postmedia.com
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
It' not even a "speech" issue: she's silent. It's not an "assembly" issue: she's alone. Not even sure if it's a "religion" issue: the text just says she's from a "sprawling, non-religious" family.
It's just a conscience issue. She doesn't want the babies to be killed. And she can't ~not~ do something.
God made women --- a few ---- like this. I think it's for their sake that He does not --- at this moment --- come in the flaming sky to judge the living and the dead.
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Since when can’t you protest on a sidewalk?
The sidewalk is public property. As long as you don’t block traffic it should be no harm no foul.
I don’t know what is legal in Canada, but I’m guessing they don’t share the same protections we do...did.
It’s Canada. They are a socialist “utopia” not a constitutional republic.
I would agree. They must not. Strange...
That woman doesn’t look like much of a threat.
Utopia (LOL)
Know exactly what you mean.
And we are different? On college campuses today, all you have to say is that you feel "uncomfortable" hearing anything remotely Christian/traditional/sensible, and your adversary will meet a very similar fate. This is where we are headed as a country - real soon.
If you speak out against government propaganda, then you are a threat to the state.
It is why a year ago, Mark Levine stated we were “post-Constitutional”.
(Yes, even before the last major SCOTUS unconstitutional, treasonousl decision to create a “Right” from God to sodomize others and pretend males are interchangeable with females (LOL/so scientific!!!! and such TRUTH!!!!!) and force people to celebrate Satanism and mutilation and dehumanization where ALL MSM tells our children that Jenner is a “woman” (pure irrational Marxism/satanism)
Pray for this saintly lady.
Coming to America sooner then we think...
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In the picture, 5 jackbooted thugs look on as this woman is hauled off for prosecution. The country is in deep $h!t.
Unfortunately, FR Canadian hero Stephen Harper is MIA in the culture wars.
BUMP
She puts us all to shame.
How true.
Looks to me like they treat terrorists with more dignity than her. Just look at those fat, out of shape slobs looking on!
Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
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