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
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I often wonder where He is. I don’t ask or demand anything of Him, but when those PP videos came out, not a 1 of which I’ve been able to watch, I did begged abjectly that He show His mighty hand.
I don’t understand your comment that it’s for their sake that He does not -— at this moment -— come in the flaming sky to judge the living and the dead. For whose sake do you mean? Women withconsciences?
Yes, the US is just a little behind Canada sliding down the slippery slope.
Blame our courts. Ever since we got our “Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, the SCOC has acted like the SCOTUS.
Isn’t that pretty much private propaganda though?
Perhaps up there it isn’t.
I think of it that way here, although it is heavily public funded.
Canada does not have freedom of speech. It is limited. You cannot publicaly speak against sodomy or abortion. Canada is a morally degenerate nation. America is too,but we have free speech and people arill protest abortion and sodomy, and other things.
She is a hero while we do nothing. If thousands were being arrested and jailed that would be something.
The article is wrong about her not praying, I have read about her before and she prays while outside abortion clinics.
There is a belief or tale, I don't know which, of the Hassidim, about the Ten Secret Zaddiks, very righteous people who are pleasing to God. Being truly and good and holy, they themselves do not know that they are Secret Zaddiks. However, just as God told Abraham He would not destroy Sodom if there were ten righteous people there, God will not destroy this sinful world, it is said, on account of the Ten Secret Zaddiks.
I suspect Linda Gibbons is one of the Ten.
From The Legend of the Lamed Vovniks
The Jewish legend of the Lamed Vovniks describes thirty-six righteous men in every generation upon whose merit the world is kept from entire destruction. Based in part on the story of Abraham and his conversation with the Lord about the destruction of Sodom in Genesis 18, the Lamed Vovniks are those who, by virtue of their compassion for others and the prayers they offer, cause the Lord to answer, “I will spare all the place for their sakes” (Genesis 18:26).
Yes, that seems like the same story, though I had never heard the terms Lamed-vav Tsadikim or Yiddish Lamedvavniks.
Must be the story is told several differnt ways.
I do like to think that Linda Gibbons, and a few others I have heard of, are among these Secret Tzaddiks.
I only have because I had 10 years of Hebrew, mostly at a small Jewish college -- took a lot of Midrash-based courses and linguistics. I told them I was too old for distribution requirements! ;-)
Anyway, I picked up a lot of incidental information, too!
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