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Zero jail time for blocking the Bay Bridge, but four years for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic.
Wordpress ^ | May 14, 2024 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

Posted on 05/14/2024 12:25:09 PM PDT by grundle

I hate this double standard.

They should both get the same punishment.

“Protesters who blocked Bay Bridge announce agreement with court, avoid jail time”

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bay-bridge-78-gaza-ceasefire-protesters-announce-agreement-avoid-jail-time/

“Anti-abortion activist who led a clinic blockade is sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison”

https://apnews.com/article/lauren-handy-abortion-clinic-blockade-ab461332b6c83d1c4d7f4d6175d04fbc


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abortion; agitators; baybridge; fakeblog; protesters

1 posted on 05/14/2024 12:25:09 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Upside down country, taken over by evil minions. 🙃


2 posted on 05/14/2024 12:26:04 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: grundle

Ridiculous.

Trying not to be too partisan here, but could it partly be (and it IS), the squeaky wheel gets the grease - and here the LOUDER (bigger) squeak gets it?


3 posted on 05/14/2024 12:29:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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FR thread: Pro-Life Activist and Mother of 15 Suffers Stroke in Prison –
After Biden DOJ Regime Places Her in Solitary Confinement for 22 Days


thedailysignal.com-——Biden appointee, Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, is a vocal abortion proponent who has repeatedly expressed her support for preserving Roe v. Wade. She also oversees investigations into violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act—which she has used to charge 26 pro-life individuals this year.
“It appears she’s violating her oath of office and she’s violating her duty, which is to fairly administer the law regardless of political views,” John Daukas, former acting assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Trump administration, told The Daily Signal. “She appears only to be prosecuting groups that she doesn’t like, doesn’t agree with.”

Few would expect such a high-ranking DOJ official to retain the slew of political hot-takes and public condemnations that litter Clarke’s social media from before she assumed her current role. She has called Alliance Defending Freedom a “hate group” and Liberty University a “fundamentalist Christian school.” She has said that those protesting Dr. Anthony Fauci should be “publicly identified and named, barred from treatment at any public hospital if/when they fall ill and denied coverage under their insurance.”

She has hurled insults at Republican politicians from Lisa Murkowski to Donald Trump, supported the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford, and has submitted testimony to the U.S. Senate that Amy Coney Barrett was unfit to serve as a justice because she would likely rule to overturn Roe v. Wade (which Clarke vociferously and publicly supported). She has frequently critiqued pro-life laws and courts that upheld them, branding a law protecting Down Syndrome babies “draconian.”

Significantly (in light of the scores of recent attacks on pro-life centers following the Roe v. Wade leak), Clarke called pro-life pregnancy care centers “predatory” and “fake clinics,” claiming they are part of a “coordinated strategy to tear down Roe” (as The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reported).

Clarke has heavily toned down her activist rhetoric since her nomination to the Justice Department. The Daily Signal reached out to her multiple times through various avenues to obtain comment for this story, but a spokesperson declined to comment on her behalf.

Her politically charged comments call into question “her ability to impartially enforce the law,” according to Roger Severino, the former director of the health department’s Office for Civil Rights who also formerly served as a trial attorney in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

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Pro-life activist Lauren Handy sentenced to over four years in prison under FACE Act

Call Congress
(202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator
Mention state and zip to get connected.

Message: America’s existential threat is the absence of consequences for abortion advocates committing hate crimes against pro-lifers. We need to establish by law that abortion advocates are committing hate crimes against abortion opponents based on gender identity, religion, religious practice,or religious orientation, in most cases.


REFERENCE A hate crime is a criminal act that targets a victim based on the victim’s actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation.

You can report a hate crime to the FBI online at: tips.FBI.gov.

Follow the instructions on the pop-ups and fill out the online form to report a hate crime.
By Phone: Call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

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The FBI may reach out to you for more information as they investigate.


4 posted on 05/14/2024 12:31:05 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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Call Congress
(202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator
Mention state and zip to get connected.

Message: DOJ Clarke’s testifying falsely to Congress, falsifying govt documents about her arrest and jailing, her comments about racial superiority, and her role organizing a 1994 event at Harvard that hosted a professor who accused Jews of persecuting black people are troubling.

She should step down immediately.

Clarke falsely testifying indicates she apparently believes Americans
who pay her salary are too stupid to determine the facts.

Americans cannot tolerate a self-serving justice official with an utter contempt for its citizens.


5 posted on 05/14/2024 12:33:13 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: grundle

It’s NOT a ‘double-standard’:

It’s POLICY.

(and it’s CA)


6 posted on 05/14/2024 12:35:24 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: grundle

Jaw dropping.
The left has perverted Justice in this country.


7 posted on 05/14/2024 12:36:09 PM PDT by JayGalt (DEI = Didn’t Earn It)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

8 posted on 05/14/2024 12:49:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: grundle

Two tiered justice. Communists are in charge. That’s their DOJ now. I hope Trump seeks revenge after he is reelected.


9 posted on 05/14/2024 12:51:11 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: grundle

Corrupt ‘elites’ take care of their own... and the so called justice system sucks. We’re becoming a 3rd world hellhole.


10 posted on 05/14/2024 12:52:36 PM PDT by GOPJ ( MSNBC ghouls pretend their 'base' is elites - it's why Biden won't campaign in the black community.)
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To: grundle

Yep.

It is banana republic.

Political prisoners.

It has happened here.


11 posted on 05/14/2024 1:32:59 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: grundle

With this administration nothing is about legality it’s all about agendas and votes.


12 posted on 05/14/2024 1:40:07 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: grundle
There are multiple standards:

1) Enemies of elites are guilty even when proven innocent.

2) Elites are innocent even when proven guilty.

3) The rest of us are on a gradient depending on our social credit score.

13 posted on 05/14/2024 2:22:56 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: grundle

Need dozens of women to come forward to say that they were in route to an abortion clinic when the bridge was blocked.

Then the hammer would come down hard


14 posted on 05/14/2024 3:50:32 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Sadly,a ranchers right to shoot their dog is a bigger issue to conservatives than Christian rights.)
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