Posted on 10/17/2022 7:40:22 AM PDT by simpson96
The FBI has arrested and charged four pro-life activists after a March 2021 “abortion rescue” event at an abortion clinic in Tennessee.
It is not shocking to see the Department of Justice use the strong arm of the law to harass pro-life supporters while ignoring the literal fire-bombing of pro-life pregnancy centers and a wave of vandalism against said centers in the wake of the SCOTUS decision to scrap Roe v. Wade. What is shocking, however, is that one of those activists is an 87-year-old concentration camp survivor.
Live Action reports that activist Eva Edl has been fighting for pro-life causes since 1988. She compares abortion clinics to what she saw happening in the “death camps.”
Pro-life activist Eva Edl was one of four pro-lifers charged with violating the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) this month in relation to a March 2021 abortion facility rescue at Carafem in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. The event was aimed at reaching abortion-minded women in hopes of helping them to choose life for their babies with confidence. Edl is 87 years old and is a German survivor of a communist prisoner-of-war concentration camp during World War II. Following her escape from that camp, she began a legacy of fighting for the right to life for all human beings.
“The first time I realized there were abortion clinics in our country was in 1988,” she said, according to a previous Live Action News report. “I said to my husband, ‘these are the death camps of America.’ I saw people sitting in front of abortion clinics in Atlanta, and I’ve been involved ever since.”
According to reports, the “rescue” operation was a peaceful demonstration. Activists simply stood in the hallway of an office building that is a shared common space for multiple medical offices. There they prayed and sang.
Several were arrested by local police that day and were later released after posting bail for misdemeanor trespass charges. (Read more here and here.) Then on October 5, 2022 (a year and a half later), the FBI came calling.
The Department of Justice put out a press release stating the individuals are charged with using “force and physical obstruction.” It also laid out possible sentencing.
The indictment further alleges that on March 5, 2021, the 11 individuals, aided and abetted by one another, used force and physical obstruction to injure, intimidate, and interfere with employees of the clinic and a patient who was seeking reproductive health services.
If convicted, those charged with conspiracy face up to 11 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. Others face up to one year in prison for the misdemeanor offense and fines of up to $10,000.
This case was investigated by the FBI and is being prosecuted by the Civil Rights Coordinator of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and trial Attorneys of the Department’s Civil Rights Division.
An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The thought of an 87-year-old concentration camp survivor going to prison for praying for the life of an infant is horrifying. This is Joe Biden’s America, and this is literally Joe Biden’s administration…and it is all truly pathetic given the actual violence being visited upon right-wing groups by the Antifa set.
There is a silver lining to this story. Since the collapse of Roe v. Wade, the Carafem abortion clinic, where the arrests were made, has been forced out of business.
Why would the FBI be involved in the first place? Was the clinic federally run? And if that’s the case , why is it that our tax money is still be used to fund killing centers?????
This DOJ FBI action has nothing to do with the alleged infractions of these unfortunate targets who are being prosecuted and persecuted.
It is everything to do with the United States Government Federal Bureau of Investigation being used as a force of Political Intimidation against honest people standing up for Righteousness and Human Life.
This Biden, who by all of his actions is NOT A CATHOLIC MAN, despite trying to impersonate one, has turned the full force and awesome power of the Unites States paramilitary secret intelligence police agency FBI against unprotected civilians exercising their Constitutional Right to free speech protests while standing up for human rights and the right to life of unborn babies.
Here is their “crime”
“According to reports, the “rescue” operation was a peaceful demonstration. Activists simply stood in the hallway of an office building that is a shared common space for multiple medical offices. There they prayed and sang.”.
A year and a half later, these civilians are being persecuted on fake charges by Biden’s secret paramilitary intelligence police.
Its not about stopping people obstructing access to abortion clinics. Its about the Biden Administration being fixated on driving ANY OPPOSITION to abortion out of the public sphere, even if it means malicious persecution of innocent people. Joe Biden, PAGAN BABY KILLER, wants to stop all opposition to mass scale abortion.
Jo Biden and his henchmen are wicked heinous thugs.
This was ordered by the angry, vengeful, mean, decrepit old man who thinks he’s president.
He has ordered the government’s “law enforcement” squads, with gun, clubs, pepper spray, handcuffs, and the power to detain to persecute anyone who is against abortion.
And he considers himself Catholic.
“According to reports, the “rescue” operation was a peaceful demonstration. Activists simply stood in the hallway of an office building that is a shared common space for multiple medical offices. There they prayed and sang.”
Sorry to say that it seems to me they got her on a technicality. Protesting inside a “shared space” inside an office building, and without the permission of the building owners (much less the office space renters), is still trespassing. Its private property, not public property. They may have not committed any violence or vandalism, but trespassing on private property isn’t exactly a peaceful act.
I do hope they go lenient on her, but she never should have stepped foot into the building whatsoever to begin with.
Too bad when she was arrested sure didn’t say “here we go again”.
That just aint right.
The brave soldiers of the Waffen-FBI.
This is the "normal" America today that so-called citizen patriots have stood by and allowed to happen...
Thousands of actions like this. by the soviet-style american communists who now rule us, have been happening all over the country almost daily...
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
The Aamerican people now understand that the First Amendment calls for them to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Outrageous
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