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.
She probably never dreamed she would face nazis again. Little did she know that liberals are nazis
The left seems to have drunk the Kool aid on right wingers being Nazis. I met some of left wingers this weekend and they kept saying Nazis were destroying our democracy. It was like a software line of code in their poor npc mind.
Bet the feds asking for bigger camps?.
I find interesting the sort of frequent Freeposters who avoid commenting on threads such as this like the plague.
So more than one person at a prayer session is now a conspiracy?
What force was used? The sound of prayer?
This is lawfare against Christians.
As an ethnic German in Yugoslavia she was held in a Soviet concentration camp in Gakova, Yugoslavia. Tito hosted eight such camps. She had the pleasure of being persecuted by both Nazis and Communists. There's a book out there about her experience She Looks Like My Little Girl: The True Story of Eva Edl and Her Rescue from a Concentration Camp to Become a Rescuer of Preborn Children, out of print
“I met some of left wingers this weekend and they kept saying Nazis were destroying our democracy”
I would have replied, “Yes and that’s why the Democrats have to be defeated”.
Rational normal human beings look at Nazi Germany, PolPot's Cambodia, Stalin's Ussr and are horrified, sickened and appalled by mass murders inflicted on the citizens by these governments. Democrats look at these horrors and get aroused by the wonderful power that those governments wielded over the serfs. For a Democrat there is no such thing as government excess and no such thing as enough power.
For those of you who thought "It can't happen here" It's happening here.
It would appear this lady may have hit the tyranny trifecta, nazi’s, Stalinist commies and now Bidenistas.
Sad that our country has become Fascist. My father fought against them, now they run his/our country.
She should have smashed a store window and stolen some stuff, she’d be out with no bail, no charges.
Thanks I wilcheck that out. Newsmaz has a series on nazis that was astonishing- what horrors they inflicted on people.
Nazi thugs have been after the poor guy his entire life.
Absolutely right. The left are in an all out hostile assault on this nation!
The FBI reaches new lows. Thank you, Biden Administration and Attorney General Garland. You all stink.
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Thanks for the link to the biography.
How many Brave FBI Agents did it take to arrest a HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR??
COWARDS, by their actions, are asking to be visited by some very bad Karma. How much of a fight did these Brave FBI Agents expect an 87 YEAR OLD woman to put up?
FJB and his ENTIRE Administration!!! May they all rot in HELL!!
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