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To: kristinn
All the while, 'pro-choice' marchers were walking behind our lines with the permission of police.

WRF?

Guaranteed, if you guys had crossed into their march, you'd have been arrested.

5 posted on 04/25/2004 8:33:07 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart; kristinn
All the while, 'pro-choice' marchers were walking behind our lines with the permission of police.

The same thing happened where I was too. In fact, Cybill Shepherd and some other "celebs" walked right behind us.

Guaranteed, if you guys had crossed into their march, you'd have been arrested.

No guarantee needed. It happened. I was taken into custody for 3 hours for doing exactly that. Our organizer had a permit to allow women who regret their abortions to stand on the Constitution Avenue side of the Mall, but it was revoked a week before the death march by the police. The organizer went to court, represented by the ACLJ, to try to get a temporary restraining order, but lost on appeal. We went anyway, protesting on First Amendment grounds, since the public was still being allowed to float through on the public sidewalks. Since the police were notified in advance of our intentions, 16 of us were arrested and charged with "demonstrating without a permit." I'll go into detail about my whole day tomorrow when I have more energy.

22 posted on 04/25/2004 8:52:52 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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