Posted on 01/25/2005 3:53:38 AM PST by Ellesu
An anti-abortion group on LSU's campus is up in arms after an exhibit was vandalized. Last Saturday the group "Students For Life" held a vigil to recognize the historic abortion ruling Roe Versus Wade. Monday morning when they got to LSU's Parade Grounds some members found the exhibit trashed.
LSU police now have a complaint against whoever vandalized 3,044 little white crosses planted at the parade grounds. Each cross symbolized what anti abortion activists say is the number of unborn children killed each day by legal abortions in the United States. Some time between Saturday and Monday morning those symbols were vandalized.
Students For Life President Mary Higdon says, "The audacity of these people. I just could not believe it. The lack of respect the lack of free speech."
Higdon says many of the crosses were arranged to spell the words "pro-choice" when the vandalism was discovered. The exhibit is on loan to the student group from another organization. A representative was notified and now he wants justice from police.
"I want accountability so the LSU Chief of Police said its still being investigated and its going to be full accountability and prosecution," says anti-abortion activist Richard Mahoney.
Prosecution could include damage to property and theft. Mahoney says at least five people are involved, perhaps as many as eight. "These crosses were basically destroyed because of a hate crime. They did not want to see a cross or what it represents...life on the grounds," says Mahoney.
The group, Students For Life, will continue to keep an eye on their exhibit until it comes down on Wednesday.
Oh, those wacky abortionists......
Abortionists are murderers without conscience and they're doing to free speech what they do to the unborn each and every day.
They make me sick. It was beautiful and they worked so hard putting them up. I hope they catch who did it and prosecute fully.
This was not disrespect of free speech for the Left, it was the exercise thereof. The message delivered can be likened to defecating on a grave.
How thoughtful.
Didn't you know? Free speech is only for liberals.
Once again, an article uses the term "anti-abortion". I'm still waiting to see the term "pro-abortion" used in an article.
This has the fingerprints of DemocRats all over it.
Its such a powerful political issue that the thugs and gangsteres in the DemocRat Party have to discredit it.
And I hope some of the people who put up those signs catch up with these punks before the police do.
The university will ensure that the vandals receive minimal punishment, if any at all.
Vandalizing a bunch of fetus grave markers to spell "Pro Choice?"
That's about as bass-ackwards a messages as shooting people in the head to splatter the word "Peace" on the wall.
Two of them were the children of prominent state Democrats.
The other two were probably the children of non-prominent Dems.
heh, the vandalls will probably get extra credit for it, perhaps they could write a paper on it as their thesis
perhaps it was a professor who "encouraged" the act, I would not be suprised in the bit
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