Posted on 05/01/2006 3:25:27 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday ended a decade-long fight over the use by anti-abortion protesters of "wanted" posters to identify clinic doctors.
Activists who created Wild West-style posters and a Web site targeting abortion doctors had been ordered to pay nearly $5 million in damages, and the court refused without comment to take up their appeal.
The 12 activists and two anti-abortion groups were sued under a racketeering law and the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it illegal to incite violence and threaten abortion doctors.
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Yep. The reprehensible Neil Horsely will never be heard from, again.
Agreed. These guys have saved no lives and won no converts.
As long as such cases are treated equally, such as "Wanted" posters depicting animal research scientists or Halliburton executives.
Lousy call, they should have heard the case.
Agreed
Unless he goes back to his, ahem, activities, with barnyard animals.
LOL! That's right. Neil had a thing for Trigger, didn't he?
Still a travesty from a First Amendment perspective. Free speech may not be popular or tidy, but it's still supposed to be free.
Um, I thought the Supremes struck down RICO applying to abortion protestors, so why wouldn't that apply here?
It is not about money, it is about doctors lives. What about the lives of those who can not defend themselves?
Of course, there are no $5 millon judgements against hateful, assassination promoting liberals:
Good.
You are in error. If something happens to cause mothers to miss their baby shredding appointment 20% will not reschedule. So, if an abortionist had 15 baby shreddings scheduled on a Friday, but Thursday night a Saint of God lays down his life and offs the abortionist or burns down the abortuary, then 3 or 4 of the innocents will have been saved from being made into dead baby puree. Let me add that I'm not advocating assassination or arson but just observing the effective truth. I would turn in anyone plotting to commit such a crime.
As for converts: I don't think anybody is switching sides except for guilt ridden, baby shredding mothers.
It was not about converts or hearts and minds in 1973 nor is it now. It's about which side will impose it's will on the other side.
Observe that there's been a million dead shredded babies every year while GWB's been in office. Those numbers are the numbers of failure.
If you are not advocating, why call those that kill "saints of God"?
To make the distinction between whose actions are evil and whose are not.
Murder is evil.
If you aren't a Muslim.
Dude,
No one on FR is more pro-life/anti-abortion than I.
But, advocating the murder of abortionists is beyond the pale.
It is murder just as abortion is murder.
Rom 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
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