A "blast" from the past:
Just another day in the life of a crazed "pro-lifer."
Posted on 10/16/2001 7:50:26 AM PDT by Alas
Abortion Rights Group Gets Suspicious Letters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. abortion rights group said on Monday that 90 of its clinics and offices in at least 13 states had received envelopes containing threatening letters and an unidentified powdery substance.
Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) Federation of America said some of the letters included messages from a group called the Army of God, a militant anti-abortion group that has advocated violence against medical personnel who perform abortions.
A spokesman for Planned Parenthood, who asked not to be quoted by name, said the letters were delivered to the organization's national offices and numerous local offices and medical facilities those offices operate. Abortions are performed at many of those facilities, as well as various health services for women.
The group said there have been no reported injuries and that law enforcement officials, including FBI (news - web sites) investigators, were conducting tests on the powdery substance to determine whether it was anthrax bacterium spores.
The news comes amid a nationwide scare involving the potentially deadly bacteria that could be used as a biological warfare agent. The spokesman for the group said initial field test on the substance in letters received at two locations had come back as negative for anthrax. One of the letters had been sent to offices in Greensboro, North Carolina. The spokesman said he did not know the location that received the second letter that tested negative.
Planned Parenthood said the envelopes were mailed to Planned Parenthood offices bearing postmarks from four cities: Atlanta; Columbus, Ohio; and Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. The spokesman said he believed all the letters were received on Monday. The offices and clinics receiving the letters are located in the East Coast and Midwest, the group said. ``All of them are in the hands of various authorities around the country. As far as we can tell, they all came today in regular mail,'' the spokesman said.
Planned Parenthood said the letters had pre-printed return addresses from the U.S. Marshall's Office and the Secret Service. Some had a message stating, ``Time Sensitive -- Urgent Security Notice -- Open Immediately.'' The spokesman said he could not provide a copy of any of the letters.
``With this many incidents and with the similarity of all of the letters, this is clearly a coordinated effort that was designed to terrorize our staff and affiliates. And people have the right to know about it,'' the spokesman said. In a statement, Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt said: ``It is perverse that these individuals here at home, who are themselves terrorists by virtue of their actions, would seek to capitalize on the events of the last days and weeks to further their own extremist agenda. But this will not deter us from our mission of providing essential health services to women in this nation.''
``Whether a hoax or not, these are intolerable acts of terror, and every effort must be made to apprehend the perpetrators,'' Feldt added. Eric Robert Rudolph, the man charged with carrying out the fatal bombings at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics and at a Birmingham, Alabama in 1998, among other bombings, has been linked to the Army of God. A spokeswoman for the FBI national office had no comment on the investigation and referred calls to the agency's field office that handles Washington. Calls to that office were not returned.
First, it would too easy for someone to verify with the FBI that there have been over 90 (the latest number I heard was 110) reports filed.
Second, it is a big time felony to lie to the FBI. PP and the people employed at PP abortion mills are evil, but they're not THAT stupid.
If I were an organization that engaged in the systematic killing of unborn children for a fee....
And if I saw support for the legal right to kill unborn children slipping away.....
And if I wanted to get the name of my organization in the news, and to portray my organization as a victim......
And, if I also wanted to demonize a group that is an enemy of my organization......
What would I do? What would I do?
Nice euphemism for people who want to destroy the First Amendment.
A "blast" from the past:
Just another day in the life of a crazed "pro-lifer."
Should read:
At the request of attorneys for Planned Deadbabyhood and other murderers of unborn children, federal district judge Robert E. Jones issued a permanent injunction denying First Amendment rights to those who printed signs Planned Deadbabyhood doesn't like, and dared to hold them up in public. Ignoring previous case law indicating that Americans are allowed by their government to call murderers "murderers" in public, Jones sent a profoundly chilling message that the killers of unborn children are willing to kill American liberty to keep their death factories open for business.
Yep, people have a right to know if going into their facility will be harmful to them or to others. Unfortunately, they try to cover most of the harm up.
Same like dummycrats, methinks!
The FBI knew about general threats of upcoming terrorism, but couldn't put all the pieces together. We will never know, but if we hadn't been forced to divert those resources to investigating Horsley's cheap stunt, perhaps the deaths of 6,000 people could have been prevented.
The New York Times article on this story reported that they called Army of God to ask for a comment; the person the Times reporter spoke to said he didn't know if a member of the Army of God did this, but he confirmed that the Army of God uses "lethal force in the defense of the unborn."
A chilling message from Army of God's Clayton Wagner:
Part 1
IP: 216.34.244.106
Posted on June 18, 2001 at 04:21:46 PM by Clay Waagner
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord:
Thank you for your support, both in your prayers and in your words of encouragement.Both have meant a great deal to me. I cannot adequately express just how much I appreciate you all.
...So the abortionist doesn’t get the wrong idea, I don’t plan on talking them to death. I’m going to kill as many of them as I can. I will use every talent I have and draw on every resource I can get my hands on. I consider this a war and in war there are few rules.
One of the rules that I’m changing from those that came before me is that I’m not targeting the abortion doctor. I have discovered the hard way just how difficult these “doctors” are to get to. They have the money to buy heavy protection and they use it well. No, I’m leaving the big guys alone. I’m going after every one else. Anyone who works at an abortion location or Planned Parenthood (I don’t care if their location actually performs abortions or not. ALL Planned Parenthood locations are targets.). It doesn't matter to me if you’re a nurse, receptionist, bookkeeper, or janitor, if you work for the murderous abortionist I’m going to kill you.
Pro-life. Pro-life. Pro-life.
Yeah. Right.
Make no mistake. These are homegrown terrorists.
I agree. The whackos should be prosecuted for taking advantage of this situation, although I understand that PP has been receiving Anthrax scares for 3 years.
However, is The Army of God big enough to use four cities? Keep in mind that it is not out of the realm of possibility that some pro-abortion people sent the messages in order to increase donations to PP. PP is big enough to arrange a coordinated mail campaign from four cities.
Just a thought, not exactly an accusation, not exactly a pass.
Shalom.
Mebbe so. But I will repeat my question...
"Er, how do you know that the "Army of God" is not al-Qaeda?"
Do you know, for sure, that mailing came from the "Army of God"? Or couldd it, perhaps, have come from al-Qaeda instead?
I, for one, admit that I don't know for sure...
However, I commend you on your consistancy regarding your views on abortion.
I assume you are also against the death penalty.
(No need to answer...and I'm really not up for *that* debate at this time...)
Nice euphemism for this country's largest producer of murdered babies and bereaved mothers. Planned Parenthood is terrorism, violence and death on a massive scale to children in utero. Now tell me again how many of those dregs of the medical profession that the Army of God has murdered. Three? Four?
Cordially,
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