SORRY – DUPE

[kskiska]

BOSTON - A federal judge refused Monday to let anti-abortion groups demonstrate in front of Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s Beacon Hill town house.

"I'm not going to second-guess the Secret Service's idea of how they feel they need to protect a presidential candidate," U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton said.

The groups had filed a lawsuit contending the city improperly revoked their permits to demonstrate. Operation Rescue and several other anti-abortion groups had planned to pray and lay roses outside Kerry's home during the Democratic National Convention. Kerry supports abortion rights.

Mary Jo Harris, a legal adviser to the Boston Police Department, said the city revoked the permit at the request of the Secret Service, which believed the demonstration zone was too close to Kerry's residence. She said the groups were offered another location about a block from Kerry's house. The groups turned down the offer and said they would likely not appeal the judge's decision.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Knowing that some of these 'right to lifers'

think it is perfectly ok to murder doctors and people at clinics (via bombs), I don't blame the judge and the SS being cautious about letting these people too near Kerry's house.

[Gin]

2. these fools are poster children for abortions that should have been done

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[Shakespeare]

3. Good lord-are they taking pointers from the $cientology thugs now?

Damn...straight out of the L. Ron handbook. Thugs.

[Cyrano]

4. Protesters can't get within (unknown) miles of the Bush ranch in Crawford

And how many protesters can state their views in the state of Texas?

I'm not saying that those who oppose Kerry shouldn't be allowed to protest, but we're talking about (some) people who would be very happy to shoot an abortion doctor.

This is an advocacy group that has a track record of resorting to murder. Why in the world should they be given a permit to demonstrate in front of Kerry's house???

Jack Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy. DON'T LET THEM DO IT AGAIN.