Randall Terry and other anti-choicers arrested after making threat to Nancy Pelosi

[ck4829]

3 pro-life advocates were arrested this morning at the unveiling of the House Democratic Caucus's health care bill. They shouted "Nancy Pelosi you will burn in hell for this!" and "We won't pay for murder!" No warning was given before the arrests.

Who: Randall Terry; Dick Retta, and Joan McKee were arrested.

When: Thursday, Oct 29, 10:30 A.M.

Where: Capitol Hill

After lobbying and performing skits this morning in front of the Cannon Office Building, 10 pro-lifers (two dressed as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid burning in hell and three dressed as hellish demons) attended the unveiling of the House Democratic Caucus's health care bill. Three (Randall Terry, Dick Retta, and Joan McKee) were arrested for shouting, "Nancy Pelosi you will burn in hell for this!" and "We won't pay for murder!" No warning was issued before the arrests.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mission-accomplished-randall-terry

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Hallelujah!

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[The Magistrate]

2. Excellent News, Sir

Hopefully, something more weighty than disorderly conduct will be charged....

[AndyA]

3. I have news for the anti-choicers: YOU ALREADY PAY FOR MURDER.

What do they think is going on over in the Middle East? They've spent BILLIONS on that fiasco!

You're already paying for murder, idiots. And your "Christian" "conservative" "leaders" did it.

[bunkerbuster1]

9. It's not murder when you kill Jesus-free brown folks.

They's guilty already. Pretty sure that's the "pro-life" rationale.

I don't believe in Hell, but if it exists, Randall Terry will be placed inside a shit smoker for eternity.

[calimary]

10. Well said!

:toast:

How much blood is on THEIR hands then?

[Ozymanithrax]

4. They are scum, but I saw no explicit threat.

Nothing I read at the link showed them making a threat, only Demonstrating in an inappropriate area.

[ck4829]

6. If people came barging into my place of work and screamed "you will burn in hell for this" at me

I would constitute that as a threat, maybe not everybody would, but I would.

[Ozymanithrax]

8. No court would uphold that as a threat.

That is why I think that the charges must be something different from communicating a threat.

[Feron]

11. Most likely they didn't have a permit.nt

[struggle4progress]

13. Maybe. But Terry has explicitly threatened that some people will respond violently to health care

legislation, and of course Terry's OR employs Cheryl Sullenger, who not only has an actual terrorist history but who helped Tiller's murderer track Tiller

What actually constitutes a threat depends not only on the exact words, but upon who utters them and in what context

‘Operation Rescue’ founder warns of ‘violent convulsions’ if health bill doesn’t ban abortions
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/20/terry-violent-convulsions/

Operation Rescue adviser helped Tiller suspect track doctor's court dates
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/69361.html

The Anti-Abortion Campaign Against Dr. George Tiller
Our 2004 report on the war in Wichita
KIMBERLEY SEVCIK
Posted Jun 01, 2009 9:39 AM
... Cheryl Sullenger .. spent two and a half years in federal prison for conspiracy to fire-bomb a clinic ... http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/28478020/the_antiabortion_campaign_against_dr_george_tiller/3

[pennylane100]

5. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth

but what were the charges. They have said much worse before with no repercussions.

[zbdent]

7. bet this guy gets nothing like what Richard Humphreys got for making a joke

about a "burning bush" ... 37 months in jail for "threatening the President" ...

[Cass]

12. Burn in hell for what? Bringing a health care bill forward? nt

[Control-Z]

14. Excellent.

I hope this is the beginning of a trend. So many others have gotten away with far worse. Perhaps the time has finally come when blatant threats and incitements of violence will no longer be tolerated.

[greenbriar]

15. good

bout time