On August 1st a group of pro-lifers from Maryland was finishing up a day of activism [Pro-lifers stand in various locations, holding signs which show the truth about abortion. Often they will have warning signs making people aware of what they are about to see.] A State Trooper pulled over and told them to stop what they were doing. The trooper threatened them with arrest and refused to cite any law they were breaking. The trooper told one of the participants that “it did not matter what the law was, it only matted what he said it was”.

The group packed up and moved to a different jurisdiction. The trooper followed them and began to arrest them immediately when they set up again. 18 of the pro-lifers were arrested and hauled away without being told what law they had broken. They were not even read their rights. They were held overnight with out a phone call or any contact with their families.

Can we as Americans really just sit idly by and be silent while things like this go on around us? Even if we do not agree with what these citizens were doing, we should not allow them to be harassed because of their beliefs. They did nothing wrong!

The group has now all been released and the State Attorney has dropped all charges. This, however, is far from over. We cannot allow our civil rights to be violated in this manner and we cannot allow police to make up laws and arrest whoever they want. The more this happens without action being taken, the more our rights will be stolen.

We need to take a stand with this. We need to draw attention to this. We can’t just sweep this under the rug and say “oh well, it won’t happen to me”. If we let this go, there’s no telling how many times this will happen again.

Many people don’t agree with them, either with what they were saying or how they were saying it. But that does not mean that their rights should be violated. If they had been doing anything else – like protesting the Iraqi war – would this have been handled the same way? I don’t think so. Let’s raise awareness for this issue to prevent this from happening to other innocent civilians expressing their beliefs.
Tell your friends. Write a Myspace bulletin about it. Send emails. Get the news out.

LifeNews has an article detailing more censorship of the pro-life message:

Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) — The popular video sharing web site YouTube is the subject of criticism again for removing a pro-life video exposing abortion. In this new case, YouTube took down a video from Citizens for a Pro-Life Society showing an abortion center that was investigated for illegally dumping medical waste.

Pro-life activists are calling for an investigation into – and possibly prosecution of – police officers who responded to a severely injured abortion clinic sidewalk counselor, but then allowed his suspected attacker to leave the scene.

“It is unbelievable that an officer would allow an attacker to go free after inflicting life-threatening injuries on an elderly gentleman, then threaten to arrest the witness to the crime,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.

“That was not only unprofessional conduct, but it showed a fundamental lack of respect for Mr. Snell’s life and beliefs. She should face serious discipline.”

The attack happened just before Christmas, as Ed Snell, 69, was trying to counsel women entering the Hillcrest Abortion Center in Harrisburg, Pa., according to witnesses at the scene.

The “police” officer, obviously a person who should be fired and thrown into jail for obstructing justice, let the assailant walk away!

 
Pro-aborts act violently against pro-lifers, or just threaten it like here, from ZombieTime.com

also blogging: Common Sense Journal

The AP reports that the driver of the anti-abortion/pro-life truck featuring photos of aborted children won’t be charged with disorderly conduct:

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Atlanta prosecutor has dropped a disorderly conduct charge against an anti-abortion activist who was arrested for driving a truck emblazoned with images of aborted fetuses.

Gwinnett County Solicitor Rosanna Szabo said the display of the images, “as shocking and offensive as they are,” didn’t violate the law.

Police had arrested Robert Dean Roethlisberger Jr., 44, of Missouri near the Mall of Georgia on the day after Thanksgiving, when he refused to remove images on a “Truth Truck” owned by Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group. Police, who said the images violated the law because they were “obscene and vulgar,” also impounded the truck and removed the banners.

If the actual images were some kind of pornography, then of course it would be illegal. But the display of something that is LEGAL and still DISGUSTING and evil shows that the problem is with the actual act, not with showing how it’s legal and yet disgusting. Even as pro-abortion writer Naomi Wolf said, these images are, after all, the truth.

Here’s a photo of the truck in question abortion_truck.jpg WARNING: has photos of abortion on it.

Related: The Silencing of Dissent