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Typical lefty tactics.  Use the law to silence your critics.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Jeebus! Think of all the disadvantaged minority and handicapped children that could have been housed,clothed,educated, and medically cared for with the MILLIONS of dollars pissed away since this case started. What a waste.

Typical lefty tactics.  Use the law to silence your critics.

Who woulda thought that people sticking their noses into others’ business would meet any opposition in the land of the free.

Seriously - " Use the law to silence your critics." - is that the best argument you can summon for defending the cretins that attack women exercising their rights under the law?

Good comeback Mcair, you really sound like an idiot there.

Attack, mcair?

That’s against the law and not up for debate.  Sloppy wording... 

mcair: The left uses loud, intimidating and occasionally violent protest to advance their agenda,  but when prolife people do it, it’s racketeering?  As a leftie might say;  It’s not fair!  Whateve happened to equal protection under the law?  Your people protest legal things all the time.

It has really been amazing to watch these last 6 years.  Republicans, who are historically a fractious bunch, have spread their tent even further and wider, gradually encompassing more and more of the middle of the political spectrum, yet holding together despite the ever widening array of political beliefs.  The Democrats meanwhile, have moved ever farther to the left fringe, abandoning the middle in favor of an increasingly strident and uncivilized ideology.  Were the Republican not so well organized, and so well disciplined when they need to be, they might still win, if only by default.

Indeed, there is but one consensus issue that holds the remanents of what was once this nation’s majority party together: Roe v. Wade.  And now that too is slowing, inexorably, slipping away.  Make no mistake.  This was a unanimous decision. The emanations and penumbras are giving way to a new, or perhaps an older, and more reasoned view of our Constitution.

And in the nearly three years remaining in his presidency, Mr. Bush may very well have at least one more SCOTUS appointment to make, not to mention more federal District and Appellate seats as well. 

It is about time, for the SCOTUS to lift the ban on on a freedom of speech issue.

docdave: Convicting some protestors as racketeers while approving others, based on what they are protesting is just wrong.  It is the essence of discrimination.

docdave: it has seemed to me that since the antiwar protests in the sixties, that the goal of the lefties has been to silence and block all ideas that disagree with them.  Don’t know why the MSM hasn’t covered this one.  Oh, maybe because they are part of that effort.  Ya think?

As long as it does not interfere with them making money. The MSM is all about the bottom line, principles are always secondary to profits.

2h9: I used to agree with that, but lately, with the decrease in ad revenues all across the MSM, it smells more like partisan politics, with the MSM following the extreme imbalance in the political persuasion of the employees.

Surprise, surprise!

Some of Y’all are so heartless.  And what exactly would you do...  Say you were diagnosed with breast cancer and are undergoing chemotheraphy, but your doctors failed to tell you that chemo reduces the effectiveness of the most common forms of contraceptive.  And now you are pregnant.  You are going to have to make one of the hardest decision known to mankind.  Do you save yourself and try again later for a baby if and when you battle your way back from cancer?  Or do you die trying to carry a baby to term?  Or does the chemotheraphy cause horrible complications and birth defects?  Which would you choose?  Would you want someone - like Uncle Sam - to choose for you?

Clinic protesters don’t even know if the women they are attacking are actually entering the clinic for the purpose of an abortion.  These clinics often are the only choice for women who need prenatal and obstetric care.  Yet protesters throw blood, physically block entrance, and harass any woman who tries to enter the clinic. 

Be for real.  We do not live in a perfect world.  The questions isn’t if abortion is right or wrong.  It is all about who gets to make the decision.

Hatlady

Hatlady:  Or who dies.  But this thread is about using anti-racketeering laws to suppress "dissent".  If you want to use it against all dissenters, that would be even more wrong, but at least it wouldn’t be hypocritical.  How many abortions fit your example, btw?

hatlady, chemo not only drives down the effectivness of the pill, it also drives down fertility, and among the dozen or so people I have known who went through it, sex drive too. This game of creating hypothetical instances to justifiy abortion is not helping your cause. Trying to use anti-organized crime laws to stop people from speaking their minds in public ain’t going to help either. You claim you don’t want uncle to decide about abortion, yet you don’t seem to oppose him paying for them. Can’t have it both ways, pick one.