Capitol Area Reports. ..
Grand Jury in Alexandria
Before the grand jury in Alexandria were dragged a few more decent folks. The lust for prolife scalps drove the Tank Lady's Justice Department to invite Andrew Cabot's fiancee, Cheryl Richardson, along with her mother, Gail (single, kindly grandmother of four), to appear before the inquisitors on 23 March.
Cheryl Richardson, who has faithfully sidewalk counseled outside a Glen Burnie abortuary for years, was visited at her work place and subpoenaed in March. Her recent courtship with Andrew Cabot is the apparent cause of this harassment. Cabot was present at the trials of Griffin and Hill and featured on the cover of the Winter 1994 edition of CACN. (We are thinking of putting a picture of Flip and Mahatmahoney on the cover of the next issue.)
Although the subpoena indicated that the government was inquiring after information on destructive action against abortuaries in Virginia, questions pertained only to Andrew Cabot. A question was also asked about Miss Richardson's knowledge of the theology and/or movement known as 'reconstructionism." She was also asked the whereabouts of a tracking device which the feds had attached to Cabot's car.
Miss Richardson took the Fifth for most of the questions. She explained that given the current trend of persecution under FACE for speech, she felt it necessary to remain silent for her own protection. But Gail Richardson, impelled by her ingrained southern manners, couldn't resist polite conversation even under such inhospitable circumstances. When the rather rude prosecutor, a Mr. Burrows, asked where Andrew Cabot slept when he came for a recent visit (which occurred at the same time the APB was broadcast notifying the East Coast that he was "armed and dangerous"), she replied that of necessity he slept on the couch in mother and daughter's apartment. She said, "I wouldn't want him out in some hotel by himself. I saw what they did to those people in Waco and that man Weaver in Idaho. I didn't want Andrew to get shot."
This dope-smoking administration has certainly made the law to be an ass and turned the Department of Justice into a sham.
We turn now to brief reports on other interviewees. (How much money is all this government pursuit of Christians costing?)
Local activist, Eric jurek, had been harassed before the inquisitors in February. About 30 names (up from the 10 in the Humphries inquiry) of anti-abortionists were presented for his commentary. Questions about butyric acid and arson were asked as an apparent matter of course. The real interest in Mr. Jurek seems to be his friendship with Fr. Trosch.
Terry Sullivan, long-time pacifist activist (from civil rights and anti-war era), was summoned from Denver. Mr. Sullivan has expressed strong opposition to those in the "movement" who defend the use of force.
The government's conspiracy broadens; they spread the net, plotting a way to entrap, to imprison, to silence those who declare the whole truth, viz., that the child in the womb is worthy of defensive action.The promulgation of that truth is lethal to the institution of abortion.
Well, let's see. What is the bright side in all this? Ah, the more minions Janet (Waco) Reno deploys to harass prolifers, the fewer there are available to labor for pet projects to extend the rights of sodomites. (Got to think positively!)
On Rearing One's Own Children
Maryland
Miss Cheryl Battles, single mother of a five-year-old daughter, runs a business from her home and schools her daughter there as well. She is a member in good standing in her local Christian church.
The County Board of Education wants Miss Battles to register her daughter; she declines as a matter of principle. Her church leaders affirm the principle she stands on: authority to rear children is given by God to parents, not to the state. The education of children is not the jurisdiction of the state. The cession of that authority by parents to the state is an abdication of responsibility.
It is not that Miss Battles or her church would oppose the enrollment of their children in the government schools. But they draw a conscientious line regarding jurisdiction. It is, simply put, the right and choice of parents to educate their children in the manner in which they deem fit. Compulsory registration with the state is a violation of that right and a usurpation by the state of parental jurisdiction.
Problems with the state began when an anonymous report came to a county Department of Social Services complaining of some kind of neglect. Investigations revealed the complaint to be completely groundless, but the investigator inquired after the daughter's schooling. The daughter was unregistered and Mrs. Battles declined to heed the agent's instructions as a matter of religious principle. The state threatens Mrs. Battles with sanctions; she is suing both Social Services and the Board of Education in federal court.
The 30-point complaint is dynamite, complete with lawyerly styled lengthy sentences. Point 16 gives a bit of the flavor: That the state's interest in enforcing mandatory education of all children within its jurisdiction does not extend to imposing corrupting or anti-Christian indoctrination upon children either by enforcing their attendance in government atheistic schools [ie. because of parental refusal to accept state licensure to home schooll or by means of the Board of Education's supervision, oversight or licensure of such homeschooling, thereby permitting the extension of the influence of those government atheist schools into the private homes of Christian parents teaching their own children.
Virginia
Donna Coder of Woodbridge, declined to keep her autistic son in school because he wasn't getting what she deemed to be necessary for him. The state is proceeding on truancy investigation. Mrs. Coder is refusing to comply. "A real possibility is a jail term," says Prince William county Commonwealth Attorney Paul Ebert who has also prosecuted abortuary blockaders. But blame for our present malefic state of social affairs is not to be laid solely upon bureaucratic hacks in
government.
Joseph Sobran comments as follows on the case: "When the state, at any level, can break up families, what you have is tyranny, plain and simple. It usually happens because the population is abject enough to submit to it."
Thank God for these women. Where are the NOWists? Don't they support the 'choice" of these women?
Cane Those Maryland Delinquents
Rather than kidnap (imprison) offenders, let justice be served by a good spanking. Where parental discipline has failed or not been corporally applied with efficacy, let the rod be employed. The short-lived sting is far more humane than torturous ages of immurement in the barbarous 'correctional institutions."
Delegate Clarence Davis introduced the measure and even received applause from Mayor Kurt Schmoke. We are glad to see the change of mind. "Just two years ago, the General Assembly, with Mr. Davis in agreement, voted to ban paddling from all public schools" (Washington Times, 18 Feb., 1995).
The biblical standard (i.e. justice) requires restitution for non-capital offenses not jail. And a spanking (the use of the rod upon those delinquents who have no means or parents to wield the stick) is a discretionary form of punishment which a good judge ought to be able to require.
The neutered Parris Glendening was neutral on the subject. He hasn't checked out the political winds sufficiently yet to determine what he believes. (He was a good prolifer as recent as 15 years ago while sitting on the P.G. County Council, but became an enlightened, vocal champion of a woman's
right to abort when he decided he wanted to be a governor.)
Virginia Abortion Rate Down
Echoing the national statistics from the CDC in Atlanta, the Virginia Department of Health released its own 1993 statistics showing a decline in the number of abortions. Dave Crane reports as follows: "Currently, the abortion rate is down by 17% since 1989 and Norfolles rate isdown by a whopping 21.6 % for the same period."
Mr. Crane surmises this drop to be due to the corresponding increase in "peaceful activism."
Thomas Spinks
Celebrated on 19 Jan. ten years of imprisonment by the federal government after burning down or blowing up seven abortuaries in the D.C., MD, VA, and DE areas. Has he been released yet?
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