From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,misc.legal,talk.politics
Subject: Should this be covered by anti_stalker laws?
Date: 23 Aug 92 20:35:17 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper

katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago) writes:
] 
] Here is an example of the terrorist tactics being used by Pro-Fetus
] Zealots (PFZs) to harass doctors and health care workers.
] 
] This example happened in Dallas, TX and the doctor's name is
] Dr. Clay Alexander. I'm going to liberally quote from an article
] by Steve Blow which appeared in the July 26 Dallas Morning News.
] 
] --------------------------------------------------------------------
] 
] On June 2, members of the Dallas Pro-Life Action Network (PLAN) fanned
] out in Dr. Alexander's Richardson (TX) office building and across the
] street at Richardson Medical Center.
] 
] "They passed out a one-page leaflet in every single office," Dr. Alexander
] said. "It said, 'Abortionist Alexander murders babies in Dallas. Please 
] beg him to stop. Here is his home phone number and address. Here is his
] office number and address. Please call or write or join our picket to
] end this slaughter.'"
] 
] Protest leaders announced their intention to hound Dr. Alexander seven
] days a week until he discontinued abortions.
] 
] Dr. Alexander was somewhat mystified. Although he had previously worked
] part-time in an abortion clinic, he was performing only two or three
] abortions a year in conjunctions with his obstetrics and gynecology
] practice. "I really thought this would all blow over in a few days,"
] he said.
] 
] He said some of the protest signs mentioned his wife and 2-year old 
] daughter by name - "Lisa's Husband Is A Murderer," "Barbara's Daddy
] Kills Little Boys and Girls."  "It really was relentless," Dr.
] Alexander said. "It's virtually extortion. It's blackmail. It's
] intimidation in its worst form. It's terrorism."
] 
] When the picketing had been underway one month, PLAN director Tom Cyr
] wrote in the organization's newsletter: "Right about now, abortionist
] Clay Alexander must be realizing that, until he agrees to stop killing
] preborn children and exploiting their mothers for profit, his life
] will never again be peaceful."
] 
] I asked Mr. Cyr this week if his activities are a form of terrorism.
] "No, it isn't at all," he said. "We consider people who brutally
] dismember innocent human beings as terrorists. What we're doing is 
] exposing the terrorists to the public, to their neighbors, to anyone
] they come into contact with."
] 
] And that includes following Dr. Alexander's wife and children. "We will
] put the family or the doctor under surveillance at various times, yes.
] In order to do an effective protest, you have to know pretty much
] what the family patterns are," he said

{ thinned down a bit... }

This would seem to be a matter that would be coverable by 
the various stalker laws out there... or are those laws
written solely to protect women from 'ex_boyfriends' and
'ex_boyfriend_wannabe' types.

Also this is a good reason to maintain the standard procedure
of not using the same paths to and from work, as well as
not using the same general daily time frames.

While I lived on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor I had
the pleasure of helping one lady understand that her husband's
'somewhat irradic' behavior was merely an implementation of 
this fundamental security theory.....


ciao
drieux


ps: and yes:

1. this is clear proof that the AntiAbortionists are dangerous,
given their obvious failure of intelligence acquisition. 

2. this is a bit sick...


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