Marjorie Reed and Don Benny Anderson
The following reports appeared in the Spring, 1996 issue of Capitol Area Christian News
Marjorie Reed
She was expecting to be released on 15 December, 1995 after being jailed in federal prison for 74 months, but various borts whined to the Clintonized Parole Commission and succeeded in getting her time reinterpreted and re-calculated so that she is now told that she must do another 27 months. You folks who can add and divide quickly know that this makes 8 years and five months of actual jail time on a 10-year sentence. Again, as in the Brockhoeft case, the actual prison time is more than twice what a regular criminal arsonist does. But these are not regular crimes; they are political crimes. And the Clintonites are particularly offended by those who interfere with their population control morality.
We continue to smile about our sister’s good deeds of 1986 and ‘7. There were two attempts at burning down abortuaries in Ohio and New Jersey amounting to a few hundred bucks. But there was one glorious $200,000 divestment in Toledo. No doubt numerous babies were spared, along their countless progeny.
Nevertheless, the vindictive ’borts and the sychophant federal employees on the Parole Commission ought not to be allowed to have their vengeful way with her. We can speak out for Marjorie and call for her release now. (U.S. Parole Commission, 5550 Friendship Blvd., Suite 420, Chevy Chase, MD 20815. 301-492-5990.)
Don Benny Anderson, 1982
In the course of its ongoing multi-million dollar pursuit of the defenders of the in-utero children, one of the many prisoners visited by the FBI was Mr. Anderson. Your editor contacted Mr. Anderson recently in connection with the White Rose Banquet and its celebration of the sacrifice of those in jail for the sake of the innocent. This was after the FBI had already interrogated Mr. Anderson about whether he had engaged in writing or phoning or using codes with your editor, to which he was able to properly answer in the negative.
Anderson (42 at the time) was jailed in 1982 and sentenced to 30 years for abducting Abortionist Hector Zevallos and his wife. They were taken from their home in exclusive Country Club Hills near Edwardsville, Illinois on 12 August, 1982, held for eight days, and released unharmed. Anderson and his two assistants threatened the couple with death and tried to convince them to cease killing babies. Ransom notes from the captors identifying themselves as “The Army of God” made claim to receiving revelations from God. The first note demanded that President Reagan announce an end to abortions lest the Zevalloses be terminated.
Mr. Anderson and his assistants stand out among anti-abortion activists as the only long-term convicts who are not Christians, but Mormons. The Mormons have historically made claims to possessing special revelation from God in addition to the Christian Scriptures. In the Mormon religion these revelations have come at times when they seemed to be politically advantageous. Most notably the original Mormon doctrine and practice of polygamy was nullified by a counter-revelation at the time Utah was seeking to join the Union. (The United States would not have admitted Utah with its then current provision for polygamy. A politically expedient revelation provided for statehood.) A second example of convenient revelation is the two-decade-old revelation which allowed for black people to “hold the priesthood.” (Formerly, in harmony with popular racist practices, Mormon doctrine had provided an explanation for the racial distinctions current when the religion began under Joseph Smith in the 1830s, viz., that black people are those who did poorly in the “pre-existence.”) It was no longer politically or socially acceptable in the ’60s to be racist; a solution was found in a new revelation.
Mr. Anderson was not at odds then with his Mormon tradition in claiming regular, specific, divine (and therefore infallible) revelation from God beyond the Christian canon. (And his basic belief in the proposition that revelation from God has come into human history is, indeed, in harmony with orthodox Christian claims, with the obvious exception concerning the specific canon.) The Mormons claim extra-canonical revelation whose doctrines in the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants (especially) are flagrant heresies.
Nevertheless, what shall our secularist rulers say about the second ransom letter (denoted an “Epistle” by the authors) which declared that God had directed the abductors (as Abraham perhaps was directed to spare Isaac) to stay plans to kill the Zevalloses? This six-page letter said, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (10 Jan., 1983), “President Reagan, the infinite Holy Spirit conveyed to us, the Army of God through the spirit of mercy, that the Zevalloses should be saved for their sake and yours.”
The letter went on to say of their captives: “We became very close. We grew to love them more and more with each passing day. The Holy Spirit had inspired us to speak with them and try to influence them to do the will of God.”
Certainly the extension of mercy to the abortionists does not offend the secularist. No, it is the whole mindset – the belief of the abductors in a political power “on high” – which offends the civil sensibilities of the modern secularist. Federal authorities cannot tolerate political claims above the federal government. Action taken upon claims to divine authority are an absolute offense to the enlightened, atheist statist. The highest authority must be Mankind, and the locus of that authority is the Supreme Court Justices or Congresses or Presidents. Since Man must be the final authority, those who act upon a divine principle challenge the very right to life of the autonomous State and must be treated particularly harshly.
So it is that this religious fellow is abused by the feds and given a 30-year sentence for the abductions and another 12 for burning a few abortuaries in Florida and Virginia. Forty-two years in all. But, heretic that he is, he is despised for the same reason the federal government despises dissenting Christians; Mormon, Davidian, Christian – they are all the same to the Godless State. They declare Jesus, not the federal government, to be the highest civil legislator. His is the President of presidents; Lawgiver of lawgivers.
Complain about the harshness of Anderson’s punishment, citing “disparity of sentence.” You may write the U.S. Parole Commission (see above) or your Congressman [House] 20515; [Senate] 20510.
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