Arcara and al Qaeda
Michael Bray
26 September 2002
Pro-abortion fanatic, Judge Richard Arcara, has temporarily – and ones hopes finally – lost his control over the fate of baby defenders Dennis Malvasi and Loretta Marra. This man and wife, parents of two young children, had been creatively charged with numerous federal offenses for what amounts to helping a refugee avoid capture by the federal government. The couple had allegedly aided and abetted James Kopp, the accused killer of Buffalo abortionist, Bernard Slepian. Arrested in March of 1991, they had been repeated denied bail by Arcara. Moreover, Arcara had rejected the plea agreement worked out by the defense and prosecution in August. On Monday, 23 September, government prosecutors “took an unusual series of legal actions. . . In Buffalo, they filed court papers to drop the charges they filed last year. . . In New York City, they filed a new, greatly reduced criminal charge against Marra and Malvasi. Essentially, prosecutors asked to have the case moved from Buffalo to New York City, where it is anticipated that the two defendants would take a plea deal comparable to one that was rejected last month” (Buffalo News, 24 September, 2002).
Judge Arcara has left this couple in jail for 18 months. No trial. No bail. (America?) The mother of a nursing child, at the time of arrest, has been denied bail, along with her husband. And his invidious animus against anti-abortion Christians activists is on the record. The willing servant of the cause of child slaughter took special care to prosecute abortuary blockaders back in 1992 when he removed U.S. Attorney Dennis Vacco “from a case in which anti-abortion protesters were charged with blocking a clinic at which Slepian worked, Buffalo GYN Womenservices Clinic in Buffalo. Federal Judge Richard Arcara replaced Vacco with two special prosecutors, saying he had failed to vigorously prosecute five anti-abortion leaders” (AP, 28 Oct, 1998).
Five months after the arrest of Marra and Malvasi, Judge Arcara held Pastor Michael Warren in criminal contempt for walking in protest of abortion on a sidewalk opposite an abortuary in Rochester. Arcara had issued what Congress permits, a 20-day temporary restraining order. But that wasn’t good enough for this tyrant. The Agape Press (23 August, 2001) reported statements by American Family Association attorney B. J. Brown: “The judge ruled that his temporary restraining order lasted as long as he said it lasted. . .The judge said in effect that he didn’t really care about Congress’s rules.” The pastor and another protestor were protesting after the 20 days had passed, but Judge Arcara, ostensibly wants his will to be obeyed even when it doesn’t carry the authority of the law.
Why these legal maneuvers? “Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen M. Mehltretter said the actions were taken by the government for only one reason – to help win a murder conviction in the Kopp case. . . if this case went to trial, it could jeopardize the prosecution of James Kopp. . . the government would be required to submit evidence which exposes critical Kopp witnesses to the public and defendant Kopp” (Buffalo News). (Hmm. Doesn’t seem like much of a case against Kopp.)
But the wrath of this abortophilic judge is not necessarily averted. Barket said, “Given Judge Arcara’s past history with this case, I would not be surprised if he tries to take this case away from the U.S. Attorney’s office, and appoint a special prosecutor to handle it. I am afraid that is what he is going to do. He has done that in the past, in at least one case involving a pro-life demonstrator.”
God knows why the present maneuverings are occurring. Perhaps the irony of the latest batch of bail-less al Qaeda prisoners in Buffalo was too much for the prosecution. How peculiar that in that same town two kinds of prisoners are denied bail: these two anti-abortion activists and six al Qaeda terrorists. The six defendants recently arraigned and denied bail “were trained to use assault rifles and other weapons at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan where Osama bin laden spoke about his anti-American beliefs” (AP, 15 September). And in the tradition of the anti-American Left, protesters in behalf of the Muslims complained outside the court room. An AP photo showed them carrying such signs as “Stop the racist witch hunt” and “March on Washington. Say no to war.” Fools.
In contrast to these authentic terrorists, we have this couple: no association with weapons training camps; just communication with an old friend who had formerly resisted abortion with them through non-violent means – a friend who seems to be wrongly pursued by the federal government, given the weakness of the case as it appears so far (http://www.orboston.org/Kopp_fraud.htm).
Curiously we have kinds of prisoners: one representing the cause; the other the effect. Malvasi and Marra are a righteous couple whosuffer on behalf of the innocent babies who are slaughtered daily in this land; their imprisonment is part of the cause of the Almighty’s anger with this apostate country. The other prisoners, the Muslim terrorists are the effedt – the whip in His hand. Those who would repent will support these two and follow in their good works. Perhaps then, in His mercy, He will hold back His wielding of this terrorist Muslim whip. God – and his tools – are a terror to those who do evil.
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