Reno Update
Michael Bray
28 March, 1996
Press Release: Here follows a report on Reno’s recent VAAPCON (Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy) antics along with PP-inspired prosecutions.
• Dave Lane convicted in Denver
Was convicted by a jury on 12 March for performing a $25,000 procedure on Abortionist Charles Gartner’s building. With a sledge hammer, Mr. Lane allegedly disarmed the tools of childslaughter on 19 March, 1995. And for his noble deeds, a morally abject jury rewarded the 25-year-old Maine man by convicting him on four creatively formulated felony counts amounting to 36 years. (The prosecution adduced Dave’s anti-abortion convictions in Georgia and Florida to argue that he is an “habitual offender.”) Government-funded Planned Barrenhood stooges were seen consorting with and osculating the hind parts of prosecutors. Sentencing is scheduled for 3 May. Lawyers Rowe Stayton and Mel Dole may be contacted in Aurora, CO at 303-745-5578 (Fax. 3212). Mr. Lane could be released on bond pending appeal of this obscene verdict.
Mr. Lane was one of the picketers assaulted by a PB security thug named Michael Newell on 5 October, 1994. The result of this PB violence was not the usual lethal kind visited daily upon the thousands of innocents. But injuries to Lane did require several stitches in his head. No charges have been brought by Denver prosecutors. Justice? Not in a land drenched in the blood of the innocents.
• Rae Powell is out; Gestapo ATF tactics are in
Carol McAdoo was released on 6 March and gagged by U.S. District Judge Robert Doumar after a week in jail after agreeing to answer questions. Rae Powell, 20-year veteran of the Navy and mother of three children at home, remained in jail until 25 March when she agreed to answer questions at a GJ hearing scheduled that day. Mrs. Powell answered that she had verily handled a copy of “the Manual” and had returned it to its loaner.
Ah, but “cooperating” with Herod’s men does not necessarily restore a citizen to the good life. Mrs. Powell was promptly accused of being a perjurer (standard procedure to intimate the unwary citizen and extract more “cooperation”).
A peep had been heard out of Pat Robertson’s legal outfit the day after Powell and McAdoo were jailed: “”While the [ACLJ] unequivocally rejects and condemns any type of violence against abortionists or clinics, it is wrong for the administration to use the grand jury to threaten and intimidate ordinary citizens who are only exercising their free-speech rights in opposing abortion” (Newport News Daily Press, 1 March).
The night before the Monday hearing, single mother of two, Michelle Tribble, was visited unannounced at her home by ATF agents from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. The agents handed her a subpoena to appear before the Tidewater grand jury the next morning! One of the agents, referring to Miss Tribble’s dependency status (as a recipient of welfare), told her that a person in her condition needed to be careful. Miss Tribble interpreted the comments to be an insinuation that her children might be taken from her. She appeared before the GJ and answered questions mostly about Jennifer Sperle.
Don Spitz, Director of Pro-life Virginia, reports that Christians were visiting Mrs. Powell weekly and conducting prayer services outside the jail each Sunday. (Ph. 804-421-2543; Fax 3732)
Judge Doumar, the authority responsible for holding these people in contempt, can be written at U.S. District Court, 101 25th St., Newport News, VA 23604.
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