{"id":482,"date":"2011-10-17T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=482"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:56:37","slug":"the-death-of-a-tiller-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"The Death of a Tiller Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">17 Oct., 2011<\/p>\n<p>The AP reported in November of 2007 on the demise of retired federal Judge Patrick Kelly.\u00a0 Whatever good he might have done in his life is eclipsed by the fact that he ordered anti-abortion protesters to cease interfering with Tiller\u2019s murders.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer consumed him as he finished his time in Lakeview Funeral Home.<\/p>\n<p>The particular ignominy of his legal career proceeded from the 1991 &#8220;Summer of Mercy&#8221; abortion protests in Wichita. Thousands of abortion resisters were arrested during the 45-day event, which was organized by the anti-abortion Operation Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Randall Terry dubbed Kelly a &#8220;Nazi judge&#8221; when Kelly ordered protesters to stop blocking the entrance of the clinic of abortionist George Tiller.\u00a0 The appellation was not inappropriate.\u00a0 Nazi-like, he did not stop at simply issuing an order and threatening prosecution; he ordered special protection from U.S. marshals.\u00a0 The U.S. marshals were to provide security.\u00a0 Kelly turned the marshals into Nazi-like criminals indeed. (Witness the recent prosecutions of the likes of John Demjanjuk at age 91 in 2011, 70 years after the crime.\u00a0 It took seven decades to make that \u201cmarshal\u201d a criminal.\u00a0 It may take that long belong before the deeds of these agents of the court are damned for their deed of submission to such an edict.)<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 Court of Appeals struck down Kelly&#8217;s ruling on abortion protesters. But Congress sullied itself with the same criminal action that Kelly perpetrated by passing FACE.<\/p>\n<p>FACE is the very law (which includes civil statutes as well we criminal) by which your author has been sued by Planned Parenthood and saddled with a $1 million debt for writing A Time to Kill and making it available for purchase at a public meeting of anti-abortion activists.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, to conclude, is gone from this world.\u00a0 But his end is not yet.\u00a0 Judgment Day will come for all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Oct., 2011 The AP reported in November of 2007 on the demise of retired federal Judge Patrick Kelly.\u00a0 Whatever good he might have done in his life is eclipsed by the fact that he ordered anti-abortion protesters to cease interfering with Tiller\u2019s murders. Cancer consumed him as he finished his time in Lakeview Funeral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}