I just visited this site, and I thought I would post a warning to be
prepared for some extremely graphic disturbing pictures. Whether they are
authentic or altered in some way I do not know, but they gave me a jolt.
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From: sarah clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Jury Finds Web Site a Threat
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 2:42 PM
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, its still up and running. Plaintiffs are
> filing for an injunction, though, to take it off the web. In
> response, Christian Gallery a la Neal Horsley has posted a link for MD
> doctors, profiling even more specific info, including pictures and
> stats. The link for this site is:
>
> http://www.bestchoice.com/atrocity/MD.htm
>
> for more information about it:
>
>
>
>
> This site is still up and running, amazingly. I didn't think it would
> be,
> because of all the controversy and this verdict. But all I had to do
> is
> type "nuremburg files" into a search engine and I found it.
>
> http://www.christiangallery.com/atrocity/index.html
>
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> > From: joe dees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Jury Finds Web Site a Threat
> > Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 2:00 AM
> >
> > Jury Finds Web Site a Threat
> > Rejects Free-Speech Argument,
> > Awards $100 Million in Damages
> >
> > The home page from a controversial Web site called "The Nuremberg
> Files"
> has an illustration of blood dripping from aborted fetuses. It lists
> the
> names of abortion providers, their home addresses and license plate
> numbers.
> >
> > By Lauren Dodge
> > The Associated Press
> > P O R T L A N D, Ore., Feb. 2 � A federal jury ruled today that a
> Web
> site and �wanted� posters listing abortion doctors� names and
> addresses
> amounted to death threats, ordering the site�s authors to pay damages
> of
> more than $100 million. Striking a blow to militant online tactics in
> the
> fight against abortion, the verdict could redefine what is considered
> constitutionally protected political speech. The anti-abortion
> materials
> contained no explicit threats of violence, only veiled messages, such
> as
> crossing through the names of abortion providers who were killed. �The
> jury
> saw the posters for what they are � a hit list for terrorists,� said
> Gloria
> Feldt, the president of Planned Parenthood, the main plaintiff in the
> case.
> �Whether these threats are posted on trees or on the Internet, their
> intent
> and impact is the same.�
> > �A Moral and Constitutional Outrage�
> > Defendants had said that they would not pay any damages, no matter
> what
> the verdict. One of the defendants, Catherine Ramey, sobbed as the
> verdict
> came in, after more than four days of deliberations. �This is a moral
> and
> constitutional outrage,� Ramey said afterward. She criticized the key
> ruling by the judge, who defined threat as something that could be
> taken as
> a threat by a �reasonable person,� rather than as something that made
> lawless action �imminent.� �There was no threat and they knew it,�
> Ramey
> said. She had testified that she would not so much as offer a tissue
> to an
> abortion provider if he or she was shot. At issue was the �The
> Nuremberg
> Files� Web site, which lists hundreds of �baby butchers� and invites
> readers to send in such
> > personal details as their home addresses, license plate numbers and
> even
> the names of their children. The similar Wild West-style posters
> offered a
> $5,000 reward for information about the �Deadly Dozen� doctors branded
> �Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity.�
> > Doctors Describe a Life of Fear
> > Three times, doctors whose names appeared on the list were killed,
> most
> recently last October when Dr. Barnett Slepian was gunned down by
> sniper
> fire in his home outside Buffalo, N.Y. His name on the Web site was
> > promptly crossed through. Throughout the three-week trial, held
> under
> tight security, abortion doctors on the list testified that they lived
> in
> constant fear, used disguises, bodyguards and bulletproof vests, and
> instructed their children to crouch in the bathroom if they heard
> gunfire.
> �This is terrorism,� plaintiffs� attorney Maria Vullo said in closing
> arguments, pointing
> > to a timeline of the four doctors and two clinic workers killed
> since
> 1993. �The message is, �Stop performing abortion or wear a bulletproof
> vest.�� Attorneys for more than a dozen defendants, including the
> antiabortion umbrella group American Coalition of Life
> > Advocates, contended their clients were peaceful protesters engaged
> in a
> vigorous political debate. But on the stand, defendant Andrew
> Burnett,
> publisher of Life Advocate Magazine, conceded that doctors may have
> reason
> to fear the Web site because of the extent of
> > anti-abortion violence. �If I was an abortionist,� he said, �I
> would be
> afraid.�
> > Tactics Will Not Change
> > Defendants had indicated that no matter what the verdict, their
> tactics
> would not change. They also said any monetary award would have
> nothing
> more than a symbolic impact because they have transferred their assets
> to
> make themselves �judgment-proof.� The plaintiffs sued under federal
> racketeering statutes and the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic
> Entrances
> Act, which makes it illegal to incite violence against abortion
> doctors and
> their patients. While the law has been used often against people who
> have
> firebombed clinics or attacked doctors, this case, filed in 1995, was
> believed to be the first not to result from a violent confrontation or
> a
> direct, person-to-person threat.
> > Joe E. Dees
> > Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
> >
> >
> >
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