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Such talk is not illegal--unless it can be directly linked to a crime. But a different strategy to attack proponents of violence was used in a lawsuit filed this month by the family of Dr. David Gunn. The suit, authored by attorney Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks to hold antiabortionist John Burt and his group, Rescue America, liable for Gunn's murder outside a Florida clinic two years ago. It claims that the gunman, Michael Griffin, was influenced by the group's violent rhetoric. "We don't have to show that anyone else pulled...
...ANTIABORTION ACTIVISTS from around the country gathered in a hotel conference room near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. They had come to hammer out a common strategy, but by the time the two-day session ended, the group had suffered a permanent rift over the murder of Gunn 13 months earlier. Hill, a defrocked Presbyterian minister, had arrived in Chicago with a petition, signed by more than 30 activists, that called the shooting justified. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, which was once considered the radical wing of the antiabortion movement, spoke against the attack and later confronted Hill...
...Wall Street Journal's editorial page, he argues that ``a massive infusion of capital and contacts will have the best chance of encouraging reform.'' At the worst, tightening the embargo might provoke a bloody revolution that would not serve Washington's interest in a peaceful transition, says Gillian Gunn, director of the Cuba Project at Georgetown University. Most likely, the bill will not affect Cuba much at all. ``The standard of living has already collapsed by 50%, but the repressive apparatus remains efficient and loyal,'' she argues. For 36 years, dissident Cubans have calculated that their chances of reaching...
...March 10, 1993, in Pensacola, Florida, Michael Griffin, a "deeply religious" man, shot physician David Gunn three times in the back. Gunn was on his way into a health care facility where he offered reproductive services, including abortion. The response of the anti-choice (they ironically call themselves "pro-life") community? Operation Rescue's Randall Terry called the killing of Dr. Gunn "an inappropriate, repulsive act." The U.S. Catholic Conference said the "violence of the killing makes a mockery of the pro-life cause...
...legal, they now are trying to make it inaccessible. As Operation Rescue's Randall Terry himself admits, "We've found the weak link is the doctor. We're going to expose them. We're going to humiliate them." Terry is the one who distributed old-style "Wanted" posters with Gunn's picture, home phone number and address. The posters read, "We need your help to stop Dr. David Gunn. "They...