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...another season of assaults. Melbourne is now the site of a 12-week training camp, organized by Operation Rescue, where about 25 men are learning tactics for blockades. Pro-choice activists who are monitoring the group contend that the men are also being instructed in how to stalk and harass. The convergence of pro-life forces has placed great strain on the area's sole abortion clinic, where about 30 protesters have been picketing for the past month. Merritt, the clinic counselor whose son was harassed, says when the murder of the doctor was announced to the protesters, they took...
These men shamelessly told viewers how they would treat openly gay military personnel: "I'd harass them," said one. "Hazings, you know, stuff like that." Another man issued a more ominous warning: "People fall overboard," he said casually. "It happens...
Last May, the suspended guard publicly charged that Dowling permitted security supervisor Thomas F. Henaghan to harass him regularly for two years. He also said Dowling retaliated against him when he complained about the harassment. Henaghan has denied the allegation, saying that the suspended guard was a problem employee...
...much for protect and serve. The HUPD, whose salaries I subsidize, arrest homeless people for taking cans out of dumpsters. They participate in elaborate, risky drug stings with other local police departments. They break up perfectly good, totally harmless parties on a whim. They are even alleged to racially harass students and each other, and then refuse to investigate that properly...
Since 1990 at least 28 states have passed "stalking laws" that make it a crime to threaten, follow or harass someone. Congress this month may take up the Violence Against Women bill, which would increase penalties for federal sex crimes; provide $300 million to police, prosecutors and courts to combat violent crimes against women; and reinforce state domestic-violence laws. Most women, of course, are not looking to put their partners in jail; they just want the violence to stop...