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...Tiller unapologetically represented the most controversial aspect of the pro-choice cause: late-term abortions. In death, antiabortion activists fear he could boost the cause. They recall the public revulsion at the murder of Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola, Fla., in 1994, and the sniper killing of Dr. Barnett Slepian near Buffalo, N.Y., in 1998. Those and other acts of violence created a groundswell - if not in favor of abortion rights, then certainly against the antiabortion movement...
...anymore for one simple reason: other passengers. "A terrorist who jumps up with box cutters will probably be beaten to death," says Brian Jenkins, a security expert with the Rand Corp. That said, some security professionals say they're indebted to Heatwole. "That kid is my hero," says Charles Slepian, head of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center. "He got us to pay attention to what many of us have known since 9/11--that security at airports is all smoke and mirrors." That may be overstating it, but even Admiral James Loy, the outgoing head of the TSA, admits that Heatwole...
...promulgate all the regulations that the Secretary of Transportation wants, but the problem is who enforces them," says Charles Slepian, a New York-based attorney and outspoken critic of the FAA. "You cannot declare war against terrorists and then ask Continental Airlines to fight the battle...
...waive that. If this act is unprecedented at all, it is so only in its scale. Consider these two: Eric Rudolph, charged with various bombings of abortion clinics and suspected in the bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta, and James Kopp, arrested for the murder of Dr. Bernard Slepian. If they had the opportunity to blow up a building full of abortion providers, do you think they would pause even a moment? Osama bin Laden and Associates are no more evil, or more vicious, than Rudolph, Kopp, et al., just smarter, richer, more numerous, and a lot better connected...
ARRESTED. JAMES KOPP, 46, radical anti-abortion activist on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list; for the 1998 shooting death of New York abortion doctor Barnett Slepian; at a post office in Dinan, France. Kopp was on the run for two years. In the U.S., he could face the death penalty, but his arrest in France may complicate prosecution. French law prohibits extradition of foreign nationals to countries where they can be sentenced to death...