Petey is Talking to Himself
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Call It A Comeback
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Says City’s actions to block opening motivated by politics, not law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 13, 2007
CHICAGO – Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area today asked a federal court to allow its new health center in Aurora to open as scheduled on September 18, saying the City of Aurora has no legal basis for blocking the opening and that its revocation of a temporary operating permit is motivated solely by political opposition to the constitutionally protected right to abortion services.
The request filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago asks the Court to issue an injunction barring the City of Aurora from preventing the scheduled September 18 opening. The City has revoked a temporary occupancy permit issued on August 16 pending completion of a review of the permitting process that won’t likely be completed until after September 18.
“Aurora’s actions … are not related to any legitimate municipal concern, but instead are motivated solely by political opposition to the fact the Planned Parenthood provides abortion services as part of a broad range of health care services for its patients,” the filing states. “Accordingly, Planned Parenthood seeks injunctive relief … to prevent Aurora from continuing to deprive Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected right to equal protection under the law.”
The City of Aurora’s refusal to allow Planned Parenthood to open pending a review of the permitting process is “both undefined in scope and indefinite in nature,” argues PP/CA. Without intervention by the Court, “Planned Parenthood may never be able to operate its facility in Aurora.”
As to claims by Planned Parenthood opponents that the organization “misled” the City about the type of medical facility it would operate, today’s filing argues that those accusations are factually and legally wrong – and irrelevant.
“The City of Aurora’s fig leaf argument that it was ‘misled’ about the nature of the services that Planned Parenthood intends to provide at its facility is neither factually nor legally persuasive,” PP/CA says.
As a factual matter, the complaint notes that Planned Parenthood had publicly announced its intention to operate a medical facility providing a full range of reproductive services – including birth control, family planning counseling and abortions – in a front-page Chicago Tribune story in late July, well before City issued the temporary occupancy permit on August 16.
“Only when protestors began appearing at the Planned Parenthood facility in late August and testifying at public hearings before the City of Aurora, did the status of Planned Parenthood’s facility change,” PP/CA argues.
Furthermore, PP/CA issued more than $8 million in tax-exempt bonds through the Illinois Development Finance Authority in May 2007, a process that required extensive documentation and notices published in newspapers. In those disclosures, PP/CA disclosed that the named developer of the facility, Gemini Office Development, was affiliated with PP/CA.
Finally, the complaint points out that architectural drawings provided to Aurora during the permitting process displayed not only the surgical rooms in the facility, but also the security measures built into its design. These included bullet-proof drywall and bullet-proof glass for the entry lobby.
“None of this was hidden from the City in any way,” the filing says.
On legal grounds, Aurora’s implied claim that it was somehow misled are even less persuasive, PP/CA argues. It cites a 2001 federal case in New Hampshire that parallels the Aurora situation, in which the court issued an injunction blocking the city of Manchester, N.H. from preventing the opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic after public criticism.
In that case, the court noted: “If the issuing authority was ‘misled’ as to the identity of the prospective tenant who would be providing medical services at the site, that identity would have been irrelevant to any impartial decision … {T]hat the proposed tenant proposed to engage in constitutionally protected activities in providing medical services – such as providing abortion and contraception counseling and services – would have been equally irrelevant.”
Your many assertions about the Pro-Life Action League (“the League”) and Joseph Scheidler, its director, are red herrings as they have nothing to do with the Aurora protests. But they too are false and misleading.
It depends on your meaning of nothing to do with the protests. If one thinks financially supporting Fox Valley Families is having something to do with the protests, that would be inacurate.
The efforts of Families Against Planned Parenthood are underwritten by the Pro-Life Action League. Please consider making a donation to the League to help fund this campaign.
Joe Scheidler is the Executive of the non-profit 990 here. You can also see Eric Scheidler is counted as a key personnel and the Communication Director. IOW, Fox Valley Families or Families against Planned Parenthood are a project of Pro-Life Action.
Eric Scheidler, who resides with his family in Aurora and coordinates Fox Valley Families, has never been arrested let alone convicted of any criminal act in connection with pro-life or anti-abortion activity. He has never advocated violence against either persons or property. Nor has he engaged in any such violence in opposing abortion, or otherwise. Nor has any other coordinator or leader of Fox Valley Families. Nor to our knowledge has any violent act been committed, much less condoned, by any participant in the 40-day vigil in opposition to your new facility. Protest against your facility has been entirely peaceable and prayerful.
It’s important to dispel the myth that PLAN engaged in nothing but peaceful, First Amendment-protected activity. It did not. PLAN’s blockades, invasions and the other RICO violations that the jury found PLAN committed are acts of force and violence. The jury heard testimony from patients and clinic workers who were attacked during PLAN’s blockades, including blockades at which Joseph Scheidler and Randall Terry were personally on the scene. One doctor, Dr. Susan Wicklund, was grabbed and slammed against a car as she tried to get through the blockade and into her office. Patients were tripped and pushed to the ground. One clinic administrator was grabbed by her hair and thrown to the ground by an Operation Rescue leader. Another was viciously choked by Operation Rescue protesters, leaving serious bruises on her neck. One patient, who was trying to enter the clinic — not for an abortion but for post-operative care following cancer surgery — was beaten with an Operation Rescue protester’s sign. The protesters clawed at her and attacked her, causing her sutures to rupture, and she passed out. This is not speech or advocacy.
This case is not about First Amendment activity. My clients have never objected to peaceful picketing, leafletting, or even to hateful, ugly speech by abortion opponents. Calling our clients “murderers,” “whores” and “sluts” is not a RICO violation, and we have never claimed it is. The First Amendment protects speech, even ugly speech. But it does not protect the acts of force and violence on which our suit was based. Our case was not based on speech or advocacy, but on acts and threats of force and violence.
The letter isn’t a serious threat, it’s trying to change the subject. If Pro-Life Action League tried to make the argument that the Fox Valley Families group is independent and thus Joe Scheidler irrelevant, a judge would laugh them out of the courtroom. It’s a diversion, plain and simple to avoid talking about the curious incidents of violence wherever Joe Scheidler shows up.
Gura is involved in Scheidler’s group Pro-Life Action
On Sept. 2, the editors of this newspaper opined it “would not be a wise move” for “abortion opponents” to picket the homes of Planned Parenthood employees “in an attempt to bring shame on those who work in a facility that performs abortions.”
The day we start accepting advice from a newspaper that refuses to even call us by our correct title, pro-life, we are doomed to failure.
The opinion piece fails to note that protesting in front of abortionist’s house is nothing new. Since 2002 I personally have led more than four dozen pickets in front of the Inverness house of an abortionist. In fact, on June 4, 2004 this newspaper ran a story headlined “It’s peaceful, but protesters out of place at doc’s home,” which reported that the police “have not made (any) arrests nor have they received complaints from neighbors.”
So what exactly happens when we picket in front of an abortionist’s house?
We line the road (staying on the public right-of-way) holding bright yellow and black signs warning that an abortionist lives in this neighborhood. We hold large posters showing stages of fetal development as well as a smiling baby captioned LIFE. While standing (for two hours) we silently pray for the abortionist to use his God-given talents to save lives instead of ending them. We end with Bible readings and a group prayer.
That’s it. No crazed anarchists, no ugly confrontations, no violence. We are pro-life, and we respect and follows God’s laws, including “Thou shalt not kill. “It goes without saying that a five-year record without a single arrest for any reason, not even a single parking ticket, belies the hyped up editorial fears.
Chapter 37 of Joseph Scheidler’s landmark book, “CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion” is titled “Picket the Abortionist’s Homes.” Scheidler states, “If it were widely known that they are abortionists they night be very uncomfortable in their communities, and their communities might be uncomfortable with them.”
Thanks to our continuing efforts, all of the abortionist’s neighbors know how he earns a living and, judging from the large number of positive comments I have received, most of them are not comfortable having someone in his profession living in their million dollar plus subdivision. We will never stop praying that he will adopt a more honorable profession, one which allows him to hold himself proud before his fellow man.
Dan Gura
Lake Zurich
Of course, that’s not all Pro-Life Action has done. They are a direct action group that split with Right to Life over it being too timid. Yesterday, I covered two of those actions:
Mar. 26, 1986 — Members of Pro Life Action Network (PLAN), a coalition co-founded by Scheidler and which Scheidler called the “pro-life mafia”, invade a clinic in Pensacola, FL. They throw the clinic administrator down the stairs, injure a NOW chapter president, and destroy medical equipment. The clinic is forced to close for days. According to NOW, “Joe Scheidler stands outside during the invasion, praising those who went in and taking credit for the mayhem.” (From the NOW website: http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/reproductive/scheidler-timeline.html)
As I mentioned when Keyes came to the state:
For example, in Delaware, Joseph Scheidler and three other large men illegally entered a clinic, trapping the clinic administrator inside. The men put the phones on hold ? effectively cutting her off from the outside world ? and told her they were there to “case the place.” This was shortly after several clinics had been bombed. In another incident, Scheidler went to Pensacola and met with John Burt and Joan Andrews. Together, they discussed and planned an event to take place at the Ladies Center.
The next day, while Scheidler was outside doing “P.R.” (he did not want to get arrested), Burt, Andrews and two others burst into the clinic, shoved the administrator to the floor and slammed an escort up against a wall. Then they went upstairs to wreck equipment.
Still more evidence of force and violence came as the jury heard from a doctor who had been stalked, her house surrounded, and her life threatened. She was also physically assaulted by Monica Miller and Matt Trewhella.
The jury also heard evidence of scores of blockades, which deprived people of access to the clinics, and where people were assaulted for daring to try to enter. One woman, who was going to see her doctor for postoperative surgery (surgery that in no way was related to abortion and that had been done to try and save her reproductive organs), was hit over the head with a picketer’s sign. And the jury heard more.
If you are around Aurora:
On the Ground Sign up to volunteer locally http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=mVbQSX7JNAsBqRJbMj_2fxYw_3d_3d
Pick up a sign to post in your yard.The signs say “This family supports Planned Parenthood.” Here’s where you can pick up your sign:
Aurora Planned Parenthood Health Center
3051 E. New York Ave.,
Aurora, IL (at the corner of New York Ave. and Oakhurst St.)
Monday thru Thurs.: 12 pm to 2 pm & 5 pm to 7 pm
Friday & Saturday: 12 pm to 2 pm
Online Ribbon campaign: We are asking Planned Parenthood supporters in Illinois and across the country to stand with us by filling out a form to have a ribbon in their name tied outside the clinic in Aurora.
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/aurora1/b0809htr08
Donate to keep our doors open:
https://secure.ga0.org/02/aurora1/b0809htr08
I always try and be respectful of those readers who are pro-life and that will continue and I respect the position. However, this is a legal clinic being attacked by extremists who want to not just ban abortion, but eliminate contraception and sex education work that Planned Parenthood does also. Also feel free to place these on your blog or other site:
I’ve made this point many times, but the ring leader of the Aurora protests has admitted it repeatedly.
Contraception is more the root cause of abortion than anything else”
Source: “Abortion foes’ new rallying point: Conservatives take on contraception,” Judith Graham, Chicago Tribune (Illinois), September 24, 2006
“I would like to outlaw contraception. … [C]ontraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure.”
Source: “Steinberg right on Bush,” Jeff Robertson, Chicago Sun Times, March 20, 2006
“Contraception is not the answer to this nation’s high abortion rate. On the contrary, flooding our society with contraceptives has only encouraged the kind of irresponsible sexual behavior and anti-child mentality that directly leads to abortion.”
Source: “Planned Parenthood Battles Scheidler over Contraception,” Pro-Life Action League, Christian NewsWire, October 23, 2006
“The issue of contraception is coming out of the closet and is becoming a major issue in the ongoing battle for souls.”
Source: Joe Scheidler, Action News Hotline, Wednesday 14 March – Thursday 15 March 2007 , http://www.prolifeaction.org/hotline/2007/0314.htm
He’s a direct action kind of guy:
Mar. 26, 1986 — Members of Pro Life Action Network (PLAN), a coalition co-founded by Scheidler and which Scheidler called the “pro-life mafia”, invade a clinic in Pensacola, FL. They throw the clinic administrator down the stairs, injure a NOW chapter president, and destroy medical equipment. The clinic is forced to close for days. According to NOW, “Joe Scheidler stands outside during the invasion, praising those who went in and taking credit for the mayhem.” (From the NOW website: http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/reproductive/scheidler-timeline.html)
As I mentioned when Keyes came to the state:
For example, in Delaware, Joseph Scheidler and three other large men illegally entered a clinic, trapping the clinic administrator inside. The men put the phones on hold ? effectively cutting her off from the outside world ? and told her they were there to “case the place.” This was shortly after several clinics had been bombed. In another incident, Scheidler went to Pensacola and met with John Burt and Joan Andrews. Together, they discussed and planned an event to take place at the Ladies Center.
The next day, while Scheidler was outside doing “P.R.” (he did not want to get arrested), Burt, Andrews and two others burst into the clinic, shoved the administrator to the floor and slammed an escort up against a wall. Then they went upstairs to wreck equipment.
Still more evidence of force and violence came as the jury heard from a doctor who had been stalked, her house surrounded, and her life threatened. She was also physically assaulted by Monica Miller and Matt Trewhella.
The jury also heard evidence of scores of blockades, which deprived people of access to the clinics, and where people were assaulted for daring to try to enter. One woman, who was going to see her doctor for postoperative surgery (surgery that in no way was related to abortion and that had been done to try and save her reproductive organs), was hit over the head with a picketer’s sign. And the jury heard more.
More on a fine fellow:
Scheidler vowed to stop abortion “by any means necessary.”
Source: Testimony of Fay Clayton counsel for the Certified Plaintiff Classes in National Organization for Women, Inc., et al Joseph M. Scheidler, et al., July 17, 1998
“You can try for 50 years to do it the nice, polite way, or you can do it next week the nasty way.”
Source: “Militant Abortion Opponent Playing by His Own Rules,” Hanke Gratteau Chicago Tribune, January 21, 1985
“We have shut down hundreds and hundreds of abortion clinics around the country.”
Source: Joseph Schiedler, Aug 2007, found on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a04QSZXrKo)
“I just wish I had a medal or some sort of battle scar for each time I was arrested.”
Source: Joseph Schiedler, Aug 2007, found on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a04QSZXrKo)
“I’m doing what I have to do. So what? I’ve got some misdemeanors … I don’t consider myself a criminal.”
Source: “Can Abortion Protesters Be Sued as Racketeers? – High Court to Decide,” Sharon Cohen, Associated Press, December 4, 1993.
“For instance, several years ago we tracked down a twelve-year-old girl who was going to have an abortion so that we could talk her out of it. Talking a woman out of having an abortion is not news. But tracking her down by using a private detective is.”
Source: Joseph Schiedler, The Director Pro Life Action League, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, 1985
Pat Buchanan called Scheidler the green beret of the pro-life movement.
Source: “MAN WITH A MISSION JOE SCHEIDLER PULLS NO PUNCHES IN HIS CRUSADE AGAINST ABORTION,” Linda Witt, Chicago Tribune, August 11, 1985 Sunday
“[Scheidler] bragged about his unusual actions, such as absconding with fetal remains (Wash. Post, 12/6/93) or picketing the homes of doctors (“Home Pickets Work,” USA Today, 10/19/95).”
Source: People for the American Way Website: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/05/racketeering_ca.html
So the Aurora City Council is bending over backwards for a guy who thinks it’s appropriate to track down people thinking of getting a fully legal medical procedure with private detectives. Think about that for a minute.
Illinois Family Institute gets into the whine game:
Apparently, the “Welcome” signs at Holiday Inn hotels in Illinois do not apply to pro-family Christians and conservatives. In the space of a week, the hotel has discriminated against both Americans For Truth, a Naperville-based group that fights the “gay” activist agenda, and the Minuteman Project, which works for the enforcement of immigration laws.
On Monday, Holiday Inn Select in Naperville, Illinois cancelled Americans For Truth’s longstanding reservation for its October 6th banquet — with General Manager Dennis Igeodennis@naperselct.com; 630-505-4900) citing “safety” issues for the hotel’s patrons. The pro-family group — run by Peter LaBarbera, former Executive Director of Illinois Family Institute — was well into the planning stages for the fundraising banquet when LaBarbera told the banquet coordinator of the possibility of a “gay” protest. Within days, Igoe was putting conditions on AFT’s banquet, and then he cancelled it altogether.
Thankfully, AFT has secured another venue for its banquet, in Lombard, but it had to change the date to Friday, Oct. 5th. Click HERE for more details on the banquet, featuring former lesbian Charlene Cothran and parents rights activist David Parker. Please support Peter and Americans For Truth — the only national group focusing solely on educating and alerting America to the real threat to freedom and children posed by the homosexual/bisexual/transgender movement. (Call 312-315-6152 or e-mail americansfortruth@comcast.net to book a ticket for the AFT banquet.)
Folks, using “safety” as a pretext to discriminate against pro-family Christians and conservatives is outrageous and probably illegal under Illinois’ Human Rights Act. We all know that Holiday Inn would never renege on the contract of a homosexual activist group just because it learned that there might be pro-family protests. I agree with my friend Pete that political correctness is turning America into a “nation of cowards.”
The sad fact is, committed Christians in Illinois and across the nation are becoming second-class citizens, and our very “freedom to be moral– that is, to live out our faith– is in jeopardy because of the aggressive homosexual agenda.
You can learn more about the discriminatory cancellation of Americans For Truth’s banquet from this online radio interview with LaBarbera on CWA’s website. Here are some other links:
Let me point out that this effort was started Petey, David and their allies and it’s their chickens coming home to roost:
Hotel Giant Warns Against Booking Sadistic Events 8/14/2002
By Robert H. KnightHotel Giant Warns Against Booking Sadistic Events
“Each of our brands spends millions of dollars in marketing royalties … to promote a positive image and family-friendly environment. Just one negative event can wipe out years of painstaking and expensive efforts….” By Robert H. KnightHotel franchisees should think twice before hosting any more sadistic sex events like “Vicious Valentine 5,” according to officials from a parent corporation that runs more than 6,000 hotels, including Howard Johnson’s, Ramada Inns, Days Inn, Fairfield Resorts, Knights Inn, Wingate Inns and several other hotel chains.
— Letter to hotel franchisees from Cendant CorporationIn a March 1 letter (full text below) that “every brand president sent out to their franchise system,” according to Liz Ryan Sax, senior manager of media relations for Cendant Corporation’s hotels, franchisees were warned about the consequences of hosting “controversial guests or groups that national interest groups find offensive.”
The letter, which Sax provided to Culture & Family Report, said, “you cannot expect to keep controversial activities secret, especially considering the power of the Internet to disseminate information.” The letter also noted that “one of Cendant Corporation’s hotel brands recently suffered adverse national publicity when a franchisee decided to host a meeting of sadomasochism ‘enthusiasts’ after another area hotel declined the business.”
The controversy began in February, when the Ramada O’Hare (Rosemont, Illinois) welcomed the sadomasochist and slave/master celebration, “Vicious Valentine 5 (VV5),” after the Radisson O’Hare had canceled the same event. “Beat Me in St. Louis” was held at the HOJO conference center at Lambert International Airport from April 26-28. “Beat Me” sported a dungeon equipped with medieval torture devices.
Participants of “VV5” boasted of a 30,000-square-foot dungeon equipped with 40 torture stations. The “Dungeon Rules” suggested use of “a tarp or drop cloth” for messy blood scenes and for other bodily fluids.
Two state chapters of Concerned Women for America — Illinois and Missouri — organized protests against the events. Kathy Valente, CWA Illinois director worked with radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to publicize the problem. Although the events went on as planned, the corporations received numerous e-mails, faxes, letters and phone calls urging them not to book such events.Valente issued a press release on February 6 that decried the “sexual torture” at “Vicious Valentine 5.” CWA-Missouri opposed a “Vicious Valentine 5” event in February at a St. Louis Ramada Inn and then led opposition to the St. Louis “Beat Me” event.
The Cendant letter warns franchisees not to schedule “controversial guests or groups that national interest groups find offensive.” The letter also states:
Each of our brands spends millions of dollars in marketing royalties … to promote a positive image and family-friendly environment. Just one negative event can wipe out years of painstaking and expensive efforts to establish goodwill and a positive image of the hotel and the brand in the community. CWA-Missouri and Illinois had exposed the convention’s seamy events, which featured workshops on bloodletting and other sadistic sex practices. In response, Susan Wright, spokesman for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF), a pro-sadism organization described by the New York Blade as a “gay-friendly group,” declared, “These are simply alternative forms of sexual expression that are safe, sane and consensual. It’s important that we realize that these religious groups are the real extremists.”“Let me get this straight,” said Joey Davis, CWA of Missouri director. “They beat each other up for pleasure, talk about ‘live-play cutting’ and bloodletting, and we’re the extremists?”In a February 14, 2002 press release, the NCSF announced a campaign to sue CWA and other “religious political extremists” for “defaming and interfering with legal contracts.”
“Now that discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual groups is becoming increasingly unacceptable in America, these extremists are turning their hate on other sexual minorities and targeting adults who engage in alternative sexual expression, such as SM practitioners and transgendered individuals,” Wright said in the release. Wright also accused Valente, who had taken the case to the O’Reilly Factor and other national media venues, of making “false and defamatory statements.”
“It’s Susan Wright who’s spreading misinformation,” Valente said Tuesday. “There’s nothing false about what we reported on these sadistic events. My facts come straight from their Web sites. I certainly don’t have the imagination to make this stuff up!
”The public is overwhelmingly on our side and Wright knows it. Otherwise, why would these groups have to hire security (often off-duty police)? They know that if Joe Q. Public stumbled upon a dungeon with people screaming at bloody torture stations, he’d be shocked! And if Joe’s kids were exposed to this, there’d definitely be a price to pay.“
The letter from the parent corporation did not surface until July 26, when the New York Blade, a homosexual newspaper, ran a story entitled ”HoJo says no.“ The article contained some factual errors, such as misidentifying Steven Belmonte as CEO of Cendant Corporation, whose CEO is Henry R. Silverman. Belmonte had headed the Ramada Inns division at the time and has since left the company.
”Our corporation does not host the events,“ Cendant’s Sax told Culture & Family Report. ”We do not own any of the hotels. They are individually owned and operated. We do require the hotel operators, when they enter into a license agreement with our corporation, to obey all local, state and federal laws. We feel the local government is the best judge on how the business should conduct itself with that particular community.“
Sax said that no one had contacted her at the time the controversy was at its peak, and she speculated that most of the comments were directed toward the local franchisees. Cendant also owns Coldwell Banker and Century 21 Realtors, Avis rental cars, Amerihost, Days Inn, Wingate Inns, and many other chains.
To contact Cendant Corporation or its Howard Johnson and Ramada Inn subsidiaries, go to http://www.cendant.com/contact
Or write:
Henry Silverman
Chairman, President and CEO
Cendant Corporation
9 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Your pals started it Petey. Deal.
LaBarbera Challenges Larry Handlin, aka Archpundit: Why Not Criticize ‘Gay’ Public Sex Enablers rather than me?
By Peter LaBarbera
Here’s a little exchange I had with St. Louis-based homosexual writer Larry Handlin of the liberal blog “Archpundit.” Handlin calls me “Petey” — something he learned in Putdown School — and he restates the tired ”gay” cliche of me and Americans For Truth as “obsessed,” purient perverts because we expose homosexual excesses — like the organized public “cruising” network that is part of Sen. Larry Craig’s current sex scandal. Here’s the exchange on Handlin’s blog:
Raise your hand if you think Petey isn’t obsessed….crickets
From the Idaho Values Association that Petey happily links to:
No member of the Republican Party in the 1860s could represent his party and be a slaveholder at the same time. Nor can the Republican Party of today speak with authority and clarity to the moral issues that confront our society and at the same time send ambivalent messages about sexual behavior. It is time for the Republican Party to be the party that defends the American family in word, deed, and by personal example.
Abolition and hating teh gay. The same thing really.
Vitter never shows up when you search Americans For Truth….hmmmm…Prostitution good–gay sex horrifying.