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Linda Gibbons jailed again

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From here:

At 11:02 Wednesday morning, Linda Gibbons sat uncomfortably, hands cuffed behind her back, in the rear seat of a Toronto Police squad car.

She was taken first to 53 Division, transferred to 55 Division where all women are held overnight pending their first court appearance, and is expected to be paraded for a show-cause hearing Thursday morning.

She is an unrepentant recidivist, a hopeless repeat offender.

She is a serious criminal.

Gibbons doesn’t count her arrests, but probably she’s been in the back seat of squad cars a couple of dozen times in the past two decades — and that’s including the five years she took off to care for her dying father.

She has spent an astonishing total of 10 years and seven months behind bars.

She has spent an astonishing total of 10 years and seven months behind bars.

I’ve written about people convicted of gun offences, serious drug offences, sex assault, drunk driving, child abuse and manslaughter who have done significantly less time.

Gibbons’ crime is worse.

She’s a veteran pro-life protester outside Toronto abortion clinics. She’s on the wrong side (the pro-life side) of the wrong issue (abortion) and yet she persists in trying to make her voice heard.

Before Linda Gibbons arrives at the abortion clinic, she knows she will be arrested yet she keeps doing it. I’m not sure it makes much difference to the blatantly evil absence of abortion restrictions in Canada, but it’s hard not to admire her tenacity.

Why does she keep doing it? Perhaps, to paraphrase Henry David Thoreau’s observation, because under a government which murders any unjustly, the true place for a just man is a prison.

Linda Gibbons arrested again

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Four police cruisers, three security cars and two sheriff’s officers showed up to arrest abortion protester Linda Gibbons yesterday. She did not manage to overpower them, but you can’t be too careful with 65 year old Christian grannies.

From here:

Just days after Linda Gibbons won an appeal and was acquitted of disobeying a court order over a previous demonstration at the “Morgentaler Clinic” in Toronto, she was arrested at the same abortion facility this morning.

It took police personnel in four cruisers, as well as three Garda World security cars and two sheriff’s officers, to take the diminutive grandmother into custody at around 11:30 a.m., some two-and-a-half hours after she first appeared at the site, pacing back and forth with pamphlets in hand. She was bearing her usual placard depicting a crying infant with the words, “Why, mom? When I have so much love to give.”

There is an abortion law in Canada after all

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Unfortunately it is not a law that protects unborn babies: in Canada, an unborn baby can be aborted at any stage in a woman’s pregnancy.

There are laws, though, that protect the fragile sensibilities of abortion clinics and their clientele by enforcing a buffer zone around the clinic preventing pro-life demonstrators holding up signs or engaging in the ultimate act of civil disobedience: praying.

Hence, Linda Gibbons – who seems determined to illustrate Thoreau’s idea that under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison  – was once again arrested for carrying a sign with a picture of a baby.

To make sure the 63-year-old grandmother doesn’t make a break for it and go sprinting off down Hillsdale Avenue, leaping over cars and knocking down innocent pedestrians, four brave police officers seize, subdue and handcuff her before bundling her into a waiting car.

Linda Gibbons spends 3 months in jail on outdated injunction

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Linda Gibbons, a 63 year old great grandmother has just spent three months in jail for silently protesting outside the Morgentaler abortion clinic. The arrest was for violating a court injunction designed to prevent her protest – except the injunction was invalid because it was out of date.

So while a harmless little old lady is illegally incarcerated for three months because she protested the killing of unborn babies, an assortment of degenerate yahoos are allowed to break numerous bye-laws by camping in a Toronto park to protest capitalism, all the while being enthusiastically cheered on by Church, union and batty journalists. That’s called social justice in this funny old world.

From here:

After three months in prison, Linda Gibbons was found not guilty on a charge of disobeying a court order and released from custody to the hugs of supporters in a downtown Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon. Justice Alphonse T. Lacavera determined Sheriff Peter Krause improperly read the text of an outdated injunction when he directed that she be arrested outside the Morgentaler Clinic (known corporately as “Lexogest Inc.”) abortion site this past August 4.

How many police officers does it take to arrest one 69 year old grandmother?

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Six, including a deputy sheriff. In fairness to the police officers, she was armed with a pretty menacing placard.

From here:

TORONTO, August 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – LifeSiteNews reporter and managing director Steve Jalsevac was live-blogging and taking photos from the Mogentaler abortion mill on Hillsdale Ave in Toronto this morning as pro-life activist Linda Gibbons was arrested.  Gibbons has spent 8 of the last 14 years in jail for breaking a 1994 ‘temporary’ court injunction which forbids pro-life presence outside various abortion centers in Toronto.

Gibbons arrived at the Morgentaler abortion mill this morning shortly before 9am and was arrested just after 11am.  As is her normal practice Gibbons paced back and forth silently in front of the mill carrying a sign with a live baby’s photo reading: “Why Mom When I have so much Love to Give”.

She spoke to several women entering the centre to offer them aid to carry their pregnancies to term.

Six police officers took part in the arrest, including the sheriff and deputy.  Gibbons was read the injunction and led to the squad car peacefully.  While in years past she sat immobile allowing the officers to carry her to the vehicle, the 69-year-old grandmother walked with them this morning.

 

 

A Canadian prisoner of conscience

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Yes there is one: her name is Linda Gibbons, a harmless grandmother who happens to believe that murdering unborn babies is wrong. Unlike Omar Khadar, who is seldom out of the media andAdd an Image undoubtedly deserves to serve a stretch in the clink, Linda Gibbons is largely ignored by the mainstream media, although there is this article in today’s National Post:

Linda Gibbons, an anti-abortion activist who has spent eight of the past 16 years behind bars for continually breaking a temporary injunction around a Toronto abortion clinic, has been abused by a legal system that has failed to deal with her in a proper venue and in a timely fashion, her lawyers told a provincial court judge on Tuesday.

The underlying behaviour of the Crown has been to delay doing its duty “and now 16 years later is taking advantage of its dereliction,” lawyer Nicolas Rouleau told Judge Mara Greene in a Toronto courtroom.

Daniel Santoro also argued that Ms. Gibbons should never have been arrested nearly 20 times for breaching the temporary injunction, which a civil court issued in 1994 at the request of the then NDP government.

Once inside the courtroom, her supporters stood silently as the 62-year-old defendant, whose skin looked nearly grey and who walked with a noticeable stoop, was brought in handcuffed. Ms. Gibbon sat through the two-hour hearing with her head down. She has never spoken at any of her court appearances, believing silence is part of her protest for the “voicelessness of the unborn,” a supporter, Father Tony Van Hee, explained.

Fr. Van Hee has held a 21-year vigil outside of Parliament Hill to make abortion a criminal offence. He and others think Ms. Gibbons is a prisoner of conscience.

Eight years in prison; not for committing a crime but for having the guts to stand against real criminals – abortion providers and those who support them. All brought to you by the party of compassion, the NDP.