{"id":23282,"date":"2015-09-02T20:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23282"},"modified":"2015-09-02T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:56:28","slug":"linda-gibbons-jailed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/linda-gibbons-jailed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Gibbons jailed again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/christie-blatchford-this-protester-has-served-10-years-and-seven-months-in-jail-and-no-one-cares\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23284\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pjt-lindagibbons-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pjt-lindagibbons-10.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pjt-lindagibbons-10-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/>At 11:02 Wednesday morning, Linda Gibbons sat uncomfortably, hands cuffed behind her back, in the rear seat of a Toronto Police squad car.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>She is an unrepentant recidivist, a hopeless repeat offender.<\/p>\n<p>She is a serious criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbons doesn\u2019t count her arrests, but probably she\u2019s been in the back seat of squad cars a couple of dozen times in the past two decades \u2014 and that\u2019s including the five years she took off to care for her dying father.<\/p>\n<p>She has spent an astonishing total of 10 years and seven months behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>She has spent an astonishing total of 10 years and seven months behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written about people convicted of gun offences, serious drug offences, sex assault, drunk driving, child abuse and manslaughter who have done significantly less time.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbons\u2019 crime is worse.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s a veteran pro-life protester outside Toronto abortion clinics. She\u2019s on the wrong side (the pro-life side) of the wrong issue (abortion) and yet she persists in trying to make her voice heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before Linda Gibbons arrives at the abortion clinic, she knows she will be arrested yet she keeps doing it. I\u2019m not sure it makes much difference to the blatantly evil absence of abortion restrictions in Canada, but it\u2019s hard not to admire her tenacity.<\/p>\n<p>Why does she keep doing it? Perhaps, to paraphrase Henry David Thoreau\u2019s observation, because <em>under a government which murders any unjustly, the true place for a just man is a prison.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/linda-gibbons-jailed-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022,2193],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-linda-gibbons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}