{"id":9503,"date":"2010-08-11T10:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2010-08-11T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:08:30","slug":"a-canadian-prisoner-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-canadian-prisoner-of-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian prisoner of conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 and\"Add undoubtedly deserves to serve a stretch in the clink, Linda Gibbons is largely ignored by the mainstream media, although there is this article<\/a> in today\u2019s National Post:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The underlying behaviour of the Crown has been to delay doing its duty \u201cand now 16 years later is taking advantage of its dereliction,\u201d lawyer Nicolas Rouleau told Judge Mara Greene in a Toronto courtroom.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cvoicelessness of the unborn,\u201d a supporter, Father Tony Van Hee, explained.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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