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Could 8, 2018
Operation Rescue is the biggest civil disobedience motion in
American historical past. It even dwarfs the civil rights motion, with
over fifty thousand folks having been arrested between 1988 and
1992 for nonviolently blockading abortion clinics. But most individuals,
even most Catholics, don’t know the story. On the uncommon events
when it has been lined by the media, it has been falsely and
laughably portrayed as violent and extremist.
As we speak’s episode is one thing of an oral historical past of Operation
Rescue, informed by Invoice Cotter, head of OR Boston, who spent 19 months
in jail for his involvement with the protests. You’ll additionally hear
from CatholicCulture.org’s personal Phil Lawler, who supplied the general public
face of OR Boston whereas Invoice was in jail, and likewise wrote a ebook
concerning the motion in 1992.
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Hyperlinks
Phil Lawler’s ebook, Operation Rescue: A Problem to the
Nation’s Conscience
https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Rescue-Problem-Nations-Conscience/dp/0879735066
Operation Rescue Boston http://orboston.org/
Operation Rescue nationwide web site http://www.operationrescue.org/
Footage of police brutality towards Rescuers through the “Summer time
of Mercy”, during which tens of 1000’s of pro-lifers flocked to
Wichita and 1000’s have been arrested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSPto_gQ5CU
Footage of L.A. police breaking a Rescuer’s arm with nunchucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6H-8_VE6Oc
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Timestamps:
Invoice Cotter interview
3:00 Description of a rescue
6:49 Techniques to delay police from dragging folks away
10:13 Components that saved Operation Rescue from persevering with to
function as a mass motion blockading abortion clinics after its
heyday within the late 80s and early 90s: courtroom injunctions, most
folks unwilling to go to jail for longer than a weekend
12:07 The general public concerned weren’t activist sorts and
the rescues weren’t demonstrations. That they had a particular concrete
purpose: on that day, at the moment, in that place, to forestall infants
from being killed
14:31 In accordance with Phil Lawler’s ebook Operation Rescue,
in between 1988 and 1992 over 50,000 Rescuers had been
arrested—about six occasions as many arrests as throughout the complete civil
rights motion! So why don’t extra folks learn about OR? (Want I
have requested?)
17:00 Lack of assist and even hostility from some Catholic
clergy in the present day in the direction of pro-life motion
18:19 Police brutality towards Rescuers in West Hartford, CT and
elsewhere
22:22 Invoice spent 19 months in jail
27:15 Combined response to OR in Boston
29:19 The genesis of OR; the early days; getting increasingly more
consideration
34:06 Invoice’s participation in Rescues outdoors Boston; Rescues
accompanying St. JPII’s go to to the US in 1987; the Summer time of
Mercy in Wichita
37:39 What’s OR doing in the present day?
39:54 Is it true that the younger persons are turning into extra
pro-life?
42:05 Studying about Operation Rescue is a problem to our
complacency and desensitization to the continued toleration of
abortion. Why shouldn’t I be in jail proper now?
47:51 Significance of prayer
49:28 How folks can be taught extra and become involved with OR
50:31 Present indicators of hope for the pro-life motion;
eschatological hope
Phil Lawler interview
55:12 How Phil acquired concerned with Operation Rescue
56:35 His first impression of OR folks
57:52 Phil was the general public face of OR Boston whereas Invoice Cotter
was in jail
58:47 Being arrested
59:55 Phil’s interactions with the media on behalf of OR,
private expertise of media bias
1:02:00 How the archdiocese of Boston handled OR
1:04:07 The media and others routinely accused OR of violence;
Ted Kennedy made a speech saying OR had “a coverage of firebombing
and even homicide”(!!!)
1:04:59 The optimism of the pro-life motion right now
1:07:52 The draconian penalties judges imposed on the
protesters
1:10:24 Why achieve this few Catholics learn about OR?
1:11:02 Couldn’t the Rescuers have referred to as the bluff on these
lengthy jail sentences and introduced the entire thing to a standstill?
Phil provides his personal private reply
1:13:27 Joan Andrews, the Dorothy Day of the trendy pro-life
motion; in the present day’s Purple Rose Rescues
1:15:20 This week’s excerpt: Pope Benedict XVI, Deus
Caritas Est
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