Pro-life Protestors arrested; report civil rights violated

Pro-life protesters who were arrested on a public sidewalk near a high school in Birmingham, Alabama on Thursday have accused police of violating their ‘basic civil rights.’

The Survivors Campus Life Tour said that nine protesting group members were standing on a public sidewalk near Parker High School distributing educational literature to passing students. Two of the group’s members held large signs and conversed with students on the public sidewalk.

According to the group, a campus officer called the police department when they refused to leave the area.

Over a dozen squad cars reportedly arrived at the school and the police officers began arresting members of the group.

Lahoci Franco, 24, one of the sign holders, was the first arrested. According to the group’s press release, protestor Rev. Henry “Bud” Shaver, 30, was told that the sidewalk was not public property for “non-citizens of Birmingham.”

After other protesters were arrested, another group of Survivors members began packing up their van when officers reportedly approached and arrested them as well.

The protesters then were taken to the Birmingham City Jail, where they were reportedly forced to change into orange jumpsuits. Survivors Campus Life Tour says the protesters were held for six hours without water or access to a phone. Read the rest here.

These young people are the new generation of civil rights protestors; like their predecessors in the '60's their rights are being violated and they are being treated in an unjust fashion.

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  1. Hussein Obama and his Gestapo do not like anyone who opposes them...

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  2. I was one of the original civil rights protesters, arrested many times, and I think this is nothing like that. In 1965, I knew no one who believed that a black person was a threat to a quality environment, or who would argue that the right to kill a black person was each American's fundamental choice, the restriction of which amounted to the slavery and horror of motherhood. I knew no one who counted the dollars and cents of anyone's illness, whether that person was 'worth' the expenditure, the way CNN took the octomom debate, arguing by suggestion and innuendo that the doctors should have forceably aborted all but one infant. That idea has spread like a virus already, it is now common to hear it related to rescue situations and most chillingly, I heard this waiting in line at Jewel Osco, Mom's latest illness.

    No, this is new, this is much worse. The hatred that was directed at us in the civil rights was not general in the population, even in the south. This hatred is against the human race and it has been woven into every fabric, forms the subtext of every popularized film, is the platform for every debate: wouldn't it be better if we just dried up and blew away, and leave the earth to the rich, and their toadies? Protesters will never, ever find themselves lionized for their efforts, and, as in France, I am worried that we will soon begin to be stoned. As a Catholic, I would consider it an honor to die for the preservation of the same mankind Christ died for.

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