This is evil.
This 75 year old woman, Paula Harlow was arrested and convicted by the Biden DOJ for protesting in front of an abortion clinic in 2020. This wasn’t one of those mostly peaceful protests. It was an actually peaceful protest.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee, sentenced Harlow to 24 months in prison.
According to Harlow’s husband, she has some serious health issues. He pleaded with the judge, saying that he feared she’d die in prison. In fact he requested that he be sent to prison with her. “I want to go with her. I want to be there for her. She’s going to need me. She can’t continue to live without me.”
Ugh.
The judge said about the pro-lifer that she’s so pro-life that she should honor the “tenets” of her religion and not die in jail.
This is cruelty. Pray for these poor folks being sent to jail for standing up for the unborn. There is unequal justice in this country. You can burn down cities, you can play whack-a-mole with passing stranger’s heads, you can shoplift, and nothing will happen. But you dare stand up for your Christian faith and you will pay a terrible price.
This judge couldn’t conceal her glee in sentencing this poor woman to possibly life in prison. She just had to mock her. What is wrong with these people?
HT TGP
June 13, 2024 at 9:26 am
Ive said some stupid things in my life, but….wow. That judge proves that ignorance and arrogance do not make a sweet cocktail when mixed.
June 13, 2024 at 10:11 am
can she not appeal this? I will donate to an appeal.
June 13, 2024 at 2:40 pm
There is very little true justice left in this country. Peaceful elderly are locked up. But violent criminals can get off. All sorts of unsavory ones have walked into this country to set us up. This judge and others who hold abortion, the murder of the unborn, to be the most sacred thing will answer if not in this life, in the next.
June 13, 2024 at 5:38 pm
It wasn’t peaceful. It was forceful. She blocked private property, trespassed, and prevented business from being conducted. She shouldn’t have done that if she didn’t want to go to prison. I don’t feel sorry for her. She’s an adult. She made her bed, now she gets to lie in it. Actions have consequences. When you commit a crime knowingly, you shouldn’t expect to be exempted from punishment just because you think you’re right.
Notice that no prolife spokespeople are doing these sorts of things and going to prison. Certainly not Lila Rose. Her life is too valuable and cushy to risk going to prison. But they encourage others to protest criminally, and this is the result.
June 14, 2024 at 6:31 am
“She blocked private property, trespassed, and prevented business from being conducted”. Exactly the absolute minimum that should be done when people are being systematically murdered within the building. In a sane world, grandma would be supported by a tatical swat team, the occupants arrested, the practitioners charged with crimes against humanity, tried and when found guilty [which they most certainly would] publicly hung. Helena Smith is as corrupt as the judge.
June 17, 2024 at 4:19 pm
This is a complete misunderstanding or mischaracterization of the pro-life movement. Decades ago, such sit-ins were common–because they were usual in many social justice efforts at the time. Even then it was only a small percentage of people who risked prison to stage them. Everyone understood that this was a level of commitment most did not and could not risk or accomplish. It was never something prolife advocates expected of everyone. Over time, the kinds of protests and other demonstrations that were found to be effective and desirable changed. Now several small groups of pro-life groups have come to the conclusion that this sort of action is called for again They ask that others support them and pray for them, they don’t expect that most people will join them. It is wrong and cynical to claim that leaders of other groups “send them off” to do these things while they remain safe. And while it’s true that all these people know they can go to jail for what they do, it’s callous to rejoice in an elderly woman’s possible life sentence because “she disrupted a business and knew what she was doing.” She disrupted the “business” of killing innocent unborn children. Bringing attention to the killing was the point. Whether it was a good idea or not is worth a discussion–but judges being willing to jail old women for it, and comments like this one, show that it’s very easy to avoid that discussion.