Linda Gibbons Now Serving Indeterminate Sentence for Life: June 2 Protest

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Linda Gibbons Now Serving Indeterminate Sentence for Life: June 2 Protest

by Theresa Casta

TORONTO, Ontario, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life prisoner of conscience and grandmother, Linda Gibbons, has served nearly 500 consecutive days in prison during the latest of her many lengthy imprisonments of the past fifteen years. Arrested for peaceful attempts to speak to women considering abortion in front of Toronto’s Scott abortion facility, her next court date is set for June 2nd. Gibbons’ biographer Gordon Truscott is organizing a peaceful protest Wednesday to show support for Linda outside the court house where her case will be heard.

Rather than confronting women entering the facility, Linda tries to talk to them on the sidewalk. But the abortion centre’s employees have repeatedly called police to remove her - in order to protect their “economic interests,” says Truscott - causing Linda to spend more than a total of seven years in prison since September 1994. (see Linda’s earlier arrest history)

Truscott told LifeSiteNews that Linda, who herself has had an abortion, is trying to help other women and save them from the pain and regret she has experienced. She has been arrested many times for violating the so-called “temporary” injunction of 1994 which has given Ontario abortion facilities an extraordinary 60-foot protestor-free zone for the past 16 years. Gibbons has also been accused of disturbing the peace and obstructing a peace officer.

Canada’s most often imprisoned pro-life sidewalk counsellor is currently being incarcerated for an indeterminate length of time, as opposed to her more common six month terms.

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10053102.html
 
Dear Mary,

On this your special day, please pray especially for Linda Gibbons. You visited Elizabeth when she was with child. Linda has done her best to visit many mothers with child to also minister to them, and has paid a high price already. Please let your joy be shared by Linda according to the Holy Will of your Son, Jesus.

From today’s liturgy of the Hours:

Today we celebrate the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: come, let us ring out our joy to the Lord.

Mid-morning reading (Terce) Judith 13:18-19 ©
May you be blessed, my daughter, by God Most High,
beyond all women on earth;
and may the Lord God be blessed,
the Creator of heaven and earth,
by whose guidance you cut off the head
of the leader of our enemies.

The trust you have shown
shall not pass from the memories of men,
but shall ever remind them
of the power of God.
 
How can she be held indeterminately?

I thought that was cruel and unusual punishment? Outside of terrorist or Military.

I thought the only time a Judge could use it was in Contempt of Court cases
Joining others in prayer for her and her family
 
kimmielittle said:
How can she be held indeterminately?

I thought that was cruel and unusual punishment? Outside of terrorist or Military.

I thought the only time a Judge could use it was in Contempt of Court cases
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This is happening in Canada not the US.Different laws.
 
Soutane said:
Linda Gibbons Now Serving Indeterminate Sentence for Life: June 2 Protest

by Theresa Casta

TORONTO, Ontario, May 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life prisoner of conscience and grandmother, Linda Gibbons, has served nearly 500 consecutive days in prison during the latest of her many lengthy imprisonments of the past fifteen years. Arrested for peaceful attempts to speak to women considering abortion in front of Toronto’s Scott abortion facility, her next court date is set for June 2nd. Gibbons’ biographer Gordon Truscott is organizing a peaceful protest Wednesday to show support for Linda outside the court house where her case will be heard.

Rather than confronting women entering the facility, Linda tries to talk to them on the sidewalk. But the abortion centre’s employees have repeatedly called police to remove her - in order to protect their “economic interests,” says Truscott - causing Linda to spend more than a total of seven years in prison since September 1994. (see Linda’s earlier arrest history)

Truscott told LifeSiteNews that Linda, who herself has had an abortion, is trying to help other women and save them from the pain and regret she has experienced. She has been arrested many times for violating the so-called “temporary” injunction of 1994 which has given Ontario abortion facilities an extraordinary 60-foot protestor-free zone for the past 16 years. Gibbons has also been accused of disturbing the peace and obstructing a peace officer.

Canada’s most often imprisoned pro-life sidewalk counsellor is currently being incarcerated for an indeterminate length of time, as opposed to her more common six month terms.

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10053102.html
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I guess they enforce their laws in Canada no matter how anyone feels about them. Sometimes you have to sacrifice for what you believe in.
 
Soutane said:
This is happening in Canada not the US.Different laws.
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I wonder if there will be any news stories concerning the political prisoners held in Canada.

Not likely considering how often they report on the oppression in North Korea or China. But it would seem the government in our neighbors to the North is rapidly becoming just as hostile to human rights.
 
I don’t know anything about Canadian law. But it seems to me that a person ought to have the right to speak freely on a sidewalk in front of an abortion clinic.

A woman is in jail for speech?
And for trying to ask women not to kill their unborn children?

That’s outrageous.
 
She is being held because she continuously goes into an exclusionary(granted to the abortuary by the Courts) “bubble-zone”,To pray and speak to Mothers about to abort.When she finishes a sentence or is released on bail she immediately returns and is rearrested.

People cannot be held in jail indefinitely in Canada unless they are suspected of terrorism(government policy as opposed to court mandate)or are what is termed "dangerous offendors"who are likely to commit additional crimes in the nature of rape and murder.Sort of like the three stike felony law in some US states but not as draconian.

The article itself(although I posted it)is vague on the point of law.I can only surmise that it is akin to “contempt of court”.And in this case who wouldn’t be contemptuous of Caersar?
 
Soutane said:
She is being held because she continuously goes into an exclusionary(granted to the abortuary by the Courts) “bubble-zone”,To pray and speak to Mothers about to abort.When she finishes a sentence or is released on bail she immediately returns and is rearrested.

People cannot be held in jail indefinitely in Canada unless they are suspected of terrorism(government policy as opposed to court mandate)or are what is termed "dangerous offenders"who are likely to commit additional crimes in the nature of rape and murder.Sort of like the three strike felony law in some US states but not as draconian.

The article itself(although I posted it)is vague on the point of law.I can only surmise that it is akin to “contempt of court”.And in this case who wouldn’t be contemptuous of Caesar?
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Seems to me if the judge who charged her with contempt of court has some self-righteous vendetta that has political motives to make an example of her and to set precedent in the future for any other Pro-Life activist who stage peaceful vigil outside abortion clinics.

A similar instance with a number of Catholic Pro-Life activist held a peaceful prayer vigil near a Doctor Henry Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada where a Catholic priest and a man and two women where arrested.

In my city you can’t even hold a prayerful vigil in close vicinity of the provincial government hospital that carries out abortions every Friday morning at 10:00 am. You will be arrested by the police.
 
centurionguard said:
Seems to me if the judge who charged her with contempt of court has some self-righteous vendetta that has political motives to make an example of her and to set precedent in the future for any other Pro-Life activist who stage peaceful vigil outside abortion clinics.

A similar instance with a number of Catholic Pro-Life activist held a peaceful prayer vigil near a Doctor Henry Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada where a Catholic priest and a man and two women where arrested.

In my city you can’t even hold a prayerful vigil in close vicinity of the provincial government hospital that carries out abortions every Friday morning at 10:00 am. You will be arrested by the police.
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Secular Terrorist tactics.
 
JimG said:
I don’t know anything about Canadian law. But it seems to me that a person ought to have the right to speak freely on a sidewalk in front of an abortion clinic.
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The Toronto, Ontario bubble law is broader than the bubble laws in the US. In Toronto, the 60 foot zone of no protesters is fixed.

In the US, the Supreme Court that “floating” bubble zones of eight feet around clinic workers or clients can be in effect within a radius of 100 feet of an abortion clinic. So sidewalk protesting might be okay, but not as an abortion worker or client walks by. This law is in effect in Colorado, Chicago, Oakland… probably some other places too.
 
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