26/March/1990 The planned invasion of England by anti-abortionists goes '-boink-' Fredric

26/March/1990
The planned invasion of England by anti-abortionists goes "-boink-"
 
Fredric Rice, Utrecht, Nederland, reporting.
 
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BBC News Radio's  "World News Tonight" carried the odd bits and pieces
of  international and domestic terrorism today  with special attention
-- with a heavy dose of  rather unusual outright, vocalized,  anger --
to the domestic terrorism occuring right in their own back yard.
 
After a  long-series,  though  thankfully  sparse,  string  of related
terrorists  incidents,  Englanders today  burried  the victims  of the
Irish  Republican  Partie's political  expedience: the murder of three
and  four-year-old  children.  The  talks  of  a  unification  between
Northern and Southern  Ireland were of great debate and  importance to
the  British  prior  to this  latest incident  and yet some  Londoners
interviewed today  expressed more of a  desire for bloody revenge than
for talk and accomidationism with these terrorists.
 
As one Londoner  put it,  "we  are  getting  very  tired  of  it  very
quickly." The BBC news commentator  underscored  that comment with the
expression of this being the  feeling as  a whole nationally;  the IRA
was only making the  unification  of  Ireland and  the  outcasting  of
British  Law from  Irish soil  that much  more difficult,  driving any
politically-aligned  viewpoints which may  have been held by some into
the political camps of the opposistion.  "These people, by their acts,
defeat their own goals," was a woman-in-the-street comment made today.
 
Perhaps six or seven  items of international terrorism were enumerated
by the  BBC.  The last item offered  in this short  list of terrorists
acts  and demands  currently  in  progress  around  the  world was the
planned  so-called  "invasion" by  anti-abortionists  from  America --
groups calling themselves "international life" and "opperation rescue"
among  others -- into  British  cities.  These  groups have  plans and
schedules wereupon  they plan  to  block  sidewalks,  businesses,  and
streets in England; basically bringing the  American brand of domestic
terrorism to a  country already beset  with and tired of  such groups.
Add to that the faintly annoying (though totally  Christian) final act
of defiance to good taste: they plan to pander monies from the English
to help finance their terrorists activities once here.
 
BBC interviewed Ivan Lawerns, House of Commons for Home Affairs, about
allowing these American terrorists into the country  --  for a purpose
which can only be considered one of fomenting violations of both human
and civil rights for political and economic reasons.
 
Lawerns  made no great  ambiguous comment about what he  knew of these
American groups and certain  individuals within them.  He called these
individuals  "far right  fascism  on the march"  and  underscored  his
review of these groups as "political rabble-rowsers."
 
Lawerns was asked if the Home  Secretary would  allow them  entry into
England or if they would be denied  entry outright.  Lawerns said that
the histories of each individual would be reviewed and if there were a
history of  "havoc and violence," either as individuals or as a group,
they  would be denied  visitation rights  and entry.  "If we find that
where every they have gone before,  havoc  and  violence has  ensued,"
that will be reason enough to keep them out.
 
The BBC newsman pressed the  issue  by asking  what  would  constitute
"havoc"  and the  spokesman  for the  House of Commons,  Home Affairs,
indicated that the blocking of businesses by  foreign nationals  would
be looked upon as much as terrorism.
 
Once again, BBC  pressed the  issue wanting  to know  if these  people
would be denied entry -- wanting,  in effect, a  decision from Lawerns
which  could  not  be  mistaken  by anyone  listening.  BBC asked if a
history of unlawfullness  and havoc  would deny  entry or  if only the
mere _possibility_ of same would be grounds for denial of entry.  Once
again, Lawerns  indicated that such groups have already caused a great
many problems in America and that the Home Secretary would undoubtably
deny entry by these groups _as_ groups.
 
Lawerns and the BBS newsman agreed that  "dissenting opinions" must be
allowed to be expressed  within the boundaries of the law  and that to
deny the right of peacefull expression  would be contrary  to the type
of democratic  process  the current  political  realities are yet they
agreed that to allow some to be beyond the law is to invite anarchy.
 
Lawerns also mentioned that the  anti-abortionists  in England  had no
need  for  what he  called the  "meddleing and bumbleing"  of  foreign
agents  in  British  affairs.  He suggests that  anti-abortionists  in
England should properly take  "in outrage"  the  "presumption"  of the
American terrorists.
 
BBC also aired the comments from an un-named  charasmatic cult  leader
for the American terrorist organization known as "international life."
He said that his followers would  "do everything they have to" to keep
the "abortionist and their 'victims'" apart. (Englanders are also well
aquainted  with groups which do  "everything they have to"  to further
their political agendas.)  He claimed  that he  had a "higher duty" to
humanity and  that it  didn't  include  obeying the  laws of  whatever
country he and his followers operated in.
 
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What do some citizens of Nederland think of these  American terrorists
groups? This reporter asked several individuals over a round of drinks
at a lake-side resort (The Hotel Baron) last evening. "They are crazy,
yes."  remarked  the  hardware engineer  among us,  voicing a  general
consensus of what they see of American news television. "These people.
They would shoot one hundred [people] to stop one abortion."
 
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As  an additional  item of note, pop rock star  Sinead,  known for her
political  songs and  causes, sang  a song of  protest to a  crowd  of
twenty thousand fans.  The music review was offered in protest for the
murder of two children last week by the IRA.