The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 3 Nov 98
Vol. 2, Number 48 (#164) ______________________________________________________________________
TEARS AND LAUGHTER IN THE PRO-TOLERANCE COMMUNITY:
GROUP LIBEL AND WHAT THE RIGHT-WING MEANS BY "FREEDOM OF SPEECH"
by tallpaul
Matthew Shepard is dead. So is Dr. Bernard Slepian. Shepard was killed because he was gay; Slepian assassinated because he took seriously his medical oath to provide health care, including legal abortions.
Shepard was the latest victim of homophobic hatred, an ideology directed by right-wing ideologues to forces overwhelmingly young, male, and sexually insecure. Slepian was victimized by those who routinely libel doctors as "baby killers." Their movement, euphemistically labeled "Right to Life," has been parodied as believing that the right begins at conception and ends at birth. The murders of Shepard and Slepian rather confirm the accuracy.
The killings have moved the issue of fascistically-oriented "hate speech" to the top of today's political discussions.
Internationally, we see Australian Pauline Hanson's "One Nation Party."
"The demagogy, the backward reactionary policies and the cult of Pauline that is being fostered by the most amazing media promotions have all the hallmarks of a neo-fascist revival," wrote Anna Pha in Australia's Guardian newspaper.[1]
Pauline Hanson is indeed a Woman Who Hates: she hates property titles for the original inhabitants of Australia, single parents, homosexuals, Asian people, minority groups aside from the Anglo-Celts, immigrants, and multiculturalism above all.
She is very proud of her hatred and very defensive of her free speech rights that permit her to demean those she deems less worthy than herself. For Hanson, free speech seems to exist somewhere just below god and a bit above hating Asians.
But that's only when Pauline is doing the speaking.
The success of her One Nation Party shocked Australians and a broad opposition developed.
One Hanson-opponent is a 36-year old university lecturer in multimedia studies. He is also a cross-dressing singer who created the anti- fascist cabaret-character "Pauline Pantsdown."
"He uses words from Hanson's radio and TV speeches and manipulates these digitally to create his songs. It takes him about an hour to transform himself into Pantsdown, Hanson's 'long-lost sister' who has the politician's arched eyebrows, red hair and voice. Completing the look are bright-coloured dresses like those favoured by Hanson."[2]
Pantsdown summarizes the technique: "My piece is based on the strategy of the late Weimar satirists in the way they tried to satirize Adolf Hitler. [He] was too difficult to satirize in terms of race and nationalism because his own statements were too extreme in that area already, so they would satirize his method of argument and his use of the German language."[3]
If you're very naive you think that Hanson wants Pantsdown to have the same free speech rights she wants for her Anglo-Celts.
Hanson, however, had a different view. Laughter can be a potent political tool. The discovery that the Emperor has no clothes and the Fuhrer has no pants does not fit with right-wing views of political fairness. So Hanson ran to Australia's courts to shut down Pantsdown's performances, seeking damages and an injunction to block playing the songs on the radio. She claimed that Pantsdown had no free speech rights in the matter because his speech "demeaned" her.
Hanson's speech is free to demean Asians, native Australians, and all manner of other people providing only that their speech does not "demean" Hanson.
She may get away with her *legal* claim but it rather exposes the *ethical* and *political* hypocrisy from her end of the political spectrum. The contradiction grows out of the legal distinction between individual and group libel. The established libel laws make actionable the publication of false claims that hold an individual up to ridicule. The law maintains that the *specific* individual so demeaned can sue and seek damages. But holding entire groups of people to even more demeaning publications is far safer for the bigot. Especially in the U.S. For, courts have held, even the most hate-filled group libels leave none in the demeaned group with *specific* damages.
It is a distinction beneficial to the fascists. For they hate groups, not individuals. Their demeaning speech, otherwise actionable for libel, is protected by the very nature of their broad hatred. It is rather the other way around for anti-fascists, whose opposition tends, as was Pantsdown's, to focus on demagogues like Hanson who immediately want to block their opponent's speech.
The hypocrisy is telling, even when Hanson has no state power to enforce her narcissistic agenda. Images of Hansonism, backed up by state power, conjure up images of Hitler's Reich.
We also see similar political dishonesty over the very purpose of free speech. The doctrine serves to promote wide and untrammeled debate over issues of public concern. But we repeatedly see that fascist "discussion" involves little *consistent* debate of the substantive issues. Rather, the phrase becomes a hook on which ever-changing demagoguery is carried out.
We can see this examining the checkered and ever-Protean "discussions" of Milton Kleim. For those new to the net, Kleim was the onetime cyberfuhrer of the National Alliance. A theorist of fascist strategy, he authored several documents for their behavior on the net.[4]
Kleim was the proponent for the Usenet news group <rec.music.white- power> that went down to the worst defeat of any vote in Internet history. His is a history of strutting fury behind the "real truth" known only by Kleim and his friends, followed by ignominious defeat, and a quick retreat of his self-admitted discovery that he's been a bad boy who no longer has those views.
He was first saved by discovering Jesus, and a few trusting anti- fascists believed they'd no longer have him to kick around anymore. Then he returned as rambunctious as ever, only to shortly claim he was re-rehabilitated by the love of a good women.
He just returned, defending the murder of Dr. Slepian.[5]
Kleim believes he is on the path of "righteousness" against "dimwitted opponents" who can support the killing of "the child [who] is INNOCENT."
But Kleim has quite a history of defending real baby-killers who are convicted of that crime.
He opposed "[hate from] the millions of Americans who are relishing the conviction and sentence of [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh."[6]
While defending criminal sociopaths like McVeigh, he -- unlike the psychiatric community as a whole -- sees a variety of other "sociopaths" quite invisible to most of us. Equally, he asserts that Milton Kleim, not the U.S. Supreme Court, knows what is unconstitutional.
"So-called 'Equal Opportunity Laws' are indeed a violation of the employer's right of freedom of association," he wrote. "Especially outrageous is the violation of the employer's right to choose not to employ a sociopath or other several mentally disturbed individual who is covered under the 'Americans with Disabilities Act,' or in some states, like my native California, the right not to employ a homosexual with AIDS, which is prohibited by unconstitutional 'laws'."[7]
Kleim also defended another murderous sociopath, writing "My views on Kaczynski are simple, and I've stated them before. He is a brilliant man, and someone motivated by a noble cause, namely the defense of personal freedom in an age of ever-increasing political and technological tyranny. I will make no apologies for his BELIEFS, though I find unfortunate the actions he used to gain his notoriety. I, of course, also admire and agree with his defense of the environment. Only a true madman can say that the ongoing contamination of the Earth with man-made chemicals, etc. will not have disastrous consequences in the near future."[8]
One wonders what the victims of Kaczynski's cowardly mail bombs ever did to challenge his vaunted "personal freedom" as part of his "noble cause" that Kleim trumpets.
For Kleim has no more protected the environment than he has protected society from real baby killers like McVeigh. Kleim has urged actions that would severely damage the environment. He's been willing to add some plutonium to the food chain to knock out a few hundred million Asians.[9] Once senses that U.S. fertilized eggs are people who need protection as does the environment, requiring murderous forces like the Unabomber and Dr. Slepian's assassin. But Asian children are subhuman "gooks" who have to be "nuked."
Perhaps Kleim's greatest contradiction -- the one most telling example of hate-based "free speech" -- was his defense of the Nazi crimes against humanity as that group killed those they considered mentally or physically "defective."
"My definition of human life precludes that of an individual who possesses no ability to interact normally with his environment or those around him," he wrote. "A 'vegetable' is not a person in my eyes," he continued. And when asked "Do you suggest doing the same here in the US? Round up insane people and mentally retarded people and kill them?" Kleim reply, in its totality, was "Yes."[10]
Where in all of these years of "free speech" is the dynamic dialogue beloved by free speech absolutists? Instead of the hypothetical *interchange* between people of different views, we see an ever changing set of unsubstantiated claims, based not on truth or principle or consistency but rather fueled by hate and cowardly murder.
For fascists, the ideal debate is one where the fascists on the podium berate their non-appearing opponents as cowards too afraid to show up while the opponents are in the hospital or morgue after being attacked by fascist thugs on the way to the debate. For fascists, the ideal democracy is where uncomfortable books are relegated to the bonfire and uncomfortable opponents are sent to the ovens.
To promote these ends, fascists can broadcast vile, vituperative, hate- filled messages against people for their "race," religion, ethnicity, politics, and even health. These libels are difficult for the victims to counter using legal means.
As U.S. courts have held in decisions making group libel actions difficult: "If a [libeled] class is sufficiently broad, no one member really suffers personal injury."[11]
But Matthew Shepard suffered an injury; so did Dr. Slepian.
It is past time to change the laws around group libel and make the bigots put their money where they put other people's lives.
Surely even the most narrow interpretation of our common humanity compels it. If Pauline Hanson can be protected from laughter than the victims of hate can be similarly protected from the assassin's bullet.
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[1] Anna Pha (The Guardian/Australia), "What does Hanson stand for?," 1
Jul 98, in ftp #156.
[2] Sumegha Agarwal (InterPress Service), "Spoof A Weapon Against Racist Politician," 27 Sep 98, in ftp #157
[3] Margo Kingston (Sidney Morning Herald), "Court shirtfronts back door man," 29 Sep 98, in ftp #157.
[4] see, for example, Kleim's Milton Kleim, "On Tactics and Strategy for Usenet," original edition 1995. <FD001.txt> and "We Are -- Or Should Be -- the Real Greens," original edition Sep 1996, <FD002.txt>, both at <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/docs/fascist/>
[5] see Milton Kleim (Usenet post), "More merciful to be shot in the back ... than aborted at Slepian's clinics," 25 Oct 98 and Milton Kleim (Usenet post), "Re: Dr. Barnett Slepian joins Matthew Shepard in Hell!" 25 Oct 98, in ftp #163.
[6] Milton Kleim, "The Hate Prevailing Today," Usenet post to <misc.activism.militia>, 19 Jun 98.
[7] Milton Kleim, "Re: Oxymoronic far right thinking," Usenet post to <misc.activism.militia>, 22 Jun 98.
[8] Milton Kleim, "Ross Getman," Usenet post to <alt.fan.unabomber>, 8 Nov 97.
[9] Milton Kleim, " Re: Imperialists and paper tigers are the evil," Usenet post to <talk.politics.china> and other groups, 12 Mar 96; Milton Kleim, " Re: I don't like to discuss Taiwan issue with non-Chinese," Usenet post to <talk.politics.china> and other groups, 12 Mar 96; Milton Kleim, "Re: Britain scared of China ... Naturally!" Usenet post to <soc.culture.hongkong>, 30 Jun 98.
[10] Milton Kleim (writing under the pen name "Hermann"), "Re: Peace... or Utter Destruction," Usenet post to <alt.skinheads>, 17 Dec 93.
[11] Grady Auvil et ux; et al v. CBS "60 Minutes" et al., 800 F. Supp. 928; 1992 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9455; 20 Media L. Rep. 1361
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Past TINAF issues on Hanson
The Internet Anti-Fascist: Thursday, 2 July 1998 FTP Supplement #40 (#128): Hanson In Australia Part 1: The Bad News stories 1-27 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf128.txt>
The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 3 July 1998 FTP Supplement #41 (#129): Hanson In Australia Part 2: The Bad Politics stories 28-32 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf129.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Monday, 12 October 98 FTP Supplement #56 (#156): Hanson In Australia -- Part 3
33) Anna Pha (The Guardian/Australia), "What does Hanson stand for?," 1
Jul 98 34) Barbie Dutter (Daily Telegraph/U.K.), "Jews expose One Nation
supporters," 10 Jul 98 35) Associated Press (no author), "Australian Rightists Car Attacked,"
12 Jul 98 36) S.P.U. (press release), "Sole Parents' Union Condemns Hanson," 16
Jul 98 37) Leftlink (press release), "One Nation "News" site on Leftlink," 20
Jul 98 38) Australian Associated Press (no author), "Protesters force Hanson
to retreat for second time," 20 Jul 98 39) Mick Armstrong (Socialist Alternative), "Organizer's Report On
Anti-Hanson Demo," 20 Jul 98 40) Australian Broadcasting Corp. (no author), "Aboriginal leader calls
for One Nation's democratic rights," 23 Jul 98 41) Gary Hughes (The Age), "Police will still target protests," 23 Jul
98 42) The Australian (no author), "Hanson snaps at 'bloody rabble'," 6
Aug 98 43) Alan Thornhill (Associated Press), "Australia Launches Tax
Overhaul," 13 Aug 98 44) Terry Friel (Reuters), "Australian PM wins backing for bold tax
strategy," 12 Aug 98 45) A Hanson man (sic), "Letter to the Bangkok Post," 7 Aug 98 46) A[u]BC (no author), "Downer demands apology from One Nation over
'vile attack'," 12 Aug 98 47) A[u]BC (no author), "Opposition slams 'plot' to sell tax package,"
12 Aug 98 48) Racist Party Cries Foul / One Nation distances itself from bigot /
'Hanson Man' letter was disgusting and vile, says Downer <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf156.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Wednesday, 14 October 98 FTP Supplement #57 (#157): Hanson In Australia -- Part 4
50) Emma Webb, "South Australian workers to support anti-racism rally,"
13 Aug 98 51) Democratic Socialist Party (no author), "Anti-racist activist
targeted by neo-Nazis," 14 Aug 98 52) David Glanz, "One Nation thrashed!," 16 Aug 98 53) Christopher Zinn (Irish Times), "McAleese underlines Australians'
choice:The impression created by the President, Mrs McAleese, on
her visit to Australia is assessed," 10 Sep 98 54) Irish Times (editorial), "In Tune in Australia," 11 Sep 98 55) Rachael Morris (The Australian), "Mistress Amber: One Nation's
Whip," 17 Sep 98 56) Conor O'Clery (Irish Times), "Times tough, not terminal, in Hong
Kong ," 21 Sep 98 57) Natasha Bita (The Australian), "Shooters plug One Nation," 24 Sep 58) David Humphries (Sidney Morning Herald), "Hanson aids Libs in key
seats," 26 Sep 98 59) Sue Smethurst (New Idea), "Pauline's son begs: 'Please Explain!',"
26 Sep 98 60) Sumegha Agarwal (InterPress Service), "Spoof A Weapon Against
Racist Politician," 27 Sep 98 61) Greg Roberts (Sifney Morning Herald), "Figures look daunting for
leader as she battles to win new seat," 28 Sep 98 62) Margo Kingston (Sidney Morning Herald), "No crowing as Hanson
misses finals fever," 28 Sep 98 63) Margo Kingston (Sidney Morning Herald), "Court shirtfronts back
door man," 29 Sep 98 64) Resistance Socialist Youth Organisation (press release), "Pauline
Pantsdown to perfom banned song at Sydney rally," 29 Sep 98 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf157.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Thursday, 15 October 98 FTP Supplement #58 (#158): Hanson In Australia -- Part 5
65) Pauline Pantsdown Fan Club (unauthorised)", "If voted in, Pantsdown
will try the backdoor into Parliament," 29 Sep 98 66) Iain Clacher (Spank Media), "Oh Sister, It's Pauline Pantsdown," 29
Sep 98 67) Reuters (no author), "Politician declares media blackout," 29 Sep
98 68) BBC (no author), "One Nation imposes media blackout: Pauline
Hanson: Tired of "biased reporting" ," 29 Sep 98 69) Red Harrison (BBC), "Hanson: Turned away by the take-away -- Both
sides say they will reject any coalition with Hanson ," 30 Sep 98 70) ITN (no author), "Is the Hanson campaign failing as elections
looms?," 30 Sep 98 71) Owen Pike (Tabloid News Service), "Ugly Pauline, Policy Queen: How
Hanson Hijacked Australia's Doomed Election," 29 Sep 98 72) Christopher Zinn (Irish Times), "One Nation could play key role in
Australian poll: Pauline Hanson's electoral prospects this weekend
are assessed," 30 Sep 98 73) Bryce Hallett (Sidney Morning Herald), "She's the strife of the
party," 30 Sep 98 74) Margo Kingston (Sidney Morning Herald), "Hunted Hanson remains
silent," 1 Oct 98 75) Christopher Zinn (Irish Times), "Labor has shaken off unpopular
record," 1 Oct 98 76) Sidney Morning Herald, "Hanson's ego-driven nightmare," 2 Oct 98 77) Barbie Dutter (Daily Telegraph), "Australia may face poll rerun as
hung parliament looms," 2 Oct 98 78) John Pilger (Irish Times), "Politicians serve up diet of
mediocrity" Observers of Australian politics have attacked the
racism of Pauline Hanson but, argues John Pilger, her views are not
vastly different from those of mainstream politicians there ," 3
Oct 98 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf158.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Saturday, 17 October 98 FTP Supplement #59 (#159): Hanson In Australia -- Part 6
79) Andy Pollac (Irish Times), "Aboriginal Rights," 3 Oct 98 80) Mark Chipperfield (Daily Telegraph), "Howard clings to power as
Australia spurns Hanson," 4 Oct 98 81) John Pasquarelli (The Age), "How Hanson failed Australia's right ,"
5 Oct 98 82) Greg Roberts (The Age), "Oldfield has rethink on former leader ," 6
Oct 98 83) The Times of India (editorial), "Race Down Under," 6 Oct 98 84) Andrew Donaldson and Russell Skelton (The Age), "Japan media warn
on Hanson vote ," 7 Oct 98 85) Greg Roberts (Sydney Morning Herald), "New One Nation leader
"better at some things than Hanson"," 7 Oct 98 86) Tim Colebatch (The Age), "Beazley's the king of swing ," 8 Oct 98 87) Greg Roberts (The Age), "Hanson grabs party's reins ," 8 Oct 98 88) Greg Roberts (The Age), "One Nation at civil war ," 9 Oct 98 89) Margo Kingston (Sydney Morning Herald), "She's bushwhacked," 10 Oct
98 90) Margo Kingston (Sydney Morning Herald), "One Nation members "could
freeze $3m"," 10 Oct 98 91) Greg Roberts (Sydney Morning Herald), "Rug may be pulled from
Davids," 10 Oct 98 92) Uli Schmetzer (Chicago Tribune), "Australia Experience A Painful
Confrontation," 11 Oct 98 93) Australian News Network (no author), "Bishops appeal for
reconciliation," 13 Oct 98 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf159.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Sunday, 18 October 98 FTP Supplement #60 (#160): Murder of Matthew Shepard -- Part 1
1) Jim Hughes (Denver Post), "Beating victim begged for life," 10 Oct
98 2) Kit Miniclier (Denver Post), "Intimidation complaints neglected,"
10 Oct 98 3) Diane Carman (Denver Post), "Gay bashing is a hate crime," 10 Oct
98 4) Coleman Cornelius (Denver Post), "Activists express outrage," 10
Oct 98 5) CNN (no author) , "Clinton urges tougher hate-crime law after gay
student attacked," 10 Oct 98 6) Chuck Green (Denver Post), "Outlaw hate in Wyo.," 11 Oct 98 7) Helen Kennedy (New York Daily News), "Gal Pal Sheds Light On Gay
Attack ," 12 Oct 98 8) Coleman Cornelius (Denver Post), "Wyoming student dies from
beating," 12 Oct 98 9) Robert W. Black (Associated Press), "Charges Upgraded in Attack on
Gay," 13 Oct 98 10) CNN (no author), "New details emerge about suspects in gay attack,"
13 Oct 98 11) James Brooke (New York Times), "School often hostile for gays: Many
students threatened, harassed, activists say. ," 13 Oct 98 12) Kerry Drake (Reuters), "Two Charged In Murder Of Gay Wyoming
Student," 14 Oct 98 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf160.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Monday, 19 October 98 FTP Supplement #61 (#161): Murder of Matthew Shepard -- Part 2
14) Jim Hughes (Denver Post), "Suspects' future gets cloudier," 13 Oct
98 15) Robert W. Black (Associated Press), "Wyo. Death Incites Anti-Gay
Hatred," 14 Oct 98 16) Mark Riley (Sydney Morning Herald), "Welcome to Hateville, USA," 14
Oct 98 17) Dale McFeatters (Nando Times), "Hate-crime legislation," 15 Oct 98 18) Martha Irvine (Associated Press), "Vigils Held For Slain Gay Wyo.
Student," 15 Oct 98 19) CNN (no author), "Second attack by suspects in gay student death?,"
15 Oct 98 20) Nando Times (no author), "Float mocking gays gets sorority kicked
off Colorado campus," 15 Oct 98 21) CBS (no author), "A Message Of Hope -- Matthew Shepard Remembered
At Vigils; Student Was Targeted Because He Was Gay," 15 Oct 98 22) CBS (no author), "Gay Teens In A Hostile World -- Gay Teens Feel
Vulnerable To Hate Crimes; 22 Percent Say They've Felt Unsafe At
School," 15 Oct 98 23) Doug Ireland (The Nation), "Homophobia Kills," 15 Oct 98 24) Tony Norman (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), "If only we could hear his
voice ," 16 Oct 98 25) Susan Brady Konig (New York Post), "Feel bad for Matt? I'll see you
in Hell," 15 Oct 98 26) NewsPlanet (no author), "DC Rally Calls for Hate Law: As Matthew
Shepard's sparkling energy turned to candlelight in front of the
Capitol Building, the stars, activists and politicians voiced the
community's grief and demanded redress.," 15 Oct 98 27) Boston Phoenix (editorial), "Crimes of hate: Learning from the
Matthew Shepard case," 15-22 Oct 98 28) Floyd Flake (New York Post), "A Victim of A Disease Called Hate,"
16 Oct 98 29) The Nation (editorial), "The Hate Debate," 2 Nov 98 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf161.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Sunday, 25 October 98 FTP Supplement #62 (#162): Murder of Dr. Bernard Slepian -- Part 1 Supplements on the Abortion Issue -- Part 8
0) Past TINAF ftp supplements on the abortion issue 1) Bernard Slepian, [Slepian Letter Foresaw Killing Free to Speak,
Pro-Lifers Still Bear Responsibility], "Letter to the Buffalo
News," 13 Aug 94 2) Associated Press (no author), "Anti-abortion group loses appeal
[before Supreme Court]," 19 Oct 98 3) Mathew Marx ([Ohio] Dispatch), "Anti-abortion display meant to
shock: Genocide awareness group puts banners on OSU campus ," 20
Oct 98 4) Ian MacLeod (The Ottawa Citizen), "Doctors warned: Sniper at large
-- Four abortion doctors shot since 1994," 20 Oct 98 5) Reuters (no author), "Mounties, FBI warn abortion doctors of
attacks," 20 Oct 98 6) Alexa Haussler (The Arizona Republic), "Precautions increased
locally," 24 oct 98 7) Carolyn Thompson (Associated Press), "Sniper Kills N.Y. Abortion
Provider," 24 Oct 98 8) Associated Press (no author), "Recent cases of abortion-related
violence," 24 Oct 98 9) Robert Melnbardis (Reuters), "U.S. doctor's shooting worries
Canadian police," 24 Oct 98 10) Planned Parenthood (press release), "A Call to End Domestic
Terrorism: Statement by Gloria Feldt President, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America," 24 Oct 98 11) Michael A. Fletcher (Washington Post), "Sniper Kills Abortion
Doctor Near Buffalo: Police Had Warned Of Possible Attack," 24 Oct
98 12) CNN (no author), "Murder of New York abortion doctor denounced as
'terrorism:' Reno vows to do 'whatever it takes' to track down
killer," 24 Oct 98 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf162.txt>
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Monday, 26 October 98 FTP Supplement #63 (#163): Murder of Dr. Bernard Slepian -- Part 2 Supplements on the Abortion Issue -- Part 9
13) BBC (no author), "Violence and the pro-life campaign ," 25 Oct 98 14) Brian Hartman (ABC News), "Sniper Manhunt Under Way: Vigil Mourns
Murdered Doctor ," 25 Oct 98 15) Cynthia Osterman (Reuters), "U.S. Abortion Doctor's Murder Outrages
Activists," 25 Oct 98 16) Douglas Montero, Alex Cukan, and Tracy Connor (N.Y. Post), "Cops
Hunt Abortion-Doc Slayer," 25 Oct 98 17) Douglas Montero (N.Y. Post), "He Knew He Was A Target -- But Stood
His Ground," 25 Oct 98 18) Reuters (no author), "Slain U.S. abortion doctor's name on Web site
list," 25 Oct 98 19) Bob Hohler ([Boston] Globe), "Neighbors saw danger trailing
abortion doctor ," 26 Oct 98 20) New York Times (editorial), "Violence Against Abortion Doctors," 26
Oct 98 21) Joseph Berger (New York Times), "Murdered Doctor Remembered as
Conscientious and Courageous," 26 Oct 98 22) Anthony Ramirez (New York Times), "Web Site Owner Says He Had No
Advance Word on Slaying," 26 Oct 98 23) TechWeb (no author), "Neo-Nazi Group Sued For Online Threats," 20
Oct 98 24) David Rhode (New York Times), "Sniper in Abortion Doctor Slaying Is
Still at Large," 26 Oct 98 25) Milton Kleim (Usenet post), "More merciful to be shot in the back
... than aborted at Slepian's clinics," 25 Oct 98 26) Milton Kleim (Usenet post), "Re: Dr. Barnett Slepian joins Matthew
Shepard in Hell!" 25 Oct 98 27) Roman Armon (Usenet post), "Re: More merciful to be shot in the back
...," 26 Oct 98 <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/tinaf/tinaf163.txt>
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