Who is the most infamous person you've met?

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171. Domestic Terrorists. The Operation Rescue gang.

Randall Terry, Don Treshman, Flip Benham, Shelley Shannon, the whole gang.

This was when I was working in court. They started protesting at the 1992 Republican convention in Houston and damaged the local Planned Parenthood offices. PP as plaintiffs in civil court got a temporary injunction and the civil trial was in 1994.

Just being in the same courtroom with them was quite creepy. I felt like I had post-traumatic stress from being in the same room with them. I never spoke to them individually as that was not my job. One woman testified that she was very proud of her 19 year old son, who had placed a Molotov cocktail (gasoline bottle bomb) in the attic space of an abortion clinic to destroy it. They caught him when he left his wallet at the scene of the crime. He was in Federal prison at the time.

Their lawyers were pretty incompetent in civil court as they were used to dealing with their clients in criminal charges.

One man, Don Treshman, was asked on the stand if his group condemned the murder of Dr. David Gunn in Florida, and clinic escorts. He said, "We neither condemn it nor condone it." You could almost see the jury slide out of their chairs in shock in the jury box. They talked about several abortion doctor/clinic murders in this way.

The defendants had flyers in evidence which told people what doctors' houses to go to on Sunday to picket, and bring the kids as it's a family activity. They planted crosses in one doctor's yard and the doctor's wife came out, ripped the crosses out of the ground, cursed at them, and went back in her house. These people literally could not use their driveways or get in or out of their houses.



Mr. Treshman also stated that as part of the advice in his newsletter, you could pour gasoline on the carpet, under the locked door of an abortion clinic, and that the carpet would wick the gasoline into the office so you could start a fire. Yet Mr. Treshman vehemently denied that he was promoting terrorism, no, sir, he was not advocating terrorism or destruction of property at all.

They also engaged in butyric acid attacks and lock gluing.



This is the Texas Supreme Court's opinion pretty much upholding the trial opinion, and first appellate opinion, actual and punitive damages and permanent injunctions, for plaintiffs including Planned Parenthood, and buffer zones, including around the physicians' homes:
Operation Rescue,et al.,Petitioners/Appellants v. Planned Parenthood of Southeast Texas, etal., Respondents/Appellees.

https://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/1998/jul/970171o.htm

Horrific. I was only sitting in the trial three or four days. Truly did a mindfuck on me to come face to face with people who will murder for their ideology, especially in the name of God.

The judge in whose court this was decided in was defeated for re-election and replaced by a guy who insists on putting the ten commandments in his courtroom and can't understand why anybody would object to that.

Shocking. Shocking.