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Kevin_O'Keeffe [OP]

2005-03-01 01:06 | User Profile

[url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=4650[/url]

Judge Pamela Dembe: Abraham's Allegations Have No Basis

ADL Jewess sought up to 47 years in prison for Christians who demonstrated against homosexuality. Judge dismisses charges.

PHILADELPHIA - On Sunday, October 10, 2004, eleven Christian conservatives were arrested, jailed, and charged under hate crimes legislation for attempting to demonstrate against the annual "OutFest" homosexual pride event held in the public streets of Philadelphia.

As the six men and five women approached the event they were immediately confronted by a homosexual security force called the "Pink Angels," who blew whistles, screamed obscenities and surrounded them with large condom-shaped shields so they could not be seen or heard.

James Tiano, head of the Philadelphia Civil Affairs Unit, and special liaison between the police department and the homosexual community, then ordered the arrests of the would-be counter-demonstrators.

The group was taken into custody, held in jail for 21 hours, and charged with three felonies and five misdemeanors and faced a potential sentence of up to 47 years in prison and $90,000 in fines each.

Judge Pamela Dembe of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas reviewed the evidence -- much of it provided by Repent America, since the group had videotaped the events leading up to the arrests -- and found no basis for the allegations and dismissed the charges. Dembe is also the judge who, last month, removed the bail requirement that the defendants keep at least 100 feet away from any homosexual gathering.

Repent America founder Michael Marcavage would say what he finds most disturbing about this case, aside from "the arrests, imprisonment, and malicious prosecution," is the use of Pennsylvania hate crime law, which has added sexual orientation as a protected category. "Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham knew exactly what she was doing when she targeted us with the hate law due to our biblical opposition to homosexual behavior," the Repent America spokesman says.

Marcavage notes that Abraham sits on the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Defamation League, whose members he calls "the architects of the hate crimes legislation."

Abraham has announced that she plans to appeal Judge Dembe’s decision.

mwdallas

2005-03-01 02:09 | User Profile

[QUOTE]Marcavage notes that Abraham sits on the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Defamation League, whose members he calls "the architects of the hate crimes legislation." [/QUOTE] Wow. I hope this fits in one of the civil-rights statutes, as it would be nice to see her take a big financial hit.

Sertorius

2005-03-01 02:13 | User Profile

"Pink Angels,"?? :lol:

...surrounded them with large condom-shaped shields so they could not be seen or heard.

Don't tell me! I bet they got the inspiration for the condoms from one of Leslie Nielsen's old The Naked Gun movies.

mwdallas

2005-03-03 01:40 | User Profile

Here is her CV, including photos:

[url]http://home.earthlink.net/~williamlichten/lynnabr2.html[/url]

ADL Executive Committee/Advisory Board membership confirmed.

More discussion, and a much less flattering photo, here:

[url]http://www.nnnforum.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16146[/url]

il ragno

2005-03-03 02:24 | User Profile

[IMG]http://archives.cnn.com/2001/LAW/07/20/einhorn.trial/story.lynn.abraham.jpg[/IMG]

Janet Reno's wet dream. If she doesn't have a strap-on w/harness in her chest of drawers, I'm Morris Dees.

No wonder she's appealing - this one's personal for her.

mwdallas

2005-03-03 02:43 | User Profile

This'll blow your mind -- remember the Negress judge in Philly whom Clinton, with the assistance of Specter, tried to elevate to the federal bench? The one who used a defendant's whiteness as an aggravating factor in sentencing? The same Lynne Abraham is credited with torpedoing the nomination:

[url]http://citypaper.net/articles/051001/cs.cover.lynne1.shtml[/url]

[QUOTE]As her opponent Alex Talmadge never lets you forget, [B]the District Attorney’s Office pressed assault charges against three black George Washington High School Students, but not the white students involved in a racially motivated fight. She charged African-American 11-year-old Miriam White — who suffers from severe psychological problems — as an adult after she stabbed a white neighbor to death. This occurred around the same time that the District Attorney’s Office charged three white teenage boys as juveniles for raping a black girl at Veterans Stadium. And Abraham twice dismissed murder charges against police officer Christopher DiPasquale after he shot an unarmed black man named Donta Dawson[/B] (DiPasquale was ultimately charged with manslaughter).

As Philadelphia’s chief law enforcement officer, Abraham is responsible for the prosecution of more than 70,000 criminal cases annually. For this reason alone, Abraham says, "Not everybody is going to agree with every decision I make."

But the perception of racial bias — regardless of how insignificant Abraham would like you to think it is — has allowed Talmadge to seriously challenge her. Talmadge’s qualifications for district attorney are lackluster, but enough black and liberal white voters are disenchanted with the status quo that Abraham can’t ignore him.

[B]For the most part, these voters became disenthralled with Abraham in January 1998. That’s when she — and the other executive committee members of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association (PDAA) — opposed President Clinton’s nomination of Common Pleas Court Judge Frederica Massiah-Jackson to the federal bench.[/B] Massiah-Jackson would have become Philadelphia’s first female African-American federal judge. But Abraham and her PDAA colleagues criticized Massiah-Jackson for her "unusually adversarial attitude toward police and prosecutors," and said her record demonstrated "a tendency to be lenient with respect to criminal defendants." Massiah-Jackson bowed out under all the pressure.

A poll taken in early 1998 found that 49 percent of blacks in Philadelphia approved of Abraham before [B]she derailed Massiah-Jackson’s nomination[/B]. Prior to that episode, just 14 percent of blacks said they disapproved of the district attorney. After opposing Massiah-Jackson’s nomination, her popularity among blacks took a nosedive: 28 percent said they approved of Abraham, compared to 59 percent who didn’t.[/QUOTE]

mwdallas

2005-03-03 02:59 | User Profile

Interesting interview with Abraham:

[url]http://citypaper.net/articles/051001/cs.cover.lynne.interview.shtml[/url]

[QUOTE]CP: [B]About the RNC [Republican National Convention] arrests [/B] — given the number of arrests and prosecutions and the small number of convictions, does that count as one of those errors that you talked about earlier?

LA: [B]Here’s way I look at the RNC protestors [/B] — I wasn’t there and I didn’t see anything, I’m not a cop and I don’t want to be a cop. We were the first ones to say, ‘You don’t give me your name you don’t get bail,’ because we can’t subpoena a Snowflake, we can’t subpoena a Bambi. And the system requires that if you’re going to get bail for a non-serious offense then give us your name and address. Most of them could have probably walked out with nominal bail, but if they’re not going to give us their name then they’re not going to get bail. That’s our position, and that’s still my position and I feel right on that. With regard to the prosecution, when it got to the point that we were prosecuting, when we had the evidence, what we found out was that police officers couldn’t identify half of the people they arrested. On further review of what all the evidence came to be, some of the cases lacked at that point prosecutorial merit. It was an honest call. In other words, [B]in spite of what everybody may say or think, it doesn’t do me any good to have 300 cases in the system that were not worthy of prosecution. That doesn’t make me feel better, I have enough business, I don’t need to arrest people making puppets or marching down the street. [/B] Frankly, for the most part those people never were arrested.

[B]You know, Cheri Honkala, she led about 5,000 people down Broad Street without a permit in the blazing hot sun, they were dying out there. Give me one person who was arrested in that march. Not one, they just marched down Broad Street, went to Roosevelt Park and did their thing with no arrests. Here’s where the arrests came — people jumping on cars, throwing trashcans out in the street, blocking the street, smacking the police commissioner, having confrontations with cops.[/B] Here’s what I thought was interesting — if you look at the case and you have to review everything in the cold light of day, and you say, this is a de minimus case, then you have the right to say that it doesn’t look like very much, dismiss it. What’s wrong with that? I think it was darn brave of us to go in there — it made the police department look good. We could have forged right ahead with those cases, but I think that we did the right thing.[/QUOTE]

mwdallas

2005-03-03 03:11 | User Profile

Of course, the ADL denies any involvement in the actions of this rogue Executive Committee/Advisory Board member:

[QUOTE]"This is not the kind of situation or conduct that hate-crimes laws are intended to address," said Michael Lieberman, a lawyer for the national Anti-Defamation League, which has championed hate-crimes laws. "Hate-crimes charges should scream their bias component, and usually are not applied in cases that are highly nuanced."

The local ADL director, Barry Morrison, said he has conveyed the group's concerns to the District Attorney's Office. So has Stacey Sobel, director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

"There has to be some underlying criminal act," Sobel said. "You can't just go after speech."

Sobel was the author of the 2002 language that added "actual or perceived ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity" to coverage under the state's hate-crimes law.[/QUOTE]

edward gibbon

2005-03-03 03:23 | User Profile

[QUOTE=il ragno]Janet Reno's wet dream. If she doesn't have a strap-on w/harness in her chest of drawers, I'm Morris Dees.

No wonder she's appealing - this one's personal for her.[/QUOTE] Known to many as [COLOR=Red]Eddie Felbin[/COLOR] (Ford’s real name), he is married to Philadelphia’s District Attorney, Lynne Abraham. They met in 1956 when Lynne was 16 and Frank was 40. She was the babysitter for Frank’s daughter from a previous marriage and they were wed twenty years later. In Ford’s official Broadcast Pioneers bio, he refers to his marriage as “a life sentence” from Lynne Abraham. He then added, “It’s not a bad way to serve time.”

Frank Ford was one of the most obnoxious Jews ever to broadcast. This statement was not made lightly. He hung up on callers who disagreed and insulted ethnic catholics.

His wife has been very, very tough on black criminals. I do not find any comprehensible link between her husband and her behavior. I await explanations.

mwdallas

2005-03-03 04:53 | User Profile

Good stuff, EG.