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PRO-LIFE GAP DISPLAY AT UBC CAUSES AN UPROAR
VANCOUVER, Oct 25 (LSN.ca) - The Genocide Awareness Project pro-life display is taking place today on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The same pro-abortion group involved last November in the violent destruction of the pro-life display (see video at bottom) - UBC Students for Choice - is this year planning to squelch the free speech rights of the pro-lifers again. Email messages to radical pro-abortion and socialist groups ask supporters to come out as "pro-choice supporters who will also be creating a 'hate free buffer zone' around the GAP display using sheets to shield the display." However, the pro-life group had its lawyer contact the pro-abortion group to warn them that a lawsuit will be launched in the event that their display is interfered with.
The lawyer for the pro-life group is Craig Jones the famed free speech advocate who was arrested at the APEC protests and is currently the head of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Although admittedly "pro-choice" himself, Jones has written the organizers of the radically anti-free speech shrouding event to express his "frustration" at their actions. In his personal letter, made public by the pro-abortion group members, Jones wrote: "It is terrible in my view that pro-choice activists, whose position enjoys the support of an overwhelming majority of the BC population, feel that such heavy handed tactics are necessary to overcome the opinion of a very small, principally religious, minority. That the targeted group are essentially powerless and impecunious students makes this even more odious, but this is the way of censorship; it is never exercised against the most powerful, only the weakest."
The legal notice sent to the pro-abortion group says "Our clients' display is being conducted pursuant to a specific licence with the University, and will meet all of the conditions imposed by UBC. Persons who wish to avoid seeing the images displayed are, as ever, free to simply look away. We understand that some individuals are considering whether to "shroud" our clients' display so that it cannot be freely seen by persons who may wish to view it from a distance. Such "shrouding" would in our view constitute an unlawful interference with our clients' contractual, common law and constitutional rights. Should it occur on the 25th or at any other time, we will seek instructions to commence legal proceedings for damages, including exemplary and punitive damages, against the individuals involved without further notice."
See the video of the 1999 pro-abort destruction of the pro-life display at UBC:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/dec/99121002.html
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