PP protesters target students outside D.C. schools

[darnkatz]

I would have a hard time not finding these assholes and throat punching them. What the fuck is WRONG with these people? So much rage. 

Disclaimer: If you click on the link, be forewarned that there are some very disturbing photos of protest signs that these idiots carry. 

Planned Parenthood Protesters Tell 3-Year-Olds “They Kill Babies” Outside Their D.C. School


An elementary and middle school is the latest target for anti-choice protesters in Washington, D.C., where a group of radical activists have staged demonstrations against the nearby construction of a new Planned Parenthood location. On Wednesday, Two Rivers Public Charter School filed a suit in the D.C. Superior Court against five individuals who’ve held signs saying “They kill babies nearby! Tell your parents to stop them” near the school’s entrance and allegedly shown children pictures of bloody fetuses.

The complaint of intentional infliction of emotional distress and causing a private nuisance alleges that the protesters have harassed students as young as 3 years old with talk of a “murder facility” and “baby-killing center” that’s set to open next door to the school in the spring. According to the school, the activists have been at it on several occasions since the first day of classes in September—obstructing the drop-off lane, following children to the school’s entrances, and forcing administrators to keep children inside during recess. It’s gotten so bad that they may cancel class on Jan. 21, the day before D.C.’s annual March for Life.

“Defendants’ plan is to stop the construction of the adjacent Planned Parenthood facility by engaging in a concerted effort to aggressively confront students, harm their emotional well-being, upset their parents and guardians, and ultimately damage the school’s reputation within the community,” the complaint reads. One student was so upset by the protesters’ actions, the complaint alleges, that he had to go home sick and only agreed to return the next day if the school counselor met him at the front door.

Two Rivers officials have good reason to worry. One of the protesters, Maryland resident Robert Weiler Jr., has a disturbing rap sheet: In 2006, at 26 years old, he pled guilty to plotting to bomb a College Park, Maryland, abortion clinic and shoot the doctors there. Following a tip from Weiler’s parents, police questioned Weiler, who admitted to possessing a homemade pipe bomb and a firearm he’d stolen from a friend. Weiler served five years in prison for those crimes, and was arrested again in 2014 for disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer outside the same abortion clinic he’d planned to attack.

The Washington Post reports that, in a letter, executive director Jessica Wodatch assured parents of Two Rivers students that the school was not endorsing pro-choice politics. “We are a diverse community with different viewpoints on the issue,” wrote Wodatch. “Our students are caught up in a controversy that is not about them—our goal is to allow them safe passage to school.”

One of the protesters, Jonathan Darnel, sent his own email to Two Rivers administrators: “I’m sure you don’t want to see me, my anti-abortion friends and our graphic images any more than we want to be in your neighborhood,” it read, warning the school of the “abortion-minded women” who’ll be walking near the school and the overtures Planned Parenthood will make to “hook [students] on the perverse sexual lifestyle that they promote.” The activists have threatened to “be back every week” if the Planned Parenthood construction goes forward.

The school has petitioned for the court to keep protesters from talking to or approaching its students near the school. Darnel told the Post that the lawsuit is “typical of our culture,” and Two Rivers should be suing Planned Parenthood instead. In his words: “We blame the messenger instead of the message.”

[jeaniebueller]

I saw this article a day or two ago. My 7 year old would be incredibly disturbed by this. Assholes.

[darnkatz]

Dec 11, 2015 12:12:26 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

I saw this article a day or two ago. My 7 year old would be incredibly disturbed by this. Assholes.

Mine would burst into tears and probably not be able to sleep for a while. 

[pixy0stix]

Radicalization of what religion now?

[msmerymac]

Do 3 years olds even know what murder is? (Real, actual murder, not abortion.) They sure as hell don't know what abortion is. I'd be livid to have to explain any of that to my pre-schooler.

[biscoffcookies]

I also read -- not in the Post article but on a listserv -- that the protestors went to a park the next neighborhood over (about a mile) and gave/put anti-abortion stickers to the 3-5 year old kids who were taken there by their aftercare teachers (there is an elementary school next door to said park).

They fact that these guys have decided that harassing/upsetting PRESCHOOLERS is a totes okay strategy is infuriating.

[blink]

People are such assholes.

[picksthemusic]

This makes me sick.

Sick with rage.

[cattledogkisses]

Abortion-minded women are going to seduce your little darling into their devious and depraved lifestyle?

WTF did I just read?

[stephogirl]

I would lose my shit on these people.

Leave the kids out of it. Seriously.

[smock]

“abortion-minded women”

[penguingrrl]

I can't. I just can't. I thought my introduction to the concept of abortion was horrible (a woman who drove around in my neighborhood with pictures of "aborted fetuses" plastered all over her creepy van), but to put children front and center and traumatize them to intimidate people to get your way is probably one of the worst things I've ever read.

[Deleted]

A few years ago, protesters with these signs on my drive to work (a high school) but there were quite a few schools in the area. It made me sick to drive past their signs. I think the local business owners complained and had them removed.

[WOT?*]

But FREEDOM OF SPEECH you guys!

This should be on par with yelling fire in a crowded theater. There are things you just don't do. And I can hope that if they're arrested for "yelling fire" (e.g. protesting at a school or approaching children) there wouldn't be a lot of sympathy from ANYBODY, even other pro-lifers (anti-choicers.)

[erbear]

I wish these assholes would roll up to my school with this nonsense. Hell hath no fury like a group of pro-choice Quaker high school girls.

[notreal]

It's totally ok for them to tell children these things, but if you just try to teach their precious that God DIDN'T invent the universe in 7 days or gay people exist, well, how dare you. Asshats all of them.

[mrsukyankee]

What sanctimonious idiots who can't see how hypocritical they are being in their actions.

[Aquatica]

I felt my blood starting to boil at the first sentence. WTF are these people thinking?? I'm sure the protesters would freak out if a group protested outside their child's school.

[jln]

Dec 11, 2015 12:18:58 GMT -5 @this said:

I keep typing and deleting responses.

I would not be able to contain my rage as a parent. Fuck. Those. Assholes.

Jesus Christ.

Me neither.  I would probably need CEP to start a GFM to bail me out of jail if they harassed my kid with their disgusting signs. 

[KB]

Time for restraining orders. Fuck these assholes.

[taratru]

If my kid came home with a sticker from these fuckers, I'd be under arrest for assault. And I wouldn't care.

Who are these people, and how do they remain relevant in 2015?!

[darnkatz]

Dec 11, 2015 12:40:37 GMT -5 biscoffcookies said:

I also read -- not in the Post article but on a listserv -- that the protestors went to a park the next neighborhood over (about a mile) and gave/put anti-abortion stickers to the 3-5 year old kids who were taken there by their aftercare teachers (there is an elementary school next door to said park).

They fact that these guys have decided that harassing/upsetting PRESCHOOLERS is a totes okay strategy is infuriating.

Omfg. No.