Judge sides with abortion opponent over alleged threat:"Bomb threat is free speech"
WICHITA — An abortion opponent’s letter to a Wichita doctor saying someone might place an explosive under her car is constitutionally protected speech and not a “true threat” under existing law, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten summarily found in favor of Angel Dillard in the 2011 civil lawsuit brought by the Justice Department under a law aimed at protecting access to abortion services. The 25-page decision handed down comes after a flurry of sealed filings seeking summary judgment.
The judge wrote that the government supplied no evidence that actual violence against Dr. Mila Means was likely or imminent.
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Dillard wrote in her letter that thousands of people from across the nation were scrutinizing Means’ background and would know “your habits and routines.”
“They know where you shop, who your friends are, what you drive, where you live,” the letter said. “You will be checking under your car every day <0x2014> because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it.”
The judge noted in his decision that Dillard sent the letter openly with her return address on it.
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The judge also rejected the government’s request for a permanent injunction prohibiting Dillard from again contacting Means. He was persuaded by the defense argument that she would have no reason to do so since Means no longer has any plans to offer abortion services in Kansas.
The court also noted the government’s argument that Means had refrained from contacting Means while the lawsuit was pending.
“If the glare of publicity and the prospect of additional government legal action are sufficient by themselves to prevent further communications by Dillard, they would remain even in the absence of separate injunction relief,” the judge wrote. “That is, the government effectively concedes that Dillard is a rational person, at least in sensing the folly of additional communications with Dr. Means.”
http://cjonline.com/news/2013-08-15/judge-sides-abortion-opponent-over-alleged-threat
The judge is as crazy as a s***house mouse.
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Kinda, sorta, maybe, 
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As a good Christian might say, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
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Kansas Inmate Claims Anti-Choicer Asked Him to Firebomb the Home of Dr. Means
The Associated Press and The Wichita Eagle reported yesterday that Robert Campbell, an inmate in Sedgwick County, Kansas has asserted that domestic terrorist Angel Dillard asked him last year to firebomb the house of Dr. Mila Means, an abortion provider who sought to help fill the void in access to safe abortion care in Wichita, Kansas after the assassination of Dr. George Tiller.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/04/04/kansas-inmate-claims-anti-choicer-asked-him-to-firebomb-the-home-of-dr-means/
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supposedly this is her church. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansas%3F_%28film%29)
Immanuel Baptist Church
1415 S Topeka
Wichita, KS 67211
www.ibcwichita.com
316.262.1452
An abusive husband who threatens to blow his wife's brains out is now protected because he is exercizing his 1st Amendment rights.
This judge should be removed IMMEDIATELY.
no constitutional right is absolute. Not the First Amendment, not the Second, and so on.
P.S. I always wanted to be at the scene of a fire where people were gathering and run around yelling "Theater! Theater!" 
peachy. Who nominated this fine gentleman with a keen understanding of the First Amendment to the Federal bench? Shame, shame. 
