Franciscan friar gets 6
months in jail for blocking New York abortion clinic entrance
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 29, 2023 / 15:55 pm
Catholic priest and pro-life activist Father
Fidelis Moscinski, CFR, has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for
blocking access to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility by placing locks and
chains on the gated entrance.
Judge Steven Tiscione laid down the six-month
sentence, which is the maximum available for the specific crime. Moscinski was
found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act,
which imposes harsh penalties for obstructing access to an abortion facility or
a pregnancy center.
“My actions … were done because Planned Parenthood
as an organization is in the business of killing,” Moscinski told the judge
while asking for a lenient sentence, according to his remarks provided by the
pro-life organization Red Rose Rescue.
Although the priest is a member of Red Rose Rescue,
the organization has emphasized that his effort to block access to an abortion
clinic was not sanctioned by the group. Red Rose Rescue said members can engage
in pro-life activism outside of their organization, but they are a sole agent
when doing so.
“Every procured abortion that occurs on [Planned
Parenthood’s] premises constitutes the deliberate killing of an innocent human
being,” Moscinski continued in his statement to the judge. “Furthermore, these
bloody and violent acts also cause grave spiritual and psychological harm to
the mother of the child. All of my actions then and now are directed solely
towards preventing the murder of defenseless children and the wounding of their
mothers.”
The Franciscan friar also criticized the FACE Act.
“This pseudo-law seeks to cloak the act of killing
preborn children under the euphemistic and Orwellian language of ‘reproductive
health care,’” Moscinski said. “I am not guilty of violating this law because this
law cannot be seen as anything other than null and void since it attempts to
give legal protection to actions which are intrinsically evil and unjust.”
Moscinski asked Tiscione to “somewhat mitigate the
injustice this court has perpetrated” by providing him the most lenient
sentence possible. Instead, the judge handed him the most severe sentence and
cited his previous arrests for pro-life activism as his justification for the
sentence.
The priest’s pro-life activism occurred on the
morning of July 7, 2022, at the Planned Parenthood of Greater New York clinic
in Hempstead, New York. He effectively shut down the clinic for about two hours
by placing locks and chains on the entrance and covering some of them with
glue, according to the Department of Justice.
Once the fire department and police department cut
through the locks, Moscinski laid down in front of the entrance to prevent cars
from entering the gate, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s
Office.
Moscinski has previously been arrested for his
pro-life activism, but this is the first time he has been found guilty of
violating the FACE Act. Last year, he was arrested for trespassing in an
abortion clinic after entering the facility in protest and refusing to leave
when ordered by staff and then by police.
Earlier this month, New York Attorney
General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Red Rose Rescue that
seeks to bar Moscinski and other members of Red Rose Rescue from going within
30 feet of an abortion clinic. Even though Moscinski’s FACE Act violation was
not part of a Red Rose Rescue, the attorney general cited that incident as one
of the incidents to justify the lawsuit.
St Francis would be turning in his grave at the antics of this sanctimonious busybody. Of course, Gene would never take any such action because he is too lazy. Far easier to post plagiarised articles on this apology for a blog. What a self righteous prick Gene is, a posturing simpering fraud who is strikes attitudes that make him look good without ever getting off his fat arse and doing a stroke to assist the causes he claims are so close to his fraudulent heart. Jean would never block the entrance to an abortion clinic, but he would turn up for the photo opportunity afterwards. He is the Prince of hypocrites.
ReplyDeleteAnd no matter how much plagiarised crap about Franciscan monks interfering in matters they cannot begin to understand, your posts that estimate buggering small boys abd raping little girls to be the moral equivalent of parking on a double yellow line are going to keep on re-appearing.
ReplyDeleteSo also will your posts about your stigmatising homosexuals as the moral equivalents of mass murderers.
And Gene, your frantic denials won’t wash, no matter how desperately you try to backpedal on your infamous malice.
You posted on TES Opinion that the drive to expose paedophile priests was like a witch hunt to expose priests with parking tickets.
Your post on here last week equated homosexuals with genocidal mass murderers.
Your vast, slack, drivelling gob and your limitless stupidity have caught you out AGAIN!!
And now you are screaming blue murder because, like all bullying bastards, you are a coward: you can dish it out, but you can't take it. Suck on that, Gene "Two-Faced Snivelling Cry-baby" Vincent.
Awompbompalubomp awompbompboom!!
ReplyDeleteWhat's the matter, Gene "Two-Faced Snivelling Cry-baby" Vincent?
ReplyDeleteCat got your tongue?
Run out of bullshit?
Decided never to talk again until you learn to talk sense [can the world wait that long?]
Or simply hoping that you will wake up and find that this dazzling sequence of fails and humiliations is all a nightmare?
No fucking chance.
But enough of rubbing it in. Let us savour the "ineffable delicacy" and the mind-boggling pretentiousness of a further extract from GENE VINCENT - CLOSE UP ON A PHENOMENON - Gene's masturbatory interview with himself, supposedly conducted by Libby Purves of The Times. We left Libby in Gene's study....
ReplyDelete"The room was lined with bookshelves floor to ceiling. His writing desk faced the window and placed beside his computer was a framed colour portrait of San Juan de la Cruz. "Well that figures," I thought to myself. "Gene would of course have for inspiration someone of both outstanding intellect and spirituality. Saint John of the Cross certainly fits the bill." I walk over to his desk and see opened face down a copy of Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein. I take in the rows of books on the shelves. Many, many works on philosophy - Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, Russell, Hegel, Kant ... but most represented is Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein is obviously big in Gene's Weltanschauung.
Then the theology section - not surprisingly very large. The entire Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica. Not wonder Gene so easily defeats and deflates any opponent when it comes to theological argument. Many books on the early Church fathers. Well we knew Gene was big on patristics. Origen and Saint Justin Maryty well represented. What of course will interest me greatly is the literature - and I'm not disappointed. Such a panorama:
William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut, Franz Kafka, J.K. Rowling, William Faulkner, Stephen King ,Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Homer, Victor Hugo, Charlotte Bronte, Agatha Christie, Ayn Rand, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Douglas Adams, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Dante Alighieri, Harper Lee, Joseph Conrad, Jack Kerouac, Emily Bronte, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, W. Somerset Maugham. Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, Aldous Huxley, Anton Chekhov, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Terry Pratchett, Ray Bradbury, Paulo Coelho, John Milton, Henry Miller, Dr. Seuss, George Eliot, Jodi Picoult, Khalid Hosseini, Hunter S. Thompson, John Grisham, Henry David Thoreau, Ian McEwan, Joseph Heller, Miguel de Cervantes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Irving, H.P. Lovecraft, Salman Rushdie, Plato, Isaac Asimov, Thomas Mann, Nicholas Sparks, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Cormac McCarthy, Sylvia Plath, Jean Paul Sartre, Jorge Luis Borges, Orson Scott Card, Nikolai Gogol, Honore de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dan Brown, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson, Gustave Flaubert, Mikhail Bulgakov, Edith Wharton, Evelyn Waugh, Samuel Beckett, Sidney Sheldon, William Blake.
Wow! Is this man literate? Or is this man literate? What I do like is the amount of literary biography. Richard Ellmann's biographies of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde and Herbert Lottman's monumental biography of Albert Camus for example. I have always thought I detected James Joyce in the delicate tapestries of Gene's writing and sure enough James Joyce is handsomely represented with the complete works including lesser-known works such as Chamber Music.
Along one wall is stacked Gene's stereo system. Small neat and compact with headphones sitting atop the cabinet. Headphones - Gene ever thoughtful does not wish his music to disturb the rest of the family. One compact disc boxed set is also on top of the cabinet. It's Mahler: Complete Symphonies; Das Lied von der Erde, featuring Marjana Lipovsek, Ben Heppner, Gary Bertini and Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester (2006).
"What immaculate good taste," I say to myself."
Terminally embarrassing, or what?
But there is worse to come....savour the complete paralysis of the power of introspection in this extract. How DOES Gene write such appalling crap with his head rammed so far up his own arse? HE COMPARES HIS PAINTING WITH "FRANK AUERBACH AT HIS BEST" !!! The only painting Gene has ever done has been up a ladder with a bucket and a two inch brush...
ReplyDeleteAs I leave his study I notice hanging on the back of the door an expensive Burberry raincoat and an elegant grey snap-brim Trilby hat. Is there a streak of Humphrey Bogart/Raymond Chandler in the rich filigree of Gene's complex make up? Let me answer that. There certainly is.
Downstairs Gene is seated at the kitchen counter playing Danny Boy on a tin whistle. It sounds quite haunting. He suggests we conduct the interview in the living room. The living room is such a change from the kitchen - almost Victorian ambiance: chintz, dark mahogany, rich tapestry in the carpet. There are three paintings hung. Two I recognise: reproductions of Rembrandt's Christ at Emmaus and Two Travellers by Jack Yeats. A third painting I don't recognise. It walk close to examine it and see that it is titled Moonlight Over The Grand Union Canal. It's moody and expressive with thick impasto and swift brush-strokes somewhat reminiscent of Frank Auerbach at his best. I ask about it and Gene reluctantly confesses it's actually an original work by himself. "Marianne and the children insisted it be hung here. I don't think that much of it myself," he says modestly and self-deprecatingly. I demur and say, "Au contraire Gene, I think it is quite brilliant."
We then chat a little about the Jack Yeats painting and I discover that the artist is one of Gene's favourite painters and that in fact he is currently making a study of Yeats' late works. "His brother Willim Butler Yeats, the poet, will always be better known of course. Fine poet no doubt, but as a man he could be a canting old phony - what with his Aetherius Society, his cravat and his pince-nez. Jack was more to my liking. The brothers fell out over Irish nationalism. I think they weren't on speaking terms for years. Jack was a Sinn Fein supporter while William was content to sit on the fence and then support whichever side won," mused Gene.
I turn to sit down and it's only then I notice that one wall of the living room is entirely taken up with framed photos and images. I walk over and examine this enigmatic tableau. Gene smiles and says, "Libby, this is my hero wall. Souls who have inspired me along the way."
What an eclectic group! Edward Elgar, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Del Shannon, Nicholas de Stael, St Francis of Assisi, Gustav Mahler, Billy Fury, Albert Camus, Bob Dylan, Carson McCullers, Eddie Cochran, Joan Eardley, Emily Dickinson, Auguste Rodin, Samuel Beckett, Edith Stein, Maximilian Kolbe, Brian Wilson, Pope John XXIII, John F Kennedy, Roy Orbison, Jacob Epstein, Kevin Finnegan, Elisabeth Frink, James Joyce...
I set up my recording equipment and get ready to begin our interview.
LIBBY: I'm not too sure where to start...
GENE: The beginning is always a good place, Libby.
LIBBY: Ha! Ha! Ha! Very droll Gene. Actually, for me, the beginning is your writing.
GENE: In the beginning was the Word.
LIBBY: Ha! Ha! Ha! Very good again Gene. But seriously, your novels and your phenomenally successful blog attest to a very powerful new force in the literary world. I know those who won't start their day without first checking out your blog to see what's new. I admit to being Gene's number one fan myself... Let me quote the opening of your novel: "
Can it get any worse? A "novel" by Gene? a foregone conclusion....
“The rich filigree of Gene’s complex make-up” - dear GOD, what a self regarding prick this oaf is….
ReplyDelete“Your novels and your phenomenally successful blog attest to a powerful new force in the literary world….”
So remind us, Gene: when is GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS going to be published?
Fortunately everyone can see what I wrote. What I wrote was: "Homosexuality is no more God-given that the murderous propensities of Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong or Pol Pot."
ReplyDeleteYou wrote that homosexuality equals mass murder. Disgusting.
Okay, you may not have any grasp of Logic and Epistemology but at least you could have common decency.
YOU lecture ME about common decency? You pompous, two faced prick.
ReplyDeleteYour post clearly equated homosexuals with genocidal mass murderers, just as your TES post on paedophile Catholic priests clearly equated parking on a double yellow line with raping little girls and buggering small boys.
This terminal nastiness is obviously in ingrained element in the rich filigree that is your make, just as is being a pompous two faced prick.,
"Your post clearly equated homosexuals with genocidal mass murderers,"
ReplyDeleteNo it did not!
All you are doing here Detterling is displaying your lack of intelligence.
Find someone with intelligence to explain this to you.
"just as your TES post on paedophile Catholic priests clearly equated parking on a double yellow line with raping little girls and buggering small boys."
It manifestly did not. Such a thread would never have been published on the TES website. And, significantly, your post was immediately removed.