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White House changes its tune on “where people protest”

May 9, 2022

By Dave Andrusko

Just last Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked by Fox News’s Peter Doocy about pro-abortionist who were picketing the homes of Supreme Court Justices. 

Doocy: “Activists posted a map with the home addresses of the Supreme Court justices. Is that kind of thing this president wants?”

PSAKI: “I don’t have an official U.S. government position on where people protest.”

Apparently, Psaki was comfortable with such intimidation tactics.  After all, all is fair in love and abortion politics, right? Picketers were selective in their outrage: they limited their bullying tactics to the justices who are presumed to make up the majority ready to call for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Flash forward to this morning when Psaki was singing a very different tune.

“[Biden] strongly believes in the Constitutional right to protest. But that should never include violence, threats, or vandalism” Psaki said

“Judges perform an incredibly important function in our society, and they must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety,” she added.

What happened between  last Thursday and today? The families of these justices—including their children–such as Kavanaugh, were no less in danger. And Justice Alito and his family had already reportedly been moved to an undisclosed location due to concerns for their safety.

What then?

Perhaps it was the news that someone tossed a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Wisconsin pro-life organization Sunday morning and spray-painted a message outside reading, “if abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.”

Maybe the follow up by Caroline Reilly, a reporter for the pro-abortion organization Rewire, caught the administration’s attention. In a since deleted text she wrote, “more of this. may these people never know a moment of peace or safety until they rot in the ground.

Or it could be—just guessing here—the picture of  “Pro-abortion activists descended upon an iconic New York City church on Saturday as an anti-abortion group showed up once again in their monthly routine of demonstrating outside a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic,” according to Fox News.

The activists showed up at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Manhattan on Saturday morning, just feet from a group of anti-abortion protesters who typically walk from the church to a nearby Planned Parenthood site on the first Saturday of every month, according to WNYW-TV.

One  “protestor”  was busy screaming “I’m killing the babies!” while “waving around dolls wearing a one-piece bathing suit.”  

One pro-abortion protester was photographed holding a sign that said “abortion is a gift.” Another sign said, “RIP Jesus, killed by ‘woke’ deadbeat dad.”

Or perhaps the administration does not want to defend what may well be a violation of federal law which “ prohibits picketing or parading in front of the home of a judge, juror, witness, or officer of the court under pain of up to one year in prison,” according to the Washington Examiner.  “Efforts to intimidate people within the legal system are an offense against judicial independence, a key prerequisite to democracy.”

Or perhaps it was just to cover their bases–be on the record against “violence, threats, or vandalism”–should something truly dreadful occur.

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