Friday, January 26, 2007

They're Over Here

Talk To Action | Reclaiming Citizenship, History, and Faith: "James Kopp, the Catholic antiabortion militant convicted of the sniper assasination of Dr. Barnett Slepian, was also convicted today on furtherl federal charges of having violated the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances Act, (FACE). Kopp has also been charged in Canada with the in the 1995 shooting of Dr. Hugh Short -- one of a series of shootings of abortion providers in their homes on or near Canada's Remembrance Day, in which Kopp remains a suspect.

Among those a attending his trial were two people who aided Kopp while he was on the lam in Europe -- and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list: Dennis Malvesi, himself a convicted clinic arsonist and his wife Loretta Marra. The Catholic couple served two and a half years of what could have been a long sentence, but they cut a deal with prosecutors. Marra was asked by The Buffalo News if she had any regrets in the role that she played in helping Kopp's run from the law, she replied: 'Only that I got caught...'"

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