The New York Lambs of Christ Press Release

June 18, 2008

Contact:  Mary E. Quinn

The New York Lambs of Christ

mquinn03@rochester.rr.com

On June 5th, Father Norman U. Weslin, O.S. pleaded “NO CONTEST” to two charges of trespassing and resisting arrest at the infamous LeRoy Carhart’s Partial Birth Abortion killing center. (State of Nebraska vs Norman U. Weslin CR08-3653). The time he served after being arrested was considered payment for his “crimes.”

An eyewitness at the trial said that the prosecutor and defense attorney, Martin A. Cannon of Omaha, Nebraska, had told the judge that they had reached of agreement of four days in jail to cover the costs fines as Father refused to pay any fines for trying to protect the life of a defenseless, innocent child. Mr. Cannon told the judge that Father  also refused to pay into a corrupted judicial system declaring: "It was intolerable to his conscience to pay into a system that kills our children." 

The judge asked Father Weslin if he understood that he faced not only a $500 fine for trespassing and 90 days in jail but also $500 and 90 days in jail for resisting arrest. Father replied that he understood but that he could not agree  that his actions trying to save innocent and voiceless children from death in a non-violent way was a crime.

The judge decided that his time served after his arrest was his penalty and would also cover repayment of the fines. Father was released immediately after the judge stated, “You are Free to Go!” 

Father Weslin’s lawyer said that his arguments to the court were based on Father's individual biography and actions.

Mr. Cannon submitted as evidence a picture used at Father's 2007 FACE trial where he was found innocent by a jury of his peers. It portrayed a Roman Catholic priest in his late seventies peacefully counseling and kneeling in prayer in the vestibule of Carhart’s late term killing center, the very same activity for which he was standing on trial.  Father said that the judge in that case gave no restrictions to Father’s future behavior. 

His attorney explained to the judge that Father wasn’t resisting arrest violently but went into a fetal position when the police came to arrest him in solidarity with helpless children in their mothers’ wombs. He argued that Father couldn't in conscience just walk away on his own two feet while defenseless, innocent children were being put to death.

 Cannon described Father's background to let the court understand that Father Weslin had once had a very responsible job with Army negating the abortion industry and media presented image of "wacko" pro-lifers who stand and pray outside American killing centers who are given the finger or screamed at : “”Get a job.”  Father has been an active presence outside this particular killing center for several years.

Father’s biography reads as so:

Father Norman U. Weslin, O.S. is a Missionary Pro-Life Roman Catholic priest. After retiring from the military and losing his beloved wife, Mary Lou, in a tragic automobile accident, Father met with his two adopted children and they agreed to turn their Colorado home into The Mary Weslin Home for Pregnant, Unwed Mothers. He then studied and became a priest.

Father has been arrested 60-70 times and spent many months in jail – his crime – placing his body between the abortionist and the unborn American child -- trying to stop the killing of Jesus Christ’s babies  -- while they are helpless and dependent on their mothers’ love and their father’s protection and our country’s promise to protect their Right to Life.

It would seem a perfectly legitimate behavior given the fact that Father Weslin had put his life on the line for our defense as a 20-year veteran in the U.S. Army – and a Lt. Colonel, in charge of New York’s Nuclear Defense. He, like all our veterans, have been willing to die for our unseen posterity. Defending life was his career. As a Catholic Priest, defending Jesus Christ’s newly formed infants in their mothers’ wombs is his vocation!

At the height of The Rescue Movement, Father and his National Lambs of Christ joined tens of thousands of American citizens and religious leaders who were arrested at over 6000 killing center sites and imprisoned in the Civil Rights for the Unborn Child.  These Pro-Lifers were working under the assumption that non-violent, civil disobedience was needed as a matter of conscience to raise public awareness, sympathy and action to stop a nation, blessed by God, from killing its future.

These Pro-Life Witnesses knew that a split nine-man Supreme Court had no authority to create an unjust and immoral law that superceded God’s Law and our own Declaration of Independence.

Rescuers were following in the footsteps of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. However, Ghandi’s and King’s movements were covered openly by the press and their witness won many supporters in the media. The secular liberal media never accepted the goals of the United States Rescue Movement and therefore created a black-out of news about these actions. Not only did they purposely not report on these peaceful demonstrations – they went out of their way to report on the confrontational aspects when the abortion industry developed training manuals for pro-death supporters to physically and verbally abuse people kneeling in prayer. Today death-scorts surround women in crisis pregnancies as they enter the killing center sidewalks and properties so that there is no interaction from loving  pro-lifers who want to provide free their support,  information and help for both them and their unborn children.  

Even today in 2008, the local Nebraska papers did not bother cover this second arrest in two years for doing the same thing – trying to stop the killing of children! Last year, they covered his arrest in HEADLINES but merely had a blurb in one newspaper that reported Father was found NOT GUILTY by a jury of his peers for not violating the infamous FACE ACT! Perhaps the FIRST known successful challenge to the FACT ACT!!!!!

Originally, local police handled arrests as the simple thing it was – trespass. The abortion industry knew they had to stop public witness and protest because it hurt their image and bottom line. Thus they began to lobby, finance  and campaign for legislators who would create laws to clamp down on the Free Speech of Pro-Life public witness.

 In some cities including Pittsburgh, Pa. and West Hartford, Conn., police brutality came into the picture with no sympathetic cameras to reveal the behavior of some out-of-control police officers thus eliminating what galvanized Americans to sympathize and participate with the Black Civil Rights Movement – the loosing of the dogs --the hosing of innocent men and women in the South. Images that were constantly shown to us on our TV’s. We never saw or read about the injustices done to these brave family men and women who willingly lay in fetal positions – in solidarity with the unborn child -- while they were kicked and dragged by arresting officers and spit on by pro-death supporters. 

Punitive laws were created: Long jail sentences, heavy fines, RICO, FACE, federal injunctions, buffer zones --all based on the extremely rare occasions of violence at abortion clinics and denounced by all legitimate Pro-Life agencies and individuals.

The abortion industry knew who their enemies were – mothers and fathers  whose family welfare depended on their jobs. They knew if they could put these mothers and fathers in jail who couldn’t afford expensive lawyers and couldn’t afford to go to court for weeks at a time that these families would eventually choose to protect their families first!

To date, no MSM media has ever covered the extreme cruelty and abuse of our youngest citizens – our unborn children!! Have any of us ever seen the most commonly performed surgery – abortion – on TV? In the New York Times?

Father Weslin was released by the court at the biblically significant time of 3:00 p.m. June 5. According to a pro-life eyewitness who attended both of Father Weslin’s trials, it was the very same time at his FACE Trial that a jury of his peers found him NOT guilty on three counts of violating the Face ACT in April 2007!!

In thanksgiving, Father and his pro-life friends, sang “Immaculate Mary” before exiting the courtroom. Father Weslin thanks his attorney Martin A. Cannon and Matt Heffron for their brilliant and selfless representation and all the people across the country who prayed for a just outcome.

The New York Lambs of Christ Press Release

June 18, 2008

Contact:  Mary E. Quinn

The New York Lambs of Christ

mquinn03@rochester.rr.com

On June 5th, Father Norman U. Weslin, O.S. pleaded “NO CONTEST” to two charges of trespassing and resisting arrest at the infamous LeRoy Carhart’s Partial Birth Abortion killing center. (State of Nebraska vs Norman U. Weslin CR08-3653). The time he served after being arrested was considered payment for his “crimes.”

An eyewitness at the trial said that the prosecutor and defense attorney, Martin A. Cannon of Omaha, Nebraska, had told the judge that they had reached of agreement of four days in jail to cover the costs fines as Father refused to pay any fines for trying to protect the life of a defenseless, innocent child. Mr. Cannon told the judge that Father  also refused to pay into a corrupted judicial system declaring: "It was intolerable to his conscience to pay into a system that kills our children." 

The judge asked Father Weslin if he understood that he faced not only a $500 fine for trespassing and 90 days in jail but also $500 and 90 days in jail for resisting arrest. Father replied that he understood but that he could not agree  that his actions trying to save innocent and voiceless children from death in a non-violent way was a crime.

The judge decided that his time served after his arrest was his penalty and would also cover repayment of the fines. Father was released immediately after the judge stated, “You are Free to Go!” 

Father Weslin’s lawyer said that his arguments to the court were based on Father's individual biography and actions.

Mr. Cannon submitted as evidence a picture used at Father's 2007 FACE trial where he was found innocent by a jury of his peers. It portrayed a Roman Catholic priest in his late seventies peacefully counseling and kneeling in prayer in the vestibule of Carhart’s late term killing center, the very same activity for which he was standing on trial.  Father said that the judge in that case gave no restrictions to Father’s future behavior. 

His attorney explained to the judge that Father wasn’t resisting arrest violently but went into a fetal position when the police came to arrest him in solidarity with helpless children in their mothers’ wombs. He argued that Father couldn't in conscience just walk away on his own two feet while defenseless, innocent children were being put to death.

 Cannon described Father's background to let the court understand that Father Weslin had once had a very responsible job with Army negating the abortion industry and media presented image of "wacko" pro-lifers who stand and pray outside American killing centers who are given the finger or screamed at : “”Get a job.”  Father has been an active presence outside this particular killing center for several years.

Father’s biography reads as so:

Father Norman U. Weslin, O.S. is a Missionary Pro-Life Roman Catholic priest. After retiring from the military and losing his beloved wife, Mary Lou, in a tragic automobile accident, Father met with his two adopted children and they agreed to turn their Colorado home into The Mary Weslin Home for Pregnant, Unwed Mothers. He then studied and became a priest.

Father has been arrested 60-70 times and spent many months in jail – his crime – placing his body between the abortionist and the unborn American child -- trying to stop the killing of Jesus Christ’s babies  -- while they are helpless and dependent on their mothers’ love and their father’s protection and our country’s promise to protect their Right to Life.

It would seem a perfectly legitimate behavior given the fact that Father Weslin had put his life on the line for our defense as a 20-year veteran in the U.S. Army – and a Lt. Colonel, in charge of New York’s Nuclear Defense. He, like all our veterans, have been willing to die for our unseen posterity. Defending life was his career. As a Catholic Priest, defending Jesus Christ’s newly formed infants in their mothers’ wombs is his vocation!

At the height of The Rescue Movement, Father and his National Lambs of Christ joined tens of thousands of American citizens and religious leaders who were arrested at over 6000 killing center sites and imprisoned in the Civil Rights for the Unborn Child.  These Pro-Lifers were working under the assumption that non-violent, civil disobedience was needed as a matter of conscience to raise public awareness, sympathy and action to stop a nation, blessed by God, from killing its future.

These Pro-Life Witnesses knew that a split nine-man Supreme Court had no authority to create an unjust and immoral law that superceded God’s Law and our own Declaration of Independence.

Rescuers were following in the footsteps of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. However, Ghandi’s and King’s movements were covered openly by the press and their witness won many supporters in the media. The secular liberal media never accepted the goals of the United States Rescue Movement and therefore created a black-out of news about these actions. Not only did they purposely not report on these peaceful demonstrations – they went out of their way to report on the confrontational aspects when the abortion industry developed training manuals for pro-death supporters to physically and verbally abuse people kneeling in prayer. Today death-scorts surround women in crisis pregnancies as they enter the killing center sidewalks and properties so that there is no interaction from loving  pro-lifers who want to provide free their support,  information and help for both them and their unborn children.  

Even today in 2008, the local Nebraska papers did not bother cover this second arrest in two years for doing the same thing – trying to stop the killing of children! Last year, they covered his arrest in HEADLINES but merely had a blurb in one newspaper that reported Father was found NOT GUILTY by a jury of his peers for not violating the infamous FACE ACT! Perhaps the FIRST known successful challenge to the FACT ACT!!!!!

Originally, local police handled arrests as the simple thing it was – trespass. The abortion industry knew they had to stop public witness and protest because it hurt their image and bottom line. Thus they began to lobby, finance  and campaign for legislators who would create laws to clamp down on the Free Speech of Pro-Life public witness.

 In some cities including Pittsburgh, Pa. and West Hartford, Conn., police brutality came into the picture with no sympathetic cameras to reveal the behavior of some out-of-control police officers thus eliminating what galvanized Americans to sympathize and participate with the Black Civil Rights Movement – the loosing of the dogs --the hosing of innocent men and women in the South. Images that were constantly shown to us on our TV’s. We never saw or read about the injustices done to these brave family men and women who willingly lay in fetal positions – in solidarity with the unborn child -- while they were kicked and dragged by arresting officers and spit on by pro-death supporters. 

Punitive laws were created: Long jail sentences, heavy fines, RICO, FACE, federal injunctions, buffer zones --all based on the extremely rare occasions of violence at abortion clinics and denounced by all legitimate Pro-Life agencies and individuals.

The abortion industry knew who their enemies were – mothers and fathers  whose family welfare depended on their jobs. They knew if they could put these mothers and fathers in jail who couldn’t afford expensive lawyers and couldn’t afford to go to court for weeks at a time that these families would eventually choose to protect their families first!

To date, no MSM media has ever covered the extreme cruelty and abuse of our youngest citizens – our unborn children!! Have any of us ever seen the most commonly performed surgery – abortion – on TV? In the New York Times?

Father Weslin was released by the court at the biblically significant time of 3:00 p.m. June 5. According to a pro-life eyewitness who attended both of Father Weslin’s trials, it was the very same time at his FACE Trial that a jury of his peers found him NOT guilty on three counts of violating the Face ACT in April 2007!!

In thanksgiving, Father and his pro-life friends, sang “Immaculate Mary” before exiting the courtroom. Father Weslin thanks his attorney Martin A. Cannon and Matt Heffron for their brilliant and selfless representation and all the people across the country who prayed for a just outcome.