Everywhere there are mentalists

You can guarantee that every time you hear about a movement, philosophy or nutcase on the news and think to yourself "can the world get any madder?", there is someone else thinking "wow, I can do that… and more!". Probably while suffocating themselves or eating mercury.

From The Guardian:

Anti-abortionists inspired by the militancy of the movement in America are adopting tactics associated with animal rights extremists in an escalating campaign of intimidation.

The latest victims of harassment by a group called UK Life League are the pupils and teachers at a Catholic girls school in Surrey. The head teacher of Woldingham School, Diana Vernon, has been accused of "child abuse" for providing sex education for her 14- and 15-year-old pupils as required under the national curriculum. Activists are being encouraged to bombard Ms Vernon with hate emails.

The guy leading this campaign is a militant 'pro-life' campaigner whose claims to being a vicar seem difficult to prove. When asked if he thought there as any risk in publishing the details of a girls' school on the internet, he helpfully responds, "There has been 40 years of pro-life activism in this country and there has been no violence yet". Nice.

Mr Dowson prints images of aborted foetuses on his website and encourages supporters to send pictures of them to hospitals across the country.

Asked how he obtains the pictures, he said: "Some of the images came from other websites, some I have gleaned myself looking through hospital bins. I have searched through hospital bins in Liverpool, Birmingham and Glasgow and took the contents away to photograph."

But Marie Stopes UK, which has been the subject of many demonstrations by supporters of the UK Life League, has challenged Mr Dowson over the images. "That kind of waste is incinerated within hospitals. It has not been possible to access it in hospital bins for 20 years. These images come from American websites, and some look as if they have been tampered with," it said.

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March 27, 2006 | Filed Under Politics, UK 

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