Todd Akin ARRESTED At Least Eight Times At Abortion Clinic Protests

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This weasel is sick and dangerous!!





WASHINGTON -- Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) was arrested on four more occasions in the 1980s for trespassing at medical clinics than previously disclosed, according to incident reports obtained by The Huffington Post. These arrests are in addition to the four others that Akin has already acknowledged.



Akin -- who went by his first name, William, before getting involved in politics -- participated in anti-abortion protests in the 1980s, during which he and other conservative activists were arrested for trespassing and/or resisting arrest at abortion clinics. "Don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird," Akin joked in 2011 at a "pastor's briefing," recounting an arrest. He later said he made no apologies for "stand[ing] up for the things I believe in."



But Akin was arrested more than once: March 15, 1985; March 30, 1985; April 7, 1985 and May 9, 1987. On one of those occasions, police had to physically carry Akin into an elevator when he refused to leave the premises, according to an article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Josh Glasstetter, the research director at People for the American Way who first broke the news of Akin's law-breaking at Right Wing Watch, received four new incident reports of Akin arrests, which he passed along to The Huffington Post. That brings Akin's total arrests to at least eight.





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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/todd-akin-arrest-abortion-clinic-protests_n_2069075.html

[jenw2]

1. A government official trying to stop a lawful business from operating...

sound like treason.

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2. Dangerous weasels like Akin spawn copycat crazies who end up blowing up clinics or murdering doctors

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3. When you see someone like Todd Akin you think his mother should have practiced birth control.

These bunch of crazy people may start passing laws for the practice of legitimate rape and take it on themselves to pick out their victims. We need to get this group out of politics.

[jenw2]

7. He was born before Griswold v. Connecticut

so she may have not had the right at that time to do so.

Most people forget that it wasn't that long ago that states like Connecticut made contraceptives illegal.

[TwilightGardener]

4. He can't respect the law--why is he allowed to be a lawmaker?

Insane.

[Initech]

5. Good question.

[HopeHoops]

6. Coming in or going out?

[Canuckistanian]

8. Why did this come up so late in the campaign?

Or was this just timed for maximum effect by the McCaskill team?

I think it would have been better for it to have come out earlier.

[LeftyMom]

9. The arrests have been news for some time, they just found more.

News accounts from the eighties don't exactly google well. I'd guess once somebody found the first one the remainders involved volunteers getting massive microfiche headaches.

[PeaceNikki]

11. Meh, to anyone who supports him after all the other stuff came out, this would be seen as a positive

Noble, honorable thing for him to do.

To the rest of us it's not very shocking.

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14. The McCaskle team did not put him in the position of being arrested.

Seems like the Akin team messed up some years earlier. Did Todd forget sbout the arrest?

[Honeycombe8]

10. This is a feather in his cap, to his followers. nt

[47of74]

12. I'm at a loss as to what to call Akin

My first thought would be to call the guy a fucking pig but that would be insulting to fucking pigs.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

13. American Taliban

Sick jerk.

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15. Exactly and he will want to pass sharia laws to make himself feel good.

[spanone]

16. insane wingnut. he should never walk the halls of congress, ever.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Which is different to a left-wing politician...

arrested at an anti-war protest, or protesting animal research, or protesting the School of the Americas, how? Same rules apply; if you support people protesting for reasons you can agree with you should be able to support people protesting for reasons you don't; that's what freedom of speech is supposed to be about after all. (See this, for instance and the markedly different response to a Green Party candidate arrested while protesting the Keystone pipeline.)

I don't agree with Akin's views on abortion, or with the tactics of abortion protesters, but I do think that consistency of principle is a good thing.