_DIALECTICS OF TERROR_: Part 4
Tom Burghardt (tburghardt@igc.apc.org)
Tue, 24 Oct 1995 19:43:36 -0700
*** DIALECTICS OF TERROR ***
** A National Directory of the Direct Action Anti-Abortion
Movement and Their Allies **
By Tom Burghardt
*** FIRST EDITION -- OCTOBER 1995 ***
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Part 4
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RANDALL A. TERRY
RANDALL TERRY LIVE
THE RESISTANCE
CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
P.O. BOX 570
WINDSOR, NEW YORK 13865
Office: (607) 655-1900
Fax: (607) 655-1920
Publishes: a 2-4 page monthly newsletter
"Randall Terry Live: a nationally-syndicated, radio program is
currently heard on approximately 40 radio stations daily.
In many respects, the term "rescue" has become synonymous
with the organization created by Randall Terry. More than any
individual other than Scheidler himself, "rescue" as a strategy
and political orientation, owes much to the media-generating
"shock tactics" of Terry and his followers.
A student of Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, Terry took
Scheidler's advice and transformed anti-abortion activism into a
media spectacle guaranteed to "create news events." Scheidler
wrote:
Conflict is always newsworthy. When you go to a clinic, it
helps to get the press there if you tell them that you are
going inside the clinic. If there is a chance for
confrontation, the press are more likely to cover the event.
Paul Brown's slogan, "There is no such thing as bad press.
The only bad press is no press," might very well serve as Randall
Terry's epigram.
A graduate of the Elim Bible Institute in 1981, Terry did
not become an ordained minister. But by 1983, after a series of
jobs including a stint as a used car salesman, he became a lay-
minister at Rev. Daniel J. Little's Church at Pierce Creek in
Binghamton, New York. The former Kiss fan who had hoped to
become a rock star, "was called by God" instead, to lead a war
against women.
When a free-standing abortion clinic opened in Binghamton,
Terry and his wife, Cindy, led daily pickets and other protests
at the Southern Tier Women's Services (STWS) facility. Randall
Terry, Daniel Little and other members of the Church at Pierce
Creek organized Project Life in 1984: the precursor of Operation
Rescue had been born.
Arrested at the 1986 "Action for Life" conference in St.
Louis, Terry became acquainted with Joseph Scheidler and other
national direct action leaders of the mid-1980's: John
Cavanaugh-O'Keefe of Gaithersburg, Maryland, John Ryan of St.
Louis, Peter Lennox of Atlanta, John Burt of Pensacola, and
Donald Treshman of Houston. Project Life was an affiliate of the
Pro-Life Action Network and Terry served as a board member of the
Pro-Life Action League.
Although clinic blockades and invasions were beginning to be
used with increasing frequency by the anti-abortion movement,
Project Life staged what was probably one of the first large-
scale "lock and block" actions in the country. On June 5, 1986,
Terry, Little and other Project Life members, used 17 cars to
block the driveway and all entrances to the STWS facility.
Recounting a clinic invasion six months earlier, Rev. Little
shaped the theoretical framework for what would evolve into
Operation Rescue's "Higher Law" doctrine:
On the morning of January 8, 1986, six members of the
congregation from the Church at Pierce Creek in Binghamton,
New York, and a seventh person from another local church
entered the premises leased by the local abortion mill and
staged a non-violent rescue mission (sit-in) to try to stop
the murder of some twenty children that day...
Some have pointed out to me that the laws of trespass were
broken in order to carry out this action. While I
understand that this is so, I am also convinced that:
1. Trespass laws were never intended to afford
protection to those who murder the innocent.
2. Supreme Court decisions should not permit the
murder of these children.
3. Godly people can never acknowledge that anyone has
a legal right to kill children, whether born or
pre-born.
In giving us law, it is the intention of God to reveal to us
His own holy nature, and to make known to us His estimate of
the infinite value of human life. Even traffic laws exist
for the purpose of preserving human life, and as such, they
reflect God's estimate of human worth and dignity.
Therefore, they are to be obeyed. When laws no longer
reflect the intention of God to protect and honor the
sanctity of human life, then they are not laws at all. They
may be the decisions of men, and they may be enforced by
brute strength, but they have no connection whatever with
real law.
According to Rev. Little, there is a Biblical mandate to
"rule and reign" in accordance with the inerrant law of the
Bible; therefore, Christians have the right, indeed the duty, to
disobey laws which they view as "unjust" or anti-Biblical.
With his stature as a national leader on the rise, Randall
Terry wrote Higher Laws early in 1987. This influential piece
was reprinted as a tract and distributed at PLAN and then,
Operation Rescue events; it first appeared in a Christian
Reconstructionist journal published by The Rutherford Institute.
Terry wrote:
Some might wonder if rescues are a valid application of the
"Higher Laws" principle. Some believe we can disobey
earthly rulers only when we are told to do something evil.
"When they tell me I have to abort my child, I won't obey."
But what about when we are told to not do the good God
commands us to do, and we thereby commit the sin of
omission?...
To rescue someone is to physically intervene on his behalf
when he is in danger. We have an obligation before God to
try to rescue these children. Christians who do rescue
missions are simply obeying God's command to rescue the
innocent who are scheduled to die that day, regardless of
man's godless laws that permits and protects murder....IF
YOU BELIEVE ABORTION IS MURDER, YOU MUST ACT LIKE IT IS
MURDER! (emphasis in original)
*
The Atlanta "Action for Life" conference in May 1987 was the
venue where Operation Rescue was publicly announced. However,
preparations for launching the new group had been underway since
1986. The ensuing months found Terry and other PLAN members
distributing tens of thousands of flyers and speaking before
dozens of receptive church groups.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend in 1987, Operation Rescue
staged a "field training" exercise at the Cherry Hill Women's
Center, in New Jersey. While sit-ins and demonstrations had been
a tactical motif of the anti-abortion movement for several years,
by and large, earlier actions were initiated by relatively small
groups. At the Cherry Hill clinic, OR's "new, aggressive
tactics" were unveiled -- mass clinic blockades. More than 200
"rescue missionaries" were arrested. Operation Rescue with it's
young, media savvy generals had arrived.
While judiciously maintaining their's is a "peaceful,
prayerful organization," Operation Rescue, much like Scheidler's
Pro-Life Action Network before it, have soft-pedalled their
support for clinic arsonists, vandals and bombers.
Scheidler, far from condemning anti-abortion violence has
maintained close contact with those who have been imprisoned for
assault, bombing and arson. In 1988, for example, Scheidler
presented Fr. Edward Markley with a "Defenders of Life" award at
a PLAL function. Markley, a Catholic priest, was convicted and
imprisoned after invading and vandalizing women's clinics and
assaulting staff in Alabama. One clinic worker who had been
injured by Markley, testified at his trial that her medical
expenses totalled some $13,000. When the priest was given the
"Protector Award" by PLAL, Scheidler wrote in Action News:
In giving Father Markley the Protector Award, we neither
condone nor condemn the specific instance of his attack
against an abortion machine. We honor him because of his
strong convictions about the sanctity of life in the womb
and his willingness to sacrifice comfort for Jesus' sake.
As a man of strong faith, Father can serve as a model to all
true Right-to-Life activists.
Randall Terry played a similar role during the formative
period of Operation Rescue. Convicted clinic bombing co-
conspirator, Michael Bray, received financial and moral support
from Terry during his incarceration in the mid-1980's.
*
OR's first major event took place in New York City, April
30-May 7, 1988. Hundreds were arrested and women's reproductive
health care disrupted. This of course, was an intended effect.
However, despite OR's propaganda blitz, their "rescue"
mobilizations were never simply viewed as events where the
"righteous" would "save babies."
From its inception, Operation Rescue was conceived of, and
functioned as a publicity generating media machine. Anti-
abortion and New Right leaders hoped that OR would be a spearhead
for the next phase of the "Reagan Revolution;" one they believed
capable of sparking a Christian Right revolt that would culminate
when legal abortion was outlawed in the United States.
With Cold War anti-Communist hysteria receding as a major
issue for all but the most hardened "paleoconservatives," the New
Right was re-tooling and anti-abortion groups such as OR were
believed to be the cutting edge for the major political battles
taking shape.
Contentious social issues such as abortion, queer rights and
general rollback of hard-won social gains achieved by the Civil
Rights, women's and environmental movements were beginning to
occupy center stage. Although opposition to abortion had been a
key issue for Reagan and the New Right, "social conservatives"
muted their criticism of the "Great Communicator's" inability to
pass a "Human Life Amendment" to the Constitution. While there
are many reasons why this was so, the intellectual architects of
Reaganism, viewed the global rollback of socialism and the
destruction of the Soviet Union as the defining political issue
of the 1980's.
While Christian rightists' such as Robertson and Falwell
played a critical role as a cheering section for imperialism's
foreign policy adventures in the Middle East, Southern Africa and
Central America, the collapsing workers' states in Eastern Europe
and the USSR threw the right into a profound crisis. By 1988,
the Cold War consensus achieved by "neoconservatives" such as
Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and their hard
right, "paleoconservative" brethren such as Patrick Buchanan,
Phyllis Schlafly and Paul Weyrich was nearing terminal rupture.
The New Right's criticism of Reagan's "born-again globalism"
reached shrill levels. Reagan was called "a useful idiot" during
negotiations with Gorbachev. The Iran-Contra scandal damaged the
President's credibility. The economy, temporarily buoyed by a
now exploding debt crisis, played havoc with the markets and
pushed the country into recession. While the "party" continued
for ruling class elites, grass roots supporters of Reaganism felt
betrayed.
The Republican Party's failure to outlaw abortion after
nearly eight years of executive power, contributed to the
significant rifts growing on the right, especially among the
right's newly-mobilized evangelical supporters. This is the
political context for Pat Robertson's presidential campaign and
the pointed endorsement by Robertson, Falwell and many other
prominent leaders for Operation Rescue.
Direct action by "rescue missionaries" over the issue of
legal abortion was above all else, a tactic designed to pressure
institutional power centers; "rescue" was neither an end in
itself, nor a strategy for overthrowing the system. In this
respect, Operation Rescue functioned as a newer, more aggressive
lobbying arm of the New Right. Terry wrote:
...imagine people blocking abortion clinics all across the
country. Imagine politicians reading in the New York Times
and Washington Post that scores, hundreds, or even thousands
of decent, tax-paying citizens in New York City, Washington,
D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, and your town were
demanding an end to the killing.
Envision pastors and priests in jail together for a few
days. Imagine the evening news finally beginning to reveal
the true horror of abortion because our sacrificial actions
demand a fair hearing. Think what stirring speeches would
be made on the House and Senate floor by politicians who
used to be pro-abortion, but who have seen the light --
after they felt the heat!
Imagine the political bandwagon forming to amend the
Constitution and restore peace, tranquility, and unity to
the country. Hear the President eulogizing those courageous
Americans who have been willing to risk personal liberty for
the justice due their fellow human beings. And see, once
and for all, the end of this legalized bloodshed by means of
a Constitutional amendment.
By the end of OR's campaign at the Democratic National
Convention in Atlanta, thousands had been arrested at nationwide
"rescue" events and Operation Rescue had established itself as
the premier direct action group in the country.
The OR bandwagon was being pulled along not merely by
"fringe" figures on the far-right, but by "mainstream" secular
and religious leaders associated with the "Reagan Revolution"
such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, D. James Kennedy,
syndicated columnists Cal Thomas and John Leo, and of course by
Viguerie and Weyrich. Robertson's forward to Terry's book,
Operation Rescue, set the tone for future rightist organizing
efforts such as the Christian Coalition:
We live in a time when Christian values are being ridiculed
and where life is being cheapened. The great philosopher
Francis Schaeffer, before his death, urged that it was time
for Christians to become involved more than ever before in
the course of affairs in our nation.
Randy Terry has begun the same dramatic nonviolent protest
against the slaughter of innocent babies in our nation that
brought racial justice and equality in the 1960s.
I commend him for his boldness and applaud the goal of
Operation Rescue to save the lives of one and a half million
unborn children slaughtered in our land every year.
Although women's reproductive rights were clearly focused
within the cross-hairs of Randall Terry and his followers, it
became clear that abortion was viewed as a wedge issue that would
serve as a recruitment tool to bring abortion opponents into a
broader right-wing political movement.
Seven years earlier in 1981, direct-mail specialist, Richard
Viguerie, described how the New Right would work to mould the
issue of abortion into the defining political question in the
United States -- and build a grass roots movement rooted in a
coherent right-wing agenda in the process. Viguerie said, "They
[newly-politicized evangelicals] discovered that abortion was
only one front in a bigger war against family, religions and many
traditions they hold valuable and dear." With the end of the
Cold War, Viguerie's vision was being realized.
*
Involvement by conservative evangelicals and OR's
endorsement by "secular" New Right allies, proved to be a
financial boon for organizers such as Terry. One result of the
Cherry Hill "field training" and ensuing publicity from OR's New
York and Atlanta campaigns, was the astronomical increase in the
group's budget: from $43,000 in 1987 to more than $300,000 in
1988.
By the close of OR's summer of disruption, the Moral
Majority put up more than $10,000 for bail money and Jerry
Falwell predicted a wave of "massive non-violent civil
disobedience," in 1989. The seeds which had been planted by
Joseph Scheidler and other PLAN activists in 1985, had certainly
bloomed beyond their wildest expectations.
Despite Terry's rhetoric that Operation Rescue is a
"peaceful, prayerful group in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.," his embrace of philosophical non-violence was purely
tactical. Terry was quoted in the Washington Post in 1989 as
having said,
I believe in the use of force...I think to destroy abortion
facilities at this time is counterproductive because the
American public has an adverse reaction to what it sees as
violence.
Two years and thousands of arrests later, the "rescue"
movement was running out of steam. Fines totaled in the millions
of dollars and the strategic failure of "rescue" to close
abortion clinics, had produced an effective counterforce to
Operation Rescue -- the clinic defense movement.
Yet despite astronomical court judgements, Terry and his
cohorts continued to operate freely. Money laundering through a
national network of churches, as well as assistance from
traditional sources of support for right-wing activism, served as
an effective mechanism that kept OR afloat.
One such source for Operation Rescue during this critical
period was Larry Pratt, the Founder and President of Gun Owners
of America. Pratt is an ultra-rightist with connections to the
quasi-fascist World Anti-Communist League (WACL). Pratt's ties
to WACL were through the Council for Inter-American Security
(CIS), an organization with financial connections to the Rev. Sun
Myung Moon's Unification Church empire. Pratt was the Secretary
to the CIS board. In turn, the CIS was connected to Pratt's
racist, xenophobic group, English First. As well, Pratt lists
himself as President of the American Society of Local Officials,
a group which is chaired by Paul Weyrich and which operates out
the offices of the Free Congress Foundation.
Pratt solicited funds for Randall Terry and Operation Rescue
through yet another organization of which he was President, the
Committee to Protect the Family Foundation. In 1990, when Terry
and OR were being sued from all sides, and the "rescue" movement
was on the defensive, Pratt's group mailed a "Dear Friend of the
Family" letter to thousands of conservative activists. Finally
in 1990, Terry turned the reins of Operation Rescue over to Rev.
Keith Tucci, then the leader of Rescue Pittsburgh.
Terry's political outlook, according to his own account, was
shaped by Francis Schaeffer's book, A Christian Manifesto.
Schaeffer urged Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists to
become involved in the political process with an eye towards
capturing political power. Other sources for Terry's theocratic
political orientation were Rousas John (R.J.) Rushdoony's seminal
work, The Institutes of Biblical Law. Written in 1973, Dr.
Rushdoony proposed an anti-democratic "Christian Republic"
founded on a draconian interpretation of Biblical Law.
Rushdoony's absolutist theology struck a receptive chord with
Terry.
By 1990, Terry was working closely with the "ecumenical"
Reconstructionist organization, the California-based, Coalition
On Revival (COR), founded by Dr. Jay Grimstead and
shepherding/discipleship guru, Rev. Dennis Peacocke, an ex-
leftist who had sponsored a speaking tour by Guatemala's death
squad President, Efrain Rios Montt.
It would be a gross historical error to assume that Terry's
gravitation towards Christian Reconstructionism and the far-right
was an evolutionary process, the result of Operation Rescue's
failure to outlaw abortion through mass action. By the time that
OR was formally launched, Reconstructionist doctrine, as we saw
above, served as the ideological basis for Terry's "Higher Law"
rhetoric.
Though no longer involved with the day to day control of the
Operation Rescue network, Terry exerts enormous influence through
his speeches and writings. Having embraced the totalizing
political agenda of the far-right, Terry works closely with
Howard Phillips' United States Taxpayers Party (USTP).
Phillips, the founder of The Conservative Caucus, like
Viguerie and Weyrich, was a seminal leader of the New Right.
Incensed by the "globalism" of George Bush and especially by the
Republican president's proclamation of a "New World Order" in
1990, Phillips, like other "paleoconservatives," believed that
the Reagan coalition had run its course and that a new alliance
of economic nationalists and fundamentalist Christians would be
essential for completing the "Reagan Revolution."
Phillips founded the United States Taxpayers Alliance and
ran for president in 1992 as the candidate of the newly-formed
United States Taxpayers Party.
The USTP is an amalgam of veteran far-rightists, anti-
Semites, tax protestors, former members of the white supremacist-
linked Posse Comitatus and Christian Reconstructionists. Many
anti-abortion proponents of armed "Patriot" militias, including
Rev. Matthew Trewhella, Rev. Joseph Foreman, David Shedlock and
Rev. Michael Bray, have gravitated towards the ideological
absolutism of the USTP.
Randall Terry's involvement with the United States Taxpayers
Party, is indicative of the political split -- to the right -- by
many anti-abortion activists. Growing disenchantment with the
Republican Party, and Rev. Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition,
have led many activists to seek common ground with Phillips'
political organization.
As the Christian Coalition transformed itself into a mass
organization, the activist wing of the Christian Right,
spearheaded by Randall Terry and others, have viewed Robertson's
muted rhetoric, and alliance with Republican Party "moderates" as
a terrible betrayal. While the America First/Christian Right
wing of the Republican Party may have triumphed at the 1992
convention, their crushing defeat at the polls led strategists
such as Ralph Reed to move the Christian Coalition towards the
"center." The rhetoric of "cultural civil war" was replaced by
Reed's announcement that evangelicals only sought their "place at
the table."
The political split between Operation Rescue and the
Christian Coalition publicly emerged in 1993 when Robertson
offered mild criticism of the movement's clinic blockade tactics.
During an interview with Connie Chung, Robertson said: "I think
they've made their point; they've been very courageous; but kind
of like, enough of this thing. I think we ought to shift
tactics."
With the virtual disappearance of mass "rescue," the murder
of abortion providers and a renewed campaign of clinic vandalism,
bombing and arson attacks, the activist wing of the anti-abortion
movement was thoroughly discredited. Robertson believed that
anti-abortion "extremists" were a liability who would jeopardize
the Coalition's role as kingmaker within the Republican Party.
Snubbed by Promise Keepers, whose leadership refused to
allow Terry to address one of their gatherings, OR activist's
were increasingly marginalized by a movement they claimed as
their own. As relations between OR's former allies deteriorated,
Terry denounced the Christian Coalition in no uncertain terms.
An op-ed piece appeared in the Washington Post just prior to
the 1994 Republican Party landslide; it revealed the rancor and
bitterness felt by many anti-abortion activists. Gone is the
political consensus achieved during the 1980's among newly-
mobilized Christian rightists.' Terry wrote,
Certain leaders in the Christian Coalition have recently
embraced pro-abortion candidates. As a Christian leader, I
am deeply troubled by these actions. Frankly, I believe it
is an act of treachery in the Christian community...
Evangelicals electing a child-killer is nothing to brag
about -- it is something to grieve over. It is a deplorable
act of treachery against heaven.
The "Christian right," and the name of the formal
organization, the "Christian Coalition," have both the
banner to which one can rally as well as the indictment of
our recent treachery...
But now certain "Christian leaders" are "inspiring" droves
of Christians to move into the "big tent" of the Republican
Party -- a tent happily housing child-killers and
sodomites...
If we clasp our hands with those who would murder the
innocent and promote the vilest sexual perversions, have we
not made ourselves enemies of God? Have we not committed
spiritual adultery?
The horrifying truth is that much of the Christian right,
led by the Christian Coalition, has become the mistress of
the Republican Party. The party has seduced us, used us,
lied to us and made empty promises to us (such as the party
platform, which Republican politicians routinely ignore).
Now that the religious right mistress has made herself
available for the political bedchamber, certain Christian
leaders are pimping for us, declaring our willingness to
betray our King and lie with the whoremongers of child
killing, homosexuality etc. as long as we get to be near the
throne.
Let us be warned: we cannot travel down the path of
corruption and treachery to reach the City of God.
We must cleave, without compromise, to the standard God has
given us -- his Holy Scriptures. The Ten Commandments are
not on par with other schools of ethics. They are as high
as heaven is above earth from all other moral and immoral
foundations.
Terry's diatribe concludes by urging activists to vote --
and join the United States Taxpayers Party. But what does this
mean in practical terms? How does the USTP program differ from
that of the Christian Coalition and the Republican Party of Newt
Gingrich and other leading "social conservatives"? Terry's
unambiguous rhetoric favoring a theocratic, clerical-fascist
"Christian Republic" leaves no room for doubt.
Speaking at a USTP fund-raising dinner in August 1995, Terry
said,
You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation,
because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the
government can make someone a Christian by decree. A
Christian nation would be defined as "We acknowledge God in
our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the
Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is
supreme.
For Terry and his cohorts, life in the future "Christian
Republic," is determined by Biblical Law. Abortion would not
merely be illegal but would become a capital offense. When
discussing the implications of this for abortion providers, Terry
comments:
When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd
better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and
we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it
part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and
executed.
You say, "This is extreme!" Yeah, you're right. But
imagine God Almighty sending people to hell just because
they didn't follow His son? That's extreme. That's
intolerance. Imagine Jesus saying that all other religions
are false. Christianity claims to be the only way.
The central pillar of Randall Terry's political vision is
the restoration of an openly male supremacist political order:
The greatest crisis we face is not child killing, it's not
the land tax, it's not the intrusion of the federal
government into our lives, our families, as they crush our
liberties. The greatest crisis we face tonight is a crisis
of leadership. We are facing a crisis of righteous,
courageous, physically oriented, male leadership. Male
leadership!
God established patriarchy when he established the world.
God established a patriarchal world. If we're going to have
true reformation in America, it is because men once again,
if I may use a worn out expression, have righteous
testosterone flowing through their veins. They are not
afraid of the contempt of their contemporaries. They are
not here to get along. They are not even here to take
issue. They are here to take over!
Terry's latest project, the Christian Leadership Institute,
is slated to launch an on-going series of seminars in the Fall of
1995 in Windsor, New York. The CLI has been created by Terry,
Reconstructionist writer, George Grant, and United States
Taxpayers Party founder, Howard Phillips.
While it remains to be seen whether Phillips, Terry, other
Reconstructionists' and their far-right "Patriot" allies will
create a mass movement that can challenge the political hegemony
of the Republican Party and the Christian Coalition, one thing is
certain: the grave potential for violence against abortion
providers -- and anyone else caught in the cross-fire -- is a
deadly reality.
As economic and social conditions in the imperialist
heartland continue to deteoriate, the ideological blurring of
political borders among Christian rightists' and a resurgence of
nativist fascism, have sown the seeds for massive social conflict
in the period ahead. Randall Terry and his cohorts are leading
the charge for a new alignment on the right.
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