Damn, this just happened in my alma mater yesterday! If this had been a Christian bible study group meeting instead of a talk on a woman's book on abortion by some "Muslim sounding" group, don't you think they'd be trying to catch those people and looking to send them to Guantanamo? Or if it wasn't "that significant" as the local officer said here, do you think that in a bible study group case they might not have canceled ('er censored) that event?
Hope this isn't a sign of things to come. I'm guessing that some anti-abortion groups might be emboldened by this sort of action in the interest of shutting down other similar events too!
From:
http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2007/01/31/Metro/Threat.Stops.Reading-2687843.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dailyiowan.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com&mkey=467509Threat stops reading
Emileigh Barnes - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 1/31/07 Section: Metro
Prairie Lights Books, an iconic Iowa City bookstore, closed early Tuesday evening after receiving a threat about a book about abortion that was to be the subject of that evening's "Live from Prairie Lights."
Krista Jacob, who edited the book Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice had planned to read at 7 p.m., but the store had closed by 6 p.m. because of possible safety issues.
"I was really surprised, because I always have protesters at my events, but my events always happen," Jacob said Tuesday night, unwinding over a meal at Masala, 9 S. Dubuque St. "I just really would have liked the opportunity to talk about my book."
Lauri Wollner, one of the book's contributing writers and a former antiabortion activist, agreed.
"It's scary that 'pro-life' people are threatening lives," she said.
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