A standard tactic of anti-choice harassers is to stalk and otherwise violate the privacy of people holding opinions contrary to theirs. Healthcare givers who provide abortions are routinely picketed outside their homes, their neighborhoods are blanketed with anonymous libelous flyers, and in many cases they are anonymously threatened. Many have given up women’s care in direct response to anonymous threats to their lives or their families (and in face of the extensive history of violence of the anti-choice movement). Another infamous tactic is to post photos and identifying information of abortion providers on Web sites threatening or implicitly encouraging their deaths.

Now an anonymous group of Christian loons is posting - in addition to the usual dense Biblical rants and “judgment day” doomsaying - telephoto shots of people entering women’s clinics throughout Ohio, including their license plate #s and names when available. They have also posted photos, maps, and detailed driving directions to the clinics, and names and photos of clinic staff, with home addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases birth dates. Just in case anyone should be looking to identify or locate any of the clinic staff or their patients . . . for any reason.

But don’t worry. They have a disclaimer. It’s right at the bottom of their multi-screen rant about God’s judgment, the “higher law”, and the need for the death penalty for “murderers”.

Their collection of patient photos also includes a page entitled “How Do I Get My Photo Off This Page?” - which explains that once they set up courts of God’s law and use the clinic medical records to prosecute all staff and patients giving or receiving abortion services as murderers, they will be sure to conduct fair trials of anyone who merely came to the clinic for a regular checkup, also - at which time “you will be acquitted of all charges and your photos will be dismissed from our site. Until that time, let it be known that you acquired services from a facility well-known to be in the abortion business, and until the investigation is complete, your photos will remain.”

This website is dedicated to documenting the evidence of the Holocaust of the pre-born in Columbus, Ohio, and pursuing justice on behalf of these innocent children. . . . If your picture or license plate is on this site, it may be because you work or volunteer at one of the child-killing facilities in Columbus, Ohio; in so doing you are an accomplice to the intentional butchering of thousands of little children. Or, your photo may be here because you may have accompanied your child, or grandchild, or friend to this facility, and thereby aiding and abetting the abortion that resulted in the death of a little child and have become an accomplice to murder.

Your photo or a photo of your license plate may be on this site because you have gone to one of these abortion clinics to kill your own child. If that is the case, you are worse than an accomplice – you are a first-degree murderer of the worst kind! You have hired an assassin to intentionally dismember and murder your own child. You are even worse than the assassin . . .

Your excuses are irrelevant. Whether your career would have been ruined by your pregnancy is irrelevant. Whether you were impregnated by a criminal act of rape or incest is no excuse to commit a second violent act against another innocent person. Whether you loved your child or not, or whether they would be handicapped in life from a congenital deformity, has no relevance to the matter at hand. Neither does it have any relevance whatsoever that abortion has been de-criminalized by local and national authorities. The King of all kings and Lord of all lords overrules them. . . .

You may be worried about what is going to happen to you down the road if your picture remains on this site, and you should be. We are lobbying our state authorities to do justice on behalf of the innocent preborn children who have been slaughtered in our land. Romans 13:1-7 says that civil authorities are obligated to be ministers of God to punish evildoers, and that they are to wield the sword of vengeance against evildoers . . .

We are aware that there are many dedicated pro-lifers who believe that the death penalty should not be an option for today. . . .

We, however, are firmly convinced that God’s Word mandates that civil authorities put murderers to death. Genesis 9:6 makes it clear that since human beings are made in the image of God, the intentional killing of an innocent human being merits the death penalty. . . .

We are gathering evidence for a future judgment, but most of you who are worried about being documented on this site should be worried more about God’s judgment than man’s. . . . All your deeds have been recorded in books in heaven – all your thoughts, your idle words, your secret sins – will be displayed on the Judgment Day for all to see, and you will be judged by God’s holy standard. If you do not meet the conditions for forgiveness, you will be damned to hell forever. . . .

We do indeed have compassion for the mothers and fathers, for the clinic workers and abortionists, deceived and harmed by the crime of abortion. . . . But we will not forget that they are murderers and God commands that they be brought to justice.

Not to worry! Below this, in the tiniest possible type, it says “The Coalition for Justice for All Ohioans . . . discourage and do not condone unauthorized vigilante violence . . . .”

Well, OK then. Obviously nothing to worry about from this benign and well-balanced group of anonymous stalkers.