The Randall Terry press conference we covered last week was actually the lead-in to an anti-abortion leadership training seminar that he conducted over the weekend featuring Alan Keyes and Norma McCorvey for some fifty people from around the country at which Terry announced the formation of a new organization to be known as Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex, as the Washington Times reports:
Randall Terry, one of the best-known abortion opponents in the U.S., launched a new version of Operation Rescue this weekend, calling on activists from across the country to press on despite bad publicity over the May 31 slaying of abortion doctor George Tiller.
Forty-five people from 16 cities met at the Crystal City Doubletree hotel Saturday for a hastily arranged “emergency pro-life training conference” to recruit more foot soldiers in the battle against abortion.
“The freeing moment will come when you decide to take a bullet for this movement,” Mr. Terry said in a small ballroom watched over by one security guard. “Then you can’t be bullied and intimidated into silence anymore.”
Mr. Terry has renamed his movement Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex – the latter two words meaning ‘insurrection against death’ in Latin – and is trolling for new affiliates.
“My mission is to raise up a new generation,” he said, “to recruit them, train them and unleash them.”
He brushes off criticism that activists like him created a climate that goaded the suspect in Dr. Tiller’s slaying into action.
“You can’t work with me if you can’t say abortion is murder and child-killers are murderers,” he said. “You’ve got to be prepared to take the heat over those words. The true terrorists are those who reach into a woman’s womb and kill her child.”
His opponents “refuse to admit that abortion is the cauldron from which evil flows,” he added. “George Tiller reaped what he sowed. He was a murderer.”
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“We’re looking for heroes,” he said. “Somebody who’ll do the right thing in the face of hostility from enemies and misunderstanding by friends.
“Most pro-life people don’t want to end abortion. They just want it to go away. They are being delusional. This battle will require enormous sacrifice, bad press and hostility.
“Do we really think we can waltz into hell and take away this crown jewel of Satan without the brawl to end all brawls?”
