April 28, 2004
By Brenda Spurlock
This is read when the shofar is sounded each morning: "And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved from your enemies." Numbers 10:9
The WAA team confronted an abortion mill in Vail yesterday. Flip said Operation Save America friends in Denver, which is about 100 miles from Vail, had told them about the mill. It's on the second floor of a hospital. They learned that most people in the area didn't know it even existed. Flip said there are no churches in Vail, only an ecumenical center.
The team had told police in Eagle that they were going to Dillon. Eagle police apparently contacted Dillon police because, as soon as the team arrived in Dillon yesterday evening, the police began following them. They stopped at a church, receiving gracious permission to park overnight and to use their facilities. Police pulled up and told them that they don't allow livestock in Dillon and that no one can sleep in an RV. The policeman said, "If I find you sleeping in the RV, and I will be checking, I'll arrest you!" They told police not to come after them without a search warrant, that they are prepared to undertake a legal battle for their First Amendment rights.
The team was invited to sleep inside the church last night. This morning police came and apologized, admitting that they had a right to be there.
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