{"id":443,"date":"2024-04-15T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:37:07","slug":"man-sentenced-over-firebombing-of-wisconsin-pro-life-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"“Man Sentenced Over Firebombing Of Wisconsin Pro-Life Building”"},"content":{"rendered":"

7 and a half years. Meanwhile nine prolife demonstrators in jail now for walking into two abortion clinics, sitting on the floor and praying the rosary \/ singing hymns. That's all – no molotov cocktails or even otherwise talking. Their sentence – one year for violating the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act and 10 more years<\/strong><\/span> for "Conspiracy to Deny Civil Rights". In the 160 plus page indictment is mentioned that even having a bumper sticker could be construed as part of a conspiracy<\/span>. I am biased though – my family knows one of the "conspirators" – Joan Andrews Bell – quite well.<\/p>\n

Here's the story of the bomb thrower.   <\/p>\n

Hridindu Roychowdhury was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison on Wednesday after he pled guilty in December 2023 to throwing two Molotov cocktails through the windows of a Wisconsin Family Action building in Madison. The attack came just a week after an early draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion leaked that indicated Roe v. Wade would be struck down. The phrase \u201cIf abortions aren\u2019t safe then you aren\u2019t either,\u201d was also graffitied outside the building. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Federal Judge William William Conley, an Obama appointee, who sentenced Roychowdhury, could have given him up to 20 years in prison. Roychowdhury was arrested<\/a> in Boston as he was attempting to fly out of the country. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRoychowdhury\u2019s arson was an act of domestic terrorism,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Timothy O\u2019Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin. \u201cDomestic terrorism is cowardly and profoundly undemocratic. It is not speech; it is not an exchange of ideas; instead, it is an attempt to harm or frighten one\u2019s fellow citizens, thus driving Americans apart and weakening the fabric of our democratic society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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7 and a half years. Meanwhile nine prolife demonstrators in jail now for walking into two abortion clinics, sitting on the floor and praying the rosary \/ singing hymns. That's all – no molotov cocktails or even otherwise talking. Their sentence – one year for violating the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}