.@michelleinbklyn Back in 1995, Operation Rescue's office was raided to collect their belongings to auction to begin to pay what a jury in Houston had ordered they owed Planned Parenthood for disrupting their services during the 1992 Republican Presidential Convention. /1
Among the property that was collected that day by the Dallas County Constables were six computers. All of #OperationRescues's property was collected into one lot to be auctioned on May 1, 1995 in Dallas. /2
My family had been targeted by #FlipBenham and his "Sunday warriors" as we called them; they had picketed in front of our house to protest my spouse, a pro-choice minister in Dallas. We got a temporary order that required that they stop. /3
I went to the auction on May 1, and with the financial backing of my pro-choice sisters, bought the entire lot of #OperationRescues' property, including the six computers. /4
When their office had been raided they did not have time to erase the data on the computers, only to disable the operating system. As in the movie "Sneakers" when the computer expert we were working w/ restored the operating system, we could read the computers /5
On the computer was a journal of a "missionary" working with #FlipBenham. His journal describes him going through the garbage of an abortion clinic, taking down licenses of everyone who came to the clinic, and following the doctors home. /6
He also followed the abortion clinic worker to the bank as that person deposited money. His journal was used to raise money for Operation Rescue and for his work. /7
The material was shared with attorneys representing doctors targeted by Operation Rescue, and with pro-choice organizations. In many ways it showed how #FlipBenham was operating in 1995, the year he "turned" Norma McCorvey. /8
