Matthew Derosia was convicted late last week for ramming his car into the entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic on Ford Parkway in St. Paul in January during an anti-abortion protest.
Derosia was sentenced to time served, but the state is seeking to have him permanently committed for mental illness. Derosia has faced at least two commitment proceedings in the last decade.
His family is opposing the current commitment, saying Derosia was only doing the Lord’s work.
In an email to the Minnesota Independent on Sunday, Derosia’s mother Georjean, came to his defense. “[It is] the state of Minnesota’s intention to LOCK UP my son for a non-violent protest against Planned Parenthood for THE REST OF HIS LIFE!!!”
Georgjean’s email was sent to anti-abortion activists soliciting funds to keep him out of full-time mental care.
“I agree he needs help and we are getting him the help he needs but without your help he will be lost to everyone forever. With Gods [sic] love we can get justice for this poor boy who was only doing what God asked him to do.”
Matthew Derosia pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 111 days time served and fined $50. He also must pay restitution to Planned Parenthood in the amount of $3,818.85.
The police report noted that after running a vehicle into the front of the clinic, Derosia was “holding a crucifix and shouting various Bible verses. ” He “refused to respond to police and continued to recite Bible verses and shout, ‘Close down the Auschwitz Death Camp.’”
He also told police that “he felt what he did was right and he would do it again if he were told to that he would do it again.”
The incident sparked condemnation from local anti-abortion leaders. Brian Gibson, executive director of Pro-Life Action Ministries, told KARE 11 at the time, “Not only do we not like this happening, we condemn this type of act. We’re against all violence,” Gibson said.
But the extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement has rallied to his defense.
Rev. Donald Spitz of the Army of God, a group that has expressed support for Derosia’s actions before, railed against Gibson.
“Brian Gibson, why did you condemn Matthew Derosia who only drive [sic] a van into a babykilling facility, yet accept women who actually murder their own children by abortion and have the blood of their own children on their hands?,” he wrote in an email to Gibson that’s posted on Spitz’s website.
“What is more important to the LORD Jesus Christ, to save babies about to be murdered in a babykilling abortion mill or the facade of that babykilling abortion mill? To you it is the facade of the babykilling abortion mill that needs protecting and not the babies being murdered.”













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Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Okay, now THIS is a right-wing nut. Contrast this guy with Bachman and you might actually like Bachman a bit more. Ha ha!
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
to any republican that is bent out of shape about the release of documents labeling right wing groups as “terrorists” or whatever you want to call them, it is because of people like this. get rid of people like this and then maybe you wouldn’t have these labels.
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
So if a god, godess or a fairy told me to ram my car into a synagouge because Isreal committing genocide on the Palestinians, that would be okay, right? Or is it just babies that get christian nuts attention because they are on the same IQ level?
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
Sinners,
Please, everyone that posts in this thread, I ask that send me $1,000 for each one of your posts.
Sincerely,
God
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 2:11 pm
I am prolife and I don’t support violence against abortionists no matter how evil the murder of innocent children is. We will not solve the problem of abortion/murder by murdering the murderers or committing acts of violence against them.
“Isreal committing genocide on the Palestinians”
The Palestinians (Muslims) and other Jew-haters are the ones bent on killing the Jews, not the other way around. Will you not defend your country after it has been attacked for many years?? The radical Muslims are the aggressors, not the Jews.
“Or is it just babies that get christian nuts attention because they are on the same IQ level?”
Be slow to judge yet ye be judged.
“GOD”, help stop the barbaric murder of innocent children instead of posting nonsense.
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
What would you care to bet that “Army of God” has a 501(c)3 Federal Tax Exemption as a non-profit religious organization? Taxpayers are shelling out to help subsidize these nutcases.
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
Ummm . . . Angel?
The Jews were driven out of Israel and banished from Jerusalem (renamed “Caesaria”) in the 70’s A.D., about 40 years after Jesus died. The Palestinians had been inhabiting that land for centuries when the Allies, led by Britain, established the state of Israel in the 1940’s. The Palestinians were driven off their land, massacred in refugee camps, and treated like animals. In the most recent conflict, Israeli soldiers used white phosphorus on Palestinian civilians, and wore t-shirts with a picture of a pregnant Palestinian woman viewed through rifle sights with the motto “Two for the price of one.” Try reading some history, or a newspaper, before you attempt to explain world politics to people who’ve bothered to keep up.
While you’re sharpening your literary skills, maybe you could try the Bible.
The scripture reads “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Matthew 7:1
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
Non-violent?
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
Let’s call this guy what he is a Religious Zealot and a terrorist. He should be punished as such and the people defending him should be considered as aiding terrorism.
Comment posted May 20, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
God does not exist, send that thousand clams to Lazercat, care of this blog.
Comment posted May 21, 2009 @ 10:32 am
When voices are telling you to do things, it’s usually called schizophrenia. Please let this man get the psychiatric care he so desperately needs.
Comment posted May 21, 2009 @ 10:59 am
Lets lump this guy in with these guys. That’s fair. By the way, you can’t prove that God doesn’t exist.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXaournxorG5EDGGyJA9X-K9Y3KwD98AN7C81
Comment posted May 21, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Rev. (sic) Spitz’s opinion on the beliefs or behavior of others should carry no weight whatsoever. He uses his own website to try to make heroes out of murdering terrorists like Paul Hill, Eric Rudolph, John Salvi, and James Kopp. He is so delusional that he thinks that he was ordained by the International Gospel Crusade, a denomination that only exists in his imagination. Additionally, the Virginia State Police recently added Spitz’s Army of God to their list of Domestic Terrorist Organizations.
Comment posted May 21, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
Lazercat say, “What?” The army of God is a terrorist outfit? I guess I’m right about the God does not exist comment also.
Two for Lazercat.
Now produce me proof that God exists Kraker, or cough up the One thousand G’s.
Comment posted May 21, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
If everything has a source and god is that source, then god must have existed without it before he created it. So if god created time and space, he must live outside of time and space. Thus he is non-existent. If all life must come from something and that is god, god is not alive and hence non-existent. If moral must come from god, god lacks moral. If logic comes from god, god is illogic. If nature comes from god, god is unnatural. If existence comes from god, god is non-existent. If god is the cause of everything, god is void.
God, I’m going crazy just thinking about this stuff. No wonder he’s a head case.
Comment posted May 22, 2009 @ 5:53 am
In response to Angel.
Before you impune on our intelligence with your rhetoric, please study up on some history of the Palestinian-Israel conflict. This link to Wikipedia should get you started on the path to the truth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre
P.S. I apologize for leaving a response that has nothing to do with the above story.
Comment posted May 22, 2009 @ 10:42 am
How can his mother say this was a non-violent protest. Didnt he crash his car into a building? I don’t think he should be locked up forever but it was anything but a non violent protest. It almost sounds like his family needs to be locked up for awhile as well if they think the lord spoke to him and told him to do this.
Comment posted May 22, 2009 @ 9:22 pm
Face of a TERRORIST.
This is the face of terrorism. But the Catholic Church and the religious nutcakes that backed
the Iraq war, GITMO, loss of rights and permanent detention without trial want us to
coddle the terrorist.
Comment posted May 23, 2009 @ 6:28 am
Wow,, this guy actually does damage to a clinic, and could have killed several people. and is supported in public by others of doing such a terroristic act and sentenced to time served.
” Matthew Derosia pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 111 days time served and fined $50. He also must pay restitution to Planned Parenthood in the amount of $3,818.85.”
Yet two young adults who under the influence of an FBI informant to “do damage” made some molotov cocktails but never ever used them, and decided not to use them even when able..
1 receives 2 years federal prison time, and the other 4 years.
And people don’t think there is political prosecution in this state. What a joke !
John Brewer, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Austin American-Statesman, May 22nd, 2009
A federal judge sentenced an Austin man on Thursday to four years in prison for possessing Molotov cocktails during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
http://rnc08report.org/archive/991.shtml
Comment posted May 23, 2009 @ 10:35 am
The Catholic Chuch backed Hitler and Mussolini.
Comment posted May 24, 2009 @ 1:06 am
And St. Thomas University still employes Law Professor Robert Delahuntey who co-authored the torture memo’s with John Yoo.
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Comment posted June 29, 2009 @ 10:47 am
I wonder how anyone could defend someone like Derosia when he could have easily hurt someone in the clinic, thankfully he did not. The actions of “pro-lifers” like Derosia doesn’t do anything but hurt their cause as long as they think committing violent acts justifies their cause. If the “pro-life” movement really wants to be useful, stop harassing and intimidating workers and patients at Planned Parenthood and clinics like them, help end the war on poverty, embrace comprehensive sex education which would include teaching of abstinence, and providing easy access to prenatal health care for women who live in poverty.
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