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John Burt

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Activism & arrests
==Activism & arrests==
[[Image:BurtPicket.jpg|thumb|right|Burt, left, picketing the [[Christmas abortion bombings|Goldsby/Simmons trial]] at the with "Baby Charlie" at the [[United States Post Office and Courthouse|federal courthouse]]]]
In [[1984]], [[Matt Goldsby]] and [[Jimmy Simmons]] perpetrated a [[Christmas abortion bombings|series of abortion clinic bombings]]. Burt, who called himself their "spiritual advisor," picketed their trial with other anti-abortion protesters in May [[1985]]. He famously carried with him "Baby Charlie," which he claimed was an preserved 4-month-old fetus, often in a glass jar or wrapped in a blanket. Asked about his responsibility in influencing the bombers, Burt said at the time, "We're in a battle between good and evil. I can't help it if what I do inspired someone to go off the deep end."<ref>"Brainwashing Defense In Anti-Abortion Killing." ''New York Times'', March 5, 1994.</ref> He was also arrested in February of that year for trespassing in the clinic of Dr. [[Bo Bagenholm]] (whose office had been destroyed in the bombings) and was sentenced to five months' probation on [[August 29]].

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