http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...urt-appearance A Grand Chute man accused of setting a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic made his first appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Green Bay. Francis Grady, 50, told U.S. Magistrate Judge James Sickel he planned to plead guilty, but Sickel ignored the statement and scheduled Grady for an April 19 preliminary hearing. At one point, Grady interrupted him to ask, “Do you even care at all about the 1,000 babies that died screaming?” Grady told his lawyer, public defender Tom Phillip, he was fired for interrupting Sickel, prompting a woman from the back of the courtroom to call out, “Shut up, Frankie.” “My sister told me to shut up,” Grady said to Phillip. Phillip later explained Grady couldn’t fire him, that he was appointed by the court and therefore could only be removed from the case by court order. Wearing an orange Outagamie County Jail jumpsuit and a neck brace, Grady asked Sickel to transfer him to the Brown County Jail because he said Outagamie County doesn’t have the medical staff to deal with what he claimed was a broken neck. “If I move my neck a certain way, I could die, but who cares?” he said. But earlier in the hearing, he had taken off the neck brace and was playing with it as he looked around the courtroom. Outside the courtroom, Grady told a Green Bay Press-Gazette photographer, “I just want to give one wink to my girlfriend.” When a reporter asked Grady why he had planted a bomb at the clinic, Grady corrected him, saying, “There was no bomb, it was gasoline.” He said he did it because “they’re killing babies there.” Grady is charged with arson of a building used in interstate commerce and intentionally damaging a property used to provide reproductive health services. The charges stem from Sunday’s fire at Planned Parenthood, 3800 N. Gillett St., Grand Chute. According to the criminal complaint, Grady told investigators he used a plastic water bottle filled with gasoline, used a hammer to break a window at the clinic, poured gasoline inside and lit it with a lighter. Grady was arrested about two hours later for operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he became involved in a traffic crash in Kaukauna, the complaint says. The white van he was driving matched one recorded in a security camera video at Planned Parenthood, according to the complaint. The video also showed a man, apparently Grady, climb out of the van carrying a hammer and a water bottle, the complaint says. Outside the courthouse, Grady told reporters, “I’m here to do good and not wrong.” Grady faces up to 21 years in prison, four years of supervised release and fines of $350,000 if convicted. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- So now we know who did it. A class A example of the far right. Ignorant, volatile and straight up stupid. What now republicans? Pouring gasoline into a building and setting it on fire not that bad in your books? Thread started at Forum 4 Politics on 04-05-2012 04:22 PM
