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After finding out that the Justice Department official who spearheaded prosecutions against pro-life activists had been fired, one of the defendants imprisoned by the Biden administration over a peaceful protest celebrated and said he would like to attend some \u201cfiring parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calvin Zastrow, 65, who spent 100 days in federal prison for his role in a non-violent protest at an abortion facility in Tennessee, told The Daily Wire he was pleased to hear some of those involved in Biden\u2019s crackdown on pro-lifers had been held accountable. Zastrow\u2019s comments came after the Justice Department released<\/a> a bombshell report detailing how Biden officials worked closely with pro-abortion groups to monitor, track, and prosecute pro-life activists.<\/p>\n Before the report was released, it was announced that Sanjay Patel, the official who led the prosecutions against the pro-lifers, had been fired.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to come to some firing parties, I think that\u2019s fun to watch. That\u2019d be a good time to celebrate,\u201d Zastrow said. \u201cI\u2019d like to see accountability on the unnamed FBI agents who filed reports on us, and we still don\u2019t know their names, who followed us, who tracked us, who messed with our family.\u201d<\/p>\n Zastrow, a devout Christian who travels the country engaging in evangelism and pro-life events, was convicted in January 2024 of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a Clinton-era statute that makes it a crime to block the entrances of abortion facilities. He and 22 other pro-life activists were pardoned<\/a> by President Donald Trump his first week in office.<\/p>\n The DOJ report revealed that the Biden administration weaponized the FACE Act by closely working with radical groups like the National Abortion Federation to keep tabs on pro-life activists. Zastrow said he would like to see FACE repealed, saying that \u201cthe federal government shouldn\u2019t have this big of a club.\u201d<\/p>\n Emails revealed earlier this month showed abortion groups were tracking Zastrow and were working closely with Patel.<\/p>\n In one email included in the DOJ\u2019s report from September 2021, Patel reached out to the National Abortion Federation to ask if they knew Zastrow\u2019s travel plans. \u201cDo you have any info on Zastrow and Co\u2019s travel to Montana?\u201d Patel wrote.<\/p>\n Zastrow said he wasn\u2019t surprised that pro-abortion groups tracked him and his family, saying that had been going on for years. Yet he did agree with one thing the pro-abortionists said about him and his fellow activists.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re trying to make us to be wild-eyed, religious zealots,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s because we are wild-eyed, religious zealots for Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n