Judge William C. Lee has today vacated the injunction that he himself placed at 827 Webster Street eighteen years ago.  He was so moved by the Donegal Corridor, through president Berenice Brown, with a supporting affidavit from The ArchAngel Institute, by Board President Keith Brown, as well as a motion from Bryan J. Brown, defendant in the original action, with a supporting affidavit from John R. Brown.

Donegal Corridor was well represented by South Bend attorney and author/journalist/Afghanistan War veteran David Wemhoff , who is co-author of this work.

The federal court granted Bryan Brown’s motion in full, vacating both the injunction and the order of February 21, 1991 that saddled all three Defendants (Wendell Brane and one other) with the duty to pay the abortionists the devilish amount of $61,616.

The original litigation is discussed at this post and the post after that post.

In a nutshell:

1.  Brown, Brane and more than 1000 others took part in Northeast Indiana Rescue’s ’sit-ins’ at 827 Webster Street.  See, e.g. this post.

2.  The leadership (Browns and Brane) were hammered in federal court by slick NYC, NOW and ACLU affiliated attorneys using subsequently discredited legal theories that placed an injunction on 827 Webster Street keeping Brown away from the building.

3.  That same hammering resulted in a Feb 20, 1991 order that Brown pay fees directly to the abortion clinic.

4.  Brown pretty much lost everything and left the Fort for Wichita, where he confronted George Tiller, led a boycott shutting down on the nation’s largest abortionist training camps, did 68 days federal incarceration for civil contempt for refusing to pledge a sacred oath to a federal judge, and fell in love with the prettiest sidewalk counselor in Wichita, Anne Walker.

5.  Brown left Wichita for Regent University School of Law in ‘93, married Anne in ‘94, hired on as one of Don Wildmon’s constitutional law attorneys (American Family Association) in ‘96, had his first born son in ‘97, second son in 2000.

6.  Left AFA to become a Deputy Attorney General under Phill Kline in 2003.  Third born son in 2003, beautiful daughter in 2006, was strung up by George Tiller, Planned Parenthood and the Left during the campaign of 2006.

7.  Advised his father to buy 827 Webster Street in 2007, launched the ArchAngel Institute in 2007,  moved back to Fort Wayne in November, 2007.

8.  Redeemed the former abortion clinic from the ravishes of spiritual and physical neglect during 2008, fourth born son documented on this site December, 2008.

9.  Has fought quite a battle to move his admission into Indiana, (many posts herein) after having passed character and fitness review in Kansas, Montana, Missouri, before the National Board of Law Examiners and the United States Supreme Court.

10.  Has documented many seeming unconstitutional acts while in Indiana and launched an attack against the February 20, 1991 fees order after Donegal Corridor launched an attacked against the 1990 injunction at 827 Webster Street.

11.  Brown is “praising his Risen King and Sacrificed Savior for today’s victory in federal court and is planning more exciting court filings in the near future.”

JUDGE LEE’s RULING IS POSTED IN THE VAULT, FOLLOWED BY BROWN’S AFFIDAVIT AND OTHER COURT FILED DOCUMENTS. CLICK HERE FOR JUDGE LEE’s RULING. Email archangelinstitute@gmail.comto receive it in pdf format.

Send messages to the same address:  archangelinstitute@gmail.com

Write to Bryan J. Brown at 827 Webster Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802, where he will now be officing BY ORDER OF  THE FEDERAL COURT!!!

Leave any messages or congrats at (800) 399-4620.  Press quote for Bryan Brown is in green quotes above.

The ArchAngel Institute would not have been able to be born in the former abortion clinic were it not for the Donegal Corridor, LLC. The Donegal Corridor, LLC bought the building when it came up for sale. The Donegal Corridor bought the (downstairs) furnace and paid for much of the upgrades necessary to render the downstairs of the building habitable. (The abortionists had been using it without a furnace, with massive leaks in the roof and foundation, with unsanitary floors and sinks and kitchenettes, with walls that were painted a hideous blue and sickening pink. Yes, blue and pink. Come see the evidence, we now have it on display in the ArchAngel Raphael Room. How sick is that, a pink and blue abortion clinic?)

Want proof? Try this, and this, and here is another link on how the building was one year ago . . .

Want to know more about how the ArchAngel Institute came to be in a former abortion clinic?

Here is more on the Donegal Corridor …

and here

John and Bernie Brown are the principals of the Donegal Corridor. They own the building, not Bryan Brown nor Wendell Brane. If Bryan or Wendell owned it then Susan Hill or George Klopfer could grab it. The abortionists cannot take 827 Webster Street from John and Bernie. This is no ruse, for John and Bernie put up the funds, and they have carried the note with almost no rents and no return on investment for a year and a half.

The Institute honors and thanks John and Bernie Brown this Thanksgiving. They have advanced the Institute in a million different kindnesses, and they are greatly appreciated by the Institute.

We love you Mom and Dad.

p.s. Make that HIll and Klopfer would try to grab it from Bryan or Wendell. Actually that would prove quite litigious and very exciting. So, please, George and Susan, do come try. We are ready to return to court on your service of process. (As I have written you both and stated clearly.) Confused? Click here for context and Click here for more context.

The brave men who bled and died on the shores of Normandy when their nation and the British Empire asked them to unsheath the sacrificial knives

. . .

The Institute’s ongoing memorial to the effort is found at the above FLY THE CORRIDOR tab. Hit it for more on the Great War and the parallels to the work of the Institute.

We interrupt our week of celebrating the courage on the Titanic to invite one and all to 827 Webster Street Saturday, April 19 at dusk to observe Passover, 2008.

Passover has special meaning to the ArchAngel Institute for multiple reasons.  One, because it points in clear and uncertain terms to the Lord Jesus Christ and His great sacrifice.  Two, because it ties the Old and New Covenant together.  Three because the former abortion clinic fell into pro-life hands at 3 p.m. on Passover, 2007.   (See Fly the Corridor, above for more on that story.)

We will read from the Old Testament, read from the New Testament and read from Church Fathers Saturday evening at dusk in the former abortion clinic.  We will then take time to pray, asking our Risen King to grace us to serve Him in the new year that dawns with Passover. 

I Corinthians 5:7 For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

We hope that you can join us, if not in person then at least in spirit. Say about 8:15 p.m.?

Postscript:

The Ghent alterpiece, painted in 1432 by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck.  Entitled “The Adoration of the Mystical Lamb.”

This famous painting by Jan Van Eyck can be seen in the Saint Bavo cathedral of Ghent (Flanders, Belgium). It is considered to be one of the artistic masterpieces in Belgium. It also is considered one of the most influential and beautiful painting of the Middle-Ages and the Flemish painting school. The actual dimensions of the painting when closed are 3.75m x 2.60m, when opened 3.75m x 5.20m.

Pictured:  the middle panel:The adoration of the lamb. The lamb can be seen standing on an altar in the middle of the panel. In front of the altar is the fountain of life. To the left there are twelve prophets, the patriarchs, the holy bishops and the confessors. To the right are the twelve apostles. Barnabas, together with other saints and martyrs are in the background. A group of holy virgins is walking towards the altar. The landscape shows a treasure of plants, flowers and trees with such detail that to his day herbologists can determine their names.

Source:  http://www.trabel.com/gent/gent-mysticlamblowercenter.htm

This is a picture of the area between the building and the public sidewalk at 827 Webster Street.  It is land that belongs to the building owner.  Which means that it was land off limits to pro-lifers back when Susan Hill owned the property. 

Take this front page newspaper picture, for example.  The pro-lifers are crawling toward the steps and toward the choice piece of real estate pictured above.  Three times in 1989 pro-lifers scuttled around those raggedly bushes to sit, in large quantities, on the contested ground pictured above. 

Donegal Corridor has announced plans to remove the ratty bushes with the spring thaw.  

The warmer  weather will bring about a fine opportunity for pro-lifers to loiter on the above ground without fear of trespassing charges.  But mud and dirt will not do.  What is needed is a porch of some kind, a portico if you will. 

But where to get the materials for such a structure?

(Hint:  The new gas furnace needs no chimney and the old chimneys need to come down.  Click on the picture below for a closer look.)  

The hallway is brown, the mirror at the end belonged to Richard Brown (father of John R. Brown, grandpa of Bryan J. Brown) and the poster on the wall is of famed Kansas civil rights activist John Brown of Harpers Ferry fame.

Richard Brown would break out in a smile were he to see his mirror gracing the Institutes’ hallway.  Grandpa went to his great reward back in ‘94.  He was a man who spent much time in the Word of God, and knew it cover to cover.

Nothing made Richard Brown happier than a good discussion of some topic in the Bible.  He looked forward to the second coming as the Hope for all mankind.  Grandpa was not much of a churchgoer, but he loved the Lord and lived his faith. 

Grandpa thought his son and grandson were doing the right thing in standing up for Life and calling the government to account for allowing the wholesale slaughter of the same. 

Grandpa Brown was a poor farmer most of his life,  and never had much of anything worth all that much.  The antique mirror that now hangs in the Institute was attached to  the nicest furniture he ever owned — and that was not all that rich of a unit.

I do not think that Grandpa woud have ever taken the direct action that I took.  Or the action that his firstborn, John, has taken.  (Dad has been an outspoken Christian activist for decades, and has risked arrest, and even been arrested, for the cause.)

Grandpa Brown’s way was less confrontational.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.  Grandpa’s life struck me as a fulfillment of this admonition from the Old Testament: 

Thus Curry stands as a departure gate into post-modernity.  Could this Topeka mural of Brown  be considered as prophetic as it was historic? 

Postscript

Source:  The Kansas State Historical Society

John Steuart Currywas born on November 14, 1897, in the small northeastern Kansas town of Dunavent. The eldest of five children in a farming family, his inclination toward art began at a young age. Curry’s biographer and friend, Lawrence E. Schmeckebier, once wrote that as a youth on his father’s farm Curry was interested in drawing everything:

. . . horses and fighting animals, railroad engines and trains, pictures of battles from the Revolutionary War, hosts of everyday things about him. He kept a scrapbookfilled with newspaper and magazine clippings of cowboy and Indian scenes, illustrations by such westerners as Remington and Dunton, also hundreds of his own pencil sketches of guns and revolvers.

In 1928, Curry finally received national fame with the purchase of his painting “Baptism in Kansas” by the wealthy patron and New York art museum owner Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Curry was then introduced to two other artists who shared his love for the Midwest, Grant Wood of Iowa and Thomas Hart Bentonof Missouri.  Curry’s “Baptism in Kansas” in 1928, Benton’s “Boomtown” in 1928, and especially Wood’s “American Gothic” in 1930, all seem to encapture the unique experience of American rural life. These Regionalists attempted to create a distinct style of art that promoted idealism and rejected the duplication of popular European trends. In 1946 Thomas Hart Benton wrote, “We agreed that unless American Art came back to dealing with things about which American artists knew something it would accomplish nothing.” They painted images promoting a new American identity that included subjects of family, religion, and nature.

The growth of the Regionalist art movement can best be understood in the context of the rising nationalism and isolationism that occurred in the U.S. between the two world wars. Separation from European trends and a focus on American identity were concepts permeating American culture throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

Through the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, the federal government commissioned Regionalist artists to complete murals on public buildings that promoted the Protestant work ethic and family values.

The first exposure of the Kansas public to Curry’s artwork came in 1930-31, when a traveling exhibition of his paintings was sent from New York to the Mulvane Museum in Topeka. The showing produced harsh reactions from Kansas viewers and critics. Many claimed that Curry focused only on the negative aspectsof Kansas life. They labeled the paintings “The Tornado,” “Holy Rollers,” and “Mnt” as depicting miserable weather, religious fanaticism, and lynch mobs. 

 In 1937, artist John Steuart Curry was asked to return to Kansas to cover the interior walls of the Topeka capitol with scenes from the state’s history.  

As Curry finished “The Tragic Prelude” and “Kansas Pastorale,” murals adorning the east and west second-floor corridors of the capital building, tensions flared between Curry and the public over his use of fanatical abolitionist John Brown as a focal point.

End of quote from http://www.kshs.org/cool2/curry.htm

Fanatical, funny word, fanatical.  One man’s fanaticism is another man’s only reasonable response.  Some say living for Christ is fanaticism.  Others live for football, hunting or the stock market with the same degree of fanaticism and call it quite normal.  

Richard Brown was meek, mild and harmless, and most who knew him considered his life one live in obedience to the Lord. 

John Brown was outspoken, wild and a man of great action and even violence.  Most who knew him considered his life one lived in obedience to the Lord.

They could be bookends in many ways.  Both are brought to mind in the Institute’s hallway.

Lord help us find the right balance between extremes in all we do and say.  And help us to revere and preserve our heritage.

And now, with no further flight delays – here is station one.  

It is located in the front room of 827 Webster Street — which is the largest room on the first floor.  These framed items hang on the freshly textured and painted walls just south of the large, plate glass picture window.

This room, which once served as the post-surgery recovery room, now serves as the reception room for the ArchAngel Institute and the room in which the Institute’s board meets.    

The plate glass front window that was once described as a

The Mission and Vision Statement of the Donegal Corridor, LLC

Support and advance the pro-family movement by working with Christian ministries advancing the Culture of Life. 

Operational goals of the Donegal Corridor in 2008

– Utilize 827 Webster Street to serve Christian ministries advancing the Culture of Life and Evangelical ecumenism.

            – Raise funds to support the mission and build phase one of the Pro-lifers’ Portico on the West side of 827 Webster Street.

            — Continue to rehab the buildingat 827 Webster Street to meet the needs of the ArchAngel Institute and other Christian ministries using the building

                        — New flooring downstairs

                        — New windows throughout building

                        — Tuck pointing of brick          

                        — New Handicap ramp

                        — Prepare upstairs to meet Institute’s needs

                                                — HVAC systems         

                                                — Top to bottom rehab of upstairs

            — Coordinate volunteers to work on the building projects

            – Communicate needs of the building and accept materials donated to Christian ministries to rehab the building. 

Significant actions of the Donegal Corridor, LLC in 2007

Founded as an LLC against an historic Irish backdrop opposed to the Axis Powers.

Secured the initial financing for the purchase of 827 Webster Street after much answered prayer.  (On a one year pledge.)

Co-conducted the historic May 19 ecumenical service that resulted in the building being exorcised by the Greek Orthodox Church, blessed by the Roman Catholic Church, solemnized by bagpipes and a reading from Dr. Martin Luther and dedicated to Godly service by Trinity Evangelical Church.. 

Removed decades of debris, ruined carpet, filth and trash from the building.

Secured and winterized the basement and upper story.

Replaced the ruined hot water boiler with a high efficiency furnace.

Replaced the hot water heater.           

Repaired plumbing leaks and replaced damages fixtures.

Replaced ceilings, repaired walls, upgraded doors and painted downstairs.

Thus is filed the Donegal Corridor’s flight report for 2007 and flight plan for 2008!

February 6, 2008 is the first day of Lent.  The Donegal Corridor and ArchAngel Institute are marking this reflective time with the music of Christian artists Rich Mullins and Tatiana. 

Both artists mean much to the Directors of the Institute.  We have placed their visages in the windows of the building so that all passing by can appreciate who it is that is softly calling them to faith during this spiritually-attuned season.

Those of you following the logic of this site will recognize that the Donegal Corridor’s work in this post-abortion outreach is the glass in the windows, the wood to support the speakers and the bricks in the wall.  The Institute comes up with the ideas, the technology and the artwork.

Find below lenten selections to aid the reader in appreciating the art of these fine Christians.

Tatiana, click here:  http://amdgweb.com/tatiana/video.asp?vname=DOLRSAclip2lrg.mov

 Rich Mullins 

We Are Not As Strong As We Think We Are

Well, it took the hand of God Almighty
To part the waters of the sea
But it only took one little lie
To separate you and me
Oh, we are not as strong as we think we are

And they say that one day Joshua
Made the sun stand still in the sky
But I can’t even keep these thoughts
Of you from passing by
Oh, we are not as strong as we think we are

CHORUS
We are frail
We are fearfully and wonderfully made
Forged in the fires of human passion
Choking on the fumes of selfish rage
And with these our hells and our heavens
So few inches apart
We must be awfully small
And not as strong as we think we are

And the Master said their faith was
Gonna make them mountains move
But me, I tremble like a hill on a fault line
Just at the thought of how I lost you
Oh, we are not as strong as we think we are

CHORUS

And if you make me laugh well I know
I could make you like me
Cause when I laugh I can be a lot of fun
But we can’t do that I know that it is frightening
What I don’t know is why we can’t hold on
We can’t hold on

CHORUS

When you love you walk on the water
Just don’t stumble on the waves
We all want to go there somethin’ awful
But to stand there it takes some grace
‘Cause oh, we are not as strong
As we think we are

And finally this from Rich (God Bless Him!), which pretty well sums up where the Institute is this Lent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-b7TQMoZsM

The Donegal Corridor, LLC was thankful for Allen County Right to Life’s interest in the Webster Street project last Spring. That interest ripened into this front page article that hit the streets in April. (Clicking on the blue should enlarge the picture.)

Speaking of Matt Kelty, he attended the March for Life Rally at the Scottish Rite auditorium and toured the Institute afterward.   That is not surprising.  Kelty appears on 1991 mailing lists of the most passionately pro-life inviduals in Allen County.  Matt and his wife have marched for Life for decades.   

Matt has an important hearing on Friday, February 8.  Pray that justice be done, and pray for Matt and his family, as that they are walking through a difficult valley at this time. 

Speaking of dedication services, the Donegal Corridor did hold a wonderful service at the former abortion clinic on May 19.  It has been described elsewhere on this site.  

Allen County Right to Life learned of the Donegal Corridor’s plans to purchase Fort Wayne’s former abortion clinic before almost anyone else in the area.  Allen County Right to Life asked to be allowed to break the story to the pro-life community.

The future executive director of the Institute agreed to that request, at least in part.  The soon-to-be executive director of the then-forming  Institute agreed to allow Allen County Right to Life to break the story, but only if the breaking of the news served the greater good of advancing the historic parallels found in the story.  Those parallels are to WWII and Ireland, and are explained at the tab Fly the Corridor at the top of this page.  The team raising funds for the temporary purchase of the former abortion clinic needed the message of the Corridor out front and center, rather than the identity of the future executive director.  (At that crucial time last Spring, the one-day executive director of the Institute was bogged down in forming the Institute, suing a Kansas politician on a constitutional law claim on behalf of a nationally known pro-lifer, handling other cases in Kansas and still living in Topeka with a house to sell.  Not a good time to announce a future move to the Fort!)

Please consider, if you have not yet done so, reading Fly the Corridor above.  That will grant an understanding of the important background of the Donegal Corridor, LLC and how it compliments the ArchAngel Institute.  (The article was recently edited.) 

Donegal Corridor, LLC is, in fact, the landlord at 827 Webster Street.  Donegal Corridor, LLC quickly raised the preliminary finances to secure the title to 827 Webster Street under an agreement that times out on Passover 2008.  (The building was purchased directly from those who owned it since 1978 at precisely 3 pm on Passover, 2007 — by the unwitting “choice” of the former owners, who were reportedly Jewish and who were responsible for setting the day and time of closing as the soon-to-be-buyers earnestly prayed on  It was, in a word, a religious event.)

The Institute will share more on the seemingly miraculous details attending the purchase of the building in later posts.  It is a quite inspiring story that few outside the Corridor, the Institute and the Board of Allen County Right to Life have ever heard. 

Suffice it to say for now that Bryan Brown is working to raise the funds to repay the Donegal Corridor, LLC by Passover, 2008 — a mere 45 days away — and can use all the help available toward that end.  If you have ideas on that front, please email brown1634@gmail.com.  Please pray that Bryan is successful in this final but crucial launch detail.  (Angels help us!)

Please pray that this important deadline is met by the agreed upon date of Passover, 2008 — which is Maundy Thursday -  Good Friday, March 20.  (The first day of Spring this year.)

Tomorrow’s post will include last Spring’s front page introduction of the Donegal Corridor to the good people of Allen County, compliments of the Board of Allen County Right to Life.