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I do agree with the sentiment that this is an act of domestic terrorism, perpetrated by a religious extremist.
I do agree with the sentiment that this is an act of domestic terrorism, perpetrated by a religious extremist.
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 8:36 PM>>>>>>an act of domestic terrorism, perpetrated by a religious extremist>>>>>>>>
I agree. I read earlier today that there was not a single murder of a doctor who performs abortions during Bush's eight years but during Clinton's there were several. It appears to be an extremist activity that is based on fear that a Democrat president will somehow do something to make abortion even more available.
Essentially this murder seems designed to instill fear in the population, the government and the abortion clinics to prevent any policy changes that could be viewed as pro-choice. This religious extremist wants us to fear more murders and therefore resist any progressive policy advancement.
If we don't negotiate with terrorists then we shouldn't abide this type of fear-mongering either. -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 8:07 AM>>>>>>>If we don't negotiate with terrorists then we shouldn't abide this type of fear-mongering either. <<<<<<
Isn't the suspect in custody? What else would you have the state do yet? Send him to Guantanamo for waterboarding?
"Fear-mongering"? I think you are confused here. "Fear-mongering" refers to arousing fear through appeals to prejudice----such comments as yours in this case might be seen as 'fear-mongering' as generally understood. What the killer of Dr. Teller did might arouse fear---must murders do---but they are not fear-mongering itself. -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 8:24 AM>>>>>>>"Fear-mongering"? I think you are confused here. "Fear-mongering" refers to arousing fear through appeals to prejudice>>>>>>>
This murder appeals to the nut cases who would prefer that women remain barefoot, pregnant and living in poverty rather than having women experience the type of life modelled by the First Lady - educated, smart, working woman who is also a great family person. There is a strongly held prejudice that Obama will make changes that will lead more directly to women having opportunities like his wife has instead of staying in their "place".
This type of murder appeals to that prejudice. I predict there will be copy cats from among those who hold this prejudice. And thus calling it fear-mongering was exactly what I meant. -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 8:28 AM>>>>>>>>>>>Isn't the suspect in custody? What else would you have the state do yet? Send him to Guantanamo for waterboarding? >>>>>>
This is no ordinary murder. It is domestic terrorism and should be labelled and discussed that way in the media and the courts. The charge should identify it as terrorism. The outcome may be the same - life in prison or the death sentence depending on where the charges are laid. But the discussion in our society should be about terrorism not murder. -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 9:13 AM<< But the discussion in our society should be about terrorism not murder. >>
Um, Deb. The VERY LAST thing American society needs is ANOTHER "discussion" about terrorism.
Even if this killing is over the usual tawdry political motive (as it appears from reports), perhaps what's needed is mere acknowledgment of a curious propensity among wingnuts to stalk and sometimes kill those who disagree with them. This might be seen as part of the apocalyptic and hyper-personalized mindset common among the politically deluded (as certainly was the case with a lot of the 1960s New Left, only they didn't stalk and shoot down unarmed people) or simply a last spasm of fury from an ideology cult that knows its days are numbered.
Either way, America's had enough hoo-raw over "terrorism" this decade to last a hundred years. -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 10:59 AMoh alright, Rockstar. You're probably right about the talk of terrorism having been overdone.
What then can separate this act from the run-of-the-mill gangsta killing and highlight the political motive without using the phrase "domestic terrorism". -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 3:23 PM<< What then can separate this act from the run-of-the-mill gangsta killing and highlight the political motive without using the phrase "domestic terrorism". >>
The political nature of the act. And, as I say, pointing up wingnuttery's traditional resort to murder and repression to get its way on this and other matters.
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 7:50 PM
>> I predict there will be copy cats from among those who hold this prejudice. <<
there are copycats to all high profile crimes. the suicide rate spikes right after a high profile suicide is reported in the news.
people are stupid and crazy. it's the way of things. but go ahead and enjoy milking this for all its worth.
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 9:12 PM
>> I do agree with the sentiment that this is an act of domestic terrorism, perpetrated by a religious extremist. <<
didn't the perp act alone and have a history of mental illness? -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 9:16 PMHe's not alone any more:
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02...2blame.html
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...58.html -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 11:19 PM
I guess you're right. there are just too many stupid, psychotic assholes in this world looking for an excuse.
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 11:21 AMHe is not a member of the Right, the Far Right, or the way fucking far out there Right.
He is not a member of anything on the Right in the exact same sense that the 09/11 Bombers were not members of the Far Left.
Crazy people who run around doing horrible things because of the stupid shit they got running around in their squirming brains are just crazy people who do horrible things.
They don't belong to any one.
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 1:53 PM{He is not a member of the Right, the Far Right, or the way fucking far out there Right. }
www.ktka.com/news/2009/j...ned_wichita/
Suspect in Tiller murder returned to Wichita
Attorney General orders increased security for ‘certain individuals and groups’
Story by The Associated Press
Originally published 09:02 a.m., June 1, 2009
Updated 04:21 p.m., June 1, 2009
"Wichita — A man suspected of fatally shooting abortion doctor George Tiller in church was in jail Monday while investigators sought to learn more about his background, including his possible connections to anti-abortion groups. . .
"A man with the same name as the suspect has a criminal record and a background of anti-abortion postings on sympathetic Web sites. In one post written in 2007 on the Web site for Operation Rescue, a group that closely followed Tiller's work and legal troubles in recent years, a man identifying himself as Scott Roeder asked if anyone had thought of attending Tiller's church to ask the doctor and other worshippers about his work.
"In 1996, a 38-year-old man named Scott Roeder was charged in Topeka with criminal use of explosives for having bomb components in his car trunk and sentenced to 24 months of probation. However, his conviction was overturned on appeal the next year after a higher court said evidence against Roeder was seized by law enforcement officers during an illegal search of his car.
"At the time, police said the FBI had identified Roeder as a member of the anti-government Freemen group, an organization that kept the FBI at bay in Jordan, Mont., for almost three months in 1995-96. Authorities on Sunday night would not immediately confirm if their suspect was the same man."
www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/69151.html
By Judy L. Thomas | Kansas City Star
"The suspect in custody for the slaying of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was a member of an anti-government group in the 1990s and a staunch opponent of abortion . . .
"Dinwiddie said she met Roeder while picketing outside the Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic in 1996. Roeder walked into the clinic and asked to see the doctor, Robert Crist, she said.
"'Robert Crist came out and he stared at him for approximately 45 seconds,' she said. 'Then he (Roeder) said, 'I've seen you now.' Then he turned his back and walked away, and they were scared to death. On the way out, he gave me a great big hug and he said, 'I've seen you in the newspaper. I just love what you're doing.' '
"Roeder also was a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a magazine that advocated the justifiable homicide position, said publisher Dave Leach, an anti-abortion activist from Des Moines, Iowa.
"'I met him once, and he wrote to me a few times,' Leach said. 'I remember that he was sympathetic to our cause, but I don't remember any details.'
"Leach said he met Roeder in Topeka when he went there to visit Shelley Shannon, who was in prison for the 1993 shooting of Tiller.
"'He told me about a lot of conspiracy stuff and showed me how to take the magnetic strip out of a five-dollar bill,' Leach said. 'He said it was to keep the government from tracking your money.'
"Roeder, who in the 1990s was a manufacturing assemblyman, also was involved in the "Freemen" movement.
"'Freemen' was a term adopted by those who claimed sovereignty from government jurisdiction and operated under their own legal system, which they called common-law courts. Adherents declared themselves exempt from laws, regulations and taxes and often filed liens against judges, prosecutors and others, claiming that money was owed to them as compensation.
"In April 1996, Roeder was arrested in Topeka after Shawnee County sheriff's deputies stopped him for not having a proper license plate. In his car, officers said they found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder and two 9-volt batteries, with one connected to a switch that could have been used to trigger a bomb.
"Jim Jimerson, supervisor of the Kansas City ATF's bomb and arson unit, worked on the case.
"'There wasn't enough there to blow up a building,' Jimerson said at the time, 'but it could make several powerful pipe bombs...There was definitely enough there to kill somebody.'
"Roeder, who then lived in Silver Lake, Kan., was stopped because he had an improper license plate that read 'Sovereign private property. Immunity declared by law. Non-commercial American.' Authorities said the plate was typical of those used by Freemen.
"Roeder was arraigned on one count of criminal use of explosives and misdemeanor charges of driving on a suspended license, failure to carry a Kansas registration and failure to carry liability insurance.
"He was found guilty and sentenced in June 1996 to 24 months of probation with intensive supervision and ordered to dissociate himself from anti-government groups that advocated violence.
"But in December 1997, his probation ended six months early when the Kansas Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. The court held that evidence against Roeder was seized by authorities during an illegal search of his car.
"Morris Wilson, commander of the Kansas Unorganized Citizens Militia in the mid-1990s, said he knew Roeder fairly well.
"'I'd say he's a good ol' boy except he was just so fanatic about abortion,' said Wilson, who now lives in western Nebraska. 'He was always talking about how awful abortion was. But there's a lot of people who think abortion is awful.'"
No -- he wasn't a member of the right, the far right or the way fucking far out there right. The Roeder who was a Freeman movement member was probably another person altogether.
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 2:05 PMBill, what are you, a communist?
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 3:29 PM<< No -- he wasn't a member of the right, the far right or the way fucking far out there right. The Roeder who was a Freeman movement member was probably another person altogether. >>
HAHAHA!
And no doubt considered himself politically "moderate," if not a "Kennedy Democrat."
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 7:53 PM>> No -- he wasn't a member of the right, the far right or the way fucking far out there right. The Roeder who was a Freeman movement member was probably another person altogether. <<
what's the point of this discussion? is the point to associate this guy with fiscal conservatives? or are we drawing the line with survivalist whackjobs? I'm just curious if there is an actual point to this blather or is this just another excuse for the tired conservatives bad, fire good mantra? -
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 8:33 PMYou're obviously worked up about something, but it's unclear from your prose just what.
If you're suggesting that no one may talk about the political nature of a (likely) political murder without submitting it to a panel of wingnuts first, well, I wish you all the best implementing this curious little whim.
Before we found out more about the (likely) perp, I was thinking that even if the doc was popped over something completely unrelated to abortion, such a killing would automatically spark a political frenzy. It could almost be the premise of one of Jerry Bruckheimer's lousier movies.
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Re: Dr. George Tiller Murdered
Tue, June 2, 2009 - 7:55 PM
>> They don't belong to any one. <<
won't stop the game from being played.
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It is terrorism
Fri, June 19, 2009 - 7:31 AMHowever, I doubt water boarding, or any type of torture will be used. -
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Re: It is terrorism
Fri, June 19, 2009 - 7:33 AM"was shot to death here Sunday in the foyer of his longtime church as he handed out the church bulletin."
Oh yeah, and if there is a guy the shooter is definitely going to hell. I never knew Satan recruited people to kill people in the name of god, in church while they hand out church bulletins.
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