The suspect: 51-year-old Scott Roeder, a man with connections to various right-wing fringe organizations, including - you guessed it - DooHickey's BFFs at Operation Rescue. A note to the right-wingers in the SD blogosphere: guys like Roeder are why the Obama Administration thinks it's important to keep an eye on extreme right-wingers. In fact, it sounds as though attacks on Tiller's clinic had ticked up in recent weeks, causing him to ask the feds to monitor the "picketers" who "peacefully protest" in front of his clinic more closely. Maybe closer attention on the part of law enforcement could have prevented this. Who knows.
Thankfully, I've heard tonight that Dr. Tiller's clinic will open tomorrow, with two other doctors serving his patients. It's a fitting tribute to a man who, as Kelsey observed, put his life on the line more than once to help women facing crisis pregnancy situations. (It's important to note that, despite crazy people bleating to the contrary, "Tiller performed therapeutic abortions for women who wanted children" and who faced medical problems later in pregnancy that prevented them from bringing the fetus to term.)
I'm hoping that those of us who peruse local blogs will see those who minimize or equivocate about or obfuscate what happened today for what they are.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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I found this on the Internet,
"Every time an man like Dr. Tiller has been killed, the "pro-life movement" makes pro forma condemnation of the murderers of a human being..."
There is already praise of Dr. Tiller's killer(s) at the Army of God's website.
"A great day for the unborn children scheduled to be murdered by that Babykilling Abortionist George Tiller. Now those children are spared from being murdered by the Kansas BabyButcher, George Tiller. George Tiller reaped what he sowed and now has now been cast alive into everlasting torment and fire. Psalm 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them."
I'm pretty surprised DooHickey isn't the author of that.
It's kinda long, but I thought it deserved re-posting. The author forgot to add CATG to the list.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/oleeb/2009/05/who-killed-dr-tiller.php/
A doctor was assassinated today in Wichita, KS by a religious fanatic and cold blooded killer. His name was Dr. George Tiller. But who killed Dr. Tiller? Was it the gunman alone? Hardly.
Ever since the Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court made abortion safe and legal, the nation has endured an endless, vitriolic campaign of harrassment against abortion led by the Roman Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestants. This is an indisputable fact. For decades these institutions have drilled into the heads of their flocks that those who participate in any way in any abortion are "murderers" and "baby killers". This would include the mothers as well as the doctors and all the other healthcare workers involved. They founded the anti-abortion movement, they have grown it, they have taken credit for it, they have led it, they have exhorted it, they have driven it, they have funded it, they have been responsible for continuing it long after the legal question was decided and put to rest for the vast majority of our people--even those who so blindly follow them.
They have harrassed doctors, nurses, pregnant women and anyone else who happened to have business in any office or building that provided abortion services or even advice about where to find abortion services. Gore drenched pictures of mangled fetuses in garbage pales, swastikas, and all manner of shrill visual and audio props have been shoved in the faces of any passers by and those who enter the buildings housing such offices. These props (provided by the religiously motivated opposition to abortion) are used by misguided zealots whose hearts and minds are often filled with so much love for Jesus and the unborn that they lose sight of any boundaries of propriety in their behavior and their obsessive harrassment of people who are seeking help for a legal and safe medical procedure. More than once this zealotry has turned criminally violent. These narrow-minded mobs never tire of hurling invectives and the worst sorts of bile at anyone or any institution that is connected in any way to an abortion provider.
The clergy of these two organizations regularly exhort their blinded followers to continue the harrassment outside the clinics, the extremist, hateful and reckless rhetoric. They let the sheep do the dirty work for the shepherds and then when one of those sheep literally goes ballistic they loudly proclaim their opposition to any such activity despite the fact that they have been callling men like Dr. Tiller "mass murderers" and "baby killers" for decades and thus poisoning our entire public life for nearly 40 years over their prescientific religious dogmatic extremism.
The so called "pro-life movement" and it's religious leaders need to bring an immediate halt to the unending, venomous, harrassment of women, their doctors and healthcare workers they have been engaged in now for decades. And yes, that means that the right wing fundamentalist Protestant preachers need to go on tv and openly and loudly proclaim their opposition to any further verbal or symbolic harrassment at clinics and offices and they need specifically to call for an immediate end to the harrassment at clinics using the words murder, murderer, mass murderer, baby killers and so on and so does the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church. The despicalbe and irresponsible behavior they have engaged in has led to this shocking murder today of Dr. TIller. (cont.)
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Both sets of religious leaders and the non-clergy leadership of the anti-abortion mob are culpable in the murder of Dr. Tiller for exhorting their followers to such extremes for decades, driving them to near frenzy in their religious condemnation of a medical procedure long made legal and so the minimum they can do is bring an immediate halt to the endless and quite pointless harrassment and extremist rhetoric they have engaged in themselves and encouraged in others that has now led to yet another sickening murder of a doctor simply because he did not share their religious beliefs.
So who killed Dr. Tiller? It is time for the religious leaders who have brought us to this point to look in the mirror to find the killer. Everyone knows who really killed Dr. Tiller.
To the murderers I say, blood is on your hands and it is from the actual murder of a living, breathing, full grown, innocent man whose life was dedicated to helping others though your dogmatic religious blindness condems him for it. Those who have led the crazed anti-abortionists and have incited them to this kind of violence will attempt to wash their hands of this act, but I don't think simply distancing themselves from the action of the man who pulled the trigger is fooling anyone any longer.
No one is fooled Reverend. No one is fooled Father. The time for your dishonet distancing of yoursevles from the logical outcome of all your rhetoric is over. Ultimately, you are guilty of this crime and need to take responsibility for the murder you have caused to be committed in your names and in the name of Jesus. Confess and repent before you kill another innocent man or woman and disgrace yourselves any further and before you bring further disgrace to your churches.
And now KELOLAND is allowing Hickey and his posse to censor me on Hickey's own words about Tiller's murder. Go to: http://southdakotawatch.blogspot.com/2009/05/rightwing-zealots-pastor-hickey.html
Keep up the good fight!
Todd Epp
Middle Border Sun
http://www.middlebordersun.com
Formerly SD Watch
Todd -
I only read you from your SD Watch site - is KELO not allowing you to post your piece about this over there?
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