Rightwing power grows out of the barrel of a gun
UPDATE: “Police were looking for a blue Ford Taurus with a K-State vanity plate, license number 225 BAB. Police described him as a white male in his 50′s or 60′s, 6’1,” 220 lbs, wearing a white shirt and dark pants.”
Sounds like a pretty solid lead.
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Still nothing more on George Tiller’s assassination, although a Google News search found a five-day-old article from the Christian News Wire fulminating about one of Tiller’s clinic’s volunteers being honored by the Obama White House.
Pulliam, at 83, volunteers her time at Tiller’s clinic on busy abortion days. She told the Wichita Eagle of her role as a Gold Star Mother, “You really don’t want to belong to this club because in order to belong to this club, you have to lose a child. So nobody wants to belong to it.”
“How ironic that Pulliam could make such a statement when she has dedicated a large portion of her life to insuring that other women lose their children to abortion. It is hypocrisy at best, and perhaps stems from some sick need to make sure that other women suffer as she has,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
“Abortion, by its very nature, devalues human life. Pulliam’s work at Tiller’s abortion clinic, which specializes in particularly heinous late-term abortions on healthy, viable babies, is a major contributor to that devaluation. On a day when our country honored those who willingly sacrificed the precious gift of life for the sake of others, Pulliam’s work taking innocent lives through abortion dishonors their brave sacrifice.”
No, no reason why some unhinged lunatic would take that as a greenlight to kill a doctor who murders “healthy, viable babies.”
Operation Rescue wanted Tiller dead, and now he’s dead. How will this play out without the Bushies to offer political guidance to the FBI as it investigates?
UPDATE: The Times and Feministing are now reporting on this and the Christian News Wire is backpedaling for all they’re worth:
Rightwing eliminationists: repeatedly arguing that their opponents are evil, then expressing shock when their unhinged followers assassinate the “bad” guys. Earlier this month The Wichita Eagle “opinion line” featured this item:
Many Wichitans are unable to publicly support George Tiller out of fear that their employers will retaliate and fire them for being pro-choice.
Fox News has now caught up: Abortion Doctor George Tiller Reportedly Killed at Church. Sure, because major newspapers almost always get it wrong when they say someone has just been violently killed. It’s also very important to call him an ABORTION DOCTOR even as Fox refuses to speculate on the politics of the assassin(s).
And, as usual, fuck the AP:
Yes, this is it, their entire story.
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The usual outrages:
Trucker run into by cop without lights or siren going 109 mph charged with DUI for testing at half the legal limit
Arizona prison bakes mentally ill prostitute to death in an unshaded cage in 107° heat
HIV-positive Philip Padieu gets 45 years for knowingly infecting at least 6 women with the AIDS virus
‘pugs freak out over the O’s taking in dinner and a show
Tim McGuire faults Teamsters for acting like management
Microsoft security update installs virus-like app in Firefox (the WaPost computer security dude was moved to say “How the %#@! did I miss this?”)
Sauds behead killer then sew head back on and display body crucifixion style
Strib so broke they can’t afford to run Sotomayor’s full quote
Bill Donohue in defense of priests buggering children [more from Reason Weekly]
Jefferson Morley on why the wingnuts really hate Sotomayor
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The good that can be done if only we try:
Japanese town commits to zero waste by 2020
Paintballing billboards [scroll down]
How to best handle a stalker: ignore them then later make some $ with an article
Don McLeroy dumped as Chair of the Texas Board of Education
Jeffrey Rosen (now thoroughly discredited by his peers for his anonymous quotes from Sotomayor smearers) vows to never blog again
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TBogg decides Sotomayor will be easily confirmed and decides she’s only worth twittering about.
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They caught someone.
http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/833730.html
Cue the usual forced-birth mouthpieces about to proclaim that they are shocked – Shocked! – that anyone would think that this was a good idea! They’re pro-LIFE, after all. Such a terrible thing, who would know that some deranged person would think to do such a horrible deed. So surely you can’t possibly consider blaming them, you know.
Ah, here we are, right on time: “Operation Rescue denounces the killing of abortionist Tiller.”
http://www.operationrescue.org/archives/operation-rescue-denounces-the-killing-of-abortionist-tiller/
The NRA will denounce the senseless assassination with the reminder if everyone of the church goers had been armed, this wouldn’t have happened. Perhaps there would have been other victims in a shootout, but that’s the price of freedom in America.
God bless Amendment #2.
What kind of heat would Jesus be packing?