We all know the same crowd that protests abortions often also tends to favor the death penalty, the use of torture (as long as its not used on them) and cutting off health benefits for children who are uninsured. But it seems a subset of the self described “pro-life” movement also believes in taking matters into their own hands, or at least asking others to take matters into their own hands when it comes to stopping abortion by any means necessary:
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge ordered an anti-abortion activist to remove Web site postings that authorities said exhorted readers to kill an abortion provider by shooting her in the head. […]
. . . The injunction, sought by prosecutors in August, also bans him from publishing similar messages containing names, addresses or photographs of health clinic staff members.
Prosecutors said one posting targeted a former clinician for the Philadelphia Women’s Center, and that she later stopped providing reproductive health services because she feared for her life. […]
One posting, which featured the provider’s name, photo and address, stated that “while it does not sound good to say go shoot her between the eyes, it sounds even worse to say let her alone.”
Tell me again: Why isn’t this considered terrorism? Oh, I forgot. It’s not terrorism because it was done by a member of the Republican Party’s base. Besides it isn’t nearly as important as whether Hillary Clinton stiffed a waitress in Iowa or John Edwards got a haircut. It’s only a call for the murder of someone who’s probably a liberal Democrat after all, and as we all know it’s perfectly acceptable in our society to call for the murder of liberals or pray to God to kill them. Which is why they sell these over the internet:
