Yesterday’s news was filled with articles about Dr, George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, one of the few publicly accessible late-term abortion doctors left in the country, who was shot down in the lobby of the church he was attending.
President Obama issued a statement that he was “shocked and outraged” by the murder. According to the Wichita Eagle:
“However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence,” the president said in a statement issued by the White House.
A suspect was captured, arrested and charged and now the press and media fallout is getting intense.
Operation Rescue (which, if you can get on their website at http://www.OperationRescue.org – I can’t because Fronteir Communications that I get my web connection from has blocked all connections to the site) has issued a muted “apology” to the Tiller family, but they kept Tiller on a target list for years and really have no real feelings of responsibility for encouraging his murder.
What we have here is a full example of Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism, and, like terrorism of any kind, it needs to be eliminated. Given the religious intolerance views of so many in this country, it is doubtful that such elimination will happen.
Then there is the matter of Bill O’Brien on FOX who has also kept a focus on Tiller which could be interpreted as influencing violence. To think that FOX will do anything about O’Brien’s position here is laughable.
This morning the Attorney General sent Federal officers out to guard and protect Tiller’s clinic, which will not close, hopefully.
Keep your eyes on the news, there’s more coming.
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According to a website called “Militia Watchdog“, Roeder was sentenced to 16 months in prison for parole violations following a 1996 arrest near Topeka for possession of explosive devices in his car trunk.
Miss Peters, KAKE reporter, also spoke with Roeder’s ex-wife who said “…he did some time in El Dorado there, but he got out on a technicality because they didn’t have the right kind of search warrant apparently”.
Roeder has been divorced for 12 years. He has a 22 year old son with his former wife, and his ex says their son “has minimal contact with his father… He doesn’t share any of his dad’s views… religiously or politically…neither do I”
The KAKE reporter says one of the reasons for the Roeder breakup over a decade ago, was because of what [the ex-wife today, calls] “his radical views.”
“He was very vocal about his feelings of abortion…he has been like this for several years. He was a part of different militia things… anti-government, anti-abortion, obviously, and just a lot of anti-stuff”
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.”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
Case 08LA08663. Midland Funding LLC vs. Scott P Roeder.
FILE STAMP 4/10/2009, ORDER OF GARNISHMENT JO CO KS, SERVED COMMUNITY AMERICA CREDIT UNION 04-07-09 C/S.
Sticker Roeder had on his back window of vehicle"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."