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.
