One of the staples of the hard left is to misuse language. Opposition to the radical homosexual agenda somehow became labelled as "homophobia", a made up mental disorder. With the left, it is never enough just to disagree. Opponents have to delegitimized. Then you can justify censoring them, shouting them down or having them arrested, as peaceful anti-abortion protestors have been done on hundreds if not thousands of occasions. They even passed laws specifically aimed at stifling the freedom of speech of anti-abortion protestors. Then they are amazed when zealots resort to violence. Now we see the misuse of language again. Anyone who objects too vociferously to abortion is now a "terrorist." We could just dismiss it as the ravings of leftist thugs, but we know that the apparatchiks running Homeland Security actually have exactly that agenda. The fact that some of these abortionists are arguably performing "legal medical procedures" is irrelevant. I have a constitutional right to ride through Harlem or the West side of Chicago in a pickup truck with a giant Confederate flag flying in the bed. Does that make the thugs who would shoot at me and try to deny my constitutional rights terrorists? Or just typical Obama supporters?
"Anyone who objects too vociferously to abortion is now a "terrorist." This "objecting vociferously?" All because he was a licensed physician who performed legal medical procedures. Not surprisingly, his killer is strongly suspected to be affiliated with the "pro-life" movement. If that's the case, it makes Tiller the 10th person in the United States to be murdered by anti-choice terrorists. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Since 1977, there have been at least 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery and three kidnappings committed against abortion providers in North America. Tiller himself survived an assassination attempt in 1993. No it is not objecting vociferously, it is illegal and violent action... Vociferously? Talk about misuse of language... Sheesh... vo⋅cif⋅er⋅ous   /voʊˈsɪfərəs/ Show Spelled [voh-sif-er-uhs] Show IPA âadjective 1.crying out noisily; clamorous. 2.characterized by or uttered with vociferation: a vociferous manner of expression. Origin: 1605â15; vocifer(ant) + -ous âRelated forms vo⋅cif⋅er⋅ous⋅ly, adverb vo⋅cif⋅er⋅ous⋅ness, noun âSynonyms 1. loud, noisy, vocal, uproarious, boisterous.
Better worry if they add it to DSM-V. The California prison system, for example, treats it with medication as a delusional disorder. Those evil, evil leftists. However do you put up with their clever, evil ways? So, it's really the left's fault and behavior that has driven a few rare zealots to kill them. Is there any behavior of others that isn't the left's fault or justified through their evil actions? Actually, it's anyone who objects too vociferously and shoots doctors, and that's pretty obvious. You seem to rely on caricatures a great deal in your rantings to no one in particular.
The Religious Right Didn't Kill George Tiller By JAMES KIRCHICK On Sunday, abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered at his church in Wichita, Kan. He was one of a handful of doctors in the U.S. who performed late-term abortions and for decades had been a target of virulent criticism from antiabortion activists. His clinic had been bombed and vandalized, and in 1993 he was shot in both arms in a failed assassination attempt. Tiller's alleged killer, Scott Roeder, is a long-time radical antiabortion activist with reported ties to a militant antigovernment organization called the Freemen. Within hours after the murder, every antiabortion group in the country denounced the attack. Robert P. George, a leading Catholic intellectual opponent of abortion, wrote that "George Tiller's life was precious" and characterized his murder as "a gravely wicked thing." He called on his fellow abortion opponents to "teach that violence against abortionists is not the answer to the violence of abortion." Even Operation Rescue, the extreme antiabortion group that organized a six-week blockade of Tiller's office in 1991, issued a statement condemning the murder. "We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning," Troy Newman, the organization's president, said. These unqualified reproaches are nothing new. The organized antiabortion movement has always opposed violence against abortion providers. That has never stopped opportunistic prochoice activists, however, from conflating their passionate rhetoric with the behavior of individual criminals. True to form, on Sunday, Mike Hendricks of the Kansas City Star accused anyone who had criticized Tiller as a murderer (Tiller aborted healthy, nine-month old fetuses) of being an "accomplice" to his death. Over the past decade this argumentative tactic has taken on an even more insidious twist. In addition to fighting violent, Muslim jihadists abroad, some liberals argue that America must deal with its own, homegrown terrorists. These are not just people who commit violence but millions of socially conservative evangelicals and Catholics -- "Christianists" -- who comprise the base of the Republican Party and threaten the stability of the country. In 2007, former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Hedges published a book called "American Fascists" that compared conservative evangelicals to European brownshirts of the 1920s and 1930s. That same year, CNN's Christiane Amanpour hosted a three-part series, "God's Warriors," that equated Christian (and Jewish) fundamentalists with Muslim extremists. The comparison between the religious right and Islamic extremists is invariably partisan so as to smear the GOP as being held hostage to forces as dangerous as Hamas or Hezbollah. "Even as the Bush administration denounces and battles Islamic religious zealotry abroad, fundamental Christian zealotry is taking hold here at home," wrote Stephen Pizzo on the liberal Alternet Web site in 2004. On his popular HBO program, comedian Bill Maher frequently compares murderous Islamists to censorious Christians. But if the reactions to the death of Tiller mean anything, the "Christian Taliban," as conservative religious figures are often called, isn't living up to its namesake. If "Christianists" were anything like actual religious fascists they would applaud Tiller's murder as a "heroic martyrdom operation" and suborn further mayhem. Radical Islamists revel in death. Just witness the videos that suicide bombers record before they carry out their murderous task or listen to the homicidal exhortations of extremist imams. Murder -- particularly of the unarmed and innocent -- is a righteous deed for these people. The manifestos of Islamic militant groups are replete with paeans to killing infidels. When a suicide bomb goes off in Israel, Palestinian terrorist factions compete to claim responsibility for the carnage. There is no appreciable number of people in this country, religious Christians or otherwise, who support the murder of abortion doctors. The same cannot be said of Muslims who support suicide bombings in the name of their religion. Yet speak of the disproportionately violent strain in Islam to a "progressive" person and you'll be met with sneering recitations of millennia-old Christian crusades or Jewish settlements in the West Bank. As for conservative Christians' contemporary political endeavors, lobbying to ban the teaching of evolution in schools or forbidding same-sex marriage simply does not threaten society in quite the same way as the genital mutilation of young girls or the bombing of the London transit system. I happen to support a legal regime that would, in Bill Clinton's famous words, keep abortion safe, legal and rare. I hold no brief for the religious right, and its views on homosexuality in particular offend (and affect) me personally. But it's precisely because of my identity that I consider comparisons between so-called Christianists (who seek to limit my rights via the ballot box) and Islamic fundamentalists (who seek to limit my rights via decapitation) to be fatuous. In the coming days, we will hear more about how mainstream conservative organizations and media personalities created an "environment" in which the murder of an abortion doctor became an inevitability. Just as talk radio was blamed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, an attempt will be made to extend the guilt for this crime from the individual who pulled the trigger to the conservative movement writ large. But the Christian right's responsible reaction to the death of George Tiller should put to rest the lie that Judeo-Christian extremists are anywhere near as numerous or dangerous as those of the Muslim variety. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124398690567579389.html
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-abortion-violence1-2009jun01,0,1335069.story From the Los Angeles Times A history of violence on the antiabortion fringe Dr. George Tiller's slaying is the latest in a decades-long campaign of shootings, bombings and vandalism carried out by extremists from the mostly peaceful movement. By Richard Fausset June 1, 2009 Reporting from Atlanta â Bombings. Butyric acid attacks. Sniper shootings. Letters filled with fake anthrax. These are some of the tactics used over the years by antiabortion extremists. The slaying of Dr. George Tiller in his Kansas church Sunday was part of a decades-long history of domestic terrorism aimed at abortion providers, carried out by a small minority of the much broader and generally peaceful movement that opposes abortion. The National Abortion Federation, which supports abortion rights, has documented more than 6,100 acts of violence against abortion providers in the United States and Canada since 1977. The group classifies as "violent" not only the acts of murder, attempted murder, bombing and arson, but also vandalism, burglary and stalking, among others. Tiller's slaying appears to be the eighth of an abortion clinic worker in the U.S. or Canada and the fourth of a doctor. A fifth doctor was shot but survived -- as did Tiller in a previous attack. These illegal tactics -- denounced by many peaceful antiabortion activists -- multiplied in the 1980s, as the broader movement shifted away from pressuring the women who were having abortions to the medical personnel providing them, according to Carole Joffe, a sociology professor at UC Davis. The shift in emphasis was a smart public relations move for those who oppose abortion, casting women as victims while exploiting public uneasiness over doctors who performed the procedure. Those public sentiments stemmed, in part, from the existence of ethically sketchy, "back-alley" abortion providers in the era before the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling that legalized abortion, Roe vs. Wade. Clinics and clinic workers were subject to vandalism, bombings and death threats through the 1980s, but it was not until March 1993 that the United States saw the first known political slaying of an abortion provider. Dr. David Gunn was shot during an antiabortion protest at a Pensacola, Fla., clinic. The year before, a "wanted" poster with Gunn's photo and home phone number had been distributed at a Montgomery, Ala., antiabortion rally sponsored by the group Operation Rescue, according to an Associated Press report. Five months after Gunn's slaying, Tiller was shot in both arms outside his Wichita clinic by a woman who had praised Gunn's killer as a hero. In response, Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which President Clinton signed in May 1994. The law outlawed "force, threat of force or physical obstruction" to patients and clinic workers. Supporters of abortion rights credit the law with stemming some of the intimidation at clinics. But serious incidents continued throughout Clinton's presidency, which was viewed as inhospitable to the antiabortion cause. In July 1994, Paul Hill, a former Presbyterian minister, shot and killed Dr. John Britton and a 74-year-old clinic escort in Pensacola. In December of that year, John Salvi III shot up two Boston-area clinics, killing two receptionists and injuring five other people. In January 1998, a bomb planted at a Birmingham, Ala., clinic killed a security guard and injured a nurse. The culprit, Eric Rudolph, a foe of gay rights and abortion, had also carried out a bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, which killed one and injured more than 100. Rudolph disappeared into the mountains of Appalachia. He became the subject of a protracted manhunt and, in some circles, a folk hero. He was not captured until 2003. He pleaded guilty to a string of bombings and was sentenced to life in prison. Until Tiller's slaying Sunday, the last known slaying of an abortion provider was in October 1998, when obstetrician Barnett Slepian was killed by James Kopp in Amherst, N.Y. Kopp was convicted of murder in 2003 and sentenced to 25 years to life. Less lethal tactics have included the release of foul-smelling butyric acid at clinics. In 2001, when the nation was gripped with fear stemming from legitimate anthrax threats, more than 500 clinics received letters with fake anthrax, according to NARAL Pro-Choice America. Those who support abortion rights maintain that violence and the threat of violence have led to a shortage of abortion providers. According to NARAL, 87% of U.S. counties lack an abortion provider.
From the November 6, 2006, broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly about Dr. Tiller: O'REILLY: This is a human rights issue. Can you imagine impregnating a 10-year-old, 11-year-old, 12-year-old, and the abortion clinic doesn't turn the information over to the authorities? Can you imagine? Because there's nothing gonna happen to the, you know, girl. She's gonna be interviewed. And if she's living in a home with a father -- E.D. HILL (co-host): Right. O'REILLY: -- or an uncle who would do that, you're gonna keep her in that home? HILL: Well, and the woman said most of the times, these are repeat offenders. Well, OK -- O'REILLY: Yeah. HILL: -- even more of a reason that you need to -- O'REILLY: But that's OK with her because it's all theory. It's all theory with her. You see? It doesn't matter. And I'll tell you what: Even if you walked her through it, if you made her stay in the room while Tiller took the baby out and drilled a hole in its head, she wouldn't change. Wouldn't change. Would retreat back into the world of theory, reproductive rights, [unintelligible] funding, eh duh deh, buh boo buh bah buh bah. And that's where we are in America. Not everybody is like that. Most people believe the way I believe. I know that. All the polls show that. But the powers that be, the courts, the media -- oh, the media. I can't tell you how despicable I think The Kansas City Star and The Wichita Eagle -- those are the two main ones. I can't tell you. Let me just read you one thing before we take a break. I'm gonna take your phone calls. This is from the Associated Press. This is Associated -- no, this Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star. Quote: "O'Reilly said on the program that a source told his show that abortion providers were performing late-term abortions because the women were depressed, a mental health risk he deemed insufficient." "He deemed insuff"-- this is David Klepper, Kansas City Star. You see? "O'Reilly deemed it. Who's O'Reilly?" "He deemed." OK. So, I'm the fascist, I'm the bad guy, I'm the problem. Not Tiller. No, he -- no, no, no. He's a good guy. Now, Tiller's pumping all kinds of money into obviously the attorney general race. He wants the guy that's gonna let him off the hook to win. Those of you listening in Kansas, you ought to know that. You know, I don't -- I'm not gonna tell you who to vote for. You guys know these guys better than I do, but I tell you what, anything Tiller wants, I'm voting the other way. And if I could get my hands on Tiller... well, you know. Can't be vigilantes. Can't do that. It's just a figure of speech. But despicable? Oh, my God. Oh, it doesn't get worse. Does it get worse? No. Back with your calls and comments.
In an interview with CNN, Dan Holman had this to say about the murder: Drew Griffin: When you heard the news over the weekend about the abortion doctor -- that I'm sure you are well aware of -- was shot and killed, what was your reaction? Dan Holman: I was cheered by it because I knew that he wouldn't be killing any more babies. And I expect that would happen when all legal and moral -- legal ways of trying to stop it has been exhausted, as they have tried to prosecute him for giving abortions to people in violation of Kansas law. Later on in the interview... Dan Holman: I believe that all abortionists are deserving of death, and they are not the only ones. There are politicians and judges and others who support this murder that are also deserving of death. Drew Griffin: Would you care to name names, Dan? Dan Holman: George Bush, Barack Obama. Any politician that gives our tax money to Planned Parenthood and organizations that kill babies are participating in the killing of innocent children deserve the same penalty.
just to sum up the liberal olbermanesque responses to the two murders... <img src="http://olbermannwatch.com/images/goodandbad.jpg" />
What an epidemic! So in other words, in the past two DECADES a half dozen FEWER abortion doctors have been murdered than Chicagoans have been slain in the past 96 hours. Let me see. I'm a journalist who wants to write about a problem effecting America. I can pick a once or twice a decade phenomena OR I can write about black crime ravaging U.S. cities. Well if I'm a liberal, cock sucking, ignorant to what's IMPORTANT to society moron, I can go for the slam dunk-I'll write about anti-abortion extremists. That'll satisfy the dumbfuck Daily Kos readers until something juicier like the once every few decades lynching or gay dragged from a bumper occurs.