Liberals, Christians, and Terrorists

The murder of Dr. George Tiller by right wing militia member Scott Roeder has sent shock waves through the liberal community. How can there be a dialogue about abortion if the only response from the anti-abortionists is murdering abortion providers? What if there are political differences that cannot be resolved by smiling and supporting Obama? What if white supremacists and fascists continue to incubate in our nation?

Of course liberals and conservatives point to the many so called condemnations of Roeder's handiwork by anti-abortionists. While some anti-abortionists sincerely reject Roeder's violence a majority may more or less tacitly support his murderous efforts.

So called condemnations of the attack often express "surprise", "horror" or "shock" rather than actually condemning Roeder's terrorism. The mass media is determined to scrutinize nothing and to accept any lame expression of any unpleasant emotional reaction as repudiation of this terrorism, which is not what is going on.

Republican canker Phil Kline condemned the murder as such and called for full prosecution of the homicide as such. Other Republicans express the view that they are pleased that Tiller is no longer performing abortions even though it was naughty to shoot him. Some express their childlike fantasies of a Dr. George Tiller in an lake of everlasting fire. They enjoy imagining this and I suppose there are more than a few who imagine such sadistic ruminations to be spirituality of some sort.

This is the fourth abortion provider murdered in the United States in the last twenty years. The far right antiabortion Christian fanatics have led a campaign of terror directed at abortion providers and women seeking abortions but mainstream enablers have denied this endemic terrorism in our midst.

Searching for the name of the man who was arrested for killing Tiller I googled two terms, "tiller" and "killer". What did I get? It was an extensive sequence of sites condemning George Tiller as a killer and mass murderer and so on and so forth. It was difficult to find out that a man named Roeder was being held for the shooting. The far-right antiabortionists seem to dominate the internet on this issue and frame the issue as they see fit.

Anti-abortionists tend to dominate in the mass media as well where they have succeeded in getting the journalists to constantly refer to Dr. Tiller as a "lightning rod" as if he was killed by stray electrical charges due to being improperly grounded!

Of course, many of these sites basically instigated the murder of Dr. Tiller. Scott Roeder blogged the Operation Rescue site agreeing that Tiller had to be eliminated to save the babies or something to that effect. Terry Randall exults in the death of Tiller but claims he is not an instigator of terroristic violence against Tiller.

If Randall is so confident why is Operation Rescue sanitizing its web site as I blog?

This is not to say that other issues were not unfolding in the life of Dr. Tiller's assassin. He had apparently been identified as mentally ill. Perhaps this played a role in him acting out the killing of Tiller, perhaps not.

I was surprised to see that Mr. Roeder is being lionized as a hero on the internet by a group calling itself the "army of god". The group admires all the antiabortion assassins. So here is this more or less open terrorist website advocating the murder of abortion providers. I guess good ole boy Christians can get away with anything!

Of course the mass media continues to ask about when the next terrorist attack will come. The answer is May 31 , 2009, the day the far right christian army of god terrorists or someone like them murdered another abortion provider!