It was difficult to find a picture of the shooter in the Tiller killing yesterday. You would see pictures of Tiller but not one of the assassin, Roeder. Today a few photos of Roeder are out there. I don't know what was so hard about having a photo yesterday.
The big lie that Tiller was himself a killer was about all I could find.
It was the endless repetition of conservative bias and conservative lies. The real killer of Tiller, Roeder was hard to find even without a photo of him.
More than a few Republicans and self-styled conservatives have stepped forward to say things to the effect that they support what Roeder has done or that it should have happened earlier or something else supportive of the assassination. With the anti-abortion zealots a good fourth or so of the Republican coalition such statements have been made and pandered to for decades. Tiller's death is thereby justified in the minds of millions of so-called conservatives who supposedly uphold a rule of law, unless someone disagrees with their interpretation of some Biblical scripture or something!
So what do conservatives offer Americans? It certainly is not and never was justice. Conservatives hate justice. They want the dispassionate enforcement of unjust law, not justice! If conservatives wanted justice they wouldn't base their ideas on the thoughts of slaveholders. Conservatives are always quoting slaveholders from centuries ago. That is what conservatives want, some sort of slavery with conservatives lording over rest of us.
Do the conservatives offer peace? It surely isn't peace if one can be executed with the complicity and cheerful assent of millions of Americans who imagine themselves to be holier than the rest of us.
Conservative applause for the murder of Tiller and the unconvincing "condemnations" of other conservatives underlines the totally reactionary nature of modern American conservatism today. As conservatives assent to the Tiller murder and admire his assassin the polite conservatives give their assent to their more rambunctious brethren.
This murder and conservative support for it is a declaration of war against American values and those Americans who support democracy and the human rights.
The radical idea that any fertilized ovum is a fully developed human is the cause for which Roeder killed Dr. Tiller. Dr. Tiller's crime was to provide legal and medically justified medical services for thousands of worthwhile citizens of the United States.
This radical idea, that any ovum or sperm is a human being is neither left nor right but it has clearly become a tool of the far right and at least some militia trends.
The abortion debate has long been a proxy war for conservatism and established privilege. People like Roeder may or may not understand that and are in a sense patsies of sophisticated conservative conspirators
who are happy to try and extract political capital from the sacrificial crimes of assassins inspired by conservative values. Terry Randall hopes to gain as does Operation Rescue after the Tiller assassination. There is dancing in the streets of conservative Christian America. Then there is the unconvincing denial of complicity that takes place occasionally.
As disturbing as Roeder's murder of Tiller is it is the deafening silence of the respectable Republicans and the support of really existing conservatives for the assassination that testifies to the moral complicity of conservatism and Republicans in this declaration of war against the rest of us who are not gun totting murdering conservatives. It seems that the Conservatives are ready to shoot anyone who disagrees with them regardless of the the law. Isn't that terrorism?
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