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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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
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!
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!
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