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PREVIOUSLY: Suzanne Tobias of the Wichita Eagle:
In the interview broadcast by Fox News, Tobias said that Kansans were especially shocked that the assassination occurred in the lobby of a church. She noted that Dr. Tiller's clinic had long been the site of protests, including months of civil-disobedience during the summer of 1991. . . .Read the rest. Also see Jillian Bandes' report at Townhall. Earlier reporting and reaction here.
Meanwhile, I discover that Andrew Sullivan has cited my own personal reaction favorably. Does this hurt my chances at the 2009 Malkin award?
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UPDATE: Jimmie Bise at Sundries Shack:
The person who shot Tiller is a cold-blooded murderer and is every bit as monstrous a killer as Tiller himself. I don’t care how the killer rationalized his killing . . . He had no right to take Tiller’s life.Jimmie wraps up a lot of reaction from the unhinged. "There is a way that seems right to a man . . ."
At least he had the integrity to post the entirety of that paragraph unlike that pitiful hack InstaPutz.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the sanctimony is already stifling. Can't hardly breathe from all the libs going apeshit over this.
It's amazing how a person can switch between a consequentialist ethical system in one situation (e.g. war) and a deontological ethical system in another situation (e.g. killing an abortion doctor).
ReplyDeleteI'm not defending the murderer's actions, but consider this--if you believe life begins at conception, then Tiller was a flat-out murderer. The man who assassinated him saved many lives down the road.
Why is Tiller's assassin not considered a savior?
When American soldiers march through a country in order to overthrow a vicious dictator, those soldiers would invariably kill many innocents in the process. But we still consider the cause to be righteous, even though those very soldiers robbed many innocent peoples of life itself.
Two wrongs do not ever make a right.
ReplyDelete"Why is Tiller's assassin not considered a savior?"
ReplyDeleteAh, I see.
Well, how about this?--
Maybe, just maybe-one of the lives that Tiller aborted would have turned out to be a murderer.In that case, Tiller would have helped in the prevention of future murders.
Why is Tiller not considered a savior?
Just a little taste of the mental contortions you freaks engage in when, in your eternal and vainglorious ignorance, you attempt to find justification for the unjustifiable.
And another example of the reason why Conservatism is a sham.
"The person who [assassinated] [bin Laden] is a cold-blooded murderer and is every bit as monstrous a killer as [bin Laden] himself. I don’t care how the killer rationalized his killing . . . He had no right to take [bin Laden]’s life."
ReplyDeleteIs consistency a hobgloblin of small minds?
Why is Tiller's assassin not considered a savior?Oh, but he is. The right-wing blogs are overflowing with comments like yours. Aside from the events of 9/11, right-wing Christian terrorists are responsible for the vast majority of political murders in this country.
ReplyDeleteSuch as?
ReplyDeleteHorrible,
ReplyDelete-Are we not counting the various leftists from the 60's and 70's?
-Or the Unabomber?
-Or Timothy McVeigh?
(And before I get some sort of faux outrage for shooting down your meme: this is not a defense of the murder.)
The murder of any human is something to be mourned as it is a continuing sign of our fallen, evil nature. My pain, however, ends there. What I have been lamenting at my blog for years, is that the pro-abortion side of the life debate does not understand... to an anti-abortion, pro-life person... abortion is murder. George Tiller in my eyes and the eyes of millions of my fellow pro-lifers is akin to Dr. Josef Mengele.
ReplyDeleteI am not trying to minimize the criminality of his murder. The man who killed him deserves to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but Dr. Tiller deserved to be prosecuted as well. No one tries to defend the Nazi "doctor's" who executed their superiors commands just because they were within the law... in fact we demand justice against the unjust law of the corrupt government.
So I ask my pro-choice friends to understand when it seems that the pro-life movement has suddenly become cold-hearted. While evil cannot be cured by evil... to us one monster has been stopped by another.
All murder must be stopped... not just murder against adults... all murder.
The right-wing blogs are overflowing with comments like yours. Liar, liar, pants on fire.
ReplyDeleteHey, retards, I'm not defending Tiller's murderer. If you had read my first comment, you would have noticed that.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Tiller in my eyes and the eyes of millions of my fellow pro-lifers is akin to Dr. Josef Mengele.
I am not trying to minimize the criminality of his murder. The man who killed him deserves to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but Dr. Tiller deserved to be prosecuted as well.If Tiller was a mass murder, akin to Mengele and other horrible, murderous figures in history, then his death would be a good thing, right? No one, I suspect, would shed one tear if a Pashtun walked up behind Osama and drilled a .40 in his head.
If Tiller was a mass murderer, then those who stood back and did nothing in the face of mass murder were moral cowards.
You cannot say that a fetus is a human being and then act like it isn't a human being.
If I remember correctly, Tiller actually was indicted for violations of the Kansas abortion laws, but the charges were dismissed. There was a strong stench of political pressure from the former governor/current head of DHS, who coincidentally had been a favored recipient of Tiller's contributions.
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