There are no words to express our disgust with Scotland’s decision to release this evil bastard. “Compassionate grounds“? Where was the “compassion” of this living trail of catsick when he blew 270 human beings to pieces? He should have been left to rot in prison.
These death threats aren’t threats—they’re challenges. They’re attempts to inject into the public debate the sense that violence is a legitimate response to political defeat. As someone in the blogosphere whom we can’t presently recall wrote yesterday, the appropriate response to a president who advocates rounding up the elderly and sending them before death panels is—if it seems like he’s on the cusp of achieving that goal—to kill or rebel against him. And each publicized call for Obama’s death adds to the public perception that we’ve reached a decision-point about whether it’s time for killing. Every sign—even if the bearer is merely an angry loon who could never get close to Obama—is an inducement to someone who is willing to try. It’s a message to fellow travelers, a signal that they are not alone in their rage, a promise of glory to come if they actually manage to get the job done. As we said before, there are always people who want to kill the president. The question is how many give it a shot. And the more of these signs there are in the background of Fox News’ live report from some town hall in Missouri saying that someone should give it a shot, the more people actually will. And the more people that give it a shot, the more likely someone is to hit the jackpot.
Excellent piece at Gawker by John Cook that deserves the full read.
In Pensacola, Fla., retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson tells a gathering of antigovernment “Patriots” that the federal government has set up 1,000 internment camps across the country and is storing 30,000 guillotines and a half-million caskets in Atlanta.
“Francis Schaeffer is widely credited with being the most influential person in leading evangelical Christians to oppose abortion. Many, however, are unaware of how instrumental he was in moving evangelical Christians toward political action and in motivating some Christian Reconstructionists toward civil disobedience (sometimes violent).”
According to witnesses, the unidentified gunman, wearing a mask, stormed into the club and began shooting in all directions. Then he fled. Hundreds of Israeli police have launched a manhunt for the assailant.
WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has returned a seven-count indictment charging James Wenneker Von Brunn, 89, of Annapolis, Md., with the murder of Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns and related hate crime and gun charges for his alleged attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009.
A preliminary hearing for Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May 31 murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, is set for Tuesday, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. …
In related news, the New York Times on Sunday examined the life and career of Tiller…
According to the Times, advocates on both sides of the abortion-rights debate “have been measuring the larger ramifications” of Tiller’s murder. Abortion-rights opponents are “bracing for a drop in support, especially from those in the murky middle ground of the debate.” …
Meanwhile, the Kansas City Star on Sunday included an interview with Roeder, during which he said he was “elated” that Tiller was dead and that he considers killing abortion providers to be justifiable homicide. …
More at the link, including links to cited articles.
H/T to Wonkette (where you can find the link; we won’t link to Freakerville), who opines: “This would be terrifying if it wasn’t about some lamer old wingnuts and their message board: The person who runs FreeRepublic.com is cold gonna overthrow the U.S. government … [T]hings are getting Seriously Weird with the wingnuts, birthers, paultards and other middle-aged white suckers who bought into that whole Reagan thing 30 years ago and, whoops, are still poor and doomed. …
“What will happen? How many will shoot up Holocaust museums, or start car-bombing the hip hop? And how thankful should we all be that these people are so goddamned obese that simply getting up from the ‘puter table is pretty much out of the realm of possibility?”
Actor Stephen Baldwin, brother of Emmy winner and “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin, filed for bankruptcy in New York on Tuesday, according to a court document that says he is millions in debt.
The 43-year-old actor filed for Chapter 11 protection claiming he owes more than $2.3 million and owns a New York property valued at only $1.1 million. His wife, Kennya Baldwin, also is named in the document. …
I also received an e-mail with a photo of a very mature fetus’ arm protruding through — what? — a hole in a pregnant belly? A bloody image meant to shock. Turns out the same photo is posted on the FreeRepublic thread about my column, but the contributor, calling himself Revelation 911, confides that it’s actually a picture of in-utero surgery and that the gestation went full-term. …
There are a couple of ugly remarks regarding anatomy and even rape, and a bunch of digs at San Francisco. A few people suggested it was time for another earthquake here. It was supposed to be funny, but it amounts to a wish for my death. There’s a lot of that among pro-lifers, I guess. Someone suggested advocates for choice should commit suicide!
Debby Morse FreeRepugnant.com San Francisco Examiner, February 15, 2002
I guess I’m surprised that anybody else is surprised by the current wave of racism overflowing the cesspit known as Free Republic. Oh, yes indeedy, the latest freeper attacks on Malia Obama are utterly vile, and make me want to throw up all over Jim Robinson’s entire operation (but that’s the problem with virtual communities: there’s nothing to throw up on, save for the Web server dutifully regurgitating the spew from the diseased minds of the perpetually persecuted).
Nevertheless, I don’t understand why anyone should be surprised by this latest display of racist hate. Maybe it’s because they’re attacking a little girl? No… They attacked Chelsea Clinton plenty. Maybe because they’re using some of the worst sort of racist talk? No… They do that all the time. Maybe because they’re slamming a wartime President? No, no, no — that’s what they attacked liberals for doing during the Bush Reign. And they’ve made (and still occasionally make) death threats against Bill Clinton. (I remember, quite clearly, seeing one freeper express the wish to nail Bill’s body to the front door of the White House; I’ll see if I can find a copy of the message I sent to the FBI quoting it.)
Whatever the reason folks are so up in arms over Freakerville this time, it’s good to see JimRob’s Institute for the Criminally Logic-Challenged being exposed, again, in the MSM…
There is a very small cadre of mainstream journalists who have more than earned the highest level of respect and deserve the undivided attention of every American who cares about truth over spin, and substance over style. They’ll never lie to you, or tell you what they think you want to hear. (I said it was a very small cadre.) Paul Krugman is one. Molly Ivins was another.
Two of this exclusive group, writing about two separate issues, ask the same essential question about Barack Obama: Why such unwillingness — or cowardice — to do the job the people hired him to do: reverse the offenses of his predecessor, and work for the best interests of the American people?
When Helen Thomas and Bob Herbert speak, I listen. If only Obama would too:
President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security rationales that their Republican predecessors preferred.
In courtroom battles and freedom-of-information fights from Washington, D.C., to California, Obama’s legal arguments repeatedly mirror Bush’s: White House turf is to be protected, secrets must be retained and dire warnings are wielded as weapons.
“It’s putting up a veritable wall around the White House, and it’s so at odds with Obama’s campaign commitment to more open government,” said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a legal watchdog group.
Certainly, some differences exist. …
But not enough for our comfort. War, warantless wiretapping, equality… Read on at the link.
“Growing” controversy? “Growing”? What, has no one been paying attention since we invaded Iraq? This has been a major “controversy” to me for, oh, I dunno, like six freaking years:
Well, better late than never, I suppose, that the U.S. MSM is finally shedding some light on this (six years ago, I had to rely on independent bloggers and the British papers for most of my information) — no matter how annoyed I get that it takes so bloody long for the MSM to catch up with us crazy lefties who’ve been saying “I told you so” all along:
We’re still very much relieved they caught him, but at the same time we’re bugged that he’s being set up for an insanity plea (just as Scott Roeder is). Murray hasn’t actually entered a plea yet, but it’s clear his parents are doing everything in their power to set the stage for it, with a big assist from the prosecutor in the case.
Before we get to the story about Murray’s court appearance, what I want to know is what church he belongs to. No, not because I’m looking for a reason to slam any particular sect (not even Mormonism), but because if he can be connected to a church, and if he shares any of his obvious (to us) religion-based insanity, then it’s not legally insanity at all.
I was shocked to learn that President Obama and others said they were shocked that Dr. George Tiller was murdered in cold-blood while serving as an usher in his Kansas church. If you believe that you reap what you sow then the murder of Dr. Tiller is not shocking at all.
What we are seeing could be the harvest of the seeds of the vile and unrestrained anger and hatred that have been planted, spread and nurtured by the sleazemeisters of the Right Wing — self-described media stars and politicians who claim to be true conservatives, real Republicans, and patriotic Americans exercising their First Amendment rights.
How anybody ever let him out of their sight in the first place is beyond us (see “Feds Search for Another Would-Be Obama Assassin,” June 6), but whatever — we’re just glad they nabbed him:
Federal agents have arrested the man who went to a St. George bank and allegedly made threats against President Obama.
Daniel James Murray was arrested Friday at 7 p.m. in Laughlin, Nev., by the U.S. Secret Service and Las Vegas police, said Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the Secret Service. Wiley said agents and police apprehended Murray in the parking lot of the Riverside Casino without incident.
Terry Donaho, director of security at Riverside Casino, said Murray was never inside the casino. Neither Donaho nor the Secret Service gave further details.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah filed a criminal complaint Thursday charging Murray with one count of threats against the president of the United States. …
Would you G-men and -women kindly do something about Dan Holman before we have another catastrophe in this country?
At least put him under 24/7 surveillance — goodness knows Holman is a helluva bigger threat to domestic security than the targets of any of the wild goose chases your bosses sent you on during the Bush years.
By the way, do your bosses know what a dog whistleis?
Here’s the money quote:
Dan Holman [”Missionaries for the Preborn Iowa”]: 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.
Ronald Brock’s “Truth Truck” targeting Dr. George Tiller
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say: ‘You helped this happen.’”
— Jerry Falwell, on the cause of the September 11th attacks, to which Pat Robertson replied: “Well, I totally concur.” (”700 Club,” September 13, 2001)
Well, Pat, regarding the assassination of Dr. George Tiller three days ago: I really believe that you helped this happen.
— Wiley Drake, on the assassination of Dr. George Tiller
Yeah, these anti-abortion extremists are really way out there on the fringe, aren’t they?
No, they’re not.
You and I might think of the Southern Baptist Convention as the far-right fringe, but the truth is, the SBC is about as mainstream (albeit ridiculously* conservative) as a Protestant denomination can get.
And here’s what Wiley Drake, the SBC’s former number-two, number-two man, has to say about the assassination of Dr. George Tiller:
“What I witnessed in Bartle Hall on December 31st 2002 was the antithesis of radical Islam. Instead of people wanting to blow themselves up to kill others, I saw young adults who were so radically in love with Jesus that they were willing to become martyrs for the sake of saving other people’s lives. Someone from the stage asked, ‘who here feels like they are called to die as a martyr for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ?’ Many hands went up throughout the stadium.”
This doesn’t surprise us, nor even alarm us as much as it probably should — because we know this stuff already, which is simply: Anti-choice activists and the anti-gay activists are the same people.
“The people who stir up the fringe never take responsibility. But I’d like to say on this day after a man was murdered in cold blood for preforming [sic] abortions that I — and the people I worked with in the religious right, the Republican Party, the pro-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church, all contributed to this killing by our foolish and incendiary words.
“I am very sorry.”
Stunning piece from Frank Schaeffer, son of “the late Francis Schaeffer, a Reformed Presbyterian … influenced by Reconstructionism,” whose “widely distributed books and films of the 1970s and early 1980s are generally credited with providing an important catalyst for evangelical involvement in anti-abortion politics”:
That’s what this telegraphs to us from the right-wing Christian, anti-choice site, LifeNews.com:
Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old Kansas man who authorities have detained as the only suspect in the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, may have suffered from mental illness. That’s according to his ex-wife, who said in a recent interview that Roeder always held extremist views. …
Then we get the typical, frantic attempt by the anti-choice movement to dissociate itself from Roeder:
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