More on the Tiller Murder

By BJ Bjornson

Police have arrested a man, believed to be Scott Roeder, for the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Roeder is apparently connected to the group Operation Rescue, whose founder came out today to call Tiller, "a mass murderer".

Justin Gardiner has a couple of pieces of information about Roeder up on his blog, the second concerning his criminal record over having bomb components and tax protests. Bastard.logic also found this little gem from the man.

It seems as though what is happening in Kansas could be compared to the "lawlessness" which is spoken of in the Bible. Tiller is the concentration camp "Mengele" of our day and needs to be stopped before he and those who protect him bring judgement upon our nation.

Earlier today, Dr. Slammy offered a bet:

Here�s the wager: the murderer will turn out to be a right-wing Christian terrorist. I�ll also offer a side bet: his media consumption includes the like of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O�Reilly and/or Glenn Beck.

If I�m wrong, check this space. I�ll gladly post an update noting my mistake. But as of this moment, would you bet against me?

I wouldn't have bet against him, and it is fairly clear he would have won against all takers.

In the comments to my earlier post, Steve pointed to this post on The Brad Blog, pointing out much of the same sentiment.

Tiller was better known to Fox "News" viewers as "Tiller the Baby Killer", as he's long been described by Bill O'Reilly who has spent years targeting Tiller on the most-watched show in cable news. O'Reilly has long demonized him with allegations of performing illegal late-term abortions, characterized as murder by O'Reilly and his guests.

Of course, it's no more O'Reilly's fault when a lunatic takes action to murder someone the Fox host has targeted for years on his popular television show, than it was when another lunatic gunned down church-goers in Tennessee last year claiming in his pre-murder "manifesto" that it was "a symbolic killing", and that he had "wanted to kill...every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book." Goldberg is a regular featured guest on O'Reilly's show, and the author of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37).

Jim David Adkisson, the Knoxville, TN murderer, also advocated the murder of "liberals" in his manifesto, echoing comments frequently made by O'Reilly that "The Major News outlets have become the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. Liberals are evil, they embrace the tenets of Karl Marx, they're Marxist, socialist, communists."

Those are all merely coincidences, of course. Nobody, other than the murderers themselves, should feel it necessary to take any personal responsibility whatsoever when such events occur.

Personal responsibility isn't something the right-wing excels at. Any time one of their more extreme elements takes it upon themselves to follow through on their hate-mongering, they wash their hands of it and offer half-hearted condolences while going right back to the rhetoric that inspired the violence in the first place. And from browsing the right-wing blog headlines at memeorandum, there is not a little bit of subtle celebration going on.

RIH: Baby Murderer George Tiller Shot Dead - Macsmind

Abortionist George �Baby Killer� Tiller Shot Dead In Kansas - theblogprof

George Tiller (Child Murderer) shot to death at Wichita church - freerepublic

Report: George Tiller Shot To Death [Child Murderer Killed At Wichita Church] - also freerepublic

Child Killer George Tiller Killed - La Shawn Barber

Many of the rest include "partial-birth" or "late-term abortionist" in their title, and no, I'm not linking to any of them. Go forth and find the filth yourself if you're of mind to.

It all reminds me nothing so much as their response when it was disclosed that Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Muhammad where waterboarded a couple of hundred times. As in, sure it was illegal and everything, but they're really evil and therefore deserved it.

They won't come out and defend Roeder, probably. They don't want to be that closely linked to him. But they are making it quite clear that they aren't too distressed about his assassination of the "child murderer" Tiller. Or, as deBeauxOs puts it:

Pity the poor abortion criminalizers for they cannot rejoice out loud.

Shed a tear for their plight; Bill Donohue and Jill Stanek stewing in their venom, silenced because their noisy jubilation could attract unwanted FBI attention.

Consider their dilemma: for years they've directed murderous hatred towards health care practitioners who provide abortion and now they're not able to claim the glory.

So sad for the members of the Vulture Culture who want to embrace the man who shot Dr George Tiller dead in the lobby of his church.

Life is unfair, they cannot trumpet that this is a MASSIVE victory for their side, lest they be charged as co-conspirators in this public assassination.

I'll point you to this post as well. Go down to where she's got the Twitter round-up. It's f**king unbelievable.