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Monday, June 01, 2009

Victory for the right wing

The neo-conservative calls for the murder of Dr. Tiller were realized when a gunman opened fire at Church. The "pro-life" crowd's calls for this violence have been answered.
www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/31/tiller


Scripture?
“To call this a crime is too simplistic.” He added, “There is Christian scripture that would support this."
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/us/02tiller.html

Uh, "do not kill" seems pretty straightforward to me. I don't recall from my Christian teachings any loopholes for going into Church and starting to shoot people so, as a good Christian, an individual can act as judge, jury and executioner.

But thus is the domestic version of religious fundamentalism that is brewing, and actively being courted by fellow conservatives.
www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/christian-fundamentalist_b_209521.html


Oh, there's no threat here

www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/george-tiller-murder-prom_n_209701.html

The incoming Administration recognized the threat of extremist right-wing groups. In April, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report on the very real evidence of this threat. The Republican Party response was to openly criticize and mock these findings as just political wishful thinking. To a person, the GOP denounced the DHS under talking points like "political witchhunting" or "partisan fearmongering".

Predictably, now that 2 people are dead and 7 are injured outside of a Church, they aren't so cavalier is dismissing the warnings.

Poignant
Then there's (the late) George Carlin's take on it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zy_1elMQxY

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