Rising Hegemon
The Scott Roeder sentencing occurred yesterday for the murder of Dr. George Tiller and it would be nice to think this horrid affair is at the end. But it will not be.
The whole matter sunk to another disturbing new level:
Roeder accused [Judge] Wilbert of "duplicity" and said his trial was a miscarriage of justice because he wasn't allowed to present testimony about the evils of abortion. He also said God's judgment against the U.S. will "sweep over this land like a prairie wind."
"He will avenge every drop of innocent blood," Roeder said.
The fact that these words were uttered in Kansas and how they sound just like another self-described avenging angel of the state indicates there will be more Scott Roeders and more cold-blooded murder.
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."
John Brown's last letter, the day he was hanged.
December 2, 1859
In a rational world, there is no comparison between slavery and reproductive rights, but there are people like Scott Roeder out there and some of them are determined to have their John Brown moment. And we seem determined as a society to blithely pretend they do not exist.
[Cross-posted at Firedoglake]
5 comments:
Scott Roeder’s body is a-mouldering in his cell. For the next fifty-one years.
Hey, ain't so bad. The fucker's still going to prison for fifty years.
I don't think it matters that he's going to play martyr to the cause. It's not going to make his friends any crazier than they already are.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/789254--8-8-million-children-die-as-world-spends-billions-on-pet-food
Today's Toronto Star: 8.8 million children die annually, mostly of preventable diseases, before they reach the age of 5...
In a sane world, wouldn't all these abortion fetishists, you know, give a shit about 8.8 million BORN children, instead of reserving all their compassion for the UNBORN children--- many of whom are not even "children" at all, just fertilized eggs?
It takes fucking rightwing lunatics to manage to give "compassion" a bad name.
-Privatize the Profits! Socialize the Costs!
Well, as we know PtPStC, for most of them it's not about the unborn child; it's the thought that two people fucked for reasons other than procreation.
Yes, the innocent. Please remind the right to lifers that there was not a word from Right to Life before the first explosion of the first bomb in the unjust war in Iraq. Of course the victims were neither Christian nor fetuses.
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