Domestic Terrorism
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Of course it was an act of terrorism. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/how_should_congress_respond_to.html[^]
As The American Prospect's Ann Friedman writes, this has to be understood in context. It is the final, decisive act in "an ongoing campaign of intimidation and harassment against someone who was providing completely legal health-care services." That campaign stretched over decades of protests, lawsuits, violence, and, finally, murder. The different elements were not always orchestrated. But the intent remained constant: To counter the absence of a statute that would make Tiller's work illegal with enough intimidation to render it impossible. This was, in other words, a political act. Tiller was murdered so that those in his line of work would be intimidated.
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Why in the world do you think that I want this terrorism against a woman's access to legal medical care to continue?
Just out of curiosity, do you really believe that abortion fits nicely under the umbrella of the Constitutional right to privacy? Or are you just happy that some method was found to make it legal, because deep down you feel it should be legal no matter what means were used to make it so? Cuz I just might be tempted to call the later judicial terrorism on the same grounds. Ignoring, for the moment, the issue of whether or not abortion is a moral issue because it deals with the forced ending of human life, there is another dimension to the abortion issue that can be rationally argued since the advent of Roe vs. Wade. Because even some people who are on the fence about abortion itself and highly pissed off that one stinking judge (one did his crazy write up, other whack jobs voted his direction apparently swayed by his magical powers of BS), on one stinking court, made one bullsh!t ruling (and it truely is, hell he himself admitted it was a stretch), on one stupid case, that forced it on all Americans from now until the end of time. Personally, I feel his justification for dumping it under the right to privacy was nothing more than a desperate last ditch effort to render services to whoever paid him to find a place for it. Or he himself was an ideologue first and a judge second. In either case, it was dishonest and wrong, and should be recognized as such. This sentiment was captured pretty well in an article I found last weekend[^], which of course puts it far more eloquently than I ever could.
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Now that depends on his intent. Was he trying to make the government change it's policies as a result of the terror he inspired? Is anybody scared that he (or his organization, if there is one) will strike again? Or was he just trying to kill someone he saw as a mass murderer that needed to be stopped? None of us know. In any event, what we do know is that he's a murderer, who should and will be put to justice. And there's no way to know just how many lives will be saved by his actions. A better question might be, why is it important to you to label him a terrorist? Because he seems to have taken extreme action based on a right wing belief? Because there's a word for that kind of bating antagonism on the internet... It starts with a "T" and ends with a "roll".
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BoneSoft wrote:
It starts with a "T" and ends with a "roll".
Are you calling Oily a Tootsie Roll? :omg:
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There isn't. A bunch of toture apologist crying about how it's not torture is not a debate.
Yeah, you waving your hand in dismissal doesn't make the debate go away. Just because you don't recognize the legitimacy of an opposing argument doesn't make it invalid. Otherwise I'd just say that a bunch of terrorist apologists crying about mistreatment isn't a debate.
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It's not either/or. Everyone's rights need to be protected. Is that a problem for you?
oilFactotum wrote:
It's not either/or. Everyone's rights need to be protected. Is that a problem for you?
Absolutely its a problem. If there is some kind of anti-abortion terrorist movement growing in this country I want some body to be water boarded and wire tapped until we get rid of it.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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kmg365 wrote:
I don't think was to inspire terror.
That is exactly his goal. He used murder in an attempt to achieve a political goal. That is a definition of terrorism.
You know what was in his head?!? You'd better contact the authorities, I hear they're trying to ascertain his motives. There were 3 doctors in the US who did late term abortions. Was his "political goal" to terrify the other 2? Maybe he just felt compelled to stop somebody who's already killed around 60,000 babies and would have almost certainly killed more. You forget, abortion is just politics for your side of the argument. It's always been more than that for the other side.
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Of course it was an act of terrorism. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/how_should_congress_respond_to.html[^]
As The American Prospect's Ann Friedman writes, this has to be understood in context. It is the final, decisive act in "an ongoing campaign of intimidation and harassment against someone who was providing completely legal health-care services." That campaign stretched over decades of protests, lawsuits, violence, and, finally, murder. The different elements were not always orchestrated. But the intent remained constant: To counter the absence of a statute that would make Tiller's work illegal with enough intimidation to render it impossible. This was, in other words, a political act. Tiller was murdered so that those in his line of work would be intimidated.
Of course it has to be, you and that one chick say so. :rolleyes:
oilFactotum wrote:
This was, in other words, a political act. Tiller was murdered so that those in his line of work would be intimidated.
Yeah, the other 2 doctors in the country who perform late term abortions. :rolleyes:
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BoneSoft wrote:
It starts with a "T" and ends with a "roll".
Are you calling Oily a Tootsie Roll? :omg:
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
I was thinking ToothlessBanjoPlayinEatinAppleSauceThroughAScroll, but Tootsie Roll works well too. :thumbsup:
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oilFactotum wrote:
It's not either/or. Everyone's rights need to be protected. Is that a problem for you?
Absolutely its a problem. If there is some kind of anti-abortion terrorist movement growing in this country I want some body to be water boarded and wire tapped until we get rid of it.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Absolutely. We as a nation of laws, can't stand by and allow activists to bomb, kill, and make BS Supreme Court rulings for their own political agenda.
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Absolutely. We as a nation of laws, can't stand by and allow activists to bomb, kill, and make BS Supreme Court rulings for their own political agenda.
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Absolutely. Otherwise, we are no better than the 'moderate muslims' who only have the courage to lecture westerners on how to behave properly but run like sheep from their own extremists.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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Sorry for the late reply Mike.
Mike Gaskey wrote:
"what is legal" and that is subjective
No, legal is what is define by the law. What you feel is right or wrong is subjective. Unless you mean the interpretation of defined laws to be legal or not. Personally, I'm against abortion, but killing someone who is allowing/facilitating/pro abortion is something I'm against as well.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Personally, I'm against abortion, but killing someone who is allowing/facilitating/pro abortion is something I'm against as well.
we agree.
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Yeah, you waving your hand in dismissal doesn't make the debate go away. Just because you don't recognize the legitimacy of an opposing argument doesn't make it invalid. Otherwise I'd just say that a bunch of terrorist apologists crying about mistreatment isn't a debate.
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BoneSoft wrote:
And there's no way to know just how many lives will be saved by his actions.
I am reminded of a quote from the 1979 novel (Stephen King) and the 1983 movie The Dead Zone[^] ...Johny Smith asks if the doc, a holocaust survivor, if he could go back in time and given the opportunity, to kill Hitler... Johnny Smith: What about my question? Dr. Sam Weizak: Huh? Huh? Oh, you mean the one about Hitler? Johnny Smith: What would you do? Dr. Sam Weizak: I don't like this, John. What are you getting at? Johnny Smith: What would you do? Would you kill him? Dr. Sam Weizak: All right. All right. I'll give you an answer. I'm a man of medicine. I'm expected to save lives and ease suffering. I love people. Therefore, I would have no choice but to kill the son of a bitch. Johnny Smith: You'd never get away alive. Dr. Sam Weizak: It doesn't matter. I would kill him. [lifting drink] Dr. Sam Weizak: Nasdro via. Skol.
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Yeah, I've been reminded many times in the last few days of the go back in time and kill Hitler conundrum. And in both cases, I can say that I don't condone the behavior and would never consider it myself, but I can see the argument.
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Yeah, you waving your hand in dismissal doesn't make the debate go away. Just because you don't recognize the legitimacy of an opposing argument doesn't make it invalid. Otherwise I'd just say that a bunch of terrorist apologists crying about mistreatment isn't a debate.
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BoneSoft wrote:
Just because you don't recognize the legitimacy of an opposing argument doesn't make it invalid.
It is not my recognition of the illigitimacy of the pro-torture position that makes it invalid, it is the law that makes it invalid.
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oilFactotum wrote:
It's not either/or. Everyone's rights need to be protected. Is that a problem for you?
Absolutely its a problem. If there is some kind of anti-abortion terrorist movement growing in this country I want some body to be water boarded and wire tapped until we get rid of it.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Good for you. I don't.
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You know what was in his head?!? You'd better contact the authorities, I hear they're trying to ascertain his motives. There were 3 doctors in the US who did late term abortions. Was his "political goal" to terrify the other 2? Maybe he just felt compelled to stop somebody who's already killed around 60,000 babies and would have almost certainly killed more. You forget, abortion is just politics for your side of the argument. It's always been more than that for the other side.
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BoneSoft wrote:
You forget, abortion is just politics for your side of the argument. It's always been more than that for the other side.
Bull hockey. Don't pretend you "know" why people support one position or another. The motives, on both sides, are as numerous.
BoneSoft wrote:
Was his "political goal" to terrify the other 2?
Of course it was. And anyone else who might choose to provide late term abortions.
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Of course it has to be, you and that one chick say so. :rolleyes:
oilFactotum wrote:
This was, in other words, a political act. Tiller was murdered so that those in his line of work would be intimidated.
Yeah, the other 2 doctors in the country who perform late term abortions. :rolleyes:
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And anyone else who might choose to provide the service. :rolleyes: Don't play ignorant. He did not act in a vacuum. The last decade has seen numerous death threat, assaults, antrax threats, etc - see my OP. As well as countless acts of coordinated harassment.
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Good for you. I don't.
oilFactotum wrote:
Good for you. I don't.
Well fine. I guess you don't care how many people are killed by terrorists than.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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oilFactotum wrote:
Good for you. I don't.
Well fine. I guess you don't care how many people are killed by terrorists than.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Stan Shannon wrote:
I guess you don't care how many people are killed by terrorists
Of course I care. Putting aside the fact that torture is illegal and immoral, the very practical result of not torturing is the saving of American lives. We now know that our torture regime has resulted in the death of Americans. No lives have been saved and many have been lost.
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BoneSoft wrote:
Just because you don't recognize the legitimacy of an opposing argument doesn't make it invalid.
It is not my recognition of the illigitimacy of the pro-torture position that makes it invalid, it is the law that makes it invalid.
You're dodging the issue again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. Torture is illegal. Illegal actions cannot be sanctioned. All agreed. Deciding what is and isn't torture is not so black and white. Hence the debate, hence the argument, hence the disagreement. Can you at least admit that we don't agree?
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