Dr George Tiller

[dreamer_easy]

"Dr. Tiller's slaying is the most recent in a string of murders in the service of the anti-abortion cause, and hundreds of people have been injured or threatened because they provide legal abortion services. Bringing the killers to justice is not enough - the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security must root out and prosecute as domestic terrorists and violent racketeers the criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts for decades. We call on the new attorney general Eric Holder and head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to treat these murders in the same way they would treat politically-motivated domestic terrorism of any other kind and put the full resources of their two departments behind that effort."
- NOW press release, 1 June 2009 (my emphasis)

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[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

We call on the new attorney general Eric Holder and head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to treat these murders in the same way they would treat politically-motivated domestic terrorism of any other kind and put the full resources of their two departments behind that effort.

oh dear gods yesplease.

[hnpcc]

I agree with the sentiment but I don't like the odds.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Likewise. Republicans would never permit it. A department created by George W. Bush going after Bible-brandishing gun-toting Republican-voting terrorists? Perish the thought.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Well, at least Holder's statement was a lot more direct and had positive actions involved. I was not overly impressed with Obama's.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah.

I find it completely astonishing that Americans who claim the War of Terror is so important it means trashing the constitution etc all manage to entirely forget that the Islamism only gets its status as enemy number one from a single (admittedly huge) incident, after that the Christians and right wingers are clearly a huge problem.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

A friend linked to this blog piece (http://www.themudflats.net/2009/05/31/silence-is-consent/), and I thought that it might interest you. If silence is consent, if Islamic leaders are condoning acts of terrorism by not speaking out against them, where are the fundamentalist Christian leaders denouncing this act of murder?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I admit I'm a little leery of that argument, since Muslim leaders' efforts have often gone unacknowledged. Apparently Catholic leaders have been swift to condemn the murder. But yeah, the more we hear from the pulpit on why the murder is anti-scripture, the better.