Via McClatchy:
"I know that he believed in justifiable homicide," said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who made headlines in 1995 when she was ordered by a federal judge to stop using a bullhorn within 500 feet of any abortion clinic. "I know he very strongly believed that abortion was murder and that you ought to defend the little ones, both born and unborn."
When they're past that cuddly stage, meh. Not so much.
Dinwiddie said she met Roeder while picketing outside the Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic in 1996. Roeder walked into the clinic and asked to see the doctor, Robert Crist, she said.
"Robert Crist came out and he stared at him for approximately 45 seconds," she said. "Then he (Roeder) said, 'I've seen you now.' Then he turned his back and walked away, and they were scared to death. On the way out, he gave me a great big hug and he said, 'I've seen you in the newspaper. I just love what you're doing.'"
And this guy's not a terrorist how, exactly?
In April 1996, Roeder was arrested in Topeka after Shawnee County sheriff's deputies stopped him for not having a proper license plate. In his car, officers said they found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder and two 9-volt batteries, with one connected to a switch that could have been used to trigger a bomb.
Jim Jimerson, supervisor of the Kansas City ATF's bomb and arson unit, worked on the case.
"There wasn't enough there to blow up a building,'' Jimerson said at the time, ``but it could make several powerful pipe bombs...There was definitely enough there to kill somebody.''
And we're worried about "teh scary Islamics" blowing up petting zoos...Gimme a fuckin' break.
Freezing assets is a start. Infiltrate them, get them in on bogus plots, jail for them for life. Should be easy. These are the fucks who keep the Franklin Mint in business.
Posted by: coozledad | June 01, 2009 at 08:20 AM
I watched and waited in vain for 'Good Morning America' to call Paul Roeder what he is: a domestic terrrorist who is part of the domestic conspiracy to turn America into Amerika.
I also waited for someone, anyone sitting in that nice studio in Times Square, after they made sure that fucking Randal Terry's obscene response to murder was quoted at the end of their piece on the assassination of Dr. Tiller, to condemn this murder.
You can imagine how they condemned that comment. In fact, imagine is all you can do because they presented it as though it were a legitimate POV.
god damn the MSM and the enablers of domestic terrorism.
Posted by: tellybelly | June 01, 2009 at 08:25 AM
These people and their allies have always been the real terrorist threat to America. Islamic jihadists pale into insignificance by comparison.
Posted by: DrDick | June 01, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I am a "terrorist" according to BushCo because I protested against the war. My sister is a "terrorist" because she supports animal rights and is against using animals for testing products and for experimentation.
But these "pro-life" (as long as the life is ONLY in utero) people are just fine and dandy. They can go out with their bullhorns and ugly posters and vicious sayings and threats to human beings --- and they are "decent" Americans.
*shaking fist in the air*
Posted by: leslie | June 01, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Just as a contrast, last week five men were sentenced to lengthy prison sentences (two to life, one to 20 years and the other two to 15 years) for sending money to charities in Palestine. Sending money to charities in Palestine. But Mr. Roeder was apparently allowed out of jail to kill again.
I hate this country. I really do.
Posted by: mothra | June 01, 2009 at 12:33 PM
hey leslie, you left out those life forms in petri dishes that turn into "snowflake babies".
the lifer's are such hypocrites.
Posted by: liberaldemdave | June 01, 2009 at 01:02 PM
liberaldemdave ~
my bad, my very bad....blergggghh
Posted by: leslie | June 01, 2009 at 01:43 PM
This man was obviously around the bend on the subject of abortion. It could just as easily been one of a thousand other subjects. I know that we are all concentrating on the senselessness of this today, but another equally important issue is the lack of money in this country for decent mental health assistance for those with serious illness. I know because I have a relative who is off on an entirely different subject, but there is little assistance out there for people like this. They just get sicker and sicker until something like this happens.
Posted by: Kathy in St. Louis | June 01, 2009 at 01:55 PM
the gnews are still bushevics. i think they wanted to beat up on the clintons for 4 more years.
Posted by: pansypoo | June 01, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Johnathan Alter says he is a murder not a terrorist. Whatever.
Posted by: raceynora | June 01, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Jonathan Alter is wrong.
Despite the fact that Scott Roeder may well be mentally ill, what he did was intended to do much, much more than eliminate one man he held responsible. It was meant to intimidate other health care providers, pro-choice activists and the people of Wichita, KS, among many others.
This differs from what Timothy McVeigh did only in the degree but not in the intent.
Both of them are terrorists, period.
Posted by: tellybelly | June 02, 2009 at 08:13 AM