in shock

May. 31st, 2009 01:14 pm
[personal profile] moominmuppet
George Tiller was murdered this morning outside his church.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1225751.html

Can't write more now

Date: 2009-05-31 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jajy1979.livejournal.com
Fuck.

This eye for an eye shit that the right wing likes to pull when we're playing by different rules is getting way out of hand. Blastocysts aren't people, and killing PEOPLE, in the name of 256 (or less) unspecified cells is outragous.

Would you post this over to FundiePharma? They'll want to know too.

Date: 2009-06-02 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
It's really hard for me to get to LJ right now, because of the new blocking software, but by this point, I'd be utterly amazed if there aren't multiple posts up about it there.

Date: 2009-06-01 05:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imitari.livejournal.com
I can't believe it. In a church foyer. What hurts the most is to think of his wife, whose been with him all of these years, through all of everything that's happened. Ugh. Have mercy.

Date: 2009-06-02 12:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
*nod* I can't even imagine the pain of his family and staff. How utterly heart-ripping.

Date: 2009-06-02 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kat-chan.livejournal.com
What utterly irks me is the reaction today from the right-wing. A lot of "we don't condone murder, but..." and then they go right on to condone this fucking horrific act. I mean, either you're for life or you aren't. And what about "love the sinner, hate the sin"? But no, Randall Terry has to go to the National Press Club today and call Dr. Tiller a "mass-murderer" and come right out and say that he deserved it in the same breath as his "we don't condone murder" bullshit.

Even better, the killer is a member of the Freemen movement; you know, those gun-nuts who had that standoff with the Feds back in about 1996 or so. But, you know, "guns don't kill people..."; gun-nuts with agendas do, though! What's more, this jerk has posted on anti-choice websites about how "evil" he felt Dr. Tiller was. And the political talkers on the right just keep fanning the flames of these domestic terrorists. And when Homeland Security released a report back in April about the domestic terror threat these people pose, the FoxNews idiots got all indignant. After all, it's only terrorism when you don't agree with it!

I've spent the entire evening positively fuming at the chutzpah of the people who would excuse or even defend these acts. I don't like the fury that builds in me at this sort of inhumanity towards one's fellow man, but this is as frustrating as when a gay person is murdered and people say s/he had it coming for being gay.

Date: 2009-06-02 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
After all, it's only terrorism when you don't agree with it!

Oh, the great american defense... It makes me crazy.

Date: 2009-06-02 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kat-chan.livejournal.com
The number of times that I've tried to make people see that from the perspective of the British Army and the Loyalists, using today's terminology, the Sons of Liberty were "terrorists". I mean, burnings in effigy, tar-and-featherings, the raid of a commerce vessel and tossing overboard of it's wares....it was terrorism! Just because we may have favoured the way it all turned out to our advantage doesn't mean it wasn't terrorism. And don't get me started on things like inquisitions and the like...

Date: 2009-06-02 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, and all that...

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