A Tale of Two Shootings - Hypocrisy on the left

What a difference a day makes. On Sunday, late term abortionist George Tiller was shot and killed and the left went ballistic, many making statements attacking the entire pro-life movement even before the assailant was in custody. Today, two uniformed military recruiters were shot and one killed in Little Rock as they stood outside the station and the silence is deafening. What gives? Are middle-aged abortionists worth more than young military enlistees? Or is it that the liberal left is quick to jump to conclusions and accuse the pro-life community and the conservative right is not so quick to accuse left-wing anti-war activists? I smell a double standard.

Examine the facts. The immediate presumption following the Sunday morning killing of Tiller was that a pro-life activist was guilty and the entire movement was responsible. With no evidence, no arrest, no motive, no anything, already the left was in screech mode calling for justice against pro-lifers who kill with their hate speech. President Obama ratcheted up the rhetoric when he issued a statement late in the day describing himself as "shocked and outraged" saying, "However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence." The presumption was, even by the president, that it was a crime of the pro-life movement as a whole. It serves his purpose.

ABC reported the alleged shooter, Scott Roeder, as "being one of the most outspoken anti-abortion militants in the country." Their source? - the Southern Poverty Law Center, an ultra-left organization that includes in their "hate groups" list traditional Catholics and those who oppose gay rights. That ABC would use them as a reliable source indicates just how biased they are. Buried in many news reports was the statement that Roeder is believed to have acted alone. But that is not slowing down the accusations against and demonization of millions of pro-life Americans.

You would think from the hysterical reporting that abortionists are being killed on every streetcorner. Here's a reality check: The last murder of an abortionist was in 1998 in Canada when James Kopp killed Barnett Slepian. The tally is 3,000 to 4,000 babies killed every day and one abortionist every ten years. If pro-life "hate speech" is responsible, we're not very effective. But the pro-abortionists know that's a lie. Pro-lifers aren't the violent ones. This is all about taking advantage of an opportunity.

Now let's look at the killing in Little Rock today. There isn't much I can say because very little has been reported about it. Unlike the Tiller hysteria, the two young men in Little Rock, one dead one wounded, have apparently already achieved their fifteen minutes of fame. Did anyone suggest that their shooting was the act of left-wing anti-war activists - the descendents of folks like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorn? Not that I've heard. Are any right wing pro-military organizations or talk show hosts stirring up anger against opponents of the military? Nope. Is anybody in the mainstream media reporting theories that the shooter was motivated by the hate-speech on the left? Nah!

Why do you think that is? Maybe because the alleged shooter is a convert to Islam and we all know that Islam is a religion of peace.

Yes, they all come in peace: the abortionists, NOW, NARAL, Planned Parenthood. It is only the Christian right that is violent and filled with hate. Just ask the kind, compassionate, and tolerant folks on the left. They'll tell you. I wonder what the babies would say if they could express their opinion.

Testimony of a reformed pro-abortionist

See Human Life International

"I was told to antagonize the pro-lifers and I made the girls throw out any pro-life literature before entering the clinic. ... We would tell them, "Those people out there are terrorists, it's safer in here. They're crazy." I even told one group, "That woman out there was just released from Meadowview Mental Hospital. Don't talk to her; she killed her family." ... As soon as I got here last August, I joined the "Freedom of Choice Action League." They're big at Pine and Market. Some of them practice witchcraft and sometimes they chalk pentagrams [a Satanic symbol] on the sidewalks. ... I had written about how they openly practice witchcraft and how the clinic director tells us, every time we beat up the pro-lifers, to cover their cameras. ... I wrote [in an editorial to the Wichita Eagle] that pro-abortionists displayed sex toys in front of children and how they dumped semen and urine on people at national rescues. I personally defaced churches, LIFE, Inc., and HopeNet. I apologize for that. ... They hate God, they're anti-Christian ...
"Pro-abortionists are the terrorists, not the pro-lifers. They're the ones throwing bricks through people's windows and doing obscene things. I was shocked when I went to the Crypt to pray and they were screaming and yelling, shouting obscenities, while all the pro-lifers were praying silently."

— Reformed pro-abortion activist Raymond Rivera.[1]

Tiller's Killing sparks pro-abortion hate-speech

The vultures are gathering, but not around the dead body of late-term abortionist George Tiller. He's already enshrined as a hero, a godlike defender of a woman's right to choose, a martyr, raised on the heights of Mount Olympus. Pro-abortion groups are waving the banner of "anti-abortion violence" smearing every pro-lifer in the country as a domestic terrorist and hatemonger.

As politically incorrect as it is to point this out, the reality is that Tiller's murder is the best thing that could have happened for abortion in this country. And the timing couldn't be more convenient -- what with embryonic stem cell research, hate crimes, control of talk radio, and conscience protection legislation before the Congress. The sympathy backlash makes all of those items more likely to pass. The murder will also affect the political race in Virginia (perhaps New Jersey as well). Liberals were already attacking Virginia's pro-life slate, elected on Saturday, and Tiller's killing is a boon to whichever pro-abortion Democrat wins the nomination this week. It also boosts the chances for easy Senate confirmation of all President Obama's pro-abortion picks including Supreme Court candidate, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. What conservative politician will risk being tarred with the extremist brush?

Yes, Tiller's shooting is an opportunity, a crisis not to be wasted, a godsend in fact for the pro-abortion movement. The attack on the pro-life community (and conservative talk radio) has heated to the boiling point. The facts indicate that Tiller's shooter had no connections to the pro-life movement, but the mainstream media is portraying just the opposite. Suddenly a man who has apparently never picketed an abortion mill or participated in organized pro-life activities is representing the entire movement. We are all smeared with the murderer tag. Oh, we may not have pulled the trigger, they say, but we killed him by daring to show the photos of dead babies, or by praying the rosary outside abortion mills, or pushing baby strollers with dolls sprinkled in stage blood, or even speaking out against abortion. No matter that the reality is so much more gruesome, those who tell the truth about abortion are terrorists who must be stopped.

A short survey of internet websites shows comments like these at Washington Monthly :
"The Right are the Enemy, and they must be destroyed."

"I would place much of the blame at the feet of those who broadcast this form of hate & fear on the public airwaves... and those who do the same in their churches. They have incited acts of terrorism in the name of God."

"Once he's confessed to a conspiracy with the entire leadership of Operation Rescue to engage in domestic terrorism, we can round up Randall Terry and his whole stinking fetus-cult and be rid of them once and for all."

Bill O'Reilly of Fox News is a particular target at the Huffington Post because he dared to expose the grisly killings at Tiller's abortuary. Here are just a few comments:
"Bill got one of his many unstable followers to obey his command.
Pundits like O'Reilly live for this. The power to lead people to murder for them.
Good job Bill."

"Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Boss Rush, Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Morning Joe, Pat B. Michelle B. and all the other hate spewing talking heads HAVE to be held accountable."

"It is time for this right wing hate machine to be brought to justice."

The condemnation from NARAL, NOW, The Feminist Majority, Planned Parenthood is shrill and broad-based. One lone man shot the gun; all pro-lifers are guilty of his murder.

It's interesting to note that when women are forced to abort, when men kill women, in fact, for refusing to abort, not a word of protest is raised by the abortion machine. Condemning those deaths can't advance their agenda. When adult male predators take little girls to abortion mills to hide their sexual abuse, not a word of protest is raised. In fact, counselors instruct the children to lie to protect their abusers. Advancing abortion, no matter what the price paid by women and children, always comes first.

Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups will raise millions off of Tiller's death while they weep crocodile tears over his murder on the way to the bank. Using their strategy of hate speech against pro-lifers they will no doubt silence voices of reason under a deluge of slander and hysteria. The pro-life movement has shown itself to be the most peaceful, grassroots civil rights movement in the history of the United States. That won't prevent the pro-abortion mob from calling for us to be fed to the lions.

One last comment, when was the last time you heard about pro-abortion violence? Hundreds of murders and attempted murders have occurred against women who refused to have abortions. Was the pro-death movement targeted with those deaths? Never! For a report on pro-abortion violence visit Human Life International. All of those women are just as dead as George Tiller, but to the pro-abortion fanatics they are nothing but collateral damage.

Abortion Violence Study