Anti-Abortionists: Murder by proxy
Pick somebody you don’t like. Find out their name, full address, other bits of contact information including their car, licence plate, where they work, possibly the date and times of their work schedule. Write it all up as a “wanted poster“, sort of like in the Wild West. Carefully describe what horrible things this person supposedly does so there can be no doubt in anybody’s mind that this person is evil incarnate. Distribute the poster as far and wide as possible then stand back and wait for the results.
Rachel Maddow
Ms. Maddow, a journalist for MSNBC who has her own news show at 9pm spoke in October of a new wave of wanted posters being distributed by anti-abortionists. Targeting doctors who work in legitimate clinics where abortion is permitted by law, these pro-life people have discovered a method of getting their way without soiling their hands.
On October 25, 26 and 27, she narrated a three part show on Dr. George Tiller, a so called “abortion doctor” who was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist on May 31, 2009. The anti-abortionists maintained a campaign against this doctor until a man who thought of himself as a “redeemer”, took it upon himself to “save the babies” by killing an abortion doctor.
The Technique
By developing a campaign of hatred against an individual; by developing a portrait of this individual as somebody who embodies malevolence, you can subliminally or quite obviously send out the message for somebody who may be unstable, amoral or just as evil themselves, to commit murder all the while providing the potential killer with an excellent justification for doing the crime. It is recruiting the malleable to do your bidding.
This technique is working quite successfully in other areas of the world where suicide bombers carry out the will of God. Killing what is considered evil is not murder; it is justifiable homicide. I am certain that many in Western society associate the idea of such self-sacrifice for the greater cause as part of the Muslim faith however in this case; it is very much a Christian movement which is supposed carrying out the will of God.
Freedom of Speech
We all believe in the freedom of speech. But with freedom comes responsibility and at what point do we collectively feel that someone has abused that freedom? In my blog Freedom of Speech: Freedom to say “anything”? I discuss that while this freedom can be a great part of our society, there are those who push the envelope by promoting hatred whether it be based on sex, race or politics. (check out my examples) Some people are using this freedom as the soapbox for their convoluted, illogical and vile justifications for the most ghastly of views. Freedom of speech protects them and allows to say what they will but what if that freedom actually persuades someone else to commit murder?
Hal Turner
Mr. Turner is a shock jock radio host and a white supremacist that has a history of threatening public figures. In 2005, disagreeing with the handling of a court case against Matt Hale (another white supremacist who is now in jail), Turner published the names and addresses of the presiding judges on his web site with the suggestion they should be assassinated. In 2008, he once again encouraged violence against a school superintendent who had set up a curriculum supporting gays and lesbians.
On June 2, 2009, in response to a 3 judge panel upholding a handgun ban in Chicago, Turner wrote on his blog:
“Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions.”
Turner then published information on how to find the judges.
Mr. Turner was arrested on June 3, 2009 on charges of inciting his website’s readers to take up arms against the officials. There have been 3 trials. The first trial ended with the jury being deadlocked, the 2nd was declared a mistrial but the 3rd trial found him guilty on August 13, 2010 of threatening the 3 judges. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
Hal Turner, in his defence, stated that he did not say that he himself would kill the judges; he merely said that they deserve to be killed.
South Park
In April 2010, an episode of South Park was aired that contained a supposed image of Mohammed. A radical Islamic group headquarters in New York issued a warning on their web site, “We have to warn Matt (Stone) and Trey (Parker) that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show.” The site posted a graphic photo of the late Dutch filmmaker Van Gogh, who was killed in 2004 by an Islamic militant over a movie he made that accused Islam of condoning violence against women. It also posted a link a news article with details of a mansion in Colorado that Parker and Stone apparently own, suggesting they know where to find the South Park creators.
The head of the New York group said the post was not a threat. “How is that a threat? Showing a case study right there of what happened to another individual who conducted himself in a very similar manner? It’s just evidence.”
As a result, Comedy Central apparently blacked out the image of Mohammed in the episode for any subsequent airing. Eventually though, the entire New York group was arrested and the web site was shut down.
Technically speaking…
I tell everybody in the world you’re a bad person. You do bad things. You deserve to die for your sins. Now, all I have to do is sit back and wait. Okay, I didn’t pull the trigger; somebody else did. I get what I want but I didn’t do anything.
Or did I?
“It’s better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.”
- Carlos Castaneda quotes (Peruvian born American best-selling Author and Writer, 1925-1998)
Final Word
Abortion is such a hot button topic. You are either for it or against it; there is absolutely no middle ground. However, despite the legality of abortion, some anti-abortionists feel justified, not by the laws of the land but by the will of God to carry out the greater good even if this means committing murder. Although society through its own government’s legislation has declared abortion acceptable; they are very much ready to rebel, go against the government and society itself in order to complete their supreme God given mission of supposed mercy.
Excuse me while I head down to the post office to look at the wanted posters. I may have ticked somebody off and I don’t know it.
Prosecutors charged a 31-year-old man with murder Tuesday, two days after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend and her mother to death and wounded a man.
Virgil Tyrone Tate is expected to be arraigned tomorrow on two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
The charges include a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders.
The victim were identified Tuesday as Tracie Ann Brooks, 32, and her mother Carol Susan Brooks, 58.
L.A. County sheriff’s deputies received a call about an assault with a deadly weapon around 8:15 p.m. Sunday at the Torrance Villa Apartments, located in the 21800 block of South Vermont Avenue.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they found a man outside who had been stabbed several times.
He was taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries.
The deputies made their way inside the apartment and found a woman lying on the floor in a front room.
Tate was found hiding in a back room.
He was eventually taken into custody, and was led out of the apartment complex naked and in handcuffs.
Once inside the back room, deputies found a second woman with multiple stab wounds.
Paramedics pronounced both women dead at the scene.
KTLA spoke exclusively with a relative of the two female victims, who said Tate was her sister’s live-in boyfriend, and that the male victim was renting a bedroom.
“I got a call from my mom’s husband around 11:30 and he was in a panic and told me something happened,” she said.
She also said she has no idea what might have happened.
“I’m not sure,” she said, when asked what police had told her. “I haven’t heard anything. I have no idea.”
Tate is being held on $1 million bail.
New probe into racist killing of NRI waiter
From Prasun Sonwalkar
London, Jan 31 (PTI) Over 13 years after he was killed, the Scotland Police have been instructed to reopen the probe into the racist killing of Indian origin waiter Surjit Singh Chhokar, who was killed in a town near Glasgow in 1998.
No one was convicted after two trials at the time, even though three persons were arrested.
The reinvestigation has been ordered following the recent reform of Scotland”s ancient double jeopardy law, which means that the men originally accused of the murder could face a retrial.
The decision to investigate the Chhokar”s killing was announced during a meeting between his family and the Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland and the Solicitor General for Scotland, Lesley Thomson, in Edinburgh last week.
Chhokar, 32, died of multiple wounds in Overtown, North Lanarfkshire, on 4 November 1998.
One of the arrested persons, Ronnie Coulter, was acquitted in 1999 after blaming his nephew Andrew Coulter and another man, David Montgomery, for the murder.
Coulter and Montgomery, faced trial in 2000 but were also cleared after they claimed Ronnie had killed Chhokar.
The case has been likened to that of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, whose racist killing in London 1993 led to prolonged inquiries and charges of the police being institutionally racist.
Two inquiries were ordered in the aftermath of failed prosecutions.
Arizona inmate could face death penalty
The man accused of murdering an Oklahoma couple after escaping from Arizona‘s Kingman state prison in 2010 could face the death penalty.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Mexico filed notice Thursday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque that it will seek the death penalty on 14 separate counts against John McCluskey. He is accused of carjacking Gary and Linda Haas on Aug.2, 2010, from a New Mexico rest stop on Interstate 40, then shooting them to death and burning their bodies inside their camper.
McCluskey was one of three inmates who took advantage of lax security and faulty alarms to escape on July 30, 2010, from the Kingman prison, run by Management and Training Corp. of Centerville, Utah. The men cut their way out using tools McCluskey’s cousin and fiancee, Casslyn Welch, had tossed over the fence.
Escapee Daniel Renwick took off on his own and was recaptured in Colorado a day later, after a shootout with police. He is serving a 60-year term after pleading guilty to two attempted murder charges last year.
McCluskey, fellow escapee Tracy Province and Welch traveled together, coming across the Haases two days later. Welch and Province pleaded guilty Jan. 20 to a variety of charges in connection with the Haas killings. Province agreed to serve five consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. Welch faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
In their plea agreements and in prior interviews cited in FBI affidavits, Province and Welch said the trio carjacked the couple to take their pickup truck and camper. After pulling off the interstate onto a ranch road in eastern New Mexico, McCluskey ordered the Haases into the camper while Welch and Province rounded up three small dogs which had leaped out of the pickup truck.
According to the affidavits and plea agreements, McCluskey then shot and killed the couple. The trio drove the truck and camper to a remote spot where they unhitched the trailer and set it on fire with the two bodies inside
A week after the murders, Province separated from the other two. He was captured in Wyoming on Aug. 9, 2010. McCluskey and Welch were recaptured 10 days later at a campground in eastern Arizona.
In filing for the death penalty, Assistant U.S. Attorney Linda Mott alleged that the murders were intentional, and noted that McCluskey has prior convictions for attempted second-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and three aggravated assaults, among others. The filing also alleged that in statements to police after his arrest, McCluskey said he would have killed more people if he hadn’t been recaptured, and that he is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist criminal gang.
TACOMA — A fight broke out in a courtroom here Thursday after a 19-year-old man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the beating death of a man last winter.
Andrew Brown was sentenced in the slaying of 69-year-old Darrel Johnson, a Navy submarine veteran and retired port electrician. Brown pleaded guilty in October to first-degree murder in Pierce County Superior Court.
After the judge sentenced Brown, the families began yelling at each other. A melee broke out when one woman complained that the sentence was unfairly long, given the victim’s age.
“The man was 69, he wasn’t going to live forever,” she said.
The brawl lasted about 20 seconds as security officers and sheriff’s deputies stepped in to keep would-be combatants separated. The courtroom was packed with friends and relatives of Brown and Johnson.
No one was seriously hurt, and no arrests were made. Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor said detectives would review video of the incident to see if any charges were warranted.
Johnson, using a cane after hip-replacement surgery, was beaten Jan. 9 during his usual morning walk in his east Tacoma neighborhood. He died a week later from multiple injuries, including those to his neck, which had been stomped on and crushed.
The alleged motive was robbery, though nothing apparently was taken.
Brown was one of three people charged in the case. First-degree-murder charges are pending against Tandra Rae Moses, 17, and Justin James Montgomery, 21.
Brown apologized to Johnson’s family.
“I hope you beg for mercy and are shown none,” Johnson’s daughter Julie Johnson told Brown. Another daughter, Bobbi McDonald, expressed forgiveness.
