Comments on: Yes, Dr. Tiller’s Murderer Is A Terrorist

By: Javi

Javi — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:19:52 +0000

This was not a killing, it was an execution. Bottom line; Tiller was a killer. You live by the “sword” you die by the “sword.”

I have no sympathy for money grubbing doctors (Yes, Tiller did it for the money – just follow the money trail) acting like they are doing something good for women but they are no better than a televangelist ripping off widows and orphans for their last cent!

“Pro choice/death” people are such hypocrites; never seeing the forest because of the tree of their selfishness; never shedding a tear for the children torn to shreds by this man’s seared conscience.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:03:40 +0000

I am a pro-choice woman, a nurse, and a mother. I will always fight tooth and nail for a woman’s right to contraception, to choose an early elective abortion, and to choose a second trimester abortion in the case of severe fetal malformation. However, I will never, ever support the right of a late term elective abortion. There is simply no need to EVER perform a third trimester abortion. Even when a fetus dies in-utero, a woman has no need to set foot in a clinic such as the one Tiller was running. She is admitted to the hospital, labor is induced, and the child is stillborn.

I do not agree with calling this “terrorism” and saying it was intended to scare women out of abortions. What I think is that someone in the world knew there were tiny bodies piling up by the hundreds if not, thousands each year at this clinic, and that Tiller would continue to violently end the lives of so many innocent human beings unless he was stopped.

Am I happy that he was murdered? NO. I’m relieved that he isn’t able to go back to work, and that whoever he had on his schedule to kill today might just have a chance to take his or her first breath.

By: Live Free

Live Free — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:54:36 +0000

Why are you trying so hard to buttonhole someone into a term that has no legal definition?

The person who did this appears to be guilty of murder, humankind’s highest crime.

But “once you label me, you limit me.” Is that what you are trying to do?

The U.N., in 2004, said that terrorism is any act “intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act”. It would appear that the murder of Dr. Tiller may fit this (non-legal) description. So does that make the act any better or worse?

One may guess that the murder would have taken place in a medical setting, if the intent was to intimidate people seeking to have a medical procedure performed (I avoid the use of the word “right” as no such right to abortion exists in the U.S. under its Constitution). But since the act reportedly took place in a church, what was the “intent” regarding “purpose”?

None, apparently. The violent actor appears to have been intending to stop the activities of the victim in a setting that was most likely to avoid armed resistance, and allow unfettered escape. This appears to this writer to be a garden-variety murder, which is still a violation of the highest law of the land.

Yau may call it anything you like, even to the point of re-defining words if you like, but it doesn’t change the facts.

By: Truth

Truth — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:38:07 +0000

I agree the murder of Tiller was terrorism. If murder of an adult is terrorism, what does that make murders of 50-70 million innocent unborn babies for decades, who unlike Tiller, are completely helpless at the hands of those who are suppose to care for them and preserve them til they are born?

By: MAnny

MAnny — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:47:44 +0000

Isn’t this a man-caused disaster and not terrorism?

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:43:21 +0000

Well said – nothing short from TERRORISTS.
The US is pretty eager to fight terrorism abroad (and in the case of Afghanistan they had appropriate justification), so what about the same determination at home?
Or is Christian terror, with rhetorics well worthy of 20th century hideous, hatred inciting regimes (”judgment day… Dr. Tiller got blood on his hands.. everyone who does not stop him is guilty too”), and actual murders and bombings less of an atrocity compared with Islamist terrorism?

By: Allan Erickson

Allan Erickson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:36:49 +0000

And for the other side of the story:

http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/abortionist-dr-george-tiller-killed/

By: Phaedrus

Phaedrus — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:12:22 +0000

According to the Obama “preventative detention” policy, anyone who is ideologically supportive of this act can be indefinitely detained and interrogated.