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Murder suspect Roeder's buddies: "I'd say he's a good ol' boy, except he was just so fanatic about abortion"

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Jun 1, 2009
abortion, domestic terrorism

Suspect in Tiller’s death supported killing abortion providers, friends say

The suspect in custody for the slaying of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was a member of an anti-government group in the 1990s and a staunch opponent of abortion.

Scott P. Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kan., a Kansas City suburb, was arrested on Interstate 35 near Gardner in suburban Johnson County, Kan., about three hours after the shooting. Tiller was shot to death around 10 a.m. inside Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.

In the rear window of the 1993 blue Ford Taurus that he was driving was a red rose, a symbol often used by abortion opponents. On the rear of his car was a Christian fish symbol with the word “Jesus” inside.

Those who know Roeder said he believed that killing abortion doctors was an act of justifiable homicide.

“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.”

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.’”

Roeder also was a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a magazine that advocated the justifiable homicide position, said publisher Dave Leach, an anti-abortion activist from Des Moines, Iowa.

“I met him once, and he wrote to me a few times,” Leach said. “I remember that he was sympathetic to our cause, but I don’t remember any details.”

Leach said he met Roeder in Topeka when he went there to visit Shelley Shannon, who was in prison for the 1993 shooting of Tiller.

“He told me about a lot of conspiracy stuff and showed me how to take the magnetic strip out of a five-dollar bill,” Leach said. “He said it was to keep the government from tracking your money….”

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  1. Bill  •  Jun 1, 2009 @8:26 pm
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    This murder of abortionist Tiller is yet another indication of how confused and unsteady our social values are. We shouldn’t be surprised that a man feels justified in killing another when we, at the same time, make it an exception to take the lives of the unborn. The few occasions when an abortion is medically justified seems to serve as justification for the vast majority of terminated pregnancies that are performed solely because, for one reason or another, the child is unwanted. Our president wants proponents of pro-choice and pro-life to seek common ground where no common ground exists. One must pity people who are so hopelessly clueless regarding essentially simple and straightforward moral standards of right and wrong where it concerns the value of human life and the willful termination of human life for unconscionable reasons. Aside from the legal ramifications, how is the murder of an abortionist any different in essence from aborting an unborn child, regardless of the child’s stage of life in the pregnancy? The abortionist is murdered because a man finds him to be offensive to his sensibilities. The abortionist makes a living of terminating pregnancies. Lawmakers and law enforcers sanction his trade. Society demands abortion. The parent of an unborn child hires the abortionist because the pregnancy is inconvenient. Society encourages and approves the choice to abort. What kind of values allow acts like this? Truth is the devaluation of human life in the womb necessarily devalues it outside the womb as well. The logical outcome of legalized abortion is the illegal killing of men like Tiller. Inventing our own values as we go along based on what we want rather than on what is right is certainly fraught with danger.

  2. Farrell  •  Jun 2, 2009 @5:24 am
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    Bill-

    Your comment typifies the head-up-the-ass logic used by every anti-abortionist since time began. I use the term anti-abortionist, rather than your chosen term “pro-life”, because this senseless action, by definition, negates anny possible connotation the term “pro-life” could have.

    The bottom line, cutting through all your lame rationalizations (and by you, I mean all of your ilk), is that the practice of abortion is NOT illegal according to the courts of these United States. You may not like that fact, and you are free to move to another country(please), or work within the process to change the law. In fact, the courts have allowed for reasonable restrictions to be placed by the states upon the legal practice of abortion.

    What you, or anyone else, CANNOT do is commit murder, which has just happened. Ironically, despite the claims of being for life, “you” have taken a life. Ironically, despite claiming to do God’s work, “you” have violated one of the most holy commandments in a house of worship, pretty much sealing “your” fate re: the afterlife. No need to pack a blanket.

    Without running through the entire laundry list of why a fetus is not a person, we can hit some highlights:

    Does the U.S. Census treat a fetus as a person?
    Does the federal government assign a SSN to a fetus?
    Why have a separate term, “fetus”, if it truly is just an unborn child?
    If it really is an unborn child, does that mean that a patient in a coma, or persistent vegetative state, is an “undead corpse”?

    The list goes on and on. Only the most tortured logic and language allows for the linguistic concept of fetus as person. What happened here is murder, plain and simple. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. Let this jerkoff exhaust his appeals, and then, I will be happy to throw the switch personally and watch the sparks fly from his burnt flesh.