June 1, 2009
Good Morning America's video on the assassination of Dr. George Tiller: he refused to 'live in fear'
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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"
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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In case you assumed Dr. Tiller was just some weirdo
The hard working Political Animals over at Washington Monthly’s blog put it in perspective. Thanks Hilzoy.
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May 31, 2009
Right-wing terrorist assassin Scott Roeder may have left comments at Operation Rescue site
Thanks to Donklephant.
Tiller Murder Suspect Is Scott Roeder. Connected With Operation Rescue.
By Justin Gardner
His name is Scott Roeder and it looks like he’s involved with Operation Rescue in some way. Obviously that doesn’t mean they’re to blame, but if you convince your followers that somebody is a mass murderer and is doing it legally…you think something bad might happen?
Here’s the comment he left at Operation Rescue’s site, via Free Republic:
Scott Roeder Says:
May 19th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Bleass everyone for attending and praying in May to bring justice to Tiller and the closing of his death camp. Sometime soon, would it be feasible to organize as many people as possible to attend Tillers church (inside, not just outside) to have much more of a presence and possibly ask questions of the Pastor, Deacons, Elders and members while there? Doesn’t seem like it would hurt anything but bring more attention to Tiller.
Also from Free Republic, looks like he has a criminal record:
July 7, Kansas: Scott Roeder is sentenced to sixteen months in state prison for parole violations following a 1996 conviction for having bomb components in his car trunk. Roeder, a sovereign citizen and tax protester, violated his parole by not filing tax returns or providing his social security number to his employer.
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Ultra-conservative terrorism in Wichita, Kansas: abortion provider George Tiller shot dead in church
He survived a 1993 shooting, but he died today.
Doctor who performed abortions shot to death
(CNN) — A suspect in Sunday’s killing of Dr. George Tiller, whose women’s clinic in Kansas was the epicenter of the state’s battles over abortion for nearly two decades, was in police custody Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Dr. George Tiller was one of the few U.S. physicians that performed late-term abortions.
Tiller, one of the few U.S. physicians who still performed late-term abortions, was killed Sunday morning by a single gunshot at the Lutheran church he attended in Wichita, police said. He was 67.
Authorities on Sunday afternoon took a man into custody near Kansas City after stopping a car that matched a description of the killer’s getaway vehicle.
No charges had been filed and no motive for the killing was immediately known, but Wichita police Detective Tom Stoltz told reporters: “We think we have the right person arrested.”
“We will investigate this suspect to the Nth degree — his history, his family, his associates — and we are just in the beginning stages of that,” he said.
The killing, which came about 16 years after Tiller survived a shooting outside his Wichita clinic, took place shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday at Reformation Lutheran Church. Tiller was dead at the scene, police reported.
Wiki: Throughout his career, Tiller was a frequent target of anti-abortion violence. On August 19, 1993, Tiller was shot in both arms by pro-life activist Shelley Shannon. At the time she attacked Tiller, Shannon had been a pro-life activist for five years and had written letters of support to Michael Griffin, murderer of David Gunn. She called Griffin “the awesomest, greatest hero of our time.” She traveled to the Wichita clinic, a site of frequent demonstrations by abortion-rights and pro-life activists, and shot Tiller with a semiautomatic pistol.
He’d been a favorite target of Bill O’Reilly, who called him ‘Tiller the Baby Killer’:
No shortage of right-wing happiness:
