Cultural Gadfly

Over the last thirty years, eight abortion doctors have been killed. Eight.  That is hardly extremism. Sure, if pro-lifers were killing hundreds, or even tens, or even 1 a year, there could be an argument that there was something systemically wrong with the movement.  But when a single deranged individual takes it upon himself to murder someone, isn’t the fact that it is so rare prove how law-abiding and well behaved they are?  As St. Johnny.com puts it:

The statistics, however, do not bear this out, do they?  In thirty-five years, just 8 abortionists have been killed.  Between 1980 and 1989, 304 gas station attendants were killed.  115 liquor store workers were killed.  806 grocery store workers were killed.  56 Jewelry store workers were killed.  You get the idea:  It is more dangerous to work at a gas station, liquor store, grocery store, or jewelry store (or drive a taxi, etc) than it is to be an abortion doctor.

People are killed for their professions ever year in this, and every other, country. Why does the media, and the pro-abortion, care about this one? It is not from a sense of moral outrage, rather, they are capitalizing on an opportunity. His death means they have a story to beat the public into submission with, especially considering the most recent polling numbers indicating a majority of people are pro-life now.  The modus operandi of progressive liberalism has historically been mandating what they weren’t able to win at the ballot box, and oppressing their opponents (from the NOW website):

Dr. Tiller’s slaying is the most recent in a string of murders in the service of the anti-abortion cause, and hundreds of people have been injured or threatened because they provide legal abortion services. Bringing the killers to justice is not enough – the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security must root out and prosecute as domestic terrorists and violent racketeers the criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts for decades. We call on the new attorney general Eric Holder and head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to treat these murders in the same way they would treat politically-motivated domestic terrorism of any other kind and put the full resources of their two departments behind that effort.

Clearly, they are conflating the one man with the whole movement. This cry against “domestic terrorism” is disingenuous to the extreme, considering the outcry from the pro-life movement on this brutal and senseless killing, and that any crackdown against the entire infrastructure of their opponents would be very beneficial to them.  An investigation on the order that they are talking about would be completely unjustified by the crime, especially as it is without precedent. If a democrat killed a republican, would that mean that we could use Homeland Security to “root out and prosecute [democrats] as domestic terrorists”? Surely not.

I would also like to remind NOW, and the rest of the Left, that the only political wing to engage  in real, honest to God domestic terrorism was the Left; organizations such as SDS and the Weather Underground and a number of smaller splinter groups. The Left that actually bombed government buildings is criticizing the Right because one – just one – of their number was a enough of a whack-job to kill someone? Please.  

Categories: Culture, Culture of Death, Culture of Life, Politics, Religion, The Horatius Report \\ Tags: Extremism, Tiller