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Kansas Residents React to Dr. Tiller’s Death

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Posted on Jun 1, 2009
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To show public response other than the gleeful, hateful crap some right-wingers are spewing on Dr. George Tiller only hours after his assassination, here is how residents of Kansas—where the victim was from—are reacting to the abortion doctor’s murder during a Sunday church service.

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By beefnochicken, June 11, 2009 at 4:44 am Link to this comment
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when the reighteous prosper, the city rejoices

when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy!

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By John Acton, June 5, 2009 at 8:18 am Link to this comment

“Stupid Mr. O’Really, real stupid.  Many of us actually DO understand just what a dangerous person you are, but now here it is in vivid color…...you are a debased man.”

Apparently, like Al Qaeda, Doc “Scissorhands” Tiller would prefer to commit his crimes against humanity in the dark.  I imagine with all the National publicity from O’Reilly, Tiller’s “abortion factory” business must have soared!

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By John Acton, June 5, 2009 at 8:08 am Link to this comment

“Boy, it’s a good thing we don’t move those nasty Muslim fundamentalist terrorists from Gitmo to jails on the mainland.  After all, we need to save room for the nasty Christian fundamentalist terrorists who are already here.”

Especially since we already have other “Abortion Doctors” like Tiller who have murdered more innocent Americans that all of Al Qaeda combined.  While I don’t condone Tiller’s or any murder, it will save more innocent lives than it cos. Any society that would approve such a barbaric torture to take place on the most innocent of humans is fostering more death by cheapening human life.

In most States, someone could not legally do to a dog what Tiller did daily to innocent babies. What does that tell about the priorities of our Culture of Death?

“What I don’t understand though is why Republicans oppose the Gitmo transfer.  After all, people willing to murder or at least torture for religion seems to be a prominent part of that party’s base.”

Fortunely for the GOP the Democrats are aborting their future “party base” so there just might be hope for our country yet.

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By John Acton, June 5, 2009 at 7:40 am Link to this comment

“Every time I hear ‘abortion doctor’ I want to smack the anti-choice sociopath who had the gall to utter such claptrap. There isn’t such a creature, except in the terribly-educated “minds” of American fascist zealots crowing about the “ethics” as attributed to a dead carpenter god, a god of the forest, as irrelevant today as sealing wax or horse-drawn carriages.”

You are known by what you do.  For someone whose “medical” specialty is sticking a pair surgical scissors into back a new born baby’s head, then opening and twisting the scissor, then inserting a tube to suck out the child’s brains, and finally crushing the innocent baby’s skull - I beleieve that “Abortion Doctor” aptly defines their trade, although the “doctor” part might be a stretch.  See those uncivilized Greeks (you know the 1st major Western Culture) had a wise doctor who established an ethical code for the medical profession known as the “Hippocratic Oath” which states in part:

* I will prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
* To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug, nor give advice which may cause his death.
* Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.
* But I will preserve the purity of my life and my art.

Unfortunately in our current Culture of Death, which you praise so highly, the so-called have edited the Pro-Life ethic of the Hippocratic Oath in order to be more “Politically Correct.”

“If the people of Kansas are ashamed and outraged (something I somehow doubt) they can prove it by supporting a woman’s right to choose. Watch them not do so.”

If the people Kansas need to be ashamed of something it should the fact that they allowed this torture to prosper within their borders. Of course, your hero Doc “Scissorhands” did it for the “right reason” - the money was good!

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By John Acton, June 5, 2009 at 7:10 am Link to this comment

“Shouldn’t it be that he was a medical doctor who performed legal abortions rather than calling him the abortion doctor? The right has again framed the argument, and everyone else gets in lockstep behind them.”

Have you ever witnessed “partial birth abortion?”  If not, here is an illustration (not a live video - but you’ll get the idea) of the procedure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vnOaq7nWU

After you view it, then tell me that Tiller, one of very few “abortion doctors” who actually preform the brutal, totally unnecessary (according to former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop) is not guilty murder of an innocent child.  Simply because a government legalizes an act doesn’t change the nature of the act.  Murdering Jews was not legal in Nazi Germany but also State policy.

Water-boarding is not torture, Partial Birth Abortion is!

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By Javi, June 4, 2009 at 10:25 am Link to this comment
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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.

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By hippie4ever, June 2, 2009 at 10:07 am Link to this comment

Every time I hear “abortion doctor” I want to smack the anti-choice sociopath who had the gall to utter such claptrap. There isn’t such a creature, except in the terribly-educated “minds” of American fascist zealots crowing about the “ethics” as attributed to a dead carpenter god, a god of the forest, as irrelevant today as sealing wax or horse-drawn carriages.

If the people of Kansas are ashamed and outraged (something I somehow doubt) they can prove it by supporting a woman’s right to choose. Watch them not do so.

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By Wayne in Oregon, June 2, 2009 at 7:35 am Link to this comment
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It is a shame that people like Tiller choose to educate themselves in the profession of killing for hire.  It is a bigger shame that in America where life is supposedly valued greatly, there are so many people who try to justify his actions as a child killer. 

In my estimation, the man who killed Tiller has already saved numerous children’s lives.  How many hundreds or thousands more will be saved over time by stopping the child killer?  The man who stopped Tiller should be given every opportunity to defend himself in a Court of Law based on his humanitarian act of saving others from death.

It is interesting to me that when somebody acts of of synch with the rest of the liberal community, liberals react with such venom.  Yet those same liberals would undoubtedly say that it was a reprehensible act for the Nazi’s to do the same things (abort their children) to Jewish Women’s unborn children during Hitlers reign.

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By Jason!!, June 2, 2009 at 4:30 am Link to this comment

William Long was the 23-year-old military recruiter murdered Monday morning by a man who allegedly had political and religious motives.


Cant pin it on anyone remotely associated with a republican so it goes ignored.

Hypocrisy. Its all over your face.

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By Outraged, June 2, 2009 at 2:19 am Link to this comment

Funny how some play “pete and re-peat”, or monkey see, monkey do.

A post from the first article regarding this,  @ “Ear to the Ground”. 

“By driving bear, May 31 at 9:20 pm

So Tiller the baby killer finally received his long over due promotion to the Home Office in Hell good for him”(emphasis mine)

From Salon:

“Tiller’s name first appeared on “The Factor” on Feb. 25, 2005. Since then, O’Reilly and his guest hosts have brought up the doctor on 28 more episodes, including as recently as April 27 of this year. Almost invariably, Tiller is described as “Tiller the Baby Killer.”

Tiller, O’Reilly likes to say, “destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000.” He’s guilty of “Nazi stuff,” said O’Reilly on June 8, 2005; a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida, he suggested on March 15, 2006. “This is the kind of stuff happened in Mao’s China, Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union,” said O’Reilly on Nov. 9, 2006.”

And:
“Also, it looks like Dr. Tiller, who some call Tiller the Baby Killer, is spending a large amount of money in order to get Mr. Morrison elected. That opens up all kinds of questions,” said O’Reilly on Nov. 6, 2006,”

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/31/tiller/

Stupid Mr. O’Really, real stupid.  Many of us actually DO understand just what a dangerous person you are, but now here it is in vivid color…...you are a debased man.

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By AbuMubarak, June 1, 2009 at 6:12 pm Link to this comment

He wasn’t killed.  He was aborted.

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By PatrickHenry, June 1, 2009 at 2:47 pm Link to this comment

I hope these good people sit on the jury.

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By Lawlessone, June 1, 2009 at 2:15 pm Link to this comment
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Boy, it’s a good thing we don’t move those nasty Muslim fundamentalist terrorists from Gitmo to jails on the mainland.  After all, we need to save room for the nasty Christian fundamentalist terrorists who are already here. 

What I don’t understand though is why Republicans oppose the Gitmo transfer.  After all, people willing to murder or at least torture for religion seems to be a prominent part of that party’s base.

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By dpjbro, June 1, 2009 at 1:01 pm Link to this comment
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Shouldn’t it be that he was a medical doctor who performed legal abortions rather than calling him the abortion doctor? The right has again framed the argument, and everyone else gets in lockstep behind them.

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