Kansas Residents React to Dr. Tiller’s Death
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.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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After just 37 minutes of deliberation, a Kansas jury found Scott Roeder, the man who admitted killing abortion doctor George Tiller, guilty of first-degree murder, rejecting his defense that the killing was justified to stop the death of the unborn.
On Wednesday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed the ties between Scott Roeder, Dr. George Tiller's alleged assassin, and the extremist anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, and how Roeder repeatedly got away with violating federal laws protecting abortion clinics.
If right-wing broadcasters don't want to be blamed when someone murders a person they have demonized repeatedly -- as in the case of George Tiller, the doctor shot dead in his Wichita, Kan., church last Sunday -- then they ought to moderate their rhetoric.
The murder of Dr. George Tiller cannot be smoothed over with a speech. This is the lesson the Obama administration must learn from it.
Back in 2006, here's what Bill O'Reilly had to say about the recently murdered Dr. George Tiller: "[I]f I could get my hands on Tiller -- well, you know. Can't be vigilantes. Can't do that. It's just a figure of speech. But despicable? Oh, my God. It doesn't get worse. Does it get worse? No."
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After just 37 minutes of deliberation, a Kansas jury found Scott Roeder, the man who admitted killing abortion doctor George Tiller, guilty of first-degree murder, rejecting his defense that the killing was justified to stop the death of the unborn.
If right-wing broadcasters don't want to be blamed when someone murders a person they have demonized repeatedly -- as in the case of George Tiller, the doctor shot dead in his Wichita, Kan., church last Sunday -- then they ought to moderate their rhetoric.
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