Awake! Awake! Murder and Treason!

[archanglrobriel]

In case you hadn't heard yet, the fetus fetishist terrorists have just murdered a 67 year old doctor as he was sitting in church.His crime was, of course, performing abortions for women who choose to or medically need to have them in a safe, clean clinic. And did I mention that this is LEGAL in the U.S.? Much as these jihadist Fundie fetus freaks

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[popebuck1]

Al Giordano at "The Field" makes a convincing case that this tragedy will end up helping us in the long run: much as the Oklahoma City bombing gave Clinton back the upper hand in dealing with the right-wing noise machine, the murder of Dr. Tiller will give Obama the upper hand in dealing with "home-grown" terrorism and the media machine that enables them.

Just as Situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti warned the international left, in his 1979 essay, that acts of terrorism always reinforce the powers of the State (his thesis was that State power and terrorism are mutually symbiotic and dependent on each other), the North American religious right is going to suffer great losses as a result of this morning’s terrorist act in Wichita. That, this time, the assassination attempt succeeded, and that it happened in the sanctuary of a church of a mainstream Protestant faith, will provoke a double whammy of shock and revulsion, including among tens of millions of Americans that do not like abortion, but likewise believe that assassination is obviously just as (or more) anti-life.

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That today’s atrocity occurs not under the helm of an embattled liberal president, but of one that enjoys 67 percent support, still, from the American people, will have even more devastating consequences for the cultural and political right that has placed abortion at the center of its agenda. There is no need to demonize them with a broad brush for it. The first immediate consequence of the assassination of Dr. Tiller will be that it virtually removes the political points to be scored by those who planned to wage an anti-choice argument against US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

I would also be very surprised if, in the coming days, some right-wing radio talkers and those from anti-choice organizations like Operation Rescue can’t help but make the sorts of outrageous statements about this act of terrorism that shock and provoke backlash from the American public. As a crew, they have already whipped themselves up into a mental state of frenzied derangement. The countdown now begins to find out which will shovel their own political graves over this one.

Dr. Tiller will NOT have died in vain.