Radical Pro-Life Terrorists
The assault on a Planned Parenthood facility
A gunman burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic and opened fire, launching several gunbattles and an hours-long standoff with police as patients and staff took cover under furniture and inside locked rooms.
By the time the shooter surrendered, three people were killed — including a police officer — and nine others were wounded, authorities said.
…Colorado Springs police on Saturday identified the gunman as Robert Lewis Dear, 57, of North Carolina.
He drives over 1400 miles from western North Carolina to Colorado Springs to shoot up a Planned Parenthood clinic because he was lied to by a heavily edited video created by people who believe they have the right to kill anyone who doesn’t agree with them. They look at the death of people who aren’t involved with their targets as ‘collateral damage’. For these people the ends justify the means, including arson, acid attacks, bombs, murder.
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If you can’t win an argument without killing someone, maybe the problem is that your argument is weaker than the other person’s argument, and you should re-think your position.
Not that these terrorist dipwads ever do.
Also, it appears that he moved to Colorado a year ago, so he didn’t drive 1400 miles, he drove more like 14 miles. The confusion arose because a TV station in North Carolina showed the cabin he used to live in, and people thought that was where he was still living.
Concerning the ‘debate’ – they don’t seem to understand the paradox of claiming to be ‘pro-life’ and murdering people.
We have had three people murdered locally by these terrorists, so it is impossible for me to accept that the ‘pro-life’ thugs have anything reasonable to say. They have threatened people that I consider friends, so this is personal.
All of the early reporting identified him as being from North Carolina. I can understand his feeling comfortable in Colorado Springs, as it is a notably fundamentalist evangelical area, and the source of all of the religious freedom complaints about the Air Force Academy.
All of the early reporting identified him as being from North Carolina. I can understand his feeling comfortable in Colorado Springs
actually, much of north Carolina isn’t all that fundie compared to say, here, and certainly not compared to Colorado springs. he sure had to drive a looooooong way to find a town that he could believe in.
also, there’s this – http://www.theonion.com/article/frustrated-gunman-cant-believe-how-far-he-has-driv-51923
North Carolina is actually relatively sane compared its neighbor to the South.
I waiting for the Repubs to start saying he was a lefty atheist, because rightwing Christians never ‘sin’, assuming they ever admit the attack happened.
Uhm, North Carolina elected Jesse Helms to the Senate for more years than most Americans have been alive. While there are stretches of sanity in North Carolina, there’s a big swathe of the state that’s just as bugfuck crazy as Crackerville Florida. And they’re the ones who vote. Thus why North Carolina has a teabagger Governor and teabagger Legislature that are wrecking the place right now.
yep. dude apparently was from south Carolina before he was from north Carolina –
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Ex-wife-says-clinic-suspect-targeted-Planned-6669406.php
black mountain north Carolina is (was, anyway) on my list of “possible places to retire to.” if you want to live off-the-grid, back-in-the-mountains, get-away-from-it-all, and still be close to “the big city” (Asheville, in this case), black mountain is (was, several years ago) a fine choice. beautiful spot.
Adante was from North Carolina, and I have relatives still living there. That said, there are a lot of citizens who feel victimized ever since 1865 and that the Supreme Court is a commie/fascist conspiracy against their ‘way of life’.
That said, South Carolina elected Strom Thurmond to the Senate 8 times; Jessie Helms was only elected 5 times by North Carolina. 😉