A Case of Domestic Terrorism

June 1, 2009 | Posted by admin

Far-right blogger Michelle Malkin made a statement about the assassination of George Tiller this morning:

Late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down at his church in Kansas Sunday morning in a thoroughly evil, cold-blooded act of domestic terrorism. Yes, terrorism. Not “extremism.”

As Steve Benen writes:

We’re dealing with an act of politically-motivated violence, against a law-abiding American on American soil, intended to scare, intimidate, and change U.S. policy.

One can support or oppose abortion rights; one can defend or reject the legal medical services Tiller provided for his desperate patients. But whether yesterday’s murder constitutes domestic terrorism isn’t an especially tough call.

In other news regarding the assassination, the right wingers were showing their true colors on twitter.

When reading things like those tweets and seeing heinous acts of violence performed in the name of the Christian God, I have to think of the great Gandhi quote:

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.

At what point do we realize that these far-right Christian fundamentalists are no different than fundamentalists of other religions and ideologies?

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