''Tiller had used the revenue from these abortions – he boasted of having aborted 60,000 "fetuses over 24 weeks" – to buy off the state's "moderate" establishment, including the sitting governor.''
Scott Roeder, the
accused murderer of late-term Wichita abortionist George Tiller, admitted killing Tiller earlier this week in an interview with the Associated Press.
Roeder told the AP that the shooting was provoked by "the fact [that] preborn children's lives were in imminent danger." He plans to plead "not guilty" and hopes to use this "necessity defense" at trial.
Roeder's public defenders, however, were quick to disown this strategy if for no other reason than that the Kansas Supreme Court rejected a similar defense in an abortion clinic trespassing case in 1993.
Indeed, were Tiller legally performing a state sanctioned service, however malevolent, it is hard to imagine that Roeder's hoped-for strategy would have much of a chance.
In a similar vein, if the accused Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, were to argue that an "unjust" war in Afghanistan provoked his murderous rampage, he would have little hope of acquittal.
Hasan's chances would likely improve, however, had he gone to the base to shoot those specific soldiers who were torturing captives to death and escaping justice thanks to a corrupt Army judicial system.
Were the courts to deny Hasan a "necessity defense" in a case like that the media would howl to the heavens, and well they ought.
As has been painfully evident, the media have expressed more support for inconvenienced terrorists than they have for the exterminated unborn, even those capable of living outside the womb.
Consequently, the media have no use for Scott Roeder save as a way of clubbing Christians in general and pro-lifers in particular. Already, left-leaning bloggers are equating Hasan's actions with Roeder's and calling it all square.
(Word to the left: Timothy McVeigh was not a "right-leaning white Christian." He was an anti-war atheist whose mantra was "Science is my religion.")
Say what one will, Roeder was not a terrorist. There was nothing random about his actions. Nor was Tiller an innocent victim. Far from it.
In the scenario above, Tiller was the torturer who gamed the system to escape justice. He specialized in late-term abortions and performed them for any reason whatsoever. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115708