Pro Life Terrorist Convicted
The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder of Kansas City, Mo., guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death of Dr. George Tiller. The 51-year-old faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years when he is sentenced March 9. Prosecutor Nola Foulston said she would pursue a so-called “Hard 50” sentence, which would require Mr. Roeder to serve at least 50 years before he can be considered for parole.
Mr. Roeder had confessed publicly before the trial and admitted again on the witness stand that he shot Dr. Tiller in the head in the foyer of the church where the doctor was serving as an usher. He testified he felt the lives of unborn children were in “immediate danger” because of Dr. Tiller.
Mr. Roeder also was convicted of aggravated assault for pointing a gun at two ushers at Tiller’s Wichita church after the shooting.
This vile terrorist destined for hellfire will no doubt become a matryr behind bars for anti-choice whackjobs like David Anderson. Indeed, that prospect almost makes me want Roeder to be executed, and I am unclear as to why he is not being executed. He committed first degree murder in Kansas. Deep red Kansas!
Alito mutters “Not true.”
will no doubt become a matryr behind bars for anti-choice whackjobs like David Anderson.
That is not fair to David. David always condemns these hateful murderous bastards after they are caught and convicted. Those that are not yet convicted yet are of course doing God’s work.
it would be poetic justice for him to undergo a 200th trimester abortion…. but that is what the terrorists want. Let him rot in jail so he can see the country he hates move on and his dream of a theocracy die before his soulless eyes.
That is not fair to David. David always condemns these hateful murderous bastards after they are caught and convicted. Those that are not yet convicted yet are of course doing God’s work.
Sorry David, that was a little strong. You are just the handy lighting rod for the right to lifers who can’t see how the whole movement breeds and lends support to the assassins.
Now now DelDem–martyr, he would have to die. Why not leave him as an “object lesson” to all those anti-choice whackjobs you speak of, and teach them the lesson of real legislation, and not vigilante activism. His work is done at a reprehensible degree–when he could have spent his time stating his beliefs in a more pro-active, acceptable, and beneficial manner.
F.Y.I.
Although Kansas HAS the death penalty, it has been much more reluctant than Delaware to exercise it. I don’t believe they’ve had an execution since the 1970’s.
And, of course, truly “consistent” pro-lifers (you have many more of these in states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin) oppose both abortion rights and capital punishment with equal fervor and would regard the doctor and Roeder with equal contempt.
Allan Loudell
WDEL Radio
Thanks Allan. From reading the WSJ article, it seems that the death penalty was not even requested by the prosecution. I was wondering why that was, and if the current state of affairs in Kansas is that they do not impose the death penalty even though it can be proscribed, than that would explain it.
I’d like to be on record as objecting to “pro-life” applied EVER to a man who shot down a person in church. The correct term would be “anti-choice” imo.
let us not forget this jihad was called by Bill-O. This redneck scum may have pulled the trigger, but Bill is the voice behind this movement of hate. Tiller the Killer…. Go to Hell, Bill.
“The correct term would be “anti-choice” imo.”
How about anti-liberal? That gives me a Chris Matthews thrill up my leg. What’s it do for you?
What gives you a thrill? Killing your political opponents like your hero, the terrorist?
I don’t think anyone has to worry about him in jail….they will take care of him, just like they do pedophiles.And Ole Billy Oreilly still has his job?
Please do not judge harshly. The decision that he made was informed by many hours of deliberation, not upon the man Dr. Tiller was, or who the pregnant women were, or why they were there, but upon the children who might-have-been. To some, those “souls” are most worthy of mourning, because they represent not the truncated life of a person who dies too soon, but an entire lost future of a person who never gets to exist.
This sentimental impulse is easy to understand. Humans who live, who exist, have sinned. Those who never get to be born are innocent, at least in the minds of those who claim to speak for them. (Though they should be innocent, by doctrine they exist through an act of “original sin,” that is, the evil-because-pleasurable act of procreation.)
Those who preach jihad do not know which disturbed souls will heed their call. Those who preach “life” might not mean for their words to be interpreted to mean death; are they therefore less culpable?
Mercy should be shown, saith the prophet. We must show the sinners their mistakes, so they cannot claim they know not what they do.
And Dr. Tiller just gets to be dead, right? Just because many hours of deliberation went into his murder, eh? We should show mercy to Roeder because he was driven by a “noble” cause to protect the innocent?
And those who preach jihad do know that disturbed souls will heed their call, because that is the point of preaching jihad.
I am sorry, Mr. Sele, but I will judge harshly. If you are pro-life, then you must be pro-life. Consistently. The reason I have absolutely no respect for pro-lifers is that they preach and celebrate death. They want to kill doctors and nurses. Most of them are pro-death penalty. And to be sure many pro-lifers were very supportive of the Iraq War, which killed hundreds of thousands of innocents. And some think 150,000 Haitians deserved to die because they were somehow insufficiently Christian, even though they are 95% Christian.
Oh, no. That sounds bad. I can’t understand. gochristian shoes
Have to post under a totally anonymous name for a few reasons. I originally was going to post in response to Allan, but couldn’t do this at work. Del Dem, thanks for bringing up the same point.
“Consistent” pro-lifers are hard to find, at least the kind that make a lot of noise. Check the web sites of the American Life League, Delaware Right to Life, A Rose and a Prayer, Human Life International, Americans United for Life and scores of others. I couldn’t find one that mentions capital punishment as one of the issues they are concerned with. Euthanasia, yes, but not capital punishment.
Mention Cardinal Bernardin’s seamless garment to them and they snicker and dismiss you. Ever see one of them protesting in Smyrna when an inmate meets his maker? Didn’t think so.
And that’s the problem I have with organizations that call themselves pro-life. They are only selectively pro-life. Health care for all, capital punishment, living wages are all life issues to me, but they are not in these groups’ vocabulary. Their beliefs do not bother me, whether I agree with them or not. Everyone is entitled to believe in whatever he or she wants. But if they’d just call themselves what they are — anti-abortion or whatever — I’d have a lot more respect for them.
I don’t see how one can call themselves pro-life if they ignore the needs of the living, breathing woman. I’ve also noticed that most “pro-life” people are really just “pro-pregnancy” and have the attitude that baby = punishment.
The Good General J.C. Christian refers to them as the “Coerced Childbirth” movement. I cannot go with the pro-life/pro-choice labels. Most of the “pro-choice” people I know show a greater realm of overall compassion to human beings (aid to the hungry, sick, destitute) than most of the “pro-life” people who seem to invoke judgement. Fundamentalism, be it Muslim, Christian, Political, etc., always creates a paradox with itself.
I didn’t see many of these so-called pro-life people protesting the war in Iraq. Plenty of children died in that.