ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>OnlineColumnist®.com: Duke's Damage Control</title> <meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive 4"> <style type="text/css"> .style2 { font-size: x-large; } .style3 { text-align: left; } .style4 { font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; } .style5 { font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; } </style> </head> <body bgcolor="white" vlink="black"> <center> <table cool width="624" height="2719" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" gridx="16" showgridx gridy="16" showgridy> <tr height="79"> <td width="116" height="118" rowspan="2" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"><a href="aboutdiscobolos.html"><img height="110" width="62" src="images/discobolos.logo.transp.gif" border="0"></a></td> <td width="24" height="118" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="465" height="79" colspan="2" valign="top" align="left" xpos="140"><img height="75" width="450" src="images/banner.GIF"></td> <td width="18" height="118" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="1" height="79"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="79"></td> </tr> <tr height="39"> <td width="182" height="39"></td> <td width="283" height="39" valign="top" align="left" xpos="322"><a href="aboutdiscobolos.html"><img height="14" width="267" src="images/divisionofNEW.GIF" border="0"></a></td> <td width="1" height="39"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="39"></td> </tr> <tr height="26"> <td width="624" height="26" colspan="6" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"> <table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="black" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td> <table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#99ffcc" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr> <td align="center"> <div align="left"> <a href="index.html"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"><strong> HOME</strong></font></a><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"><strong> &#8226; <a href="articlesindex.html">ARTICLES</a> &#8226; <a href="books.html">BOOKS</a> &#8226; <a href="teflon.html"> THE </a><a href="teflon.html">TEFLON</a><a href="teflon.html"> REPORT</a> &#8226; <a href="mailto:letters@onlinecolumnist.com"> REACTIONS</a> &#8226; <a href="aboutdiscobolos.html">ABOUT DISCOBOLOS</a></strong></font></div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr height="1"> <td width="116" height="2574" rowspan="2" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"><img height="172" width="111" src="images/johninframe3.jpg"></td> <td width="489" height="1" colspan="3"></td> <td width="18" height="2574" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="1" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr height="2573"> <td width="489" height="2573" colspan="3" align="left" xpos="116" content valign="top" csheight="2573"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="5"><b> <br /> Abortion Killers</b></font><p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b> by John M. Curtis<br> (310) 204-8700</b><br> </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><i>Copyright June 2, 2009<br> All Rights Reserved.</i></font></p> <p><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="style2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span class="style5">G</span>unned down 10:00 a.m. in the lobby of Wichita, Kansas Reformation Lutheran Church, famed 67-year-old abortion doctor George Tiller died for the cause of defending Roe v. Wade, guaranteeing woman the right to abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Tiller had survived an attempted assassination August 19, 1993 by Shelly Shannon, who shot Tiller in both arms. He completed med school at the University of Kansas, expecting to specialize in dermatology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>When his parents, sister and brother-in-law were killed in a tragic plane crash, George decided to forego dermatology residency and join his father s medical clinic known, before Roe v. Wade, for performing abortions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Tiller was the subject of 28 segments on Fox News  The O Reilly Factor, prompting the show host, Bill O Reilly, to warn of Tiller&#39;s  Judgment Day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>President Barack Obama said he was  shocked and outraged by Tiller&#39;s murder.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>O Reilly hyped the so-called  partial-birth or late-term abortions, highlighting Tiller s inhumane treatment of developed fetuses, prompting conservative Web sites to disseminate Tiller s heinous  crimes to pro-life groups around the globe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Tiller became O Reilly s poster-boy for all that s evil in pro-choice medicine, placing womens needs above evangelical churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span> However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence, said Barack, well-aware that analogous right-wing groups are currently demonizing him as a leftist, hell-bent on destroying the U.S. Constitution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Those are the same haters that hyped John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in Washington s Ford Theatre April 14, 1865, less than three years after he signed the first Emancipation Proclamation Sept. 22, 1862.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Anti-abortionist have become today s anti-abolitionists, filled with the same hate that leads to violence and murder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Tiller s death was no accident when you consider the anti-abortion movement, glorifying the names and reputations of patriotic warriors in the twilight struggle against the Supreme Court s landmark 1973 Roe. v. Wade ruling, legalizing abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Tiller s clinic was bombed in 1986 and blockaded in Operation Rescue s 1991  Summer of Mercy campaign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Responding to Tiller s death, Operation Rescue s founder Randall Terry said Tiller  was a mass murder, and horrificly, he reaped what he sowed, displaying the fanaticism that puts anti-abortion groups on the same page as Islamic terrorists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Fanatics like Terry have a perfect excuse to condone violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Calling Tiller  one of the villains of history, Terry equates him with mass murders like Adolf Hitler.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Terry was recently arrested protesting Obama s appearance at Notre Dame University, where he received an honorary doctor of laws degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Terry and other pro-life fanatics believe abortion is murder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span> The thought of him leaving this life with blood on his hands for having killed so many thousands of children and not having been prepared to meet his maker is a dreadful, terrifying thought, said Terry, showing no sympathy for Terry s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Terry, and other extremists, don t differentiate between embryos and fetuses, calling them all God s children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Whether you agree or disagree with Roe v. Wade, it s currently the law of the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Anti-abortion groups should try lobbying the Supreme Court, not bombing abortion clinics or doctors that operate under current U.S. laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>During the reign of former President George W. Bush, pro-lifers had an ally in the Oval Office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Fleeing in a Ford Taurus, a 51-year-old unnamed suspect was taken into custody without incident by two Johnson County sheriff s deputies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span> We took him down without incident, said Johnson County Sheriff s spokesman Lt Mike Ptannenstiel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Sedgwick County District Attorney intends to charge the suspect with First Degree murder at his arraignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Wichita Police have requested a backup investigation with the FBI and Kansas Board of Investigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Despite the denials, both need to determine whether or not Operation Rescue or some other extremist pro-life group collaborated in Tiller s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>  Today we mourn the loss of our husband, father and grandfather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Today s event is an unspeakable tragedy for all of us and for George s friends and patients, read a family s statement by attorneys Dan Monnat and Lee Thomson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Judging by Terry s reaction, the FBI has some unfinished work.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Tiller s assassination illustrates everything s that s wrong with today s abortion debate .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Right wing groups and related media need to come to grips with the kind of incitement that pushes sociopaths and garden-variety psychotics into violent acts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Whether opposed to Roe v. Wade or not, it s the law of the land, requiring responsible physicians, regardless of religious beliefs, to perform medical procedures at the request of patients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Judges and juries must understand that there s nothing mitigating about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>extreme pro-life beliefs that view licensed doctors as mass murderers for performing legal medical procedures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Law enforcement and the courts must punish killers to the full extent of the law, offering no mitigating circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Fanatics, like Terry, see themselves at war with a determined enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>No matter how righteous the cause, they&#39;re still domestic terrorists.</p> <p class="style3"> &nbsp;<span class="style4">About the Author</span></p> <p class="style3"> &nbsp;<b>John M. Curtis</b> writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news.&nbsp; He's editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of <a href="books.html">Dodging The Bullet </a>and <a href="books.htnl">Operation Charisma</a>.</p> </td> <td width="1" height="2573"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="2573"></td> </tr> <tr height="1" cntrlrow> <td width="116" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="116" height="1"></td> <td width="24" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="24" height="1"></td> <td width="182" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="182" height="1"></td> <td width="283" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="283" height="1"></td> <td width="18" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="18" height="1"></td> <td width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="597"> <tr> <td><font size="1" face="Arial,Geneva,Helvetica"> <hr noshade size="1"> </font><a href="index.html"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"><strong> Homene.net" target="_blank"><img height="30" width="138" src="images/cmelogoANIM.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></font></p> </div> <p><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">&copy;1999-2002 <a href="aboutdiscobolos.html">Discobolos Consulting Services, Inc.</a><br> (310) 204-8300<br> All Rights Reserved. </font></td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>