The Enemy From Within
Doctor George Tiller was gunned down this past Sunday while ushering at his church service, in Wichita Kansas. He was struck down by a bullet, fired from a gun used by an anti-abortionist loon named Scott Roeder. Dr. Tiller leaves behind his wife, four children and ten grandchildren. The following is his obituary from;
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=george-tiller&pid=127922039
Dr. George Tiller
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) รข€” When George Tiller was young he dreamed not of being one of the most visible and strident advocates for abortion rights, but of becoming a dermatologist. The 67-year-old physician, who was shot and killed Sunday in his church, had said his path was altered by a 1970 plane crash that killed his father, mother, sister and brother-in-law. The former Navy flight surgeon was left with his father's family practice in Wichita, and he soon learned a secret. One of his father's patients asked him whether he, like his father, would perform abortions. At first, Tiller said, he did not believe his father had risked his medical license by performing then-illegal abortions. But after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortions in 1973, Tiller began providing them. By the time he was killed, his clinic, Women's Health Care Services, was among just three in the nation to perform abortions after 21 weeks of pregnancy, when the fetus is considered viable. He was a focus of abortion opponents for years, most peaceful, some violent. "George dedicated his life to providing women with high-quality health care despite frequent threats and violence," his Tiller's widow, four children and 10 grandchildren said in a statement. They called him "a good husband, father and grandfather and a dedicated servant on behalf of the rights of women everywhere." Tiller's clinic was bombed in 1985, and he was shot in both arms in 1993 by abortion protester Rachelle "Shelley" Shannon of Grants Pass, Ore. In 1991, the Summer of Mercy protests organized by Operation Rescue drew thousands of anti-abortion activists to Wichita for demonstrations marked by civil disobedience and mass arrests. Federal marshals protected Tiller during the Summer of Mercy protests, and he was protected again between 1994 and 1998 after another abortion provider was assassinated and federal authorities reported finding his name on an assassination list. The women's clinic is fortified with bulletproof glass, and Tiller hired a private security team to protect the facility. Once outside the clinic, Tiller was usually seen accompanied by a bodyguard. Anti-abortion groups condemned Tiller's slaying. "We value life, completely deplore violence, and are shocked and very upset by what happened in Wichita today," said Mary Kay Culp, executive director of the anti-abortion group Kansans for Life. Tiller in 1997 said his "gifts of understanding" helped him bring a service to women that aided them in making their dreams of a happy, healthy family a reality. Tiller, who in his later years largely shunned interviews and public appearances amid his family's increasing fear of violence against him, said abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition. But he said the issue was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born. "Prenatal testing without prenatal choices is medical fraud," Tiller once said. Tiller contended that he pioneered the use of sonogram imaging during procedures, a process that has since been adopted by abortion providers nationwide. In 2002, Tiller founded ProKanDo, a state political action committee, to help elect abortion rights supporters and support abortion-friendly legislation. His resume includes the National Abortion Federation's highest honor, The Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award, as well as the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights' Faith and Freedom Award
Dr. Tiller never asked for the notoriety he received. He was a dedicated physician who only wished to provide the services, allowed by law, to patients with an extreme circumstance. However, over the years, Dr. Tiller has been harassed, threatened and assaulted both physically and through reputation by the likes of Anti-abortion Terrorist Randall Terry and Fox News Goon and buffoon Bill O’Reilly.
Dr. Tiller never asked for the notoriety he received. He was a dedicated physician who only wished to provide the services, allowed by law, to patients with an extreme circumstance. However, over the years, Dr. Tiller has been harassed, threatened and assaulted both physically and through reputation by the likes of Anti-abortion Terrorist Randall Terry and Fox News Goon and buffoon Bill O’Reilly.
This is a quote from Randall Terry, in regard to, Dr. Tiller’s death; http://www.earnedmedia.org/sftj0531.htm
WASHINGTON, May 31 /Christian Newswire/ -- Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, led protests against George Tiller's late-term abortion clinic in Wichita in 1991.
Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue states, "George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder. And we still must call abortion by its proper name; murder.
"Those men and women who slaughter the unborn are murderers according to the Law of God. We must continue to expose them in our communities and peacefully protest them at their offices and homes, and yes, even their churches."
Randall Terry is the founder of Operation Rescue. This, in my opinion, is a domestic terrorist organization with branches throughout the United States, including to my dismay, Boston Massachusetts, where I live. Mr. Terry has lived a very hypocritical life himself. Through divorcing his wife of nineteen years and disowning a homosexual son, who helped him in his failed attempt at public office, this domestic terrorist attempts to push his warped values onto the public stage;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Terry
During my research, I have observed Operation Rescue shutdown their websites to change their content when they come back on line. For such Christian people, why do they hide their content now? Because, Operation Rescue and Randall Terry deliberately post hateful remarks with the objective of finding some weak minded fool like Terrorist Assassin Scott Roeder, to do their dirty terrorist deeds for them. However, they are cowards that can not stand up and admit what they are.
As for Bill O’Reilly, the following article says it all;
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7ZHM1F1rpPm8LkF12gyc--_LUTQD98IQJU00
Tiller killing puts spotlight on Fox's O'Reilly
By DAVID BAUDER – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller has put Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly in the media spotlight because of stories he did about the Kansas doctor over the past few years.
Liberal commentators have questioned whether O'Reilly's words, including calling the doctor "Tiller the baby killer," were too incendiary. O'Reilly condemned Tiller's killing and said his opponents are exploiting the murder to attack Fox and stifle criticism of people like Tiller.
Tiller was gunned down Sunday while at church services in Wichita. He had operated a clinic that was one of three in the nation to perform abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy, when the fetus is considered viable, and had survived a previous shooting.
O'Reilly said on his first show after the killing that "quick-thinking Americans" should condemn it.
"Anarchy and vigilantism will assure the collapse of any society," he said. "Once the rule of law breaks down a country is finished."
Before Tiller's death, O'Reilly had talked about him on his top-rated "The O'Reilly Factor" some 29 times since February 2005, according to Salon magazine Monday.
Twice he sent producers to Kansas to report on the story. In June 2007, Fox's Porter Barry confronted Tiller in the street and asked, "they call you Tiller the baby killer. Is that appropriate?" Tiller was shown calling 911 and saying he was being accosted by an O'Reilly producer. Last July, Fox's Jesse Waters followed then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in the street to ask about Tiller.
Salon's Gabriel Winant wrote that "O'Reilly didn't tell anyone to do anything violent, but he did put Tiller in the public eye, and help make him the focus of a movement with a history of violence against exactly these kinds of targets."
Frank Schaeffer, who with his father Francis in the 1980s said that force could sometimes be justified in fighting abortions, wrote in The Huffington Post that he and the religious right "all contributed to this killing by our foolish and incendiary words. I am very sorry."
O'Reilly's frequent foil, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, cited Schaeffer's column Monday night and said Fox News also deserves part of the blame. He called for people to ask managers to change the channel when Fox News is played in bars, restaurants or waiting rooms, and to explain why they are walking out if they don't.
"We must again make the world safe for people who are condemned by Fox News Channel," he said on the air.
This year so far, O'Reilly averages 3.3 million viewers each weeknight, while Olbermann has 1.3 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.
A Fox News spokeswoman didn't respond to requests for comment about Olbermann's call for a Fox "quarantine."
When he heard about the Tiller murder, O'Reilly said on his show Monday that he "knew that pro-abortion zealots and Fox News haters would attempt to blame us for the crime and that's exactly what happened." An example he cited was Kansas City Star columnist Mike Hendricks, who wrote on Sunday that anyone who called Tiller a "baby killer" was an accomplice to the murder. Hendricks' online post did not mention O'Reilly or Fox specifically.
O'Reilly said that he had never incited people to do anything, and that he wished he heard more compassion expressed by some of these critics for the aborted fetuses.
"I'm coming at it from a factual point of view," O'Reilly said. "The man aborted 60,000 fetuses, potential human beings, all right? Human beings to some, not human beings to others but to everyone 60,000 potential human beings were aborted by the man who made millions doing it. To me, that's unconscionable. As an American, I have a right to say that."
The issue drew considerable public comment on Web sites.
The Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz wrote about the commentary that O'Reilly bears some responsibility for the killing but said he wasn't going to join the attack.
"It is perfectly fair to hold the Fox News host accountable for his words and to question whether he has gone too far in personally assailing Tiller time and time again," he wrote. "But is it his fault if some abortion hating-fanatic decides to kill another human being?"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7ZHM1F1rpPm8LkF12gyc--_LUTQD98IQJU00
Tiller killing puts spotlight on Fox's O'Reilly
By DAVID BAUDER – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller has put Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly in the media spotlight because of stories he did about the Kansas doctor over the past few years.
Liberal commentators have questioned whether O'Reilly's words, including calling the doctor "Tiller the baby killer," were too incendiary. O'Reilly condemned Tiller's killing and said his opponents are exploiting the murder to attack Fox and stifle criticism of people like Tiller.
Tiller was gunned down Sunday while at church services in Wichita. He had operated a clinic that was one of three in the nation to perform abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy, when the fetus is considered viable, and had survived a previous shooting.
O'Reilly said on his first show after the killing that "quick-thinking Americans" should condemn it.
"Anarchy and vigilantism will assure the collapse of any society," he said. "Once the rule of law breaks down a country is finished."
Before Tiller's death, O'Reilly had talked about him on his top-rated "The O'Reilly Factor" some 29 times since February 2005, according to Salon magazine Monday.
Twice he sent producers to Kansas to report on the story. In June 2007, Fox's Porter Barry confronted Tiller in the street and asked, "they call you Tiller the baby killer. Is that appropriate?" Tiller was shown calling 911 and saying he was being accosted by an O'Reilly producer. Last July, Fox's Jesse Waters followed then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in the street to ask about Tiller.
Salon's Gabriel Winant wrote that "O'Reilly didn't tell anyone to do anything violent, but he did put Tiller in the public eye, and help make him the focus of a movement with a history of violence against exactly these kinds of targets."
Frank Schaeffer, who with his father Francis in the 1980s said that force could sometimes be justified in fighting abortions, wrote in The Huffington Post that he and the religious right "all contributed to this killing by our foolish and incendiary words. I am very sorry."
O'Reilly's frequent foil, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, cited Schaeffer's column Monday night and said Fox News also deserves part of the blame. He called for people to ask managers to change the channel when Fox News is played in bars, restaurants or waiting rooms, and to explain why they are walking out if they don't.
"We must again make the world safe for people who are condemned by Fox News Channel," he said on the air.
This year so far, O'Reilly averages 3.3 million viewers each weeknight, while Olbermann has 1.3 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.
A Fox News spokeswoman didn't respond to requests for comment about Olbermann's call for a Fox "quarantine."
When he heard about the Tiller murder, O'Reilly said on his show Monday that he "knew that pro-abortion zealots and Fox News haters would attempt to blame us for the crime and that's exactly what happened." An example he cited was Kansas City Star columnist Mike Hendricks, who wrote on Sunday that anyone who called Tiller a "baby killer" was an accomplice to the murder. Hendricks' online post did not mention O'Reilly or Fox specifically.
O'Reilly said that he had never incited people to do anything, and that he wished he heard more compassion expressed by some of these critics for the aborted fetuses.
"I'm coming at it from a factual point of view," O'Reilly said. "The man aborted 60,000 fetuses, potential human beings, all right? Human beings to some, not human beings to others but to everyone 60,000 potential human beings were aborted by the man who made millions doing it. To me, that's unconscionable. As an American, I have a right to say that."
The issue drew considerable public comment on Web sites.
The Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz wrote about the commentary that O'Reilly bears some responsibility for the killing but said he wasn't going to join the attack.
"It is perfectly fair to hold the Fox News host accountable for his words and to question whether he has gone too far in personally assailing Tiller time and time again," he wrote. "But is it his fault if some abortion hating-fanatic decides to kill another human being?"
Rupert Murdoch is the owner of Fox News and is just as culpable. I firmly believe in Freedom of Speech but, the Fox News Network abuses this freedom and promotes hatred, bigotry and terrorism by purposely engaging in programming that instigates, propagandizes and subverts the true spirit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This man is the modern day Joseph Goebbels who should be stripped of his FCC licensing and prosecuted along with the Stepford Anchor People and Commentators he employs. Rupert Murdoch, Bill O’Reilly and Randall Terry pulled the trigger on that gun just as much as Scott Roeder did.
As for Scott Roeder, I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Looking into his background and seeing his activism, he is a cancer in this society that was bred by the people I have mentioned. The sad part is there are others just like him, waiting for their moment, to poison our way of life. This all being fed by the terrorists within.
That’s How I See It.
Websites of reference;
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/kansas.doctor.killed.charges/index.html
http://www.christianadc.org/news-and-articles/171-dr-gary-cass-signs-petition-in-support-of-families-in-romania
http://www.christianadc.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/us/02tiller.html?hp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Newman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Terry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rescue/Operation_Save_America
http://themoderatevoice.com/33804/suspect-in-murder-of-dr-tiller-allegedly-member-of-operation-rescue-forum/
http://www.earnedmedia.org/sftj0531.htm
http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/
http://elitestv.com/pub/2009/05/tiller-killed-dr-george-tiller-operation-rescue-late-term-abortion-procedure-doctor-murdered
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5755669
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ZzTSMfjbUlsJ:www.operationrescue.org/pray-in-may-to-end-aboriton-wichita-ks-may-17-20-2007/+%22scott+roeder%22+kansas&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://www.operationrescue.org/archives/links/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33811_Tiller_Murder_Suspect_Identified_Posted_at_Operation_Rescue
http://www.chargetiller.com/petition.html?jne19e75ff=70#jotnave19e75ff978adf5f2f83737fafec6bd3
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=george-tiller&pid=127922039
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7ZHM1F1rpPm8LkF12gyc--_LUTQD98IQJU00
That’s How I See It.
Websites of reference;
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/kansas.doctor.killed.charges/index.html
http://www.christianadc.org/news-and-articles/171-dr-gary-cass-signs-petition-in-support-of-families-in-romania
http://www.christianadc.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/us/02tiller.html?hp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Newman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Terry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rescue/Operation_Save_America
http://themoderatevoice.com/33804/suspect-in-murder-of-dr-tiller-allegedly-member-of-operation-rescue-forum/
http://www.earnedmedia.org/sftj0531.htm
http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/
http://elitestv.com/pub/2009/05/tiller-killed-dr-george-tiller-operation-rescue-late-term-abortion-procedure-doctor-murdered
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5755669
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ZzTSMfjbUlsJ:www.operationrescue.org/pray-in-may-to-end-aboriton-wichita-ks-may-17-20-2007/+%22scott+roeder%22+kansas&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://www.operationrescue.org/archives/links/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33811_Tiller_Murder_Suspect_Identified_Posted_at_Operation_Rescue
http://www.chargetiller.com/petition.html?jne19e75ff=70#jotnave19e75ff978adf5f2f83737fafec6bd3
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=george-tiller&pid=127922039
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7ZHM1F1rpPm8LkF12gyc--_LUTQD98IQJU00
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