The jury just declared Scott Roeder guilty of murdering abortion provider De. George Tiller at a Wichita, Kansas, church on May 31, 2009.
The decision was made after 40 minutes of deliberation.
Roeder admitted he committed the crime during three hours of testimony. Any possibility of Roeder being convicted of a lesser crime, such as manslaughter, was eliminated Thursday when the judge ruled that the only charge that could be considered was murder. The jury could only decide between guilty and not guilty on that charge.
Both sides made their closing arguments this morning, with the prosecution pounding home the fact that Roeder admitted he committed the crime, that the crime was obviously planned out beforehand (Roeder testified that he considered killing Tiller on several earlier occasions.
Stripped of the possibility of arguing that Roeder was guilty of a lesser offense, his attorney argued that Roeder was simply following the path of civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who broke laws for the greater good. Of course, the defense attorney failed to mention that Mrs. Parks and Dr. King's lawbreaking was always done in a non-violent fashion.
After the judge's decision to remove consideration of the lesser offense as far as Dr. Tiller's killing was concerned, the only question mark remaining in the case was how the jury would handle assault charges filed against Roeder for the other people who were shot, but not killed, by Roeder. Roeder was also found guilty on the assault charges.
Even that doubt had been pretty much removed after Roeder admitted that he also committed those crimes.
Court officials, concerned about the possibility of violence in the wake of the verdict, had added extra security, including bomb-sniffing dogs. The courtroom is surrounded by anti-abortion activists, who are offering a show of support for Roeder.
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Quit whining, Turner. Roeder shot and killed 'Tiller the Killer' and so if a new regime comes along likely Roeder will be granted a pardon and a pension.
All this does is to legitimize and politicise killing. Tiller the Baby Killer got a free pass to murder babies on the ground that they weren't human and so now Roeder on the other side killed a legalized murderer. So all that awaits is who is in power to decide who gets rewarded for killing the enemies of the state and who gets punished for killing the states' killers.
So all it is now is that killing and violence to achieve political and religious ends is acceptable. Randy Turner is merely whining about how what goes around came around to Tiller the Baby Killer.
At times, I am amnzed at the kind of jerks who leave comments on my blog. Anyone who has followed my work for the past 30 years is aware that I have pro-life beliefs. That extends to not taking a gun and killing people. I find the late-term abortions that George Tiller provided despicable, but I also find it despicable to shoot someone to death (especially in front of his family and in a church). A not guilty verdict for Roeder, would have been an open invitation for more violence.
How much better and effective to pray that those people who participate in abortions would have a change of heart...like Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood Director in Texas. After being asked to help with an abortion and seeing the image of the baby trying to move away from the probe, she realized what was really going on, walked out and is now pro-life. Her actions will have far-reaching results. Imagine the huge impact on the abortion industry if Dr. Tiller could have been convinced that abortion does indeed end the life of a human being.
I really fail to see why you are so amazed at all the kinds of people who leave disparaging remarks on the blog of a poseur, a liar, a hypocrite, a moral leper like yourself, Turner. After all, like all politicians and those pretending to an odor of sanctimony who end up getting caught and then run off of the trough, you as a journalist and editor were run off by popular demand and now are peddling your liberal wares to a captive audience those too young and innocent to see you for what you are. You Turner, perform an abortion of the minds and spirits of our young.
Your whining reminds me of the story by an honest homosexual named Oscar Wilde, about this character named Dorian Gray who had a picture made of himself and every time Dorian did something evil and vicious the portrait would age and corrupt, leaving Dorian Gray as young and handsome as ever. It got so that pore Dorian couldn't bear to look at the picture because even when Dorian wanted to be good, the hypocrisy would still leave its mark. Dorian murders quite a few people, including the painter of the portrait, blaming him for getting his wish that the portrait would age and corrupt while Dorian sinned with a fresh face to the world.
So Dorian Turner, the comments section of this blog is is your portrait, and yet you whine like a wuss when some of us use our artistry to paint you like we really see you.
Tiller the Baby Killer murdered tens of thousands of infants, some of them illegally for which he was about to undergo a trial and for which he was protected by then governor Sibelius and others. Tiller the Killer got anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars for performing these murders. And all the way protected by thinking, correctly, that he would be morally backed up by pius degenerates like yourself yapping about how they wish that these babies didn't have to die for the convenience of sluts raised no better in the public schools.
You even had so-called Christian churches which honored Tiller's good deeds. Why as if Jesus Christ came to save the shriveled raisin soul of an abortionist murdering for profit over ten-thousand unborn infants who never did anything bad in their unfinished lives. A pity that Roeder didn't go into these temples of Satan and perform a post-natal abortion on every single one of these evildoer enablers of Tiller the Killer's.
No, Dorian Turner, some of us have eyes so that we do see, and some of us have a nose that we do smell the stench of evil regardless of how much attar of liberalism you drench yourself with in order to hide your true nature. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living, but I can well suspect that sometimes even the strongest-stomached moral jackal doesn't want to and cannot stomach peering dead-on into the Picture of Dorian Turner.
Well 3:31 that was a pretty good speech. It seems you can talk but apparently you cannot read. Randy expressed his views on the post before hand but you accused him of just the opposite. Which means you do not have a clue what he stands for but it was an opportunity to say what you want. At least learn to read.
No, Liar 6:32 am and Dorian Turner, there is no inability to read on my part, but rather simply that some of us get to where we learn to discount lies. Simply because you claim to be against abortion because it is indefensible morally to claim that you are in favor of murdering those who are innocent, and then whine because some MAN kills a murderer of those babies that he is a murderer for killing a killer, then in reality you are indeed for murder, but wish to try to fool the idiotic and morally decrepit.
When being talked down to by politicians, lawyers and journalists, the wise don't pay much attention to what these criminals say, but rather what they do.
The social order is decaying and falling apart simply because there no longer is anything keeping us together. We no longer believe the common lies, we no longer have any interest in remaining together, we are simply incompatible. What we do is hate and despise each other and so soon enough we will be tearing each other apart. We are no longer able to live in peace with each other.
I think that if this Scott Roeder lives to see the new nation which shall emerge, that he will be granted a pardon and recognized as a hero by those of us who appreciated him putting an end to the murder of innocents. Of course, there is no place for either Turner, nor yourself, Anonymous 6:32, any more than there is a place for the innocent in your wicked evil heart of mud.
Who gets to live and who gets to die will be determined the old fashioned way -- by those willing to take a stand and willing to use violence to enforce their morality upon others. I suspect that the new order of things will not have any use for lies and hypocrisy, or those who tell such, as such are the trademarks of those who love the old Sodom and Gomorrah of today.
I applaud the comeback of the politics of the gun.
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