Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Clinic Firebombed

As right wingers continue stoking a climate of fear
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I’ll come right out and say it. I believe that the religious right and the Republican Party’s irresponsible, dishonest rhetorical attacks on Planned Parenthood — including Mitt Romney’s statement that he’d “end Planned Parenthood” — are responsible for real-world violent attacks like this. The entire GOP is now united in this ugly misogynistic rhetoric, and the violence will almost certainly get worse the more these people stoke the fires of irrational rage: Police: Explosive Device Goes Off at Planned Parenthood Clinic in Grand Chute.

GRAND CHUTE — A homemade explosive device placed outside a Planned Parenthood clinic on Sunday ignited a fire that caused minor damage to an examination room.

Firefighters were called Sunday about 7:40 p.m. to check an alarm and in turn contacted police. The device, which had been placed on an outside windowsill, exploded and ignited a small fire that burned out prior to the arrival of firefighters.

Police Chief Greg Peterson said officers hadn’t heard of any threats against the clinic prior to the incident or received information to suggest the clinic is at further risk.

The device was built of a plastic bottle and chemical agents and “included agents of an incendiary quality,” Peterson said.

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83 comments
1 Obdicut  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:28:07am

At least nobody dead this time. But they won't quit. They'll keep bombing and killing abortion doctors.

2 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:28:44am

re: #1 Obdicut

At least nobody dead this time. But they won't quit. They'll keep bombing and killing abortion doctors.

And intimidating staff and clients.

3 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:29:55am

Jimmy Carter doesn't think Jesus Christ would have approved abortion. I hope he thinks the same about bombing an abortion clinic.

4 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:30:01am

I believe that's known as 'terrorism'.

5 Gus  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:30:54am

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

Jimmy Carter doesn't think Jesus Christ would have approved abortion. I hope he thinks the same about bombing an abortion clinic.

What does Jimmy Carter have to do with this?

6 makeitstop  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:31:04am

This is reprehensible. The GOP has created the climate in which people think they're permitted to try things like this.

Hoping against hope that the major candidates denounce this type of thing.

I won't hold my breath, though.

7 allegro  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:31:27am

re: #4 wrenchwench

I believe that's known as 'terrorism'.

I believe it is the very definition of terrorism.

8 Obdicut  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:31:49am

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

Jimmy Carter doesn't think Jesus Christ would have approved abortion. I hope he thinks the same about bombing an abortion clinic.

Why mention Jimmy Carter, and not focus on the recent push against abortion rights by the GOP-- you know, people who actually have power?

9 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:32:06am

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

Jimmy Carter doesn't think Jesus Christ would have approved abortion. I hope he thinks the same about bombing an abortion clinic.

Is this a thread called "Jimmy Carter's views on stuff"?

10 Obdicut  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:32:25am

re: #6 makeitstop

Oh sure, they'll denounce the violence, but not the words and ideas behind it. Just like they denounces Rush's language, but not the lies he was spreading.

11 makeitstop  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:32:40am

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

Jimmy Carter doesn't think Jesus Christ would have approved abortion. I hope he thinks the same about bombing an abortion clinic.

Calling a PP facility an 'abortion clinic' is disingenuous. The article says nothing about whether abortions were performed there.

12 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:33:36am

re: #5 Gus

What does Jimmy Carter have to do with this?

Nothing. But the wingnuts are falling all over themselves in a Jimmy Carter lovefest today because he said Jesus wouldn't approve of abortion and that the Dems need to quit talking about the issue.

13 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:33:48am

re: #5 Gus

What does Jimmy Carter have to do with this?

About the same as Mitt Romney, nothing. It looks like it was some domestic terrorist at the moment and we have no idea who put the idea in his or her head to plant a bomb.

14 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:33:50am

This will only make sense to Babylon 5 fans.

Emperor Turhan: How does it end?

Kosh: In fire.

15 blueraven  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:34:00am

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

Jimmy Carter doesn't think Jesus Christ would have approved abortion. I hope he thinks the same about bombing an abortion clinic.

How about all the other evangelicals? Do you hope they feel the same?
I dont think Jimmy Carter has ever espoused violence. So you comment is rather strange.

16 Simply Sarah  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:34:53am

Mmm...my hope is this is just an isolated incident by some wacko and not the start of another campaign of extreme violence like we saw back in the 90s. Yes, I know Tiller's murder was just a few years ago, but the open violence seemed to stop with him for the time.

17 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:36:02am

re: #11 makeitstop

Calling a PP facility an 'abortion clinic' is disingenuous propaganda. The article says nothing about whether abortions were performed there.

FTFY. Whether abortions were performed there or not, it's a health care facility.

18 Obdicut  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:36:22am

re: #16 Simply Sarah

Nope.

June 11, 2001: An unsolved bombing at a clinic in Tacoma, Washington destroyed a wall, resulting in $6,000 in damages.

July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson. The case remains open.

December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana. The device missed the building and no damage was caused. In August 2006, Hughes was sentenced to six years in prison, and Dunahoe to one year. Hughes claimed the bomb was a "memorial lamp" for an abortion she had had there.

September 13, 2006 David McMenemy of Rochester Hills, Michigan, crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions; however, Edgerton is not an abortion clinic.Time magazine listed the incident in a "Top 10 Inept Terrorist Plots" list.

April 25, 2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas, contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death. A bomb squad detonated the device after evacuating the building. Paul Ross Evans (who had a criminal record for armed robbery and theft) was found guilty of the crime.

May 9, 2007: An unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

December 6, 2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque. Altman's girlfriend had scheduled an appointment for an abortion at the clinic.

January 22, 2009 Matthew L. Derosia, 32, who was reported to have had a history of mental illness [36] rammed an SUV into the front entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota.

January 1, 2012 Bobby Joe Rogers, 41, firebombed the American Family Planning Clinic in Pensacola, Florida with a Molotov cocktail; the fire gutted the building. Rogers told investigators that he was motivated to commit the crime by his opposition to abortion, and that what more directly prompted the act was seeing a patient enter the clinic during one of the frequent anti-abortion protests there. The clinic had previously been bombed at Christmas in 1984 and was the site of the murder of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett in 1994.

19 Simply Sarah  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:36:25am

re: #11 makeitstop

Calling a PP facility an 'abortion clinic' is disingenuous. The article says nothing about whether abortions were performed there.

In fact, you can be almost certain that they weren't due to the hoops PP jumps through to keep abortions separate from their other work.

20 blueraven  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:36:29am

re: #13 NJDhockeyfan

About the same as Mitt Romney, nothing. It looks like it was some domestic terrorist at the moment and we have no idea who put the idea in his or her head to plant a bomb.

Except for the fact that Romney has said he would get rid of PP.

Which has nothing to do with the bombing of course, but it does have something to do with the war on PP.

21 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:36:32am

re: #6 makeitstop

This is reprehensible. The GOP has created the climate in which people think they're permitted to try things like this.

This is the consequence of the constant rhetoric about abortion being murder and abortion clinics being Holocaust sites. The GOP and the right have been fostering this kind of talk for decades and people are still surprised when some lunatic bombs a Planned Parenthood.

Hoping against hope that the major candidates denounce this type of thing.

I won't hold my breath, though.

If they denounce it they'll get called RINOs. Not a chance in hell that any of the candidates will denounce this, or if they do it will be in a way that blames Planned Parenthood for getting itself bombed.

22 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:37:19am

re: #17 wrenchwench

Plus there's no doubt where Jimmy Carter stands on bombing abortion clinics - or other healthcare facilities.

23 Gus  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:37:25am

re: #13 NJDhockeyfan

About the same as Mitt Romney, nothing. It looks like it was some domestic terrorist at the moment and we have no idea who put the idea in his or her head to plant a bomb.

You do realize who has been demonizing Planned Parenthood for the past few months, correct?

24 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:37:34am

We've got a whole lot of wackos here in Wisconsin. I do not expect this to end here - it will get worse when/if Scooter McCorrupt gets recalled and will really escalate when Obama gets re-elected.

And yet, people look at me funny when I say I have a CCW permit because of fascists...

25 shutdown  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:38:06am

re: #20 blueraven

Except for the fact that Romney has said he would get rid of PP.

Which has nothing to do with the bombing of course, but it does have something to do with the war on PPwomen and women's reproductive rights..

FTFY with your kind indulgence

26 Henchman 25  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:38:21am

I don't recall Jimmy Carter ever equating Planned Parenthood with genocide.

27 Simply Sarah  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:38:36am

re: #18 Obdicut

Nope.

Well, I stand corrected. Clearly the combination of my not paying too close attention until the last few years (I've been a late bloomer in many ways) and those attempts failing to directly do physical harm led to me not being aware of most of those events.

It also shows how much more work I need to do in researching and informing myself.

28 EdDantes  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:39:12am

Some people seem to want to hurt their own cause. It's a pathology.

29 Charles Johnson  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:39:50am

re: #13 NJDhockeyfan

About the same as Mitt Romney, nothing. It looks like it was some domestic terrorist at the moment and we have no idea who put the idea in his or her head to plant a bomb.

So it's your position that the constant, over the top incitement against Planned Parenthood has absolutely nothing to do with incidents like this. Ooohhhkay.

30 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:39:57am

re: #20 blueraven

Except for the fact that Romney has said he would get rid of PP.

Which has nothing to do with the bombing of course, but it does have something to do with the war on PP.

That's his opinion. I can't see where anyone would be influenced to bomb a Planned Parenthood building by his statement.

31 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:40:45am

They're just getting the primary there off with a bang

//

32 Archangelus  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:40:57am

Domestic terrorism, pure and simple.

33 shutdown  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:41:02am

re: #26 Sonic the Hedgehog

I don't recall Jimmy Carter ever equating Planned Parenthood with genocide.

No, but he is another one who claims to know exactly what Jesus Christ would do or think, and he is happy to get on with right wing pundits to voice his opinion.

34 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:41:11am

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

Nobody says Romney directly inspired him. But he is a part of the socon anti-PP propaganda front, and he is unashamed of it.

35 blueraven  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:41:14am

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

That's his opinion. I can't see where anyone would be influenced to bomb a Planned Parenthood building by his statement.

You really should learn to read and comprehend.

36 makeitstop  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:41:31am

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

That's his opinion. I can't see where anyone would be influenced to bomb a Planned Parenthood building by his statement.

Yeah, he's only the presumptive GOP nominee. Who could he possibly influence?

///

37 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:41:47am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

So it's your position that the constant, over the top incitement against Planned Parenthood has absolutely nothing to do with incidents like this. Ooohhhkay.

Not Mitt Romney's statement.

38 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:42:06am

re: #28 EdDantes

Some people seem to want to hurt their own cause. It's a pathology.

It's basic incitement. When politicians incite their followers, their outreach is not limited to experienced political operatives. The message reaches everyone from sane to insane and all points in between.

39 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:42:28am

According to the official PP site, the Grand Chute (Appleton North) location provides the following services: Abortion Services, LGBT Services, and Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception).

The choice of target likely relates to the fact that any (all) of those services provided are opposed by the GOP.

40 William of Orange  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:42:28am

Amercia really went the slippery slope as Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries were religious nutcases are trying to set the agenda on society.

What a terrible sad day it is, (again...)

41 Charles Johnson  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:42:31am

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

That's his opinion. I can't see where anyone would be influenced to bomb a Planned Parenthood building by his statement.

Pretty obviously, my point is NOT that Mitt Romney's statement alone caused this, and I think you know that. The entire right wing has been responsible for creating this charged up climate of fear, and Romney has participated in it, along with every GOP presidential candidate.

42 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:42:33am

re: #37 NJDhockeyfan

And yet, still right wing rhetoric for decades now.

43 Simply Sarah  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:42:50am

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

That's his opinion. I can't see where anyone would be influenced to bomb a Planned Parenthood building by his statement.

Did Romney call for people to bomb PP? No, he didn't. But he has taken part in the chorus demonizing the organization, which is the kind of thing that can help lead to this sort of act.

44 erik_t  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:42:52am

And not even 40 posts in, we're successfully derailed. Mission accomplished!

45 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:44:00am

re: #44 erik_t

And not even 40 posts in, we're successfully derailed. Mission accomplished!

I wouldn't call it a derailment. More like a case in point. Incitement is OK due to deniability.

46 darthstar  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:45:01am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

So it's your position that the constant, over the top incitement against Planned Parenthood has absolutely nothing to do with incidents like this. Ooohhhkay.

Mitt Romney said he wanted to end Planned Parenthood. One of his (or Santorum's) supporters tried to expedite that position with a fire bomb.

There is no separating the candidates from the actions of their followers.

47 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:45:20am

re: #44 erik_t

And not even 40 posts in, we're successfully derailed. Mission accomplished!

Not derailed. Just dealing with the denial of right-wing rhetoric having anything to do with PP getting bombed.

48 erik_t  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:45:28am

re: #45 wrenchwench

I wouldn't call it a derailment. More like a case in point. Incitement is OK due to deniability.

Jimmy Carter seems very much a derailment, but your mileage may vary.

49 jamesfirecat  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:45:43am

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

That's his opinion. I can't see where anyone would be influenced to bomb a Planned Parenthood building by his statement.

If there's one thing you can count on its that Mitt Romney has yet to inspire anyone with his words.

50 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:46:25am

Let's get it straight: there's nothing inherently controversial about PP. It's a benign organization from whatever angle. The opposition to PP is purely religious, or purely political, or a mix of those two. In all cases it's bad.

51 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:46:46am

re: #48 erik_t

Jimmy Carter seems very much a derailment, but your mileage may vary.

Carter was an attempt to invoke the MBF. The rest of it is just stark denial that anyone on the right could possibly hold any responsibility for what happened to PP.

You know, because political rhetoric about abortion being genocide and PP being responsible for a Holocaust exists in a vacuum.

52 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:47:12am

re: #50 Liberty Hedgehog (fka Freedom Alligator)

fxd

53 blueraven  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:47:24am

re: #37 NJDhockeyfan

Not Mitt Romney's statement.

No just Jimmy Carters imaginary questionable position. /

Mitt Romney is allowing himself to be led down the rabbit hole, he cant be too surprised to discover that it is dark and dirty down there.

54 Simply Sarah  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:48:16am

re: #46 darthstar

Mitt Romney said he wanted to end Planned Parenthood. One of his (or Santorum's) supporters tried to expedite that position with a fire bomb.

There is no separating the candidates from the actions of their followers.

I wouldn't go quite that far. Saying that unequivocally starts onto a very slippery slope where a politician cannot say anything negative about any person or group without being responsible for violence taken against the target. I think it's more nuanced than that.

55 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:48:25am

re: #49 jamesfirecat

If there's one thing you can count on its that Mitt Romney has yet to inspire anyone with his words.

Heh. I can't argue with that.

56 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:48:39am

re: #52 Liberty Hedgehog (fka Freedom Alligator)

fxd

Can I upding it again? I liked it both ways.

57 RadicalModerate  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:48:48am

re: #18 Obdicut

Nope.

Your list is missing at least one other incident.

July 27, 2011:
Molotov Cocktail Hurled Through McKinney Planned Parenthood

58 shutdown  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:48:54am

Romney did not call for the bombing of PP clinics. But Romney is just another power hungry, weak willed TP fellow traveller; a moral and political Quisling who sticks his finger into the wind of right wing public opinion before loudly giving voice to whatever opinion the Robertson wing of the GOP is feeding to the baying wingnut mob. The constant reinforcement of something as evil leads groups of people to attempt to eradicate that evil, and they do so in response to the persistent dog whistles of prominent politicians like Romney. He is not an unwitting tool, he is an active participant. If he had a shred of morality left in him, he would remove himself from the misogynistic religious right wing and clearly take a position in support of women's reproductive rights, which just happen to be anchored in the law of the land.

In fact, today'a asshat award with laurels and oakleaves goes to Mitt Romney

59 Gus  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:49:17am

re: #52 Liberty Hedgehog (fka Freedom Alligator)

fxd

I thought that was a literary device.

//

60 EdDantes  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:49:19am

re: #49 jamesfirecat

Truer words were never spoken.

61 erik_t  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:49:52am

re: #49 jamesfirecat

If there's one thing you can count on its that Mitt Romney has yet to inspire anyone with his words.

Well, he'll sure inspire me to vote in November.

Just not for him.

62 Obdicut  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:50:42am

re: #57 RadicalModerate

Yeah, I just grabbed from Wiki. I'm sure it's not a complete list.

63 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:50:47am

re: #59 Gus

Well, I'm not sure for Romney it's a religious thing. He used to pander to PP back when... Of course, he has to out-Gingrich Santorum and out-Santorum Gingrich, so...

64 Gus  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:51:50am

re: #63 Liberty Hedgehog (fka Freedom Alligator)

Well, I'm not sure for Romney it's a religious thing. He used to pander to PP back when... Of course, he has to out-Gingrich Santorum and out-Santorum-Gingrich, so...

Santorum has released a statement on the bombing. Curious that he would do that.

65 shutdown  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:52:13am

re: #63 Liberty Hedgehog (fka Freedom Alligator)

Well, I'm not sure for Romney it's a religious thing. He used to pander to PP back when... Of course, he has to out-Gingrich Santorum and out-Santorum-Gingrich, so...

The man has not had an original thought since he decided to run for President 10 years ago.

66 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:53:10am

re: #63 Liberty Hedgehog (fka Freedom Alligator)

Well, I'm not sure for Romney it's a religious thing.

For Romney, it's all about political expediency. I doubt that man has a single principled bone in his body, except in terms of making money.

67 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:54:32am

re: #64 Gus

It's pretty natural. Shows his campaign to be somewhat media-savvy.

68 jamesfirecat  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:55:01am

re: #64 Gus

Santorum has released a statement on the bombing. Curious that he would do that.

"While we can and should work to defund Planned Parenthood and push back against government mandates that force Americans and religious institution to violate their faith, violence against our fellow citizens has no place in a freedom-loving America."

That's one weird last sentence.... shouldn't it be "faith, BUT violence against our..."

By not including a "BUT" or some other kind of whatever they're called, it sort of makes it sound like right now Planned Parenthood is also taking part in "violence against our fellow citizens" which is why they need to be defunded?

Which is exactly what they would be doing if you believe abortion is murder....

And suddenly it makes much more sense....

69 Simply Sarah  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:55:52am

re: #63 Liberty Hedgehog (fka Freedom Alligator)

Well, I'm not sure for Romney it's a religious thing. He used to pander to PP back when... Of course, he has to out-Gingrich Santorum and out-Santorum-Gingrich, so...

It's really pretty amazing Romney hasn't been hurt more by his time here in Massachusetts. Really it seems that, outside of him just pandering, there are two main ways to explain his position changes, neither which shows him in a great light. They aren't mutually exclusive of each other, of course.

1. He lied his ass off to the people of the Commonwealth running for and early on as Governor, which he held much more 'conservative' positions the whole time. This...doesn't exactly make him seem trustworthy.

2. In the few years between becoming Governor and deciding to run for President, he had huge changes of heart on just about every issue towards a more 'conservative' stance. This, of course, brings up the whole flip-flop wishy-washy angle and a question on what if he has another major shift elsewhere.

70 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:56:04am

re: #68 jamesfirecat

Exactly.

Parse his statement and he's saying that violence isn't the answer because Planned Parenthood are already violent and you have to defeat violence with elections.

71 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 10:58:03am

re: #64 Gus

Santorum has released a statement on the bombing. Curious that he would do that.

Maybe he read the local coverage.

[...]

The attack comes just days before Tuesday's Republican primary in Wisconsin, where Rick Santorum is fighting hard to remain a viable conservative alternative to frontrunner Mitt Romney. In the lead-up to the election, Santorum has devoted most of his resources to emphasizing his conservative record on social issues and to attacking Romney for his previous support for Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups. [emphasis added.]

Like many states, the Wisconsin state legislature is embroiled in a culture war battle over women's healthcare. State lawmakers are now debating several pieces of legislation pertaining to contraception and reproduction, including a bill that would require women seeking abortions to have a transvaginal ultrasound and one that would "emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect"in the state's child abuse prevention campaigns.

Read more: [Link: www.businessinsider.com...]

72 nines09  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:01:18am

When you have a political party that has denigrated into a cult and the mouthpieces of this cult sell Fear and Loathing 24/7 you have this. I place the blame right at the feet of the religious loons and the Rush Blowhards of the world. With the complicit support of the Cult AKA GOP/TP. When someone dies due to the rhetoric it will be more blood on their hands. But that's the purpose. Get others to terrorize in the name of (fill in blank).

73 EdDantes  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:02:14am

" As fire drives out fire, so pity pity."

74 funky chicken  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:02:27am

re: #12 Lidane

Nothing. But the wingnuts are falling all over themselves in a Jimmy Carter lovefest today because he said Jesus wouldn't approve of abortion and that the Dems need to quit talking about the issue.

Somebody needs to find some choice Carter quotes on Israel or on his chummy relationship with Yasser Arafat before they get to infatuated.

75 funky chicken  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:03:49am

re: #71 wrenchwench

and one that would "emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect"in the state's child abuse prevention campaigns.

Read more: [Link: [Link: www.businessinsider.com...]...]

How, exactly, would that reduce the number of abortions?

76 Lidane  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:04:23am

re: #72 Krathing Daeng

When someone dies due to the rhetoric it will be more blood on their hands. But that's the purpose. Get others to terrorize in the name of (fill in blank).

More blood on their hands that they will deny, you mean.

There was constant rhetoric about "Tiller the Baby Killer" before he was murdered, and as soon as that happened, the same howler monkeys and RW blowhards suddenly tried to pretend that they had nothing to do with the fact that Tiller was dead.

The same thing will happen here. PP got bombed and the right will go on their merry way pretending they have nothing to do with it.

77 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:07:17am

re: #75 funky chicken

How, exactly, would that reduce the number of abortions?

Maybe you could occupy the time of the politicians proposing that with a few emails attempting to get an answer...

78 RadicalModerate  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:08:17am

And once again, the Roberts US Supreme Court shows again how much it respects the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution.

Supreme Court OKs strip searches for even minor offenses

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.

79 funky chicken  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 11:12:53am

re: #77 wrenchwench

snort

80 jhncsy  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 12:57:09pm

Does anyone know if the facility performed abortions? I can't help but wonder if the imbeciles who did this even knew why they were attacking.

81 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 2:12:53pm

re: #64 Gus

Santorum has released a statement on the bombing. Curious that he would do that.

What a fucking hypocrite.

82 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 2:43:14pm

re: #74 funky chicken

Somebody needs to find some choice Carter quotes on Israel or on his chummy relationship with Yasser Arafat before they get to infatuated.

Wingnuts have short attention spans.

83 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Apr 2, 2012 2:46:35pm

re: #80 jhncsy

Does anyone know if the facility performed abortions? I can't help but wonder if the imbeciles who did this even knew why they were attacking.

Planned Parenthood is the enemy, and they are convinced that all PP does is abortions, with a couple of birth control prescriptions on the side to throw people off.

Checking to see if that actual facility actually performed abortions:

a. of course they do!

b. if they don't, who cares?


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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
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4 days ago
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