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Bad Craziness Watch: Right Wing Reaction to the Tiller Murder

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JackofTrades6/01/2009 8:03:15 am PDT

re: #329 Fearless Fred

Apparently not these below …

The National Right to Life Committee does the right thing:

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE CONDEMNS THE KILLING

OF DR. GEORGE TILLER

Kudos to National Right to Life. It is a tragedy that such things happen, and it is worse that people rejoice or try to justify it. It is abundantly obvious that so many people just miss the boat in dealing with specific issues. They get so caught up in their movement and get so much of their emotional high from that movement, they miss the underlying issue and run off and do stupid things, then justify it by their emotional high. (Sadly, many of these people with strong convictions so not have them based on anything but a number of unsubstantiated beliefs, and by that I am not talking about believing in God or the Bible.)

The result, I feel I need to clarify a few things for them AND their opponents. Maybe a few on either side will wake up and realize what a horror this is, and not just as one side or another of their decidedly concrete ideologies.

First, the Exodus 20 command is so often mistranslated or misquoted. It does not read, “Thou shall not kill.” A MUCH better reading is, “Thou shall do no murder.” Murder is an entirely different thing than killing. The government, having established beyond a doubt that a person is guilty of murder and putting them down for the good of society, is acting to kill in capital punishment. In doing so, the government is taking an active and decisive step AGAINST murder. A private citizen, performing the exact same killing without the recognition, authorization, and involvement of government is merely committing another murder. A good working definition of murder, for both religious OR legal standards is the killing of another human, with deliberate intent, premeditation, and/or (touching the legal definition here) while in the commission of a separate crime, without the endorsement and sanction of due process of law. Killing to protect one’s own life, property (in some cases), or to intervene in the IMMEDIATE situation to protect an innocent that is actively being threatened at the immediate time the action is taken is excluded. A private person killing to avenge a wrong most distinctly and certainly IS a murder.

Example: I had a friend growing up in a physically and sexually abusive home. EVERYONE that knew anything about the situation knew about the physical abuse, and nothing was being done about it. The above definition of murder clearly allows stepping in and defending the children in this house, up to and including killing the abuser, at the moment the abuse is actually happening. Taking the law into your own hands after the fact, because the law was doing nothing to the abuser, is not justified.

As for abortion being murder, then, you have to answer a question. Is the ‘fetus’ (if we want to be PC) a distinct human life, separate from the mother? If you turn to scientists, medical texts, and even abortionists, the answer MUST be, ‘yes’. Every aspect of its humanity and life, including a distinct genetic code, are established at conception. Even setting aside DNA, which we really cannot, everything else is established at that point, and in some cases, can be measurably determined (as distinct, separate, and even different from the mother’s medical stats) before the mother can even be certain she is pregnant without using such medical tests. So, abortion is the deliberate killing of another human. As for due process of law, Roe V. Wade did NOT establish due process for such killings. (Many people are misinformed what it did do.) Due process for such killings would require a case-by-case court conviction of this human life with a legally established death penalty for their crime. (Note, only Congress can establish the penalty for the crime, the court, legally, cannot.)