Did anyone post this? The ADL has a write-up about Roeder. I thought it might get lost in the other thread.

adl.org

Shooter In Kansas Physician Killing Held Extreme Beliefs

New York, NY, June 2, 2009 … The man charged with killing a Kansas abortion doctor was not only a radical anti-abortion extremist, but also was an active member of anti-government extremist movements, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Scott Philip Roeder, 51, belonged to the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen and tax protest movements. The sovereign citizen movement believes that virtually all existing government in the United States is illegitimate and they seek to “restore” an idealized, minimalist government that never actually existed.

“Roeder’s attachment to extreme causes extended beyond anti-abortion extremism,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “His extremism cross-pollinated between anti-government extremism and anti-abortion activism and led to violence and murder.”

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Roeder was previously arrested in Topeka, Kansas in 1996 after deputies pulled him over for having a bogus sovereign citizen license plate on his vehicle and found bomb-making materials in his car. He was subsequently convicted of an explosives violation, though his conviction was ultimately overturned due to a technicality.