re: #201 Mich-again

If anyone would downplay the depravity and reach of the anti-abortion terrorism supporting network, just wade around armyofgod.com. I won’t link to it from here. A long litany of murder promoting religious warriors there. I was pretty shocked. Blech.

Yeah; they have an entire section, complete with smiling pic, singing Paul Hill’s praises and linking to his writings. Paul Hill was the Methodist minister who was executed in Florida for walking into an abortion clinic parking lot and murdering an abortion doctor and a clinic escort and wounding the escort’s wife with a shotgun in my hometown, as they parked the car in which they arrived for procedures that day.

I was at the courthouse to contest a traffic ticket and ran into Paul Hill when the judge told him he was no longer allowed to approach within a hundred yards of the clinic. He obviously had no intention of obeying the court, as it was only weeks later that he committed his multiple murder. I still remember the serene smile on his face and the flat-eyed fervor in his eyes. It chilled me to my marrow; I immediately knew that I was beholding a crazed fanatic. I have since encountered descriptions of Palestinian vest bombers wearing the same dreamy-eyed smile right before they exploded themselves in ther midst of crowds.