Americans holding rallies in praise of terrorists June 18, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in constiutional issues, reproductive rights, wingnuts.trackback
The above headline is not hyperbole or even a mild exaggeration. It is the correct assessment of “Paul Hill Days” (check what Archy has to say: I’m not linking to a hate-group’s website), where right-wing nuts praise murdering terrorist Paul Hill and reenact his assassination of a doctor and his escort outside a clinic. Their reasons?
George L. Wilson of Children Need Heroes and Drew Heiss of Street Preach are planning to honor Paul Hill in a series of events called “Paul Hill Days” in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 26th – 29th — “to honor him as God’s man and our hero.”
On July 29, 1994 Paul Hill, who sought to set a good example for Christian theocratic revolutionaries, assassinated abortion provider Dr. John Britton and James Barrett one of his escorts, and seriously wounding another, June Barrett, outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida.
Archy is of course correct to point out that this is nothing less than an event to use the threat of terrorism to intimidate doctors from performing legal and medically valid procedures, and to frighten women away from making choices about their own bodies.
If things like the Terrorist Watch List really meant anything, we wouldn’t be randomly sticking thousands of people with Muslim names on it. Instead, the FBI should keep a close eye on a rally designed to praise terrorists.*
* And yes, these people have a right to free speech. But if they say anything designed to insight violence–and you can bet they will–they can and should be charged.
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