Pre-empting Mass Murder
. . . Do you now have the moral right, the duty in fact, to kill Adolph Hitler and hopefully stop the mayhem?
On a more theoretical plane, is it incumbent on one human being to do all in his power to stop a madman from wreaking additional untold horrors when you’re certain he is already guilty of capital crimes against humanity?
Some 60,000,000 people died worldwide in World War Two. Some 50,000,000 pre-born babies have had their lives extinguished in the United States alone since the Supreme Court decided in 1973 that abortions should be legal in this country.
That number must have weighed heavily on the mind and soul of Scott Roeder.
Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas didn’t just perform abortions in his Women’s Health Care Services clinic. He specialized in a procedure practiced by only one other doctor in the country. He performed late term abortions which meant he would literally slice and dice fully-formed infants whose misfortune was to still exist in utero because they hadn’t gotten nature’s signal to be born. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1610)
Showing posts with label scott roeder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scott roeder. Show all posts
Friday, April 2, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Justifiable Murder? Who Was George Tiller?
Justifiable Murder? Who Was George Tiller?
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! (”Bartleby the Scrivener,” Herman Melville)
That fatalistic sense of imminent doom, of forlorn despair and depression over one’s life and over the state of the human animal for different reasons must have afflicted both George Tiller and the man who killed him last May, Scott Roeder.
Roeder, according to his ex-wife, was upset over his inability to pay bills; he went from job to job seeking something, anything, that would fulfill his failed life and give it purpose.
He finally settled on what he saw as the greatest evil in America that he felt was in his power to somehow rectify: abortion. A particular purpose he embraced was fellow Kansan Tiller and Tiller’s chosen occupation of snuffing out the lives of infants in partial birth abortions.
Dr. George Tiller was living a life that was the virtual antithesis of Roeder’s, but was he any less disturbed?
A physician son of an abortionist with an inherited and successful abortion practice, he was married and active in his new church, the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.
Indeed, almost every account of his murder includes within the first few paragraphs the fact he was killed while serving as an usher, handing out church bulletins in the lobby after Sunday services when Roeder accosted him, put one bullet into his eye and fled.
What’s rarely included in obituaries or articles on the slain Dr. Tiller is that he was handing out those bulletins at Reformation Lutheran because he had been excommunicated from his previous church, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod: http://bit.ly/awWKwL
That latter church had expelled him because of the nature of his medical practice at Women’s Health Care Services. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1533)
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! (”Bartleby the Scrivener,” Herman Melville)
That fatalistic sense of imminent doom, of forlorn despair and depression over one’s life and over the state of the human animal for different reasons must have afflicted both George Tiller and the man who killed him last May, Scott Roeder.
Roeder, according to his ex-wife, was upset over his inability to pay bills; he went from job to job seeking something, anything, that would fulfill his failed life and give it purpose.
He finally settled on what he saw as the greatest evil in America that he felt was in his power to somehow rectify: abortion. A particular purpose he embraced was fellow Kansan Tiller and Tiller’s chosen occupation of snuffing out the lives of infants in partial birth abortions.
Dr. George Tiller was living a life that was the virtual antithesis of Roeder’s, but was he any less disturbed?
A physician son of an abortionist with an inherited and successful abortion practice, he was married and active in his new church, the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.
Indeed, almost every account of his murder includes within the first few paragraphs the fact he was killed while serving as an usher, handing out church bulletins in the lobby after Sunday services when Roeder accosted him, put one bullet into his eye and fled.
What’s rarely included in obituaries or articles on the slain Dr. Tiller is that he was handing out those bulletins at Reformation Lutheran because he had been excommunicated from his previous church, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod: http://bit.ly/awWKwL
That latter church had expelled him because of the nature of his medical practice at Women’s Health Care Services. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1533)
Monday, March 1, 2010
Justifiable Murder? Who Is Scott Roeder?
Justifiable Homicide? Who Is Scott Roeder?
Murder: the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought: Merriam-Webster
Justifiable Homicide: That which is committed with the intention to kill or to do a grievous bodily injury, under circumstances which the law holds sufficient to exculpate the person who commits it: Lectlaw.com
After a one-week trial, jurors in Kansas deliberated all of 37 minutes before convicting a man charged with murder. Petty larceny trials take longer than that in some venues. This was a kangaroo court with a foreordained conclusion.
Testifying in his own defense, Scott Roeder freely admitted he had premeditated the murder, the execution, of his victim who was serving as an usher at his church on the morning of May 31, 2009 when Roeder entered and shot him in the head.
Within eight months, Roeder had been arrested, arraigned, indicted, tried, and convicted of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault, an excellent example either of swift justice or of a swift railroading.
Neither the State of Kansas nor the defendant wanted the case to drag on longer than necessary, the state because it just wanted it over, the defendant because he claimed he committed the crime not to end a life but to save lives and was unashamed and unrepentant for what he did.
The victim, George Tiller, was a physician who took the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm in his practice but who did daily harm for 36 years by performing abortions and specializing in late term abortions of pre-born infants.
Those procedures, the killing of viable babies in the womb, have been termed infanticide. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1531)
Murder: the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought: Merriam-Webster
Justifiable Homicide: That which is committed with the intention to kill or to do a grievous bodily injury, under circumstances which the law holds sufficient to exculpate the person who commits it: Lectlaw.com
After a one-week trial, jurors in Kansas deliberated all of 37 minutes before convicting a man charged with murder. Petty larceny trials take longer than that in some venues. This was a kangaroo court with a foreordained conclusion.
Testifying in his own defense, Scott Roeder freely admitted he had premeditated the murder, the execution, of his victim who was serving as an usher at his church on the morning of May 31, 2009 when Roeder entered and shot him in the head.
Within eight months, Roeder had been arrested, arraigned, indicted, tried, and convicted of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault, an excellent example either of swift justice or of a swift railroading.
Neither the State of Kansas nor the defendant wanted the case to drag on longer than necessary, the state because it just wanted it over, the defendant because he claimed he committed the crime not to end a life but to save lives and was unashamed and unrepentant for what he did.
The victim, George Tiller, was a physician who took the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm in his practice but who did daily harm for 36 years by performing abortions and specializing in late term abortions of pre-born infants.
Those procedures, the killing of viable babies in the womb, have been termed infanticide. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1531)
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