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Showing posts with label Clinic Violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clinic Violence. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Jim Pouillon Murder
Jim Pouillon, a well known antiabortion protestor in the small town of Owosso, Michigan, was shot to death. A suspect is in custody for this shooting and for the shooting of another man in the town. While the motive in the second killing isn't clear or made public yet, apparently the suspect has cited his objection to Pouillon's protests.
Pouillon protested with large, graphic signs outside places where children & youth were--schools, a day care center, a church--that weren't even abortion clinics. As far as I am concerned, those methods of protest are highly objectionable. better to stand around without the gory pictures, offering substantive help with prevention & with help during pregnancy & beyond.
But no one should be shot in cold blood like he was.
I hope this doesn't turn into a prolife/prochoice spat over whose martyrs get the most media attention. It's horrible that *anybody* was murdered. And how did people bent on murder, for whatever motive, have access to guns?
Pouillon protested with large, graphic signs outside places where children & youth were--schools, a day care center, a church--that weren't even abortion clinics. As far as I am concerned, those methods of protest are highly objectionable. better to stand around without the gory pictures, offering substantive help with prevention & with help during pregnancy & beyond.
But no one should be shot in cold blood like he was.
I hope this doesn't turn into a prolife/prochoice spat over whose martyrs get the most media attention. It's horrible that *anybody* was murdered. And how did people bent on murder, for whatever motive, have access to guns?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
A Sort of Copycat Crime?
Yesterday, just a day after abortion provider George Tiller was gunned down at church, Private William Long, a 23 year old military recruiter in Little Rock, Arkansas, was shot to death. Private Quinton Ezeagwula, age 18, was wounded.
May William Long rest in peace, and Ezeagwula recuperate.
A suspect was taken into custody and charged with the shootings: Abdulhakim Muhammad, a 23 year old African American man who converted to the violent distorting strain within Islam--that does not at all speak for Muslims who know that "Islam" means "peace." Muhammad pleaded not guilty and said he killed the soldiers to retaliate for the killings of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Is it a mere coincidence that this happened right after the killing of Tiller? Or did it give the perpetrator the boost and sense of endorsement he needed to actually commit a deed he had been heading towards for a while already?
Like Scott Roeder, who has been charged with Tiller's killing, Muhammad was already been on the radar of law enforcement. So, once again, how exactly did someone with a known violent, terrorist ideology, under the scrutiny of legal authorities, get his hands on a gun and bullets?
I too am heartsick over the thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis who have died so unnecessarily in these wars. I am heartsick over the young African American men from my neighborhood who join the military because they feel it's their only or their best choice...and maybe Muhammad is someone who hit the very same skids that afflict a lot of young Black men as they are confronted with the harsh societal realities that shut them out of meaningful opportunities and brand them as violent criminals...
But as A.J. Muste insisted: "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." Attacking military recruiters is no answer to the problems of war and racism, and attacking abortion providers is no answer to abortion and women's dearth of choices, either.
May William Long rest in peace, and Ezeagwula recuperate.
A suspect was taken into custody and charged with the shootings: Abdulhakim Muhammad, a 23 year old African American man who converted to the violent distorting strain within Islam--that does not at all speak for Muslims who know that "Islam" means "peace." Muhammad pleaded not guilty and said he killed the soldiers to retaliate for the killings of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Is it a mere coincidence that this happened right after the killing of Tiller? Or did it give the perpetrator the boost and sense of endorsement he needed to actually commit a deed he had been heading towards for a while already?
Like Scott Roeder, who has been charged with Tiller's killing, Muhammad was already been on the radar of law enforcement. So, once again, how exactly did someone with a known violent, terrorist ideology, under the scrutiny of legal authorities, get his hands on a gun and bullets?
I too am heartsick over the thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis who have died so unnecessarily in these wars. I am heartsick over the young African American men from my neighborhood who join the military because they feel it's their only or their best choice...and maybe Muhammad is someone who hit the very same skids that afflict a lot of young Black men as they are confronted with the harsh societal realities that shut them out of meaningful opportunities and brand them as violent criminals...
But as A.J. Muste insisted: "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." Attacking military recruiters is no answer to the problems of war and racism, and attacking abortion providers is no answer to abortion and women's dearth of choices, either.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
An Open Letter to the Prolife Movement, from a Prolifer
The fatal shooting today of Dr. George Tiller is just plain horrific and wrong.
Absolutely *no* human being deserves to be shot down in cold blood...let alone in a house of worship, which should be a place of safety, peace, and refuge for *all* God's children who seek it there...no matter what they do for a living and no matter how objectionable we may find their means of livelihood.
*No* human being should usurp that power of life and death over another.
There is *no* justification or extenuating circumstances for this murder of a fellow member of humankind.
May peace and healing come to George Tiller's loved ones.
Today, and every day, each and every individual and group that identifies with the word "prolife" needs to ask, from a stance of complete humility and openness rather than hard headed and hearted defensive arrogance, questions such as this.
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that demonizes anyone who disagrees with me/us on the issue of abortion?
--Am I/are we willing to humbly learn from prochoicers what they deem to be demonizing words and deeds against them--quite independently of the question of which side is "right" or "wrong" about abortion?
--Have I/we ever failed to challenge anyone who agitates for the killing of abortion providers?
--Have I/we taken a strong, outapoken, unapologetic, unceasing stance against the killing of abortion providers, instead of just saying and hiding behind "well, real prolifers don't do that, and we're real prolifers"?
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that even sounds like it gives justification to the homicide of abortion providers, like "well, so few of them have been killed compared to the number of babies they've killed"--as if their relative fewness somehow makes their forcibly cut-short lives and their unjust deaths somehow unimportant?
--Have I/we ever taken positive steps to alleviate the causes and sources of violence against abortion providers?
--Have I/we ever reached out to prochoicers and tried to work cooperatively and humbly with them on preventing further violence against abortion providers?
Coming up with ethically robust answers to these questions is literally a matter of life and death.
Absolutely *no* human being deserves to be shot down in cold blood...let alone in a house of worship, which should be a place of safety, peace, and refuge for *all* God's children who seek it there...no matter what they do for a living and no matter how objectionable we may find their means of livelihood.
*No* human being should usurp that power of life and death over another.
There is *no* justification or extenuating circumstances for this murder of a fellow member of humankind.
May peace and healing come to George Tiller's loved ones.
Today, and every day, each and every individual and group that identifies with the word "prolife" needs to ask, from a stance of complete humility and openness rather than hard headed and hearted defensive arrogance, questions such as this.
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that demonizes anyone who disagrees with me/us on the issue of abortion?
--Am I/are we willing to humbly learn from prochoicers what they deem to be demonizing words and deeds against them--quite independently of the question of which side is "right" or "wrong" about abortion?
--Have I/we ever failed to challenge anyone who agitates for the killing of abortion providers?
--Have I/we taken a strong, outapoken, unapologetic, unceasing stance against the killing of abortion providers, instead of just saying and hiding behind "well, real prolifers don't do that, and we're real prolifers"?
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that even sounds like it gives justification to the homicide of abortion providers, like "well, so few of them have been killed compared to the number of babies they've killed"--as if their relative fewness somehow makes their forcibly cut-short lives and their unjust deaths somehow unimportant?
--Have I/we ever taken positive steps to alleviate the causes and sources of violence against abortion providers?
--Have I/we ever reached out to prochoicers and tried to work cooperatively and humbly with them on preventing further violence against abortion providers?
Coming up with ethically robust answers to these questions is literally a matter of life and death.
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