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AG Orders US Protection for ‘Appropriate’ Facilities After Abortion Doc Killed

Posted Jun 1, 2009 11:12 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

U.S. Marshals rarely offer protection for private individuals outside the court system, but the government is making an exception to the general rule after the slaying of abortion provider George Tiller at his Wichita, Kan., church yesterday.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement yesterday: “I have directed the United States Marshals Service to offer protection to other appropriate people and facilities around the nation. The Department of Justice will work to bring the perpetrator of this crime to justice. As a precautionary measure, we will also take appropriate steps to help prevent any related acts of violence from occurring."

The U.S. Marshals Service is authorized to act because of the order by the attorney general, the Associated Press reports. The Marshals Service confirmed to AP that it will "increase security for a number of individuals and facilities." Spokesman Jeff Carter told the AP that the Judicial Security Division "is establishing protection details at this time."

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood officials in Overland Park, Kan., said they would open the abortion clinic but they were taking extra precautions for employees and patients, reports Fox4KC.com.

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tim
Jun 1, 2009 12:00 PM CST

A gunman opened fire Monday at an army recruitment center in Little Rock, Ark., killing one army recruiter and seriously wounding another, FOX16.com reported.

Will they also offer military recruiters protection to protect them against flaming left wing liberals who hate america?

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J.D.
Jun 1, 2009 1:41 PM CST

President Obama issued a statement yesterday after the abortionist George Tiller’s murder: “However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.”

I wonder if he will be just as vociferous in condemning heinous acts of violence against our military recruiters…..

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B. McLeod
Jun 1, 2009 2:07 PM CST

I have no doubt the President is opposed to violence against recruiting officers.  However, I would not assume the shooter to be a “left wing liberal.”  Rather, the loner gunman, reportedly apprehended driving an SUV, with an assault rifle and bomb-making materials, fits the profile of a socially-isolated, gun-worshipping, right-wing extremist.

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Jason
Jun 1, 2009 2:08 PM CST

J.D.

How many soldiers have died since Obama took office?  Do you know why the state run media stopped honoring (or should I say exploiting) the death of our soldiers after Obama was elected?

How come the state run media doesn’t show the photo’s and names of the dead at the end of the nightly news each night?

How come the state run media does show the body count counter as it rises under Obama?

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separation
Jun 1, 2009 3:36 PM CST

Jason,

probably because in the U.S. the media is not run by the state, but by private for-private corporations.  It doesn’t serve their liberal bias to exploit such deaths anymore.  Also, the number of deaths has tapered off and is just not as interesting a story.  Saturation, anyone?

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Steve
Jun 2, 2009 6:17 AM CST

#3 - from today’s news.

“A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday.”

No, it was a liberal muslim terrorist who shot up the recruiter office.  The FBI should place informats inside every mosque in the country.

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J.D.
Jun 2, 2009 7:50 AM CST

Yes, we can see that McLeod’s political instincts are dead wrong once again. And, of course, the left-wing media’s obsession with abortion—and love for the ‘religion of peace’—means two more weeks of stories on the abortionist’s murder, but ABSOLUTE SILENCE on the following:

“Police arrested Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, of Little Rock. The suspect was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe. Interviews with police showed that Muhammad ‘probably had political and religious motives for the attack,’ the police chief said.

“Police Chief Stuart Thomas said Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway was killed. Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville was wounded and in stable condition.

“The soldiers wore fatigues, had recently completed basic training and were volunteers.”

Question of the Day: Will the ABA Journal put a story up on the site about this? It has just as much to do with the law as yesterday’s abortion murder story…

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B. McLeod
Jun 2, 2009 12:35 PM CST

I do not think Muslim terrorists can accurately be classed as “liberal.”  That makes no sense.  They are just like the right-wing, Christian terrorists, except with respect to who they are trying to murder.  Just another wingnut religious extremist.  Asserting Islamic faith and adopting Arabic names does not make him any less a socially-isolated, gun-worshipping, right-wing extremist.

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hal
Jun 2, 2009 12:56 PM CST

Steve,
Sounds like two right wing conservative nut job religious fanatics were involved in shootings.  One was a right wing conservative nut job muslim who shot recruiters and the other was a right wing conservative nut job christian who shot the abortion doctor.  I’m sure in both cases, each would be glad to impose their particular views on religion on each of us.  My guess is even if you are either muslim or christian, you probably still wouldn’t like the particular form that such nut-jobs would like to impose upon you.

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J.D.
Jun 4, 2009 2:43 PM CST

For years, we’ve had to hear about the grave threat that Americans might overreact to a terrorist attack committed by 19 muslims shouting “Allahu akbar” as they flew commercial jets into American skyscrapers. That would be the equivalent of 19 pro-lifers shouting “Abortion kills a beating heart!” as they gunned down thousands of innocent citizens in Wichita, Kan.

But nothing of the sort has happened.

Therefore, why aren’t liberals and the activists running the N.Y. Times rushing to assure us this time that “most pro-lifers are peaceful” as they do for muslims every time muslims kill?

Since Roe v. Wade, more than 49 million babies have been killed by abortionists, and only 5 abortionists have been murdered. That’s 49 million to five. With a population of over 200 million Christians in the U.S.

Meanwhile, fewer than 2 million Muslims live in America and, while Muslims are less murderous than abortionists, I’m fairly certain they’ve killed more than five people in the United States in the last 36 years. For some reason, the number “3,000” keeps popping into my head.

Recap: Only five abortionists have been killed by the pro-life crowd. And in a country that is less than 0.5 percent Muslim, several dozen Muslims have killed thousands of Americans.

But the killing of about one abortionist per decade leads liberals to condemn the entire pro-life movement as “domestic terrorists.” Mathematically, libs would be able to say the same about muslims.

But they don’t.

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