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    Detroit Free Press Smears Pro-Life Protesters As Kooks


    By Theblogprof, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 09:44:27 PM EST
    Tags: abortion, media bias (all tags)

    Figures that the freep would take the opportunity of the Tiller murder to smear the entire pro-life community. Seems I need to remind writer Brian Dickerson that since Roe v Wade, all of 5 abortionists have been murdered. Far more have dies from the flu than from a few wackos. Nor is there any mention that the murderer has mental health problems and is part of an anarchist group. But that, of course, does not fir the narrative. Anyway, from the freep: To defang fanatics, let them speak hate. The sidebar of the article has this:

    Those "protesters" are from the kook lone "church" in Witchita, infamous for mocking funerals of fallen soldiers! I kid you not! They are the bane of every conservative group on the face of this nation! It is a rogue church not affiliated with any denomination. They are kooks, and are well known as such. But they are a convenient photo op top paint the entirety of the pro-life community as demented kook bent on murder. From the article:

    Defending free speech is like being in love with a gifted but temperamental artist who is forever embarrassing you with his drunken public outbursts. You want to nurture your beloved's creativity, but sometimes you wish you could just leave the bloviating SOB at home.
    After cherry-picking yet another kook to quote, Dickerson goes on to question if the FACE act is tough enough:
    The slaying of Tiller has triggered an emotional backlash among proponents of abortion rights, many of whom are urging Congress to toughen a 15-year-old federal law that restricts abortion foes from interfering with abortion clinics and their patients.

    The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act made it a 10-year felony to physically interfere with an abortion clinic's employees or patients. The act also established federal penalties for trespassing on or vandalizing abortion clinics anywhere in the United States.

    So you can defraud the city of Detroit with crime after crime as mayor and serve only 1 year, but "interfere" with abortion by exercising your free-speech rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution (abortion is not) and you get 10 years in the can. Murderers and child rapists have gotten less. How is it that abortion, which is supposed to be implied in the Constitution (it's not), has become the most sacred right in this country above those explicitly cited in the founding documents? Dickerson finishes with this:
    More than it exposes us to violence, the unfettered speech of extremists exposes their own irrationality. Such exposure is a civilized society's most powerful weapon against the lunatic fringe, and we should encourage them whenever they choose to turn it on themselves.
    Couldn't he just say "let everyone have a say?" Would have been far superior in being fair and balanced to not paint the entire pro-life community with two examples of kookiness, don't you think? Incidentally, The Detroit News had their own ax to grind on the back of the Tiller murder: Suspect in Kan. doctor's death warns of violence. Which would be equivalent to John Hinkley Jr. telling the AP that more Presidents will get shot at. Then again, why waste an opportunity to push forward a narrative?

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    Isn't THIS Hate Speech? (none / 0) (#1)
    by kenmatesevac on Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 10:35:24 PM EST
    To defame freedom-loving, Constitution-loving, baby-loving, law-abiding citizens by essentially comparing them to kooks and criminals is no better than what the liberals like to call "Hate Speech."  

    Suppose the homosexuals of our country were defamed in this manner in the MSM?  Then what would happen?

    No, wait....Would that happen?

    Interesting that Dickerson... (none / 0) (#2)
    by rdww on Tue Jun 09, 2009 at 08:55:57 AM EST
    ... would wank on about Rev. Spitz calling murderers murderers as his anti-free speech straw man.  
    Though he's being disengenuous, he raises one good point -- sometimes those who you agree with are also swinish, stupid, and even dangerous, and we must come to terms with this moral quandary.  Tiller's death leaves us in a bind too similar to that faced by abolitionists a century and a half ago, in the aftermath of John Brown's insurrection.  When a dangerous fanatic murders a truly vile, immoral human being, how do you choose sides?

    Quite easily, (none / 0) (#3)
    by quigonjames on Tue Jun 09, 2009 at 04:11:53 PM EST
    murder is murder, whether it's an unborn child or a man on his death bed.

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