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Jury Finds Man Guilty of Murder in Kansas Abortion Provider’s Death
Foxnews.com ^ | 1/29/10

Posted on 01/29/2010 9:49:10 AM PST by FutureRocketMan

WICHITA, Kan. — A man who said he killed prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in order to save the lives of unborn children was convicted Friday of murder.

The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder in the May 31 shooting death.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kansas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionists; courts; notoktokillkillers; oktokillbabies; roeder; scottroeder; tiller
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To: trumandogz

Hillarious. He didn’t just wander into that “church”, and he saw himself committing no sins that he felt he needed to atone for, and apparently neither did his fellow “parishioners.” I wonder who is worshipped in that church, probably the same creature worshipped in Zero’s/Jerry Wright’s “church”, too, the one with horns.


121 posted on 01/29/2010 11:45:48 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: vpintheak
He murdered a man in cold blood

...who was murdering defenseless, fully-formed, healthy infants in cold blood, which is a crime worthy of the death penalty in the Bible.

The world is much better place with George Tiller no longer residing in it.

122 posted on 01/29/2010 11:47:04 AM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: dmz

But “murder” means an unjustifiable killing of a human.


123 posted on 01/29/2010 11:48:10 AM PST by Elpasser
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To: Mrs. Don-o
A week ago or so I posted “Is this a valid defense?” at a thread on this and got a bunch of replies claiming it was. Then there were a couple of replies here trying to rationalize his defense(saving lives) , but not entirely justifying it. My meaning was that those that do this and call themselves ‘pro-life’ do a dis-service to themselves and their message by rationalizing it. (food for MSNBC)

Obviously no one that calls themself ‘prolife’ is going to post that this guy was the term ‘pro-life’ because they know how silly it sounds.

Not a good idea to posts lists. I saw a freeper zotted.

124 posted on 01/29/2010 11:48:12 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: eleni121
"vampires"

What an excellent and apt description of what infested that fake Holy House of Worship.

125 posted on 01/29/2010 11:48:36 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: SoldierDad
Gee, since I’m not the one who wrote the laws making abortion legal, I would say you’re asking the wrong person.

If you say so. But buying in to the pro-infanticide movement's language is part of the problem.

The left sidestepped the revulsion that normal people feel by not calling the unborn child an unborn child. Instead they started using the Latin term which makes it sound like any other medical procedure.

But calling it something different doesn't make it something different.

It's a child. You can call it a fetus or a nino or akachan or kind but it doesn't change what it is.

126 posted on 01/29/2010 11:50:17 AM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: swain_forkbeard

If I were to come across a doctor in the process of killing a living infant post-partum I would kill that doctor to save that infant. If that resulted in my being imprisoned for murder, so be it. There are cases where the law and moral duty are mutually exclusive. With respect to murder of an abortionist for committing pre-partum abortion, well, while I really hate what abortionists do for a living, I believe the problem cannot be solved by taking the abortionists life. Abortions will not be stopped in this way. As in the case of Dr. Tiller, someone else will step in and take his place. No significant difference was made through killing Tiller. This problem needs to be addressed through the law and through educating our population (both women and men) regarding taking responsibility for one’s actions and behaviors rather than taking the easy way out. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents.


127 posted on 01/29/2010 11:50:33 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats!! Congrats to my Army son and his wife.)
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To: trumandogz
If Roeder was willing to give his life, why did he flee the scene of the crime?

And if he was willing to give his life, why did he plead Not Guilty?

I'm not Roeder so I don't know what he had in mind, maybe there were others he still wanted to take out before he got caught or killed, as for the not guilty verdict that's an easy one, he obviously felt like he was defending lives from being destroyed so in that's sense it would be justifiable homicide and not cold-blooded murder as charged.

128 posted on 01/29/2010 11:51:47 AM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: Antoninus
He didn’t murder Tiller. He just performed a very merciful, and very late-term abortion

LOL! How ironic.

129 posted on 01/29/2010 11:53:27 AM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: trumandogz

It’s been suggested on this thread that Roeder shouldn’t have fled the scene of the execution but rather should have turned himself into a police station if he believed that his acts were justifiable.

Not sure that holds water.

For example, should Heydrich’s assassins have surrendered to the local Gestapo office and confessed rather than fleeing and hiding?

I don’t know what Roeder’s judgment is going to be before Almighty God, but I’m willing to wager it is far less devastating that Tiller’s.


130 posted on 01/29/2010 11:54:09 AM PST by Elpasser
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To: SoldierDad

I’m betting there’s a lot of little babies alive today that wouldn’t have been without Roeder’s action. I don’t know how to verify that, but perhaps we can look to see how Carhart’s business did or didn’t increase following Tiller’s “going out of business”.


131 posted on 01/29/2010 11:54:19 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: FutureRocketMan

Get real. He admitted his guilt on the stand.


132 posted on 01/29/2010 11:54:40 AM PST by Melas
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To: Elpasser

If you believe that, then if you ask me, you are a whacko.


133 posted on 01/29/2010 11:55:05 AM PST by DryFly
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To: dmz
So if a sniper shoots an unarmed enemy general while he is reviewing the troops, is the sniper guilty of murder?

How about an executioner that flips the switch that kills a man strapped down to a table?

134 posted on 01/29/2010 11:55:34 AM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Elpasser
Roeder’s action, while extreme, can be viewed as a rational response to rampant killing of human life that the state refused to halt. Not if I'm on the jury it can't.
135 posted on 01/29/2010 11:55:46 AM PST by Melas
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To: DryFly

Yeah, you’re right.

It’s “whacky” to believe that a mass abortionist occupied a higher moral ground than his executioner.

The law has simply failed to protect human life here.


136 posted on 01/29/2010 11:59:21 AM PST by Elpasser
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Would you have a right to kill hitler in the 1930’s, given a chance?

Or would it be wrong, because it was illegal?


137 posted on 01/29/2010 11:59:54 AM PST by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: trumandogz

Did I read that after the murder, Roeder stopped for pizza? Nothing like a slice of pepperoni after putting cold steel to a man’s head and pulling the trigger, I guess. Must work up quite an appetite splattering someone’s brains in a pew.


138 posted on 01/29/2010 12:00:11 PM PST by dmz
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To: Ronbo1948
The wrong man was on trial here. I can think of a long list of Leftist pro-abortion activists, judges and politicians who should be facing capital punishment for their role in the American Holocaust that has claimed over 30 million innocent lives since 1971.

You must hate that silly constitution that proscribes ex post facto punishment.

139 posted on 01/29/2010 12:00:34 PM PST by Melas
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To: DryFly

50 miilion or so of our citizens have been murdered, last time I looked that could be considered genocide. Is it whacko because ONE man could no longer sit idly buy without doing something to try to stop it?


140 posted on 01/29/2010 12:00:36 PM PST by whatisthetruth
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