Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Christian terrorists have more rights.

Scott Roeder is a terrorist by any definition and was one before he decided to murder George Tiller. He's been caught making bombs. According to Time.com, he's been involved in an armed standoff by the anti-government "freemen." He was apparently a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a magazine that advocated "justifiable homicide" as a way of protesting abortion.

There were always strange cars coming and going at all hours of the night and Roeder has been warning from his prison cell of “many other similar events planned around the country,” according to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Why then, if it could save lives, are we silent on the question of turture when it comes to this dangerous man. Why is it acceptible to have him in the US when he would likely do it again if he escaped? Why are we even giving him legal counsel and allowing him a fair trial if such people are deemed too dangerous with flimsier evidence.

Of course Olbermann and MSNBC are all liberal liberal oh so liberal and far too radical to be paid attention to by the good citizens of GOPistan or the Fox Reich or the kingdom of Jesus on Earth, but it's hard for the rest of us marginal, heretical, skeptics to understand why if it's so necessary to torture anyone who has been accused by anyone of harboring vague thoughts of terrorism, or who has a beard and sounds foreign. If we need to torture them for years and lock them up for years without trial -- why then, Mr Limbaugh, Ms Colter et al, do we not torture someone who apparently knows of terrorist plots to be carried out on US soil against US citizens? Let's hear your justification for torture one more time.

We won't get an answer from any of them, of course, but we really don't need one, do we?

3 comments:

Brian Krenz said...

There's even a hesitancy to label these folks terrorists. That term is now reserved for Muslims only. If something good is to come of these recent incidents, it may be in the form of a recognition that terror and violence and extremism can be and often are home-grown, 100% American (and white, and Christian - as you say).

Capt. Fogg said...

The only good thing that could come from all this is such a realization, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting.

RR said...

Good post...