June 1, 2009
We Didn't Kill George Tiller
Operation Rescue's Randall Terry: Arch Opponents Will Now Unfairly Tar The Pro-Life Movement For George Tiller's Murder
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Play CBS Video Video Terry Defends Operation Rescue "CBS News RAW:" Randall Terry, the outspoken founder of the pro-life group Operation Rescue, reacted to the murder of controversial abortion practitioner Dr. George Tiller.
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The body of Dr. George Tiller is removed from Reformation Lutheran Church on Sunday (AP/Travis Heying, Wichita Eagle)
Abortionist George Tiller is dead.
I grieve for him that he did not have an opportunity to properly prepare his soul to face his Maker. Unless some miracle happened, he left this life with his hands drenched with the innocent blood of tens of thousands of babies that he murdered. Surely there will be a dreadful accounting for what he has done.
It now falls to pro-life leaders like myself to stand strong and unflinching in the face of the unjust criticism we will now endure because of his killing. And so I turn my attention to the attacks that will follow his death.
We must use this as a “teaching moment;” a chance for “dialogue” with our fellow Americans concerning this terrific holocaust of the unborn.
George Tiller was a mass murderer. He routinely killed innocent children who were “viable.” For the unlearned, that means that they could live outside the womb on their own. He specialized in killing “handicapped” children whose parents decided that they were not fit to live. He even offered photographs of the dead children and baptisms for the victims that fell under his knife.
According to God’s laws, and the laws that govern how we protect the innocent in times of peace, George Tiller was one of the most evil men on the planet; every bit as vile as the Nazi war criminals who were hunted down, tried, and sentenced after they participated in the “legal” murder of the Jews that fell into their hands.
I write all of these words with surgical precision to shore up the more timid elements of the pro-life movement. Pro-life leaders are already falling over themselves to exclaim, “We are peaceful! We deplore this violence!”
Of course we are peaceful; that is why this horrific shooting in a church has immediately garnered national attention. It is precisely because we are peaceful that Dr. Tiller’s killing sticks out like a huge wart on an otherwise flawless complexion. If abortionists were gunned down every week, it would gather no more attention than crack dealers who are gunned down every week.
For those surprised by my words, let me tell you exactly why I am using such clear and unflinching rhetoric.
Here is what is about to happen: The arch proponents of child killing such as Planned Parenthood, the National Organization of Women, NARAL, and a host of other enemies of children are going to blame the pro-life movement for Dr. Tiller’s death.
These child killers, and their allies in the Obama administration and on Capitol Hill, will attempt to browbeat the pro-life movement into surrendering our most effective weapons in this battle: our rhetoric, our actions, and our images.
Concerning rhetoric, they will blame those of us who call abortion “murder” and say that it is this highly charged rhetoric that inspires people to “take the law into their own hands.”
Concerning actions, they will say that our protests and vigils and sit-ins are responsible for the shooting.
Concerning images, they will whine that the pictures of babies murdered at the hands of Tiller and other abortionists incite people to acts of violence.
All of these accusations are lies.
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Beyond that, these foolish accusations fly in the face of equally radical rhetoric, images, and images in the civil rights movement, the suffragette movement, and the abolitionist movement. If Dr. Martin Luther King had followed the advice of the timid in his day, President Obama would still be riding in the back of the bus. It is precisely because we are peaceful that Dr. Tiller’s killing sticks out like a huge wart on an otherwise flawless complexion.
Randall A. TerryThis column was written by Randall A. Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue..
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- I am amazed at all those who are outraged by the murder of George Tiller but have no regard whatsoever for all those he murdered. I don't condone murder, even that of George Tiller. But I won't miss him either. And neither will someone who will be born, that otherwise might not have been, if George was still around. History is filled with people who have made enormous contributions to society, science, the medical field... this list goes on, and they wouldn't have graced us with those gifts had abortion been legal when they were conceived. I wonder how many lives Tiller took that had the potential for doing something great for the world. The bottom line... with so many couples wanting to adopt a child, there is no reason for senseless abortions.
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- This murder of another doctor was just terrorism by the christian taliban... fanatics willing to kill for God. These idiots believe they are the keepers of God's wisdom, and non-believers should be killed. They are insane.
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- My response to: "Abortion harms women. Talk to anyone you know who has had one and you will see the pain on their face. It is a horrible thing and leaves many women emotionally scarred and some unable to conceive."
Are you serious? According to your words ("anyone who has had one, many women"), every single woman who has had an abortion is in PAIN?? That simply isn't true. You either know very few women who have had an abortion or you're simply making this up to suit your own agenda. Of all the woman I know who have terminated a pregnancy (yes, myself included) , none of them/us have suffered ANY ill effects. We all evaluated the situation and made our decision comfortably and without reservation. I do not regret my decision, never have. This does not mean that any of us made that decision lightly. I will say, however, that a small minority of women may regret their decision. But to make such a broad sweeping statement that is based on nothing is just so wrong and completely unproductive. Now do you understand why some pro-choice people make generalizations about the anti-choice movement?? - Reply to this comment
- FUNNY HOW THE LEFTISTS EQUATE AN ANTI-ABORTION VIEW AS "PRO-DOMESTIC TERROR."
THE LEFT CAN'T WIN THE ARGUEMENT SO IT STARTS THROWING ROCKS!
Posted by kristianinal
I haven't read in the 12 pages of script here, that anti-abortion view, in itself, was "pro-domestic terror". Have your ANTI-CHOICE views. But condoning the killing of someone who doesn't agree with your "views"...that is domestic terror. I'm a little surprised you haven't understood that. You have been posting all through these threads.
By the way...there is no WIN to this argument. There are differeing opinions, and there always will be.
Hiker56, well said. Thank you. It bears repeating "Stop calling these groups 'Pro-life"!!!!
It's a false image they are trying to portray especially when they feed domestic terrorism like this. They are 'anti-choice', nothing more." - Reply to this comment
- not a single word in the article offered any condolences to Dr. Tiller's widow and family, nor that the shooting occurred in a church or condemnation of the murder. Therefore terry randal seems to condone the muder by his lack of condeming it. How very unfortunate that terry is unable to see through his own hate, my God help him to be more human.
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- "Concerning rhetoric, they will blame those of us who call abortion ?murder? and say that it is this highly charged rhetoric that inspires people to ?take the law into their own hands.?
Concerning actions, they will say that our protests and vigils and sit-ins are responsible for the shooting. "
No one is saying that your protests and vigils are responsible for this. They are saying that your rhetoric of comparing Tiller with Nazi's is what caused this and they are very likely more right than wrong. It still took a right wing nut to pull the trigger, but your inflamed and hypocritical rhetoric got him moving. - Reply to this comment
- Randall Terry out protecting the children. By the way, how is your first wife and the children you abandoned in 1999?
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- Why does anyone listen to Randall Terry ? He is insane, living in a world of afterlives where some extraterrestrial emporer sits in judgement of human souls. Why did this all powerful god of his allow children with no brains to be conceived ? Why did he allow women who were pregnant to contract cancer, making pregnancy a death sentence ? We live in the real world, where science allows us to make rational, if painful, choices. We are not leaves in some holy wind. If I were a woman, and found myself pregnant with a child I didn't want, I'd get an abortion in a hearbeat, and never think twice about it. It would be no more significant than having a strange mole removed. I care about MY life, and I protect it. All mammals reproduce internally, it's no miracle.
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- another indication of the far-right crazies who have hijacked the Republican party. Inciting people to be terrorists and murderers is wrong and should be punished. These people are evil and hateful and deserve to be marginalized, to the racist and ignorant Southern regional party they have become.
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- Stop calling these groups 'Pro-life"!!!!
It's a false image they are trying to portray especially when they feed domestic terrorism like this.
They are 'anti-choice', nothing more. - Reply to this comment
- This is a terrorist act pure and simply and is no different than an attack by the taliban or Al Qaeda!
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- It is terrorism and they did support it. Indirectly and in some cases directly.
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- "There are methods to change the law IF it is not right.. TERROR is NOT one of them"!
Posted by skyk-2009 at 6:09 AM : Jun 4, 2009
Agreed! - Reply to this comment
- "I don't suppose you get it, even now. I can only hope that the circumstances I've just described actually happen to you. I guarantee you will get it THEN".
Posted by ubrew12 at 10:19 PM : Jun 3, 2009
Couldn't one just have a "C" section? - Reply to this comment
- What amazes me is that we have let violent terrorist organizations like Operation Rescue continue to spew their hate and lies, to incite their seriously mentally defective members to murder law-abiding citizens... and we simply do NOTHING at all to close down the terrorist organizations and their leaders. It doesn't matter one bit that these terrorists think they are "Christians"... they are TERRORISTS, using the terrorist techniques of hate speech, harassment, intimidation and MURDER to terrify the people of this country into letting the terrorists control what we are allowed or not allowed to do. Randall Terry, Bill O'Reilly, and all the other hate-mongers who have incited this murderer to act, and every other leader and organizer and spokesperson for these terrorist organizations should be treated EXACTLY the same way we treat members of any other terrorist group. They are enemies of democracy, enemies of the rule of law, enemies of the United States of America.
The Christian Taliban must be shut down. - Reply to this comment
- Honest to God, it's beyond me how some of you could be so stupid.
Posted by luke_4u at 4:58 AM : Jun 4, 200
YOUR opinion is NOT law and Your beliefs are necessarily right. You say this LAW ABIDING Doctor brought this act of Terror on himself. Just how so? Just tell me what is different between YOU and the Taliban? What makes YOUR actions any different? You have decided that YOU and not our Courts are going to determine what is right and wrong, what is or isn't moral. Who made YOU God? Face if, you and all like you are nothing but common Terrorist who want nothing more than to force people to follow YOUR Religious Beliefs... Force them out of FEAR and HATE! - Reply to this comment
- "ON ALL THESE STORY BLOGS I HAVE YET TO READ A PRO-CHOICE ADVOCATE DEFEND THE ABORTION OF HEALTHY, LATE-TERM BABIES......NOT ONCE!!! "
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That is because there is agreement on this issue. No one supports this, unless the health of the mother is in jeopardy, or rape or incest, which make up such a small pct of these. And if you look at the record, this dr did not perform late term abortions unless the fetus was not healthy, or what I listed above. - Reply to this comment
- Odd how so many pro-lifers are also pro-domestic terror...
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- why is it that a woman has control of her body for an abortion, but does not have control of her body with the act that lead to the abortion. i'm speaking of prostitution. if a woman can do with her body what she will, then she should be able to present her body in a sex act for money, it's her body right? also why is it illegal to put any type of drug in her body, and why is the ultimate thing to do to yourself, suicide, illegal.
well skyk2009 it looks like you're up to your old jibber jabber again. i didn't realize that they now let mental patients acces the internet.
Posted by picklepants7 at 5:38 AM : Jun 4, 2009
It's easy why people as uneducated as you can't understand the English language unless some talking head tells you what to think. If you do NOT understand the difference between prostitution and a Womans REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS... if you do NOT understand the difference between making a law saying a person can NOT commit an act of suicide and the Government taking control of a womans Reproductive Organs, there isn't much reason to talk to you. Our Constitution says a loud as it can be said when a person is covered by that document...it's AT BIRTH! Now if given a choice between who should make decisions about that womans body BEFORE that event, I say it should be the Woman. But that's MY opinion but then I'm not out there committing acts of Terror, I'm not involved with TERRORIST Organizations to FORCE my Religious Beliefs on others... YOU ARE!! - Reply to this comment
- THE LAW IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT. IN THIS COUNTRY IT WAS CONSTITUTIONAL TO OWN SLAVES AND DEPRIVE THEN OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALMOST 100YEARS. JIM CROW LAWS WERE LEGAL UNTIL THE 1960'S!!!
WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY COULD NOT VOTE FOR ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS SLAVERY EXISTED.
THIS WAS ALL "LEGAL." IT WAS THE LAW OF THE LAND. THIS WAS ALL HELD UP IN THE SUPREME COURT.
BUT WAS SLAVERY AND DENIAL OF WOMENS SUFFRAGE MORAL?
Posted by kristianinal at 5:11 AM : Jun 4, 2009
There are methods to change the law IF it is not right.. TERROR is NOT one of them! - Reply to this comment
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