Nothing in life sucks worse than watching someone get away with something they shouldn't.Yet, in the Kansas courtroom where Scott Roeder, the man who assassinated Dr George Tiller, is on trial for murder, that apparently may happen.It's been reported that Justice Warren Wilbert may allow Roeder to face a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, should he decide it's appropriate."There's the very real possibility evidence could come from the defendant alone that would give me a duty to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter," Wilbert mused.Some of the usual suspects are infuriated over this, and rightly so. If anything, Roeder should be facing more serious charges -- terrorism-related charges -- than lesser charges.But there are some of the other usual suspects who need to keep their...
Accountability for "hateful rhetoric": it's only for the anti-abortion lobbyThe murder of Dr George Tiller was a terrorist atrocity.This was a line of argument that some, including Robert Peter John Day, fell absolutely in love with.In this case, it was rightfully so. They were right to denounce Dr Tiller's murder as terrorism. They would be right to denounce all instances in which abortion providers had been attacked as terrorism, even if they were extremely show to that particular punch.But the pro-abortion lobby started to significantly overreach when they started to insist that the entire anti-abortion lobby was to blame for Tiller's assassination.The argument was that the anti-abortion lobby had spread hateful rhetoric that had encouraged overzealous activists to murder Tiller as...
"Progressive political thought" - UR are doing it wrongAs the story surrounding the tragic murder of Dr George Tiller continues to develop, members of the portion of the Canadian blogosphere that purports to be "progressive" has proven relentless in its efforts to wrest any possible rhetorical advantage out of the entire affair.As has tended to be typical of Canada's most extreme left-wingers, their tactic is to portray anyone who has ever opposed abortion as directly responsible for Dr Tiller's killing.An always-amusing case is that of Mike of Rational Reasons -- who, for the record, is not above threatening those who disagree with him with gun violence -- who insists that he's angry with individuals who "purposely espouse violent rhetoric, celebrate past perpetrators of violence and...
The mind of a delusional psychopath holds many... "wonders"Any wise individual knows at least two things for certain:First off, you can't deal logically with anyone who is incapable of logic -- or, at best, capable only of twisted logic. Likewise, you can't deal honestly with someone who is incapable of honesty.And so we are brought back, once again, to the sad, sad tale of Can-Hate-ian Cynic and his search for that ever-elusive magic bullet.So for Canadian Cynic, who has evidently never considered himself above trampling all over tragedy in order to garner attention, the recent atrocity wherein Jim David Adkisson killed two and wounded six other parishoners of a Unitarian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee is being taken as an opportunity to settle all kinds of scores.Adkisson blamed the...