Fire At Planned Parenthood Clinic In Washington State Ruled Arson

[ismnotwasm]

A fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in eastern Washington state was ruled arson Friday, just weeks after it was the site of major anti-abortion demonstration.

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) joined the investigation into the fire, which was reported at about 3:30 a.m. After officials examined the building for most of the day, Pullman fire investigator Rich Dragoo determined the cause of the fire was arson.
Planned Parenthood issued a statement in response to the fire, calling it an “appalling act of violence” at a time when the healthcare provider is fighting what it says are false accusations of selling fetal tissue procured from abortions.

“This is an appalling act of violence towards Planned Parenthood, but unfortunately a predictable ripple effect from the recent false and incendiary attacks that fuel violence from extremists,” the chapter’s parent organization, Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho, said in the statement.

The “incendiary attacks” involve secretly recorded videos that depict abortion doctors discussing the use of fetal organs for research. Those videos, which have sparked national outcry, particularly among Republican governors who have threatened to cut off Medicaid funding, have since come under scrutiny for how they were edited and obtained.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonwells/fire-at-planned-parenthood-clinic-in-washington-state-ruled#.lj8l6B8ye

[yeoman6987]

1. They will find the culprit

It's amazing what they can do with forensic fire science today.

[smirkymonkey]

4. I hope you are right. These people need to be named and shamed.

I am so sick of these christian fundamentalists claiming martyrdom in preventing others from their legally given rights. This shit needs to stop.

[HooptieWagon]

5. "Named and shamed"?

I'd be more in favor of lengthy jail terms.

[smirkymonkey]

9. That too.

If its possible. We need to know who they are in order to call them out.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[krawhitham]

3. bump

[DirkGently]

6. Breaking: Anti-abortion Movement Still Full of Crazy Violent Assholes. n/t

[LittleBlue]

7. Pullman huh?

Figures. That region of the state is very red.

Hope they catch the scum who did this.

[Starry Messenger]

8. But we've been told that there is no war on women.

[ismnotwasm]

10. I know right?

So frustrating

[suffragette]

11. Yes, and the Repubs there are a part of it.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/09/04/federal-terrorism-task-force-investigates-fire-at-planned-parenthood-clinic-in-pullman/

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., who represents Pullman, got on the anti-Planned Parenthood bandwagon at a town meeting last month in Spokane.
“I believe we need to investigate (Planned Parenthood),” McMorris Rodgers said. “We need to better understand what they’re doing. From what I’ve seen, these are illegal activities in which they’re involved.”
As is customary when McMorris Rodgers makes an accusation or insinuation, she presented no evidence of “illegal activities.”
“If not willing to cooperate, then we should take action to defund Planned Parenthood,” McMorris Rodgers said to prolonged applause.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review noted that a Planned Parenthood clinic in the Spokane Valley was firebombed in 1996. Four men were later convinced for the crime.

[Starry Messenger]

12. They totally are.

It's political persecution.

[suffragette]

13. Exactly so. They keep the flames of hate burning.

Then we see these results.

[Eleanors38]

14. Not to be alarmist, these terrorists Will murder...

They did so in Florida, were caught, and later executed.