When a Lone Wolf Assassin is Not Nuts or Alone

[Joanne98]

Dr. George Tiller was serving as an usher at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas when Scott Roeder walked up to him and shot him in the head.

The media at the time quickly adopted the lone nut or "lone wolf" theory of the murder. Having studied a number of similar anti-abortion crimes over the years, I said that while the murder may or may not have been a criminal conspiracy, there were very likely at the very least what I call "concentric circles of support". Even when such crimes are carried out alone, they tend to be well-planned and often draw on networks of social, ideological and even logistical support, sometimes unwitting. The murder of Dr. Tiller is best understood, after all, as an assassination -- arguably one of the most high-profile political murders in recent years. Such support can be hard to prove, especially by the standards of criminal law. But that does not mean it does not exist.

Now, a joint investigation by The Nation and Ms. magazine details what the circles of support around Roeder looked like. This ground-breaking work reveals much about the way that the revolutionary, antiabortion Army of God operates.

Here are a few excerpts:

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/5/29/11307/3883

[Scuba]

1. Terrorists !!!!!

[RC]

2. Naa, they're Lily White Christians, not brown Moslems. Or as the Tea-Baggers prefer, Muslin.

So they can't be terrorists. :sarcasm:

[Doctor_J]

3. anyone know where the full article is?

thenation.com doesn't have anything.

[Shallah Kali]

4. It is hotlinked in the article posted above

http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/gender/1319/not_a_lone_wolf

Not A Lone Wolf
Scott Roeder is now serving a life term for murdering abortion doctor George Tiller. But did he really act alone?
http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2010/lonewolf.asp

[MerryBlooms]

5. There are a lot of others who should be serving time with him. n/t

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[Doctor_J]

6. indeed. this article exposes a very large conspiracy

luckily for them white right-wingers are above the law.

[MerryBlooms]

7. It sure seems that way. n/t

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