when it comes to the Tiller assassination, as Michelle Malkin points out, let’s see if they apply it to this guy, too; let’s see if they have the intellectual honesty, consistency and integrity to paint the anti-war movement with the same brush they want to use on the pro-life movement. On the facts, it’s certainly every bit as warranted; somehow, though, I’m betting not.
Update: Robert Stacy McCain has a great comment on this over at Hot Air‘s “Green Room”:
The Left always wishes to distance its own utopian idealists from the injustices perpetrated in pursuit of those ideals, while the Right is forever compelled to apologize for crimes that no conservative ever advocated or endorsed. It ought not be necessary to insist on the point that free speech and political activism are different things than the murder of Dr. Tiller, a crime that Michelle Malkin rightly denounces as terrorism.
Update II: My initial expectation that the killer was an American anti-war activist was incorrect—he was, rather, an American convert to jihadist Islam. See above.
Is there some evidence, missing from the article you linked to, that this killing was anti-war motivated, and not by something else? I mean, I guess it fits in theory, but I didn't read anything specific about any motive…
It even has a bold heading "Motive still unclear"…
Though this would be a parallel hypocrisy – two movements supposedly founded on protecting the sanctity of life with fringes that don't seem to value ethical consistency.
ALso, ironically, two movements which are so very often at odds, and which would theoretically agree on their basic premises.
At this point, there's no certainty as to why Tiller was killed, either–though if the suspect in custody is who it seems he is, then the obvious explanation is also the likely one. But then, in the Arkansas case, the obvious explanation is also the likely one (by analogy to similar cases elsewhere), and yet there, the media are emphasizing the lack of certainty.
My concern is not so much with the parallel hypocrisy–not that I take that lightly, that's just not where I was focusing; it's sad but true that every movement has its lunatic fringe–as with the hypocrisy of the way the media deals with those lunatic fringes depending on whether the movement is leftist or rightist.
I agree with you on the irony here, though; there are enough people who are both anti-war and anti-abortion out of a pro-life ethic that one would think there should be some degree of common cause there, anyway . . .
BTW, it's good to see you pop up again–I've missed your comments. Did I remember to congratulate you on your graduation?
…I think you did. Yeah, I fell off the edge of the world for a couple months there. But now I'm back, much to your delight 🙂
"I spent four years captive to the higher mind, got my paper and I was free" . . .
I've had months where I went AWOL on large chunks of life, so I know that drill.