Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic

[Clueless Morgan]

You may have a point, Wyrd.

The Klown Kar has been noticeably silent until today.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ted-cruz...-shooting/

Ted Cruz first GOP candidate to condemn Friday’s Planned Parenthood shooting

I'm sure that's only because a cop got killed.  If it was a doctor Cruz would be leading the cheers.

Interesting new video about that Josh Fearstain guy, and him inciting actual violence. It seems Josh has now removed the part Dusty is objecting to.

http://youtu.be/pFcLuIuQOJ4

Something to think about:

http://valerietarico.com/2015/11/28/chri...c-assault/
Christianist Republicans Systematically Incited Colorado Clinic Assault

After months of verbal assault against Planned Parenthood and against women more broadly, Republican Christianists have gotten what they were asking for—bloodshed.

On November 27, a mass shooting left three dead and nine wounded at a Planned Parenthood clinic just miles from the headquarters of the Religious Right flagship, Focus on the Family. Was the shooting exactly what conservative Christian presidential candidates and members of congress wanted? Maybe, maybe not. But it is what they asked for. Republican members of the Religious Right incited violence as predictably as if they had issued a call for Christian abortion foes to take up arms. Inciting violence this way is called stochastic terrorism:

“Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.”

In an incident of stochastic terrorism, the person who pulls the trigger gets the blame. He—I use the male pronoun deliberately because the triggerman is almost always male—may go to jail or even be killed during his act of violence. Meanwhile, the person or persons who have triggered the triggerman, in other words, the actual stochastic terrorists, often go free, protected by plausible deniability. The formula is perversely brilliant:

1. A public figure with access to the airwaves or pulpit demonizes a person or group of persons.
   
2. With repetition, the targeted person or group is gradually dehumanized, depicted as loathsome and dangerous—arousing a combustible combination of fear and moral disgust.
   
3. Violent images and metaphors, jokes about violence, analogies to past “purges” against reviled groups, use of righteous religious language—all of these typically stop just short of an explicit call to arms.
   
4. When violence erupts, the public figures who have incited the violence condemn it—claiming no one could possibly have foreseen the “tragedy.”
   

Stochastic terrorism is not a fringe concept. It is a terrorist modality that has been described at length by analysts. It produces terrorism patterns that should be known to any member of Congress or any presidential candidate who has ever thought deeply about national or domestic security issues, which one might hope, is all of them.

As for the subject at hand:


No one has the right to volunteer my body to keep someone else's alive.