"You can't promote violence and then act surprised when it really happens". Reproductive Rights Leader Nails Hypocrisy Of Anti-Abortion Activists - huff.to/1NjomhR
Ke'Arre Stewart, 29, and Jennifer Markovsky, 35, were also killed in the shooting, officials said Sunday.
Stewart was a U.S. Army veteran who'd served in Iraq, his sister, Temprest Lloyd, told CNN. He was the father of two daughters.
Lloyd, who's spoken with police and the coroner about the shooting, said her brother called 911 during the attack and told others at Planned Parenthood to take cover.
"He was able to save a lot of lives and stop other people from possibly losing their lives, and I'm proud of him for that," she said.
Stewart's wife told CNN affiliate KKTV that their family is seeking justice.
Markovsky's father, John Ah-King, told KKTV that he was heartbroken.
"I couldn't believe it. I just messaged her Thursday to say Happy Thanksgiving," he told The Denver Post.
Sister-in-law Julia Miller told the Post that Markovsky was a stay-at-home mom who was devoted to her two children.
"She's just a really sweet woman that would do anything for everyone," Miller said, according to the newspaper.
Ted Cruz, a gnarly gourd slowly depressing a fully inflated whoopee cushion, has an alternate theory about the Planned Parenthood shooter, reports the Texas Tribune.
When a reporter reminded Cruz it has been reported Dear made a comment about “baby parts” while being apprehended, Cruz retorted, “It’s also been reported that he was registered as an independent and a woman and a transgendered leftist activist. If that’s what he is, I don’t think it’s fair to blame on the rhetoric on the left. This is a murderer.”
So. Some looney-tune “right-of-center” website latches onto one piece of information, and suddenly the right has a lefty boogeyman to blame for an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic, even while their candidates take their sweet time denouncing this person’s act.
The wife of alleged shooter Robert L. Dear—who might know!—describes him differently:
“He believed wholeheartedly in the Bible,” she said. “That’s what he always said; he read it cover to cover to cover.” But he was not fixated on it, she added.
He was generally conservative, but not obsessed with politics. He kept guns around the house for personal protection and hunting, and he taught their son to hunt doves, as many Southern fathers do. He believed that abortion was wrong, but it was not something that he spoke about much. “It was never really a topic of discussion,” she said.
A crazy person gets a gun and walks into a Planned Parenthood clinic and murders innocent people. Some people then say it is probably time to take a hard look at both our gun control policies and the unscrupulousness of anti-abortion politicians and activists. Some other people accuse them of politicizing a tragedy, all the while delivering to their lunatic constituents a wholly manufactured persona of the perpetrator, for the sole purpose of insulating their deranged politics from their very real consequences.
Post by NewOrleans on Nov 29, 2015 23:13:20 GMT -5
omg. A cop and an Army veteran. And get this: the cop who died was also a pro-life pastor. But he ran from his post to Planned Parenthood to help. See how that works, assholes?! No wonder Ted Cruz wants to make wild shit up right now.
Poor, poor people. Two daughters. The other victim had 2 daughters, too. Just awful.
I hope Ted Cruz enlightens us to what reasons a transgender left activist would have for shooting up an abortion clinic.
Maybe s/he was angry s/he didn't have the proper equipment to get her free, drive-through, Obama abortion? IDK, that's such a weird thing for him to say. We don't know his motivations for the shooting, but we know his gender identy struggles? Okay.
After staying silent since a gunman opened fire in a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, several Republican presidential contenders condemned the attack on Sunday. But they uniformly refused to accept any kind of connection between the hateful anti-abortion rhetoric many of them have been espousing on the campaign trail and the shooting.
Carly Fiorina called efforts to link the shooting to anti-abortion rhetoric part of “typical left-wing tactics.” Lest we forget, Fiorina has been one of the most adamant in espousing lies against Planned Parenthood, even going as far as to falsely claim in a debate that undercover video shot in the organization had shown “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”
“This is so typical of the left, to immediately begin demonizing the messenger because they don’t agree with the message,” Fiorina said on Fox News Sunday. “What I would say to anyone who would try to link this terrible tragedy to anyone who opposes abortion or the sale of body parts, is this is typical, left-wing tactics.” She said protesters should be peaceful, regardless of their cause. “Any protesters should always be peaceful, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or pro-life protesters,” she said. “Protesters should always be peaceful and respectful.”
Mike Huckabee called the shooting “domestic terrorism” but said it was “disingenuous” to blame anti-abortion activism for the attack. “Regardless of why he did it, what he did is domestic terrorism,” Huckabee told CNN. “And what he did is absolutely abominable, especially to those of us in the pro-life movement because there’s nothing about any of us that would condone or any way look the other way at something like this.” But Huckabee later went on to conveniently link Planned Parenthood to murders. “There's no excuse for killing other people, whether it's happening inside the Planned Parenthood headquarters, inside their clinics where many millions of babies die, or whether it's people attacking Planned Parenthood.”
Donald Trump also condemned the shooting but quickly dismissed possible links between rhetoric and the shooting. "No, I think he is a sick person," Trump said on NBC’s Meet the Press. And when he was asked about reports that the shooter talked about “baby parts” Trump took the opportunity to again criticize Planned Parenthood. "I will tell you there is a tremendous group of people that think it's terrible, all of the videos that they've seen with some of these people from Planned Parenthood talking about it like you're selling parts to a car,” he said. “There are a lot of people that are very unhappy about that.” He also said he sees “a lot of dislike for Planned Parenthood” on the campaign trail. “There’s no question about that.”
Ben Carson, meanwhile, also condemned the shooting but when he was asked about possible connection to political views, he linked it to political divisions as a whole. "Unfortunately, there is a lot of extremism coming from all areas," Carson said on ABC News. “There’s no saint here in this equation.”
Carly Fiorina called efforts to link the shooting to anti-abortion rhetoric part of “typical left-wing tactics.” Lest we forget, Fiorina has been one of the most adamant in espousing lies against Planned Parenthood, even going as far as to falsely claim in a debate that undercover video shot in the organization had shown “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”
“This is so typical of the left, to immediately begin demonizing the messenger because they don’t agree with the message,” Fiorina said on Fox News Sunday. “What I would say to anyone who would try to link this terrible tragedy to anyone who opposes abortion or the sale of body parts, is this is typical, left-wing tactics.” She said protesters should be peaceful, regardless of their cause. “Any protesters should always be peaceful, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or pro-life protesters,” she said. “Protesters should always be peaceful and respectful.”
Demonizing the messenger? As in, the shooter? We shouldn't "demonize" him??
I love how they're taking the fact that his voter registration said Female to mean he was transgender. Because that's a lot more likely than it being a clerical error??
I love how they're taking the fact that his voter registration said Female to mean he was transgender. Because that's a lot more likely than it being a clerical error??
You would think that would be the first thing they'd think of, given this is the party of The Government Is Totally Incompetent And Inefficient And Isn't Qualified To Do Anything Except Regulate Women's Healthcare And Wage War.
I love how they're taking the fact that his voter registration said Female to mean he was transgender. Because that's a lot more likely than it being a clerical error??
Right. Like my H had a "known alias" for a brief time because someone wrote down his name as the feminine form (like transposing Michael into Micheala). But uh huh, more likely the shooter is transgender because clerical errors never happen.
I love how they're taking the fact that his voter registration said Female to mean he was transgender. Because that's a lot more likely than it being a clerical error??
He probably marked himself down as Female to avoid the rampant discrimination against white men these days.
I love how they're taking the fact that his voter registration said Female to mean he was transgender. Because that's a lot more likely than it being a clerical error??
He probably marked himself down as Female to avoid the rampant discrimination against white men these days.
It wasn't enough for me to "like" this. I just want to give it a quote-hug.
Carly Fiorina called efforts to link the shooting to anti-abortion rhetoric part of “typical left-wing tactics.” Lest we forget, Fiorina has been one of the most adamant in espousing lies against Planned Parenthood, even going as far as to falsely claim in a debate that undercover video shot in the organization had shown “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”
“This is so typical of the left, to immediately begin demonizing the messenger because they don’t agree with the message,” Fiorina said on Fox News Sunday. “What I would say to anyone who would try to link this terrible tragedy to anyone who opposes abortion or the sale of body parts, is this is typical, left-wing tactics.” She said protesters should be peaceful, regardless of their cause. “Any protesters should always be peaceful, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or pro-life protesters,” she said. “Protesters should always be peaceful and respectful.”
Demonizing the messenger? As in, the shooter? We shouldn't "demonize" him??
I'm hoping this alienates more of the republican party, because... are you fucking kidding me with this transgendered stuff?!
it won't. They don't care. You have seen the mental gymnastics that even non-Tea Party R's will go through to believe their candidate might say __ but doesn't really mean it, or s/he is running as a fiscal conservative instead of a social conservative even though s/he actually openly told lies in public about Planned Parenthood, or s/he is actually endearing and cute when s/he is a racist, or s/he is not really a racist when said only Christian refugees should enter the country. Even more hilariously, they might blame Obama for foreign policy (not unfairly) and say that they need to vote for a Republican who will mastermind foreign policy, lolollllllllllllllllllllllllllll.
I feel like Huckabees quote should be used against him. Basically he says 'not all pro lifers are crazy gun men. We just share an ideology or set of beliefs' Sounds like 'not all Muslims/ refugees are crazy gun men. They happen to share a religion or set of beliefs'
The shooter just had his first court appearance. The public defender who represented James Holmes was at the jail in Colorado Springs so everyone's speculating that this will be a death penalty case as well.