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metavirus6 months, 1 week ago

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i agree with you to an extent. although i think it's unlikely that this was some random mugging. the most likely motivation behind his murder (like so many before him - remember Dr. Barnett Slepian? / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Slepian ) was christian fundamentalist opposition to abortion and some demented justification that killing a doctor wouldn't be bad whereas aborting fetuses is.

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  smithichie6 months, 1 week ago
  
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  Oh, I am not saying it was random, hence the use of the word "terrorist". I think it's obvious why this Doctor was targeted, I just am not so sure of the reasoning behind the motive or the religion, if any, of the terrorist.
  Don't get me wrong, I will not be surprised in the least to find out the terrorist is indeed a Christian fundie, it's just there are a number of other possibilties too. How about an angry Hindu or Atheist father of a recently aborted fetus, for example?
  
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    metavirus6 months, 1 week ago
    
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    a fair enough point. one thing to consider is an eerie timing coincidence. May 31st (today) is the sixth anniversary of the capture of radical Christian anti-abortion terrorist and Olympic Park Bomber Eric Rudolph. http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/05/d...
    
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      smithichie6 months, 1 week ago
      
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      There are still folks who consider that cowardly terrorist to be a hero, no doubt some will consider today's terrorist to be a hero too. I just hope it doesn't take as long to catch the terrorist from today as it took to capture Rudolph.
      
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        metavirus6 months, 1 week ago
        
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        yeah, I suspect it'll be the same 56% of regular churchgoers who, in that now-infamous poll, think that torture is justified. maybe their only complaint will be that the doctor wasn't tortured first before he died.
        
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