Wednesday, December 02, 2015

More details emerge abut Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear.

Courtesy of The New York Times:  

On Friday, according to officials, Mr. Dear entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing three people and wounding nine others with a semiautomatic rifle. The attack, which ended with his surrender to the police after a harrowing nationally televised standoff in the snow-dusted Western city, was a brutally violent and very public chapter in a life story whose details are not fully known. 

But in court documents and interviews with people who knew Mr. Dear well, a picture emerges of an angry and occasionally violent man who seemed deeply disturbed and deeply contradictory: He was a man of religious conviction who sinned openly, a man who craved both extreme solitude and near-constant female company, a man who successfully wooed women but, some of them say, also abused them. He frequented marijuana websites, then argued with other posters, often through heated religious screeds. 

“Turn to JESUS or burn in hell,” he wrote on one site on Oct. 7, 2005. “WAKE UP SINNERS U CANT SAVE YOURSELF U WILL DIE AN WORMS SHALL EAT YOUR FLESH, NOW YOUR SOUL IS GOING SOMEWHERE.” 

A number of people who knew Mr. Dear said he was a staunch abortion opponent. Ms. Micheau, 60, said in a brief interview Tuesday that late in her marriage to Mr. Dear, he told her that he had put glue in the locks of a Planned Parenthood location in Charleston. “He was very proud of himself that he’d gone over and jammed up their locks with glue so that they couldn’t get in,” she said. 

One person who spoke with him extensively about his religious views said Mr. Dear, who is 57, had praised people who attacked abortion providers, saying they were doing “God’s work.” In 2009, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concerns for the privacy of the family, Mr. Dear described as “heroes” members of the Army of God, a loosely organized group of anti-abortion extremists that has claimed responsibility for a number of killings and bombings.

Of course the investigation is still ongoing, and currently the Colorado Springs police are keeping mum, but there is already a rather stark picture emerging of Mr. Dear, and his potential motivations.

And that was enough for one activist group in Colorado to move to hold certain politicians accountable: 

At a gathering of reporters at the Colorado State Capitol Tuesday, Amy Runyon-Harms, director of ProgressNow Colorado, said: “It’s time to name names. It’s time to call out and stop this dangerous campaign of lies from right-wing politicians before more lives are lost.” 

Runyon-Harms asked three Colorado politicians to apologize for their “extreme” anti-Planned Parenthood rhetoric, which, she said, played a role in inciting a man to kill three people Friday at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. 

“It must stop, and stop now,” Runyon-Harms said. “We call on right-wing politicians across the state and nation to stop their false attacks on Planned Parenthood, and apologize for lies that are directly contributing to politically motivated violence in America today.” 

The three elected officials, all Republicans, spotlighted at Tuesday’s news conference were U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt (R-Colorado Springs), and state Sen. Tim Neville, who represents a West Denver suburb and is running for U.S. Senate.

Of course this is what the conservatives have feared would happen all along, and it certainly looks like this tragedy is going to cause them quite a number of problems moving forward.

It is just too bad that innocent people had to die before people woke up to the fact that this anti-Planned Parenthood rhetoric was not simply harmless propaganda.

20 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:24 PM

    I don't agree that conservatives feared this would happen. The agitated for ti to happen. They cheered when they heard people were dead at the clinics. They think this creep is some sort of hero for killing people needing care at Planned Parenthood. Conservatives are to blame for the lies, the distortions, and the deaths. They and they alone, are to blame, not liberals, not Obama, not atheists or real Christians. The far right is an ugly cancer int eh US, and it's time to call them out and get rid of the disease.
    SallyinMI

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    1. Anonymous2:54 PM

      I hear ya, Sally.

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    2. Anonymous4:10 PM

      x2

      The latest PP killings are not an "accident", they are just what is intended. Look at the reaction when Scott Roeder killed Dr Tiller.

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    3. A Superfan In Atlanta10:23 AM

      SallyinMI

      Democratic and Independent voters ARE to blame for not voting and allowing these idiots to get into office. Because of our inaction, the republicans control the messaging that empowers their idiot followers to act out their bidding.

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  2. Anonymous2:34 PM

    Wow. All this time I've been hearing that pot makes you chilled out. Hmmm.

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    1. Anonymous7:53 PM

      Maybe he should have imbibed before trolling those sites.

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  3. Anonymous3:13 PM

    What's ex-hub Tawd bought for Christmas over this one, $arah? A missile launcher?

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  4. Anonymous3:22 PM

    Well, he's the loser. I mean, 3 dead, 9 injured? San Bernadino's killer/killers just took out 14 and injured 17. WTF is wrong w/ these people? GD our politicians who suck the NRA's dick.

    Obviously Cicero was right. Politicians aren't born, they 're excreted.

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  5. Nikogriego3:26 PM

    "Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach "military age". Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it' They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state." George Carlin

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    1. Anonymous3:36 PM

      Right on. Guess that tells you how 'young' I am.

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  6. Anonymous3:59 PM

    This isn't the world I imagined for my kids, and I'm sure many other parents and grandparents feel the same. The only way for this to end is to stop the rwnj rhetoric and hold their news sources accountable for the truth.

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  7. Anonymous4:03 PM

    Seriously, #sweetdevotions $arah, after devoting a blurb in your book to how this is right by Jesus, I dare you to say ONE WORD. "Our thoughts and prayers go out?" What a crock of crsp....you have incited and encouraged this from DAY ONE.

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    1. Anonymous10:37 PM

      C'mon, $arah, #freedom in the name of the Lord.
      Oops, you only live Old Testament.
      Group W Bench.

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  8. Anonymous4:14 PM

    Religion simply breaks your brain. We, as humans, have been given this opportunity to have these great big brains that should, given the size and number of neural connections make us operate beyond the instinctive level of our predecessors, however, it seems, that RELIGION, kills the best that our Great Big Human Brains have to offer. RELIGION stifles RATIONAL thought, RELIGION stifles thoughtful consideration of action vs. reaction. RELIGIONS have killed the human quantity in quite a percentage of our human population.

    Until we unite and quell religion things such as this will be a possibility.

    I simply can't with these people. They are all just too stupid and brainwashed to realize what a gift they and their victims lives truly are.

    Stupid people, religious, dumb, brainwashed. We kill them in the middle east by the truck load but we let them dictate fear and hate here in our own country? I don't get it. Until we eradicate religion we willl never be free. Where there lies faith with no proof there lies evil.

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  9. Anonymous4:19 PM

    In order to raise funds for Dear's defense, a certain AK whore and her brother are offering blow jobs to anyone for a $1 donation. Then they will both pose nude in a national magazine. Yay!

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    1. Anonymous1:09 AM

      You're a sick fuck

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  10. Anonymous4:47 PM

    Thousands of "Christians" cheered Dear's actions and the deaths at PP

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    1. He's going to be made into a holy martyr just like Kim Davis.

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  11. I'm sure all of the Republicans and right wing media are gratefull 14 people died in San Bernadino because it will replace Dear in the public's attention and the media can now focus on that.

    What do you want to bet the GOP clown car is burning down the Twitterverse already because the shooters had muslim sounding names? But they won't say anything about the NRA or ability to get body armor or military grade weapons. No. It will all be about Muslim Terrorists. Never mind at least one man was born here. (And may have had a personal grudge against the group.)

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  12. Anonymous7:58 PM

    Gryph- I found this article to be fascinating.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fertility-clinics-destroy-embryos-all-the-time-why-arent-conservatives-after-them/2015/08/13/be06e852-4128-11e5-8e7d-9c033e6745d8_story.html

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