Cohen: Some Anti-Abortion Protesters Are Domestic Terrorists
Drexel law professor David S. Cohen was on radio with me to discuss his book Living in the Crosshairs that studies abortion providers and those who harass them.
Cohen interviewed nearly 90 people in 35 states and concluded that those who attack centers like Planned Parenthood should be considered domestic terrorists.
Alan and Cohen discussed why this harassment is currently on the rise and why extremists justify using violence even though they say they are pro-life, And Cohen confronted a caller from who said she has picketed clinics for years and thinks Cohen’s findings are wrong.
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arc99 June 4th, 2015 at 10:28
You might remember during President Obama’s first few months in office, the Dept of Homeland Security published a report on the threat of right wing extremism in this country.
Never mind the fact that most of the information in the report had been compiled and drafted during the administration of President Bush, when it was published the low-information right wing base immediately squealed about persecution. The fact that a report on left wing extremism had previously been published was of course never mentioned.
It was a perfect paradigm of what we have seen over the past 6 years. In a nutshell, we see precisely the extent to which hypocrisy is a key component of many right wing beliefs as they scream bloody murder at the mere suggestion that they be treated the exact same way, they cavalierly suggest we treat others.
Profiling possible terrorists? Not if he is a blue eyed freckle faced redheaded Christian with an NRA membership card. No sir, that is unAmerican.
Have law enforcement stop someone carrying a gun and ask to see their permit? Nope, not if the guy is white and is wearing a “f*ck Islam” t-shirt.
I think we all remember the conservative circle jerk on behalf of Cliven Bundy. Gun-toting wannabes were called “patriots” for threatening deadly violence against law enforcement. Again, you only get to do that if you are white and conservative. But in Ferguson,MO resisting police misconduct with equal force makes you a “thug”.
The actions of conservative “activists” over the past decade, along with the complicity of the non-existent liberal media have shaped our culture to the extent that a conservative who engages in violence or threatens violence in pursuit of a political goal is never called a terrorist. If you murder family planning clinic staff, or point your gun at a law enforcement officers, all you have to do is say you hate the President, you hate government, you hate the UN, and you are pro-life. You then get a clean slate to do whatever the hell you want.
I have said it several times in the past, and I have no problem saying it again. My wife and I are what the NRA would have you believe does not exist, e.g. liberal even leftist gun owners. We own those firearms not because we fear government. We own those firearms because aside from common criminals, we honestly believe the biggest threat to our safety is right wing extremists such as described above. If these vermin will point their gun at federal officers in the name of “patriotism”, I have no doubt they would point it at me if it suited their agenda.
Earlier this year, Homeland Security issued an updated assessment of the threat from violent right wing extremists. Call me naive or parochial or whatever you like, but personally I worry far more about the terrorists right here at home than a bunch of murderous psychopaths thousands of miles away.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/terror-threat-homeland-security/
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists and comes as the Obama administration holds a White House conference to focus efforts to fight violent extremism.
Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention.
StoneyCurtisll June 4th, 2015 at 11:03
“Some Anti-Abortion Protesters Are Domestic Terrorists”..
Ya dont say…
Bunya June 4th, 2015 at 14:11
Bite your tongue! They’re not terrorists. They’re soldiers in the “Army of God”.
Who says organized religion doesn’t breed intolerance?
Budda June 4th, 2015 at 11:33
Yes they are. They should be infiltrated and prosecuted, maybe even under RICO statutes.
Hirightnow June 4th, 2015 at 12:32
Also, some bacon is crispy.
StoneyCurtisll June 4th, 2015 at 13:02
I couldn’t help but notice the cover photo was from Eric Roudolph’s Atlanta womens clinic bombing..(Sandy Springs suburb)
He also placed a second bomb at the same site that went off a few minutes later,(an atempt to kill first responders).. Killing a police officer.
Roudolph then went on to set off another bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics…
And another bombing at a Birmingham womens health clinic..
And a Gay bar bombing in Atlanta..
Eric Roudolph is now serving 4 life terms in Federal prison..
This is a classic example of Domestic terrorism.
StoneyCurtisll June 4th, 2015 at 13:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbfoJXbg9hk
Bunya June 4th, 2015 at 14:14
Anti- abortion protestors are terrorists?
Hey! They’re pro-life, god dammit, and they’ll kill anyone who says otherwise!
David Ish June 4th, 2015 at 19:54
How many ALL anti-abortionists adopted unwanted babies and homeless and disabled people?
If Anti-abortionist had to pay for unwanted babies, they will drag women into the abortion clinics and make will make their own final solution for the homeless and disabled.
majii June 4th, 2015 at 22:56
Some of those who protest outside centers where abortions are performed are homegrown terrorists because they don’t just protest, they take the law into their own hands and bomb and set fire to abortion clinics and kill their staff members. I know these protesters have not forgotten Scott Roeder and Dr. George Tiller, since it was six years ago last month that the cowardly Roeder killed Dr. Tiller while he was at church.