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This Is a Stretch, But Hear Me Out

Given that I am a member of the K.O.O.K.S., I tend to look at current events from a much different perspective than most people. Thus, rather than analyze the murder of Dr. George Tiller through the left-right prism of politics which most people look through, I will analyze this through my KOOKY lens.

This MSNBC report gives some of the details of the suspected shooter's private life:

Roeder's family life began unraveling more than a decade ago when he got involved with anti-government groups, and then became "very religious in an Old Testament, eye-for-an-eye way," his former wife, Lindsey Roeder, told The Associated Press.

"The anti-tax stuff came first, and then it grew and grew. He became very anti-abortion," said Lindsey Roeder, who was married to Scott Roeder for 10 years but "strongly disagrees with his beliefs."

This report is linking anti-government and anti-tax ideology with extreme murderous religious fundamentalism. I daresay that this is not a coincidence. The MIAC report released several months ago also intentionally conflated anti-government groups, white supremacists, and anti-abortion groups. Moreover, the report made no effort to distinguish between peaceful anti-abortion groups (or peaceful anti-government groups) and those that would use violence.

The article continues with this nugget of information:

In 1996, Roeder (pronounced ROW-der) was arrested in Topeka after being stopped by sheriff's deputies because his car lacked a valid license plate. Instead, it bore a tag declaring him a "sovereign" and immune from state law. In the trunk, deputies found materials that could be assembled into a bomb.

The MIAC report also included sovereign individuals, i.e., people who believe that the rule of the State is illegitimate such as yours truly, as potential terrorists.

It is quite likely that this was a lone assassin who believed that he was doing God's work by killing an abortion provider. Even though many anti-abortion groups are distancing themselves from this act, some anti-abortion activists are not:

Some anti-abortion activists said they were familiar with Roeder. Regina Dinwiddie, a protester in the Kansas City area, said she had picketed a Planned Parenthood clinic with Roeder. She said she was "glad" about Tiller's death.

"I wouldn't cry for him no more than I would if somebody dropped a rat and killed it," she said.

Nevertheless, I always wonder if the State plants informants in various groups and tries to provoke crime. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Several writers at the LRC blog have noted that the latest FBI arrests for a terrorist plot look like dimwits who were complicit in a crime completely made up by the FBI. What did the State gain from this circus? It "reminded" the masses that there are evil people in the world who want to kill them, but the State is there to protect them.

What does the State gain from the murder of Dr. Tiller? It can use the fear generated from this murder to advocate more gun control measures. It can inflame the tension between pro-life and pro-choice groups which will serve as a useful distraction from the State's wars and destruction of the economy. The State can use comments such as those from Regina Dinwiddie as gasoline. But the most fruitful reward will come from the media's portrayal of the accused killer. The media will continue to imply that anti-government and anti-tax beliefs are gateway ideologies to extreme fundamentalist Christianity. My guess is that future reports will detail which groups Mr. Reoder joined, if that information can be discovered. The reporters do not have to make explicit connections. They need only mention "suspected abortion doctor killer" with "anti-government" or "anti-tax." The incessant repetition, as Hitler pointed out, will eventually become true in the minds of the masses. The State can then surreptitiously can call on the masses to watch their neighbors and report any anti-government or anti-tax ideologues as potential murders. Think of Minority Report with self-appointed anti-government watchdogs as the precogs.

I remember reading a blog post a while back by Karen DeCoster which suggested that government is trying to incite a race war in this country. Given Obama's very pro-choice views, it would not surprise me if our government was trying to incite a war between anti-abortion and pro-choice groups. I do realize that this argument is a stretch even for a member of the K.O.O.K.S. Not all crimes in this country are provoked or committed by the agents of the State. But we radicals must remember that our government has openly declared war on us. The MIAC report was a declassified report. There is no telling just how detailed and insidious the classified report is. Moreover, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Rahm Emanuel are all on record saying that a good crisis should not be wasted. Dr. Tiller's murder can be a very propitious event for the State and we should not forget that.

What Does an Abortion Look Like?

I know what you're thinking. For all the effed up shit that comes out of my head and ends up as a scribble on this blog, I didn't just go and type that headline. Well, folks, I did.

As I was clicking through the links of Brutus's last post, the very last one took me to this page, where the author, Jill Stanek, writes about a convicted abortionist who is now a principal in a Chicago public school. As the proud father of a handsome one-year-old, it was a little tough to look at a photo Stanek included that clearly was a depiction of a late-term abortion.

But that was nothing. Included in Stanek's web links was a path to The Abortion Gallery, which, as you may have already guessed, speaks for itself. (I'm saving the link for the end, and in any case you'll have to scroll to see the photos, so you're not barraged right off the bat.)

It's at this point that I'll warn all readers of the extremely graphic nature of the photos the website contains. If you think you can stomach it (and there's no shame if you can't), these are pictures every adult should see. They're not so much unsafe for work as they are unsafe for pro-abortion politicians, who most certainly want voters to remain ignorant of what really goes on in abortion clinics.

Obviously there are few issues as touchy as abortion, but this gallery is a must-see especially for people who happen to be on the fence.

As a radical, anti-state libertarian, I oppose the government's regulation of abortion on the face of it. But the state notwithstanding, I am anti-abortion. I believe in the non-aggression principle, which states that it is immoral to initiate or threaten violence or fraud against someone else's person or property.

Some libertarians argue that a baby in the womb fetus is deserving of no property rights (i.e., the right to its own life), that it is actually the property of the mother, who has the right to determine whether her baby lives or dies because it is simply a parasite feeding on a host.

Well, given that this parasite has a heartbeat emanating from an organ belonging to the same species of mammal as its host, I reject this argument out of hand. It is entirely illogical to argue that a mere physical barrier -- in this case, the amniotic sack or uterine wall -- is an appropriate determinant for the morality of taking a human life.

In short, to believe that it's moral to abort a baby inside the womb but immoral just as long as it's lucky enough to make it out of the birth canal is as absurd as believing it would be OK to shoot someone as long as he were standing inside his house, but not if he were standing on his front porch.

But here I go trying to rationalize. As they say, a picture's worth a thousand words. The ones at The Abortion Gallery should leave you speechless.

Abortion Abduction

This has to be one for the record books:

SALEM, New Hampshire (AP) -- A Maine couple upset that their 19-year-old daughter was pregnant tied her up, loaded her in their car and began driving to New York to force her to get an abortion, police said.

The daughter, Katelyn Kampf, escaped Friday at a shopping center and called police, who arrested her parents, Nicholas Kampf, 54, and Lola, 53, of North Yarmouth, Maine. They were jailed on a kidnapping charge and were being held on $100,000 bail each.

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"Her parents chased her out into the yard, grabbed and tied her hands and feet together," Salem Police Officer Sean Marino wrote in a court affidavit. "Katelyn states that her father then carried her to their car and they headed toward New Hampshire."

Investigators said rope, duct tape, scissors and a .22-caliber rifle were found in the Kampfs' Lexus and Nicholas Kampf had a loaded .22-caliber magazine clip in his pants pocket.

The Kampfs were upset that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail, police said, and before leaving Maine on Friday they had an argument at the parents' home.

Here's something to ponder: Would it be illegal for parents to force a child to have an abortion if she was 12 or 13 and not a legal adult? Or, you know, would it just be the same as forcing her to eat her vegetables at dinner?