Obama Vocal on Tiller – Silent on Muslim Terrorist Attack on Recruiters
The emperor, Obama I, was quick to comment about the hideous murder of abortion doctor, George Tiller, but completely blew off the Muslim terrorist attack against Army recruiters in Arkansas. This yahoo in the White House is a joke!!
President Obama announced his choice for Army Secretary this afternoon.
The news isn’t what he said in his statement about GOP Rep. John McHugh:
“As Secretary of the Army, he will ensure that our soldiers are trained and equipped to meet the full spectrum of challenges and threats of our time. And John [McHugh] shares my belief that a sustainable national security strategy must include a bipartisan consensus at home, and he brings patriotism and a pragmatism that has won him respect on both sides of the aisle. I look forward to working with him in the months and years ahead.”
The news is what he left out.
Not a word about the jihadi attack on the two Army recruiters in Arkansas. No condemnation of the heinous attack and senseless violence. No condolences for the families of the targeted men or praise for the military recruiters who have been under increasing attack on U.S. soil. No statements from the DOJ or Pentagon, either.
Nothing.
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Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic notices similar whitewashing by government-funded NPR, which failed to report the name and religion of recruiter-murdering suspect Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad:
Why not tell people what is actually happening in the world? We saw this a couple of weeks ago, when the press only gingerly acknowledged that the malevolent though incompetent suspects in the synagogue bombing-conspiracy case in New York were converts to Islam. How is the public served by this kind of silence? The extremist Christian beliefs of George Tiller’s alleged murderer are certainly relevant to that case, and no one in my profession is hesitant to discuss them. Why the hesitancy to talk about the motivations of the man who allegedly killed Pvt. William Long?
Amy Ridenour: Some murders matter more than others.
Jeff Schreiber at America’s Right has these comments:
My three-year-old daughter was born at 34 weeks and four days. She almost was born three weeks before that. I know that the late-term abortion doctor gunned down over the weekend, George Tiller, killed babies which were as far along if not further along than was my daughter, and for that my soul hurts.
What Tiller did with his life, the 60,000 young souls extinguished at his hands, should rest squarely on the shoulders of George Tiller. He should have expected to be judged on his actions by God. Introducing him early, however, by means of a gunshot wound to the head, was absolutely wrong.
Murder is murder. And while many people will contend that Tiller murdered 60,000 children through his life’s work, he did not run afoul of the law in doing so. Tiller’s killer did. Tiller’s killer decided to go to that church. Tiller’s killer decided to pull the trigger. And, while Tiller’s killer may have reconciled his actions for himself by justifying them as the murder of a murderer, as far as Kansas law is concerned, it was murder of a doctor. These unwilling mothers came to George Tiller, after all. George Tiller did not ask for his own death.
If the people of Kansas, as well as the rest of us, want to stop the George Tillers of this world, we must make them accountable under the law. Vigilantism does nothing for the overall cause — there are other George Tillers to step in and take over, and the action’s of Tiller’s murderer only makes it more difficult for those of us concerned with the sanctity of life to stop them. Putting an end to this procedure will require organization of the political kind. It will require the residents of Kansas to sacrifice their time to go door-to-door, to talk to people about the evils people like Tiller are committing. It will require a steadfast commitment to ensuring the state lawmakers that their elected position depends upon them doing the right thing — bringing the issue up in the form of state legislation, or in a referendum brought to the people at the ballot box.
That’s how we stop George Tiller. That’s how we effect true and lasting change.
I may not agree with Barack Obama on much, and certainly not on the abortion issue, but his statement this weekend regarding Tiller’s murder was right on. (Of course, so long as you forget completely about the actions taken by William Ayers):
I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.
His actions since, however, have left much to be desired. Today, we learned that his Attorney General, Eric Holder, authorized the U.S. Marshals Service to protect “appropriate people and facilities around the nation” in the aftermath of Tiller’s murder.
Now, apparently, our federal government is subsidizing protection for private citizens and businesses perceived to be controversial and therefore vulnerable to violence. Whhat about process servers? What about those people deemed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to be “rightwing extremists” who choose to spend their time lawfully sitting in quiet protest outside Planned Parenthood offices? What about a guy like me, who uses his spare time to anger those on the left?
Shouldn’t the U.S. Marshals services be spending their time and manpower to protect witnesses, serve warrants, follow fugitive killers and guard courthouses like the one I’m in now?
How many abortionists have been killed in the past decade? Two decades? Suddenly, they’re the Templar Knights on the inaugural Friday the 13th? Since this weekend, all I’ve seen are people on the American right standing up and condemning the murder of George Tiller — has there been some sort of silent fatwa I’ve just not been made aware of?
What of military recruiters like the one killed in Arkansas? Does Barack Obama not see fit that military recruiting offices are protested by those on the left, just as Planned Parenthood offices are protested by those on the right? What of the serviceman also killed this weekend? Why no federal protection for these men?
Not only is there no protection afforded to those who give their lives to make this country safer, rather than those who work to kill defenseless unborn children, there is hardly any mention of the identity of the murderer of that military recruiter. Of course, the mainstream press has been falling all over themselves to identify the killer of George Tiller as one of those “domestic terrorists” Janet Napolitano warned us about, but no such effort has been expended to depict the recruiter’s killer as one of the Muslim terrorists that rational, right-thinking Americans know to worry about.
Before my head explodes, let me make myself clear. Abortion is murder, but is not against the law in Kansas. Shooting a man in the head in cold blood is murder everywhere. Assigning federal agents at taxpayer expense to protect people who could simply find moral high ground and no longer require protection is overkill.
