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Originally posted by pritchke:
Paul Hill, a former minister who gunned down an abortion doctor, said he feels no remorse and suggested the state will be making him a martyr when he becomes the first person executed in the United States for anti-abortion violence.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20...175254-ap.html
Thoughts on his execution. There are a few things of interest here, how often does Florida execute people? why this guy and not others? Is there a difference between a Christian fanatic and a Muslim one? They seem the same to me. How many fanatics are there in North American Society because this guy isn't the first so called Christian to attack abortion clinics or shoot people based on his beliefs.
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Having grown yp in Florida yes we are very fond of "Old Sparky", we're also fond of "Ole Yeller" here Bama. "You do the crime you do the time." or in this case you ride "Old Sparky"
No this guy was the second(edit) IIRC, there were 2 differant abortion shootings in Pensacola, Florida. The first one the killer shot and killed at 2 differant abortion clinics on the same day. A couple of months later there was another shooting at the same clinic as the first shooting IIRC. There has been a TOTAL of 4 or 5 abortion clinic/doctor shootings in the USA.
2 in Pensacola, Florida 1991 or 1992 (my memory ain't what it used to be)
1 in upstate NY IIRC (Doctor shot in his home)1996?
1 in Mass. or Penn.(I can't recall off hand) (Man killed Doctor[edit] shot 2 receptionist at the doctors office that preformed an abortion on his Girlfriend killing his child IIRC)1997?
It seems to me there was one in Virginia but I may have that one mixxed up with the one where the guy killed the doctor that preformed the abortion on his Girlfriend, he may have lived in Virginia, but "HALE" you know when the press gets their teeth into a story the run it into the ground. Anybody remember the shark attacks in Florida? The Smart girl kidnaping? The Church burnings? The Leavy girl? Years later when the facts can be looked at, really looked at there was no signifcant rise in shark attacks, children kidnaped, or churches being burnt, and "Hale" I know more about Gary Condit then anybody needs or wants to know.If you listen to the *cough* Liberal *cough* News, they make it sound like there are abortion clinic shootings all the time. What goes on all the time is people protesting at the abortion clinics, exercising their right to protest. But last time I looked protesting does not equal murder. But then I guess that depends on where you stand on the issue.
AND there has been 1, yes, 1 abortion clinic bombing resulting in death.1999? Birmingham, Alabama (Eric Scott Rudolf... What was that Mel Gibson said about assasins in "Consperacy Theory"?)
(EDIT) reread the story they list ALL 4 killings sure sounds like a crime wave to me.
[ 09-04-2003, 12:26 AM: Message edited by: John D Harris ]