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Watch this:







Then watch this:







Does anyone see a pattern here? I guess it could just be me . . .



UPDATE: Holy crap; there's more:







This new development suggests that, in this instance, the pattern doesn't hold up. There is no such evidence (which would seem obvious enough on its face) to suggest similar ties between the shock jocks and the Knoxville church assassin. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the point doesn't remain valid with other violent occurrences with abortion providers. I'll see if I can find any for future reference.


UPDATE II: Rachel Maddow's been a pit bull on this story. Apparently, the Feds think that there's at least a real possibility that Mr. Roeder did NOT act alone.







She's also had a former insider of the pro-life movement on the show a couple times. He writes for the Huffington Post and has written a couple columns on the subject of Dr. Tiller's murder. The segments on Rachel Maddow's show are here . . .







And here . . .







P.S. This is just plain weird for me to be using so much of a cable news show--any cable news show--to make any particular point considering how vacuous and gossipy they tend to be. I have to be honest, though: the Rachel Maddow Show has an upside to it I like (and no, it's not because of it's liberal slant; it takes much of it's subjects seriously--even when she's making jokes, there is a gravity and depth to many of her segments that the rest of cable news lacks). Now, there still is a looonnnggg way to go before even this show does what journalism needs to do. For instance, I'm still waiting on someone in the mainstream media to give us a thorough examination of what's happening on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan when our soldiers aren't around. And what about interviewing the victims of torture? I realize Jake Tapper over at ABC News has interviewed Lakhdar Boumediene, the ethnically Algerian Bosnian citizen working for the Red Crescent who was falsely accused of plotting to blow up a U.S. and British embassy shortly after 9-11 and whose name appears in a landmark Supreme Court case--Boumediene v. Bush--that declared at least part of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutional (for the video of that interview, go here; for the full interview--only available as a transcript--go here and, as always, a brilliant takedown of the episode by Glenn Greenwald here, for which, I must admit, I borrowed many of the links he provided), but that's just one victim; this torture program has killed at least 100 people, and in all likelihood has killed many more. There shouldn't be a single mainstream media outlet that hasn't managed to interview torture victims in groups of six at a time, or done an hour-long or two hour-long special interviewing a whole slew of people, many of them victims, for an exhaustive, comprehensive understanding of what exactly has happened in our names, wrapped in our flag as we have suffocated ourselves with our own fear.



UPDATE III: If the systematic use of torture, lack of due process for detainees, warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens, politicization of the Justice Department, politicization of intelligence in order to start a war for one's own purposes at the expense of the nation's, or the massively unconstitutional secrecy powers claimed by the U.S. government didn't convince you that terrorism works in this country, this may be the straw that breaks the camel's back.