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Roeder Called Himself "Citizen Of The Republic Of Kansas"
Yet more details about the extremist background of Scott Roeder, the suspect in the George Tiller murder.
USA Today reports that Roeder "called himself a citizen of the Republic of Kansas who didn't want to pay income or Social Security taxes or register his car."
And it adds the name of another right-wing group to which Roeder at one time belonged: "One Supreme Court." According to a source who tracked militia organizations, the group claimed its members were "sovereign citizens" not subject to federal and state laws.
It had already been reported that Roeder had been a member of Freemen, a right-wing militia group which espoused a similar ideology.
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The MSM and TPMMuckraker are going all out to convince people that this "terrorist" acted outside the society in which he was a member and where he received his treaining, thoughts, and ideas.
Why is it that when a "terrorist" is an Arab or a Muslim, there is a "terrorist" network behind them - and when the "Terrorist" is a "Christian", they are a nutcase acting on their own instead of being a part of the organizations to which they belong?
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June 2, 2009 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. That this violent criminal is a domestic terrorist supported by a terrorist network, well that just won't fly in the trad-med at all. He has to be a crazy, loner, nut-ball, hearing voices in his head, etc.
Why?
Because he is a white male anti-abortion domestic Christian type zealot, and those are not "real" terrorists... unlike those brown-skinned anti-colonial Muslim foreigner type zealots.
June 2, 2009 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are you blaming TPM?
June 2, 2009 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Previous TPM headline - "Tiller Suspect "Suffered From Mental Illness""
The only "mental illness" Roeder suffered from was listening to, and believing, those radical right wing non-"Christian" nutcases on the Faux News Network.
Quit holding back and start reporting where Roeder got the idea that Tiller deserved to die.
Place the blame where it belongs. On Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and those other radio and television personalities who foment this type of behavior just to get their ratings up.
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June 3, 2009 12:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
not sure how reporting on all of the various organizations that roeder has been associated with amounts to portraying him as a nutcase acting on his own.
June 2, 2009 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like a typical, cognitive dissonence-free right-winger; he doesn't want to pay taxes while he cruises around in his car on public roads.
June 2, 2009 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, so he's just one of a few bad apples. Suicide bombers are geberally mentally ill too, but no one says that exonerates the terrorist leaders who set them in motion.
June 2, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's just important to keep in mind the terrorist leaders prodding followers to kill in the name of pro-life are people like Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly not groups like the Montana Freemen (who's issues relate to federalism and taxation).
June 2, 2009 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
First make sure every crazy in America has access to any weapon..then preach to that crazy about what he should do with it...how he/she should "get" any one who has a difference of opinion....perfectly logical right-wing thinking and rhetoric...if you "ain't with us then you must be agianst us" and therefore the enemy.... therefore I have the GOD-GIVEN right to kill you...Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, G. Liddy, Michelle Malkin, Michelle Bachman, Britt Hume and Glen Beck..should all be held responsible and prosecuted for "inciting hate crimes"
June 2, 2009 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Add in ignorance due to lack of education either because public education is underfunded and forced to use textbooks approved by Christian nut-jobs in Texas, or because children are sent to unaccredited Christian schools or worse yet, home schooled by parents who barely finished high school with an agenda of fear and self-righteousness.
June 2, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
So often lately, I find my self pondering the lines we draw between mental illness and "ideology."
June 2, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let TPM - and even the MSM - give us the basic facts about Roeder and his possible motives for this crime. Then we can pore over jackass non-issues like who is or is not calling him a terrorist. It'll save time, especially for those of us who don't give a damn over dickhead woolgathering.
June 2, 2009 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does the Republic Of Kansas share a border with the Republic Of Texas?
Its an interesting group of like-minded peoples. Teabaggin Texas secssionists, Texas Guvnahs, Fauxnews personalities, old TV actors who hawk excercize equipment, and Freemen members who shoot people. Not sure that counts as 'diversity' though.
June 2, 2009 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink