Regina Dinwiddie, the Kansas anti-abortion activist who set up an eBay auction to benefit the suspect in the George Tiller murder, tells TPMmuckraker in a phone interview that she's angry that eBay pulled her items -- and that she believes they did not glorify violence, but rather "glorify the end of a very violent man."
"Actually I thought [eBay] was the last bastion of free enterprise in America, where normal people could put things up for sale," Dinwiddie told us. "I see they do have a political agenda."
The items put on eBay -- and pulled by the site today -- included prison art signed by Roeder showing a bloody scene in which David has slain a Goliath labeled "Tiller." Also for sale was Dinwiddie's bullhorn, and various relics and treatises associated with the violent wing of the anti-abortion movement.
Asked whether she believes the items glorify violence, Dinwiddie said she did not believe they did. "David and Goliath -- that's from the Bible," she said.
eBay, which has not returned calls seeking comment, previously said that it does "not allow listings that promote or glorify violence, hate, racial or religious intolerance." The owner of the mission.of.life account that posted the items -- who appears to be Dinwiddie's mother -- sent us this enumeration of violations she received from eBay.
Dinwiddie, for her part, said she plans to press on, and "we have plan B, C, and D" when it comes to raising money for Roeder. And, invoking a classic trope of anti-abortion rhetoric, she compared her fight to the fight against slavery.
"It's always Bleeding Kansas. It's funny how civil rights and the right to life issues always start with Bleeding Kansas," she said, referring to the 1850s skirmishing over slavery. "I wonder how Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, would've sold in Kansas in this kind of political climate."
Late Update: eBay sends along this statement from Associate General Counsel Jack Christin:
Today, eBay removed several listings on our site that violated several of our policies including our offensive materials' policy. This policy prohibits items that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance, or promote organizations with such views.

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Mintcon
November 2, 2009 2:15 PM
eBay has not removed all of the items. This is a listing of two more items that have not been deleted.
Please click on "report" on those items to let ebay know not to support this type of activity.
Would Michael Vick supporters have been able to auction off dogfighting manuals to defend him?
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_jonny_5_
November 2, 2009 2:36 PM
They don't Glorify Violence?
No, they just glorify the results of violence.
Now That's Pro-"Life".
This truely represents the Hypocrisy at the root of republican party affiliation.
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Marioth
November 2, 2009 2:37 PM
KS has serious education problems. This fixation on the personal lives of strangers is just plain creepy.
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Powkat
November 2, 2009 3:34 PM
Regina Dinwiddie? Really? Are you sure this didn't originate on The Onion?
And does she really think that there is no violence in the Christian Bible? It's one of the bloodiest books ever written!
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tiowally
November 2, 2009 4:24 PM
Is it Dinwiddie or Dimwitty? I know, dumb question.
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Kropotkin
November 3, 2009 5:15 AM
Roeder was hooked up with Operation Rescue, a money grubbing bunch of zealots, to whom he contributed, and from whom he got the address of the church that Tiller attended, and the times of the services. OR had stalked him for 25 years. When arrested, convicted bomb transporter had convicted bomb plotter Cheryl Sullenger's cell phone # on his dashboard. She attended Tiller's trial on trumped up charges brought by Operation Rescue attorney general candidate Phill Kline, of which charges Tiller was acquitted.
Sullenger said, "Who knew?" Roeder would kill Tiller. Roeder and Sullenger had jointly harangued women seeking obstetrical and gynecological services at Tiller's clinic, calling their screaming diatribes, "counseling." Dinwiddie had a restraining order keeping her from using her bullhorn within 500 feet of a clinic in the Kansas City area. Shelly Shannon, who donated items to the auction, is doing time in the federal pen for arson and chemical attacks on clinics around the country. She previously completed a sentence for trying to kill doctor Tiller, hitting him twice and firing five shots. Shannon's Wichita trial was attended by OR, along with Paul Hill, who returned to Florida and murdered a 74-year-old unarmed, retired Air Force colonel and shot the colonel's 68-year-old wife. Then he reloaded his shotgun and assassinated that doctor.
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dzho
November 3, 2009 5:49 PM
In this world, one is violent or one is killed. To pretend anything else is puerile. There are armed municipal police, armed state police, armed federal law enforcement personnel, American armed forces shooting people in other countries, armed security guards, armed homeowners and armed shopkeepers. These people, generally, are not armed merely for show; they expect to use their weapon(s) if need arise. If violence per se is wrong, are we to conclude that all the above enumerated ought to do their jobs without any resort to the use of force ever?
I know it's almost certainly useless for me to attempt to reason with anyone on a site such as this one. There is virtually zero likelihood that any of you has the ability to think.
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Bass Ace
November 4, 2009 9:58 AM in reply to dzho
So ... you're saying Dr. Tiller or the police should have shot some Operation Rescue people a long time ago?
Yeah, maybe I will go along with that.
But did you ever consider the fact that one side is violent and the other is not tells you everything about who is more concerned with morality and "life".
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dzho
November 6, 2009 4:37 PM
"One side is violent and the other is not" ???
Only if it be assumed that preborn children are not human beings, and that ripping more than 45 million of them from the womb is not a violent act. I have never seen a decent argument for that assumption, though. I know that people who want it to be legal for pregnant women to hire someone to kill the preborn think they can justify the belief that it wrong to kill a child at some point, but not wrong to kill that same child a minute before, although the child has not changed its essence in the slightest in the intervening minute. They never explain how, exactly, this belief of theirs is supposed to make sense, but they don't care about honesty. They want what they want and they will use any specious argument available to lie to themselves.
Also, a man holding a dead baby sign was killed in Michigan two weeks ago. Paul Hill was put to death by the state of Florida. Many other anti-abortionists are held in state and federal prisons, another act of violence. The IRS will arrest you at gunpoint if you do not pay taxes, some of which go to Planned Parenthood, another act of violence. I could go on and on.
Grow up and admit that you use violence and depend on it every day to get what you want. Only a fool would believe that one can live in this world without violence.
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