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Anti-Abortion Activist Behind Auction For Roeder: For-Sale Items Do Not Glorify Violence
Justin Elliott | November 2, 2009, 1:46PM
Anti-abortion activist Regina Dinwiddie
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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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parisdesign
January 22, 2010 2:30 PM in reply to dzho
Goog for Ebay. You are nothing but a bunch of SELF MADE MARTRYS!!1 You do NOTHING TO help FIND HOMES FOR UNWANTED CHILDREN...no ...you choose to KILL instead!!! those children could end up in abusive homes but you don't care about that...
ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS YOUR 15 MINUTES OF FAME AND NO ONE IS LISTENING TO YOU!!!!!
You're warped philosophy is OVER!!!
I bet you HATE IT that there's absolutely NOTHING you can do to MAKE PEOPLE DO WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO!!!
So you MURDER THEM!!
You are on your way out...and YOU KNOW IT...NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK.
You're just common garden variety KILLERS and legends in your OWN MINDS!
why don't you HELP PEOPLE INSTEAD OF KILL HUMAN BEINGS...
Oh! I get it...that way you can't be on the NEWS and get your 15 minutes...WHORES.
Give this freak the DEATH PENALTY and any other "pro-lifer" (you should be called the PRO-MURDER movement) should be taken right to death row!!!
i hope America comes together to stop these backwood, NEEDY people, fromgetting ATTENTION by KILLING PEOPLE!...BORN PEOPLE!!!
More TAZZing and HARD RUBBER BULLETS for these NUTS.
this is vigilante justice and murder.
Arrest, charge and prosecute them accordingly.
WE IN AMERICA HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR PRO-MURDER MOVEMENT...
GET OFF OUR BODIES AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN KIDS!
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parisdesign
January 22, 2010 2:52 PM in reply to dzho
If I used VIOLENCE honey... you would be DEAD.DEAD.DEAD And so would all the rest of your low life self glorifying losers.
Don't you ever worry about someone throwing a BOMB right in the middle of one of your stupid protests??? They would not only take you out but apparently all of your KIDS as well...since you place them in harms way when you drag them out to your "look at me! look at us! we're saving babies by making noise!"
Once problem...
Your'e not doing ANYTHING but trying to control what others do and it back fires on you 10 fold EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! Soon you'll ALL BE GONE...in prison or just run out of town.
YOU'RE SICK! CHANGE THE LAWS IF YOU CAN...BUT AS LONG AS YOU SHOOT PEOPLE IN THE BACK YOU SHOULD BE SENTENCED TO DEATH. You are the worst kind of hypocrites! THE WORST. It's all about GLORIFYING YOU and hasNOTHING TO DO WITH "SAVING BABIES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN BORN YET"
Just the sound of it is comical!
I only hope after you go on your big KILLING SPREE (that's gonna make the world such a better place you mentally unbalanced psycho) that you are all gathered in a shed like they were in WACO...patting yourself on the backs for all of your murders and the whole shed goes up in flames because somebody has decided to put ALL OF YOU DOWN to save the freaking DOCTORS.
You don't care about babies...all you care about is being seen as a martyr...AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
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parisdesign
January 22, 2010 2:12 PM
dzho
How IGNORANT you are! You think that YOU are in charge of who has children and who does not? HA...You are not GOD! And you are NOT THE ONE WHO DECIDES WHAT OTHERS DO WITH THEIR BODIES You EVIL hypcrite.
You are NOTHING but MURDERERS and CRIMINALS and HYPOCRITES. Your posts sound like the rantings of a cult members who thinks JESUS has given her the right to kill.
YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL LIVING HUMAN BEINGS YOU FOOL!
He will go STRAIGHT to hell with YOU!
Listen up fruitcake...
You belong in PRISON or ANOTHER COUNTRY if you don't like the laws you ignorant killer!
Roeder is a sick vigilante and a MURDERING SCUMBAG...A KILLER...EVIL...JUST LIKE YOU!
HE DESERVES TO DIE AND WALLOW IN OBSCURITY FOR WHAT HE'S DONE.
THESE BABIES HAVE NOT BEEN BORN YET you insane baboon...THE DOCTOR WAS A LIVING BREATHING HUMAN BEING.
You are LIARS, you are HYPOCRITES, you are CRAZY, WEAK and most of all you want to control what OTHER people do and guess waht?
YOU NEVER WILL!!!
KEEP KILLING AND KILLING AND KILLING AND TALKING ABOUT LIFE AND SEE WHERE THAT GETS YOU.
YOU ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO HELP YOUR CAUSE?
Go back BIBLE SCHOOL AND READ THE PART WHERE IT SAYS
"Vengence is mine sayeth the lord."
Who the fuck do you think you are?
I hope someone drops a bomb on all of you!!!
YOU ARE THE KILLERS!!!!!!!
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parisdesign
January 22, 2010 2:38 PM
Did I mention that you are COWARDS as wll...no matter how much you flap your empty jaws...there is NO NOBILITY IN SHOOTING A DEFENSELESS MAN IN THE BACK.
Any Christian would be able to see that...but you aren't Christians...you are coward and terrorists.
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parisdesign
January 22, 2010 3:43 PM
If you are trying to save the ....and this part always gets me...UNBORN...
"Yep that's what we do. We save the "unborn" by killing people!
We don't care about the BORN children who's parents didn't want them in the first place and threw them into a DUMPSTER therefore killing their BORN CHILD...
We only care about the "unborn."
Much less of a hassle right?
You can ALWAYS go around and talk about how much you do for the "UNBORN"...because there really is NOTHING TO DO is there....they haven't been BORN YET...they are NOT EVEN HERE.
and your point is to "save the unborn" so that they can be borninto homes where their parents DO NOT WANT THEM?
Nice going...
Can we send all you jokers out on one way cruise to BORNIO...I think they'd like you there...
The United States...not so much...After all...
YOU ARE SUCH A MINORITY and THE ABORTION LAWS ARE NEVER GOING TO CHANGE!!!
All you are good for is getting your 15 minutes of fame:
"Look at me! I'm helping the UNBORN! that way I don't have to do anything and with any luck we will force these unborn babies to be born to parents WHO DON'T WANT THEM!"
You all need to be tarred and feathered and run out of the country.
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