Federal investigation into the George Tiller homicide?

Look what just landed in my email box. It's a press release from the Justice Department:

The Justice Department today announced that the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas have launched a federal investigation into federal crimes in connection with the murder of Dr. George Tiller.

The federal probe will consist of a thorough review of the evidence and an assessment of any potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) or other federal statutes. The federal investigation will be conducted in close coordination with the Office of the Sedgwick County, Kan., District Attorney, and the state’s ongoing murder prosecution will have the full support of federal investigators.

The FACE Act was enacted by Congress in 1994 to establish federal criminal penalties and civil remedies for violent, obstructionist or damaging conduct affecting reproductive health care providers and recipients.

“The Department of Justice will work tirelessly to determine the full involvement of any and all actors in this horrible crime, and to ensure that anyone who played a role in the offense is prosecuted to the full extent of federal law,” said Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “We will conduct a thorough investigation that will complement and build upon the fine work of the Sedgwick County District Attorney and other state and local law enforcement agencies.”

Comments

[Searching]

I thought he acted alone?

[Tam]

I would think someone would've known what he was planning...

[Steven Ertelt]

They won't find much because Roeder was not a part of the pro-life movement and has no affiliation whatsoever with any pro-life groups. he is a man who a history of mental illness who harbors radical anti-government views and doesn't share the same pro-life values of respecting human life as do the majority of the American people.

[De]

Why is he not being investigated as a domestic terrorist?

[Wisdom]

He posted on the Operation Rescue site all the time and had contact with one of the officials there who did time for bombing a facility like the one Tiller ran. She was his last phone call before he was picked up.

What do you mean he had no affiliation with any pro-life groups????????

[Keith G. in P.V.]

Gee Steven, that sounds pretty much like every ardent anti-abortionists I've talked to...except for the not being a joiner part. (I think he organized his own group.) ;-)

[JewwellsP]

Sure Sure Steven, no matter what the anti abortion group's claim. The public knows the truth, people like you & Troy Newman support these freaks. When Roeder wants to put up a blog, will Troy see to it that it is done? As he has for Eric Roudolph?

[TJ]

This is about the 8th or 10th thread on the Roeder-Tiller case that has appeared in Crime Scene KC in the past 5 days. In nearly all of the threads, some wild eyed theories have been put forward alleging conspiracy. And no real evidence of a conspiracy has been offered. It's time to put up or shut up, conspiracy theorists.

[parkay]

Three pro-life women, two of them teenagers, who were intimidated, jailed, shackled, and strip searched last year after peacefully protesting abortion in Maryland, have won a federal lawsuit against State Police, Harford County, and the city of Bel Air. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett ruled that at least a dozen state troopers through their arrest of pro-lifers, executed a policy of suppressing free speech that was based upon an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad ordinance.
The first of the illegal strip searches took place in the police station parking lot in front of other males, and the second in a Harford County Detention Center toilet. The pro-lifers were not told why they were arrested until after a night in jail. Ultimately the charges of loitering, disorderly conduct, and failure to obey a lawful order that had been filed were dropped. None of the participants were ever charged with any sort of permit violation for their abortion protest, a free speech right guaranteed by the First Amendment.

[JewwellsP]

Standing on the corner holding signs isn't what got these two girls into trouble.

[aqua]

He posted on the Operation Rescue site all the time and had contact with one of the officials there who did time for bombing a facility like the one Tiller ran. She was his last phone call before he was picked up.

What do you mean he had no affiliation with any pro-life groups????????

Posted by: Wisdom | Friday, June 05, 2009 at 03:26 PM

Yes Wisdom. Just like Obama's affiliation with Bill Ayers...

[KC Cicero]

What a joke!

Before this guy shot Tiller, he TWICE in the week before was identified to the FBI as the guy who glued shut doors at the KCK clinic -- a federal crime. Had the FBI ran his license & name, they would have known he was a dangerous nut who had served time after being caught with bomb-making materials -- who obviously had slipped off his meds again -- and maybe picked him up.

Instead, they did nothing, & Tiller died.

Dr. Tiller died because the FBI did not think little crimes that terrorize women's health providers merited attention -- so they missed this spiraling psycho until he murdered.

Perhaps the folks at the clinic should have told the FBI that they also thought he was a Democrat office holder. Then the going response time is 20 minutes or less. Or if we could just get the RighttorunyourLife folks to take Islamic names, they would be up their ears in agents provocateur trying to get them to agree to bomb something...anything. At least then their bombs would fizzle & their bullets be blanks -- I think.

[Kelley]

Well i have nothing good to say, if he can kill innocent little babies then i have no pitty! He KILLED BABIES!!! So if he can get away with killing babies, stabbing a needle through its heart and killing that then i think the man that killed Tiller should get off to!

[Rusty Trombone]

what's so bad about killing babies?

[Joe White]

aqua wrote:

" Just like Obama's affiliation with Bill Ayers.."

Yes, Obama worked for Pentagon bomber and NY City Police HQ bomber Bill Ayers. Ayers was the Founder of the organization and Obama it's first chairman.

Anyone who thinks the founder wasn't intimately involved in choosing and working with the chair (who would be responsible for spending the $47 million budget) needs an exam.

(Ayers did not serve time in prison and, unlike CS of Operation Rescue, was quoted years later as being sorry that he did 'so little'. Cheryl Sullenger has renounced violence after paying her debt to society in prison.)

otoh, there is NO evidence that Roeder was ever employed by Operation Rescue. None as in zero, zip evidence at this point.

[Joe White]

Kelley,

I have to disagree. I hope Roeder receives the maximum penalty for this murder.

[dlsim]

Roeder should be waterboarded to establish a link between Roeder and evil, evil Operation Rescue. Even if there were no link, Roeder would confess that there was and the U.S. could invade Opertion Rescue and hang Randall Terry.

[Judy Walsh]

Unfortunately no one can reason with people who want to rule our beliefs.

Dr. Tiller helped women who discovered they had Cancer after they had been pregnant and would die if they didn't get treatment for their Cancer.

He also helped young girls who were victims of rape and incest but were afraid to say anything any sooner. But that's their tough luck according to the right wingers, the anti choice people, the rulers of the universe, the people who demand that everyone see it their way or else.

[Judy Walsh]

I forgot to mention that he also preformed abortions on the babies who had died in the womb. But I suppose you people believe the women should just carry it through to full term.

Perhaps if you actually found out the truth instead of listening to liars like o'reilly and other right wing idiots you might actually start to learn something.

[REC]

For those who deny that Roeder had any association with Cheryl Sullenger, they cannot deny the fact that Cheryl Sullenger has now admitted (retracting her earlier lie that they had not been in contact) that she she has actually been in frequent contact with Scott Roeder.

Sullenger has a history of criminal violence and terrorism. The feds have good cause to investigate her and if she is found guilty, to prosecute her to the full extent of the law.

[Jeff]

I'm against killing folks in church.

I also don't feel too sorry for the Doc, whose low opinion of human life, when it starts and should stops- seems to have backfired on him.

We all make choices and choices have consequences.