Anti-Abortion Groups Condemn Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Attack

[Calista241]

Source: Huffington Post

David Daleiden, the head of the Center for Medical Progress, the group that released controversial and heavily edited videos of Planned Parenthood employees earlier this year, said that he did not support violence against the organization.

“The Center for Medical Progress condemns the barbaric killing spree in Colorado Springs by a violent madman. We applaud the heroic efforts of law enforcement to stop the violence quickly and rescue the victims, and our thoughts and prayers are with the wounded, the lost, and their families," he said in a statement.

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Jim Daly, the president of Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group in Colorado Springs, said the shooting was "deplorable."

“Today’s violence at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility, just miles from our ministry headquarters, is tragic and deplorable. It is to be condemned," he said in a statement. “Our hearts break for the families of the three individuals killed, a University of Colorado police officer and two civilians. As a community, we share in their sorrow and in their grief."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colorado-springs-attack_565a0758e4b079b2818a8f35

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It seems some of them do have a conscience.

[COLGATE4]

1. Too little, too late.

[potone]

2. Yes, indeed.

The poster is too kind; they are in CYA mode so that they won't be accused of what they in fact have done: incited violence against PP and their patients. I will take this expression of sorrow seriously when they stop harassing the staff and patients, stop demonizing PP doctors as baby-killers, and stop treating women as second-class citizens whose rights, privacy, safety and dignity do not count. Until then, I don't want to hear about their crocodile tears. Basta!

[COLGATE4]

3. Exactly right. A weak-assed attempt to CYA. Nothing more.

[christx30]

5. Weak minded individuals hear

'Baby killer' and they think the babies need to be protected. Next thing you know, guys like Dr. Tiller get murdered in their church.

[valerief]

20. ^^^THIS^^^

[ericson00]

4. gotta give them a small amount of credit:

at least they haven't apologized for it, as some people try to apologize for Islamic terrorism.

And I wrote that to pre-empt people trying to put these two problems on the same global problem plane.

Now that I preempted that, the anti-choice groups do need to apologize for the lies about PP and the video.

[LanternWaste]

47. Who, specifically?

"as some people try to apologize for Islamic terrorism."

Who, specifically?

[sarge43]

6. Conscience? Not bloody likely

They just don't want to be caught up in the shit storm they helped create.

[SwissTony]

11. Exactly. They helped create this shitstorm

and now they want to be regarded as innocent.

Complete and utter arseholes.

[yardwork]

37. I think they fear being connected for good reason. Why that particular Planned Parenthood?

Killer living in North Carolina just happens to move to Colorado Springs, where these hate organizations are located? I have a feeling there's more to this.

[sarge43]

39. Good point

If you're right and it is too early to confirm, fairly typical. Get a depressed angry failure to do your dirty work, then throw him to the wolves and "we know nothing".

PP is one of the few fire walls left that protects women. Destroy that and it's one step closer to controlling women. Control women and you control society.

[yardwork]

40. I was thinking that he might have been hanging around their organization.

He might have simply showed up, drawn by what he's heard on hate radio and the Internet. theh probably didn't ask him to do anything, just ignored him. I wouldn't be surprised if the office staff have seen him before, though.

[The Blue Traveller]

43. +1

[onecaliberal]

7. Oh bullshit. When you spread lies to these unstable people what do they think is going to happen.

[slumcamper]

17. ^ THIS ^

Totally spot on.

[New Orleans Strong]

29. Up is down. Voter fraud is rampant.

Obama is waiting to take your guns!! If you dont like the Supreme Court! Freedom!!! But! Founding Fathers!!! Can I haves my fucking gun? Life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness no longer means dick!!! My gun means everything. I need to open carry at freakin Starbucks dude. Just to prove how powerfull my gun makes me win all the things. Makes me kinda different. And better. And if that sells Newz, so be it. A one off today. Nothing to see here. Just a lone wolf. MSNBC has this-

[The Green Manalishi]

34. but.... Benghazi!

[kestrel91316]

52. +10000. I think you'll fit right in here at DU.

[louis-t]

8. And those consciences are guilty.

So they can just fuck off.

[eggplant]

9. "just miles from our ministry headquarters"

Coincidence? I think not.

[yardwork]

38. I agree.

[IcyPeas]

10. just PR bulls*it. covering their asses.

they don't give a shit.

[riversedge]

12. These groups helped bring on the violence--now want to be viewed as the good guys. Ha ha

[dogman]

13. Incite people to violence through lies, then find reaction deplorable.

Some conscience!

[longship]

14. They should say that to George Tiller's family.

Where were these assholes then?

And it is very likely that the Orwellian named Center for Medical Progress was partially responsible for this attack. Douches!!

[w0nderer]

15. i'll give them a little credit for that

0.10c credit range extended!
no cash withdrawals, 50% interest effective immediately, compounding daily

[New Orleans Strong]

16. This idiot takes video...

...edits it so it means the opposite of what actually was said, spreads it out into wingnutistan in order to inflame - no other reason - and condemns that which is, these days, a logical outcome. A candidate for the highest office in this country uses this "opposite of truth" video to lie and go up a few points in the polls. Looking at you, Ms Fiorina! And this is the norm. Think the 2012 "You Didn't Build That" GOP convention.

We are down the rabbit hole.

[Demit]

18. Sure, they can have their cake and eat it too.

Incite violence that they hope will terrify abortion providers, then act all sorrowful that it happened.

[JoeyT]

19. No one actually buys what they're selling.

When you dehumanize people with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge that no one should use violence, because that would be wroooonnnnnnng you're just as responsible as the guy that finally takes your hint and shoots up/bombs a place.

If this guy was a dark skinned Muslim, no one would take seriously for a second the argument that the cleric that told him westerners are monsters that must be stopped was totally in the clear. Yet the same claim gets trotted out every time someone slaughters their way through/bombs an abortion clinic or shoots a doctor.

They don't have a conscience. They just don't want their cause to be linked with violent extremists any further than it already is.

[Solly Mack]

21. Poppycock.

Fuck those people.

[CharlotteVale]

25. x a gazillion

[Cryptoad]

22. Wink , Wink, nod, nod

[BumRushDaShow]

23. They only did this because a cop was killed

and 5 other cops were injured ("good guys with guns" ). Otherwise it would have been *crickets*.

I just read that the cop who was killed was an ice dancer who had competed in various championships in the '90s with hopes of going to the Olympics back then.

[Myrina]

24. " .... so please,don't sue us in civil court ... "

It's all damage control. Nothing else.

[Fla Dem]

42. +1000.Covering their asses. Their heinous rhetoric and actions have consequences.

They've lawyered up and the lawyers told them what to say.

[houston16revival]

26. Several factors have drawn this line in the sand

and to extremists seek to draw progressives and liberals into this conflict,
among them the distorted video and Congressional investigations into PP

[davidpdx]

27. I give them none

It is the anti-choice groups that incite people to target PP. One of my teachers was a PP escort and was shot and killed many years ago. She was a kind, beautiful person. I hate them and everything they stand for and that will never change.

[Le Taz Hot]

31. I'm so sorry to hear about your teacher.

I was a PP escort in the mid 70's but, luckily, the local police made the anti-choice bigots stay across the street because they had started to get aggressive. My favorite was escorting a VERY pregnant young lady who was merely going in for a pre-natal exam and the religious nuts screaming, "Don't kill your baby!"

[davidpdx]

32. I couldn't be an escort, I don't have the wherewithal to not shout back at them

I applaud the fact that you did that. They are vicious people with no lives of their own.

[rocktivity]

28. Translation: "There's reason to believe that we radicalized the terrorist

-- oops, we mean the lone wolf madman -- which means there's reason to believe that we could be held liable civilly if not criminally."


rocktivity

[tabasco]

30. Wink wink,

nod nod.

[They_Live]

33. yeah right.

they can go fuck themselves.

[Hekate]

35. Too little too late you accessories to murder

[tblue37]

36. No, they do NOT. This is CYA, nothing more. nt

[Gumboot]

41. Here, in the most vicious, right-wing town in America.

Remember the bombing of the NAACP office back in January? Yep, that was here too.

This is also the home of the Colorado Springs Gazette. The nastiest, most hate-filled 'newspaper' in America. Now owned by billionaire Phil Anschutz - AKA the third Koch brother. Many editorials kindly provided by AFP.

All those business jets coming & going every day are carrying the leaders of right wing and religionist groups. Endless meetings and team talks to get them all 'on message'.

Oh yeah, and Michelle Malkin lives in Cedar Heights, to the west of the city. I kid you not.

Wish I could afford to move somewhere civilised. This place wears me out.

[sufrommich]

44. Fuck them. They're "sorry" every time this happens.

In a month they'll be repeating their dangerous vitriol that gets abortion providers killed as if this never happened.Fuck them.

[Nye Bevan]

45. I have to say I'm a little surprised at many of the responses in this thread.

After all, when many moderate Muslims condemned the ISIS attacks, did DUers respond sneeringly with comments like "poppycock", "CYA", "bullshit", "fuck them", and "wink wink"? Not that I recall.

[jmowreader]

46. Moderate Muslims didn't help set up ISIS

David Daleiden made the Planned Parenthood "baby parts" video. The comment the shooter made about "no more baby parts," leads me to believe the shooter has seen it at least once.

[LanternWaste]

48. Focus on the Family is not a moderate group (as per SPLC).

Focus on the Family is not a moderate group (as per SPLC). That said, I applaud your creative, though fundamentally flawed equivalency. Your righteous indignation is almost as creative as the pretense you stand on.

[Nye Bevan]

49. So you probably have a link to where a Focus on the Family spokesperson

advocates for the murder of doctors performing abortions?

[Nye Bevan]

50. or perhaps you don't?

[kestrel91316]

51. No, they do not have consciences. They are all lying, shedding crocodile tears.

They wanted this result. They, especially Dalieden, worked morning, noon, and night for this exact outcome. Actually they wanted a lot of dead doctors, nurses, and patients.

[Laffy Kat]

53. Oh pleeeze.

I'm sick of their shit.