The man charged with killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller made a jailhouse phone call yesterday to the Associated Press, and he's so not enjoying this whole jail thing.
Scott Roeder dialed up AP reporter Roxana Hegeman for a few minutes Thursday, and he didn't want to discuss the Tiller shooting. He wanted to talk about his feelings:
"I haven't been convicted of anything and I am being treated as aUh huh. Roeder's also worried about the toll the media spotlight is taking on his family. And he wants something from you.criminal."
"I appreciate your prayers," he said.
Bond for Roeder has been set at $5 million. His next court appearance, a preliminary hearing, is scheduled for 9 a.m. June 16.
Meanwhile, a former roommate of Roeder's told CNN that Roeder was "obsessed" with
Tiller. Eddie Ebecher met Roeder through the Freeman movement and
the two considered themselves members of the "Army of God," which celebrates the murders of abortion doctors. Clip:
Ebecher said Roeder's interest in Tiller became intense in the past
two years. But he said that when Roeder once raised the prospect of
killing Tiller, he warned him against it.
"He came to me and
asked me my advice if he thought it was a good idea to assassinate the
doctor," Ebecher said. "I told him no."
In other news:
On Sunday morning, regrettably, a kind of crude frontier justice caughtJack, there was nothing just about what happened last Sunday.up with late abortionist George Tiller. He was shot and killed in the
foyer of his Wichita church.
week, former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline shipped out this letter
asking supporters to help pay off personal legal fees he incurred while
attempting to prosecute abortion providers. The letter invokes Tiller's
name and just started popping up in mailboxes. A spokesman for Kline calls the timing "unfortunate."
Roeder struggled financially.
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Upset with Troy Newman, give him a call or drop him a note:
10529 SW 30th St.
Towanda, KS 67144
316-541-2306 (home phone that he doesn�t mention on the OR website)
316.841.1700 (cell phone)
Let's also remember Cashill is convinced Obama wasn't born in the US and that his books were secretly written by Bill Ayres. To say Cashill lacks credibility is putting it mildly. What he truly lacks is sanity. Why this idiot is given any air time by local TV is beyond me.
When reading Cashill, I find it impossible not to think about Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland. Like the Red Queen, Jack has no problem, it appears, believing �six impossible things before breakfast.�
He�s a mind reader as well, perhaps with the Psychic Friends Hotline on speed dial, so able is he to tell us what someone else is thinking, or what motivates them. With his imaginary �facts� in hand, he leaps from one specious judgment to another, once again emulating his role model.
�No, no!� said the Queen. �Sentence first - verdict afterwards.�
Like Cashill, Paul McHugh is similarly not bound in his purported �research� by rules of evidence or scientific inquiry. In fact, he is notorious for concealing the extent of pedophelia uncovered in his practice. His public and prohibited disclosure of information in the Tiller case led the Attorney General to caution him that he risked suit and worse, should he continue with that patent breach of ethics.
Kline, Cashill�s hero, was equally brazenly incompetent and flagrantly unethical. He was beaten by 20 points in his attempt at reelection. After being appointed to Paul Morrison�s vacated D.A.�s post by a narrow majority of Neaderthals on the Johnson County Republican committee, voters found his carpetbagging and mendacious ways were beyond even the pale in an extremely conservative community.
Kline wound up getting hammered when he ran against an actual Republican in a primary election. Thankfully for Kline, he got a gilded parachute: A professorship at Liberty University, founded by religious hustler and talk show host Jerry Falwell, with that 4th rate school bailed out of bankruptcy by convicted felon and cult founder Sun Myung Moon.
My personal experience with Cashill has been rather nauseating. At the Kansas premiere of �Flock of Dodos,� as a panelist Cashill declared that all scientific advances in the last millenium, I believe, were the product �of Western European Christians.� I was outraged, not realizing that Cashill was simply an imbecile, so could perhaps be forgiven for his idiocy, though not his hubris.
I pointed out to him that Christians were burning the world�s foremost scientists at the stake. He countered that Galileo wasn�t incinerated at the Church�s behest. I noted that Galileo in fact was convicted of heresy by a papal court and was only spared burning at the stake by virtue of recanting his legitimate findings. He was held in house arrest for the last 12 years of his life.
Afterward I sent Cashill a long list of Jews who had accumulated an extraordinary amount of Nobel Prizes in science, far disproportionate to their numbers, compared to Christians. I included members of many other ethnicities as well, Chinese, Japanese, Pakistani, etc., if memory serves. Cashill promised me a response, but it�s been years and I�m tired of waiting.
Althought they (i.e., Kline, Newman, etc.) have been deliberately fomenting violence against Tiller for years, largely for their own fund-raising interests, they now will pirouette around and pretend there "ain't nothin' here but us chickens," in the henhouse.
I've been at residential meetings where the bozos at ORW blocked the street and harassed attendees. They chronically verbally attack and abuse clinic patients, and sometimes do so physically. They continuously stalk clinic personnel.
I was attacked three years ago by a driver for Operation Rescue West as he was hauling around Kline campaign signs in their tax-exempt truck. The IRS had actually disqualified that status for violations just a week before the attack. The attack was carefully choreographed so those present to assemble the large yard signs could claim that I, though I am old and disabled, was the actual attacker, rather than the victim. Then they collectively reported the attack and repeatedly demanded that I be prosecuted. Fortunately, the whole incident was recorded on video, and I was spared arrest, though they weren't prosecuted for making a false police report. A little research showed that bogus lawsuits, especially against campus and municipal police, are a major source of funding for these sleazoids.
I was at a peace rally from Bethel College to Newton, in February 2003, just before Bush invaded Iraq. Newman repeatedly used his "Truth Truck" to dangerously block marchers, and tried to drown out their hymns with a trumpet. What kind of "pro-lifers" would have been so aggressively for the war that has killed over a million Iraqis?
As far as what would be "reprehensible," defrocked Wichita pastor Mark Holick, an Operation Save America stalwart, was said to have immediately called Dr. Tiller's assassination a "miracle." Fred Phelps and his clan turned out to protest the Tiller vigil last Sunday evening in Wichita, taking time away from their important work of disrupting the funerals of GIs killed in Iraq and Afghanistan with their "God Hates Fags," signs and loudspeakers.
I'm waiting to hear why Roeder had the cell phone # of convicted clinic bombing plotter Cheryl Sullinger, another ORW leader, on the seat next to him when he was arrested. Was he going to call her for a date?
I do hope the FBI look at what appears to be a conspiracy here.
Like they even have to mention that picketing the funeral would be reprehsnible.
Somebody tell this idiot--I mean Roeder and Cashill, actually--this was murder. Unjustifiable, unquestionable, unreasonable murder and nothing more.
Sheesh.
I can't believe we have to have these conversations.
Troy Newman says protesting Tiller's funeral (scheduled for Saturday morning) "would be morally reprehensible."
Yeah, but I'm hoping they'll go for it anyway. Remind everybody one more time just how much they have in common with Fred Phelps and company - that's a great idea.
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