Dr. Tiller's Assassin Confesses to the Slaying

"[A] "Defensive Action Statement" [is a] principle set to writing by Paul Hill that whatever force can be justified to save a born child from his killer, can be justified to save an unborn child. The logic is irrefutable for anyone who accepts God's premise that the unborn are fully human."*

From the AP:

WICHITA, Kan. – Defiant and unapologetic, a man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider confessed to the slaying Monday, telling The Associated Press that he killed the doctor to protect unborn children.

Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., spoke to the AP in a telephone call from jail, saying he plans to argue at his trial that he was justified in shooting Dr. George Tiller at the abortion provider's Wichita church in May.

"Because of the fact preborn children's lives were in imminent danger this was the action I chose. ... I want to make sure that the focus is, of course, obviously on the preborn children and the necessity to defend them," Roeder said.

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In a more than 30-minute interview with the AP, Roeder did not apologize for the slaying.

"No, I don't have any regrets because I have been told so far at least four women have changed their minds, that I know of, and have chosen to have the baby," Roeder said. "So even if one changed her mind it would be worth it. No, I don't have any regrets."

"We’re not urging anyone to support what Scott Roeder’s conscience drove him to do, but to support letting his jury decide the sole trial issue. Which is not what Roeder did, but the harmfulness of what he stopped."*


* http://www.saltshaker.us/Scott-Roeder-Resources.htm (emphasis mine)

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Roman Polanski "Would Never Behave 'Like a Fugitive'"

Roman Polanski's lawyer, Herve Temime, is preparing a new bail offer for the admitted sexual felon and "celebrity" fugitive.

My question is this: When you read Mr. Temime's statement that, if granted bail, Polanski would accept the extradition decision "whatever it is" and assured his client would never behave "like a fugitive" do you take a moment to reflect on the ethics of lawyers, or do you just dissolve in a puddle of laughter and be done with it?

NYC Marathon 2009 Pics

Some pics from the 2009 NYC marathon:

2009 NYC Marathon

Ludmila Petrova--NYC Marathon 2009

Paula Radcliffe

Meb Keflezighi--2009 NYC Marathon Winner (Men)

2009 NYC Marathon Runners

Happy Halloween!

Photo by Paul Keleher

Have a spooky and safe Halloween! Just make sure not to wear one of these illegal alien costumes:

Terrorism, Schmerrorism, Or the Investigative Arm of the Department of Homeland Security

If you are concerned about terrorists infiltrating our borders, rest easy. Not only are competent personnel from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on the job, the agency is now itching to, you know, join the border drug war:

EL PASO, Texas – One immigration agent was accused of running an Internet pornography business and enjoying an improper relationship with an informant. Another let an informant smuggle in a group of illegal immigrants. And in a third case, an agent was investigated for soliciting sex from a witness in a marriage fraud case.

These troubling misdeeds are a sampling of misconduct by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel as the agency seeks to carve out a bigger role in the deadly border war against Mexican drug gangs.

According to documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, ICE agents have blundered badly in their dealings with informants and other sources, covering up crimes and even interfering in a police investigation into whether one informant killed another.

At least eight agents have been investigated for improper dealings with informants since ICE was created in 2003, and more than three dozen others have been investigated for other wrongdoing, the records show.

The heavily redacted documents detail how one agent failed "to report murders ... to her supervisor" and how another failed "to properly document information received from a confidential source in violation of ICE policy and procedure."

In the case involving one informant charged with murdering another, Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana, a smuggling manager for the Juarez cartel, was gunned down this spring in his upscale El Paso neighborhood. El Paso police say ICE delayed its investigation, steering detectives away from the man now charged with arranging the contract hit.

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ICE was spun off from the Immigration and Naturalization Service to become the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security when DHS was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. ICE also handles the processing and detention of illegal immigrants and miscellaneous tasks like oversight of security at federal buildings.

The agency has long been interested in joining the border drug war, and has been stepping up its efforts as drug-related violence has killed more than 13,500 people in Mexico and threatens to spill into the United States.

Some local and federal authorities in El Paso are hesitant to work closely with ICE because of the way it operates, said law enforcement officers who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the issue.

In the 2004 DEA letter, inaction by ICE officials was blamed for "allowing at least 13 other murders to take place in Ciudad Juarez" and for endangering the lives of DEA agents and their families.

Doctors Are So...Lame

The President talks to doctors in the Oval Office before a health insurance reform event on October 5.

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Who wears their white coat outside the office/hospital? Seriously, what is the thought process here: I'm invited to the White House, I get to meet the President, uh-oh I better make sure I bring along (and put on!) my white coat least the Marine guards mistake me for a non-doctor and don't let me in?

Lame people, extremely lame.

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