Filed under: Terrorism — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on April 27, 2007 @ 4:55 pm CEST
The Houston Chronicle reports:
A package left at a women’s clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today.
“It was in fact an explosive device,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department. “It was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death.”
The package was found Wednesday in a parking lot outside the Austin Women’s Health Center, south of downtown Austin.
Nearby Interstate 35 was briefly closed, and a nearby apartment complex was evacuated while a bomb squad detonated the device.
Yes, it are definitely not just Muslim extremists who are willing to use terrorism to further their cause. I sincerely hope that they will get the thugs who left the bomb at the clinic and punish them severely on terrorism charges.
Let me just add that pro-lifers and pro-life organizations would do right to speak out against this.
More at Feministe, Pandagon and Unfogged.
UPDATE:
Reader Steve S. e-mailed me the link to today’s Hugh Hewitt show. Hugh called it “an act of terrorism.”
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1 Sean Hackbarth
April 27, 2007 @ 9:17 pm CESTNo honest person couldn’t call it terrorism. Such evil can’t be tolerated by anyone decent person, especially pro-lifers like myself.
2 Nobody
April 27, 2007 @ 9:59 pm CESTYep Im prolife and its beyond despicable that someone would take their personal beliefs to such extremes.
3 kritter
April 28, 2007 @ 2:22 am CESTIt makes no sense. They’re pro-life so they take life to prove how seriously they take their ideological beliefs? Extremists can’t be tolerated.
4 mvdg
April 28, 2007 @ 2:36 am CESTKim, yeah, quite ironic, isn’t it. Sean, first thanks for leaving a comment, secondly - agreed, it is especially important for pro-lifers to condemn this specific kind of terrorism.
5 C Stanley
April 29, 2007 @ 3:00 am CESTI’ll add my condemnation, without reservation.
6 yonason
April 29, 2007 @ 5:27 pm CESTFIRST: What they are doing is terrorism, pure and simple!
SECOND: They are NOT “Right Wing.” They are fanatic extremists, some of whose political ideas may superficially sound like they are on the “Right,” but that doesn’t make it so. If you examine Hitler you will find that he was “Right Wing” in some of his policies, but the core if his ideology was pure Left. And just like these freaks, his violent methods were those of the extremists of every generation who are, at least in the West, nearly always on the Left.
7 mvdg
April 29, 2007 @ 6:29 pm CESTYona I do agree with you when you say that many of Hitler’s policies were left wingish. As I read recenty, Communism and Nazism had and have more in common with each other than that they differ.
8 yonason
April 29, 2007 @ 11:26 pm CEST“Yona I do agree with you when you say that many of Hitler’s policies were left wingish. As I read recenty, Communism and Nazism had and have more in common with each other than that they differ.” — MVDG
If where you read that wasn’t on one of John Ray’s many web links, you might want to check out what he has to say on that. He also shows how Fascism is Lefist, and that some of their ideas can be traced to the American “Populists,” of all things.
BTW, if you have other sources that are available on the web, I would like to see them.
Don’t get me wrong. There are good ideas on all sides of the political spectrum. Unfortunately, the positive is occaisionally so overwhelmed by the negatives that in necessarily rejecting the unbalanced group pursuing a negative agenda, we often unfortunately lose what little good that side may contain and which the other may not have.
That’s one reason why the current unceaseing and often overdone and/or unneccessary attacks of the Dems on the Reps is causing harm to us all. I may counter-attack them in defense, but I would prefer not to. Unfortunately, they don’t give one much choice, because unchallenged lies eventually become believed.
9 mvdg
April 30, 2007 @ 7:23 am CESTYona it was in a book of that I am sure. I will try to find it again.
Now I am thinking about it, I believe it was in The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich (von) Hayek.