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Palin: "I don't know if you'd use the word 'terrorist'" for abortion-clinic bombers

Brian Williams interviews McCain and Palin on the NBC Nightly News, Oct. 23, 2008. There's a lot in this interview, but I'm clipping it mainly because of what it shows about the slipperiness of the term "terrorist" in modern-day political speech. A lot of critics have jumped on Palin for saying that she wasn't "sure" if the word "terrorist" would be appropriate for abortion-clinic bombers. To be fair, the quotation has often been taken out of context. She is pretty clear in condemning such bombings, even if she's uncomfortable with labelling them "terrorism." (However, the deeper point is that she seems to have a special category of violent criminal for whom she considers the word "terrorist" to be appropriate, and apparently Bill Ayers is the only person who fits in that category, as far as I can tell.) Presumably Palin associates the idea of "terrorism" with a kind of anti-American ideology, whatever that might mean, and isn't sure whether abortion-clinic bombers truly fall into that group. Just guessing, though. Discovered via joneilortiz's Friendfeed stream.

Tags: rels327, violence, politics, abortion, terrorism, rhetoric, post:facebook(source), youtube, video, interview, palin, mccain, presidential_campaign_2008 on 2008-10-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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"Paul Hill Days 2007," a Wisconsin protest against abortion (YouTube)

A short video made by a Planned Parenthood advocate covering the "Paul Hill Days 2007" protest in Wisconsin. Paul Hill killed abortion clinic doctor John Britton and his escort James Barrett with shotgun fire in Pensacola in 1994; Florida executed him for murder in 2003. The Wisconsin protests included a reenactment of Hill's shooting of Britton and Barrett.

Tags: rels327, religion, violence, christianity, evangelicalism, youtube, video, abortion on 2008-09-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Kathy Sawyer, "Turning From 'Weapon of the Spirit' to the Shotgun," Washington Post (Aug. 7, 1994), p. A01

A 1994 article profiling anti-abortion activist Paul Hill, published a little over a week after his shotgun murder of James Barrett and John Britton in Pensacola.

Tags: rels327, journalism, abortion, violence, religion, christianity, evangelicalism, news, paul hill on 2008-09-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Legal & philosophical implications of the SCOTUS abortion decision

The underlying argument behind the SCOTUS decision on ND's partial-birth abortion ban is that [i]women[/i] need to be protected from having abortions, according to this commentator, and this is a new argument (though long familiar to anti-abortion activis

Tags: abortion, del.icio.us_import, ethics, gender, health, law, philosophy, post:tumblr on 2007-04-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Army of God website

Site of the Army of God, the militant anti-abortion group linked to the firebombing of various clinics and the assassination of several doctors.

Tags: abortion, del.icio.us_import, evangelicalism, religion, rels327, violence on 2007-02-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Paul Hill, letter to White Rose Banquet, December 1997

In 1994, Hill fatally shot Dr James Britton and his escort outside a Pensacola, Fla. clinic that performed abortions. Juergensmeyer quotes from this letter on p. 23 and elsewhere of his book. Hill is writing from prison to Bray and supporters.

Tags: abortion, christianity, del.icio.us_import, primary_source, religion, rels327, violence on 2007-02-05 -All Annotations (0) -About