Here's Their Man

Scott Roeder was insane precisely because of how completely his whole existence became being against a woman's right to choose. As the guy who believed all of the Bill O'Reilly and Randall Terry hate speech, he was by definition insane:

Roeder's family life began unraveling more than a decade ago when he got involved with anti-government groups, and then became "very religious in an Old Testament, eye-for-an-eye way," his former wife, Lindsey Roeder, told The Associated Press.

"The anti-tax stuff came first, and then it grew and grew. He became very anti-abortion," said Lindsey Roeder, who was married to Scott Roeder for 10 years but "strongly disagrees with his beliefs.

"That's all he cared about is anti-abortion," she said.

Those noble anti-tax teabaggers. Hotbed of crazy and violent.



Doctor killer Roeder had been building towards this for awhile, using the casual epithets of those enjoying the rapture of their totalitarian hatred:

Arriving for an early shift around sunrise, a nurse at the Kansas City clinic, Aid for Women, noticed the man trying to pour super glue into a lock on the back door, another clinic worker said. Spooked, the man fled, but not before the nurse noted his license plate number, which the authorities later linked to Mr. Roeder.

The man seemed strident, the clinic worker said, and repeated phrases like “baby killer.”

Baby killer. By his standards. Repeated, like the simpleminded. The desired endpoint of the repetition of that phrase by Terry and O'Reilly, which in the media always means deliberate branding. The brand worked, they got some action finally, sated for a moment, their message reached and filled up a murder vessel for Bill O'Reilly, with Terry's Operation Rescue in touch with Roeder on the ground.

Premeditated:

In the days before Dr. Tiller’s death, Mr. Roeder’s behavior seemed erratic in other ways. He invited his 22-year-old son to dinner and a movie on Friday night, something unusual for Mr. Roeder, according to his former wife, Lindsey Roeder. Ms. Roeder said he usually rested on the Sabbath beginning Friday at dusk, and that he rarely made outings of any sort with his son, with whom he saw “Star Trek.”

“He really wanted to prolong the evening with dinner and ice cream,” said Ms. Roeder, who lives in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. “Looking back, I think it was a way of saying goodbye to his son.”

Sorry Dr. Tiller didn't get that opportunity with his family.

Instead the anti-choice zealots left this outside Tiller's office -- on Monday, the day after one of theirs murdered him:


There's insensitive.

Then there's sick.