Part Two-The People who helped Scott Roeder Kill George Tiller

Michael Bray is an American anti-abortion activist convicted in 1985 of two counts of conspiracy and one count of possessing unregistered explosive devices in relation to 10 bombings of women's health clinics and offices of liberal advocacy groups in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, he agreed to a plea bargain and served 46 months from 1985 to 1989.
He and his wife, Jayne, are named defendants in the Supreme Court decision Bray v. Alexandria. He is considered to be a terrorist by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.


In 1994, the F.B.I. suspected that he and other anti-abortion figures might be developing "a conspiracy that endeavors to achieve political or social change through activities that involve force or violence", as stated in a confidential teletype sent to all 56 F.B.I. field offices.^[
conspiracy and possessing unregistered explosive devices in relation to 10 different bomb attacks Penalty 10 years Status served 46 months from 1985 to 1989; living in Wilmington, Ohio since December 2003 Spouse Jayne Bray (1976 - present) Children 11

Dave Francis Leach is a Des Moines anti-abortion activist and publisher of the extremist newsletter Prayer & Action News and web site The Partnership Machine. His publications support the doctrine of justifiable homicide in the case of abortion doctors, the same doctrine cited by Prayer & Action News subscriber and contributor Scott Roeder prior to the Assassination of George Tiller, a Kansas abortion doctor. Leach reprinted the Army of God manual, which lists ways to damage abortion buildings from putting super glue in locks to two simple bomb recipes, in the January 1996 issue of his magazine. The manual had previously been published only anonymously, and mailed anonymously to pro-life leaders and news reporters. Leach's reprint of it was the first printing that was not anonymous. The introduction explained that Janet Reno's Virginia Grand Jury had, for a year, subpoenaed pro-lifers and "commanded" them to bring any copies they had of the Army of God Manual, which were then taken, treating possession of a book as some kind of crime. Leach explained that reprinting it threw down the gauntlet: "if owning a book is a crime, here I am; prosecute me." Within days after reprints went in the mail, the Virginia Grand Jury was disbanded.

The manual concludes with a paragraph commonly said to advocate the killing of abortion providers. The sentences are "...Whosoever sheds mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed [Gen. 9:6]...we are forced to take arms against you. Our life for yours..." Leach insists that the problem with interpreting this as advocating justifiable homicide is that (1) it says "our life for yours" instead of "your life for the babies'"; and (2) the book only shows how to damage property, never how to hurt people. The alternative interpretation Leach says he had when he reprinted the manual is that the "arms" could mean the tools of vandalism, and "our life for yours" could reference the Christian concept of paying the penalty owed by another - viz. "we will pay the penalty you have earned, by risking spending the rest of our own lives in jail to right your wrongs." Leach cites page 48 of his reprint, which says “murder” is “something no pro-lifer would recommend, being pro-life”. And page 76: “We must die that others may live....don’t construe this to mean I recommend executing abortionists. I do not. Although I think it easily justified from Holy Writ, the A. O. G. adheres to the principle of minimum force. Mercy, rather than justice is the driving force behind our actions.”

Regina Dinwiddie, the Kansas anti-abortion activist who set up an eBay auction to benefit the suspect in the George Tiller murder, tells TPMmuckraker in a phone interview that she's angry that eBay pulled her items -- and that she believes they did not glorify violence, but rather "glorify the end of a very violent man."
"Actually I thought [eBay] was the last bastion of free enterprise in America, where normal people could put things up for sale," Dinwiddie told us. "I see they do have a political agenda."
The items put on eBay -- and pulled by the site today -- included prison art signed by Roeder showing a bloody scene in which David has slain a Goliath labeled "Tiller." Also for sale was Dinwiddie's bullhorn, and various relics and treatises associated with the violent wing of the anti-abortion movement.

Asked whether she believes the items glorify violence, Dinwiddie said she did not believe they did. "David and Goliath -- that's from the Bible," she said.

As news of Roeder's arrest traveled, Kansas City activist Regina Dinwiddie remembered the day a dozen years ago when Roeder hugged her in glee after trying to frighten an abortion provider by staring him down inside a Planned Parenthood clinic.

"He grabbed me and said, 'I've read the Defensive Action Statement and I love what you're doing,' " Dinwiddie said in a telephone interview. She was a signer of the 1990s statement, which declares that the use of force is justified.

Rachelle Ranae "Shelley" Shannon (born 1956) is an anti-abortion gunwoman, saboteur, and rhetorician from Grants Pass, Oregon. She shot Dr. George Tiller in both arms, outside his abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, on August 19, 1993. She is serving her sentence at FCI Waseca, a prison in Minnesota, and her projected release date is November 7, 2018.
On August 19, 1993, Shelley Shannon shot Dr. George Tiller in both arms, outside his Wichita, Kansas clinic.


At the time she shot Tiller, Shannon had been a part of the anti-abortion movement for at least five years. She had written in support of Michael Griffin, the murderer of Dr. David Gunn, calling Griffin "the awesomest, greatest hero of our time." Tiller's Wichita clinic was the site of frequent demonstrations and incidents of direct action by those opposed to abortion rights and of counter-demonstrations by abortion rights activists. Under cover of such a fracas, Shannon shot Tiller with a semiautomatic pistol.

Tiller was later assassinated on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder.

The many People that killed George Tiller on May 31st 2009

Part One

The many people that conspired with Scott Roeder to kill George Tiller on May 31sy 2009:

Angel Dillard has been visiting Scott Roeder.

Angel Dillard

A federal judge refused to grant a preliminary injunction yesterday that would have banned anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard from coming near a doctor training to perform abortions in Wichita, the Associated Press reported. Dillard is accused of sending a threatening letter to Dr. Mila Means that referred to explosives being placed under Means' car and that talked about anti-abortion activists stalking Means.

However, Judge J. Thomas Marten didn't see the letter as a threat but did believe it was meant to intimidate Means. Really, judge? The letter in question was allegedly sent by a woman who said she admired the man who assassinated abortion provider George Tiller.

Jennifer McCoy---ten children an abortion opponent who served 30 months in prison for conspiracy to commit arson at a clinic, has attended most of Roeder's pretrial hearings and plans to come to his trial. The 37-year-old Wichita woman, who is expecting her 10th child, had protested in front of Tiller's clinic for 20 years.

McCoy, who visited Roeder in jail, said she wonders what the court is hiding since the public is not allowed to watch jury selection.

"It makes you wonder where the jurors may have stood on a key part of the prosecution and the defense," she said, referring to jurors' beliefs about abortion. "If you don't know that, how can you say whether (the trial) was fair or not?"

James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American citizen who was convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 7, 1999 he had become the 455th fugitive placed on the list by the FBI. He was affiliated with militant Roman Catholic anti-abortion group known as "The Lambs of Christ".
He has been referred to as a terrorist by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism,^[1] and was "well-known in militant anti-abortion circles, where he was nicknamed Atomic Dog"
James Charles Kopp was born in Pasadena, California and raised Lutheran, but later converted to Roman Catholicism. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1976, with a bachelor’s degree in Biology, going on to take a master's degree in Embryology from California State University Fullerton. Kopp started providing support to anti-abortion groups after his girlfriend underwent an abortion, and used his technical abilities to create special locks that protesters then used on the doors of abortion clinics.
On October 23, 1998, at approximately 10 p.m., Dr. Barnett Slepian was standing in the kitchen of his home in Amherst, New York. Kopp fired a single shot from a rifle from nearby wooded area, which entered the Slepian home through a rear window. Slepian was a well-known obstetrician/gynecologist who performed abortions at a women's clinic in Buffalo, New York. He also maintained a private medical practice in an office in Amherst, New York. Within hours of the murder, anti-abortion militants posted Slepian's name crossed out on their internet website, which also served as "a virtual hit list of doctors who carry out abortions".

Co-conspirators

Kopp received help from sympathetic pro-life activist couple Loretta Marra and Dennis Malvasi of Brooklyn, who pled guilty to one count each of conspiracy in helping Kopp avoid capture. Marra and Malvasi had communicated extensively with Kopp, telling him also via electronic communications that "the coast is clear", referring to his proposed secretive return to US via Canada, and also to his use of their home as a safe house. On August 21, 2003, they were sentenced to time served, and released. The fugitive assisters later changed their names to Joyce Maier and Ted Barnes.

Part Two Tomorrow

There Goes The Neighborhood

I see the world through the eyes of a free-thinker and because of that I just cannot wrap my ahead around certain things I see happening especially in the world of education.

There seems to be a debate going in the country right now as to whether Creationism should be taught along with Evolution in the same science class. Now as an Atheist I see that as utter lunacy, why would you want your child to learn myths in a science class? 

Yes I know that there are some people that share the same planet with me that truly believe the earth is only 5-6,000 years old and that Dinosaur bones were put here to test their faith, to a free-thinker they prove that the earth is much older than 6,000 years old.

Zack Kopplin a 17-year-old Baton Rouge Louisiana high school student is leading the fight to repeal the misnamed “Louisiana Science Education Act” which was passed in 2008.  This bill is very similar to a bill SF 1714 that Michele Bachman tried to pass in 2004 when she was a Minnesota State Senate Congresswoman. 

The misnamed and misguided law creates a back door to bring the teaching of creationism into the Louisiana public school science classrooms. Science “is” a process of critical thinking; it is supposed to promote critical thinking skills.  

Zach Kopplin’s concern is how teaching Creationism in a science classroom will determine how students like him from Louisiana are viewed elsewhere. Also will his education be up to par with other students that have only learned actual science in their science class.

Maybe the teachers will be ordered to teach that the world is flat and that the sun does revolve around the earth? Why would they even need to teach gravity or germ theory, when God just blinked the world into existence in six days.

Imagine sitting in a science classroom say at NYU and having your fellow students wonder if you have been taught actual provable science facts or facts based on Creationism science, if you could even get into NYU.

Your critical thinking skills that science is supposed to promote may be looked upon as less valued because Creationism is not science, it is merely a myth that you are asked to think critically about.  I find it very challenging to think critically about myths.

I always thought that teaching religion is against the Constitution, it violates the Supreme Court ruling of Edwards v. Aguillard (1987).

There are never-endings proposals to completely defund and get rid of the U.S. Department of Education, by the anti-government Libertarian agenda (spearheaded for years by Ron Paul who is running yet again for president in 2012) ); add to that the corporate interest in seeing this as a means to turn education into a for-profit business and we can pretty much kiss our current dismal standing in the world – now pathetically ranked at 18 out of 36 in the developing nations – because we will be in a race to the bottom!

There is a serious national effort to tear down public education, attacking teacher unions  as “thugs”(Gov. Christie, N.J. after all – those greedy overpaid teachers always have their hands out for more!); legislation proposing school vouchers which is nothing more than codespeak for using federal tax dollars to pay for Christian schooling; education cuts to primary, secondary, Head Start programs (which Blaine Young did defund) that give the very young a running start, Pell grants that help enable the struggling classes to seek higher education and massive teacher layoffs resulting in increased class sizes.

Sometimes I wonder if they are just afraid of an educated society because an educated society would mean a society full of critical thinkers, and critical thinkers are often critical voters.

I was very concerned when I read in the FNP about Cindy Rose who was upset because her child’s text book was pushing socialism. “She said she was concerned the book pushes an agenda of socialism and she wanted it removed from schools.”

Now the definition for socialism is a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. 

There are many ways you can interpret that definition, in the political movement socialism includes a diverse array of philosophies, ranging from reformism to revolutionary socialism.

She wants the books removed because they are pushing an agenda of socialism, but I wonder if she would not be as upset if the text books were pushing an agenda of Capitalism ?

Capitalism is considered the opposite of socialism. The poor and disadvantaged fall to the wayside in lieu of unencumbered economic potential, and 'survival-of-the-fittest' is the rule of law. Socialism, on the other hand, values all citizens regardless of their earning potential.

"This chapter tells our third-graders they have a voice and they should get involved," Rose said. "Let's not teach our little third-graders to be protesters and picketers.

Getting involved does not necessarily equate with protesting and picketing, even though I seem to remember that protests and picketing have brought about great change.

Getting involved in a community can mean anything from volunteering at your local school to keeping a watchful eye on your neighborhood. 

Encouraging a child to be involved in their community helps that child to feel connected to that society and a child that feels connected to the society they live in are less likely to hurt the members of that society. 

Think about it this way, the moment you laid eyes on your child you bonded, you connected and knew you would protect your child no matter what. You knew that you would never allow anyone or anything to ever cause harm to your child. You became an involved parent you became a socialist. 

Once a child feels connected to the society around them they not only want to make that society a better place to live in, they will make sure that society stays a safe place to be.

Capitalism concentrates power and wealth within a small segment of society, that small segment of society then controls the rest of society through the means of production and derives its wealth through a system of exploitation. 

A stratified society based on unequal social relations fails to provide equal opportunities for every individual in that society to becoming contributing members of society.  

When you focus on what the market needs instead of what a human needs you are creating members of a society that no longer feel connected to the society they live in.

No connection to the world you live means you no longer care about the world you live, which means you will have no problem hurting the world you live in.

I am a socialist, because I do believe everyone should all have equal opportunities to reach their maximum potential.

Public schools are meant to help a child feel a connection to the world around them and they do a fantastic job if we would adequately fund them and keep them secular. 

When parents start pitting education against the child, there is something wrong.