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Republicans deserve some blame for the Planned Parenthood shooting
Washington Post ^ | December 2, 2015 | Ruth Marcus

Posted on 12/02/2015 1:26:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

"....The current effort to demonize Planned Parenthood feels different. This is, literally, a manufactured issue, cobbled together from doctored videotapes and overheated accusations. The organization's activities have been so mischaracterized, and the practice of providing fetal tissue so overblown and so manipulated by lawmakers and politicians, that blame for the ensuing violence falls more heavily on them.

This argument, I concede, rests on a potentially slippery and subjective slope. Holding advocates responsible for such unintended consequences risks dampening speech. Second, conservatives have blamed Black Lives Matter protesters for inspiring the killing of police officers; what makes my critique fair and theirs not? The answer involves gradations of tone and truthfulness. Extreme rhetoric combined with falsehoods tips the balance toward greater culpability...."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionvideos; dnctalkingpoints; life; mythmaking; plannedparenthood; responsibility; ruthmarcus
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It has become completely acceptable to the Left to airbrushed those who commit these crimes out of the discussion.

Instead their evil deeds are used to attack Pro-Life, Free Speech, 2nd Amendment conservatives.

The man who killed in Colorado is responsible.

1 posted on 12/02/2015 1:26:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’ll put my “deserves” up against the left anytime.


2 posted on 12/02/2015 1:40:44 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
EVERY ONE of these mass murderers has serious, well defined mental or terrorist issues. All those with mental health issues are prescribed, or have been prescribed, mind-altering legal meds.

This is the issue that needs solving. We've got a few generations of zombies who have been created by our sewer excuse for contemporary culture and drug-addled minds.

3 posted on 12/02/2015 1:46:48 AM PST by grania
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The current effort to demonize Planned Parenthood feels different. This is, literally, a manufactured issue, cobbled together from doctored videotapes and overheated accusations. The organization's activities have been so mischaracterized, and the practice of providing fetal tissue so overblown and so manipulated by lawmakers and politicians, that blame for the ensuing violence falls more heavily on them.

Even if shredding babies and selling the spare parts for fun and profit was the guy's motive (which I still find questionable), the actions of this one guy still do not excuse shredding babies and selling the parts.

4 posted on 12/02/2015 1:48:34 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You reap what you sow. Life means nothing to immoral godless animals.


5 posted on 12/02/2015 1:48:35 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I found the use of the word “deserves” very interesting.

The Left uses it liberally, it’s replaced the idea of “earned.”


6 posted on 12/02/2015 1:51:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: grania

“....We’ve got a few generations of zombies who have been created by our sewer excuse for contemporary culture and drug-addled minds.”

And they’re seldom “accountable.”


7 posted on 12/02/2015 1:53:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Smokin' Joe

The Left doesn’t use logic.


8 posted on 12/02/2015 1:54:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
LIBERALS really do need to be INSTITUTIONALIZED !


9 posted on 12/02/2015 1:56:35 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Jim Robinson
You reap what you sow......

The Left's policies create failure and a fractured society and then they just blithely blame it on others.

10 posted on 12/02/2015 1:58:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Jim Robinson

The left will know when we react to their brutal inhumanity.

After all, their history entails a hundred million deaths at a minimum. Not including the unborn.


11 posted on 12/02/2015 2:01:05 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The left needs to crawl into it’s demanded safe zones and stay there.


12 posted on 12/02/2015 2:10:24 AM PST by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: Crazieman

The Left wants the masses to be free from feeling any sense of responsibility, because, in the end, they want to “take care” of everything - all revenue and regulation [power] will flow through them.


13 posted on 12/02/2015 2:10:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: maddog55

The Left has crippled their electorate - manufactured “safe-zone” zombies.


14 posted on 12/02/2015 2:13:28 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This is, literally, a manufactured issue, cobbled together from doctored videotapes and overheated accusations.

No need to read another word of this propaganda! The assertion that murder of infants and selling of their body parts is a manufactured issue is WRONG. The writer hopes that you will accept a false premise.

Where is the evidence supporting such an assertion? Planned Parenthood is in the abortion business. Planned Parenthood admits that they were selling body parts. Where is the proof that the videotapes were doctored?

15 posted on 12/02/2015 2:35:24 AM PST by olezip
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427816/planned-parenthood-shooting-robert-dear

“.............The guy who shot John Lennon was said to be inspired by The Catcher in the Rye. The Aurora, Colo., shooter who slaughtered a dozen people at a showing of The Dark Knight Rises was not only obsessed with a particular Batman film series, he told police he was the Caped Crusader’s nemesis, The Joker. The Tucson, Ariz., shooter, a deeply mentally ill man, was obsessed with the lunatic conspiracy film Zeitgeist. The deranged Newtown, Conn., shooter loved video games.

The blame still resides with these killers. Millions of people love The Catcher in the Rye, The Dark Knight movies and video games - and they don’t kill people, because normal folks aren’t inspired to murder by such things. But that misses the point. What if the killers’ actions could be blamed on those things? What if it were true that if Mark David Chapman had never read The Catcher in the Rye, he would never have shot Lennon? What’s the follow-through for that premise? Should we hold all speech - artistic and political - hostage to what sick or evil people might do? How would that work?......”


16 posted on 12/02/2015 2:38:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I noticed. They run on emotion. They sell their nonsense by using emotional arguments and even rope in logical people with them. If they let people stop and think, they’d lose.


17 posted on 12/02/2015 2:43:10 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

yeah, that video of that @#$@#$ chomping on salad and drinking wine while she talks nonchalant about chopping up babies for parts was doctored. No.

She eats salad. Wants to stay healthy for a long life.

Unlike the one CUT SHORT BEFORE BIRTH!!

That @#$@#$@#$.

The officer being killed by this nut was horrific.

But notice they never mention if an officer shot by a black guy was a VETERAN. But this gentleman, they did. God bless him. God dam the media.

As for the ones who worked there and got shot. They didn’t lose any sleep for the thousands they kill.

I wont lose any sleep over them.


18 posted on 12/02/2015 2:45:05 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Party of the blame goes to LIBERAL JUDGES and LIBERAL LAWYERS who worked hard to change the judicial system and the laws, so as to allow these INSANE PEOPLE to walk around free.
They should be lock up along with the criminals that commit these crimes, and maybe inside the same cells.
19 posted on 12/02/2015 2:45:41 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Every capricious abortion is murder. Every abortion is a seed that will bear fruit a hundred fold. Judgement is coming on America because of this. The blood of the unborn cries out to the Almighty day and night, “My mother killed me! My Mother killed me!! The wrath to come will not be by the hand of a lunatic. It will be the commensurate response to all of our unrighteousness. Our sages who see it coming are stoned and ridiculed. It's time to flee to the mountain. Repent and return to the Torah of Messiah.
20 posted on 12/02/2015 2:47:03 AM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees!)
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