Gross ignorance that Violence begets violence--Re: Free Republic's "Paul Hill Execution" Threads

Free Republic ^ | 9/4/03 | Dr. Brian Kopp, Vice President, Catholic Family Assoc. of America

[Polycarp]

I'm sick of these moral and mental midgets on these Paul Hill Execution threads, so I took it upon myself to make several observations and clarifications, humble guy that I am.

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[tkathy]

A demagoguing red herring to take attention away from other problems???

[HurkinMcGurkin]

In the context of innevitable future civil rebellion against judicial tyranny and legislation by judicial fiat it is very likely that certain individuals might engage in vigilantism and ex-post-facto justice. Don't say I didn't tell you so.

Ok, now Paul Hill was simply involved in "civil rebellion"? You don't know when to quit, do you?

[Pukin Dog]

Please shut up.

[wideawake]

Thank you for a lucid, concise and necessary post.

While an argument can be made that Paul Hill was wrong to do what he did, anyone who claims that his crime was worse than the activities of men who daily murdered innocent children for profit has indeed lost their moral compass.

[dfwgator]

And those guys who flew the planes into the WTC were just participating in a "civil rebellion" too, right?

[wideawake]

I think Polycarp should shut up the second you have something interesting, intelligent or original to say.

[Smogger]

Perhaps Paul Hill went to Hell for his sins. It's likely as he did not appear remorseful. I am certain the abortionist doctor did, and he didn't have to wait in any lines either.

[bedolido]

Ping!

Here's something else "Not" to not respond. Any contrarian views?

[HurkinMcGurkin]

While an argument can be made that Paul Hill was wrong to do what he did,

Interesting wording.

[John Beresford Tipton]

What about his having killed the retired Air Force Officer, nobody seems to want to talk about that inconvenient fact.

[HurkinMcGurkin]

And those guys who flew the planes into the WTC were just participating in a "civil rebellion" too, right?

Guess so, according to the warped logic of the author.

[bedolido]

Interesting wording.

Yesterday he argued that it is morally right to kill abortionists (loosely quoted)

[wideawake]

And those guys who flew the planes into the WTC were just participating in a "civil rebellion" too, right?

The 9/11 hijackers were not motivated in reaction to judicial activism that eroded the Constitutionally guaranteed right to life.

They were motivated by a desire to destroy all vestiges of the Constitution, not just the now-attenuated right to life.

[CaptBlack]

6) Furthermore, to express more outrage at Hill's crime than the pathological violence ("legal" abortion) that precipitated Hill's crime is a symptom of a culture that has completely lost its moral compass and is on the straight and narrow path to self destruction.

This is exactly what I've noticed in some posts. There is almost a glee, a giddiness evidenced by some that this man was executed (and well he SHOULD have been). But what worries me is that I don't see nearly the concern for the lives that are snuffed out everyday and I don't see nearly the indignation toward the perpetrators--abortionists.

Like you, I would IN NO WAY encourage people to take the law into their own hands; God has appointed the civil magistrate (whether we like them or not) to that end. So Hill was totally wrong to kill for his "beliefs."

HOWEVER, I do think that the comparison between him and Al Quaeda is not on target. In Hill's mind, he was preventing an abortionist (who HAD been murdering babies) from doing so again; he wasn't randomly attacking "innocents" for the shock value usually sought for by terrorists.

Hill was a mistaken fool, who brought God's judgment on his head by overreaching and taking unlawful liberties to mete justice out on his own. Having said that, though, I'm actually taken aback by the sheer vehemence and joy with which many talk about Hill burning in Hell and so forth but not one accompanying word about whether the abortionists will do likewise.

[Polycarp]

You don't know how to read, do you?

I said: "Hill murdered an abortionist, and deserved the punishment meeted out to him by the state. The state has the right, recognized in 2000 years of Christian moral theology, to impose capital punishment.

"it is axiomatic that violence, even the violence of "legal" abortion, will always beget further violence, it is evidence of gross ignorance of human nature and Natural Law that certain folks express surprise and dismay at the actions of someone like Hill.

You will probably be the very first one to express surprise and dismay at the level of anger and retribution meeted out if and when a rebellion against judicial tyranny occurs. While I neither condone nor encourage it, I can see it coming.

I won't be surprised, because I understand the axiom that abortion violence will always beget further violence.

[Catspaw]

civil rebellion

Interesting use of the phrase "civil rebellion." Hill seemed to be quite proud when he bragged at his last press conference that he kept shooting at the abortion doc until the doc stopped moving. In fact, he seemed to get a certain amount of enjoyment out of it, judging by the broad smile on his face.

I put you in the same category as Hill.

[martianagent]

If your biggest peeve in life is baby-killing, the topic you should be most interested in is the possibility of Wesley Clark running for president.

[bedolido]

I will join this debate no more, forever! (Chief Sitting Bull-Pucky)