Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooter NOT Republican, Identifies as Woman | Dana ( 3:19 )
Published on Nov 30, 2015
Dana & Jim Hoft discuss the media spin on the recent Planned Parenthood shooting
Posted on 11/30/2015 2:42:12 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
I'm usually reticent to get into the mud created by shootings like the one Robert L. Dear perpetrated at the Colorado Planned Parenthood. The usual partisan/ideological lines get drawn and wild speculation and flat out lies often drive a narrative that I want little or nothing to do with, as counter-intuitive as that might seem for a blogger, because it ends up being a distraction than a substantive discussion.
The problem with that type of inaction is liberals live for moments like this (remember when Democratic analyst Mark Penn sort of fantasized in about how Obama needed an Oklahoma City bombing type event to solidify his chances of reelection? And then, according to Chris Matthews, Obama got it.) because they allow the left to personify all of Planned Parenthood, and turn it into a martyr for the greater good of...um...abortion(?)
Another, more concise way to put it would be that liberals live for death they can use.
As nauseous as it all is, I have trouble faulting other conservatives for getting in the mud, even when it's very well reasoned and argued. They have to do something to counter the brazen dishonesty that liberals put out there, including propaganda like this from Buzzfeed (emphasis added is mine):
NARAL was in the midst of a campaign to push the Obama administration to investigate reported instances of vandalism and attempted arson at abortion provider sites as acts of domestic terrorism when the Colorado Springs shooting happened. On Wednesday, the group planned to deliver a nearly 60,000-signature petition to the Department of Justice calling for that investigation to begin. The petition now features mention of the Colorado Springs shooting and ties it directly to the surreptitiously recorded Planned Parenthood videos — which accuse the organization of selling aborted fetuses’ organs and tissues and include graphic descriptions — that have dogged that group for much of the year.The word “terrorism†is important, activists told BuzzFeed News. They’re trying to make the case that anti-abortion rhetoric ties directly to abortion clinic vandalism, and, finally, to the Colorado shooting. “Terrorism†signals that the ideology behind the shooting was extreme in nature, activists said, and suggests a network of anti-abortion groups and advocates are helping to fuel violence.
There's a lot that remains unclear, but there are three things that are certain (to me) from this latest tragedy/controversy:
1. This is it's not the fault of conservatism. No reasonable person believes the pro-life or pro-second amendment movements want to blow up Planned Parenthood and shoot up anyone connected to it. It makes absolutely no sense logically that movements predicated on responsibility, the preservation of innocent life, and the good moral character needed to uphold them would call for its adherents to engage in terrorism and murder as part of any strategy to gain political or cultural upper-hand. That's insane, which might be why liberals believe it so ardently. Sanity is something that appears to them only when they looking at the world with a mirror.
Inciting violence through rhetoric is what liberals do. Liberals are the ones who call for "violent revolution" to get what they want, with rare exception (exceptions that are condemned early and often by the right, unlike the non-existent condemnation radical Islam receives from the "moderates) conservatism has called for the opposite.
If this latest shooting was an act of terrorism then it was one of collateral damage caused by friendly fire. Unlike Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other pro-abortion zealots, the NRA and the pro-life movement don't have the explicit goal of extinguishing innocent life in common with radical Islam.
2. Robert L. Dear is a broken human being. Not literally broken in the way that Planned Parenthood can't make money off of it broken, granted, but he is broken. The common denominator in just about all shootings we see in America is that the perpetrator of them tends to have severe mental problems, and liberals are all too happy to project their own twisted worldview onto the motives of these mentally ill people. They do so order to stifle future debate about abortion, so they can create a culture where this "choice" is actually as essential to life as breathing.
Liberals want to stand on the graves of Dear's victims and point to his "views" (as they project onto him) as the template for profiling and stopping future "domestic terrorists" preemptively. Anyone with the temerity to be incensed by the sale of aborted babies would be labeled a dangerous powder keg in their eyes, and something must be done about it, yesterday.
The people in the Buzzfeed article aren't stupid, just evil. They know Dear isn't some conservative version of The Punisher, but he created a crisis and they are NOT about to let it go to waste.
3. Liberal activists like the ones in the Buzzfeed story have no bottom to their barrel. You have to wonder that maybe they shouldn't even be counted as members of humanity anymore. To equate the actions of a mentally unstable person to the deliberate tactics of murder and mayhem executed by the likes of ISIS, and then to draw a line from that to the videos of Planned Parenthood selling parts of babies for a profit, shows how maniacally addicted the left is to clinging bitterly for dear life onto their lucrative culture of death.
Their reason for attempting to connect the two is as clear as the darkness they bring to this world. In terms of physics, darkness is the absence of light. That's what the PP videos were, light, and you can't see the truth without it. Abortion zealots don't want you to associate Robert Dear with muckraking pro-lifers exposing the dearth of ethics, accountability, and greed brought on by their profiting from death...they NEED you to make that connection.
The only way they can do that is by extinguishing the light by any means necessary.
This was a bank robbery with a police chase that ended up with the perp taking refuge in the PP clinic and holding people hostage.
The cop was shot out behind the bank.
Since the police insist on hiding the evidence , we are left to assume that the other two innocents shot were shot by police in the excitement of the chase.
The PP clinic was involved only because it was somewhere to try and hide. The police are hiding the evidence because they don’t want it out that THEY shot some innocents in front of, or inside the PP clinic.
The politicians got involved and turned a simple mess into a huge mess.
And when death goes against their narrative or endangers their election (e.g., LaQuan, Benghazi, U.S. drone killings in the Middle East), they cover it up.
Simply put, one of the 'gods' of the Left is to have an unfettered access to terminate the lives of unborn babies. A strange god, admittedly, but the folks of the Left will defend this idol to the utmost of their ability.
This religion is bred from the belief that actions do not have consequences. If a human life is going to present an inconvenience, one should be allowed to terminate that life (and the terminator must be allowed to pretend that it really wasn't a human life... and it is hateful to imply otherwise).
I just listened to the radio traffic (police radio). It helps to have a map of the area open. This is the address:
3470 Centennial Boulevard, Colorado Springs, CO
From what I can tell, the initial altercation/gunfire occurred in the parking lot(s). There is a victim reported in the PP lot, and a victim in the eye care center lot, which is immediately to the east. Then a cop reports that he has been hit around 200 yards south, near a King Sooper’s store and Chase Bank.
This unfolds for around 15 minutes, in which the officers characterize him as ‘behind’ PP, and place him at the northwest corner of the building. The next 15 minutes contains occasional traffic that he has shot towards the officers at the bank (to the south), and at the 30 minute mark they are sure he is now inside PP. They didn’t see him run in there, but it happened between the 15 and 30 minute mark.
What happened? Hard to tell. The initial gun play in the parking lot could have been against a security guard, or somebody like that. He could have been readying himself to storm PP...but he just as easily could have been staging for a robbery at the bank to the south. Short of one statement (from an anonymous source) about ‘baby parts’, we really don’t know.
What we do know: While this (probably) began in the parking lot of PP, it didn’t begin inside the building of PP. Therefore, it is really pre-mature to say this was an ‘attack’ on PP. Time will tell...but the media won’t wait for the facts to come out.
That was my initial reaction, based on the conclusions being drawn from implication rather than hard fact.
Of course, a lot of my piece is answering those implications. I felt compelled to write something after looking at the Buzzfeed article detailing the spurious actions abortionistas plan on taking in response to this and the PP videos...the whole thing has me incensed to say the least
If it turns out that this guy was not targeting PP, we won’t read about it in the papers. The whole incident will go down the rabbit hole.
If it turns out that he was there to shoot up PP...I was struck by a photo of his ‘cabin’. A cabin with no power, water, or sewer...which housed a lunatic with a shaggy beard.
Just like Ted Kaczynski’s cabin.
Kaczynski was a radical who latched onto the environmental movement...even ‘influenced’ by the Earth Day apocalyptic rhetoric of his day...but first and foremost, he was a lunatic. Nobody has tarred all environmentalists with his crimes.
Dear may be a radical who latched onto the pro-life movement...but first and foremost he is a lunatic. The left WILL tar the entire pro-life movement with his crimes.
You may be absolutely right.
But it also seems odd that Dear would all of a sudden decide to come out of the woods and rob a bank.
He was living in a shack with no running water or heat. If anyone was in a position to feel the need to rob a bank, it was him.
Add to that the idea that that bank may have had something to do with the reason this guy was living that way. Maybe they foreclosed on the home he had been in.
We don't know and the media HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED not to tell you if that is the case. Just like they were INSTRUCTED not to report on the Muslims celebrating after 9/11.
Not a bank robbery.
Read post #6.
It may not have been a bank robbery, but it sure didn’t START at the PP clinic. It was simply the place he took refuge in and took hostages.
Something no one considered.
Maybe he went to the bank to use their TOILET facilities and got thrown out.
Maybe that’s why he shot the COP in the rear parking lot of the bank.
Maybe he needed somewhere he could 'wash up' . Banks have public restrooms.
#6 proves my response. It did start at the PP clinic - in the PP clinic parking lot.
The bank is down a road. The reason the police are being shot near the bank is they cannot drive up the road to the PP. He has clear access to that road.
Sad. You are grasping.
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