Attorney general directs U.S. marshals to protect abortion clinics, providers

The Colorado Independent ^ | 5/31/09 | Ernest Luning

[Lorianne]

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder dispatched the U.S. Marshals Service to protect “appropriate people and facilities around the nation” in the wake of the killing Sunday morning of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kan.

Likely top candidate for federal protection: Boulder physician Warren Hern, believed to be the last remaining doctor in the world to provide late-term abortions.

Hern, director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, told The Colorado Independent that Tiller’s assassination is the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism.

“Every doctor that does abortions has been under an assassination threat for decades,” Hern said Sunday afternon. “The anti-abortion movement message is, ‘Do what we tell you to do or we will kill you,’ and they do. This is a fascist movement.”

Here’s the statement Holder issued after Tiller’s assassination:

“The murder of Doctor George Tiller is an abhorrent act of violence, and his family is in our thoughts and prayers at this tragic moment. Federal law enforcement is coordinating with local law enforcement officials in Kansas on the investigation of this crime, and I have directed the United States Marshals Service to offer protection to other appropriate people and facilities around the nation. The Department of Justice will work to bring the perpetrator of this crime to justice. As a precautionary measure, we will also take appropriate steps to help prevent any related acts of violence from occurring.”

“My family is terrified,” Hern told the Wall Street Journal after Tiller was gunned down in a Lutheran church. Hern said both he and Tiller have “been targeted by name by anti-abortion activists who call them baby killers and mass murderers.”

After predicting anti-abortion violence would rise following President Barack Obama’s election last fall, Hern told the Los Angeles Times he knows he’s a target.

“They want the doctors dead, and they invite people to assassinate us. No wonder that this happens,” Hern said. “I am next on the list.”

A call to the Colorado District of the U.S. Marshals Service wasn’t returned Sunday evening.

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[avacado]

Rahm Emanuel hired this hit man to distract from Obama’s total economic and foreign policy failures. Didn't North Korea just set off a nuke?!!!

Good job Rahm, way to move the news cycle.

[GOP Poet]

Who is going to guard the babies that are about to be killed?

[penelopesire]

So..who is going to protect ALL americans from the Gitmo terrorists that Obama and Holder are about to release in America? Oh that’s right..we have nothing to fear..the terrorists are victims of U.S imperialism and our military. /sarcasm

[Enoughofthissocialism]

Absolutely unnecessary. Grandstanding pure and simple. And this from the sniveling, worthless, half-a-man, coward who said America is a nation of cowards. Oh how I would love to duel that little maggot holder, except that a little half man like him is only worth half a duel.

It would be bad enough to suffer the tyranny of actual men, but these... things? (gag!)

[Husker24]

Will Holder dispatch U.S. Marshals to certain polling places to insure voters are not harassed buy Black Panthers during the next election? Ohh, that's right charges were dropped against those folks.

[GOP Poet]

Exactly. For all we know it was someone with ties to ACORN or the O chaos machine to further the ‘agenda’.

[3catsanadog]

It’s a shame that we have seen enough to become so cynical about the other side that we can come to the same conclusion so quickly.

[exit82]

When is Holder going to order the Marshals to go in to every urban city in America to protect them from the double digit number of weekend murders?

[Eagles6]

rham emmanuel. Yeah, this is the start.

[org.whodat]

I was reading one of the many, many, many earlier post on the killing and someone posted this will not turn out well and he was shouted down. Wait and see, this will not turn out well.

[Eagles6]

Yep. Said the same thing to the family today.

[gidget7]

Who knows why? This man had such low character, obviously, he could have been involved in all sorts of shady thing. Why single out one part of his depravity as the reason he was shot?

[o-n-money]

When is Holder going to order the Marshals to go in to every urban city in America to protect them from the double digit number of weekend murders?

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and start with Chicago. Nothing to see there folks.

[Red Steel]

It’s a political stunt.

[FreepShop1]

Hern, director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic, told The Colorado Independent that Tiller’s assassination is the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism.

Or the inevitable consequence of a corrupt Kansas legal and political system letting a modern day Dr. Mengele run an abattoir for babies for decades with inpunity.

[Atom Smasher]

I see it as a convenient way to spend more tax payers money, with regard to Fed Marshalls. If he’s that worried about getting murdered, he should quit.

With all the outrage over Tiller, it amazes me that Zero seems to care more for the life of a person who kills innocent babies, rather than the life of the babies.

I don’t believe that murder is the answer, but I believe it sends a strong signal that citizens in this country have had it.

[Shelayne]

Good grief. All this over one lone nut? And 0 even came out with a statement about this?!

What is going on over in North Korea again?

I’m so glad this administration has their priorities in order. (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)

[Atom Smasher]

Rahm Emanuel hired this hit man to distract from Obama’s total economic and foreign policy failures. Didn’t North Korea just set off a nuke?!!!

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Also include distracting from the SCOTUS nominee...

[MissouriConservative]

“Yeah, this is the start.”

I’m afraid so. THe Nazis used the Reichstag fire to do a lot of damage to their “enemies” and I’m afraid that the Zero administration will do the exact same thing...with the approval of the sheep that voted for him.