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Alleged George Tiller Shooter Scott Roeder May Have Suffered From Mental Illness
Life News ^ | 6/1/09 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 06/01/2009 1:17:54 PM PDT by wagglebee

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old Kansas man who authorities have detained as the only suspect in the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, may have suffered from mental illness. That's according to his ex-wife, who said in a recent interview that Roeder always held extremist views.

Lindsey Roeder, who divorced Roeder in 1996 after 10 years of marriage, told the Topeka Capital-Journal that Roeder had a mental evaluation in the mid 1990s.

Although he did not believe he had any mental health issues, “everyone else did," she told the newspaper.

“He just felt these were his views,” she said of his position supporting the killing of people who kill others, such as abortion practitioners. "He followed the view of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

"It scared me," she said of his approach, which has been linked to militia and anti-government groups and attitudes.

Meanwhile, Roeder's family released a statement, according to the newspaper, saying. “We are shocked, horrified and filled with sadness at the death of Dr. Tiller and the circumstances surrounding it that may have involved Scott Roeder."

The statement confirmed the mental health problems, but said Roeder was otherwise a nice guy.

“We know Scott as a kind and loving son, brother and father who suffered from mental illness at various times in his life," it said. "However, none of us ever saw Scott as a person capable of or willing to take another person’s life. Our deepest regrets, prayers and sympathy go out to the Tiller family during this terrible time.”

After serving 16 months in prison following a parole violation after officials found a license plate altered with anti-government slogans and bombmaking materials in his car and home, a Shawnee County District Court judge said Roeder presented a "threat of danger to the public."

Law enforcement officials told the Capital Journal newspaper at the time that Roeder was a "loving" but "obsessed" man, but maintained they didn't expect him to actually hurt anyone.

Roeder has no links to any legitimate pro-life group other than a couple of postings on a public forum on a pro-life web site. Otherwise, he has never been a volunteer of, staff member of or in any way associated with either national, state or local pro-life groups.

That and hundreds of condemnations of the Tiller shooting from pro-life groups hasn't stopped abortion advocates from exploiting Tiller's death for political gain and blaming pro-life advocates for his death.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; mentalillness; prolife; roeder; scottroeder; tiller
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Unfortunately the left will portray him as a "typical" pro-life advocate.
1 posted on 06/01/2009 1:17:54 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; narses; Salvation; 8mmMauser

Pro-Life Ping


2 posted on 06/01/2009 1:18:17 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Not guilty by reason of insanity, is that what these guys are leading up to?


3 posted on 06/01/2009 1:19:56 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.foundersvalues.com/)
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To: wagglebee

If this line of inquiry keeps up then the story will become “How did a mentally ill man get a gun?”


4 posted on 06/01/2009 1:21:17 PM PDT by Borges
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To: pray4liberty

Being mentally ill DOES NOT mean a person is legally insane.


5 posted on 06/01/2009 1:21:39 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old Kansas man who authorities have detained as the only suspect in the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, may have suffered from mental illness.

I thought Roeder was still alive. Why is this in the past tense?

6 posted on 06/01/2009 1:22:01 PM PDT by gitmo (History books will read that Lincoln freed the slaves and Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: wagglebee
Cui Bono - for whom the benefit? The left and the Obama administration are going to use him as the excuse for a crackdown on free speech and dissent and probably gun ownership on anyone critical of abortion or the socialist agenda. I smell a rat. It wouldn't be the first time the left has consumed one of their own to advance their agenda. I mean if they will accept the killing of 60 million unborn babies, what is one old doctor?
7 posted on 06/01/2009 1:22:18 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: wagglebee

ya’ think?


8 posted on 06/01/2009 1:22:24 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (Dick Cheney gets results!)
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.......and blaming pro-life advocates for his death.

They can blame me if they want to, I have big shoulders.

9 posted on 06/01/2009 1:22:41 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (29 shopping days to Graybeard58's 64th. b/day. Selah.)
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To: wagglebee
Roeder has no links to any legitimate pro-life group other than a couple of postings on a public forum on a pro-life web site. Otherwise, he has never been a volunteer of, staff member of or in any way associated with either national, state or local pro-life groups.

Well, pro-choice people post on those forums too. So what does that make them?

10 posted on 06/01/2009 1:24:25 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://www.foundersvalues.com/)
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To: gitmo

bttt


11 posted on 06/01/2009 1:24:51 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: wagglebee

I predict that he will be put on the fast track to lethal injection, just like Tim McVeigh....


12 posted on 06/01/2009 1:25:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Borges

How did a convicted felon get a gun. This cat was in prison before was was ‘nutz’.


13 posted on 06/01/2009 1:26:06 PM PDT by ASOC (Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
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To: wagglebee

I hope he gets off on insanity.


14 posted on 06/01/2009 1:28:11 PM PDT by exist
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To: Borges

oh, they’ll go another route -

anyone with conservative beliefs is by definition mentally ill and therefore cannot own a firearm.

I hear “amens” from DU.


15 posted on 06/01/2009 1:28:20 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: wagglebee

something is seriously wrong with this set of circumstances.


16 posted on 06/01/2009 1:29:02 PM PDT by fortunate sun (Tell me what books you want to ban and I'll tell you what type of politics you hold.)
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To: ASOC

The conviction was overturned on grounds of an illegal search, according to earlier posts.


17 posted on 06/01/2009 1:29:13 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: gitmo

No, the past tense seems to refer to the mental illness. Just because someone was mentally ill a decade ago does not mean they still are.


18 posted on 06/01/2009 1:30:35 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: ASOC
How did a convicted felon get a gun.

The Kansas Court of Appeals overturned his conviction.

19 posted on 06/01/2009 1:30:50 PM PDT by Cooter
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To: wagglebee

Oh well, that makes it all better!

Now he is not just a terrorist, but a crazy terrorist.


20 posted on 06/01/2009 1:31:53 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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