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The myth of the lone shooter(Ellen Goodman barf)
Boston Globe ^ | June 5, 2009 | Ellen Goodman

Posted on 06/05/2009 7:04:56 AM PDT by GQuagmire

Home / Globe / Opinion / Op-ed Ellen Goodman IT IS believed that the shooter acted alone. Surely, that's true. No one else was standing beside suspect Scott Roeder when it is believed he murdered Dr. George Tiller in the sanctuary of his church.

But Michael Griffin also acted alone when he killed David Gunn in 1993. Paul Hill acted alone when he killed John Britton in 1994. John Salvi acted alone and so did Eric Rudolph and James Kopp. This suspect is hardly lonely in this murderous cast of lone actors.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; ellengoodman; tiller
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More from the "columnist" who has in the past compared global warming non-belivers to Holocaust deniers.....
1 posted on 06/05/2009 7:04:56 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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The Detroit Free-Press is reporting that the ... Instead of 306 slayings in Detroit in 2008, it might be 423...

And those 423 killings weren't lone shooters either. For each thug in baggy jeans pulling the trigger, there was another thug (in a suit) blaming whites for the problems of blacks and promising "hope" and "change" if they put their trust in government instead of solving their problems themselves. I wonder how Ellen Goodman would like my analysis. It matches her logic.

2 posted on 06/05/2009 7:10:13 AM PDT by TurtleUp (So this is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause!)
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To: GQuagmire

Wonder if she wrote the same thing about Ted Kennedy?


3 posted on 06/05/2009 7:10:28 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Gitmo detainees to Alcatraz!)
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To: GQuagmire

I’m sorry, but this column did NOT happen. It was never written. That is because Ellen Goodman NEVER existed. Her mother had her aborted.


4 posted on 06/05/2009 7:11:27 AM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: GQuagmire
No one else was standing beside suspect Scott Roeder when .. he murdered Dr. George Tiller

No one is standing by him now either. No Pro life group has stood up for this man, and they won't. Pro lifers are against killing. (do I have to explain that to Ellen?)

5 posted on 06/05/2009 7:13:10 AM PDT by bird4four4 (God Damn America!!! - Mr. Wright, your prayer has been answered 11-4-08)
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To: GQuagmire

Wonder when Ellen is going to write a column about the myth of Private Long’s killer being a lone shooter.


6 posted on 06/05/2009 7:18:23 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: GQuagmire

All pro lifers condemn the murder of Tiller. Cry me a river, Ellen, you silly woman.


7 posted on 06/05/2009 7:20:53 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: dirtboy

Ellen Goodman: “Who is this “Private Long” person, and can we use him to foment hatred against Obama’s political opponents?”


8 posted on 06/05/2009 7:23:18 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz's lawn jockey doesn't speak Austrian)
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To: dirtboy

0bama’s statement was an obvious attempt to cover up and dismiss any reference to the context of the recruitment center shootings.

The context: A Black Muslim, like the Black Panthers whom his AG protects, converted in prison, trained in Yemen, previously arrested for weapons violations, carrying arms and plans for further terrorist acts, saying “allah akbar” when arrested.

A terrorist act of war, by a Muslim, on our troops, of which he is Commander in Chief,

and all he can say is “senseless act of violence”.


9 posted on 06/05/2009 7:27:14 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Saundra Duffy
All pro lifers condemn the murder of Tiller. Cry me a river, Ellen, you silly woman.
10 posted on 06/05/2009 7:32:44 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: GQuagmire

Interesting that Ms Goodman doesn’t include the myth of the lone shooter in the case of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad.
How ‘bout it, Ellen?
“You see, this suspect was not such a lone gunman. And no, I am afraid, this was not an isolated incident.”


11 posted on 06/05/2009 7:32:54 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: bird4four4
No one is standing by him now either. No Pro life group has stood up for this man, and they won't. Pro lifers are against killing.

actually, most aren't. most pro-lifers are also pro-capital punishment- however most dems don't understand the difference and complain about it being "hypocracy"
12 posted on 06/05/2009 7:33:03 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
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To: GQuagmire

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn did not stand alone when they bombed the Pentagon or killed police, nor do they stand alone now. They were supported by the likes of Ellen Goodman and Barack Obama.

Mumia Abu Jamal was a lone gunman, but he, too has the likes of Goodman by his side.


13 posted on 06/05/2009 7:33:37 AM PDT by mak5
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All pro lifers condemn the murder of Tiller. Cry me a river, Ellen, you silly woman.

Ellen Goodman is the kind of woman who has an orgasm at the thought of an abortion.

14 posted on 06/05/2009 7:34:39 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: GQuagmire

The myth of the lone columnist....


15 posted on 06/05/2009 7:41:15 AM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: GQuagmire

Is she still around? And still chasing the “vast, right wing conspiracy?”


16 posted on 06/05/2009 8:00:07 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: GQuagmire
""in the sanctuary of his church""

Why is it Church suddenly becomes important to these type of people?

17 posted on 06/05/2009 8:02:31 AM PDT by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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To: just me

Only apostate churches hold any value to a leftist.

Besides that, they just try to use the intrinsic morality of the right against them.


18 posted on 06/05/2009 8:06:32 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: absolootezer0

The problem is, we engage in the argument between capital punishment and abortion, and we always go on defense. This is a mistake. Instead of defending our position, we should put them on defense, and ask how can they have sympathy for the life of a convicted murderer, many times brutal murders, but not have the same sympathy for the life of an innocent child who has done nothing to society except exist in the womb? Why is there no consistency in their positions?


19 posted on 06/05/2009 8:26:08 AM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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They don’t defend the killing of convicted murderers because none of them has ever participated in the killing of a convicted murderer.

The abortion issue, on the other hand, is about avoiding guilt. Any moral weight applied to abortion inexorably leads the “had-aborts” to the conclusion that they murdered their own child.


20 posted on 06/05/2009 8:28:47 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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