<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Hi Roger,</font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">I agree that Robert Lewis Dear's rant during his first court appearance may have made him look like a "kook," but I just did a quick search of anti-abortion murderers James Kopp, Paul Hill, Michael Griffin, and Eric Ruldoph. They appeared to be clear minded in their goals to kill the "baby killers."  No sign of mental illness in the bios that I read.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">What Republicans such as you should be concerned about is the following from the long version of my column.  Please note that even Chris Christie also joins the "baby body parts" chorus.</font></div><div><br></div><div><b style="line-height:14.95px;text-indent:48px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Fact-Free GOP Indirectly Responsible for Anti-Abortion Attacks</span></b><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">I believe that the people who surreptitiously videotaped Planned Parenthood officers, and convinced far too many people that the organization sells fetal tissue (it does not), should be held responsible for these murders.  Our elected representatives and GOP presidential candidates who continue to libel Planned Parenthood are also culpable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Based on initial reports that Dear was registered to vote as a woman, Sen. Ted Cruz misidentified Dear as a “transgendered leftist activist.”  Cruz was also very happy to receive the endorsement of Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, which advocates violence against abortion providers. Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s senior advisor, served a two-year prison term for attempting to bomb an abortion clinic in 1987.  Newman is also an officer in the phony Center for Medical Progress (CMP), which filmed the discredited videos.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">In a September GOP debate Carly Fiorina claimed that the CMP videos showed “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” The videos contain no such footage, but Fiorina refuses to back down.  Even Gov. Chris Christie got into the act by stating that Planned Parenthood is responsible for the “systematic murder of children in the womb to preserve their body parts.” Sadly, most of the GOP presidential candidates operate in a fact-free zone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Yours for more facts and less fear mongering in the presidential campaign,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:14.72px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Nick</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>   <div style="height:auto;width:auto">   <div> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. </span><br style="font-size:13.3333px"><br style="font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">-Greek proverb</span></div><div><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance 
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not 
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it 
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your 
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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