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  • NOT VERY BRIGHT MR ROEDER

    Posted on June 8th, 2009 zshapiro 1 comment

    Scott Roeder is charged with the Kansas murder of Dr.George Tiller. Tiller was one of few doctors in this country who performed late term abortions.

    At the time of his arrest he did the right thing. He refused to talk to the police without an attorney present. After all, we have all heard the Miranda rights on TV. In the usual pronouncement of the rights a defendant is told “anything you say can be used against you.” The better pronouncement is “Anything you say can and will be used against you. Because a smart prosecutor will find a way.

    But after refusing to talk to the police, Roeder called the Associated Press. He told them, “I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal,” Well guess what: his quote ends up in every newspaper in the country. And guess what else, he will hear it at trial. Just as his comments to the police are admissible any other comments he makes will be admissible at trial. Any prosecutor worth his or her salt will get this statement admitted as an admission of guilt. After all, the argument will go, if he was not involved in the murder how would he know that similar criminal acts are planned around the country.

    And by the way, Mr Roeder, I’d be willing to bet that every conversation you make from the jail telephone (besides those to your lawyer) are taped and provided immediately to the District Attorney.

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    One Response to “NOT VERY BRIGHT MR ROEDER”

    1. Michael Bray September 28th, 2011 at 3:14 pm

      Happened upon the site while researching the U.S. Code and disparate sentences incurred by anti-abortionists when compared to good-faith, genuine terrorists (of the Islamic variety in consideration of current events) or property destroying, earth-worshiping tree-huggers are compared.

      Is this all the author can say about the good deed of Mr. Roeder? Just a cheap slur against his intellect? No honest assessment of the consistency of his actions with the doctrine most “prolifers” – and, really, the civilized world – historically speaking – proclaim?

      He acted in absolute good faith with the doctrine of the imago Dei. Either mankind is created in the image of God and therefore inviolable as long as he is innocent of any high crime or he is as the Modernists imagines, just another glorified evolving worm, subject to the lethal whims of a mother or any other person in power.

      You can’t have it both ways.

      Commendations to Mr. Roeder.

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