{"id":183,"date":"2009-06-09T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lynnvsekulow\/2009\/06\/let-us-revisit-terrorist-inves.html"},"modified":"2009-06-09T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T11:51:28","slug":"let-us-revisit-terrorist-inves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lynnvsekulow\/2009\/06\/let-us-revisit-terrorist-inves.html","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Revisit Terrorist Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay, I’d like you to revisit a little blog-versation<\/a> we had a few months back.  A Department of Homeland Security memo had suggested that it was important for law enforcement agents to concern themselves with domestic, not just foreign, terrorist threats.  Most of the right side of the blogosphere, including yourself, insisted this had the taint of a smear campaign and a whiff of First Amendment violation.  In particular, you were concerned about a reference to “pro-life” groups.<\/p>\n

Well, one “pro life” activist thought he had the backing of some such groups (and certainly that his actions fit perfectly into the amoral universe of such ethical charlatans as Randall Terry<\/a> and Pastor Wiley Drake<\/a>).  That activist, of course, is Scott Roeder and he stands accused of the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions that his patients chose to have.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\nRoeder has now told the Associated Press<\/a>
\nduring a phone call to them from jail that there is a “plan” to have
\nothers do what he apparently did.  If true, wouldn’t it be vitally
\nimportant to figure out who is doing the planning that Roeder has said
\nis already occurring?  How would the FBI, local law enforcement
\nagencies, or others sworn to uphold the law start to answer that
\nquestion if they did not somehow investigate the “anti-choice” world?<\/p>\n

Now,
\nthis doesn’t mean that anything goes.  I’m not suggesting that every
\n“right to life” leader be hauled into the nearest FBI office.  I don’t
\nmean that government infiltrators or agents provocateur go to every
\nrally where a speaker discusses the so-called “pre-born.”  But it also
\nshouldn’t mean that law enforcement should be, dare I say it,
\n“politically correct,” and just ignore Roeder’s warning or treat it
\nlike bravado of the deranged.<\/p>\n

So, Jay, why not tell the folks on
\nyour side of this debate to affirmatively work with law enforcement to
\nsee that those people exercising their constitutional rights, and
\nallowing their patients to exercise theirs, do not have to live in fear?<\/p>\n

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