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[rozk]

Gakked from tsubaki_ny this piece from Rolling Stone documents the tactics being used by Operation Rescue against Tiller's clinic and its staff. Tiller's killer was part of this sub-culture; what worries me, though, is that I can imagine similar tactics being used by anti-abortion fanatics in this country as well as in the US. My admiration for people who stand up to this sort of bullying knows no bounds.

Some while ago, I had a row with some of my animal rights supporting friends and said that the tactics they approve of against fox-hunters or vivisectionists could be turned against minorities or pro-choice forces any time. I fear I was right - Operation Rescue have moved on from picketing clinics.

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[redbird]

This is, alas, not new, though your friends may not have been aware of it: but at least in the U.S., the press doesn't report anti-choice terrorism as terrorism, because it's being done by, not against, white Christian men. This means the patterns aren't pointed out in the ordinary news stories. The papers quote the anti-choice people as saying they are "worried about a backlash" after this, but don't mention the years of right-wing incitement to murder, against which a backlash is long overdue.