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Looks like eBay and the fetus-fetishizing domestic terrorists are having a battle over the latter's insistence on selling souvenirs of doctor assassinations and abortion clinic bombings past, as I first mentioned here.

The crazies are attempting to raise funds to defend Scott Roeder, the accused killer in the execution of Dr. George Tiller.

RoederWatch has all the details on the on-and-off auction -- plus a pointer to this fine piece by Mike Hendricks of The Wichita Eagle.

Little David slew the mighty Goliath and held aloft the Philistine's severed head.

Rembrandt and Caravaggio painted the bloody scene from 1 Samuel. Now comes Scott Roeder, the man charged with killing George Tiller. Roeder recently submitted for auction an autographed copy of a cartoon depicting his own version of the story.

"Tiller" is written across the forehead of the slain warrior. And for the role of David?

It's not spelled out, and as there is that presumption of innocence in our legal system, I'll leave it for you to decide what Roeder had in mind.

But biblical comparisons aside, Roeder's supporters have yet another notion of who Roeder represents to them, despite his not-guilty plea in the murder of the Wichita abortion provider.

He's a modern-day John Brown, reflecting the fact many in the anti-abortion movement compare themselves to the 19th-century abolitionists.

"We liken him to that," said David Leach, when I reached the Des Moines abortion opponent by phone last week.

Leach, along with Regina Dinwiddie of Kansas City, had tried to organize an online fundraiser on Roeder's behalf. Last week eBay put the kibosh on it (though Dinwiddie has said the auction will go on).

My interest, however, was in the comparisons, which are all over the Internet, between Brown, the anti-slavery crusader, and Roeder, the abortion foe. True, both were zealous believers in a cause.

"But it isn't just that they believed in it," Leach said. "There were actual human beings who were suffering that both intervened to rescue."

Roeder has admitted nothing. But he donated three cartoons to the auction, the stated purpose of which was to raise money to pay an attorney who would argue that Tiller wasn't murdered but instead was the victim of justifiable homicide.

And they call themselves pro-life?

Meanwhile, Talking Points Memo has a gallery of all the fine items available (or not) for sale, including this lively bit of bedtime reading:

This item is described by TPM as:

An autobiography of Paul Hill, who was executed in 2003 for the killing of a Florida abortion doctor and his bodyguard in 1994.

(I added the links.)

Isn't free enterprise grand?

UPPITY WOMAN DATE: JJ has more.

Comments

[Niles]

A/John Brown was hanged for the murders he committed and ringleadered. So, they can feel free to follow in his footsteps.
B/They're seriously (??) equating their desire to legally control the bodies of women in a mastery that not only ignores the wishes and needs of the women in question, but criminalizes any defiance of said legal control and forces women and their male allies to go 'underground to freedom' because of the *potential* loss to society with...

...John Brown's abolitionist desire to *stop* the legal control of the bodies of women and men and born children by a mastery that ignored the wishes and needs of the people in question and criminalized them for defying that legal control, forcing them to go 'underground to freedom'.

And among abolition's censures of this heinous human ownership? The forcing of men procreationally upon women to make them pregnant so they could bear new generations of servile 'potential'. And woe betide the owned woman caught attempting to end such a forced burden.

So...uh...what? Just...what?

[Jim M]

I do not see how the role of abortion service providers could possibly be seen to resemble the role played by the biblical Philistines — let alone Goliath, himself — in the story of David and Goliath. Nor do I see how the role of a murderer of an abortion service provider could possibly be seen to fit with David’s character or his role within the legendary story of his battle with Goliath.

In my opinion, the storyline of the following song fits better than the story of David and Goliath does with this tragedy. I’m not sure what the intended meaning of this song originally was, or even if one specific meaning was originally intended, but the “valley people” mentioned sound a lot like the Army of God (and other militant anti-choice individuals or groups), while the “mountain people” mentioned sound like a group of both men and women, who support reproductive choice (at least in such a world as this) but obviously do not always choose abortion.

The “gold” mentioned (also called “buried tresure”) sounds like a good comparison or parallel for the combined reproductive ability of women and men.

Last but not least, the “one tin soldier” that is mentioned seems to fit the character of Scott Roeder much better than David of David and Goliath.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/One_Tin_Soldier_vinly_/11178253