Yesterday Sarah Palin was asked a simple question by Brian Williams of NBC News. A question she refused to answer.
Brian Williams: Is an abortion clinic bomber a terrorist under this definition?
Get that? Sarah Palin refuses to state that people who systematically bomb innocent American citizens in an attempt to intimidate and prevent them from making a constiutionally protected choice are not terrorists. Of all the things this woman has said on the campaign trail this is probably the most appalling thing of all. It goes directly to her willingness to protect the very people she would have to swear to protect.
Now lets got to the Websters definition of a Terrorist...
ter⋅ror⋅ist–noun
1.a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
2.a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
3.(formerly) a member of a political group in Russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.
4.an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
5.of, pertaining to, or characteristic of terrorism or terrorists: <span class="ital-inline">terrorist tactics.
Governor Palin - this man is a unrepentant Domestic Terrorist:
Eric Rudolph
"Abortion is murder and because it is murder I believe deadly force is needed to stop it. What I did was right" – Eric Rudolph at his sentencing in 2005.
Terrorist Acts carried out by Eric Rudolph in the name of the Army of God - a radical anti-abortion TERRORIST organization:
• July 27, 1996
Bombing of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park kills a woman and injures 111 other people
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Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park day of bombing.
• Jan. 16, 1997
Two bombs explode at an office building in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Injuring six. An abortion clinic in the building is believed to be the target.
• Feb. 21, 1997
Nail-laden device explodes at The Otherside Lounge, a gay and lesbian nightclub in Atlanta. Five people are injured.
• Jan. 29, 1998
Explosion kills a policeman and maims a nurse at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala.
Nurse Emily Lyons is removed from the sidewalk in front of the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic in Birmingham, Ala.
Theses are what victims of domestic terrorism look like Governor Palin:
Robert Sande Sanderson Security Guard New Woman, All Women Clinic in Birmingham. Murdered.
Emily Lyons - Nurse at the New Woman, All Women Health Care Clinic
"I lost my left eye, it damaged my right eye, broke the right side of my face, first, second and third-degree burns on the front of my body, broke my left leg...tore the muscle and skin off the front of my legs, hole in my abdomen—my intestines were hanging out."
Alice Hawthorne 44 murdered by Rudolph at the Atlanta Olympics
Now let's go back to the definition of a terrorist. Governor Palin how on god's green Earth is Eric Rudolph not 1. a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism. 2.a person who terrorizes or frightens others.?
He is not a terrorist in her eyes because she doesn't condemn his actions. She knew she could not explicitly state that and instead attempted to filibuster her way out of the question with a wink and a nod to the "Rapture Right" who embrace her candidacy for this very reason. Palin represents the most extreme form of the anti-abortion forces in this country. Her positions are well documented and she wears her radical anti-abortion stance proudly on her sleeve.
I can only draw the simple conclusion that Sarah Palin could not call Eric Rudolph, a psychopathic cold blooded murderer of innocents, a terrorist because she doesn't believe he is.
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