Enough is enough! Abortion is legal and pro-life groups who target the providers are not protected by the 1st amendment by conspiring to, and engaging in disruption of commerce.
Their tactics are fear and intimidation of individuals, they must be viewed as terroristic activities and should be treated as such. These organizations and their members should immediately be put on "no-fly" lists, have assets frozen, property seized and generally be subjected to the same scrutiny as would any other suspected terrorist.
This goes for those in the media who have targeted individuals engaging in lawful commerce by calling them "baby killers", and other incendiary remarks. I'm talking about YOU, Billo.
Racketeering 18 U.S.C. § 1951
(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects
commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce,
by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or
commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in
furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of
this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than twenty years, or both.
Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a), makes it a Federal crime or offense for anyone to extort something from someone else and in doing so to obstruct, delay or affect commerce or the movement of articles in commerce.
The Defendant can be found guilty of that offense only if all of the following facts are proved beyond a reasonable doubt:
First: That the Defendant induced the person described in the indictment to part with property*;
Murder as an extreme form of inducement.
Second: That the Defendant did so knowingly and willfully by means of "extortion**," as hereafter defined; and
Self-explanatory.
Third: That the extortionate transaction delayed, interrupted or affected commerce.
Doctor Tiller is certainly not going to be able to engage in commerce anymore.
*The term "property" includes not only money and other tangible things of value, but also includes any intangible right considered as a source or element of income or wealth.
**Extortion means to obtain property from someone else with that person's consent, but whose consent is brought about or induced by the wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence or fear.
The term "fear" means a state of anxious concern, alarm or apprehension of harm, and it includes fear of economic loss as well as fear of physical violence.
So congratulations, Bill O'Reilly, you have blood on your hands now. I'm sorry it took something as horrible as Dr. Tiller's execution to prove your targeting of individuals pose a clear and present danger to the public at large.