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their beliefs when they exit the
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Killings at Planned
Parenthood Follow
Deceptive Attack
Video
Three people have been murdered, and countless terrorized,
in a frightening cluster of attacks
on Planned Parenthood facilities
across America.
On Nov. 27, Robert Lewis Dear,
57, a man with a history of vandalizing clinics who allegedly once
described the murderous antiabortion Army of God as “heroes,”
holed up in a Colorado Springs,
Colo., Planned Parenthood, allegedly using an assault rifle to kill
three people and wound nine
before surrendering to police after
a gun battle that lasted hours.
The dead included Officer
Garrett Swasey, 44, a member of
the University of Colorado campus police force who rushed to the
scene along with dozens of other
area law enforcement officers,
Jennifer Markovsky, 35, a stay-athome mother who was accompanying a friend to the clinic, and
29-year-old Ke’Arre Stewart, an
Army veteran and father of two.
Five other officers suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds.
In court a few days later,
Dear interrupted proceedings to
shout that he was a “warrior for
the babies.”
Other attacks on Planned
Parenthood facilities, including
“Will the West endure, or disappear by the century’s
end as another lost civilization? Mass immigration,
if it continues, will be more decisive in deciding the
fate of the West than Islamist terrorism.”
—Former presidential candidate PAT BUCHANAN, in an Aug. 18 blog post praising Donald
Trump and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) for their hostility to immigrants
“They want more and more until they want your
little kids.”
—Right-wing author BILL FEDERER, on LGBT people during an Aug. 28 rally in Cape
Girardeau, La.
“You thugs, you Black Lives Matter bullshit… .
We gonna hunt you sons of bitches down.”
—Former Texas prison guard NATHAN ENER, in a YouTube rant publicized on Sept. 1,
threatening violence against black activists while brandishing a shotgun and raging about
the murder of Harris County Deputy Sheriff Darren Goforth
“[T]hey are both liberal Jews.”
—JAN MICKELSON of Iowa’s WHO Radio, on Sept. 9, explaining why Supreme Court
justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsberg should have recused themselves from
ruling on same-sex marriage
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for $25 off any gun.”
—Florida Gun Supply owner ANDY HALLINAN, who says his store is a “Muslim Free Zone”
and brags about his friendship with oft-arrested Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman,
in a Sept. 9 tweet advertising a sale at his Inverness shop
“I’m going to knock on your fucking door, and I’m
going to check your mom’s ID, and all your fucking
cousins and relatives, and when they give me a fake
fucking name, I’m going to have immigration pick
everybody up so they can go back to the fucking
border or wherever the fuck they came from.”
—Sgt. ROY BORDAMONTE, former head of the Passaic, N.J., Police Department’s bias
crimes unit, who was put on desk duty after a local citizen on Sept. 10 publicized a video of
his threatening tirade against a group of young people of Mexican descent
“[S]ub-human creeps.”
—Milwaukee County, Wis., Sheriff DAVID CLARKE describing the Black Lives Matter movement
and calling on police to stop protecting protesters, on the Sept. 26 edition of “Fox and Friends”
“I would say let the little homo sue all he wants.”
—Lakeland, Tenn., Commissioner CLARK PLUNK, in a Sept. 28 Facebook post attacking a
student who took to social media after the Christian Brothers Hig