My Encounter with a Real Right-Wing Extremist
Published By: All Right Magazine on June 7, 2009
By K. L. KRAEMER
After watching news coverage of the tea parties a while back, I concluded a right-wing extremist is anyone other than John McCain or Colin Powell. You know, someone who firmly comes down on the right in MOST issues — someone who believes in the original intent of the Constitution as framed by our fore-thinking founders and someone who believes in the right to life or good citizen gun rights, that our safety is paramount and trumps the distastefulness of waterboarding in obtaining information, believes in traditional marriage and that sex is not for children, that English should be the official language in America, that the borders should be closed to illegal entry. Right-wingers believe that the right to safety, human nature, and traditional values just don’t change or go out of style.
There aren’t too many people on the right who are so hateful and far out that they could ever compete with the number of left-wing loons. So what does the mainstream media do? As most of you reading this have figured out, they label right-leaning Americans as being way too far to the right while left-leaners are portrayed as middle of the road. So when I heard that George Tiller was gunned down, I was for many reasons dismayed. I didn’t exactly mourn him personally, but I do mourn that he was murdered and knew the event had given the far left some material to show that right-wingers are as hate-filled and crazy as they are.
Let me just stop myself here to say on this subject I read a line by Dick Morris that read, “Did Obama put a hit out on Dr. George Tiller? Timing seems rather suspicious in conjunction with Sotomayor nomination?” Interesting thought, but I want to say that I doubt (or at least hope) the tricky left, which does sometimes pretend to be the right in performing acts of destruction, is driven to go that far. It is especially doubtful to me now that I learned Obama, while glossing over the killing of a young private, has vowed to use government resources in finding all others involved in the conspiracy of Tiller’s murder.
To continue toward telling about my episode in meeting an extremist, it was the other day while Tiller and the terrorist act that killed him was on my mind. I went to Twitter and found an entry by someone I am following (call him ‘X’) who had retweeted someone that he is following (call her ‘Y’) which read something like:
“Baby Sarah Brown lived to age 5, blind from poison injected into teenage mom’s uterus by Tiller in botched abortion. Outrage, anyone?”
I wrote in response to ‘X’ & ‘Y,’ “Although no one sane wanted Tiller gunned down, we despise what he stood for and the horrors he committed.” I thought that I expressed a rather reasonable right-wing sentiment; but to my surprise ‘Y’ wrote another entry aimed at me:
“The sane thank God Tiller has been stopped and will torture no more innocent children.”
Thinking she was carried away with emotion against abortion, I wanted her to know that I understood but also that I still didn’t think abortionists should be shot. I hoped in reality she didn’t either. I wrote:
“I don’t think many of us are thanking God that Tiller was gunned down, but I get your point…..don’t I?”
Predictably, she wrote, “I don’t know; do you?” And then she sent an url of Tiller’s atrocities saying, “Read this if you dare.”
Here are the next few twits between us, starting with mine:
“Let me put it to you this way….I’m on the same side as you when it comes to abortion; that wasn’t the gist of my question.”
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“Apologies … what was the gist of your question?”
“I want legislation/changed hearts to stop abortions. Gunning him down is not a good answer, doesn’t end abortions.”
“It ended Tiller’s killing & nothing else would’ve. All I’m interested in. ONE would have been too many ~ 60,000 ABOMINABLE.”
“You don’t think the abortions he would’ve performed if still alive will still be performed by someone else?”
“OK then let’s bring Hitler, Stalin, other murderous madmen back too. No one could match Tiller’s enthusiasm in this arena.”
At that point, I realized I found a real live right-wing counterpoint to the typical left loon. She was even arguing the same way I’ve seen so many liberals argue. How could I explain in 140 characters that I have no problem with how Hitler or Stalin died and therefore why would I want to bring them back? And how do we know there aren’t others just as coldly enthusiastic to make the kind of money that Tiller did if only given his opportunities. For heaven’s sake, if you’re willing to perform one late-term abortion, why wouldn’t you be willing to perform thousands?
I simply told her that I could see she was very passionate and that I was glad she was anti-abortion. She said something about wishing Tiller were alive to repent and then she quoted Ann Coulter to me, “Ann Coulter said if U don’t believe in killing abortionists, don’t kill 1. I wouldn’t kill any1 but won’t mourn passing of GT.” I don’t know what Ann Coulter said, but I know enough about her to know she would not bless the illegal murder of Tiller because of her diagreement with the current law of the land in his performance of the murders he committed legally.
K. L. KRAEMER is a Christian writer and poet who can tell real extremist from a reasonable right-winger.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
‘Expresses how many of us feel. While we don’t mourn Tiller, we aren’t glad he was killed.”
June 8th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Very good article. It seems that someone providing that service especially late term abortion, should not to be able to perform those operations by any means. I agree that murder does not justify murder.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Love your article! I have been over and over this with friends and not so much friends. LOL The best way I can describe it is this: I have true and great joy in my heart that Dr. Tiller will no longer be able to take the lives of innocent children, but I in no way condone his murder and I pray for his soul and for his friends and family who no doubt cared deeply for him.