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  • Dr. George Tiller's Killer Was a Domestic Terrorist

    Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 9:38 AM | By Dayo Olopade

    The murder of Dr. George Tiller in his church this Sunday sent a special chill down my spine; not the kind one gets when someone young, or important, or defenseless is gunned down in cold blood, but the kind one gets when domestic terror strikes. I don't mean to be too alarmist about the first killing of an abortion provider since 1998. Of course, any such assassination is illegal and wrong. But the lawlessness and vigilantism of this particular murder—or, as the anti-abortion zealout who allegedly shot him might put it, judgment—is very worrisome. Is total anarchy just around the corner?... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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