Jailers let Tiller shooting suspect mail pamphlets justifying murder
Published: July 3, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
“A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable and communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks,” the Associated Press reports.
The report continues, “From his cell in Sedgwick County jail, Roeder has been sending anti-abortion pamphlets that laud Paul Hill, who was convicted of murdering an abortion provider in 1994, as an ‘American hero,’ and include examples of Hill’s writings about how the killing of abortion providers is justifiable”
“Roeder has also been corresponding with Rev. Donald Spitz — whose Army of God group’s Web site celebrates Hill and who says he sent Roeder seven of the pamphlets at Roeder’s request — and Linda Wolfe, an Oregon activist who has been jailed about 50 times for anti-abortion activities and who is close friends with a woman convicted of shooting Tiller in the arms in 1993. She says Roeder mailed her one of the pamphlets,” the AP adds.
According to the National Abortion Federation, Wolfe and around eleven other “vocal advocates of using violence against abortion providers” attended a January 2003 rally in Buffalo, NY “in support of James Kopp on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.”
Army of God member Kopp was convicted in 2003 for the fatal sniper-style shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian in 1998, and is a suspect in other abortion doctor shootings.
The NFA site states, “Wolfe was involved in maintaining the ‘Prisoner’s of Christ’ network, which offers emotional and financial support to those in prison for committing acts of violence against abortion providers as well as for their families.”
According to a blog called Abortion Is Murder, before retiring, “Linda’s idea was to send each one $100 on his birthday and another $100 at Christmas.”
A cache link from 1998 of the Prisoner of Christ site can be viewed at this link.
A few of the prisoners supported at the 1998 site:
Richard T. Andrews, 60, of Wenatchee admitted to a three-year arson spree targeting clinics that provide abortions in California, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. The Idaho fire heavily damaged the Women’s Health Care Clinic in Boise on May 27, 1993.
Michael H. Ross Ross at age 50, wrote letters to abortionist Susan Wicklund saying, “Perhaps you should be torn limb from limb like the babies,” and, “What happened to Dr. Gunn could happen to you.”
In regards to Jennifer Sperle, who was convicted of conspiracy for arson, the site stated, “The arson resulted in damage to 2 abortion mills totaling less than $500. In response to your letters to Warden Joseph Bogan, Jennifer has been transferred to the satellite camp she wanted!”
The site noted, “The purpose of this list is to provide information. Period. The name Prisoners of Christ, is the name of the organization that collects and distributes information as to who is incarcerated in relation to the abortion holocaust. Any endorsement or condemnation is not the intent of P.O.C.”
“To those who are seeking to support or condemn the use of force, neither is the purpose of this list,” the P.O.C. site stated. “We have a sufficient number of ideals that are capable of dividing the prolife community. For the sake of the preborn and the families of those in jail, do not use these men and women to support your position. They are paying the price, NOT you or I.”
The AP, in an update adds, “No one has accused Roeder of breaking any laws because of his jailhouse correspondence. But local and federal law enforcement agencies took seriously a threat Roeder made during a June 7 interview with The Associated Press that there are ‘many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal.’ A judge raised Roeder’s bond to $20 million, citing his comment to the AP, after a prosecutor argued Roeder’s ability to get his message widely disseminated should lead a reasonable person to believe he is engaged in ‘alleged acts of American terrorism.’”
The sheriff told the AP that they don’t censor mail unless it includes something blatant like escape plans: “Everyone in this jail has all the constitutional rights, except those I can restrict for the safety and security of the facility.”
Wolfe told the AP that Roeder sent her the pamphlet after she sent him $20 along with a note “telling him why she no longer believed killing abortion providers was justifiable.”
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the sheriff should lose his job and be fined and possibly do jail time!! The letters this terrorist is sending out may not be a threat to the jail facilities but they sure as hell are a major threat to the citizens of the United States!!
As repugnant as the Tiller murderer is, just what law permits the censorship of his writings and correspondence? AP has already stated no one can find a law that he is breaking. Do we really want to create law that is only applicable to those who we desire it to apply to? Those who are opposed to abortion could set up unique law for those who believe in choice, and vice versa?
Let me see if I understand this.
Jails are built to lock away people considered to be a threat to other citizens in our society, people like the killer of Dr. George Tiller, people who would probably kill again if given the chance. But since he’s behind bars, he resorts to communicating with like-minded assassin-minded individuals on the outside, just as any drug or al Qaeda kingpin on the inside would love to be able to contact those outside running drug operations or planning the next right-wing religious terrorist attack.
And the jailers holding Dr. Tiller’s killer don’t seem to see a problem with his communicating with similarly unhinged individuals on the outside, stirring things up, pushing for even more killings, thus participating in the endangerment of U.S. citizens, which the jailers presumably are supposed to prevent.
Sounds insane to me. I wonder if a judge will agree, and let these incitement-to-commit-violence communications continue.
I don’t understand how people can be shocked by this - the same sheriff’s department couldn’t have been bothered holding Roeder the Terrorist accountable for his instances of vandalism mere days before he assassinated Dr. Tiller - vandalism that was in direct violation of the restraining order; a restraining order they were legally bound to comply with.
In my humble opinion, their inaction was an invitation, their blessing so to speak, to Roeder the Terrorist to assassinate Dr. Tiller. And, their allowing him to communicate to the Christian Terrorists on the outside is just proof that they approve of this terrorists activities. Does one really think they’d be so blase if it was one of those ‘mooslim’ terrorists communicating with Al Qaeda?
These bohunks make the Keystone Kops look like a well organized SWAT team.
When are you all going to come to the realization that our government from the guy that picks up your garbage to the SCOTUS judges are all Christian Talibanis. The Bushco years were a theocratic coup attempt and I’m really not sure yet if the coup failed. Even a building prrmit is nearly inpossible to get without the right religious credentials and as far as passing an inspection without the help of Jesus? Impossible! Car accidents are always the fault of the nonbeliever if it can possibly be construed that way, thanks to the Police Evangelical Association. If planned parenthood were to give out the names, addresses, and personal info on the compelled childbirth movement people there would be a complete shit fit all the way to SCOTUS if need be, and it would be stopped. Buck up people, there is a theocratic coup taking place and America will be no longer if we don’t do something about it….And what would you guess the religion of the guards taking the letters out for him would be. I doubt the are Muslims or Buddists. Take a look at Iran. This is what the Christian Taliban has planned for us.
If that sheriff respects Roeder’s constitutional rights to mail pamphlets from his jail that advocate killing doctors, then he will certainly respect my right to say anyone who kills that S.O.B. sheriff is a patriot and hero.
Actually they can stop him from sending out mail if they consider him a Terrorist or that he is involved in a criminal operation through the mail. The reason they won’t apply the terrorism charge to the abortion fight is that as one poster has put it, we have christian taliban in all parts of the local state and federal govt.. And they wouldn’t want (as the jailers and the sheriff in this matter) one of their “soldiers” to be slammed for something they may do. And he has shown through the AP interview that he either has knowledge or knows of other people that are like minded, they have every reason to stop his mail, read it, see where it’s going, and go to that address to question the person or persons to why he would be sending this. It’s call beating the bush, by doing that a potential killer or accomplice might not be one because he or she will know that the FBI or police are on to them.
We have a Christian Taliban in this country, and until we recognize that we will be blind until one of these zealots do something so monstrous that it will leave no doubt.
Man are those pictures funny on Rev. Sphincter website!! They look like the bastards that are behind bars for killing doctors only older!!! Too bad Roeder
didn’t get shot up so he was paralyzed with a colostomy bag so he could make fart noises with it for the other prisoners.
Jennifer Sperle remarried and is now known as Jennifer McCoy. She lives here in Wichita and was a regular protester at the clinics in town. She would often bring her children (from various fathers) to protest as well. One child stopped showing up when, as a teenager, she got knocked up.
Yeah the bitch from oregon who shot Tiller in the arms has a daughter that is in jail for doing her mother’s deeds. The maggots never crawl to far from the rotten meat.