Bye-bye, dickhead

The would-be Austin womens' clinic bomber got 40 years today:

"HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas man who earlier pleaded guilty to the attempted bombing of an Austin health clinic where abortions were performed was sentenced on Friday to 40 years in prison, officials said.

Paul Evans, 27, left a nail-packed bomb in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center on April 25, but it failed to go off.

Prosecutors have not disclosed why he wanted to bomb the clinic, but the Austin American-Statesman said Evans admitted in court on Friday he wanted to harm abortion providers.

"I never meant for anyone, except for the abortionists, to get hurt," Evans told U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks."

Forty years. Heh. If I'm not mistaken that means the Federal Pen... the sweetest facilities this side of Guantanamo (which is really where he should be, given he's a fucking terrorist). Oh well, I suppose we can be thankful for small favours. With that baby face he'll be the most popular item on the tier.

"Pro-Lifers" commemorate Rudolph's sentencing

This is getting to be a trend.

First we heard about "Paul Hill Days", July 26-29 in Milwaukee Wisconson; a commemoration of christian terrorist and murderer Paul Hill (executed in 2003, good fucking riddance). This little bash will include a "Paul Hill March" (March for Death, you might say) and, unbelievably, a re-enactment of Hill's heinous crime. What necrophiles these idiots are, seriously -- it's no wonder they're so enamoured of those dead fetus pictures.

Not to be outdone by the extremists sponsoring PH Days, the "peaceful, gentle christian soldiers" of "Operation Save America" are also getting their terrorist-worship on for a week starting tomorrow, July 14-22, as they commemorate the sentencing (July 18, 2005) of clinic-and-gay-bar bomber Eric Rudolph. The ghoulish celebration takes place -- where else? in Birmingham Alabama, at the same clinic Rudolph bombed. How much more obvious can they make it that they approve of Rudolph's actions?

Anti-choicers continually claim that they don't have anything to do with extremists. Operation Save America might pretend not to be "gentle", but that's clearly belied by their celebration of the crimes of Eric Rudolph. Priests for Life Fr. Frank Pavone, who spoke at Ottawa's March for Life in May, is actively trying to coalesce the violent extremists with more mainstream anti-choicers:

"Pavone provides something tremendously important to the violent wing of the antichoice movement--a smooth-talking, very, very articulate frontman," says State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman. "Pavone is out to unify the [antiabortion] movement and to bring together the violent factions and nonviolent factions and have them work together in a coordinated way."

And every time some group like "Operation Save America" throws one of these little terrorist worshipping shindigs, the more obvious it becomes that the anti-choice movement owns the Hills and the Rudolphs and the Kopps lock stock and barrel. I may sympathize with the Palestinian cause, but if Osama bin Laden was in jail, I wouldn't be marching in Osama parades or attending pro-al qaeda speeches.

(h/t bene diction blogs on)

The fetus fetishists don't support guys like Kopp

They just write to them in prison:Free Dominion, your one-stop domestic terrorist support shop.

More on the Austin bomber

I'm not in the habit of turning over slimy, shit-smeared rocks, but sometimes it's interesting to see what fetid fecal matter lurks beneath.

Authorities aren't saying whether the would-be Austin women's clinic bomber has any connections to anti-abortion groups. But it looks like, if not connections, he has the support of at least one *interesting* group.

The screen shot above is from the "Army of God" website (which I won't link to for obvious reasons); it shows a picture of Evans and tells the sad story of his arrest last week. The "Army Of God" (wiki link) is a group of extremist Christian anti-abortion whackjobs who advocate violence against clinics and doctors who perform abortions. They've been responsible for numerous bombings, anthrax threats, killings and attempted killings of doctors, and other mayhem directed against clinics. In other words, they're terrorists.

Whether Evans is an anti-abortion whacko himself or whether he was recruited, maybe in prison, by the AOG, it's clear that this isn't a case of a "disgruntled boyfriend" as some suggest. It was yet another case of abortion-related terrorism. So why isn't Evans in Gitmo?