{"id":243571,"date":"2010-01-28T19:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6576"},"modified":"2010-01-28T19:29:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:29:57","slug":"the-cognitive-dissonance-is-startling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243571","title":{"rendered":"The cognitive dissonance is startling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>Scott Roeder,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/29\/us\/29roeder.html?hp\" > the man who murdered Dr. George Tiller in cold blood last May<\/a>,\u00a0apparently\u00a0thinks vigilante justice against a man performing a legal medical procedure is a moral and socially just act.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not. He is simply a murderer. A murderer who admits to planning, and preparing for, the killing of a law-abiding citizen over what he considered a moral crime. We have a word for people like that &#8212; terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On the first day of defense testimony in the two-week-old trial , Mr. Roeder\u2019s lawyers revealed that they wanted the jurors to take into consideration Mr. Roeder\u2019s motive: his growing opposition to abortion, which he deemed criminal and immoral, and his mounting sense that laws and prosecutors were never going to stop Dr. Tiller from performing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom conception forward, it\u2019s murder,\u201d Mr. Roeder testified, when asked his perspective on abortions. \u201cIt\u2019s never up to man to take life,\u201d he said, adding later, \u201conly in cases of self defense or defense of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6576\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6576&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Roeder, the man who murdered Dr. George Tiller in cold blood last May,\u00a0apparently\u00a0thinks vigilante justice against a man performing a legal medical procedure is a moral and socially just act. It&#8217;s not. He is simply a murderer. A murderer who admits to planning, and preparing for, the killing of a law-abiding citizen over what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}