Today was an interesting news day - James Kopp was sentenced to another life sentence for the brutal murder of a womens' doctor who performed abortions in New York.
Most media neglect reporting that the doctor was shot in the family's kitchen in front of his family. Most media neglects to report the full extent of how much very real terror swept through this country. Why, you may ask? Because most of the terrorists were/are fanatical right-wingers, Christian, flag waving patriots and white - a combination where, as in the civil rights struggle, most law enforcement authorities have deep sympathies and share core beliefs. Only the best peace officers prosecuted these terrorists. Never forget this fact when reading this post and the post below it.
The dominant media today also neglects the incredible "paper wars" that raged between local FBI field offices and the national DC bureaucracy and the politics field agents had to buck to pursue the arsonists, bombers and murderers involved against abortion.
Even today, as reports of more prosecutions are pursued after the racist death squads dominated the people of the South during the sixties - an untold story of "pro-life" fundamentalist Christians terrorizing women, doctors and nurses who performed abortions has yet to be told.
In Kansas with an outgoing Attorney General that hired an arrested and convicted clinic blockader on the state's payroll, and allowed at least one convicted clinic bomber to work in his recent failed re-election bid.
Someday we may read of people fellow Kansans - in similar situations as below.
From Wickipedia: "It is possible that the killing of Slepian was not Kopp's only crime. The FBI notes "(t)he shooting was similar to shootings in Rochester, New York, and three Canadian cities during the fall of 1997, in which abortion doctors were shot in their homes."[2] Kopp has been charged by Canadian authorities in the 1995 shooting of Ontario doctor Hugh Short, one of a string of Remembrance Day shootings (see [3]).
Kopp is currently serving in Niagara County Jail in Lockport, New York.[4][5] Kopp will spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement, locked up 23 hours a day in the nation's most secure prison if he insists on a trial and is convicted. If he pleads guilty, he will be sentenced to a medium-security federal prison.[6]"
Below a extensive series of articles available that touches on the scope of the real "War on Terror" that was fought during the the last two decades of the 20th century. More to follow on this, in the meantime follow the link in the title line or below: Sniper - The True Story of James Kopp
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