I’d have considerably more respect for the screeching of the left right now over the murder of George Tiller if they were acting exactly the same way about the murder of one and wounding of another American soldier by someone who was, according to police, “targeting the military but acted alone“.
Police in Little Rock, Ark., say the suspect in a shooting outside an Army recruiting office was targeting the military but acted alone.
A new soldier working to attract others to the military was killed and a second soldier was wounded outside the Army recruiting office Monday. Their identities weren’t immediately released.
The fact is that this murder today is barely different than Tiller’s yesterday. This appears to be a politically motivated killing of someone that the killer disagreed with for whatever reason. What is arguably worse about this case is that the target appears to have been selected at random.
On Memeorandum, the left is, at the moment, waving the bloody shirt of Tiller’s murder while completely ignoring the murder of an American soldier in Little Rock, Arkansas – despite the similarities between the murders. I also note that the Commander in Chief of American forces appears not to have decried the murder with the alacrity with which he denounced the other murder.
Neither murder reflects what America should be about. If we murder one another over our political beliefs, we are no better than savages, unworthy of the freedoms this country offers. I’ll leave it to the reader to figure out what I think about the use of the murders of fellow citizens to advance a political cause.
UPDATE: Police confirm that the killer had “political and religious motives“.
