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Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 08:49 AM by mkultra
In addition to the Holocaust Museum shooting, the potential for violence from the right was also highlighted on May 31, when a well-known abortion doctor, George Tiller, was gunned down at his church in Wichita, Kan. The man charged with the shooting, Scott Roeder, had some ties to the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and was affiliated in the 1990s with an anti-government group known as the “Freemen,” which claimed to be exempt from the authority of state and federal officials..
In another incident highlighted by civil rights activists, three Pittsburgh police officers were gunned down in April. The alleged shooter, Richard Poplawski, 23, reportedly told friends that he feared losing his cache of weapons to “Obama gun laws.” Poplawski, who appears to have been a regular contributor to white supremacist Web sites, also railed against Jewish control of the media and banks, friends said.
Also in April, two sheriffs deputies in northern Florida were killed in a shootout with a national guard soldier, Joshua Cartwright, as they tried to arrest him for domestic abuse. Cartwright, who was also killed in the exchange, was reportedly “severely disturbed” over Obama’s election and felt the U.S. government was conspiring against him.http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23606.html
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