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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:04 AM
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Put this in your 'it's about time!' file: Federal investigators explore charges against Roeder
For a week, a federal investigator sat in a Wichita courtroom and watched testimony that Scott Roeder murdered abortion doctor George Tiller.

Even after the conviction came a week ago, federal investigators are still at work.

They are looking into whether the 51-year-old Kansas City man acted alone even as at least one Roeder supporter made a striking comment about the crime last week. And they’re considering other federal charges against Roeder as well.

It has happened before.

Two other anti-abortion activists who killed abortion doctors in the 1990s were charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which is also known as FACE. It was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1994 to prevent clinic violence. Like Roeder, both activists also were convicted of state murder charges.

more . . . http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1732075.html
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:05 AM
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1. Great news. I hope they nail more people than just Roeder. Rec'd. nt
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:08 AM
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3. Someone financed him
He was unemployed but managed to travel back and forth to Wichita weekly for several months. And he bought a gun.

Didn't pay his child support though :eyes:
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:05 AM
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2. k/r
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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:16 AM
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4. Good! n/t
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:25 AM
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5. He may not have had direct orders to kill the doctor, but I am sure he did not
act alone. He had support and encouragement at least, and those people must be found.

mark
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:29 AM
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6. He was obviously financed
and most likely by people right here in Kansas City. I can't wait to see them go DOWN.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:37 AM
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7. If the feds are trying to find people who aided and abetted then fine
but the man is serving a life sentence. I see no reason for the feds to spend a ton prosecuting him a second time to get him a second life term.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 09:59 AM
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8. Hopefully, the fed have simply been waiting for the state case to wrap up.
He MUST be made an example of. As for the death penalty, I say let the punishment fit the crime!


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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:32 PM
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9. I am more anxious to see who helped Roeder
He is going to be in a cell for the rest of his life. Death would be merciful. Let him rot.
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