By RNC standards, is SUV ramming Planned Parenthood terrorism?

BRILLIANT comparison. This is smart journalism, making the connections. Well done!!!!

Does this mean Norm Coleman and Tim Pawlenty associate with known terrorists?

I’d say the act rose to terrorism. But if you’re hoping to see a trail, I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you. The man who was arrested has a long, DOCUMENTED history of mental illness.

There is no doubt that this guy is headed to St. Peter fora much needed rest period, but he won’t be running into any of the “RNC8″ terrorists though, they’re headed to Stillwater.

My 1st thought when I heard of the guy ramming his SUV into the clinic was, I wonder if Riot Cops where there surrounding those protesters. They are there every week so why wasn’t the Riot Cops out on this Roe vs Wade anniversary?
And then i heard this Mentally Ill guy wasn’t charged with Felony.. ARe you kidding me?

*** SAVE a FETUS KILL a CHILD ****

so they charge people who help organize housing for those protesting the KIlling of children by poverty, lack of healthcare, and by bombs… they charge them with conspiricy of terrorism, of felony.
The charge those who march against bombing children with felony.

Let see.. how many clinics have been bombed, or rammed by cars? How many staff or doctors killed by these “Homegrown terrorists ?” You know this was premeditated. Did Bob Fletcher have cops spying on these Abortion protesters ? Did he spend 300,000 to have an infiltrator join one of these Right to Life protest groups ?
And now we see they dont’ even charge this guy with a felony. Yes this clinic does Abortions. But it also gives prenatal care, and saves the lives of woman and fetus. It saves the lives of woman through prevention of STD, and of cancer.

If this man does have a history of mental illness, then finding an appropriate place for him to receive treatment that protects him from himself and from larger society seems to be an appropriate action to take. But to say so confidently that the RNC 8 are terrorists who are headed to Stillwater is a misguided assumption conveying a complete misunderstanding of who they are and what has happened to them.

Insofar as the RNC 8 and the charges against them are concerned, I think it is very important to remember that no actual act was committed by any of these community organizers prior to their arrests. These people were arrested pre-emptively and had their houses raided and property seized prior to the convention. They are facing abnormally heightened charges unattached to any actual action solely for their political disposition. ‘Terrorism,’ a vague concept itself, is being interpreted by officials in order to silence communities that were planning to exercise their rights by protesting the Republican National Convention.

The state’s repression and criminalization of dissent is a huge consideration here. I don’t care what your politics are, we all know that anti-choice activists who are protesting outside of a clinic are hardly likely to receive the same kind of harassment, intimidation and brutal treatment that Hennepin Co., Ramsey Co. and the Republican National Committee brought down on RNC protestors, media and passersby – whether or not there is an SUV involved.

And Ann has a point: There are not likely to be riot cops gassing and beating people outside of a Planned Parenthood any time soon. FBI infiltrators and Fletcher’s secret police ops are not likely to intersect with these people. Lucky for them, they can stand outside of a clinic and protest without the worry that their lives stand to be potentially ruined by bogus felony charges and the costs associated with traveling to and from court to fight said bogus charges. I can not say the same for the people who are now beginning the legal process for charges incurred during the RNC.

If we’re interested in comparing actual RNC protest actions to this man’s action, I think it’s important to for us to revisit the history of civil disobedience and how it is defined. Last time I checked, unpermitted marches and protester blockades are forms of civil disobedience, and while civil disobedience includes breaking a law of some kind, it is not the felonious equivalent of ramming your SUV into a clinic where women are seeking to safely exercise their right to reproductive health services.

Interesting that the SUV driver may be headed for St Peter, but Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher is still at liberty. If there was ever a poster boy for paranoid psychosis, it is Bob Fletcher. Susan Gaertner shows a painful lack of judgment in believing Fletcher’s ravings.