George Tiller: Assassination of an Assassin

George Tiller was a professional killer of healthy prebirth, late term infants. On Sunday he was murdered in his Kansas church, as he handed out church bulletins as a church usher.

The assassination of an assassin presents a contradictory set of emotions. There is relief that he will no longer kill humans. There is revulsion at his murder, an assassination itself. There is a sense of frontier justice where none else is to be had, a sort of yin-yang completion of universal balance. And a feeling of contempt that it had to happen this way.

And there is the uncomfortable feeling of abhorrence without mourning; disgust without grief. I am unable to grieve for Tiller, his family, or his church, all of whom accepted and enabled Tiller to kill on a daily basis. And possibly the most egregious type of killing possible: the dismembering of fully formed, healthy pre-birth babies.

George Tiller voluntarily chose his profession, a passion that he vigorously defended as “legal and moral”. The legal loopholes that he exploited did make it legal. He always used the excuse of “psychological harm to the mother”, in other words, she was depressed and wanted to kill her nearly born baby; that was Tiller’s chosen profession: killing nearly born babies, daily.

The backwash from this will likely harm the cause that the killer of Tiller hoped to further, in his insane fashion: stopping the continuous slaughter of unborn humans. The media have already cited the preceding murders of abortionists. The implication is that the antiabortion opinion is also a violent one. This comes at a particularly bad time, when a thought crime bill is pending in Congress. If I mourn anything it is that Congress would even consider such an idea, much less implement it.

It is a peculiar mindset that mourns the death of its criminals but not the wholesale slaughter of its innocents. But this is typical of the elitist statist left that is currently calling the plays in the USA. The standard victims are being abandoned in favor of new rights for victims of the masses. If the “herd”, as Nietzsche called us, can have their thoughts criminalized, they can be controlled.

Is it not the search for “victims” which make the bourgeoisie the “oppressor” that sets the elitist standards for who to support and who to abandon? Thus the tears for the death row murderer and the support for the death of the unborn human.

The execution death of George Tiller is wrong, plain and simple. But it is not unexpected. When an assassin continues his trade unabated, bolstered by law, protected by the decency of his foes who abhor the assassination of innocents but do not sink to assassination themselves, sooner or later the odds will stack in favor of an insane counter assassin arising from the populace. So this is a case of two assassins, both of whom paid with their lives.