Aw, poor baby:
The man who killed Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller has filed a petition complaining that his rights have been violated and asking to be released from custody.
The man who carefully planned the assassination of Dr. George Tiller and then gunned him down in his church thinks that the mean ol' judge is being unfair to him. Why?
In the 24-page petition — seven of the pages handwritten — Roeder said that the judge’s imposition of a $20 million bond “along with a suggestion that I might enact ‘more’ violence if I make bond demonstrates heightened disregard for the presumption of my innocence.”
Huh. Can't imagine why the judge thought Roeder might "enact more violence." Maybe because Roeder admitted to killing Dr. Tiller and, when asked if he would do it again, responded:
"We all have a sense of duty and obligation to protect innocent life. If anybody is in a situation where they can, I think it is their obligation."
And this:
"I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal," Roeder said. When asked by the AP what he meant and if he was referring to another shooting, he refused to elaborate further.
But that's not Roeder's only complaint.
Roeder complained that the names and addresses of his visitors and correspondents had been made public by the jail “and that some of these have been subjected to questioning by the police power as a consequence.”
Huh. Can't imagine why the police would question some of Roeder's visitors. Maybe because he's been known to pal around with terrorists, like Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy adviser for Operation Rescue, who served two years in prison for plotting to bomb an abortion clinic? Oh, and these guys:
Among Roeder’s supporters attending besides Bray are Dave Leach, of Des Moines, who once published the Army of God manual, a how-to book on abortion clinic violence; Jennifer McCoy of Wichita, who spent time in prison for two abortion clinic arsons in Virginia; Regina Dinwiddie of Kansas City, who calls Roeder a hero; and Joshua Graff, who spent three years in prison for a 1993 clinic arson in the Houston area.
But that's not all.
In another claim, Roeder said that prosecutors had “made libelous allegations against me.” For example, he said, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston told the judge that a reasonable person would believe that he had engaged in “alleged acts of American terrorism.”
Oh, the mean ol' prosecutors said mean stuff too. Calling a terrorist who commits an act of terrorism a terrorist? Life is so unfair! Poor Scott Roeder!
Roeder also complained that he wasn’t allowed to use a necessity defense, arguing that killing Tiller was justified because he was saving the lives of unborn babies.
“I would have been acquitted had counsel been allowed to pursue a necessity defense,” he said.
Yeah, if only he'd been allowed to explain how murdering a man in cold blood saved lives. He would be out and about today, free to murder other doctors. Oh, if only. Gosh, life sure is unfair.
Hey, Scott, here's some free advice: If you don't want to spend your life in prison for committing murder, and you don't want people to call you a terrorist, and you don't want your terrorist friends investigated by the police -- oh, never mind. You probably wouldn't listen anyway.
Enjoy prison, asshole.