Lest we forget: Anniversary of domestic terror at Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs Nov

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Lest we forget: Anniversary of domestic terror at Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/27/1602482/-Lest-we-forget-Anniversary-of-domestic-terror-at-Planned-Parenthood-clinic-in-Colorado-Springs

By Denise Oliver Velez


Sunday Nov 27, 2016 · 8:00 AM CST




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Nov. 28, 2015. Candlelight vigil at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in honor of those who were killed at the Planned Parenthood clinic the day before.


It was only a year ago, on November 27, 2015, that we heard and saw on breaking news reports that an attack was taking place at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic.

By the time it was over:

A police officer and two civilians were killed; five police officers and four civilians were injured. After a standoff that lasted five hours, police SWAT teams crashed armored vehicles into the lobby and the attacker surrendered.

The attacker, Robert Lewis Dear, Jr., was taken into custody and charged three days later with first-degree murder and ordered held without bond. At a December 9 court appearance, Dear repeatedly interrupted proceedings, made statements affirming his guilt (although he did not enter a formal plea), and expressed anti-abortion and anti-Planned Parenthood views, calling himself "a warrior for the babies." He appeared in court again on December 23, and asserted his desire to act as his own attorney in the criminal case against him. The judge ordered a mental competency evaluation to assess whether Dear is sufficiently competent to exercise his right to do so. Following subsequent evaluations that determined Dear to be delusional, the judge in the case ruled in May 2016 that Dear was incompetent to stand trial and ordered him indefinitely confined to a Colorado state mental hospital.

Dear has not yet been brought to trial, and that process could take years. “Competency hearings” are also in the news for accused North Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof.

From my perspective, it has become far too easy to simply write-off domestic terror in the U.S. as the work of lone “deranged” individuals, and to ignore the massive propaganda machinery spawned by the supremacist right media machine, which actively promotes an anti-reproductive rights agenda and inflames hate................................







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