Watch Ben Carson Say ‘Both Sides’ Responsible For Abortion Clinic Violence

The shootout between Colorado Springs, Colo. Police Department, SWAT, and the domestic terrorist identified as Robert L. Dear, that ended inside the Planned Parenthood clinic speaks volumes.

Silence speaks louder, and silence was exactly what the 2016 GOP presidential hopefuls gave Americans for two whole days after the violence – until some of the GOP hopefuls ran to the various Sunday shows, as they always do in the hopes that people would view their talking points as the new reality.

After hearing what each of them had to say, though, it’s clear they probably should have stayed silent.

GOP Silence Was Golden

One such GOP contender, Dr. Ben Carson, ran to ABC’s “This Week” hosted by Martha Radditz on Sunday, Nov. 29. Dr. Carson appeared via satellite, as he was visiting refugee camps in Amman, Jordan at the time.

Radditz asked Dr. Carson to talk about the attack at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood. His immediate answer made him seem almost human, but no such luck.

The actual question Radditz asked helped lead Carson to let his true colors show – and the victim blaming and hateful rhetoric typical of the GOP kicked back in.
The exchange between the two about Planned Parenthood (as transcribed):

Radditz:

Now from Amman Jordon. Good Morning Dr. Carson. We’ll get to your trip in a moment but first your reaction to what happened in Colorado Springs.”

Carson:

Well obviously, uh you know, any hate crime is a horrible thing, ah no matter from where it comes and should be condemned very strongly.”

Radditz:

Dr. Carson, the Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain Vicky Cowart said ‘extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country.’ Do you agree with that?”

Carson:

Ah, unfortunately there’s a lot of extremism a ah, coming from, coming from all areas. It’s one of the biggest problems that I think is threatening to, to tear our country apart. We-we get into our separate corners and we hate each other. We want to destroy those with whom we disagree.”

Sounds human, doesn’t it? Carson’s next sentence took us back to the familiar:

And it comes from both sides so, you know there is, there is no saint here in this equation.”

That’s right, just blame the extremism on the victims; on “both sides” because there are “no saints here.”

Extremism on both sides. Carson is kidding, right?

Decades Of Anti-Choice Violence

When was the last time someone took hostages, mailed anthrax, threatened bombings, shot up a church, a store, or one of those fake health centers they call “faith based” clinics, which don’t typically have trained medical staff available, in the name of the “pro choice” sentiment?

You don’t see that kind of violence from the pro-choice side.


What you do see is a history of extreme violence and “anti-abortion murder that goes back more than 20 years,” according to Slate, and that’s at a minimum.

How many abortion doctors have been killed, abortion and women’s health clinics bombed, vandalized, and people hurt in the name of the so-called “pro-life” movement?

What you do see is no fewer than 17 attempted murders of abortion providers as of 2013. You see terror attacks almost weekly against abortion clinics and abortion doctors. You also see violent attacks against anyone driving into a clinic parking lot, or walking into a clinic.

We saw the murder of Dr. David Gunn, the murder of Dr. George Patterson, and the murder of Dr. John Britton. Probably the most infamous, Dr. George Tiller, who was shot in 1993, then recovered, and went back to work, we saw him get murdered in 2009.

These are just a few of the violent acts committed by radical Christians and other terrorists who claim to be “pro-life” operatives.

What about the other hundreds, possibly thousands of people murdered, women violently attacked, and clinics bombed, or otherwise threatened, all of it in the name of the almighty “Christian God,” whom they claim commands them to “save lives” by being violent or taking lives?

How is the “extremism” coming from both sides, when only one side is committing extreme acts of domestic terrorism and violence, and it is the other side receiving it?

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