Psycho nabbed before he could bomb abortion clinic

[Grimmlok]

A man who told police he made a pipe bomb to attack an abortion clinic was arrested Thursday, shortly before the device went off in a friend's home while authorities tried to disable it, according to court documents.

No one was injured by the explosion, which started a fire that burned the top floor of the Riverdale home, officials said.

Some friends of Robert F. Weiler Jr. had tipped off police about the 25-year-old's alleged plans Wednesday night.

Weiler then called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and surrendered to state troopers at a rest stop on Interstate 68 just after midnight. Investigators found a handgun and ammunition in his car, officials said.

According to an ATF affidavit, Weiler planned to bomb an abortion clinic in Greenbelt and use a .40-caliber handgun he had stolen from a friend to "shoot doctors who provided abortions."

Weiler faces four federal counts including making a destructive device and possessing an illegal handgun. He was being held Thursday.

Phone messages left at Weiler's home were not returned. A car in the driveway had a frame around the front license plate that read "Choose Life" and "God is pro-Life."

A woman who answered the phone at the Greenbelt clinic said they had not heard of the threat. In 1989, 80 abortion opponents were arrested for trespassing in a demonstration outside the clinic.

http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_art...?storyid=50013

[crumpet]

Dumbfuck. You know, I'm convinced that many of these male abortion protesters are really just antisocial criminal types who cloak themselves in (what they think is) a noble cause, to justify themselves when they murder. If they weren't protesting abortions, they'd be committing armed robbery, rape, or some other sick shit. For the life of me, with all of the causes in this world, it just seems off that a man has abortion as the focus of his life. Just. Don't. Get it. Don't these people have jobs? How the hell do they manage to be available day in and day out to walk around carrying signs harrassing people?

[pacific breeze]

They are well-funded criminals.

[Aella]

So I'm kind of curious, shouldn't this count as terrorism?

[crumpet]

Yes, it should.

[Grimmlok]

No, because Jesus told him to do it. Thus it's fine.

[MrsDark]

You're actually right Grim. They get off lighter because many people actually see them as saving/attempting to save the lives of babies. I've even seen people who realize the enormity of a crime like this for what it is, but in the very next breath say something to the effect of this guy having it in his head that he was *saving babies*, as if to imply that this makes it okay and maybe even a little bit noble, if extreme.

Fucked up, eh?

[DirtyPool]

No way do I support this type (or any type!) of terroism and I'm glad they caught this disturbed man. While on the subject, how do all the killers of unborn babies and their cohorts suggest that the people of sound mind and body protest the crime of abortion?

[Grimmlok]

1) It's not a crime.

2) They should mind their own business and keep their faces out of other people's lives. If they don't want an abortion, then they shouldn't have one but they have no rights dictating to others what they can or cannot do.

[DirtyPool]

why not? we're talking about taking another human life. the butchers who conduct these procedures are the ones that should be doing 40 years hard labor.

[pacific breeze]

The state takes human life all the time in the U.S. That's murder, too, by your rationale. The Bible says "Thou shalt not kill." It doesn't specify fetuses, or make any other exceptions.

[Grimmlok]

why not? we're talking about taking another human life.

Actually, in 95% of the cases it's not ending human life. It's preventing human life from ever developing beyond a couple dividing cells.

BIG FAT DIFFERENCE.

the butchers who conduct these procedures are the ones that should be doing 40 years hard labor

But soldiers killing other soldiers is fine, capital punishment is a-ok, bombing civilians is so hot right now and hey, bombing abortion clinics and killing people inside is fine because YOU NEED TO SAVE A MASS OF DIVIDING CELLS!

p.s. it's still not against the law

p.p.s You haven't the right to tell people what to do with their bodies anymore than they can tell you what to do with yours. You have no over-arching cosmic morality on your side. Nature doesn't give a shit.

Moving right along, how come this freak hasn't been labelled a Christian terrorist? Blowing up a clinic sure sounds like terrorism to me, and it's relevant that he's a nutjob christian.

When does he get slapped with the christian terrorist lebel and sent off to GITMO?

Oh right, never. Homegrown terrorists aren't terrorists unless they're Islamic and brown.

[DirtyPool]

But soldiers killing other soldiers is fine, capital punishment is a-ok

Oh right, never. Homegrown terrorists aren't terrorists unless they're Islamic and brown.

I think capital punishment is a waste when you can have them work in the fields instead of the illegals.

i think the real homegrown terrorists are the people controlling the box office and all major media outlets not some disturbed christian.

[Grimmlok]

Whynot?

A muslim who blows shit up because god told him to is an Islamic terrorist, but a christian who blows shit up cuz god told him to is not a christian terrorist?

He's a christian terrorist. Can't have it both ways.

[DirtyPool]

The state takes human life all the time in the U.S. That's murder, too, by your rationale. The Bible says "Thou shalt not kill." It doesn't specify fetuses, or make any other exceptions.

can you tell me why every living thing right down to mold wants to live? I believe the true bible lives in nature. Are you able to provide an example of another species that does this type of thing?

To every thing, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep

To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together

To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing

To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time to love, a time to hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late

for those who don't know that song its turn, turn, turn - by the byrds