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Planned Parenthood of North Texas Attacked with Firebomb

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Real Estate Agent with New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County

The Planned Parenthood location in McKinney, Texas which is north of Dallas, Texas... was firebombed this past Tuesday night.

Earlier that same day... this location of the women's health clinic was picketed by a local group of anti-abortion protesters. As said in the video below... there were no signs that the firebombing was committed by anyone connected with the protesters. Uh huh. Yeah, right. 

This particular location of Planned Parenthood does NOT provide pregnancy termination services... however, it was still the object of this terrorist act. It is such a shame that an organization such as Planned Parenthood... one that provides so many services to women who cannot otherwise afford them... like breast exams, pap smears, cancer screenings... and so many other medical and psychological services for women... has to be the target of such hate and violence.  

I find it odd that there was so little reporting of this hateful act. You can be sure if the "locals" thought that is was an act perpetrated by Muslim extremists it would have received extensive coverage. The fact that anyone with even an ounce of logic would conclude that a group of religious extremists... fanatical domestic terrorists... were responsible... does not require a whole lot of brain-power. 

So I ask the local media. Where is all the coverage of this act of domestic terrorism?

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Ruthmarie Hicks
Keller Williams NY Realty - 120 Bloomingdale Road #101, White Plains NY 10605 - White Plains, NY

I think Chris Anne has a REALLY good point.  Why wasn't this covered while someone who was caught BEFORE they did anything found itself front and center like that.  Apparently it was ALL OVER FOX....

Jul 30, 2011 11:43 AM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

Oh Mona, you big silly.  I am just a Nice Catholic Girl from Cleveland trying to "make it" in the bright lights and city life of Fort Worth, Texas.

I'm not sure how bold my attitude is.  I'm just trying to do what I feel is right... and I'm not afraid to talk about it.  My first thought when I watched this video... was to drive up to McKinney and see what I could do to help.  It's about an hour's drive... which, for me, is like just around the corner.

If I am able on Monday, when they are open, I will somehow find the time and the energy to drive up there... and talk to them about what I can do, if anything, to help.  And... I just hope the "protesters" are out there picketing, and try and stop this old chick from entering the building.

There is just such an incredible amount of non-stop right-wing extremism on the AM radio-waves down here.  Three full-time 24 hour extremist stations with their lewd-mouthed national and local right-wing talking heads spewing venom... PLUS the 24 hour so-called "Catholic Radio" station.  Then there is an "all-news" station that really is about 60% news, and 40% right-wing babble.  Actually... it is more like pablum... because their listeners just open wide and swallow hard when they hear these kooks.

By the way... your plaudits and kind words feel so good on these old eyes.  Thank you so much.

Jul 30, 2011 11:58 AM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

Ruthmarie:  Yes... and where was this Muslim etremist caught... the guy who was all over Fox News ?  Right here in Texas.  The do-do bird tried to go into the same gun shop near the army base... and buy both gun powder and hand guns... where that army major bought HIS guns some months ago... before he killed all those soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood. 

I guess if you're going to be attacked by a Taliban type... it helps so much if the guy is really, really dumb.  LOL.

And my answer to why it was all over Fox ?  Prolly to fill up all that empty space that they had because they were NOT reporting on all the nasty goings-on of their owner, Rupert Murdoch... who is being grilled by the authorities over in England.

Good old "Pick and Choose News."

Jul 30, 2011 12:06 PM
Leslie G. Rojohn
MoonDancer Realty - Sylva, NC
GRI, ABR ~ MoonDancer Realty

The so called "religous" far right is not in ANY Way about life.  They are about controlling and subjugating women.  Once a woman chooses to bring the fetus into full size and deliver it, then the right is no longer interested in it.  No pre-natal care for a poor expectant woman, no financial or food asisstance once the child is born. No Head Start to help educate it, huge cuts in education all the way up the line, including efforts to de-fund Pell Grants.

What they want is for women to get back in the bedroom and the kitchen where they think we belong.  Breed as many kids into the world as possible so we have plenty of cheap labor and consumers for the big corporations and plenty of canon fodder for our war machine.  They want to turn this country into a Taliban type of mentality only they will say it's OK because it's "Christian" and not Muslum.  Extremism is evil no matter what form it takes.

Jul 30, 2011 12:27 PM
Liz Wallace
Century 21 Sherlock Homes - Rockville Centre, NY
Broker C21 Sherlock Homes, Rockville Centre, LI, N

Oh, oh I wish I was near by, you and I could go to the clinic and pretend we are there for information about an birth control.  I would give anything (well maybe not everything) to see the look on the faces of the fanatics when two 60 somethings show up about birth control

Jul 30, 2011 12:43 PM
John M. Scott
BRE # 01442690, Scott Keys Properties - San Francisco, CA
Broker / Owner San Francisco Bay Area

You're right to say what you have Karen, It was an act of domestic terrorism. The fact that they would target a clinic that doesn't even perform abortions is incredible, since I assume that is what their problems is. They obviously don't have the facts to support their terrosism, and that is a true shame....

Jul 30, 2011 02:43 PM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

Karen Anne, this is a terrible story. Because people can have differing opinions they do not have to resort to violence.

Jul 30, 2011 04:28 PM
Jill Sackler
Charles Rutenberg Realty Inc. 516-575-7500 - Long Beach, NY
LI South Shore Real Estate - Broker Associate

So sad that this sort of stuff is still happening all the time. You would think we'd have worked this out by now.

Jul 30, 2011 04:33 PM
RhondaHeaslip NanaimoRealEstate
RE/MAX of Nanaimo - Nanaimo, BC

It's disgusting to think that anyone thinks this kind of behavior is warranted...especially when they target an organization whose mandate is to make people's lives better. I hope they catch the creeps and lock them up.

Jul 30, 2011 05:23 PM
Dawn A Fabiszak
Private Label Realty ( Denver metro area, Colorado - Aurora, CO
The Dawn of a New Real Estate Experience!

Karen Anne ~ that is just horrible.  What does one get out of it when thay do things like that?

Jul 30, 2011 05:33 PM
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

Karen, I will never understand the mindset of such acts.  "Fighting" for any cause in such a violent and destructive manner is senseless.  It saddens my heart.  I pray for Peace.

Jul 30, 2011 05:36 PM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Karen, society as a whole is a little bit insane---and in many cases a lot insane---we do not have to look away from the shores of our own country to see evidence that this is so.

Jul 30, 2011 06:29 PM
Robert Vegas Bob Swetz
Las Vegas, NV

Hello Karen and I can't believe how far some groups go to get their word out! This is terrible and I hope they find who did this and peoples lives are in danger from activities like this!

VB ;o)

Jul 30, 2011 07:07 PM
Kwee Huset
Kwee Huset Realty - Venice, FL
Venice Florida Homes For Sale

Karen, It doesn't make sense, the current economy is bad enough, why people wanted to add many damage.

Aug 01, 2011 02:24 PM
Sheila Newton Team Anderson & Greenville SC
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices - C. Dan Joyner - Anderson, SC
Selling the Upstate since 1989

another case that proves the media is NOT controlled by liberals at all (but should be!!).. You can bet if it were the other way around ( a pro-life clinic) got bombed, it would be all over the news!

Aug 04, 2011 08:12 AM
C. Lloyd McKenzie
Living Albuquerque - Albuquerque, NM
Living Albuquerque

Karen,

Probably the only effective way to stop idiots is for a counter group to follow them all over the country, and use deadly force against them.  I do not understand domestic terrorism 

Aug 04, 2011 04:26 PM
Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Karen.. Good for you ! I wish I had your get up and go ! Those protesters get on my last nerve!

Hannah

Aug 07, 2011 07:24 AM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

And these cretins are all over the place with their complaints and fears about the courts and Sharia Law.  They are doing the exact same thing when they try to force THEIR religious beliefs on everyone else. 

Really... religious extremists with firebombs are exactly the same whether they be Christian or Muslim Taliban.  Same... doggone... thing.

Aug 07, 2011 12:18 PM
Mitchell J Hall
Manhattan, NY
Lic Associate RE Broker - Manhattan & Brooklyn

Karen Anne, Thanks for bringing this to my attention I didn't know. There were a few young people in front of my building fundraising for planned parenthood. I blew him off and said I support planned parenthood. If they're there again tomorrow I'll give. Liberal causes are always fundraising in my neighborhood. A right wing group couldn't get themselves arrested on the upper weast side.

Aug 09, 2011 03:48 PM
Karen Anne Stone
New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth Real Estate

Mitchell... this is just typical.  These christian extremists/terrorists pay so much attention to what they refer to as "the unborn"... yet once they are born... both the child and the mother are abandoned by the conservatives.

Aug 09, 2011 04:18 PM