Authorities: Man charged in fire at Florida clinic says he was motivated by hatred for abortion

[The Straight Story]

Authorities: Man charged in fire at Florida clinic says he was motived by hatred for abortion


PENSACOLA, Fla. — Authorities say the man charged with setting fire to a Florida Panhandle abortion clinic long targeted by violence told investigators he was motivated by his hatred for abortion.

In an affidavit released late Thursday, prosecutors said 41-year-old Bobby Joe Rogers told investigators that he made a fire bomb and threw it at the Pensacola clinic early Sunday.

Rogers said he was pushed to action after he saw a young woman enter the clinic for an abortion while he was standing outside the clinic with a group of protesters recently.

Bobby Joe Rogers, 41, was charged with one count of damaging a building by fire or explosive and was being held Thursday at the Escambia County Jail, authorities said earlier in the day. He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alabama-man-arrested-in-fire-at-florida-abortion-clinic-that-has-weathered-decades-of-violence/2012/01/05/gIQAC8TxcP_story.html

[ZombieHorde]

1. Doesn't that behavior match the legal definition of terrorism?

Violence or property damage for political or religious reasons.

[RainDog]

2. sounds like domestic terrorism to me n/t

[baldguy]

3. As always - IOKIYAR

[uppityperson]

4. Domestic terrorism

[arcane1]

5. Terrorism is terrorism, I don't distinguish "foreign" and "domestic"

And this is terrorism, plain and simple.

[TwilightGardener]

7. How dare that young woman continue in for her appointment! She had the gall

to walk right by us and ignore us! I'm pretty sure most men who are this obsessed with the uteruses of females they don't even know are rapists, wife-beaters, child abusers, or bullies in their own lives--always looking for someone to dominate and control.