Office of anti-abortion organization in Wisconsin targeted in arson attack, police say
Source: CNN
The office of a conservative political organization that lobbies against abortion rights was vandalized and damaged by fire on Sunday morning in Madison, Wisconsin, in what police are investigating as arson.
The fire and vandalism happened at the office of Wisconsin Family Action, CNN affiliate WISC reported. WFA is a political action committee that lobbies against abortion rights and same-sex marriage, according to its website.
Emergency dispatchers received a call from a passerby who saw fire coming from an office building on Sunday morning, Madison Police communications supervisor Keith Johnson told CNN. Madison Fire Department firefighters were called to the building at about 6 a.m. and were quickly able to put out the blaze, officials said. No injuries were reported.
Fire investigators believe the fire was intentionally set and are investigating the incident as arson, the fire department said.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/us/anti-abortion-office-arson/index.html
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Obvious is obvious.
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)and started dishing it out? Anti choicers have attacked pro choice offices for decades.
Wolf
Rebl2
(13,520 posts)peppertree
(21,636 posts)Rove famously returned that drunk old lush Clements to the governorship in '86 by miraculously "finding" bugs in the Clements HQ.
A tactic which, of course, Bush later took very much to heart.
Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)The location is between Dane County Airport and a main thoroughfare of the North side of Madison.
The penmanship and grammar of the graffiti is especially suspicious, in my view and of many others.
SouthBayDem
(32,026 posts)Unlike that backwards "B" in 2008.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090527113757/www.post-gazette.com/pg/09143/972272-53.stm
ewagner
(18,964 posts)The Executive Director of the anti-abortion org had a speech ready-to-go.....
The graffiti wasn't spontaneous...it was spaced perfectly
I am totally suspicious that this an "inside job"
ewagner
(18,964 posts)The Executive Director of the anti-abortion org had a speech ready-to-go.....
The graffiti wasn't spontaneous...it was spaced perfectly
I am totally suspicious that this an "inside job"
riversedge
(70,242 posts)to write this--not in a hurry. Strange that is for sure.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/08/us/anti-abortion-office-arson/index.html
...Fire investigators believe the fire was intentionally set and are investigating the incident as arson, the fire department said.
A Molotov cocktail, which did not ignite, was thrown inside the building, Madison police said in an incident report. It appears a separate fire was started, police said, and graffiti was also found at the scene.
An image from WISC shows the graffiti written on the wall of the office: "If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either."...............................
Investigators found this graffiti written on the wall of the office.
Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)Unique F
and the word either looks good even though the utilities pipes are a potential distraction or disruption
musette_sf
(10,202 posts)Backward B Redux
Warpy
(111,267 posts)but it looks like this place is out in the boonies, away from all them librul city folk.
I'm talking this one with a pound of salt, too.
Also, I really discourage arson, I hate seeing firefighters put into jeopardy.
When a government oversteps its bounds, civil disobedience becomes absolutely necessary but something like this would be too hamfisted for thinking people to do.
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)Last edited Mon May 9, 2022, 01:58 AM - Edit history (1)
Madison is a very progressive city. I lived on the northern shore of Lake Mendota.
Everything is a bike ride away. And this was in 1979-1981 when the city was smaller.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)And Madison is known for being very liberal. 2/3 of voters are Democratic.
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)What goes around came around. Anti choice organizations have been tracking doctors and patients and intimidating activists for years.
Might find out it was a right wing person that did it, then they will try to say it was some pro choice group or person that did it.
KS Toronado
(17,252 posts)During the George Floyd protests, a lot of the damage was being done by MAGAstanians
to make liberals look bad. Hope it was & they're found out.
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)hamsterjill
(15,221 posts)But I am suspicious. Ill leave it at that.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)This was a false flag operation it sure smells funny.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)Lunabell
(6,082 posts)Just like it works to prevent gun violence.
ZonkerHarris
(24,228 posts)If you're willing to murder a doctor in his own church you are willing to set a fire in your own office and blame others.
childfreebychoice
(476 posts)TlalocW
(15,383 posts)I would assume that people were busting in from the outside.
TlalocW
childfreebychoice
(476 posts)Of filibuster. Until then, there will be two amerikkkas
C Moon
(12,213 posts)niyad
(113,329 posts)you freaking hypocrit. I don't recall hearing from you when Planned Parenthood and other women's health care providers are vandalized, their personnel killed or injured. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)this risks lives, including firefighters
calimary
(81,304 posts)Taste of their own medicine. See how they like it.
zanana1
(6,122 posts)I'm tired of being a "nice" Democrat.
speak easy
(9,259 posts)fuck this shit
mahina
(17,663 posts)Response to SouthBayDem (Original post)
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Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)50 years of unhinged religious fanatics stalking and harassing medical staff and patients.
50 years of a terror campaign supported by 1 of America's 2 major political parties.
I won't call this a false flag attack.