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SouthBayDem

(32,026 posts)
Sun May 8, 2022, 09:22 PM May 2022

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

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Office of anti-abortion organization in Wisconsin targeted in arson attack, police say (Original Post) SouthBayDem May 2022 OP
Republicans need a new play book. DURHAM D May 2022 #1
Have pro choicers stopped just taking it Wolf Frankula May 2022 #2
Very true Rebl2 May 2022 #9
A Karl Rove-style self-inflicted attack probably peppertree May 2022 #3
Forensics, security cameras and more will be used on this Tetrachloride May 2022 #4
At least this was not mirror image SouthBayDem May 2022 #5
Agree... ewagner May 2022 #31
Agree... ewagner May 2022 #32
The rather neat cursive style is unusual for protesters. Also it is like they had time riversedge May 2022 #33
The keywords in the graffiti penmanship are "if" and "either " Tetrachloride May 2022 #36
False flag musette_sf May 2022 #6
Maybe in a city during a big demo I could buy it Warpy May 2022 #21
I used to live over near there. It's not in the boonies. LeftInTX May 2022 #24
Madison WI has over 250,000 people and this place is in the heart of it. milestogo May 2022 #30
I disapprove, but maybe Vogon_Glory May 2022 #7
True Rebl2 May 2022 #11
Exactly what I was thinking KS Toronado May 2022 #26
Despite my concern, I hope you're right. n/t Vogon_Glory May 2022 #28
I don't care. 58Sunliner May 2022 #8
Violence is bad. hamsterjill May 2022 #10
Waiting for the announcement BlueIdaho May 2022 #12
this shit is so lame, and the weak-minded so fucked in the head... bringthePaine May 2022 #13
Thoughts and prayers. Lunabell May 2022 #14
False flag. Did it themselves. Anti-Abortion folks are violent murderers. ZonkerHarris May 2022 #15
Hear, hear. Expect to see rise in "inside jobs." Nt childfreebychoice May 2022 #17
Weird how there's no shattered glass in the debris below the boarded-up windows TlalocW May 2022 #16
First thing rethugs will do if they regain senate, get rid childfreebychoice May 2022 #18
Yeah right. I mean, it's from the right. The GOP keeps playing from the same old deck of cards. C Moon May 2022 #19
7:45 in the morning is NOT brunch. And quit the phony "this needs to stop now" niyad May 2022 #20
sorry, arson can never be condoned Skittles May 2022 #22
+ 1 DashOneBravo May 2022 #35
Well? That's what they'd do to us. calimary May 2022 #23
Yes, dammit! zanana1 May 2022 #34
& Nazis are attacking Russia speak easy May 2022 #25
False flag, would bet 100$ mahina May 2022 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author intheflow May 2022 #29
I believe a couple posts go against DU rules. Tetrachloride May 2022 #37
50 years of clinic fires, clinic bombings and doctor assassinations. maxsolomon May 2022 #38

Wolf Frankula

(3,601 posts)
2. Have pro choicers stopped just taking it
Sun May 8, 2022, 09:46 PM
May 2022

and started dishing it out? Anti choicers have attacked pro choice offices for decades.

Wolf

peppertree

(21,636 posts)
3. A Karl Rove-style self-inflicted attack probably
Sun May 8, 2022, 09:52 PM
May 2022

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)
4. Forensics, security cameras and more will be used on this
Sun May 8, 2022, 09:54 PM
May 2022

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.

ewagner

(18,964 posts)
31. Agree...
Mon May 9, 2022, 08:45 AM
May 2022

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)
32. Agree...
Mon May 9, 2022, 08:47 AM
May 2022

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)
33. The rather neat cursive style is unusual for protesters. Also it is like they had time
Mon May 9, 2022, 09:02 AM
May 2022

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)
36. The keywords in the graffiti penmanship are "if" and "either "
Mon May 9, 2022, 10:54 AM
May 2022

Unique F

and the word either looks good even though the utilities pipes are a potential distraction or disruption

Warpy

(111,267 posts)
21. Maybe in a city during a big demo I could buy it
Mon May 9, 2022, 12:16 AM
May 2022

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)
24. I used to live over near there. It's not in the boonies.
Mon May 9, 2022, 12:41 AM
May 2022

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)
30. Madison WI has over 250,000 people and this place is in the heart of it.
Mon May 9, 2022, 08:36 AM
May 2022

And Madison is known for being very liberal. 2/3 of voters are Democratic.

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
7. I disapprove, but maybe
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:18 PM
May 2022

What goes around came around. Anti choice organizations have been tracking doctors and patients and intimidating activists for years.

Rebl2

(13,520 posts)
11. True
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:29 PM
May 2022

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)
26. Exactly what I was thinking
Mon May 9, 2022, 02:32 AM
May 2022

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.

ZonkerHarris

(24,228 posts)
15. False flag. Did it themselves. Anti-Abortion folks are violent murderers.
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:41 PM
May 2022

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.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)
16. Weird how there's no shattered glass in the debris below the boarded-up windows
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:46 PM
May 2022

I would assume that people were busting in from the outside.

TlalocW

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
18. First thing rethugs will do if they regain senate, get rid
Sun May 8, 2022, 11:32 PM
May 2022

Of filibuster. Until then, there will be two amerikkkas

niyad

(113,329 posts)
20. 7:45 in the morning is NOT brunch. And quit the phony "this needs to stop now"
Sun May 8, 2022, 11:52 PM
May 2022

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.

Response to SouthBayDem (Original post)

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
38. 50 years of clinic fires, clinic bombings and doctor assassinations.
Mon May 9, 2022, 11:57 AM
May 2022

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.

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