Red State On Bloodshed
by digby
I wonder if he was dressed in a pimp costume?
Planned Parenthood, a perennial protest target because of its role in providing abortions, has notified the FBI that at least 12 of its health centers were visited recently by a man purporting to be a sex trafficker but who may instead be part of an attempted ruse to entrap clinic employees.
In each case, according to Planned Parenthood, the man sought to speak privately with a clinic employee and then requested information about health services for sex workers, including some who he said were minors and in the U.S. illegally.
Planned Parenthood’s vice president for communications, Stuart Schear, said the organization has requested an FBI probe of the man’s claims and has already fielded some initial FBI inquiries. However, Schear said Planned Parenthood’s own investigation indicates that the man has links with Live Action, an anti-abortion group that has conducted previous undercover projects aimed at discrediting the nation’s leading abortion provider.
Lila Rose, Live Action’s founder and president, described Planned Parenthood’s assertion as “very interesting.” She declined to confirm or deny that the clinic visits were part of a Live Action operation, but did indicate in a telephone interview that an undercover videotape project of some sort was in the works.
“The story that speaks loudest will be in the evidence,” she said. “I can’t comment until we release the visual evidence.”
I would guess the release of some edited videos will be timed to coincide with the House’s jihad on funding for abortion services, particularly Planned Parenthood. Purely coincidentally, of course.
Meanwhile, as you’ve probably heard, you’ve got CNN correspondent Erick Erickson’s web-site making this proclamation:
Here at RedState, we too have drawn a line. We will not endorse any candidate who will not reject the judicial usurpation of Roe v. Wade and affirm that the unborn are no less entitled to a right to live simply because of their size or their physical location. Those who wish to write on the front page of RedState must make the same pledge. The reason for this is simple: once before, our nation was forced to repudiate the Supreme Court with mass bloodshed. We remain steadfast in our belief that this will not be necessary again, but only if those committed to justice do not waiver or compromise, and send a clear and unmistakable signal to their elected officials of what must be necessary to earn our support.
The absurdity of Red State conflating themselves with Northern abolitionists aside, there little doubt that the right is doubling down on social conservatism. The only difference is that now, violent revolutionary rhetoric is all the rage.
Erickson unconvincingly responds to criticism of his site’s proclamation by ignoring what the proclamation clearly says and then supporting the proclamation. But then, that’s the usual MO and the media usually accept the dispute as a “he said/she said” and let it go. That must be why CNN is having Ericksson help “analyze” the State of the union address despite his sites clear statement that bloodshed will be necessary if those “committed to justice do not waiver or compromise.” He’s mainstream now.
Update: Amanda Marcotte has a great round-up of responses to Red State’s creepy screed here.