Kim Gandy Quotes
NOW decided we had to stop the violence. [Joseph] Scheidler [an anti-abortionist terrorist leader] and his gang were calling in blitzes-they would attack clinics without warning and hold staff and patients hostage. Clinics were being blockaded and invaded. If we did not act, we thought clinics would not be able to stay open.
Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization of Women (NOW), President and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Fellow, Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Quoted in Frederick Clarkson, "Terror in the Name of the Lord", Ms. Magazine, Winter 2002
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Bray has served four years in prison for conspiracy in 10 abortion clinic bombings in VA, DC and MD.
Later he too shot and killed a physician who performed abortions and also killed a non-medical assistant of the doctor's. He was executed for murder in 2003. To many in the anti-abortion ranks, he is a martyr. To many others he is a monster whose fanaticism lost site of the very sanctity of life for which they strove.
This is an example of a twisted kind of political logic that says that if there are law breakers who don't like legal behavior of others and will therefore commit violent crimes if they continue to act legally, the law should be changed to make the behavior illegal so they criminals and murderers will not be so angry. However, there are few people who actually believe this. An ironic thing about this man is that his rabid opposition to abortion is based on his interpretation of the Bible (Old Testament) which never mentions abortion as a crime. (The Early Hebrews and Christians practiced abortion and saw no Biblical stricture against it.) However, he claims that the Biblical crime of bestiality—punishable by death—should be normalized. See {583375} for an example of this hypocrisy.
This quotation provides a succinct view of most non-Western Muslims on the issue of the definition of “terrorist.” A “mujahid” can be translated from Arabic as “freedom fighter.” To the rest of the world, terrorism is defined by the techniques and behavior of the doer. To many Muslims, it is defined only by the motive. If one is defending land or a cause, he cannot be a terrorist. The only terrorist to a Muslim holding this point of view is a person who engages in these violent methods for no reason. The essential difference is that to most of the world a cause—even a worthy one—does not justify any methodology or cost. To the Islamicist who accepts Al-Jozo’s point of view, there is NO methodology that is immoral, especially if one is fighting for a cause, and no cause is more worthy than the spread and dominance of Islam and the world of God. Therefore, for that cause, there can be no terrorism as there can be no ethical or moral limits.
36 days later, September 11, he did strike. See {617467} for some of the specific contents. The memo was kept secret by the Bush administration until public pressure as a result of the 9-11 Commission hearings forced the declassification and release. At that point it became clear that there was no reason that the memo could not have been released much earlier except that it was embarrassing. See {637530} and {637533} for two other Bin Laden Warnings that Bush and his team ignored.
The Pakistani government and the army were two distinct and separate power centers. The military saw their major problem to be India, and coddled the Islamic terrorists to deploy them against India while claiming the military is not responsible for the attacks. The terrorism that is taught in many Madrassas schools, the government is reluctant to crack down on and get the terrorism out of the curriculum as they will lose many orthodox Muslim votes and the Islamic terrorists might assassinate any politician who threatend their power base. So Pakistan tried at the time to control the terrorist acts but would not do anything to weaken the terrorists.
Bush claimed he did not remember the conversation. His incoming National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, was also briefed about bin Laden by the Clinton anti-terrorism director, Richard Clarke. The Bush Administration ignored the warnings until bin Laden struck on 9-11
ISIS captured a Jordanian pilot whose plane had crashed and they tortured him and burned him alive making and promoting a video of terrible war crime. At enormous cost Abdullah’s agents and soldiers tracked down those appearing in the video and killing them.
Kim Gandy is an American feminist who from 2001 to 2009 was the president of the National Organization for Women. Since 2012, she has been the president and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. In 2009, Gandy was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From January 2010 to October 2012 she was vice president and general counsel at the Feminist Majority Foundation in Arlington, Virginia.
