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Friday, September 05, 2003 np: paul westerberg - stereo i am eagerly anticipating the first of two new paul westerberg albums. the first, the new grandpaboy album, is due out in october. the new official paul westerberg record is due out in the spring. plus, the documentary about his tour for stereo/mono is also, tentatively, due out on dvd this fall as well. fantastic. now for a set of really bothersome things. paul hill was executed yesterday in florida. hill was convicted and setenced to death for the 1994 shooting death of pensacola abortion doctor, dr. john britton. he was a national figure for quite awhile before his crime for his advocation of the 1993 shooting death of dr. david gunn. dr. gunn (about whom the marilyn manson song "get your gunn" is about) was gunned down at pensacola's other abortion clinic. this murder was the apparent impetus for hill's crime the next year, as dr. britton was the replacement of dr. gunn. then today (thanks to tom tomorrow) we have this idea coming across in the media: I don't know what's on the news ticker where you live, but in Atlanta, WXIA-TV is including this line in its morning scroll under the early news: "Anti-Abortion Activist Paul Hill to be executed today..." (emphasis mine) as it goes on to note as a point of comparison, are we still looking for anti-imperialist activist osama bin ladin? why is it that blatant terror mongers like hill are considered 'activists' while we schill out every contemptable epithet imaginable for those behind the september 11th attacks? hill is no different from any of them. hill is a terrorist like eric rudolph is (allegedly) a terrorist and timothy mcveigh was before them as well. and much like mcveigh, hill got exactly what he wanted. martyrdom. if there was ever a finer argument for why the death penalty should be done away with, it's creeps like hill. so you disagree with the concept of right to choose. fine. but to actually step up and, dare i say, gleefully take the life of two persons connected with it is inexcusable. hill made various comments in the press conferences leading up to his execution about how he expected "a reward in heaven" upon his arrival. and how he fully expected people to follow in his footsteps. he set himself up as an example. i hate to agree with bill o'reilly..but in this case i do. the death penalty was just far too good for a man like paul hill. the state of florida may see itself as having served justice yesterday, but honestly i only see it as turning up the heat in an already vicious issue. and it could boil over at any point. god help us all. especially you, paul hill. posted by J. Neas | 9/05/2003 07:59:00 PM
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